Esoteric Nazism
Esoteric Nazism, also known as Esoteric Fascism or Esoteric Hitlerism, refers to a range of
Notable adherents
Savitri Devi
French-born Greek writer
Savitri Devi, above all, was interested in the
Savitri Devi integrated Nazism into a broader cyclical framework of Hindu history. She considered Hitler to be the ninth Avatar of Vishnu, and called him "the god-like Individual of our times; the Man against Time; the greatest European of all times",[4] having an ideal vision of returning his Aryan people to an earlier, more perfect time, and also having the practical wherewithal to fight the destructive forces "in Time". She saw his defeat—and the forestalling of his vision from coming to fruition—as a result of him being "too magnanimous, too trusting, too good", of not being merciless enough, of having in his "psychological make-up, too much 'sun' [beneficence] and not enough 'lightning.' [practical ruthlessness]",[5] unlike his coming incarnation:
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Robert Charroux
Unlike most
Miguel Serrano
Miguel Serrano, a former Chilean diplomat, is a major figure in Esoteric Nazism. Author of numerous books including The Golden Ribbon: Esoteric Hitlerism (1978) and Adolf Hitler, the Last Avatar (1984), Serrano is one of a number of Nazi esotericists who regard the "Aryan blood" as originally extraterrestrial:
Serrano finds mythological evidence for the extraterrestrial origins of man in the
Neanderthal Man, an abomination and manifest creation of the demiurge... Of all the races on earth, the Aryans alone preserve the memory of their divine ancestors in their noble blood, which is still mingled with the light of the Black Sun. All other races are the progeny of the demiurge's beast-men, native to the planet.[10]
Serrano supports this idea from various myths which assign divine ancestry to 'Aryan' peoples, and even the
In attempting to raise the spiritual development of the earthbound races, the Hyperborean divyas (a Sanskrit term for god-men) suffered a tragic setback. Expanding on a story from the Book of Enoch, Serrano laments that a renegade group among the gods committed miscegenation with the terrestrial races, thus diluting the light-bearing blood of their benefactors and diminishing the level of divine awareness on the planet.[12]
The concept of Hyperborea has a simultaneously racial and mystical meaning for Serrano.
Serrano follows the
Cathars (fl.1025–1244) by identifying the evil demiurge as Jehovah, the God of the Old Testament. As medieval dualists, these eleventh-century heretics had repudiated Jehovah as a false god and mere artificer opposed to the real God far beyond our earthly realm. This Gnostic doctrine clearly carried dangerous implications for the Jews. As Jehovah was the tribal deity of the Jews, it followed that they were devil worshipers. By casting the Jews in the role of the children of Satan, the Cathar heresy can elevate anti-Semitism to the status of a theological doctrine backed by a vast cosmology. If the Hyperborean Aryans are the archetype and blood descendents of Serrano's divyas from the Black Sun, then the archetype of the Lord of Darkness needed a counter-race. The demiurge sought and found the most fitting agent for its archetype in the Jews.
As religious scholars Frederick C. Grant and Hyam Maccoby emphasize, in the view of the dualist Gnostics, "Jews were regarded as the special people of the Demiurge and as having the special historical role of obstructing the redemptive work of the High God's emissaries".[14] Serrano thus considered Hitler as one of the greatest emissaries of this High God, rejected and crucified by the tyranny of the Judaicized rabble like previous revolutionary light-bringers. Serrano had a special place in his ideology for the SS, who, in their quest to recreate the ancient race of Aryan god-men, he thought were above morality and therefore justified, after the example of the anti-humanitarian "detached violence" taught in the Aryo-Hindu tradition.[citation needed]
David Myatt
In the 1980s and 1990s, David Myatt developed an interpretation—or revisionist version[15]—of Nazism which, although based on Savitri Devi's three principles of "above", "against", and "in time" individuals,[16] did not involve either ancient mythology or extraterrestrial beings.
