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I Misteri Di L'ordine Nero GABRIELE ZAFFIRI I MISTERI DI L’ORDINE NERO MITI, ESOTERISMO, PARANORMALE E PAGANESIMO NELLA SS APPENDICE I PROTAGONISTI Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler 07.10.1900 23.05.1945 Nonostante la sua avversione per il Cristianesimo, Heinrich Himmler era affascinato dalla leggenda del Graal, vedendolo come una fonte di immenso potere. Credeva anche che un altro artefatto sacro - il martello di Thor - potesse essere requisito come arma dal Terzo Reich. In una lettera all'Ahnenerbe, Himmler affermò la sua convinzione che il martello di Thor fosse “un'arma di guerra precoce e altamente sviluppata dei nostri antenati e che implichi una conoscenza inaudita dell'elettricità". Per questo motivo, Himmler ha chiesto alla squadra di Ahnenerbe di “trovare tutti i luoghi ne nel mondo culturale ariano della Germania settentrionale in cui esiste una comprensione del fulmine, del tuono, del martello di Thor o del martello volante o lanciato, oltre a tutte le sculture del dio raffigurate con un piccola ascia che emette fulmini”. Il dio nordico Thor e il suo martello magico, il mjölnir. SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff Un battesimo irminista del figlio maggiore di Karl Wolff, Thorisman, fu celebrato da Karl Maria Wiligut (Weisthor), il 4 gennaio 1937, alla presenza dei dignitari delle SS Reinhard Heydrich e Karl Diebitsch. Durante questa cerimonia, Weisthor prese la coppa e pronunciò le parole tradizionali: “La fonte di tutta la vita è Got! Da Got proviene la nostra conoscenza, i nostri doveri, la nostra ragione di vita, la nostra intera comprensione della vita. Ogni goccia di questa tazza dimostra che sei connesso a Got! ” 13.05.1900 17.07.1997 Un battesimo secondo i riti pagani della SS (1936). SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich 07.03.1904 04.06.1942 Anche l'SD e la Gestapo hanno commissionato dozzine di rapporti e revisioni tra pari volti a differenziare tra “occultismo scientifico” e ciarlataneria. Lo stesso Himmler sostenne questa politica in una lettera del gennaio 1939 a Reinhard Heydrich: “Come sapete, non considero l'Astrologia una pura falsità, ma credo che ci sia qualcosa dietro... Dobbiamo fare molto di più per limitare i ciarlatani in modo da consentire solo comunità specifiche di ricerca in questo ambito.” Nell'autunno del 1939 l'SD di Heydrich concorda sul fatto che il regime non dovrebbe interferire con coloro che fanno ricerca sulle “forze cosmiche” attraverso metodi scientifici. Cerimonia serale, il 1 ° luglio 1938, nella cattedrale di Quedlinburg, in onore del re Enrico I di Sassonia, alla presenza di Himmler e Heydrich. SS-Obergruppenführer Philipp Bouhler 11.09.1899 19.05.1945 All'interno della Cancelleria del Führer, Philipp Bouhler era Presidente della Commissione Ufficiale di Controllo del Partito per la Protezione della Letteratura Nazionalsocialista, che ha determinato quali scritti erano o non erano adatti alla società nazista. Nel marzo 1939, le questioni relative all'astrologia vengono attribuite a questa commissione, composta da un compagno di Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Karl Heinz Hederich, un astrologo devoto che ha usato il suo ufficio per promuovere la letteratura astrologica, e un astrologo professionista, Werner Kittler , specializzato in Cosmobiologia. Storicamente, il concetto di Cosmobiologia è stato utilizzato dall'astrologo svizzero Karl Ernst Krafft in un senso più generale per designare quel ramo dell'Astrologia che lavora su fondamenti scientifici e legato alle scienze naturali. SS-Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg 16.01.1910 31.03.1952 Cerimonia spirituale nel castello di Wewelsburg (scena di rievocazione storica). Walter Schellenberg pubblicò le sue memorie postume nel 1956. In esse scrisse che Himmler modellava le SS sui principi organizzativi dell'Ordine dei Gesuiti e che il Wewelsburg era il grande “monastero delle SS” in cui un “concistoro segreto” si riuniva ogni anno. Afferma che “qui tutti coloro che appartenevano alla direzione dell’Ordine, dovevano praticare esercizi spirituali e di meditazione”. SS-Oberscharführer Wilhelm Landig Wilhelm Landig fece rivivere la mitologia ariosofica di Thule, la patria polare degli antichi ariani, coniando l'idea del Sole Nero, una svastica sostitutiva e una mistica fonte di energia in grado di rigenerare la razza ariana. Ha reso popolari le idee esoteriche correnti tra il movimento völkisch pre- nazista e le SS relative ad Atlantide, alla Teoria del Ghiaccio Cosmico, alle inondazioni preistoriche e alle dottrine razziali segrete del Tibet. Ha anche attirato l'attenzione sull'interesse nazista per i catari medievali e le tradizioni del Graal come una religione germanica alternativa di eresia dualista 20.12.1909 13.04.1997 Idoli Contro Thule Il Tempo dei Lupi a Thule Ribelli per Thule (1971) (1980) (1991) SS-Untersturmführer Rudolf J. Mund Nel 1958, Rudolf J. Mund si unì all'Ordine dei Nuovi Templari (Ordo Novi Templi, ONT), fondata da Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, una setta cavalleresca che coltivava una teologia ario-cristiana dualista eretica degli eroi biondi in lotta eterna con gli uomini bestia inferiori. Mund si è immerso negli archivi di questo culto ariano, ha studiato gli scritti dei primi padri della Chiesa, la storia dei Cavalieri Templari, le teorie mistiche delle rune e in seguito ha scritto libri biografici su Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels e Karl Maria Wiligut. 