Theos-Talk Archives (February 2002 Message tt00630)

John: "that was interesting to read, quite a new perspective for 
us here in the USA".

Thanks John, this whole affair however is rather international, also 
widespread within various US movements of wich responding to your 
remark I will name a few in a moment. 

It is difficult to obtain information and in my case only as a 
consequence of my four conversations with one of the "popes" of these 
groups the formerly mentioned Wilhelm Landig a year before he died in 
Vienna, otherwise I would never have found out. That is also why of 
course I my approach it from a Vienna, knowledge base.

It took me untill last month to start putting all the information 
that came as a result of follow up research together, some it 
already published on my website in a German article recently, that 
has with the recent postings been translated and added to.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Theosophy mostly 
tended to be associated with liberal and emancipatory causes in 
Britain and India. One recalls Blavatsky's support of Garibaldi's 
struggle in Italy and Annie Besant's champiornship of the Indian 
National Congress. However, the very structure of Theosophical 
beliefs can lend themselves to illiberal adoption. The implicit 
authority of the hidden Mahatmas from a Lemuro-Atlantean dynasty with 
superhuman wisdom is easily transformed by racist enthusiasts into a 
new hierarchical social order. 

One example of the neo-fascist potential in Theosophy is provided 
by the Nouvelle Acropole movement of Jorge Angel Livraga (b. 1930), 
the Argentinian Theosophist who by the 1980s had built up an ardent 
youth following in more than thirty countries. The structure, 
organization and symbolism of the Nouvelle Acropole is clearly 
indebted to fascist models.

Also the Theosophical inspirations of James Madole and the National 
Renaissance Party demonstrates the pseudoreligious underpinnings of 
severral postwar fascist movements. See Madole's "Aryan Secret 
Doctrine" for details. Another leading member of the NRP was Eustace 
Clarence Mullins, Mullins authored an anti-Semitic history and an 
expose of the Federal Reserve a favorite topic among right-wing 
conspiracy theorists.

Other current groups that adhere to similar (and also Theosophical 
inspired) theories as I described before, are the Odinists,the Aryan 
Kriya, the followers of Savitra Devi whose first book was published 
by the Adyar TS, The Order of the nine Angles that employs a 
septenary initiatic scale, the Aryanist Racial Loyalist Party that 
has a distinct Blavatskyan mythology, Wotansvolk ,see "Temple of 
Wotan:Holy Book of the Aryan Tribes"(2000) and many others.

Like the Theosophical Society, the Aetherius Society (a large UFO 
organisation) has also Masters for example; though they tend to be on 
other planets rather than in the Himalayas, but this is not a neo-
nazi organisation, just also inspired by Theosophy. The parents of 
the founder of the Aetherius Society where Theosophists.

Instead of Blavatsky's Masters, more and more people started to find 
in Adamski, Ruth Norman (Unarius), Understanding Inc. (Dan Fry) , 
Mark- Age,not to forget the I Am movement and their off 
shoots,Extraterrestrial Earth Mission, Heaven's Gate, Universarium 
Foundation and so on, their organizers, and overseers, who now
maintain that the Masters are from outher space. And is interresting 
to observe not becouse Blavatsky would be in any way responsible for 
this, but it are theosophical teachings that indeed inspired this.



According to documentary "UFO Secrets of the Third Reich ", the 
Haunibu-3 a 74 meter diameter naval warfare dreadnought - was chosen 
for the most courageous mission of this whole century - the trip to 
Mars. The craft was of saucer shape, had the bigger Andromeda tachyon 
drives, and was armed with four triple gun turrets of large naval 
caliber (three inverted upside down and attached to the underside of 
the craft, and the fourth on top of the crew compartments). The 
flight to Mars departed from Germany one month before the war ended - 
in April 1945 . . The radio message with the news was received by 
the German underground space control center in Neu Schwabenland and 
by their research base on the Moon. 

Wendelle Stevens talked at a recent UFO conference in the US and 
explained "There were apparently nine secret bases in Germany working 
on anti-gravity vehicles." 

Something Wilhelm Landig also kept refferring to and claimed first 
hand knowledge of (he said that he was a personal friend of Himmler 
during WWII) is reg. the Nazi Tibet expedition that took place 
between April 1938 and August 1939 under SS auspices. 

