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Mysticism, Superstition, the Devil & Hitler.

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Post by David Brown » 01 Aug 2003, 15:28

Here’s something I found in a book called “THE WORLD’S GREATEST’S MYSTERIES” by Gerry Brown (no relation), published by Octopus Books in 1989.

There are some glaring howlers in it, such as the references to Himmler being the Deputy Fuhrer, which we know he never was. Also, the writer believed that the British Government set up their own Department of Astrology and the Occult as a matter of being done as “tongue in cheek”, which it was far from being. There was a serious relevence to it as the writer goes on to mention himself.

Dave

HITLER & THE OCCULT

When Adolf Hitler set out to conquer Europe and build an empire he predicted would last for a thousand years, it seemed to military tacticians that he had put his faith in the strength of his armoured tank divisions and the swift striking power of the Luftwaffe bombers. At the massed rallies of his fanatical followers in the giant stadium of Nuremberg, the crazed dictator entranced hundreds of thousands of his countrymen into believing that he had built an invincible war machine. Even when the tide of war turned against the Nazis – when the Russians began to repulse the sweeping attack of the Germans and the Allies liberated Occupied Europe – Hitler was still convinced that, through some miraculous intervention, he would triumph in the end.

As the Third Reich crumbled around Hitler’s ears, and he still insisted that a miracle would save Germany from total collapse and devastation, his own General’s began to wonder about Hitler’s state of mind.

Had he launched the Second World War not through his confidence in military strength, but in the belief that he could achieve victory using black magic, by appealing to the occult and holy mysticism.

He had been deeply and perversely moved by a performance of Wagner’s opera “Rienzi”, which tells the tale of the rise and fall of a Roman Tribune. The young Hitler saw the opera as a metaphor for the destiny of his own nation and plunged himself into the composer’s romantic world of Germanic myth and fantasy. He began to study the occult and a few years later, in 1909, the young Austrian became a follower of the eccentric religious leader Dr Jorg Lanz von Leibenfels. This former monk had abandon the Christian religion and had formed a new cult in a run down castle on the banks of the Danube. Here he preached magic, occultism, and race mysticism.

Soon after this, Hitler became struck by the power of a particular religious legend, which was to become an obsession and may even have led to his suicide more then 30 years later.

In the summer of 1912, Viennese economist Dr Walter Stein, an expert in early Byzantine and Medieval Art, purchased a second hand copy of an edition of “Parsifal” from an occult bookseller in his hometown. The copy was 13th Century romance about the Holy Grail, the cup from which Jesus drank wine during the Last Supper. Throughout the Middle Ages, legends abounded about the whereabouts of the Holy Grail as well as another powerful religious relic – The Holy Lance. In the margins of the slim volume he had bought, Dr Stein found pencilled in notes made by the previous owner. They were mostly rambling little comments on mythology, the occult, and the power of racial superiority of those descended from the Crusaders and Teutonic Knights. Intrigued, Dr Stein asked the bookseller to put him in contact with the previous owner…and soon came face to face with the young Adolf Hitler.

Hitler amazed and intrigued Stein with his knowledge of ancient myths but he also puzzled him by his sinister belief in the magical powers of the Holy Lance. Hitler had seen the Lance in the Hofburg Museum in Vienna. According to the tales handed down since Medieval times, this was the actual weapon used by a Roman soldier to pierce the side of Jesus as he lay dying on the Cross. The Roman had experienced an ecstatic vision in which he realised that he had thrust the weapon into the body of God himself. From that moment, the Lance gained magical power.

There were at least two other sharpened iron blades in existence reputed to be the actual weapon used during the Crucifixion – one in the Vatican and one in a Paris museum. But Hitler was particularly fascinated with the Hapsburg Lance, which had been passed down to the Austrian royalty from a long line of conquerors and military leaders. The Holy Lance of Hapsburg could be traced back to Antioch in the Middle East, where it was discovered by Crusaders besieged by the Saracens in the city. German folk legend claimed that the Lance was carried by the Emperor Charlemagne through 47 victorious military campaigns and that it had endowed him with powerful magic. In fact, it was claimed that Charlemagne died immediately after letting the Lance slip from his grasp. Later it was wielded by Saxon King Heinrich, who drove the Poles out of Eastern Germany. It was then passed down to the 12th Century conqueror Frederick Barbarossa, who had triumphed over the forces of Italy and driven the Pope himself into exile.

