Himmler...the Ahnenerbe...and the Grail Mythos: While much emphasis is given to the occult involvement of Adolf Hitler, it is to Heinrich Himmler that we should look for the most active occultist among the leaders of the Third Reich. However, while we would maintain that Hitler had a direct experience and relationship with occult forces and entities, Himmler only aspired to to such experiences and relationships. In October 1918 Hitler was blinded in a gas attack at Ypres, and subsequently sent to a military hospital at Pasewalk, a small town north-east of Berlin. According to Hitler, during his recovery he experienced a vision from another world while at the hospital. In that vision, Hitler was told that he would lead Germany back to glory - however, this realisation may in fact have come to Hitler under the influence of Dietrich Echart between 1919 and 19 20. ***The result of this experience was that Hitler realised that he would be able to perform an act of creation, a divine operation, the goal of a biological mutation which will result in an unprecedented exaltation of the human race and the appearance of a new race of heroes, demi-gods and god-men.*** The result of this experience was that Hitler realised that he would be able to perform an act of creation, a divine operation, the goal of a biological mutation which will result in an unprecedented exaltation of the human race and the appearance of a new race of heroes, demi-gods and god-men. In contrast to this, Himmlers lack of direct occult experience is undoubtedly revealed in his attempts to research and study the occult - to pursue the subject from an academic standpoint, rather than by direct experience, and this is exemplified by his creation of, and support for, the Ahnenerbe. As a result, Himmler merely became a tool in Hitlers quest to perform an act of creation resulting in an unprecedented exaltation of the human race and the appearance of a new race of heroes, demi-gods and god-men. And so Hitler gave Himmler the task of creating a Herrenmensch which would be the raw material for the creation of the Übermensch - the new race of heroes, demi-gods and god-men. The means by which Himmler would achieve the task of creating a Herrenmensch were the Ahnenerbe, the Lebensborn, the Napolas, and the Ordensburgen. Himmler and Thule Gesselschaft Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler first became involved with the Thule Gesselschaft and the Reichskriegsflagge in 1923, by which time he was already interested in occultism. The Reichskriegsflagge was part of the Kampfbund, which was a league of patriotic fighting societies in Bavaria, Germany, in the 1920s. It also included Hitlers NSDAP party and their Sturmabteilung or SA for short, the Oberland League. Its military leader was Hermann Kriebel, and its political leader was Adolf Hitler. It was Captain Ernst Röhm who proposed that Hitler be the political leader of the Kampfbund. The Kampfbund conducted the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 in Munich, Germany. Kampfbund is German for Battle League. The league was created on 30 September 1923 at Nuremberg, where Hitler joined other patriotic nationalist leaders to celebrate German Day, which marked the anniversary of the Prussian victory over France in 1870. ***Himmlers interest in occultism at the time centred on reincarnation and karma (individual and racial); he became convinced that he was the reincarnation of King Heinrich I the Fowler (10th c).*** Heinrich Himmler even claimed to have been the spiritual successor and reincarnation of Heinrich the Fowler, having established special SS rituals for the old king and having returned his bones to the crypt at Quedlinburg Cathedral. Himmler even had his personal quarters at Wewelsburg castle decorated in commemoration of Heinrich the Fowler. Himmlers goal was to create a focus point of all the aspirations he had towards religion and science. To this end, Himmler set out to re-establish an ancient Aryan religion within Germany in opposition to Christianity, as a basis for Nazi ideology. Himmler maintained that many sacred symbols had been stolen from a more ancient Aryan religion and set out to restore them. One such symbol was the Holy Grail. One leading academic recruited to the Nazi cause was Otto Rahn, the leading German authority on the Holy Grail. He was brought into the SS to lead the search for it the world over. Himmler was similarly obsessed with legends of the medieval order of Teutonic Knights (a secret brotherhood which required Germanic racial purity for eight generations), the meaning of ancient Nordic Runes, and the Hindu and Buddhist idea of sacrificial detachment from the consequences of daily life. When he was given command of the SS, he molded his so-called Black Guards after a combination of all these. Otto Wilhelm Rahn Otto Wilhelm Rahn (February 18, 1904—March 13, 1939) was a German medievalist and a Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) of the SS, born in Michelstadt, Germany. Speculation still swirls around Otto Rahn and his research. From an early age, he became interested in the legends of Parsifal, Holy Grail, Lohengrin, and the Nibelungenlied. While attending the University of Giessen he was inspired by his professor, the Baron von Gall, to study the Albigensian (Catharism) movement, and the massacre that occurred at Montségur. Rahn is quoted as saying that It was a subject that completely captivated me. In 1931 he traveled to the Pyrenees region of southern France where he conducted most of his research. Aided by the French mystic and historian Antonin Gadal, Rahn argued that there was a direct link between Wolfram Von Eschenbachs Parzival and the Cathar Grail mystery. He believed that the Cathars held the answer to this sacred mystery and that the keys to their secrets lay somewhere beneath the mountain pog where the fortress of Montségur remains, the last Cathar fortress to fall during the Albigensian Crusade. Rahn believed it was possible to trace the Cathars, who guarded the Holy Grail in their castle at Montsegur, back to Druids who converted to Gnostic Manichaeism. The Druids in Britain were forerunners of the Celtic Christian Church. He saw that the culture of the medieval Cathar stronghold of Languedoc bore strong a resemblance to the ancient Druids. Their priests were akin to the Cathar Parfaits. The Cathar secret wisdom being preserved by the later Troubadours, the travelling poets and singers of the medieval courts of France. Rahn wrote two books linking Montségur and Cathars with the Holy Grail: Kreuzzug gegen den Gral (Crusade Against the Grail) in 1933 and Luzifers Hofgesind (Lucifers Court) in 1937. After the publication of his first book, Rahns work came to the attention of Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, who was fascinated by the occult and had already initiated research in the south of France. Rahn joined his staff as a junior non-commissioned officer and became a full member of the SS in 1936. Journeys for his second book led Rahn to places in Germany, France, Italy, and Iceland. On March 13, 1939 nearly on the anniversary of the fall of Montségur, Rahn was found frozen to death on a mountainside near Söll (Kufstein, Tyrol) in Austria. His death was officially ruled a suicide. ***Himmlers nickname, the Black Jesuit, stems from his slavish imitation of the (equally secretive) brotherhood of Jesuit priests, whose literature he avidly studied.*** He made use of the time-honoured Jesuit practice of spiritual Exercises - intensive visualization to create personal and group reality. ***The Thule-Gesellschaft (Thule Society), originally the Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum (Study Group for Germanic Antiquity), was a German occultist and völkisch group founded by Felix Niedner, the German translator of the Elder Norse Eddas, in 1910. In 1918, Rudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorf established its Munich branch. The group was named after a mythical northern country from Greek legend. The Society is notable chiefly as the organization that sponsored the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP), which was later transformed by Adolf Hitler into the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party).*** Himmler, like his Thule fellows, wished to deny the existence of objective reality. Not surprisingly, he went on to advocate freeing science to pursue research, unhampered by notions of provable truth - especially science dealing with ancient origins.... (credit Peter Crawford)
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:29:43 +0000
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