Gods & Beasts: The Nazis and the Occult, by Dusty Sklar

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Academy of German Law, 68
Adler, Alfred, 134
Ahnenerbe, 48, 77, 101-2
alchemy, 28, 29, 33, 132, 134, 139, 147
Alleau, Rene, 32-33, 45, 100
All-German, 41.See also Pan-Germanism
Ammann, Max, 45
Angebert, Jean-Michel, 70
animal magnetism, 117, 118
anti-Semitism, in Germany, 5, 6, 9-14, 16, 25,
26, 28, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 44, 51, 57, 76,
78, 82, 83, 84, 95, 106, 108, 135, 137,
144-45, 147-48
sexual component in, 18, 21-22, 144. See also
Jews
Ardensnacht, 30
Ariosophy, 19, 20, 21
Armanen Brotherhood, 4, 17, 48, 107-108
membership of, 22. See also Swastika
Aryanism, 18-19, 29, 31, 106, 135, 145
Aryans:
lost wisdom of, 31, 75-76
racial theories, 7, 106, 144-48
supremacy of, 5, 9, 18-19, 29, 31, 32
Asgard Circle, 106
Assassins (Islam), 34-35. See also Thugs
astrology, used by Nazis, 2-3. 28, 55, 68, 102,
116-19, 123-29, 139
Atlantis, 31, 74-75
Auschwitz, 46, 151, 160. See also Concentration
camps
Axelrod, Tobias, 44

Badoglio, Pietro, 103
Bavaria, Nazi movement in, 36, 38, 43-44,
83
Palm Sunday Putsch, 43
Baynes, H.G., Germany Possessed, 138
Bernadotte, Folke, 89
Bible: Old Testament, 12, 145
Black Shirts. See SS
Blavatsky, Madame Helena Petrovna, 3, 11-12,
30, 41, 51, 65, 66, 105-6, 118, 121
Secret Doctrine, The, 12-13, 31, 144. See
also Theosophical Society
Blome, Kurt, 93-94
Boerne, Ludwig, 10-11
Bollinger Foundation, 138
Bormann, Martin, 71
Brennan, J. H., 64, 65, 81
British Intelligence, 102, 127-28
British War Office, 128
Buchner, Ludwig, 144-45
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, Coming Race, The,
65

Cathars, 12, 141, 146
Catholic Church, 28, 83, 87. See also Middle
Ages
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 84, 95, 144
Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, 11,
86, 108
Champollion, Jean Francois, 8
Churchill, Winston, 127, 128
clairvoyance, 117-19, 121
collective unconscious, 134-35, 138, 145
Communism and Communists, 6, 37 , 39, 40, 41,
42, 43-44, 53, 108
concentration camps, 46, 148, 155
Cooper, John C., Religion in the Age of
Aquarius, 165, 167
Cosmic Circle, 108
Croce, Benedetto, 9
Crowley, Aleister, 66, 67
cults, esoteric. See Armanen Brotherhood;
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna; Germanen
Order; Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch; Order
of the New Templars; Steiner, Rudolf;
Thule Society

Dahn, Hans, 40
Daim, Wilfried, 21
Darrah, Delmar Duane, History and Evolution of
Freemasonry, The, 29
Darwin, Charles, 58
Origin of Species, The, 12, 13
Darwinism. 7, 11, 13, 58, 95, 118, 144
Daumenlang, Anton, 41
Davis, Franklin M., 167
Dinter, Arthur, 106
Dornberger, Walter, 79
Drexler, Anton. 45, 51-52

Eckart, Dietrich, 6, 45, 47, 52-53,
77
Egelhofer, Rudolf, 44
Egyptology. as Germanic influence, 8
Einstein, Albert, 76, 78
Eisner, Kurt, 39, 42, 43
assassinated, 42
Enlightenment, 87, 132, 144
Erhard, Werner Hans, 164. 166
est, 164-65

