Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tt00387)

>From: "Marshall Hemingway III" <sutratman@aol.com>
>Date: Friday, February 27, 1998 12:27 PM
>Subject: Nazis and occult groups


>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
>
Keith:  I am not so sure.  There seems to be much unresolved karma that is
behind many veils of maya.  I think many more know than speak.  Was
Krishnamuriti going to be used in some political fashion?  Why are the new
cults like the Branch Davidians and Heaven's Gate so negative about the
soulessness of the age.  Does anybody believe in the divine right of kings,
the divine manifest destiny of America.  The cultural diversity is only
bringing out a certain Balkanization of the psyche.  Man is no longer split
by a Berlin Wall of secular government systems, but by a wall in the psyche
of man himself (see Jung).  The separtation of the natural impulses into the
drive for the material "satisfactions" of modern society was prophesized in
Freud's CIVILIZATIONS AND ITS DISCONTENTS.  Our current addiction and
pathologies like bulimia, manic-depression and child killing reveals a
dangerous split from the life instince and a turning to thanatos.  No
Eastern mumbo-jumbo of personal enlightenment can assuage the deep hunger
for meaning in society a s well as the individual.

Namaste
Keith