In the published academic report by one of the participants at the 
time there is no mention of Himmler's esoteric interests in Aryan 
origins, although careful anthropological measurements of Tibetan 
nomads were taken. Color photographs document the magnificent 
Himalayan landscapes and solitary desert plateaus of the Tibetan 
interior, including pictures of fortresses, monasteries, temples and 
the splendid Potala in Lhasa. There is also rich documentation of the 
cultural and religious festivals of the Tibetan people. These include 
portraits of the aged abbot of the Taschilunpo monastery, the seat of 
the Panchen Lama, processions of Buddhist monks, masked 
impersonations of Tibetan deities and demons and lamas summoning the 
gods with the strange sounds of their long horns and drums." Schafer 
returned to Germany with many species of animals and 108 volumes of 
Tibetan sacred scripture, the Kangschur, a gift from the Dalai Lama.
I mentioned earlier on my web page that, Beger on of the instigators 
of the SS Tibet expedition had proposed to map the characteristics 
of the peoples of eastern Tibet to ascertain whether they were 
originally Aryans. And this idea of course came straight from the SD. 
The SS-Ahnenerbe was involved in the mapping of different racial 
groups, its members believed that they could classify races into two 
types: those with Aryan heritage. The latter were to be eliminated. 
These ideas became then the impetus behind both the Holocaust plus 
the mission to Lhasa in 1938-39. 

Nazi militarists however also imagined Tibet as a potential base for 
attacking British India, and hoped that this mission would lead to 
some form of alliance with the Tibetans. In that they were partly 
successful. The mission was received by the Teting Regent (who had 
led Tibet since the death of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama in 1933), and 
it did succeed in persuading the Regent to correspond with Adolf 
Hitler. 

This presence of a Nazi scientific expedition in the fabled land of 
Tibet ended up lending credence to the imaginary occult links 
between Hitler, Nazism and legends reg. the eastern theocracy of 
Agartha also. Pauwels and Bergier in their famous book "Morning of 
the Magicians,"noted Schafer, the leader of the expedition, had made 
contact with a number of lamas in various monasteries, as well as 
bringing back "Aryan" species of horses and bees to Germany." Bronder 
alluded to the German links with Tibetan Buddhism already made by 
Haushofer and Hess. A certain Karo Nichi, the ambassador of Tibetan 
Agartha in Berlin, was said to have led the Schafer expedition in 
order to deliver radio equipment for communications between Berlin 
and Lhasa." The perennial fascination of these tales of strange Nazi 
missions to remote destinations has remained a constant in popular 
culture. Himmler's esoteric projects even feature in the highly 
successful Indiana Jones films of Stephen Spielberg. In Raiders of 
the Lost Ark (198 1), the American archaeologist is assigned to find 
the Ark before the Nazis can obtain it for their own evil use, while 
in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1988), the race is on to 
secure the Holy Grail. Images of uniformed Nazis pursuing such 
objects of power as the lost Ark of the Covenant and the Grail have 
created a worldwide awareness of the SS's interest in ancient and 
exotic traditions.

Others imagined the meditations of the twelve top Gruppenfiihrer as 
latter-day Jesuit superiors in high-backed pig-skin chairs that bore 
the occupant's name on silver plates, placed around the huge oak 
table, reminiscent of King Arthur's Round Table, in the great hall. 
Down in the large stone crypt, the "realm of the dead" symbolic 
ceremonies were easily imagined. Whenever a top SS leader died, his 
heraldic device would be ritually cremated in the central recess and 
the ashes placed in an urn on one of the twelve pedestals surrounding 
the circular walls.16 By the late 1970s, the Wewelsburg also featured 
in thriller literature as Himmler's Camelot, the mysterious 
ceremonial center of the SS.

Himmler's organization spread terror throughout Nazi-occupied Eur pe, 
but in Occult Reich J. H. Brennan gave it another meaning: "With its 
runic doctrines, its inner circles, its ritual festivals and its 
Black Jesuit Grand Master, the SS was a magical order in every sense 
of the word."' By emphasizing Himmler's occult whimsies and these 
mystifications, the authors of the "Nazi Mysteries" give weight to 
the pseudoreligious image of the SS. By contrast, the police and 
security services, the cruelty of their slave labor programs, and the 
terrible extermination camps are diminished. Romantic details such as 
the alleged search for the Holy Grail, the meditations of the inner 
leadership, co -parisons of the Black Order to the Jesuits of St. 
Ignatius Loyola, Arthurian and Germanic symbolism and the strange 
ceremonies for the dead at the Wewelsburg all tend to obscure the 
brutal, violent nature of the SS behind an aura of magic and mystery.

