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^ 1 I J 1 ™ M •» I ^ 1 i J 1 ™ M •» i NIGEL PENNICK Hitler’s Secret Sciences His quest for the hidden knowledge o f the ancients SUFFOLK NEVILLE SPEARMAN First published in Great Britain in 1981 by Neville Spearman Limited The Priory Gate, Friars Street, Sudbury, Suffolk © Nigel Pennick 1981 Photoset by Saildean Limited Walton-on-Thames Printed by Biddles Limited Guildford and Kings Lynn Dedication This book is dedicated to all sincere followers of the earth mysteries: may they never put their discoveries in the service of evil. Acknowledgments I am most grateful for the help given me, in some form or other, by the following: Michael Behrend of Impington; Christopher Bird of Washington, D.C.; Colin Bloy of Brighton; Klaus Griesbach of Hamburg; Prudence Jones of Cambridge; Ruper Pennick of Bexley; Peter Ratazzi of Hove; Paul Reece of Rheindalen; Michael Scott of Tangier and Rory Thomas of Soham. Various translations from the German in this book were by Michael Behrend, Prudence Jones or the author. I would like to thank the Institute of Geomantic Research, the staff of the University Library, Cambridge and the Morgan Picture Collection for various illustra­ tions. Contents Introduction 1 Chapter One The Hidden Tradition - The Secret Vehm 3 Two The Roots of Naziism 14 Three The Secret Doctrine 21 Four Rune and Swastika 32 Five The Unsuspected Past - Sacred Geography 44 Six Merlin’s Hidden Power 55 Seven Hidden Energies 66 Eight W-Force 73 Nine Startling Possibilities 79 Ten A New Religion 87 Eleven Perverted Chivalry - Himmler’s SS 100 Twelve Lost Cities of Atlantis 111 Thirteen Architects of Evolution 120 Fourteen Genocide - An Act of Black Magic 129 Fifteen State Magic 138 Sixteen Nazi World Planning 145 Seventeen The Ahnenerbe 150 Eighteen The Castle of Klingsor 158 Nineteen The Mountain of the Grail 162 Twenty Memoirs of the Demonic Empire 168 Bibliography 178 INTRODUCTION The Nazi phenomenon was a weird and tragic episode in world history whose dire effects still reverberate today. For a brief twelve years, dangerous authoritarian occult principles became a world political force, for the Nazis’ avowed intent was nothing short of the complete transformation of the human world. Their revolution was to be so radical that it aimed to recast the whole of future civilization in its own distorted, image. Although National Socialism, to give it its correct title, was the ultimate refinement of Prussian militarism, it had one important extra dimension - it was messianic; not the universal messianism of the Christian or Islamic creeds, however, but an elitist messianism based upon race. The whole Nazi ethos grew out of a magical view of the world, and the history of Nazi Germany was forged by strange fanatics whose actions can only be explained in occult terms. To orthodox historians, their crimes can only be dismissed as crazy obsessions, yet in terms of certain well-established occult beliefs, they fit a well-defined pattern. Far from being just another political doctrine, Naziism was nothing less than a deliberate magical attempt to alter the world. Racial supremacy, the much-vaunted ‘destiny’ of the Nazis, was not the final aim of their programme. The creation of a new race of supermen, a biological mutation to a higher level of being, was their aim. The new man, the result of selective breeding, equipped with psychic powers, would push forward the frontiers of a new civilization based on a magical technology several orders of sophistication above the clumsy techniques of the present. The new superman, so they believed, would finally transcend the human condition - he would gain unlimited power over the universe and win immortality. He would become a god. But before this new superman could emerge on Earth, 2 Hitler’s Secret Sciences occultism taught the Nazis that the ground had to be cleared of the untermensch - ‘sub-humanity’. It was not enough just to remove civic rights from these people, mainly Jews and Gypsies, claimed Nazi occultists, it was necessary to remove them completely from their contact with the ‘holy soil’ of the Reich, for their existence was seen as physically hindering the physical manifestation of the new man. This view of history may seem startling to materialists who see market forces or geopolitics as the driving forces behind events. Yet there is no shortage of evidence to prove my contention: although the strands of evidence are diverse and culled from many obscure sources, as they have gradually accumulated I have found no fresh element to contradict the facts gathered before. The roots of Nazi occultism are there for anyone to see, their origins lurking in the esoteric traditions of ‘fringe science’, theosophy and mystical nationalism. It is from these traditions, not the cut-and-dried theories of professional historians that I come. Over the past two centuries, academic scholarship has made such a name for itself that people have been lulled into a