Instead, Myatt, described as "most commonly associated with the occult wing of the National Socialist movement,[17] focused—in pamphlets such as The Meaning of National Socialism,[18] The Enlightenment of National Socialism[19] and his The Religion of National Socialism[20][21]—on what he described as "the numinous" aspects of Nazism, with Jeffrey Kaplan writing that Myatt described Nazism as "unambiguously a religion while Adolf Hitler is treated unashamedly as the saviour of mankind."[17]
Collective Aryan unconscious
In the book Black Sun, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke reports how Carl Gustav Jung described "Hitler as possessed by the archetype of the collective Aryan unconscious and could not help obeying the commands of an inner voice". In a series of interviews between 1936 and 1939, Jung characterized Hitler as an archetype, often manifesting itself to the complete exclusion of his own personality. "'Hitler is a spiritual vessel, a demi-divinity; even better, a myth. Benito Mussolini is a man' ... the messiah of Germany who teaches the virtue of the sword. 'The voice he hears is that of the collective unconscious of his race'".[22]
Jung's suggestion that Hitler personified the collective Aryan unconscious deeply interested and influenced Miguel Serrano, who later concluded that Jung was merely psychologizing the ancient, sacred mystery of archetypal possession by the gods, independent metaphysical powers that rule over their respective races and occasionally possess their members.[23]
Common beliefs
Since 1945, neo-Nazi writers have also proposed
Relationship to neopaganism
Organisations such as the
Music
There is a contemporary loose network of small musical groups that combine
.Esoteric themes, including references to artifacts such as the Holy Lance, are also often alluded to in neo-Nazi music (e.g. Rock Against Communism) and above all in National Socialist black metal.[26]
See also
- Atomwaffen Division
- Kerry Bolton
- Cosmotheism
- Julius Evola
- Romuva
- Fascist mysticism
- The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century
- German Christians (movement)
- James Mason (neo-Nazi)
- Joy of Satan Ministries
- Landig Group
- Nazi UFOs
- Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy
- Occultism in Nazism
- Order of Nine Angles
- Positive Christianity
- QAnon
- Race of Jesus
- Religion in Nazi Germany
- Religious aspects of Nazism
- Religious views of Adolf Hitler
- Thule Society
- Waldorf School
References
Notes
- ^ See her "Hitlerian Esotericism and the Tradition".
- ^ See her "Hitlerism and Hindudom", originally published as "Hitlerism and the Hindu World" in The National Socialist, no. 2 (Fall 1980): 18–20.
- ^ Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun, p. 92
- ^ From the dedication to her book, The Lightning and the Sun.
- ^ The Lightning and the Sun, unabridged edition, p. 53 [1] Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Lightning and the Sun, unabridged edition, p. 430 [2] Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Robbert Charroux, The Mysterious Past, Futura Publications Ltd., 1974 pp. 29–30
- ^ Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 2003 pp. 117–118
- ^ Atlantis and the Cycles of Time: Prophecies, Traditions, and Occult Revelations, Joscelyn Godwin, 2010, pp. 55–57
- ^ Goodrick-Clarke 2003: 181.
- Book of Invasions) which tell of divine ancestors, Tuatha Dé Danann, arriving from the northern islands; and the Greek tradition according to which Apolloreturned every 19 years to Hyperborea in the far north in order to rejuvenate his body and wisdom (Goodrick-Clarke, 2003).
- ^ Goodrick-Clarke, 2003
- ^ Jeffrey, Jason. Hyperborea & the Quest for Mystical Enlightenment, published in New Dawn No. 58 (January–February 2000). Online: [3] Archived 2016-02-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Collier's Encyclopedia Vol. 11, 1997: 166.
- ^ Searchlight, July 2000.
- ^ Savitri Devi, The Lightning and the Sun, 1958.
- ^ a b Jeffrey Kaplan (editor). Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right, Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. p.216.
- ^ "Liberty Bell archive". Internet Archive. 2010-07-21. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
- ^ "Liberty Bell archive".
- ^ Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, NYU Press, 2003. p. 343.
- ^ "Selected National Socialist Writings Of David Myatt : Reichsfolk : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive". Internet Archive. 2016-10-23. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
- ^ Goodrick-Clarke 2002: 178
- ^ Goodrick-Clarke 2002: 179
- ^ Godwin 1996, ch. 5–6, 10; Goodrick-Clarke 2002, especially ch. 6–9.
- ^ Goodrick-Clarke 2002: 106, 213–231.
- ^ Neo-Nazi Hate Music: A Guide Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
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