Feder, Gottfried, 6, 41, 45
Fest, Joachim , Hitler, 21, 101
Fischer, Heniz, 79, 80
Forster, Bernhard, 54, 55
Frank, Hans, 45
Free Corps. See Storm Troopers
Freemasons and Freemasonry, 4, 25, 28-30,
35-36, 108
as Enlightenment symbol, 87
linked to Jews, 28, 29, 30, 32, 83
Freud, Sigmund, 78, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137,
138, 139. See also Jung, Carl
Frick, Wilhelm, 42
Fritsch, Theodor, 24, 25, 28, 84, 95, 108, 145
Anti-Semitical Catechism, 26
Handbook of the Jewish Question, 26
Fritsch, Werner von, 88
Fritzsche, Hans. 129

Gaubatz, George, 28, 38
Gauger, Kurt, 137
geopolitics, 62, 67, 69. See also Institut fur
Geopolitik
German Academy, 68
Germanen Orden, 5·6, 17. 24~28, 36
Berlin chapter, 38. See also Thule Society
German Intelligence, 103
German School Bund, 41
German Workers' party, 51, 60. See also Thule
Society
Germany:
anti-Semitism in, 5, 6, 9-14, 16, 25, 26, 28,
37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 44, 51, 57, 76.78, 83,
84, 95, 106, 108, 135, 137, 144-45, 147-48
armistice, 40
bunds in, 24, 40
Communism and Communists in, 6, 37, 39,
40, 41, 42, 43-44, 53.108
economic conditions after World War I, 1, 4,
6, 8, 40
feminism in, 18, 84
identification with Middle Ages, 9, 14-15, 20,
28, 85, 88, 99-100, 105, 146-47
Industrial revolution in, 7
inflation in, 4, 40, 118
Islamic influence in, 8
19th-century changes in, 7-10, 104-6
Oriental influence in, 8-9
propaganda in, 37, 38, 44, 83-84, 95, 111, 112
psychological conditions, 1, 3-4, 5, 6, 7, 9,
14, 37, 39, 41, 44, 47, 150, 151, 152, 153,
154, 155-56, 169
romantic tradition in, 7, 8-9, 14, 96, 105-6
superstition in, 14, 18, 118-19
Weimar Republic, 109
in World War I, 6, 118
in World War II, 70-71, 80-81, 94, 102,
112-13, 126-29
youth movement in, 104-15. See also
individual groups and leaders
Gestapo, 98
glacial cosmology, 73-79, 92
Glauer, Adam Rudolf. See Sebottendorff.
Rudolf von
Gnosticism, 11-12, 19, 35, 55-56, 134, 140-41,
143-48
Gobineau, Arthur de, 9, 11, 84
Goebbels, Josef, 53, 68, 126-27, 129, 147, 152
Golden Dawn Society, 66, 70
Goring, Hermann, 135, 156
Goring, M. H., 135
Graf, Arturo, Story of the Devil, The, 142-43
Grail legend and symbolism, 20, 23, 48, 56-57,
101, 139, 146-47
Greiner, Josef, 48-49
Greiser, Arthur, 93
Guggenheim, Max, 136, 139
Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch, 3, 63-65, 74
Gurtner, Franz, 42

