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Nazis and the Occult

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Post by Elf Friend » 19 Oct 2009, 16:53

I've been reading Paul Roland's 2007 book The Nazis and The Occult. He writes,

"Moreover, how could one explain the enigma of the demagogue himself? As the respected British historian A.J.P. Taylor remarked: 'How could a man so ignorant, so enslaved by stupid dogmas, have achieved such practical success?' It seemed inconceivable that a man of Hitler's limited imagination, intellect and avowed indolence could have galvanized a nation into following him blindly where he willed, unless there was somethng else empowering him which the people sensed and entrusted with their fate. In short, what was the true nature of the regime that had raised Germany from defeat to be master of Europe and thence to wholesale destruction in less than 12 years?"

He later comments, "There can be no doubt that Hitler was possessed—those who witnessed his powers to whip up a mob attested to that fact—but he was driven by demons of this world, not the next. They were the demons of resentment, fear, self-loating and all-consuming hatred. The fact is, Hitler didn't need help from the dark side. He had enough destructive energy within him to wreak havoc on a scale unimaginable even in the days of Vlad the Impaler, Tamburlane and Genghis Khan" (p.50).

Speaking further about the influence of Madame Blavatsky and Leopold von List upon the Nazis, Roland insists that Hitler had nothing but scorn for the pseudo-pagan revivalists. Yet Hitler emerged from Landsberg prison in the autumn of 1924 with renewed appetite for politics and driven by Karl Haushofer's idea of Lebensraum. A little over 13 years later he claimed the most sacred relic in all Christendom, the Holy Lance that supposedly had been driven into the side of the crucified Christ. Why was this so important to him? How do these things fit together?

Roland throughout demonstrates his personal conviction that supernatural forces were not at work in the Nazi regime. In his conclusion he writes, ". . . the Nazi regime was capable of unleashing the torments of hell without the assistance from supernatural forces. But that does not mean that such forces were not at work in the world at that time, only that they were not in a form which we would understand or recognize as demonic" (p.199).

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Post by bf109 emil » 25 Oct 2009, 10:05

He later comments, "There can be no doubt that Hitler was possessed—those who witnessed his powers to whip up a mob attested to that fact—but he was driven by demons of this world, not the next. They were the demons of resentment, fear, self-loating and all-consuming hatred. The fact is, Hitler didn't need help from the dark side. He had enough destructive energy within him to wreak havoc on a scale unimaginable even in the days of Vlad the Impaler, Tamburlane and Genghis Khan" (p.50).
No it was the 13 million votes which enabled him to become the Demon which decided fate...otherwise he was nothing more then a second rate watercolor painter from Bavaria with a flair for speaking and an ex-corporal...all the destructive energy meant little without these votes...a Reichstag fire and poof a dictator is born


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Post by J. Duncan » 25 Oct 2009, 13:34

The problem begins with your choice of books on the subject. Roland's book is a regurgitation of sensationalist and mostly false "occultic studies" which are largely imaginations of the authors themselves (Roland, Trevor Ravenscroft, Francis King, Pauwels-Bergier,Brennen, etc...). Best book on the subject is Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's "The Occult Roots of Nazism". It is an awesome work...Guido von List, Lanz von Liebenfels, and Karl Maria Wiligut are all covered as well as lesser known figures like founder of the Thule Society, Rudolf von Sebottendorff. Another good book is "The Secret King" by Michael Moynihan (a book about the occultism of Karl Maria Wiligut).

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Post by Inselaffe » 25 Oct 2009, 14:49

J. Duncan wrote:Best book on the subject is Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's "The Occult Roots of Nazism". It is an awesome work...

Totally agree. A fascinating and detailed look at the influence of occult groups and philosophy on the evolution of the Far Right in early C20th Germany. Wasn't sure it was still in print, pleased to see it is http://www.amazon.co.uk/Occult-Roots-Na ... =1-3-spell

A lot of rubbish gets written on this subject but it is an interesting and valid area of research, G-C's book shows this perfectly.


