Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Yenne Bill
Title : Hitler's Master of the Dark Arts Himmler's Black Knights and the Occult Origins of the SS
Year : 2010

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Introduction. THE NAZIS WERE an evil cult. Few people will argue with this notion in the metaphorical sense. The polltical movement that seized control of one of the world's largest industrialized nations in the 1930s and carried the world into its most destructive war can certainly be characterized as being evil. But cao the Nazis really be characterized as a cult? Webster's dictionary, which we always consult on matters of sem an tics, tells us that a cult is a system of religious rituals that involves an obsessive devotion to a person, principle, or ideal. The Nazi Party, or the Nationalsozialistisclre Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Parly), began not explicitly as a religion, but as a poütical party. However, this party did indeed morph into a personality cult devoted excessively to one person, Adolf Hitler. But cao the Nazis really be characterized as a cult in the sense of their being a religious rnovement? In fact, the doctrinal underpi.nnings of the Nazi cult were very mucb drawn from a rnystical dogma that had its own roots in ancient spiritual beliefs. This dogrna had been forming in the late nineteenth and early tweotieth centuries from a swirling mass of ideas, concepts, and metaphysical currents that were flowing through Europe in those days. Guided by the Viermese prophets Guido von List and Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels (both of whom bad added "von" to their names for an air of nobility, the creed preceded the Nazis. It had originated, these so-called prophets said, long, long ago, in the misty distant past, in a cold and icy place that sorne would later call Thule. ...