05.08.1920 20.11.1985 Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels e il Ordine Il Rasputin di Himmler: La Saga Willigut dei Nuovi Templari. L'Esoterismo del (1982) Cristianesimo (1976) SS-Brigadeführer Karl Maria Wiligut (Weisthor) 10.12.1866 03.01.1946 Il Totenkopfring, simbolo dell'occultismo ariosofico e runico. Il SS-Ehrenring, l' anello d'onore delle SS, conosciuto anche come Totenkopfring o “anello con la testa di morto”, non era una decorazione ufficiale della Germania nazista, ma piuttosto un'onorificenza concessa personalmente dal Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. L'anello sarebbe stato disegnato da Karl Maria Wiligut. Wiligut ha affermato di essere un discendente diretto di un ceppo di saggezza preistorica dalle dioses dell'Aria (Asen) e dell'Acqua (Wanen), Aesir e Vanir nella mitologia nordica. Insieme agli antichi riti che erano abitati dagli antenati di Wiligut, si vantava di avere un “ritiro chiaroveggente” che gli permetteva di incanalare la saggezza ancestrale. SS-Obersturmführer Otto Rahn Alla fine degli anni 1920, Otto Rahn collaborò con esoteristi francesi che studiarono una tradizione “Cataro-Graal-Shambala dell'India settentrionale” legata a una civiltà ur-ariana conosciuta come Atlantide o Thule. Questa ricerca è culminata nei suoi due libri, che sostengono che l'eresia albigese, la religione buddista e il Santo Graal erano interconnessi da una tradizione gnostica indoeuropea (“Luciferismo”) portata ai Tedeschi tramite i Celti, che avevano in precedenza si appropriavano delle tradizioni religiose dell'India nordoccidentale e dell'antica Persia. Il Graal, secondo Rahn, proveniva dall'indiano mani, il simbolo di una pietra caduta dal cielo, portata in Europa dall'Himalaya. 18.02.1904 13/14.03.1939 Crociata contro il Graal. La Storia La Corte di Lucifero: Un degli Albigesi Viaggio Insieme Agli Spiriti (1933) Buoni dell'Europa (1937) SS-Obersturmbannführer Edmund Kiss Uno dei primi sostenitori della Teoria del Ghiaccio Cosmico, Edmund Kiss aveva già viaggiato in Perù e Bolivia, dove ha cercato prove di una cultura così tardo-terziaria nelle Ande. Ha studiato le antiche rovine di Tiahuanaco sul lago Titicaca ed era convinto che il rilievo scolpito sulla Porta del Sole fosse un calendario astronomico che conferma l'esperienza umana preistorica della più recente catastrofe lunare e della successiva alluvione. Trovò una gigantesca scultura di una testa nordica, per lui una prova evidente della precedente migrazione e colonizzazione atlantidea quando gli oceani avevano circondato questo alto altopiano andino. 26.09.1886 09.12.1960 L'Ultima Regina di Primavera ad Atlantide La Porta del Sole di Tiwanaku e Il Cigno da Thule Atlantide (1933) la Dottrina del Ghiaccio (1939) (1931) Cosmico di Hörbiger (1937) SS-Obergruppenführer Walther Darré In qualità di decano dell'ideologia del del sangue e suolo, Walther Darré sostenne gran parte dell'escatologia irminista di Wiligut, in particolare la sua fede in una “religione del sangue” ario-germanica, le radici nordiche di Gesù e le origini della razza ariana ad Atlantide. Darré inoltre concordava con Wiligut sul fatto che la Chiesa Cattolica avesse adottato gli insegnamenti del Cristo ariano (Krist), ma poi li distolse dalla vera missione razziale di Dio, che giaceva nel sangue e nella terra. Allo stesso modo Darré indagò sui segni runici, compresi quelli che apparentemente adornavano il martello di Thor, e propagò una religione "neopagana" basata sul paganesimo ario-germanico. 14.07.1895 05.09.1953 La Nuova Nobiltà di Sangue e Suolo (1930) SS-Obersturmbannführer Manfred von Knobelsdorff 15.06.1892 23.04.1965 Il Mittsommerfest a Externsteine (1938). Comandante di castello di Wewelsburg, Manfred von Knobelsdorf era responsabile dell'organizzazione e della conduzione di vari rituali e celebrazioni neopagane a Wewelsburg e Externsteine, come matrimoni, battesimi e il Festival di Mezza Estate, il Mittsommerfest. Era un amico di Karl Maria Wiligut e un seguace delle sue idee sull'Irminismo. Knobelsdorf scrisse lettere a Wiligut assicurandogli la "devozione irminista", testimoniando costantemente il suo interesse per l'antica religione ario- germanica. SS-Gruppenführer Otto Ohlendorf 04.02.1907 08.06.1951 Il comandante delle SS Otto Ohlendorf ha detto che ci sono molti
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