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Post by ohrdruf » 19 Nov 2009, 17:52

The problem with the Goodricke-Clarke book is that it is simply academic and does not describe the philosophy behind what was being attempted and the practices employed by the various organizations. Did they pray, or meditate or what?

What was the theory behind the hatred of the Jews? This hatred flowered so early on and was so widespread before the First World War in Germany and Austria that there had to be some real philosophy beyond mere "envy" to explain it, but Goodricke Clarke leads all the other professors of history in being unable or unwilling to do so.

Hitler had something which has been described by those in his close circle as "hypnotic magnetism". See for example, the opinion of Wilfred von Oven (Goebbels' Press adjutant) who uses this term in his book "Mit ruhig festem Schritt". From 1907 onwards (Kubizek: "Hitler mein Jugendfreund"), it is clear that this gift was the factor which enabled Hitler to develop into what he was.

National Socialism was more than just a political system. Hitler stated that those who saw it as just that knew nothing of it. National Socialism was, according to Hitler, "more than a religion - it is the will to re-create Man anew." The philosophy was that of Götterdämmerung - the gods are dead, and a new breed of Man must be created to replace them. Men must become gods. Those who are unfit and incapable of becoming gods must be exterminated.

Not everybody in the hierarchy embraced the doctrine. Himmler wanted to continue the worship of the gods by reintroducing the cult of Wotan, and so it is clear that the SS doctrine did not accommodate the death of the gods, and the elimination of the celestial hierarchy. Basic to Nazi belief was Reincarnation, a doctrine which Hitler stated he espoused, and reincarnation proposes that as gods die they are replaced by deceased humans of a level of development adequate to replace them. For this reason the SS doctrine was more spiritual than Hitler's idea of creating the new race on Earth.

It is clear from "Germanisches Leben" by SS-Standartenführer Schilling (Koehlers & Amelung, 1937) that National Socialism was a revival of the Aryan sun cult of the Bronze Age. This was the reason for the worldwide Nazi Sonnenwendfeir ceremonies four times per year (the two solstices and the longest and shortest day).The swastika as the symbol of the sun for the Germanen originates from the Bronze Age.

Why should a 20th century industrialized society have decided to cast off Christianity and replace it with a pre-historic sun cult? There has to have been some advantage in doing so, nothing in Nazism was done without a good, concrete reason. Someone who has studied religions can see what its purpose might have been, but no academic I have ever read has dared enter this thorny path.

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Post by michael mills » 24 Nov 2009, 06:39

Anything with the word "Occult" in it should be regarded with extreme suspicion as a sensationalist pandering to irrational human desires and fears.

I have not read the book "The Occult Roots of Nazism", but the use of the word "occult" in the title is a bit misleading. Organisations like the Thule Society, which did had have connections with the early National Socialist Party, were "occult" only in the sense in which the Masonic Lodges are "occult". Like the Masons, groups like the Thule Society had some weird rituals, but their aims were entirely rational, namely to achieve political and social power and influence for their members by working behind the scenes, rather than openly like most political parties.

The basic meaning of "occult" is "secret" or "hidden", and groups like the Masons or the Thule Society were occult in that sense, in that they were secret societies working in a clandestine way. But they were certainly not believers in or practitioners of supernatural or paranormal phenomena.

Hitler himself was certainly no believer in any sort of religion or cult, and had nothing but scorn for practitioners of mystic rites, such as witchcraft or Nordic pre-Christian nature cults. His ideology was based on entirely material, natural concepts, mostly derived from biology, eg the concepts of race and breeding, the concept of "blood", which is essentially a metaphor for genetically inherited physical characteristics. Nothing supernatural in those concepts.

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Post by bf109 emil » 24 Nov 2009, 08:26

Michael you wrote
Hitler himself was certainly no believer in any sort of religion or cult, and had nothing but scorn for practitioners of mystic rites, such as witchcraft or Nordic pre-Christian nature cults
i agree with this as the OCCULT and Nazi's can be traced back to a Russian Woman...

