Nazi Origin: The Hidden Origins of Nazism

Before being recognized as a political movement, the ill-aimed system of social intolerance now known as Nazism was apparent in various fringe-Masonic philosophies of Europe. Extreme arguments to form a militant racist Order were voiced in the esoteric doctrines of astrology, Theosophy, and Illuminati occultism which became popular in Germany during the early 1920s.

One man who had a virtual monopoly in syndicated fortune-telling was Hugo Vollrath, who also used the pseudonyms of Walter Heilmann and Dr. Johannes Walter. He presented himself as the secretary of a fictitious Rosicrucian secret society in Germany and collected subscriptions from many gullible people who received impressive diplomas. Vollrath, who assumed the arrogant title of Gnostic Bishop, was accustomed to wearing a fez at his office. "It keeps my aura in place," he once remarked. Another astrology figure and close friend of Vollrath was Abdul Bahai (no apparent connection to the Persian Bahai sect) who claimed to be the Metropolitan and head of a Gnostic Church based in Haifa.

"Under the Fez Cap."
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Yet another "ascended master" of this European movement was Ottoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, who claimed to be from Iran. Using the European name of Otto Hanisch, he later emigrated to the United States and founded an esoteric secret society which is still in existence. At the heart of the new German campaign was a mysterious Illuminati White Lodge which preached the Aryan master-race theory (based on hereditary Caste systems) among easily persuaded European Saxons.

In World War I the Ottoman Turks supported Germany, but defeat brought the loss of their territories outside Asia Minor. Germany's Propaganda Department in Berlin urged the government of Turkey to declare jihad (struggle, kampf, a Muslim holy war). To date, neither German nor Turkish historians have reappraised the question of shared guilt or responsibility for the annihilation and expulsion of two million Christians (Armenians and Assyrians) in Turkey during the First World War, a genocide that is still not part of our historical consciousness. It is often described as the 20th century's second worst genocide after the Jewish Holocaust in Germany.

With the help of men like T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), natives of the Middle East rebelled against Turkish imperial rule. The nationalist revolution of Kemal Ataturk replaced the Ottoman Empire with the new state of Turkey in 1922. Thus, the Ottoman movement was officially banned.
But fanatical splinter groups were not yet willing to abandon the possibility of jihad and the plan of a worldwide Ottoman revival. So by the early 1920s, various Ottoman agents of Casteism had already secretly moved to Germany and assumed the false and presumptuous identities of Aryan Illuminati ascended masters. Loyal to Ismail Enver Pasha, a leader of the defunct Young Turk revolution, they solicited the support of influential Europeans to reject Britain's Balfour Declaration and prevent the establishment of a national Jewish home in Palestine.

Ismail Enver Pasha

In the 1920s the Turkish government appointed scholars to develop a Latin-based alphabet, which is now called the new Turkish alphabet, as opposed to the Arabic in Palestine. Turkey's desire for international cooperation in intellectual affairs and cultural progress was obsessively enthusiastic. The target of organized Turkish publicity became the North European Germanic peoples. At the start of World War I, Germany sent warships to Turkey. A writer remarked: "As they pulled into port, the Ottomans looked through their spyglasses and noticed complete German crews decked out in fezzes" which became a badge of national identity. It was even claimed in Istanbul that the oldest European Runic alphabet stemmed from the very same Aryan origin as did the ancient Turkish.

Out of this eccentric landscape emerged Baron Rudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorff, the prototype Nazi, before Adolf Hitler made his first public appearance. Sebottendorff (Serbottendorff or Sobottendorf) founded the notorious right-wing Thule Society and in 1918 purchased the Munchener Beobachter, a weekly Munich newspaper which he transformed into an anti-Semitic scandal sheet and the Thule Society's official publication. Little has actually been written about Sebottendorff, other than that he was a Turkish citizen, claiming to have been adopted, who was probably familiar with Sufi and Islamic literature. Some biographers have stated that his real or European name was Adam Alfred Rudolf Glauer, (or Blauer) and that he was also involved in the violent Bavarian political scene and in various attempts to market a prototype armored vehicle or tank.

Sebottendorff was an initiate of the Eastern mysteries in Turkey as well as of Freemasonry. "Just before World War I he made several trips to the Near East. During the Balkan War of 1912-1913, he directed the Turkish Red Crescent and was named a Master of the Order of the RoseGarland (Rosenkranz)." In 1910, while living in Istanbul, Sebottendorff controlled his own secret society based on a combination of Islamic Sufi mysticism, masonry, alchemy and anti-Bolshevik ideology.

He established a sect of devotees comparable with the Ismailian "fedayeen" (Assassins) guided by their spiritual leader, the Old Man of the Mountain. In other words, the idea was to form a militant Order of initiates, with a military and religious structure. According to Dr. Walter Johannes Stein, the Thule was a "Society of Assassins." It held secret courts and condemned people to death. It is likely that many victims murdered by the District Command had been condemned earlier in the secret courts of the Thule. Many prominent Germans supported this violence and were documented members of the Thule. For example, the Police President of Munich, Franz Gurtner, was a reported member of the innermost circle of the Thule. He later became Minister of Justice of the Third Reich.