sense of false confidence in its all-embracing infallibility. Almost without saying, people assume that every existing object, book, document and event has been catalogued by official wisdom and taken into account in the academic world-view. Yet this is not the case. From the evidence of the ages we can find not just one but several parallel traditions. In the occult tradition, arcane lore has been handed down from master to disciple for century upon century without ever being revealed to all and sundry. We hear too of certain hidden books, works and objects which have never fallen beneath the public scrutiny of the academics. The secret books of the German Vehm or ‘Secret Tribunal’, The Red Tower and The Dortmund Codex are nowhere to be found. Likewise the alchemical Shropshire Manuscript, the Secret Archives of the Duke of Medinacelli and The Prophecies o f Old Michael O ’Leary recur in literature but never surface to the light of day. Some of them may be no more; vague memories of lost masterpieces. Others may yet be hidden in the inaccessible libraries of the Vatican, the Kremlin or Westminster Abbey. Whatever the reality of these documents, Nazi occultists were deeply interested in all obscure manuscripts. They carefully Introduction 3 investigated all the ancient archives they plundered in their rampage across Europe in a search for some further knowledge which could aid their creation of the ‘New Order’. Amongst this welter of half-forgotten occult lore resurrected by the Nazis was the physical control of nations by means of the ancient science of geomancy which some call ‘earth magic’. In ancient times, they found, a nation’s most sacred place was also invariably its seat of government. Possession of this sacred place, the psychic centre of the nation, meant dominion over it. Surviving legends and folklore recount how a battle would rage for the control of a holy place, then suddenly, as it fell to the conqueror, all resistance would cease. Once the psychic centre was taken, then all resistance was futile. The country had magically fallen to a conqueror. Such a legend is associated with the Tower of London, and Tara, seat of the ancient High Kings of Ireland. The Nazis pursued this idea with alacrity. Although the concept of magical control over countries by capturing their sacred sites had long been discarded as impossible by ‘rationa­ list’ thinkers, Nazi occultists were not interested in ‘rationalist’ thought. Originating in the independent research of indivi­ duals, later appropriated as the orthodox belief of officially- sanctioned organizations, the whole science of geomancy finally became an essential magical tool in the conquest of Europe. Steeped in the archaic lore of India and Persia, and encompassing occult systems from ancient Germany and Tibet, the inner order of National Socialism fabricated an applied magical technology precisely tailored to their ideologi­ cal position. Researchers into the fields of folklore, ancient history, archaeology, astronomy, astrology, symbolism and radiesthesia were gathered together to synthesize a peculiarly ‘Aryan’ science and religion to serve the New Order of National Socialism. Unlike magical systems before and since, this new occult system was based neither upon the Judaeo- Christian Qabalah nor upon traditional Freemasonry, but upon a reinterpretation of the Pagan magic of pre-Christian Ger­ many, the Aryan solar cult of Ahura Mazda and various ideas of nineteenth-century unofficial science. It is saddeningly unfortunate that such a thoroughly perni­ cious political system should espouse with such wholehearted 4 Hitler’s Secret Sciences fervour the study and application of unofficial science. Dows­ ing, magnetism, astrology, occult meditation, alternative cos­ mology and geomancy were woven into the very fabric of Nazi thought to such an extent that even forty years later people cannot think of many of these subjects without their political context. Yet the use or misuse of science in its widest meaning does not invalidate the principles, which even today can be studied and expanded. For the gaining of knowledge of any sort brings with it the awesome responsibility to use it for good and not for evil; to promote life, not death; freedom, not slavery; to construct and not to destroy. The frontiers of a new civilization may yet arise on the knowledge so grudgingly dismissed as ‘the occult’. Let us learn from the Nazi misuse of these powers and not dismiss the good with the evil. CHAPTER ONE The Hidden Tradition - The Secret Vehm Germany has a long tradition of powerful occult societies. Since the Dark Ages, the authorities have often seen fit to use arcane sects as unpaid secret police to keep dissidents and heretics in check. From the time of Charlemagne (AD 772) until the fall of Naziism (1945), numerous shadowy societies have flitted through the penumbras of German society exacting a hideous price -for their existence.
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