Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tt00383)

In a message dated 98-02-27 11:22:21 EST, Mika writes:

<< What was the official explanation for the Nazi's to ban TS?
 And what do you think were the reasons they did it? >>

The answer may lie in the following quote:

Dietrich Eckart (a.k.a. Rudolf Glauer) "himself was entirely lacking in
spiritual faculty. He simply transposed Blavatsky's grotesque descriptions of
the magical conditions prevailing in the vanished civilization of Atlantis to
give a pre-historical background to the mythological world of the Edda in
which the Gods, giants, men and beasts were engaged in a blood curdling
struggle for survival. In respinning the age-old legends of Niflheim,
Muspellsheim and Mildgard, he introduced Theosophical ideas about the magical
relationship between cosmos, earth and man. He predicted that the latent
powers and faculties slumbering in the blood of the Aryan race would unfold in
the twentieth century when Supermen would reappear on earth to awaken the
German people to the glories of their ancient heritage and lead them in the
conquest of the world." p. 159

THE SPEAR OF DESTINY by Trevor Ravenscroft
G.P. Putnam & Sins - 1973

Eckart was a member of the quasi-mystical, neo-pagan Thule Society which
borrowed many ideas from occult sources including The Secret Doctrine. The
Nazis did not want any rival occult organizations competing with their racial
theories, hence the suppression of the Anthroposophical Society and the TS.
They did not want to coexist with any notion that the Superman spoken of in
theosophy was really about Adeptship and Mahatmic consciousness, the idea that
"supermen" were really about human beings who conquered the lower appetites
and desires to eventually become liberated from the wheel of birth and death.
The National Socialist interpretation was mundane and frightening. It was
similar to the idea of the "Homo Sovieticus" of the old USSR where socialist
society would produce a "new man" superior to the one produced by the
democracies. Lenin said the humans beings were "protoplasmic matter to be
molded by the State".

The Twentieth Century will be known as the century of "isms" which released
untold horror and misery, all promulgated under the aim of "human betterment"
. Thank God it's coming to an end !!!

Lmhem111