"Sebottendorff believed that the esoteric tradition of Islam, particularly Sufism, was the purest stream of Ancient Wisdom and that it had nourished European occultism through the Rosicrucians, alchemists and authentic Freemasons of the Middle Ages." Rene Alleau relates that Sebottendorff also wrote that: “...‘secret Muslim Masters’ had entrusted him with the mission of ‘illuminating’ Germany through the revelation of the secrets of advanced magic and initiation into ancient Oriental mysteries.” (Hitler et les Societes Secretes)

Sebottendorff's Thulist aim to revive pagan "Aryan" culture, symbolism, and mythology held that Sufism is "the development of the Primaeval religion of the Aryan race." Both the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons of Europe find the ultimate source of their teachings in the Orient. Thus, the Buddhist concept of the "Aryan Path" was degraded into a magical link which brought the population of Japan (and parts of Tibet) into the racist Nazi Axis without having Nordic or Saxon physical characteristics.

Alfred Rosenberg and Rudolf Hess were active Thulists, both going on to high positions in the Third Reich. By 1919, Anton Drexler, Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart formed the German Workers's Party (GPW) in Munich, approving of State ownership. The German Army was worried that it was a left-wing revolutionary group and sent Adolf Hitler, one of its education officers, to spy on the organization. Hitler discovered that the party's political ideas were similar to his own. The obscure right-wing nationalist (volkisch) group had close links with the secretive Thule Society. Sebottendorff's anti-Semitic newspaper changed its name to Volkischer Beobachter. Adolf Hitler soon became a leading member and a Munich intelligence agent of the German Worker's Party. In 1920, Hitler was the undisputed leader of the group, which by then was known as the National Socialist German Worker's Party, (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) the official body of Nazism. The Volkischer Beobachter became its authorized propaganda newspaper. Dietrich Eckart, a Bavarian Catholic poet and morphine addict, emerged as a leading Illuminati godfather of National Socialism. Eckart bought Sebottendorff's anti-Semitic newspaper. He exploited the Aryan race theories of Professor Max Muller, and the Asiatic expressions of Madame H.P. Blavatsky (1831-1891), the founder of modern Theosophy.

The Swastika Sun symbol is a powerful magical device still used in Occult Masonic teachings today. It was to replace the Cross in the Nazi's new post Christian Pagan Religion, for their Occult New World Order.

Eckart, a follower of Aleister Crowley's occult movements and prominent member of the Thule Society, had great influence over Hitler and introduced him to the Munich aristocratic community. "Mein Kampf" was dedicated to Eckart, who groomed Hitler for his role as dictator. In 1939, Hitler made reference to Turkey's policy of extermination while seeking to legitimize his own blueprint for genocide. A secret magical society called the Astrum Argentum (AA), or the Order of the Silver Star (SS), began giving initiations in Germany at about that time. But Reich leader Heinrich Himmler enforced prohibitions on German Freemasons who were sympathetic to Jews, and created a new national police force. Drawing on the ideas of the occult Vril Society of Brahmanic Casteism (which had been named after a book by Bulward Litton), Himmler's special force, or Death Head Units, practiced elaborate fraternal magic rituals. General Karl Haushofer, the director of the Munich Institute of Geopolitics, became Hitler's second "esoteric mentor." He favored the idea of a dentist named Dr. Friedrich Krohn to use the "swavastika" or backwards swastika as the flag of Nazi Germany. According to historian Robert Graves the swastika is the Sanskrit symbol of solar fire stolen by Prometheus, bound to a magical Caucasian rock. Haushofer also helped Himmler install members of the "Aryan master race" into the new police force to systematize the extermination of Jews. It became known as the Schutzstaffe (SS).

Himmler devised new festivals to take the place of such Christian events as Christmas and Easter, he wrote out baptism and marriage ceremonies - though he believed harem-like polygamy would best serve the interests of the SS elite - and he even issued instructions on the correct manner of committing suicide. The center of the SS cult became the castle of Wewelsburg in Westphalia, which Himmler bought as a ruin in 1934 and rebuilt over the next 11 years at a cost of 13 million marks. The central banqueting hall contained a vast round table with 13 throne-like seats to accommodate Himmler and 12 of his closest "apostles" - making, as some occult writers have pointed out, a coven of 13. Beneath this hall was a "Hall of the Dead", where plinths stood around a stone table. As each member of the inner circle of the SS died, his coat of arms would be burned and, together with his ashes, placed in an urn on one of these plinths for veneration. Heinrich Himmler's Occult Corps (Geheimnisvolle Korps) either recruited or persecuted all practicing occultists in Germany. According to some reports, official ministers of the Occult Corps often claimed that it was actually Aleister Crowley, the self-proclaimed antichrist (Beast 666), who ruled the Third Reich from behind the scenes. There can be little doubt that both Crowley and Eckart conducted deep studies of Arabian astrological magic. Hitler allegedly came to believe himself a reincarnation of Landulf II of Capua (943-961), and went through initiation by Eckart and Haushofer to confirm it. Landulf, who was sometimes associated in legends with the "spear of destiny" of Longinus, fled to Sicily after his traitorous links to Islam were disclosed.