Sadly, most of the analyses of Nazism leave all of its various occult roots at the doorstep of one poor old Russian woman, Helena Blavatsky. The German occult societies appropriated some Theosophical ideas, to be sure, to the same extent that the Nazis eagerly distorted some of the doctrines of Nietzsche (so carefully doctored by his sister to omit the parts where he condemns German nationalism as an "abyss of stupidity!"4 or disavows anti-Semitism.) When Nietzsche discusses the Superman, he does not say that he shall be a German or an Aryan, only that we will not recognize him. It should be pointed out that Blavatsky's doctrine of the Six Root Races5 - Astral, Hyperborean, Lemurian, Atlantean, Aryan, and the Coming Race - did not assign much importance to the Aryan race. They would also be supplanted in turn by the Sixth Root Race, which would arise out of all the existing races and nations, sort of like a 'mutant' strain. Blavatsky does not attach much importance to racial magic, which she puts in the category of "sorcery." It should be pointed out that the Nazis closed most of the Theosophical lodges in Germany, including Rudolf Steiner's Goetheaneum, and banned Freemasonry and many other occult societies....Blavatksy's Secret Doctrine

and to Jung's writing of this

There are others often mentioned in this occult cast of villains. Jung is blamed for reviving interest in mythology and the workings of the racial unconscious, and for originally supporting the Nazis because of their attempts to revive Teutonic ritual and mythic thinking. Yet, when Jung discusses that the dreams of many patients in the 1930s reveal the archetype of a "great blond beast," he issues it as a warning, not as a herald of good fortune6. Jung himself described Nazism as the type of mass psychosis that afflicts a society when its leader becomes 'possessed' by one of the archetypes of the unconscious. Gurdjieff and Crowley are also mentioned as possible Reich supporters, which is astounding based on the evidence that both may have well been working clandestinely for the Resistance movements in France and England. Many occult groups, such as the Prieure du Sion, seem to have acted as infiltrators, aping the Nazi party line while passing on important information to its enemies in their journal Vaincre. In places like Vichy France, occult groups might have had no choice but to appear firmly in the Nazi fold...Carl Gustav Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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Post by ohrdruf » 24 Nov 2009, 18:33

It always amuses me when contributors such as Michael Mills profess knowledge of Hitler's religious beliefs, probably based on reading learned historians just as ignorant as they are (no offence intended), when those historians have not consulted or,if they have consulted, have not understood, the original source(1).

Hitler's religious beliefs were these:

(1) The basic principle of life is Reincarnation. (Hitler, Monologues, p.67, 149: 151, table talk of 13.12.1941)

(2) The world is pantheistic (Hitler, Monologues, p.103, table talk, 24.10.1941): "Whoever says that lightning comes from God is not wrong, but what is certain however is that God does not send it in the manner the Church maintains. The Church's definition is a misrepresentation of Creation for its own purposes. True piety is to be found where the most profound knowledge about the inadequacy of the human being resides. Whoever only sees God in an oak or a tabernacle and not in everything there is, he can never be inwardly holy."

From these two principles, one can see how close Hitler was to both Hinduism and Buddhism in his beliefs. Furthermore, with regard to the mystery of sun worship, if God is to be found "in everything there is" then God is in the Sun, and the Sun is the most obvious recipient for worship because it is there every day and visible to all.

The error in worshipping the Sun, however, as has been expressed time and again in the old traditions, including the pre-Christian Nordic, and in revelations by the Virgin Mary in apparitions over the centuries, is that prayer must be addressed to a female intermediary. Himmler realized this when he advocated to Felix Kirsten, as recorded in the latter's book, that the only thing of any value whatever in Christianity was the reverence paid to the Virgin Mary, because it was the same as the worship offered to the Nordic goddess and leader of the Valkyries Freya. Hitler did not approve of this view and on 14.10.1941, (Monologues p.84) dismissed the proposal of a new Wotan-cult before Himmler, who was present, had the chance to advocate it.

