Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00629)

Regarding the last quote, on Herr Göring and Freemasonry. I have 
seen papers (also reprinted in the swedenborgian 
magazine "Världarnas Möte" in late 1980's) in the archive of the 
Grand Land Lodge of Stockholm that he was initiated 1922, in the 
Lodge of St. Erik of the Swedish Order of Freemasons in Stockholm, 
personally recommended by the Worshipful Master, Count Eric von 
Rosen of Rockelstad. The uncle of his wife Karin Focke. This is an 
interesting story. I quote from the official webpage of Rockelstad 
(see link below);

"The German Generalmarshalk Herman Göring met his wife to be at 
Rockestad, in front of the fireplace in the big hall 1921. At the 
time he was working as a postpilot between Germany and Sweden, after 
his career as a fighterpilot in world war I. Eric von Rosen and 
Herman Göring met in Stockholm, when Eric was trying to find a pilot 
to fly him home to the castle at christmas day 1921. The only pilot 
who was willing to fly him home in the snowstorm in a one motored 
plane was Göring. They flew along the railway, and then landed on 
the frosen lake. 

There are some roumors that Göring left stolen jewels at Rockelstad 
during World War II. They also say that Görings Contact with Erik 
was the main reason that Hitler did not invade Sweden."

When they (Göring and the Count) entered the main hall in the 
palace, which have an open fire, with the von Rosen cote-of-arm on 
the black iron grating, which has an large swastika in the centre. 
It was from this moment, it was clear that the main symbol of the 
Nazi movement would be a swastika. The whether turned worth, so 
Göring was invited to stay as a guest over Christmas, which he did. 
He meets his wife, Karin, and also become a close friend with the 
Count von Rosen. One year after the Count made Göring a Mason, of 
the Swedish Rite, in Stockholm. 

von Heeringen, belonged to the same Rite as Göring, the Swedish Rite.

Note also that Göring was during his time in Stockholm, a member of 
the Edelweiss Society (in Swedish, Edelweiss Förbundet). A noble and 
quite old society, interested in spiritualism and esoteric 
Christianity (same of its members, ex Baroness von Greyerz, was also 
a members of UB, her husband Baron Walo von Greyerz was 
International Youth Leader in UB, and known from the photographs 
from Visingsö, Sweden, in June 1913, during the International 
Theosophical Pease Conference where the Lotus Children are marching 
on the small island roads, and Walo wearing Point Loma uniform, 
saluting in Lomaland style, sitting on a horse back with a wipe in 
his hand). The sister of his (Göring's) mother-in-law was the leader 
of this society in that time. The present leader is Monica von Rosen 
Nestler. Read more about her and the Edelweiss Society on;
http://www.kulturfokus.ch/kultur/index.htm 

See also; "Edelweiss Förbundet", by Anna Nyman, in Sökaren no. 8, 
1978.

The open fire of Rockelstad is interesting, I have been there, and I 
can recommend all to try visit the castle if you have the 
opportunity. And the library is fantastic, with esoteric literature 
from the 1500 century, and forward. The von Rosen-family is very 
famous for is interests in the "occult", and one brother of the 
Count, Carl von Rosen, was spending several years in Tibet as a 
researcher, and he was after his homecoming, early 1930's, involved 
in the founding of the Buddhist Society in Stockholm. 

The official webpage of Rockelstad is; 
http://www.rockelstad.se/ny/index.asp

Read more there about:

"Eric von Rosen spent his life expoling new territories. He made two 
expiditions to Yutacan in southern America, and one expidition to 
Africa. He walked all the way from Kap to Alexandria, it took him 
four years, among other things he discoverd one new tribe in the 
middle of Africa. It must have been lonly for his wife Mary during 
those years. He gave her fireplaces with her name on so she could 
keep herself warm in his absence.
Partly in English; and read there about."

Eric von Rosen was during the 1930's and 1940's at the time leading 
members in the Swedish Nazi Party (Nationalsocialistiska Blocket), 
and member of the Supreme Counsel of the Swedish Order of 
Freemasons. The Grand Master in Sweden, King Gustaf V, was something 
so strange as Nazi sympathizer, gay (he hade an relations whit the 
Governor of the Royal County of Stockholm, Torsten Nothin, jailed 
1939 for being the leader of the planes for a Nazi coup in Sweden, 
sate free and reinstalled by order from the King, the Governor was 
also an high Swedish Mason) and Masonic Grand Master, al in the same 
time. The King was also a personal friend of both von Rosen and 
Göring (the Swedish King made Göring a Knight Commander Grand Cross 
of The Order of His Majesty, the finest Swedish Order, and third in 
rank of al the Orders of Merits of the World, in 1942, in Berlin, 
Göring was made in the 1930's, Commander of the Sword by King 
Gustaf, which means that Göring was a member of the Royal Court in 
Sweden). 

Carl

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "carlosaveline" 
<carlosaveline@...> wrote:
>
> Friends,
> 
> In earlier months, I have demonstrated here that the Nazi 
government of Germany persecuted all kinds of theosophical movement 
in the countries if occupied during the second world war.
> 
> What about Masonry? 
> 
> Masons, who generaly have friendly relations to theosophists,  
clarify the issue: 
> 
> 
> "Immediately on Hitler's rise to power, the ten Grand Lodges of 
Germany were dissolved. Many among the prominent dignitaries and 
members of the Order were sent to concentration camps. The Gestapo 
seized the membership lists of the Grand Lodges and looted their 
libraries and collections of Masonic objects. Much of this loot was 
then exhibited in an "Anti-Masonic Exposition" inaugurated in 1937 
by Herr Dr. Joseph Goebbels in Munich. The Exposition included 
completely furnished Masonic temples. 
> 
> 
> "The persecution was carried over into Austria when the country 
was captured by the Nazis. The Masters of the various Vienna lodges 
were immediately confined in the most notorious concentration camps, 
including the horrible living hell at Dachau in Bavaria. The same 
procedure was repeated when Hitler took over Czechoslovakia, then 
Poland. Immediately after conquering Holland and Belgium, the Nazis 
ordered the dissolution of the lodges in those nations. It was also 
Point One on the agenda of Major Quisling in Norway. It may be taken 
as part of the same ugly picture that General Franco of Spain in 
1940 sentenced all Freemasons in his realm automatically to ten 
years in prison. When France fell last June, the Vichy government 
caused the two Masonic bodies of France, the Grand Orient and the 
Grande Loge to be dissolved, their property being seized and sold at 
auction." 3 
> 
> 
> Hitler's hatred of Freemasonry is clearly documented. In 1931 Nazi 
party officials were given a "Guide and Instructional Letter" that 
stated, "The natural hostility of the peasant against the Jews, and 
his hostility against the Freemason as a servant of the Jew, must be 
worked up to a frenzy." 4 On April 7, 1933, Hermann Goering?who once 
considered becoming a freemason?held an interview with Grand Master 
von Heeringen of the "Land" Grand Lodge of Germany, telling him 
there was no place for Freemasonry in Nazi Germany. 5 The Nazi 
Primer, the Official Handbook for the Schooling of Hitler Youth, 
attacked freemasons, marxists, and the Christian churches for 
their "mistaken teaching of the equality of all men" by which they 
were said to be seeking power over the whole world. 6 
> 
> 
> See more at http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/hitler.html
> 
> Regards,  Carlos. 
> 
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