Hitler told Stein how he had been overcome when he saw the Lance on display in the museum in Vienna. He explained: “I slowly became aware of a might presence around it. I sensed a great destiny awaited me and I knew beyond contradiction that the blood in my veins would one day become the Folk Spirit of my people”.

But the Lance remained firmly in the security of the museum for the next 25 years, during which Hitler’s belief in magic and mysticism was to become more and more deeply rooted.

It was more then a decade later when Hitler, then the aspiring leader of the Nazi Movement, decreed that his whole terrible political philosophy should be symbolised by one fearful mystical design – the Swastika.

The sign of the ‘crooked cross’ had long been a good luck symbol in the Hindu religion, where it represented the life giving rays of the sun, and in Viking mythology it had portrayed the Hammers of Thor, the god of thunder and war. It had been resurrected in late 19th Century Germany by Guido von List, a religious leader who led his followers in Pagan rituals and the worship of old Nordic gods. Finally it was adopted by Hitler, who wanted a bold and instantly recognisable symbol to rival that of the communist’s hammer and sickle.

By the early 1930’s, Hitler had already bemused many of his top aides by his childlike belief in mysticism. His Armaments Minister Albert Speer recalled a bizarre incident in October 1933 when Hitler was laying the foundation stone of the Museum of German Art in Munich. As the Fuhrer tapped the stone into place, the silver hammer he was using shattered into fragments. Hitler recoiled in horror and told Speer it was an omen that powerful evil was about to strike.

Hitler spent three months in abject torment until in January 1934, the architect of the Museum, Paul Ludwig Troost suddenly died. Even though Troost had been a close friend, Hitler gloated:

“The curse is now lifted; it was Troost who was meant to die, not me”.

That same year, Hitler had appointed Heinrich Himmler as the deputy leader of the Nazi Movement. He watched in satisfaction as Himmler began to persecute Jews and Christians alike. Himmler drew up planes to outlaw all religions except the new Nazism, banning festivals such as Christmas and Easter, replacing them with his own neo-pagan rituals. Only one thing troubled Hitler about his depraved and ambitious deputy: Himmler claimed to be the reincarnation of Heinrich, the founder of the Saxon royal dynasty, and a previous owner of the Holy Lance of the Hapsburg's.

One of the Fuhrer’s closest confidants, Hermann Rauschning, wrote of Hitler:

“He wakes up at night, screaming and in convulsions. He calls out for help and appears to be half paralysed. He is seized with panic that makes him tremble until, the bed shakes. He utters confused and unintelligible sounds, gasping as if on the point of suffocation”.

But all Hitler’s hidden fears and insecurity seemed to vanish on 14th March 1938, when as Chancellor of all Germany, he addressed a rally in the Heldenplatz in Vienna and announced that he was about to absorb Austria into the Nazi empire. As he finished his speech, his soldiers quietly entered the museum behind him. All the regalia of the Hapsburg monarchy, including the precious Holy Lance, was seized and carried off to St Catherine’s Church in Nuremberg, the spiritual home of the Nazi Movement.

Flushed with victory and reassured by his possession of the Holy Lance, Hitler plunged Europe into war the following year.

For the first four years it seemed as if Hitler and his forces were truly invincible. Even experienced Prussian Generals, the aristocratic backbone of the German Army, became almost convinced that Hitler possessed super human powers. He directed one successful campaign after another, relying on mere hunch or intuition, which refused to share with anyone else. They watched in dismay as his deputy Himmler held councils of war from his headquarters – a rebuilt medieval fortress in Westphalia, where the vast banqueting hall was laid out with 13 thrones, for the Deputy Fuhrer and his 12 closest ‘Apostles’. And they were even more bemused when Hitler himself set up the “Occult Bureau” in Berlin, employing favoured astrologers and psychics to help him direct the war.