The sun cult of the Mayans provides a clue as to what the Nazis believed they could obtain by worshipping the sun on the four major Sonnenwendfeir days mentioned earlier. Anybody who has studied the Mayan religion will see at once what is meant. Accordingly there was no need for any of the other occult clubs to exist in Germany and in due course they were all outlawed by Hitler.

Mr Mills is also mistaken as to the underlying purpose of the Thule Society.

Goebbels' Press adjutant (1943-1945) Wilfred von Oven stated in his recent book "Mit ruhig festem Schritt" that the Thule which was meant was the mysterious inhabited island discovered by the Greek explorer Pytheas in the Arctic Sea in about 320 before the Christian era, and described by Pytheas in the remaining fragments of his chronicle "On the Ocean".

One of the three co-founders of the 1919 Thule Gesellschaft was Lanz von Liebenfels who survived the Second World War into the 1950s and provided Professor Daim the Viennese psychologist with enough material for a biography, "Der Mann der Hitler die Ideen gab" (The man who gave Hitler his ideas) published in Munich in 1985. The dubious expert Goodricke Clarke even mentions this in his own book. Professor Daim states that the Thule discovered by Pytheas was inhabited by a Nordic/Aryan race endowed with mystical powers and scientific knowledge far in advance of human achievements of the 20th century. It was the purpose of the Thule Society to contact the inhabitants of Thule (which was obviously in a parallel world) for the purpose of proposing a pact in which all but the Aryan race would be allowed to die out and the Aryan/Thule races would take over the world. Thus Thule appears to be a branch of Agharta. The parallel with Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton's occult novel "The Coming Race" (London, 1871) is striking.

(1) Adolf Hitler: Monologe im Führerhauptquartier, 1941-1944, Orbis Verlag version (Werner Jochmann), 2000

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Re: Nazis and the Occult

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Post by Inselaffe » 26 Nov 2009, 16:25

michael mills wrote:I have not read the book "The Occult Roots of Nazism", but the use of the word "occult" in the title is a bit misleading. Organisations like the Thule Society, which did had have connections with the early National Socialist Party, were "occult" only in the sense in which the Masonic Lodges are "occult".
michael mills wrote:The basic meaning of "occult" is "secret" or "hidden", and groups like the Masons or the Thule Society were occult in that sense, in that they were secret societies working in a clandestine way. But they were certainly not believers in or practitioners of supernatural or paranormal phenomena.
Michael, I agree with what you are saying, note that G-C's book very much takes that approach, using occult as a catch-all term for both the quasi-Masonic secret Societies and the more overtly 'magical/religious' groups. It is in no way sensationalist and uses the term 'occult' because nothing else really fits the bill.

From the introduction: " Fantasies can achieve a causal status once they have been institutionalized in beliefs, values and social groups. Fantasies are also an important symptom of impending cultural changes and political action." (Goodrick-Clarke, 'The Occult Roots of Nazism' London 1985)
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Post by Inselaffe » 26 Nov 2009, 16:50

ohrdruf wrote:Hitler's religious beliefs were these:

(1) The basic principle of life is Reincarnation. (Hitler, Monologues, p.67, 149: 151, table talk of 13.12.1941)

(2) The world is pantheistic (Hitler, Monologues, p.103, table talk, 24.10.1941): "Whoever says that lightning comes from God is not wrong, but what is certain however is that God does not send it in the manner the Church maintains. The Church's definition is a misrepresentation of Creation for its own purposes. True piety is to be found where the most profound knowledge about the inadequacy of the human being resides. Whoever only sees God in an oak or a tabernacle and not in everything there is, he can never be inwardly holy."

