[SS Camp] Members of the German SS
expedition. Inner circle, left to right: Krause, Wienert, Beger, Geer, Schaefer. photo courtesy Alex McKay General Haushofer, a follower of Gurdjieff and later one of Hitler's main patrons, founded one such society. Its aim was to explore the origins of the Aryan race, and Haushofer named it the Vril Society, after Lytton's fictional creation. Its members practiced meditation to awaken the powers of Vril, the feminine cosmic energy. The Vril Society claimed to have links to Tibetan masters, apparently drawing on the ideas of Madame Blavatsky, the Theosophist who claimed to be in telepathic contact with spiritual masters in Tibet. In Germany, this blend of ancient myths and nineteenth-century scientific theories began to evolve into a belief that the Germans were the purest manifestation of the inherently superior Aryan race, whose destiny was to rule the world. These ideas were given scientific weight by ill-founded theories of eugenics and racist ethnography. Around 1919,
the Vril Society gave way to the Thule Society (Thule Gesellschaft), which was founded in Munich by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorf, a follower of Blavatsky. The Thule Society drew on the traditions of various orders such as the Jesuits, the Knights Templar, the Order of the Golden Dawn, and the Sufis. It promoted the myth of Thule, a legendary island in the frozen northlands that had been the home of a master race, the original Aryans. As in the legend of Atlantis (with which it is sometimes identified), the inhabitants of Thule were forced to flee from some catastrophe that destroyed their world.
But the survivors had retained their magical powers and were hidden from the world, perhaps in secret tunnels in Tibet, where they might be contacted and subsequently bestow their powers on their Aryan descendants.
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Such ideas might have remained harmless, but the Thule Society added a strong right-wing, anti-Semitic
political ideology to the Vril Society mythology. They formed an active opposition to the local Socialist government in Munich and engaged in street battles and political assassinations. As their symbol, along with the dagger and the oak leaves, they adopted the swastika, which had been used by earlier German neo-pagan groups. The appeal of the swastika symbol to the Thule Society seems to have been largely in its dramatic strength rather than its cultural or mystical significance. They believed it was an original Aryan symbol, although it was actually used by numerous unconnected cultures throughout history. Beyond the adoption of the swastika, it is difficult to judge the extent to which either Tibet or Buddhism played a part in Thule Society ideology Vril Society founder General Haushofer, who remained active in the Thule Society, had been a German military attaché in Japan. There he may have acquired some knowledge of Zen Buddhism, which was then the dominant faith
among the Japanese military. Other Thule Society members, however, could only have read early German studies of Buddhism, and those studies tended to construct the idea of a pure, original Buddhism that had been lost, and a degenerate Buddhism that survived, much polluted by primitive local beliefs. It seems that Buddhism was little more than a poorly understood and exotic element in the Society's loose collection of beliefs, and had little real influence on the Thule ideology. But Tibet occupied a much stronger position in their mythology, being imagined as the likely home of the survivors of the mythic Thule race.
[Measuring Heads]
Here an SS anthropologist measures a Tibetan woman's head. Some German scientists believed that Aryan features were reflected in the dimensions of the skull. ©Transmit Films GMBH The importance of the Thule Society can be seen from the fact that its members included Nazi leaders Rudolf Hess (Hitler's deputy), Heinrich Himmler, and
almost certainly Hitler himself. But while Hitler was at least nominally a Catholic, Himmler enthusiastically embraced the aims and beliefs of the Thule Society. He adopted a range of neo-pagan ideas and believed himself to be a reincarnation of a tenth-century Germanic king. Himmler seems to have been strongly attracted to the possibility that Tibet might prove to be the refuge of the original Aryans and their superhuman powers. By the time Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in the 1920s, the myth of the Aryan race was fully developed. In Chapter XI, "Race and People," he expressed concern over what he perceived as the mixing of pure Aryan blood with that of inferior peoples. In his view, the pure Aryan Germanic races had been corrupted by prolonged contact with Jewish people. He lamented that northern Europe had been "Judaized" and that the German's originally pure blood had been tainted by prolonged contact with Jewish people, who, he claimed, lie "in wait for hours on end,
satanically glaring at and spying on the unsuspicious girl whom he plans to seduce, adulterating her blood and removing her from the bosom of her people." For Hitler, the only solution to this mingling of Aryan and Jewish blood was for the tainted Germans to find the wellsprings of Aryan blood. It may happen that in the course of history such a people will come into contact a second time, and even oftener, with the original founders of their culture and may not even remember that distant association. A new cultural wave flows in and lasts until the blood of its standard-bearers becomes once again adulterated by intermixture with the originally conquered race. In the search for "contact a second time" with the Aryans, Tibet-long isolated, mysterious, and remote-seemed a likely candidate.
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The complete article is available in the Spring 2001 issue of Tricycle.
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Dennis,
I've been doing a lot of research (as you know) into various "secret societies" and the "New World Order". New World Order "origins" has little to do with the secret societies, though the groups were around and had some influence at the time of the formation of the NWO, mostly NWO is a catchphrase that has been bent to individual meaning.
The first ten Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America have been watered down at every possible turn by the Congress, by the "federal" courts, and by the press (yes, popular press can change both common law and Constitutional law, albeit indirectly). The adoption of the Bill of Rights serves as an example of how a Union of States must be responsible
to the desires of the States, not vice verse.
That Union is not a Republic, as the Romans practiced. It is neither a Democracy as practiced by the ancient Greeks. Mostly, it is not the monarchies promulgated throughout Europe for 15 centuries.
It is business. It is the business of State and government as conducted by citizens and residents of the United Sates of America. It is a community of people who enjoy the freedoms as listed on that document (even watered down, it is more than most of the world's population enjoy). According to the Constitution (and as amended) the Congress (never does it say "Federal") shall, in effect, answer to the States on matters of common law.
The signed document, known as "The Bill of Rights", is the culmination of how the "then" population of the New World wanted to establish order. The Bill of Rights IS (repeat, major emphasis) IS the "New World Order". The first President to voice that phrase was George H. W. Bush
while talking about the coalition's action against Iraq in '91. As of the end of this month, Iraq re-establishes its sovereignty under a set of interim laws based on these ten rights. That REALLY pisses off the liberals and other fomenters of any federal sovereignty. The NWO really means that the bulging "federal"-style government is limited. The members of the State legislatures who sent those ten amendments to Congress.
In 1776 citizens are the only people who are capable of running their own lives and the Bill of Rights established their responsibility to conduct business as responsible citizens, not as political fatcats.
Oz
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