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The Occult and the Third Reich: The Mystical Origins of Nazism and the Search for the Holy Grail Paperback – January 1, 1975

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Text: English, French (translation)

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January 1, 1975
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0070018502
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978-0070018501
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw-Hill; First Pr. Thus edition (January 1, 1975)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 306 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0070018502
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0070018501
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces

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A. Steckling

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A very interesting read for history, WWII, or mystic/paranormal buffs. Hard to find, but worth the hunt.

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Ronald George Williams

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It is interesting if you are interested in Hitler and Germany. Mostly based on Fiction facts.

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Sir Lancelot

Worthy if one wishes to learn about ideology of Nazism

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 20, 2011

I managed to find a cheap soft cover copy of this work however I suggest, should it be found, one to purchase the hard cover due to it including various pages of pictures which provide visual to the reader that is unavailable in the soft cover version.

The previous critiques have already outlined the thesis of this book in being the connections between the Gnostic Eastern / Persian Manichaeism; with its beliefs can be seen as a synthesis re; Zoroastrianism, Hinduism and Buddhism as they relate to the 11-13th century Catharism/Albagensianism and the Nazi development of their ancient Germanic Gnostic "Thule" faith re: The Thule Society with-which numerous Nazi leaders were members and practitioners; Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Alfred Rosenberg, Otto Rahn etc.

There is no question that the various power hungry dictators of that era; Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, Franco etc. all took the basic egalitarian Communist/Communalist or Socialist ideology and adapted it toward their own means to attain personal and/or party power; in Hitler's case cult/society power over the "volk" of Germany.

When one researches World War 2, Hitler and the Nazi Movement there is no question that both Communism/Socialism was the political base where the Nazis imposed their "Thule" or Gnostic Germanic Pagan philosophies (with which this book details) in developing their Germanic Social, Cultural and pseudo-Religious Order.

The author does a fabulous example of connecting the dots from the history of Catharism to those that were behind the development of the Nazi racialist hierarchy / philosophy. Most who have read on the subject understand that this was the time of the study of Racialism or "Racism" in its proper context however the Nazi; "New Age" philosophy distorted racialist studies with highly bigoted beliefs combining culture, nation, faith and ethnicity. Of course the Nazis weren't alone within this venture as it was common in America, England re: Marx and Communism, George Bernard Shaw and the Fabian Socialist Society and, to be honest, practiced by every non-Westernized "Judeo-Christian" society on Earth today within their own ethnocentric, nationalistic and uni-cultural way.

What sparked my reading was the connection between Nazism and the Gnostic-Christian sect known as the Albagensians/Cathars which held a Gnostic/Enlightened belief based on the attainment of Knowledge to create a "super being" or superior race: Atlantian or Hypoborean and the development of a society befitting ancient Germanic-NeoPaganism.

I do recommend this work which supplies some very worthy hypothesis on Hitlerism/Nazism and their beliefs as well to the reasoning behind Hitler's quirks; not taking a wife, family, vegetarianism etc. Some suggest that he was a homosexual like many others within the Reich as placed forward by "The Pink Swastika" and "The Hidden Hitler" however that may well be true although another theory was his deep beliefs in the Occult as a "Priest" like head of a "Thule" nation.

There are many other reads I'd recommend; "The Rainbow Swastika" by Hannah Newman which is a work both outlining the paganism, gnostic beliefs and development of Nazism by the Nazis sending out their pseudo-Academics throughout the Near East, and obviously Cathar France re: Otto Rahn, to bring back all the mystical pagan/gnostic teachings to the "Priests" of the Thule - later Nazism.

The author, in many places; especially that of Newman, place forward the various and numerous contradictions between the Jewish (or Judeo-Christian) theology and the more gnostic teachings of the East that the aforementioned had always been in conflict with and continues till this day. This conflict may be the crux to Hitler's, and company's, hate for the Jew and anything "Jewish" including Christianity.

I think there must be some related reads that must be suggested to accompany this one so the reader will attain the full perspective of the realities behind the Nazi ideology as it relates to both a sociopolitical and a theopoltical construct. To cover the old dialectical "Right Wing" vs. "Left Wing" spectrum I think I'd suggest to the reader to pick up "Wall St. and the Rise of Adolf Hitler" by Antony Sutton as well Eugene Methvin's "The Rise of Radicalism" which details the impact the theology and ideologies of the more Utopian, Egalitarian anti-Judeo-Christian belief constructs are tied to various political movements. Both are Conservative or "Right Wing" authors and very worthy and highly capable. From a "Left Wing" perspective I'd suggest a very dry but worth tome by Bill Clinton's mentor; Carrol Quigley "Tragedy and Hope; A History of the World in Our Time" and another good piece written by Librarian of Congress James Billington called "Fire in the Minds of Men" which basically connects the Secret Societies of Europe and the Occult/Gnostic teachings to various political and social movements, many of which still are applicable today.

From a strictly "theology" perspective I'd suggest the works that Angebert bases much of his work to be read; H.S. Chamberlain, Otto Rahn, Hitler and Alfred Rosenberg however to attain a deeper impact one might wish to give the works on Theosophy by Helena Bvlatsky which also played a large role in the development of Nazism as well the New Age movement today. "The Secret Teachings of All Ages" by Manley P. Hall is also a worth read to understand the numerous beliefs that went into Nazism, too the New Age and the popular Environmentalism/Green "isms". Of course, although shifting however a bit related I might suggest some works that relates the New Age cult to Angebert's work being "The Aquarian Conspiracy" by M. Ferguson as well "Inside the New Age Nightmare" by "Inside the New Age Nightmare" by R. Baer. Both works will provide the reader - as will all the aforementioned - a very informed perspective on the account of the development of Nazism from the beliefs of the Cathars, Atlantis/Hypaborian Mythology, Theosophy, New Age and all the combined Nordic/Eastern Esoteric Gnosticism.

The reader will walk away with a/the political base to allow Angebert's work to hold more meaning.

A very worthy read. Enjoy.

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John McLaughlin

A worthy, worthy read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 20, 2005

I found this book in 1988, while researching the claim that Mary Magdeline's left arm was housed as a relic at Simopetra Monastery on Mt. Athos, Greece (I saw it ).

Once I started to read The Occult and the Third Reich, I couldn't put it down. The theories were so credible that you had to think that the historians and governments deliberately tried to rewrite the history of Nazi Germany in their own view.

What the book expertly does is to offer the National Socialism movement as a quasi religious quest. Readers of Eric Hoffer's True Believer will understand immediately.

Much of the factual evidence presented is very speculative. The authors idolize Otto Rahn, a Nazi who wrote the Crusade Against the Grail and Lucifer's Court. He was the first to publicly connect the 12th century Cathari of southern France to the Holy Grail and an alternative stream of Christianity.

Nevertheless, this book answered a lot of questions and filled in a gap of Hitler's almost unbelievable quest for complete world domination with a nation behind him. The book details correctly the order of the Nazi SS that was styled after King Arthur's Round Table. The Nazi movement was a religion to the chosen few.

I continued my research into the book's accuracy. At one point, I telephoned the Nazi desk expert at the CIA with a couple of questions. The agent told me that this book was his bible.

The Occult and the Third Reich is the beginning of all the alternative books on the Holy Grail and the Cathars. It may not be entirely accurate, but with only 3,000 English books in print, it was the blockbuster on the new genre. It inspired my own science fiction book: G.R.A.I.L.

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