The Rise of the Fourth Reich - ThereAreNoSunglasses

NAZI MIND CONTROL 179present to comprehend the initiation rites and black-magic practices ofthe inner core of Nazi leadership.”This remarkable statement was corroborated by Airey Neave, one ofthe Nuremberg prosecutors, who said the occult aspect of the Nazis wasruled inadmissible because the tribunal thought that such beliefs, so contraryto Western public rationalism, might allow Nazi leaders to go freeby pleading insanity.Even Hitler acknowledged that Nazi ideology ventured into a spiritualrealm, when he stated, “Anyone who interprets National Socialism merelyas a political movement knows almost nothing about it. It is more thanreligion; it is the determination to create a new man.”To attempt this creation, the Nazis turned to occultists such as BaronRudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorff, Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels, Guido vonList, Dietrich Eckart, and Karl Haushofer, all of whom had immersedthemselves in the philosophies of the Theosophical Society. Theosophy,derived from the Greek theos (god) and sophia (wisdom), was an attemptto blend Christianity with Cabalistic and Eastern mysticism. One tenetof theosophy was that “Great Masters,” sometimes called the “GreatWhite Brotherhood,” are secretly directing humankind’s evolution.“The rationale behind many later Nazi projects can be traced back . . .to ideas first popularized by [Theosophical Society found er Helen] Blavatsky,”wrote Peter Levenda, who detailed connections with other European secret organizations, such as the Ordo Templi Orientis, or OrientalTemplars (OTO), Dr. Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophical Society, and theOrder of the Golden Dawn.Such groups were “concerned with raising their consciousness by meansof rituals to an awareness of evil and non-human Intelligences in the Universeand with achieving a means of communication with these Intelligences.And the Master-Adept of this circle was Dietrich Eckart [the manHitler called “spiritual founder of National Socialism”],” noted Ravenscroft.Hitler wrote of his own occult experiences as a soldier in WorldWar I: “I often go on bitter nights, to Wotan’s oak in the quiet glade, withdark powers to weave a union.”As previously mentioned, the deeply occulted Germanenorden contrived