CHAPTER 2
The Aryan Physics Doctrine
ON 30 JANUARY 1933 the National Socialist Party under Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. Those who saw in National Socialism nothing more than a political movement knew scarcely anything of it. It was more even than a religion; it was the will to create mankind anew.
“One thing is certain – Hitler has the spirit of the prophet. We had come to a turning point in world history – that was his constant theme. We uninstructed persons, it was clear, had no conception of the scale of the revolution that was to take place in all life. At these times Hitler spoke as a seer, as one of the initiated. His inspired pronouncements were based on a biological mysticism … the pursuit of ‘the random path of the intelligence’ was the real defection of man from his divine mission. To have ‘magic insight’ was Hitler’s idea of the goal of human progress. He himself felt that he already had the rudiments of this gift. He attributed to it his successes and his future eminence. He saw his own remarkable career as a confirmation of Hidden Powers.”21
These Hidden Powers seem to have first possessed Hitler on Armistice Day 1918. He had been admitted to Pasewalk Military Hospital at the end of the war suffering from mustard gas poisoning and placed under the care of a psychiatrist, Dr Edmund Forster, who misdiagnosed his condition as psychopathic hysteria. What treatment was administered and what the correct diagnosis was remain a mystery since the Gestapo seized the records in 1933 and Dr Forster committed suicide the same year. According to Hitler while at the hospital he had experienced “a vision from another world” which told him that he needed to restore his sight so that he could lead Germany back to greatness. His anti-semitism manifested at Pasewalk. It was there that he promised solemnly to become a politician and “devote his energies to fulfilling the orders which he had received”.22
“Yes, Hitler continued, Nietzsche went so far as to recognize the superman as a new biological variety. But he was not too sure of it. Man is becoming God – that is the simple fact. Man is God in the making. Man has eternally to strain at his limitations. The moment he relaxes and contents himself with them, he decays and falls below the human level. He becomes a quasi-beast. Gods and beasts, that is what our world is made of”.23
Thus was National Socialism at root an idea embracing powerful emotions harnessed towards a demiurgic transformation of the world by a new race of Aryan mankind which was, or so he imagined, at the same time the resurgence of an Himalayan race of profound antiquity. And, from the very outset, the world enemy had been identified. In a booklet published from his notes made in 1923, and published by Hohenreichen Verlag Munich in 1924 under the title Bolshevism from Moses to Lenin: A Dialogue between Adolf Hitler and Me24, Hitler’s tutor in magic, Dietrich Eckart, to whom he dedicated Mein Kampf, demonstrated that the roots of the hatred of the Jews stretched back to the pre-Exodus period in Ancient Egypt.
The oriental origins of Hitler’s movement are obvious not only from its symbolism. Many National Socialist speeches, including those by Hitler, were direct translations, phrase by phrase, from the works of the Chinese philosopher Yang Shang, whose theories influenced Shih Huang-Ti (246–209 BC), builder of the Great Wall, an emperor beguiled by the esoteric language of Taoist sacred writings.25 The German Customs list of books banned from entry into the Third Reich was fairly complete as far as the languages of Europe and America were concerned, but lacking in oriental titles – in fact entirely devoid of them. The works of the pacifist Chinese political philosophers were not on it, and even German, French and English translations of these books could come in.26
Rudolf Hess, interrogated in the Tower of London under the effect of a truth serum, stated that National Socialists valued the occult sciences highly and might even be, through Hitler, the puppets of a clandestine Directorate in the Orient.27 No doubt he had other things to say. Exactly why he had to serve his sentence of life imprisonment in solitary confinement has never been made clear, but his uninvited arrival in Britain one month before Barbarossa suggests that he, at least, believed he had a cogent argument for the termination of Anglo-German hostilities.
The doctrine therefore had its various sources in the Orient, and although the underlying philosophy of Nazi science is undocumented, it is likely to have been the Hermetic tradition. Hitler was a disciple of the Buddhistic thinker Schopenhauer, and his success stemmed from a profound knowledge of magical causes occasioned by reading Schopenhauer’s treatment of Hermeticism. By this is meant the ancient Trismegistic literature of the Hermetic tradition of which uncontested Egyptian treatises survive and thus for the second time within a few passages we found ourselves confronted by the spectre of Ancient Egypt in connection with National Socialism.
Hermetic science states that each element in matter has as its crystal a unique geometric form. Thus an assayist can recognize any mineral by microscopic examination of its crystal. The experimentalist Sir William Crooks, having spread some fine sand over the head of a drum, sounded different notes above the drumhead with a tuning fork. It was found that the sand shifted and always assumed the same unique geometric figure corresponding to the key sounded. This proved that vibration is the origin of form. All matter, mineral or organic, is merely a molecular structure held together by a keynote, from which one can infer that everything in the material universe is the result of vibration, a fortuitous concourse of atoms. The whole secret of matter is that all form is a mode of motion of the original cosmic energy, found in finer or grosser form on all planes of nature. This was the secret behind the philosophy of Schopenhauer, the guru of Hitler, that the material world is only an illusion and no physical object has any permanent reality. The only reality is the vibration.
Since Adolf Hitler had to suppress the career of a science which did not work for the benefit of humanity becoming God, but for darker, more material purposes, there dawned Aryan Physics.