Hagen, Louis, Follow My Leader, 114
Hamilton, Duke of, 70
Hammer, 24
Hammerbund, 41
Hanfstaengl, Ernst ("Putzi"), 54, 55, 61, 67, 68
Hanisch, Reinhold, 21 , 49
Hanussen, Erik Jan, 119-22
Road to Telepathy: Explanation and Practice,
The, 120
Thought Reading: A Primer for Telepathy,
120
Harrer, Karl, 6, 42-43, 45
Hartshorne, E. Y., German Youth and the Nazi
Dream of Victory, 107
Hauer, Jakob Wilhelm, 135
Haushofer, Albrecht, 69-70, 71-72
Haushofer, Karl, 62-72, 162
predictions, 68-69, 70
Heiden, Konrad, 3, 119
Heine, Heinrich, 8, 47
Helldorf, Wolf Heinrich, 121, 122
Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 8
Hering, Johannes, 28
Hermetism, See Gnosticism
Hess, Rudolf, 6, 54, 59-62, 66, 148, 155, 160
flight to Scotland, 70-71, 124
as homosexual, 67
occult interests, 68, 69, 72
writings, 60-61, 71
Heydrich, Reinhard, 98
Himmler, Heinrich, 82-92.101
early life, 82-84
on Eastern philosophy, 91
Jesuit influence on, 86-88
on karma, 90-91, 157
occult interests, 2, 84, 88-91, 123, 127, 128
on procreation, 113-14
on sacrifice, 90-91
on science, 89-90, 91-92
as SS leader, 82, 85-87
Hinduism, 7, 8, 9, 11, 91, 164, 168-69
Hitler, Adolf, 1
anti-Semitism of, 21-22, 146
as drug user, 23-24
early life, 47-48, 49, 50-51
homosexual component of personality, 62
in Landsberg prison, 53-54, 62, 67
library of, 48
Mein Kampf, 16-17, 21-22, 51, 54, 59, 61,
62, 67, 135
as Messiah, 47, 53-56, 60-61, 169
occult interests, 2, 16, 17, 23-24, 47-52, 79,
124, 127-28
as Ostara reader, 17-18, 21
praises German illiteracy, 112-13
psychiatric reports on, 49, 119-20
on science, 78-79
suicide on occult date, 81
on universal education, 11-12
in Vienna, 5, 16, 17, 23, 51
Wagner's influence on, 50, 146
Hitler Youth, 1, 77, 108-109, 110, 111, 113,
114, 170
Hoerbiger, Hans, 73-80, 92
Glazialkosmogonie, 73
Hoerbiger, Hans Robert, 77
Hoess, Rudolf, 46-47, 95, 151, 155-56, 160
Hoetl, Wilhelm, 128
Hoffer, Eric, True Believer, The, 149-50, 152,
158
Hohne, Heinz, 98
hollow-earth theory, 79-80
Howe, Ellic, 123-24
Hubbard, L. Ron, 164, 166
Hugo, Victor, 8

I Ching, 134
indoctrination, as mystical and political process,
45, 109-12, 115, 120, 149-51, 153, 154,
155-60, 162, 163, 164-65, 168, 170
Institut fur Geopolitik, 68-69
Ionesco, Eugene, Rhinoceros, 158
Islamic influence on Germany, 8

Jehovah, 12, 56, 141, 144
Jesuits, as Nazi influence, 86-88, 97, 98
Jews:
emancipation of, 4, 10
as examplar of modem man, 14, 145
and Freemasons, 29-30, 32, 83
in Gnostic cosmology, 140-41, 143-44,
146-48, 163
as Jungian archetypes, 134-38
in Middle Ages, 142-43
as scapegoats, 140
as scientists, 96, 135
supernatural reputation of, 142
and volkisch groups, 14, 37, 84, 106, 108
Jung, Carl, 130-39
breaks with Freud, 133-34
collusion with Nazis, 139
condemns Freud, 137-38, 139
Memories, Dreams and Reflections, 130
turnabout of, 138-39
"Wotan," 135

Kadavergehorsam, 98
Keppler, Wilhelm, 102
Kersten, Felix, 68, 90, 91, 157
Memoirs, 3
Key to World Events, A, 77
Kiss, Edmund, 77
Kolisimo, Peter, Timeless Earth, 75
Krafft, Karl Ernst, 125-28
Krohn, Friedrich, 45
Kubizek, August, 21, 49-50, 53
Ku Klux Klan, 18
Kurz, Heinz, 45

Labor Service (youth group), 110-11
Lagarde, Paul de, 105, 108
Langbehn, Julius, 105, 108
Langer, Walter, 119-20
Lanz von Liebenfels, Jorg, 5, 7, 14, 17-21, 24,
28, 47-48, 55, 95, 105, 118, 140, 145, 169
Buch der Psalmen Teutsch, Das, 48
changes name, 19
early life, 19-20
influence on Hitler, 21, 24, 48
New Templars' Breviary, The Psalms in
German, 20
Theozoologie, 20. See also Germanen Orden;
Order of the New Templars; Ostara
Laquer, Walter Z., Young Germany, 106
LaVey, Anton, 2.63
Satanic Bible, The, 162
Lawrence, D. H., 130
Lebensborn (maternity homes), 113-15
Lebensraum theory, 62-63
Lehmann, Julius, 41
Levine-Nissen, Eugen, 44
Levien, Max, 44
Ley, Robert, 97-98, 103
Ley, Willy, Rockers, Missiles, and Men in
Space, 79-80
List, Guido von, 5, 7, 13-14. 17, 22-25, 28,
47-48, 55, 95, 105-6.107, 140, 145, 169
Religion der Ario-Germanen, Die, 118. See
also Armanen Brotherhood; Germanen
Orden
Littleton, C. Scott, 99
Ludecke, Kurt, 52, 54, 67
Ludendorff, Erich, General, 3, 4
Ludendorff, Mathilde, 106
Lueger, Karl, 22, 51

