"Should the subduing talisman, the Cross, break then will come the roaring forth of wild madness of the old champions... The talisman is brittle, and the day will come when it will pitifully break. The old stone gods will rise... and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes. And Thor, leaping forth with his giant hammer, will crush the Gothic Cathedrals!"
So wrote the poet Heinrich Heine in 1834. A century later the ancient berserker force was unleashed from the restraints not only of Christianity, but the whole liberal/rationalist/materialist complex which had stricken Europe for so long. National Socialist Germany saw the resurgence of Man as an instinctive animal, a part of nature, in contrast to the Christian dogma of man distinct and apart from nature. Man's animal self was repressed by the Nazarene creed, and the political dogmas it gave birth to. These anti-life forces, including Marxism, Christianity and capitalism, repressed the instinctive nature of Man. Repression causes neuroses which seek outlets, and Germany exploded as the repressed forces of man's primal nature were unleashed with the appeal to Life made by the NSDAP. The Swiss psychologist Jung saw National Socialism as necessary for making whole the German volk, which had been split off from its "Shadow" Self, that dark path of the collective unconscious of a people which is repressed from consciousness. He saw this Shadow Self of the Germans embodied in the archetypal dark god Wotan.
In late 19th and early 20th century Germany and Austria there were many flourishing esoteric orders which sought to establish a reborn Germanic identity and to reconnect the volk with its repressed archetypes. One of the most significant of these Orders was founded in Germany in 1912 - the German Order. From this sprang the Thule Society whose driving force was Rudolf von Serbottendorff. He had been schooled in occultism, Islamic mysticism, alchemy, Rosicrucianism and much else, in Turkey, wherehe had also been initiated into Freemasonry. Thule served as the recruiting and political action front of the German Order. Serbottendorff bought a failing Munich newspaper, the Beobachter which he renamed the Volkische Beobachter and it became the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
A movement to promote Thulian ideas among industrial workers and to offset Marxism, was formed in 1918 - the Workers' Political Circle - with Thulist Karl Harrer as chairman. From this came the German Workers' Partyin 1919. A year later this became the NSDAP under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. Serbottendorff himself stated: "Thule members were the people whom Hitler first turned and who first allied themselves with Hitler." The Thule society was active in efforts to overthrow the Barvarian Communist Government. Their propaganda effort was aided by a journalist, poet, and occult student Dietrich Eckart, who was the major intellectual influence on Hitler in the early years.
The swastika flag adopted by the NSDAP was the brain-child of another Thulist, Dr Krohn. With the victory of the Nazi Party, the occult tradition was carried on in the Third Reich mainly by the SS, who Reichsfuhrer, Himmler, was an avid student of the occult. An SS occult research department, the Ahnernerbe (Ancestral Heritage) was established in 1935 with SS Colonel Wolfram von Sievers at its head. Occult research took SS researchers as far afield as Tibet. Sievers had the Tantrik prayer, the Bardo Thodol, read over his body after his execution at Nuremberg. National Socialism and the Third Reich represented a major attempt by high esoteric Adepts to re-establish a Culture based on the Laws of Nature, against the entrenched forces of anti-Life. Nothing that ambitious had been tried since the founding of the American Republic by Masonic adepts.
BLACK ORDER ARTICLES OF FAITH
1. We believe in Uralten - the Original or Ancient One of Germanics as representation of the creative/destructive force that permeates the cosmos, the Entropy of physics.
2. Our creed is therefore based on the Laws of Nature, as revealed by science.
3. Feelings of oneness and attunement with Nature and the Cosmos as manifestations of the Uralten-Force is "good". That which weakens is "evil".
4. Our morality is: that which strengthens the individual as a manifestation of the Uralten-Force is "good". That which weakens is "evil".
5. We hold that Nature, and therefore history, is cyclic, governed by cycles of life-death-renewal, and that these principle governs the rise and fall of Civilizations. This is the ancient wisdom of the esoteric schools of both East and West.
6. The cosmos operates on the basis of polarities, a doctrine common to the ancient cosmologies of the Norse, Eastern Taoists, Pythagoreans and the Hebrew Kabbalists, and that the interaction of these polarities causes evolution.
7. Man need not be a passive spectator or victim of the "gods" or "Fate", but by understanding the laws of the cosmos can, through his will, be an active agent in the evolutionary process.
8. Those attuned to the Uralten Force flowing through Nature have the essence of the Force within, and are links in an evolutionary chain toward the "Nietzschean Over-Man".
9. Man's destiny is to play amongst the stars; the destiny of his evolution into the foreseeable future : Homo Galactica.