Alan Baker has recently sought to document and analyze this genre of 
Nazi occultism. The subject is complicated by the fact that early 
(pre-Nazi) Voelkisch and Pan-German racist groups before and after 
the First World War were definitely influenced by esoteric ideas. The 
construction of the Aryan myth indicating the polar origins of the 
Nordic race certainly had deep roots in European Romanticism and late 
nineteenth-century Theosophy, and flourished in such movements as 
Ariosophy. Despite this ideological affinity, Baker accepts that 
evidence that Hitler and other leading Nazis practiced black magic is 
very weak. Once again, one travels through the tangled mythology of 
the post1960 genre attributing occult powers to the Nazis, including 
Trevor Ravenscroft's The Spear of Destiny, the fringe cosmologies of 
Hans Hoerbiger's World Ice Theory and the Hollow Earth Theory and 
ongoing sagas of secret Nazi activities involving Antarctica and 
UFOs. It is, as Baker argues, a valid eld of inquiry, irrespective of 
the dubious nature of this latter-day literature. Tust as the Nazis 
mythologized the history of their putative Aryan ancestors in order 
to legitimize their claims to racial superiority, so the Nazis 
themselves have been mythologized as a uniquely evil force by modern 
writers in the fields of occultism and conspiracy theory."

The lightning successes of the Nazis, both electorally and later 
militarily, together with their manifest evil, stimulated notions of 
their demonic inspiration as early as the mid-1930s among esoteric 
writers in France. The deitructiveness of Nazism and the macabre 
irrationality of the Holocaust begged a religious interpretation 
involving a dualistic war in heaven, satanic mspiration and the use 
of dark forces. Initially canvassed from the 1960s on%%-ard in 
popular literature, this fanciful demonization of Nazism has created 
and perpetuated an occult image of Hitler, National Socialism and the 
Third Reich. But while the authors of the "Nazi Mysteries" write in a 
speculative spirit, their readers are often less skeptical. Once 
thriller writers borrowed its materials, the "Occult Reich" became 
even more commonplace in popular discourse. In this process, Nazism 
was credited with the status of a perverse theology, complete with 
doctrine, prophecies, rituals and ceremonies. In the course of the 
1970s and 1980s, mystical neo-Nazis commandeered this sensational 
mysteriosophy of the Thule Society and Wewelsburg to create new Nazi 
cults involving Gnosticism and satanism. The original stigmatization 
of Nazism as pure evil was thus inverted to celebrate the very taboos 
of the liberal democratic world as the forbidden gods of a dark realm.

In the Hugin-Gesellschaft and Teut-Verlag in the small town of Wetter 
in the Ruhr, D. H. Haarmann's three-volume Geheime Wunderwaffen 
[Secret Miracle Weapons] (1983-85) dilated on the by now familiar 
topics of the Ritscher expedition, the "phantom convoy" and Operation 
Highjump. Further Allied -.kntarctic invasions had been mounted in 
1955-56 and again under cover of the International Geophysical Year 
in 1958, when atomic weapons were used m vain against the hidden 
German enemy. Haarmann saw the Antarctic Treaty of December 1959 as a 
ploy of the United Nations Organisation, conceived in 1942 to achieve 
Allied war aims against the Axis Powers as well as a nefarious world 
conspiraCy.41 His subsequent volumes took up the themes of worldwide 
saucer sightings in the 1950s, especially the (historical) incident 
when seven disks flew over the White House in Washington on 20 July 
1952, interpreted by Haarmann as a show of German capabilities, and 
Reinhold Schmidt's encounter with a German-speaking saucer crew in 
November 1957. Haarmann also linked UFO cover-ups and the 
extraterrestrial hypothesis with a "secret government" conspiracy of 
invisible elites such 'as the Council on Foreign Relations.

This conspiracy not only concerned a blackout on Nazi resurgence but 
on alternative energy technology. How else could the modern saucers 
execute such astonishing feats of speed, acceleration, rapid changes 
of direction with soundless flight and the complete absence of 
exhaust? Here, the wartime work of Viktor Schauberger, the Viennese 
inventor, on electromagnetic flying saucers is cited as the prototype 
of antigravitational power. Evidently, the secret German saucer 
industry is using free "implosive" energy from the earth's 
gravitational and magnetic fields rather than the "explosive" 
technology of fossil fuels with all their harmful ecological 
consequences. Knowledge of the Nazi saucers and their free energy 
power is thus being suppressed by a (Jewish) conspiracy of banks, oil 
and automobile industries in the postwar world economy. Haarmann even 
considers the mystical sources of such "implosive" technology, citing 
Miguel Serrano's speculation that the SS found the Cathar Grail 
treasure in southern France, an idea that connects with Erich Halik's 
thoughts on "manisolas" and Julius Evola's idea of the Grail as an 
AryanNordic mystery tradition. Such a world conspiracy against 
alternative energy would become a major theme of New Age literature 
in the 1990s.

