-Caveat Lector- and where, again, did the swastika come from? where is shamanism originally from...keyword: sham - to deceive...to woo... --- Agent Smiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:22:11 -0700 (PDT) > From: Agent Smiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: nazism's esoteric influences: ariosophy, an > overview > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id869/pg1/ > > nazism's esoteric influences: ariosophy, an overview > > by Matthew Mitchem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - February > 20, 2001 > > Night of 27th-28th July, 1941. > The National Socialist theory is to make use of all > forces, wherever they may come from. > ~ ~ Adolf Hitler (H.R. Trevor-Roper (ed.): 17) > Part I: The Dark Side of History > > By Alex Burns > > The esoteric origin of the Nazi movement, as an > explanation of Adolf Hitler's meteoric > rise-to-power, > and the genocidal "Final Solution" that resulted in > the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka, has > long haunted our collective imagination. > > Nowhere is the post-war fascination with the Nazis > more felt than in the conspiracy and neo-Nazi > communities. Since the publication of Jacques > Bergier > and Louis Pauwel's landmark book The Morning of the > Magicians (New York: Avon Books, 1968), this > fascination has transmuted into a fringe subculture, > which constructs a crypt-history involving the > secretive Thule Society, Antarctic bases and Nazi > flying saucers. > > This fringe subculture fueled a 1970s publishing > genre, featuring speculative books on the post-war > survival of key Nazis (confirmed by "Project > Paperclip"), the hunt for Martin Bormann, and rumors > of a future Fourth Reich, financed by the shadowy > ODESSA clique. This genre is best represented by > Trevor Ravenscroft's The Spear of Destiny (G. P. > Putman's Sons, 1973). Holocaust revisionist David > Irving and conspiracy theorist David Icke have both > exploited the genre's Dionysian fascination, which > also infiltrated Hollywood's pop culture via Steven > Spielberg's Indiana Jones films, and the Lucasfilm > franchise. > > Yet despite Spielberg's mythopoeic vision, the genre > is considered by historians and scholars as > sensationalist, under-researched regarding "primary > sources", and prone to repeating wild claims. > Bergier > and Pauwels, alongside Colin Wilson, speculated that > Aleister Crowley and George Gurdjieff covertly > assisted Nazism's rise-to-globalism. This scenario, > relying on marginal evidence, overlooks Nazism's > real > fascination with magical, occult and philosophical > systems. This would include Heinrich Himmler's > Deutsches Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Heritage > Organization), > Hanns Horbiger's glacial cosmology (commonly known > as > the 1882 "Cosmic Ice" theory), and the search for > the > "Atlantis of the North" conducted by racialist > philosopher Alfred Rosenberg and professor Hermann > Wirth (Michael Edwardes: 226). > > We may laugh today at the Nazi belief in a Hollow > Earth (Michael Edwardes: 228), safe in the universe > where the Allies won. Post-humanism has eclipsed the > specter of Ariosophy: a world ruled by gnostic > initiates and Wotanist priesthoods, where an Aryan > elite rules over non-Aryan slaves. But in a parallel > universe . . . > > Bibliography: > > Michael Edwardes. The Dark Side of History: Magic in > the Making of Man. London: Hart-Davis MacGibbon, > 1978. > > Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. The Occult Roots of > Nazism: > Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi > Ideology. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. > > Michael Howard. The Occult Conspiracy. London: > Rider, > 1989. > > Gudio von List. Secret of the Runes. Rochester, VT: > Destiny Books, 1988. > > Guido von List Der Unbesiegbare (The Invincible). > Runa-Raven Books, 1996. > > Hermann Rauschning. The Return of Nihilism: Warning > to > the West. New York: Alliance Book Corporation, 1939. > > Trevor Ravenscroft. The Spear of Destiny. New York: > G. > P. Putman's Sons, 1973. > > Frederick C. Redlick. Hitler: Diagnosis of a > Destructive Prophet. New York: Oxford University > Press, 1999. > > H.R. Trevor-Roper (ed.). Hitler's Table Talk, > 1941-1944. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1953. > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute > with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! 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