{"id":8482,"date":"2017-06-15T13:54:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T13:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=8482"},"modified":"2017-06-30T13:36:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T13:36:31","slug":"hitlers-obsession-with-the-occult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/hitlers-obsession-with-the-occult\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitler&#8217;s Obsession With The Occult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7508\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/logoinside.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"45\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spectator.imgix.net\/content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/circle.jpg?auto=compress,enhance,format&amp;crop=faces,entropy,edges&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=820&amp;h=550\" alt=\"Obsessed with the occult: Hitler and Helmut Schreiber, head of the Magic Circle, at the Obersalzberg in 1943\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">We just passed June 21, which is one of the key dates for occultists, representing the summer solstice (you may have seen news reports on them worshiping, as summer started, at places such as Stonehenge).<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Another important date is April 30 &#8212; &#8220;Walpurgis Night,&#8221; or Beltaine, perhaps the most significant <em>un<\/em>holy date on satanic calendars.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">And it is interesting because April 30 is also the date, in 1945, on which Adolph Hitler, who was in the news a bit lately (when Nazi artifacts were discovered in South America), committed suicide.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Do such dates really have relevance?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">It&#8217;s an interesting query due to the fact that Hitler and his men were immersed in precisely such occultism. As just one example, c<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">onsider that the F\u00fchrer had astrologers on his staff, relying on them when it came in making major decisions.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>He also had refurbished a castle in Wewelsburg at the center of a planned city that with a new sibylline religion was supposed to supplant the Vatican.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Notes a recent issue of\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/2017\/06\/did-hitlers-obsession-with-the-occult-lose-him-the-war\/\">American Spectator<\/a><\/span>, <\/em>reviewing a scholarly book, published by Yale University, on this very topic:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;When he came to power Hitler had a dowser scour the Reich Chancellery for cancerous \u2018death rays.&#8217; Before flying to Scotland Rudolf Hess had his horoscope drawn up by a personal astrologer. Himmler backed research on the Holy Grail and medieval devil worship (\u2018Luciferism\u2019) and sent an SS expedition by the explorer Dr. Ernst Schafer to Tibet in 1938 to investigate the ancient Indo-German \u2018Aryan\u2019 origins of Buddhism.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Himmler also founded<\/span> the SS Witches Division, which collected evidence in eastern Europe in the second world war that Teutonic \u2018wise women\u2019 had been persecuted and burnt in a Jewish-Catholic Inquisition plot against <em>volkisch<\/em> German culture and blood. In 1939 Goebbles sat up late at night reading the prophecies of Nostradamus, which he revealed to an enthusiastic F\u00fchrer as evidence that the British were soon to be defeated.&#8221;\u00a0<em>(Photo at top: with\u00a0Helmut Schreiber, head of the Magic Circle, at the Obersalzberg in 1943.)<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>At the root of much of Hitler&#8217;s later evil was none other than the occultist Aleister Crowley and the woman who succeeded Crowley, Madame Blavatsky &#8212; occultists who had an effect on everything from establishment of the New Age Movement to the Church of Satan in America. He was also influenced by Margaret Sanger, who practiced Rosicrucianism.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Although most secular<\/span> biographies stay away from all this, Hitler by his own description was an occultist and like many who dabble in the dark arts, there were strong indications that he was infested, obsessed, or possessed by demons and had been since boyhood.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">During his Confirmation<\/span> ceremony at a cathedral in Linz, Hitler turned sulky and surly, repulsed by the holy ritual.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">He was also prone to satanic trances, on occasion turning\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">pale, taking on a sinister countenance, and with a hoarse, raucous voice, launching into impassioned speeches.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;It was as if another being spoke out of his body, and moved him as much as it did me,&#8221; noted a friend named August Kubizek.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">A similar trance occurred while Hitler was recovering from war injuries in the Prussian Military Reserve Hospital at Pasewalk.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">There he heard voices that told him he was Germany&#8217;s messiah.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Did he not soon act like it?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>At one point, the leader of Germany cried out to aides &#8212; terrified of a black shadow that would appear in his bedroom. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>This is all documented fact.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">His most frightening moods<\/span> were witnessed at a museum known as the Hofburg as he stood before a relic called the &#8220;spear of Longinus,&#8221; a long, black, tapered spearhead that the centurion (also known as Cassius) supposedly used to pierce the side of Christ.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Hitler revered the macabre artifact and in its presence fell into what was described as a demonic ecstasy.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Standing in front of the velvet dais, his face would flush and his brooding eyes would shine with what one observer described as &#8220;an alien emanation.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Hitler swayed on his feet and &#8220;his whole physiognomy and stance (apparently) transformed as if some mighty spirit now inhabited his very soul.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">At the museum,<\/span> he had an experience during which, he himself said, &#8220;the air became stifling so that I could barely breathe. The noisy scene of the Treasure House seemed to melt away before my eyes.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;I stood alone and trembling before the hovering form of the Superman &#8212; a spirit sublime and fearful, a countenance intrepid and cruel. In holy awe, I offered my soul as a vessel of his will.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">So there we have it<\/span> &#8212; in Hitler&#8217;s own words. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The holocaust? A burnt offering. The SS? The letters even have a hiss.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Was Adolph Hitler possessed?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The better question: did an entire nation then also enter into a trance?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>[adapted from the bestseller, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=the+final+hour&amp;Submit=GO\">The Final Hour<\/a><\/span>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[see also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/kzaemy\/hitler-used-werewolves-vampires-and-astrology-to-brainwash-germany\">Hitler and werewolves<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"uncategorized\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1497534880\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Hitler&#8217;s Obsession With The Occult\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just passed June 21, which is one of the key dates for occultists, representing the summer solstice (you may.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}