Magdeburg Project, 79-80
Maharaj Ji, 165-66
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 163, 166, 167
Manson, Charles, 2, 162
mass movements, dynamics of, 150-58, 165, 166
Mayer, Milton, They Thought They Were Free,
153
Meerloo, Joost, Rape of the Mind, The, 149, 159
Mellon, Andrew, 138
Mesmer, Franz Anton, 117
Messiah and Messianism, 3, 5, 13, 47, 52, 60,
162, 166, 169
Middle Ages, as Nazi influence, 7, 9, 14-15, 20.
28, 85, 88, 99-100, 105, 142, 146-47
Milgram, Stanley, obedience experiments, 46-47
Moltke, Helmuth von, 41
Moon, Sun Myung, 162-63, 166-67, 169-70
"Moonies, " 162, 166-67, 169-70
Mosse, George L., Culture of Western Europe,
The, 105
Muller, Gustav, 106
Mumford, Lewis, 130
Munchener Beobachter, Der, 38, 57
Munich:
Beer Hall Putsch, 53, 61, 67
Communist activity in, 6, 37, 39, 43-44
secret cults in, 6, 40-42
Vier Jahreszeitenhotel, 37-38, 39
Mussolini, Benito, 60, 103

Napoleon, 8
National Liberal party, 40
National Socialist German Workers' Party
(NSDAP), 42-43. See also Nazi party
National Socialist Monthly, 71
Natural Man, concept of, 14
Nauhaus, Walter, 41
Nazi party, 108, 121, 122, 146-47, 168
origins of, 1, 17
Neupert, Karl, 79
new man, concept of, 45, 57-58. 95-96, 113-14
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 105, 113, 132
Nordic mythology, as Nazi influence, 39-40, 49,
78, 80, 145. See also Wotan
number mysticism, 29, 51-52, 135
Nuremberg Trials, 45, 99-100, 151, 154, 160

obedience, as mystic and Nazi task, 34-36,
46-47, 87, 96-97, 98, 107, 108, 109, 112,
152, 155-56, 162, 168
Order of Bektashi Dervishes, 63 , 64
Order of New Templars, 5, 17, 19, 47
Order of the Teutonic Knights, 14-15, 85-86
Orientalism, 8-9, 105
Ostara, 5, 17-19, 21
erotic racism in, 18, 47, 105

paganism. See Nordic mythology
Pan-Germanism, 5, 24, 25, 28, 51
Paracelsus, 117, 134
Pauwels, Louis, 64, 65, 66
Payne, Robert, Life and Death of Adolf Hitler,
The, 42
Phelps, Reginald H., "Before Hitler Came:
Thule Society and Germanen Orden," 24,
51-52
Plato, 74-75
Podmore, Frank, From Mesmer to Christian
Science, 117-18
Pohl, Hermann, 24, 25, 26, 27
Pohner, Ernst, 42
Poles, extermination of, 93-94
Poliakov, Leon, Aryan Myth, The, 145
Polome, Edgar, "Approaches to Germanic
Mythology," 23
Prel, Karl du, Spiritismus, Der, 84
Pretzsche, Ernst, 23, 48
psychology, as "Jewish science," 134-37

Rassenwertigkeitindex, 18-19
Rauschning, Hermann, 54-55, 56, 57, 78, 89,
124, 146, 147
Voice of Destruction, The, 124-25
Ravenscroft, Trevor, 47, 56-57, 63
Spear of Destiny, The, 23
Reichstag fire, 121-22
Riding Fellows (political party), 41
Roberts, Stephen H., 55, 57, 109
Robin, Ernst, 45
Rohmeder, Wilhelm, 28, 41
Roosevelt, Franklin, D., 129
Rosenberg, Alfred, 6, 45, 53, 71, 152
"Earth-Centered Jew Lacks a Soul, The,"
147-48
Runen, 28, 29
runes, as Nazi influence, 23, 25-26, 28, 39, 89,
139
Russian campaign, 80

