Skip to search.

Breaking News Visit Yahoo! News for the latest.

×Close this window

rouesolaire · rouesolaire@yahoo.fr | Group Member  - Edit Membership Start a Group | My Groups
evola_as_he_is · EVOLA AS HE IS

The Yahoo! Groups Product Blog

Check it out!

Group Information

  • Members: 121
  • Category: Spirituality
  • Founded: Nov 19, 2004
  • Language: English

Yahoo! Groups Tips

Did you know...
Message search is now enhanced, find messages faster. Take it for a spin.

Messages

  Messages Help
Advanced
'Unknown Sources' (2)   Topic List   < Prev Topic  |  Next Topic >
Reply  | 
'Unknown Sources' (3)


In the third part of 'Unknown Sources', 'Possible Sources of the Nazi
Occult Mythology', it is shown that this myth, far from having been
invented by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier in 'The Morning of the
Magicians', originates in the French and English literature of the
years 1940.

Leaving aside Kurt van Emsen's 'Adolph Hitler und die Kommenden'
(1932), in which the first discussion of Hitler as a "mediumnistic-
demonic personality" occurs, but which Dr. Hakl doesn't consider as
relevant in those respects since this book "was known only in the
German speaking world", "the earliest reference to a Hitler guided by
occult forces" can be found "in the esoteric magazine 'Le Chariot' of
June 1934. René Kopp, the author of that article, was a Christian
mystic. Never short of inspiration, the Catholic
fundamentalist 'Revue Internationale des Sociétés Secrètes", in which
Evola was once accused of being a 'Satanist', preferred to see in
Hitler an agent of Masonic lodges.

Basically, the main part in the 'occultisation' of Hitler was played
by Rauschning's 'Gespräche mit Hitler', especially by the
chapter 'White magic and black magic'. As is known, this chapter was
not in the German edition of 'Gespräche' (1940) but only in the
French and English ones (1939). Interestingly enough, it appears to
have been a commissioned book, "apparently written with two French
journalists by Rauschning who was in financial straits following his
emigration from Germany in France. Its very dubious documentary value
has already been pointed out". More precisely, "Rauschning claimed to
have held many private conversations in his capacity of President of
the Dantzig Senate and made notes. In point of fact, only four
conversations can be established beyond all doubt, and Hitler was
never alone with Rauschning. Fritz Tobias summarizes the position
caustically: "All these alleged conversations with Hitler were simply
invented; the contents were concocted after the event"."

Other works contributed at that time to the 'occultisation' of
Hitler : still in 1939, a political work by Georges Anquetil, 'Hitler
conduit le bal', quoted this sentence of Georges Duhamel : "Le Monde
entier vit désormais dans un état d'excitation démoniaque" ("The
world now lives in a state of diabolical excitation") ; in E.
Saby's 'Hitler et les forces occultes' (more exactly : 'Le tyran nazi
et les forces occultes', L'école addéiste, 1945), the German
chancellor is described as "the sorcerer's apprentice", as a "student
of magic", and, in the first chapter, "we are immediately confronted
with the inevitable swastika and its clockwise or anti-clockwise
directions: a stock theme in the occult literature (...)" - "the
author thus distinguishes the swastika (good) from the Sauwastika
(Nazi)", something which, as rightly stressed by Hakl, has no basis
in the history of symbols.

The pieces of so-called evidence gathered by Saby to charge Hitler
with magical activities are worth mentioning : "his vegetarianism,
his self-discipline, his artistic development, (...) his magical gaze
and gestures, and even his love of mountains (...)". It is also
worth noting that this work was written in a Christian perspective :
in spite of all those potent magical forces, our brave author sees a
way out : the union of the courageous Christian forces of France.

Even if today all this seems ridiculous to serious people, the fact
is that "it actually contains many ingredients of the Nazi occult
myth, which - better presented and purged of the more obvious
nonsense - would sound very convincing for many readers of the latter
writings". Besides, times have changed : "the idea that Germany has
been the source of a (predominantly political) conspiracy against the
civilized world since the Middle Ages" was "current in the 1920's",
and it was also "widespread in the Anglo-Saxon world", owing to the
writings of the conspiracy theorist Nesta Webster. Nowadays, it is no
longer the case. There's no longer any need to divide the main
European peoples, to oppose, as did the esoteric author Lewis Spencer
in the early 1940's, "good Britain" and "evil Germany", but, instead,
to unite them from below under the yoke of forces whose agents
divided them to cause the two world wars which put Europe on its
knees. Saby's book has never been published again. A new 'myth', or
rather a new 'religion', has been fabricated to discredit National
Socialism and, beyond this, what could be brought back to European
traditional values in National-Socialism, in the eyes of Western
masses : that of the so-called 'gas chambers', in which they are
united mediatically.