From these two principles, one can see how close Hitler was to both Hinduism and Buddhism in his beliefs. Furthermore, with regard to the mystery of sun worship, if God is to be found "in everything there is" then God is in the Sun, and the Sun is the most obvious recipient for worship because it is there every day and visible to all.
Ohrdruf, that is an interpretation of the information, I would suggest a number of others are equally plausible and equally valid. I'm not quite sure the quote given definitively supports a claim for Hitler's religious beliefs being pantheistic. Are there other sources to support this?
ohrdruf wrote:The sun cult of the Mayans provides a clue as to what the Nazis believed they could obtain by worshipping the sun on the four major Sonnenwendfeir days mentioned earlier. Anybody who has studied the Mayan religion will see at once what is meant.
I did a lot of reading on Pre-Columbian religious practices on my athropology course but am not clear what you are driving at here? I understand the Mayan's prodigious abilities in astronomy, what's the link with NS Germany?

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Post by ohrdruf » 26 Nov 2009, 20:12

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"The Cosmos", Hitler said (Heim: Table-talks, Orbis 2000, p.234), "is endless in all directions, endless not only outwards but also inwards." That is its extent. In order to confirm Hitler's pantheistic convictions, we have merely to consult his love for Schopenhauer. "Throughout the First World War I carried all five volumes of Schopenhauer in my gas mask case," he tells his listeners (Heim, p.411), and after the war, so he also tells them, he intends for "statues to Kant and Schopenhauer, the world' greatest philosophers, to be erected in the inner hall of the Great Library at Linz", his home town.

It was known that he could quote endless pages of Schopenhauer by heart. It is not any part of Hitler's modern image to think of him as philosophically literate. Yet how many profesors of philosophy could quote pages of Schopenhauer by heart? Knowing something by rote is no guarantee of understanding, but it is certainly evidence of understanding, particularly in an adult, and more so if it is the only reading matter he carried with him throughout four years of war.

It seems to be the case that Hitler had as deep an understanding of Schopenhauer's philosophy as any man alive. Essentially, what is the basis of this philosophy?

A block of marble which appears solid is merely millions of molecules, relatively as far apart as the Earth is from the Sun, which revolve around each other, vibrating about one another, and only held together by a binding keynote. The only reason why the block of marble appears to be solid, firm and substantial is because its molecules are vibrating so rapidly that they cannot be seen. If a force could interrupt the keynote, the object would disappear. Accordingly no physical object has permanent reality. The vibration and its source are the only reality.

Hitler no doubt discussed all this with his scientists. Therefore, on a scientific basis linked to Schopenhauer's doctrines, he would have believed in the Absolute, or God, being present in all things which exist and "not just in an oak or tabernacle."

The Chichen Itza pyramid is well known in modern times for its spectacular phenomenon at the Equinox. In the heyday of the Mayan religion there were important initiatic ceremonies celebrated in the cult of Hunab Ku. Hunab Ku was the senior god, but had no form, being instead "an energy without figurative representation but present in everything." This description from "Bermudez: Profecias Mayas" is so close to Hitler's description that he might have written it himself. During the mass celebrations of the Equinox "the god Kukulcan descended to address the priesthood". Exactly what this involved is not enlarged upon, but the celebrations seem an ideal way to provide the deity with the energy required to descend in order to communicate information. No better reason exists for an industrialized nation of 20th century Europe to suddenly revert to sun worship with huge festivals and celebrations at the Equinoxes. They wanted a deity to descend and pass them advanced information of a scientific kind, and I certainly believe that in this they were successful.

The real purpose of the Second World War has never been understood. It achieved its purpose, and within two decades we shall see the fruits. "We sowed the wind, we shall reap the whirlwind."

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Post by Inselaffe » 27 Nov 2009, 14:39

Ohrdruf,
ohrdruf wrote:In the heyday of the Mayan religion there were important initiatic ceremonies celebrated in the cult of Hunab Ku. Hunab Ku was the senior god, but had no form, being instead "an energy without figurative representation but present in everything." This description from "Bermudez: Profecias Mayas" is so close to Hitler's description that he might have written it himself.
Regarding Hunub Ku, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunab_Ku or http://www.authenticmaya.com/maya_religion.htm There are no extant references to this God prior to the arrival of Europeans. He is generally regarded as either a local synthesis of indiginous religion and Christianity or as something created by Catholic Priests to assist in converting the Maya.