sacrifice, as Nazi ideal, 90-91, 94, 100, 150-51
Sargant, William, Mind Possessed, The, 149,
156-57, 159
Satan and Satanism, 12, 35, 141-44, 146, 162,
163
Schellenberg, Walter, 86, 88, 89, 103, 124, 128
Schirach, Baldur von, 53
Schlegel, Friedrich, 8
Schneider, Rudi, 55
Schneider, Willy, 55
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 8, 63, 148
Schwarze Korps, Das, 114
Scientology, 164
Scultetus, Robert, 77
Sebottendorff, Rudolf von, 6, 27-34, 36, 37-43,
60, 118, 140, 169
Bevor Hitler Kam, 27-28
Fuhrenprinzip doctrine, 46, 47
Seyffertitz, Alfred von, 43
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, 160
Sharp. William, 15
Siebert, J. G., Remaking of German Youth, The,
115
Smith, Bradley, 85
Social Democrats, 5
Sondern, Frederick, Jr., 62
Speer, Albert, 81, 124, 128-29
spiritualism, 11, 84, 105-6, 133
SS (Schutzstaffel), 1, 84, 93-103, 108
Ahnenerbe, 48, 77, 101-2
elite, 95-96, 151
formation of, 84-85
inner circle, 99-100
membership of, 95-96
occult practices, 2, 100-03
pagan rituals of, 100, 147
qualifications, 96-97
robotism of, 96, 103, 154
sabotage options of, 94
sacrifice concept of, 91, 94, 103
as secret society, 85, 98-99
training of, 97-98, 100
Stauff, Philipp, 24, 25, 28, 40
Stein, Walter, 23, 47, 56
Steiner, Rudolf, 3, 41, 126
Storm Troopers, 43-44, 61, 77, 84, 108
Straniak, Ludwig, 102
Strasser, Gregor, 84, 86
Streicher, Julius, 45, 160
sun, as Nazi symbol, 107-8
swastika, as Nazi symbol, 22, 28, 38, 39, 48, 66,
107, 118
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 132

Tacitus, 23
Tannenberg Bund, 106
Tautz, Johannes, 51, 63, 65
Templars, as Nazi influence, 19
Theosophical Society, 11, 13, 14, 30, 41. See
also Blavatsky, Madame Helena Petrovna
Third Reich. See Germany
Thugs (India), 35. See also Assassins
Thule Society, 6, 24, 27-28, 30-31, 36, 37-47,
51, 60
membership of, 38, 42
as umbrella organization, 40-41, 42
Thurn und Taxis, Gustav von, 42. 43, 47
Transcendental Meditation, 163-64

Unification Church, 162, 163, 166, 169. See
also Moon, Sun Myung
Union of German Maidens, 110

Vienna:
anti-Semitism in, 5, 16-17, 23
Jewish population of, 4
visualization (mystic technique), 88
volkisch movement, 5, 11, 13-14, 18, 75, 106-7
"vril, " 65, 74, 107
Vril Society, 65

Wagner, Richard, 145-46
Parsifal, 146
Rienzi, 50
Walther, Gerda, "Hitler's Black Magicians,"
123
Westarp, Heila von, 42, 43, 47
Wilhelm II, 5
Wilhelm, Richard, Secret of the Golden Flower,
The, 134
will, as mystic concept, 49-51, 88
Wittgenberg, Baron:
Index of Jewish Titled People, 28
Index of Titled People and Their Connections
with the Jews, 28
Jews of Industry, Science, Authors and
Artists, 28
Wohl, Louis de (Ludwig von Wohl), 127-128
world-ice theory, 74, 75, 77-78, 79
World War I, 6, 14, 118
World War II, 1, 70-71, 80-81 , 94, 102, 112-13.
126-29. See also individual leaders
Wotan, as Nazi symbol, 22, 23, 25, 39, 131, 135
Wulff, Wilhelm, 102, 103, 118, 123-24, 128
Zodiac and Swastika, 2-3, 118-19

Young Folk (German youth group), 110
youth groups, 14, 104-15
in World War II, 112-13

Zenit, Der, 128
Zoellner, Johann, 132