Thus, from this viewpoint, the occult roots of gynaeco-democracy
still remain to be investigated.

To go back over the third part of 'Unknown Sources', its issue is
that "Pauwels and Bergier were not the inventor of the (Nazi occult)
myth". "To be sure, their book 'The Morning of the Magicians'
provided the point of departure for a real boom on such literature in
the whole of Europe and especially in France."

This is why we find it interesting to trace in Bergier's existential
career everything which may contribute to explain why he was chosen
to launch that fashion with Pauwels.

Bergier, who was used as a model by Hergé for the character of
professor Esdanitoff in his album 'Flight 714 for Sydney', was born
in 1914 in one of the main infectious seats of the whole Europe :
Odessa. He was born in a Jewish family. In 1920, he emigrated with
his parents to Poland, where he took a deep interest in SF literature
and in the Kabbalah, to which he was introduced by a rabbi. In 1925,
to France, where he soon took part in anarchist demonstrations and
was enthused for Communism. There, he discovered SF American
magazines, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Abraham Merritt and Jack London
titillated his imagination, but it is especially by Lovecraft's
novels that he was fascinated. In 1935, he put a lot into anti-Nazi
fight, with the support of the German Communist Party. He took to the
bush in 1940. Arrested, as many other terrorists, by the Gestapo in
Lyon in 1943, he was deported to a concentration camp in Sarre, then
transferred to Mauthausen, where he organised a sort of internal
resistance with a few other prisoners, of whom Gregory Fedorov,
future successor of Beria in the Soviet Union. After the war was
over, he became an essential counsellor of the government and got
involved in the secret services. Pursuit of so-called 'war
criminals', spying and counter-spying, search for military secrets
was then his every day life.

Bergier met Louis Pauwels in the middle of the years 1950. They were
introduced to each other by René Alleau, a so-called historian of
alchemy who presented us with a 'Histoire des sociétés secrètes'
(Planète Paris, 1963) and ventured to make a comparison between
Marx's thought and Guénon's ('De Marx à Guénon: d'une
critique "radicale" à une critique "principielle" des sociétés
modernes', Les Dossiers H, Paris, 1984). Pauwels was looking for a
man of science (Bergier had a scientific background and was
interested in alchemy) able to help him to write some articles. Those
two men had not much in common. Pauwels was an intellectual, a
literary person who had had a guenonian, anti-progressist, period,
while Bergier swore only by the scientific method, despising any
other attitude towards the world. Despite those differences, a great
friendship was born between them, which led them to dedicate the five
following years to the writing of 'The Morning of the Magicians'.

All the rest is literature. Or almost.










Wed Nov 2, 2005 7:27 pm

evola_as_he_is
Offline Offline
Send Email Send Email
 | 
Expand Messages Author Sort by Date

After Karl Haushofer, Heinrich Himmler, and Adolf Hitler, other historical figures and groups suspected of occultism are examined by Dr Hakl : Alfred...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Sep 29, 2005
12:17 pm

Since I remember once you were considering the idea of Guénon that a creditable initiatory organisation does not leave tracks of its real activities, now...
vandermok@adsllight
charltonroad36 Offline Send Email
Sep 29, 2005
8:33 pm

You sort of pulled the rug out from under our feet. This judicious statement by Guénon was supposed to be the conclusion of our presentation of 'Unknown...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Sep 30, 2005
12:23 pm

In the third part of 'Unknown Sources', 'Possible Sources of the Nazi Occult Mythology', it is shown that this myth, far from having been invented by Louis...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Nov 2, 2005
7:30 pm

The level on which we set that Occult War is probably the heart of the matter, for not making blunders by reading history only on the surface. For example:...
vandermok@adsllight
charltonroad36 Offline Send Email
Sep 30, 2005
3:55 pm

In fact, our point was that very few historians are willing to take into consideration what Evola and de Poncins called the "occult war". Given the education...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Oct 2, 2005
10:25 am

Copyright © 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Copyright Policy - Guidelines NEW - Help