Soon the military planning sessions with the Chiefs of Staff were being postponed and interrupted while the impatient Generals waited for their Fuhrer to consult fortune tellers before important battlefield decisions could be made. As the lightning advances of the German armies were halted, entrenched and forced back. Hitler insisted on having more and more detailed personal horoscopes drawn up for him before he could decide on the net course of action.

Navy chiefs were constantly overruled and had their orders countermanded by one of Hitler’s closest occult advisers, architect Ludwig Straniak. Straniak, an amateur occultist who redirected the Navy’s battleships throughout the Atlantic, claimed that he could detect the presence of warships by “dowsing” over maps and sensing the locations of ships by psychic vibrations. He had impressed the Fuhrer once by dangling a pendulum over an Admiralty chart and pinpointing the position of the pocket battleship Prinz Eugen, then on a secret mission. After that episode, the German Admirals were not in a position to argue with him, and they were often forced to send futile fleets off to do battle in totally empty seas.

In London, Hitler’s reliance on astrology and black magic was well known to Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his wartime Cabinet. They even established their own tongue in cheek department of astrology and occult to trey and guess the psychic advice Hitler would be given, and to react accordingly. One of their advisers was Walter Stein, the occult and medieval art expert who had escaped from Nazi Germany. Stein still had vivid memories of his encounter with the young Hitler, and he was able to predict how the Fuhrer would respond to the prophecies of his mystic advisers.

By the spring of 1945, it seemed as if no power on earth could save the doomed Third Reich. But even as the Allied forces advanced across the Rhine and through Germany, and the Russian troops began pounding at Berlin itself, the Fuhrer was still predicting some perverse, supernatural, miracle would turn the fortunes of war. In October 1944, when Nuremberg was pounded by heavy Allied bombing, far from evacuating the civilian population, he ordered it instead to be reinforced by 20,000 SS troops, 100 Panzer tanks and 22 Regiments of artillery. Next he gave orders that the Hapsburg regalia, including the Holy Lance should be moved from St Catherine'’ Church to a specially constructed vault.

In April 1945, the liberating American Thunderbird Division reached the outskirts of Nuremberg and began battering at the defences. It took four days but on 20th April – Hitler’s 56th birthday – the Americans finally achieved their objective. When they began the interrogation of the prisoners, a wounded and embittered SS Officer revealed to his captors how he had sacrificed thousands of his men, on the Fuhrer’s orders, to ensure that the Holy Lance was not captured.

The Americans immediately began a search to locate the Holy relic. Ten days later, ‘C’ Company of the US Army’s Third, under the command of Lieutenant William Horn tore their way through the rubble and reached the twisted steel doors leading to the vault. Shoving aside the shattered brickwork, Lt. Horn reached out and grabbed the Holy Lance. The foot long blade was bound with gold wire which held a rusting nail – one of the nails which legend insisted had been used to fasten Jesus to the Cross.

That night as the Lieutenant returned to his command headquarters with the scared relic, now the property of the US Government, Adolf Hitler put his pistol to his head and killed himself in fatal despair.

It was 30th April, the end of the Hitler nightmare. It was also Walpurgis Night, the most celebrated event in the Pagan Calendar, the high feast of the Powers of Darkness.

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Nostradamus!

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Post by Alexander39 » 15 May 2005, 22:41

What is most often forgotten about Nostradamus is that he never hid the fact that A) he was a true beliver in God the almighty!. B) That his gift's were a gift from above! C) That his prophecies were WARNINGS, that they could be avoided, if proper action were taken.
It is there that Nostradamus is different from other would be profets!!


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Post by Andy H » 16 May 2005, 01:32

Every now and again a thread re-emerges which you wish hadn't. Well this is one off them and thankfully its now locked

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