The description from the book you cite certainly has similarities with the AH quote from Table Talk, however, so would any generic reference to a broadly pantheistic outlook. Such opinions are not uncommon and a found across a wide spectrum of religious and philosophical works from many cultures.
ohrdruf wrote:The real purpose of the Second World War has never been understood. It achieved its purpose, and within two decades we shall see the fruits. "We sowed the wind, we shall reap the whirlwind
Though I feel certain I'll regret it, you can't leave that hanging can you? Care to tell us what you mean?

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Post by ohrdruf » 28 Nov 2009, 22:12

Dear Inselaffe ("Ape of the Island?")

My mention of the Mayan sun cult is only meant to illustrate what was the purpose of the Sonnenwendfeir ceremonies. The ceremonies were not actually aimed at the gods of the Mayans, the idea was for contact to be made with Higher Forces, probably in the Untersberg, BY THIS METHOD.

Since you now concede the point of Hitler as "broadly pantheistic", I can proceed to answer your final question.

It is clear from the diaries of Von Hassell (1938-1944), the German ambassador to Rome who turned to the Resistance, that the purpose of Hitler and Ribbentrop from at least 1938 if not before was WORLD WAR, that being the term used in 1938, and war apparently for its own sake. The political causes were merely the mechanism to bring it about.

Now only the gods demand human sacrifice for its own sake. The sacrifice may be in blood or burnt. You will look at history and understand what I am saying here. War provides human suffering and human sacrifice. Whatever it may have looked like from the human level, the real hidden purpose of the Second World War was sacrifice. Some estimates suggest eighty million was the approximate total I believe, and that was the price paid in full. If the Higher Forces had wanted a Nazi victory, then they would have intervened to provide one. A Nordic-National Socialist rump will form part of the new race to come.

I think it was at Fatima that the apparition of the Virgin Mary, in promising the new war at the conclusion of the reign of Pope Pius XI (died 1939), stated that if everybody in the world prayed for four hours per day, the world could be transformed and war avoided. Humanity does not wish to go through such suffering as having to pray four hours per day and so we go the difficult path.

We have paid for the new human race endowed with cerebral powers beyond our imaginings, the mutation being as far advanced from us as we are from the apes. For certain in 2029, during our own lifetimes, at the epoch of the great revolution, we shall see the new race.

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Post by michael mills » 28 Nov 2009, 22:52

So Hitler was conversant with the philosophical works of Schopenhauer.

What has that to do with the "occult"?

Philosophy has nothing to do with the supernatural, but rather with the attempt to gain as perfect an understanding as possible of reality. Students of philosophy may well investigate the human tendency to believe in the supernatural, but that is not because those students themselves believe in the supernatural, but rather because they wish to understand the impulse that causes humans to want to believe in the supernatural, that is, in phenomena that are contrary to what their physical senses tell them.

I am personally acquainted with persons who are avid students of philosophy, and none is a believer in the supernatural. They are rather dour individuals who apply a disciplined process of reasoning to everything they consider.

As for Schopenhauer, he came to the conclusion that the root cause of all human unhappiness, of all "evil", was egoism, and that the way to escape from unhappiness was to renounce egoism, a conclusion rather similar to the basic concept of Buddhism. He was profoundly hostile to Jews and Judaism because he considered Jews to be the most egoistic of all humans, with their claim to be the Chosen People of God and of moral superiority to all other humans.

If Hitler was a student of Schopenhauer's philosophy, then he was a bad student. Even though he shared Shopenhauer's hostility toward Jews, he obviously failed to grasp the philosopher's key teaching of overcoming one's own egoism.

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Post by Karl » 01 Dec 2009, 03:18

ohrdruf wrote:We have paid for the new human race endowed with cerebral powers beyond our imaginings, the mutation being as far advanced from us as we are from the apes. For certain in 2029, during our own lifetimes, at the epoch of the great revolution, we shall see the new race.
Just like...magic! :) Hopefully your 29 number came from something more interesting then an obscure anniversary.

Regards.

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