Richard Scbepmann, the publisher of Teut-Verlag, is the son of the 
former SA staff officerWilhelm Schepmann. In 1983 he was sentenced to 
a six-month suspended sentence and heavy fine for inciting racial 
hatred. The HuginGesellschaft and Teut-Verlag continued to present 
revanchist German nationalism in an esoteric context, introducing the 
first volume of Miguel Serrano's "Esoteric Hitlerism" trilogy to a 
German readership in 1987. 

Juergen-Ratthofer and Ettl (both living in Vienna) next latched onto 
the Vril references in the occult Nazi mythology of Louis Pauwels and 
Jacques Bergier. These, it will be recalled, go back to Willy Ley's 
report of a Vril Society in Berlin. German researchers have recently 
established that such a group did exist in association with the 
astrological publisher Wilhelm Becker. This wholly 
obscure "Reichsarbeitsgerneinschaft 'Das Kornmende Deutschland"' 
published a short brochure Vril. Die kosmische Urkraft (1930), which 
described the Atlanteans as possessors of a spiritual "dynamo-
technology," superior to the mechanistic notions of modern science. 
Based on Vril energy, this technology also enabled the Egyptians and 
Aztecs to build their pyramids. The brochure claims that this 
knowledge of the ancients should now be applied for the benefit of 
modern mankind. The group's second brochure, Weltdynamismus (1930), 
rejected explosive technology and spoke of the release of free 
energy. A chapter headed "The World Apple" described a bisected apple 
as a map of the universal free energy field. It is quite probable 
that Willy Ley's record of the Vril group recalled this very detail 
as a meditational object.

In Juergen-Ratthofer and Ettl's account, this group of esotericists 
concerned with Atlantis and free energy becomes a powerftd UFO 
research agency. Between 1917 and 1919, Sebottendorff built up the 
Germanenorden and the Thule Society as true to secret Aryan-
Babylonian doctrine. When the Thule was involved in the Bavarian 
revolution of May 1919, a separate section for spiritual and esoteric 
studies was founded as the Vril Society. In December 1919 an inner 
group of the Thule and Vril held a joint meeting at Ramsau near 
Berchtesgaden, where the medium Maria Orsic presented transcripts in 
an old Templar script of communications she had received 
telepathically. These proved to be written in Sumerian, the language 
of the founders of the oldest Babylonian culture. 

>From the planet Sumi-Er in the solar system of Aldebaran, the 
brightest star in the constellation of Taurus, sixty-eight light 
years away from earth. JftrgenRatthofer and Ettl claim that the DHvSS 
and its modern successor, the Vril Society, received mediumistic 
confirmation that the Sumerians were a colony of superior beings sent 
from Aldebaran to earth 500 million years ago. As I briefly mentioned 
in an earlier part of these postings.

Through their elaborate mythology of Sumero-Aldebaran links, 
JuergenRatthofer and Ettl attribute German flying saucer technology 
to semi-divine guidance from extraterrestrial civilization. They also 
claim that National Socialism and anti-Semitism are closely bound up 
with channeled communications from a highly advanced society 
ethnically related to the Germans and following a political model 
similar to the Third Reich and in part again based on information in 
the Secret Doctrine.


Bri.


--- In theos-talk@y..., samblo@c... wrote:
> Brigitte,
> Thanks, that was interesting to read, quite a new 
perspective for 
> us here in the 
> USA. In reg. to your previous post on this topic I did a 
Google 
> search on Lothar
> Waiz and read several sites of the listing. 
> 
> One site had reference to an ancient Sumerian Stele that 
is used 
> as a reference bench mark to the histology of 
the 
> so-called "Black sun." On
> it are a "White" sun and a "Black" sun, apparently side by 
side. the 
> site
> traces through different cultural civilizations attempting 
to 
> authenticate
> this reality.
> 
> In my humble personal view the problem is again 
the "invert logic" 
> of the 
> mind of man that feels compelled to place this stellar 
representation 
> in 
> some form of material objectivity even if ultraviolet. 
> I do believe it is mischaracterized by the term "Black" 
though it 
> could be 
> appropriate to a descriptive psychological condition as 
regards the 
> lower consciousness itself. It is anything 
but "Black." Yes, 
> I do accept H.P.B.'s assertion of "A" Central Sun in 
the Noetic 
> sense.
> 
> BTW, the Space shuttle will launch Feb. 28th and the on 
board 
> camera's
> do at times change to an Ultraviolet filter medium, some 
unique 
> features are 
> sometimes seen using this special medium.
> 
> John