That should be a doddle after the cryptic ordeal on kindle. Notwithstanding this extra challenge I persevered and it did not dampen my interest unduly I have ordered a paperback copy and will look at it in more depth. I read this on Kindle which had mistakes on every page and some words appeared merely as a set of symbols.One of the more readily translated mistakes was вЂњHiderвЂќ for Hitler. For Hitler they had their uses though, further fomenting ever present anti-semitism, ever present in Austria and Germany and helping to make it feel more acceptable? The latter heavily influenced ceremonial and SS ritual at their special castle). (This contrasted with Himmler, who had his personal and high ranking SS magus, Karl Maria Wiligut. Some of the esoteric writers, movers and shakers featured here verged on the wacky to say the least and Goodrick-Clarke argues that Hitler did not have too much time for them. It all sounds so familiar вЂ“ today we talk of the perils of globalisation, mass migration, loss of individual and national identity.

Life was now more materialistic, it felt out of control worse still, it was feared control was in the hands of alien forces, non Aryan ones. Rapid industrialisation and urbanisation made the change inevitable. The old familiar world was dying (be that the age old and stolid Habsburg Empire or the placid pastoral idyll of the many German Princedoms). The conditions were right for it: a defeated, demoralised people fearing an uncertain future amidst social and economic chaos. Goodrick-ClarkeвЂ™s conclusion is fairly emphatic: that the various movements and cults detailed here did not bring about and influence the rise of National Socialism to any great extent: rather, it pointed to its increasing inevitability. For me it brilliantly put into European context the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich. It was grounded, very factual, meticulously researched (too much detail for some I guess) and hugely interesting. I hesitated before reading this book fearing it might be some wacky neo nazi treatise that tends to froth and then bore. Karl Maria Wiligut: The Private Magus of Heinrich Himmler Rudolf von Sebottendorff and the Thule SocietyДЎ4. Jorg Lans von Liebenfels and TheozoologyДЎ1. The Modern German Occult Revival 1880-1910ДЁ. Rudolf von Sebottendorff and the Thule Society 12. The Order of the New Templars PART 3: ARIOSOPHY IN GERMANY 10.

Jorg Lans von Liebenfels and Theozoology 9. The Modern German Occult Revival 1880-1910 PART 2: THE ARIOSOPHISTS OF VIENNA 3. Beyond what the TImes Literary Supplement calls an intriguing study of apocalyptic fantasies, this bizarre and fascinating story contains lessons we cannot afford to ignore.moreД¬ontents: Foreword Introduction PART 1: THE BACKGROUND 1.

The fantasies thus fueled were played out with terrifying consequences in the realities structured into the Third Reich: Auschwitz, Sobibor, and Treblinka, the hellish museums of Nazi apocalypse, had psychic roots reaching back to millenial visions of occult sects. Over time their ideas and symbols, filtered through nationalist-racist groups associated with the infant Nazi party, came to exert a strong influence on Himmler's SS. These millenarian sects (principally the Ariosophists) espoused a mixture of popular nationalism, Aryan racism, and occultism to support their advocacy of German world-rule. This book provides the first serious account of the way in which Nazism was influenced by powerful millenarian and occult sects that thrived in Germany and Austria almost fifty years before the rise to power of Adolf Hitler. These sects combined notions of popular nationalism with an advocacy of Aryan racism and a proclaimed need for German world-rule. Goodrick-Clarke's powerful and timely book traces the intellectual roots of Nazism back to a number of influential occult and millenarian sects in the Habsburg Empire during its waning years. Goodrick-Clarke's powerful and timely book traces the intellectual roots of Nazism back to a number of influential occult and millenarian sects in the Habsburg Empire Nearly half a century after the defeat of the Third Reich, Nazism remains a subject of extensive historical inquiry, general interest, and, alarmingly, a source of inspiration for resurgent fascism in Europe. Nearly half a century after the defeat of the Third Reich, Nazism remains a subject of extensive historical inquiry, general interest, and, alarmingly, a source of inspiration for resurgent fascism in Europe.

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