Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00572)

The limits of liberalism and of Theosophy: 
colonial Indonesia and the German Weimar republic, 1918-1933
by Herman A.O. de Tollenaere
http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/libetheo.htm

In Germany, soon after Hitler seized power, the liberal political 
parties became illegal. So did Theosophy, four years later. In the 
meantime, The Theosophist monthly had published Jinarajadasa's 
denunciation of persecution of Jews; but also praise by the 1934-
1945 
President George Arundale of Hitler; and an enthusiastic paranormal 
description by `A non-German theosophist' [G. Hodson?] of 
the `purity' of 
the Führer's beautiful aura.13)

13) The Theosophist, May 1936, 242. Nazi propaganda posters also 
often depicted Hitler with an aura around his head; Albrecht W. 
Thöne, Das Licht der Arier. Licht-, Feuer- und Dunkelsymbolik des 
Nationalsozialismus. München: Minerva, 1979, 35.