Aryan Physics (the term is twinned with the expression Jewish Physics which means any scientific procedure not compatible with Aryan doctrine) was a National Socialist doctrine inspired by two German Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Professor Philipp Lenard and Dr Johannes Stark, although the impetus for it is bound to have come from Hitler. In the four volumes of Deutsche Physik published in 1936, Professor Lenard had completed the unenviable task of setting out the doctrine. It was ill-defined and fraught with contradictions. The principal purpose of the two founders was to refute various 20th century developments in sub-atomic science, principally Einstein’s theories of relativity, and also quantum theory, labelling them “a Jewish sedition” and “the outgrowths of an alien mentality”.
In 1927 the German quantum physicist Professor Werner Heisenberg postulated his Uncertainty Principle, a proposition of far-reaching consequence for modern philosophy and science which challenged Einstein’s insistence on a causal, predictable universe. Since quantum mechanics predicts that the sub-atomic world is without independent structure, this contradicts not only Einstein’s theory of relativity but also the Hermetic doctrine, which states that all matter is molecular structure held together by harmonics.
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and quantum mechanics assert the unpredictable and random distribution of nuclear particles. It is claimed that the theory has withstood every test devised for it, but, nevertheless, contrary to the gathering scientific evidence against Einstein’s theories, both systems are even today supposed to be held in equal importance by science. Modern theoretical physicists say that in order to understand the workings of the universe from its inception, relativity theories will ultimately be reconciled with quantum mechanics in the so far elusive unified field theory, but the electron problem (in which the particle goes outside the time-space continuum or range of observation during measurement) makes this unlikely. More probably, in the opinion of many, relativity theory will ultimately have to be discarded.28
Einstein asserted that a three-dimensional continuum plus time is all there is. In the 1920s he pointed out that q
uantum physics appeared to predict that sub-atomic particles communicate with one another instantaneously and regardless of the distance separating them. This implied faster-than-light communication which was prohibited by his theory of relativity, the cardinal principle of which was the dictum that nothing can travel faster than light, since that would imply a number of unacceptable paradoxes such as time travel. In 1982 the physicists Aspect, Dalibard and Roger of the Institute of Optics at the University of Paris proved by experiment that when twin photons emitted from a calcium atom travelled a significant distance apart, and had their angles of polarization – the specific angle of orientation of the light wave – measured simultaneously, their polarizations were always found to be correlated. Einstein had stated years before that, if that were discovered to be the case, he would accept that the two protons had communicated instantaneously. Thus it would seem that the Special theory of relativity cannot stand, and time travel, UFOs from other dimensions “and a host of other paradoxes” are possible.
Much earlier than 1982 Aryan Physics suspected that when Einstein was working on the unified field theory, he realized that relativity could not be accommodated in it, but by then it was impossible for him to admit his earlier error. While dismissing relativity theory altogether, Aryan Physics also refuted quantum physics on the grounds that all unified field theories continued to view space-time in Einstein’s terms. Since Hermetic science accepts other dimensions beyond our own continuum, presumably this, together with the assertion that the sub-atomic world has no independent structure, was what Aryan Physics considered was lacking in quantum theory. Since the war, through optics research and spectral analysis from the Orbiting Solar Observatory, OSO7 of NASA, we have new knowledge concerning the composition and formation of the universe. Vibratory sound fields do exist within the sub-atomic worlds which appear responsible for molecular structures maintaining their specific particle configurations. The implication is that the structure of the universe is based on harmonics.
Before the advent of quantum theory, most physicists accepted a universe that was totally causal. The success of Newton’s physics was due to the apparent laws of causality seeming to exist for virtually every system. Even when prediction was impractical, classical physics still assumed that the system was causal. This mechanistic view was based on the notion that reality is composed of solid objects and empty space, and in the realm of everyday life this is still valid. The refutation of quantum and relativity theories meant the resurrection of Newtonian Physics in Nazi Germany. Inevitably this had its repercussions in the nuclear field, for as Speer explained,29 Hitler “set his face against nuclear physics for doctrinal reasons,” and evidently showed little interest in having his scientists build a nuclear reactor as a power source. The evidence also suggests that he did not want to use the atom bomb. If one can accept the idea that, far from being merely a mob-orator with a limited intellect, Hitler was literate philosophically, even if the results of his beliefs were horrendous, then the assertion of many of his contemporary scientists and military leaders may be true, that decisions in the scientific field were based on his obscure scientific doctrine or communicated to him from another level.
Professor Heisenberg Acts Unwisely
A notable personality to fall foul of Aryan Physics early on was Professor Werner Heisenberg himself. His role as the leading atom physicist in the Third Reich was an equivocal one and this book will not do much to resolve the controversy. Born in Würzburg on 5 December 1901, he was the second son of a University lecturer. During the First World War he volunteered for land service. When a soviet republic was imposed on Bavaria in April 1919 Heisenberg joined many fellow students in supporting the moderate socialists. He served with a cavalry brigade as despatch carrier and lookout.
At Munich in 1923 he obtained a doctorate cum laude in theoretical physics, his aversion to the experimental side of the discipline having let him down. He was still aged 22 when he qualified as a university lecturer. From May 1926 he lectured in the Danish language at Niels Bohr’s Institute in Copenhagen and was called to the Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Leipzig in October 1927. He transformed Leipzig into a leading research centre. One of his pupils there was Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker who would later assist him in his campaign to deflect attention away from a major atom bomb project.
When Einstein’s theories were attacked in an article published by the Völkischer Beobachter in its edition of 26 February 1936, Heisenberg prepared a paper signed by seventy-seven professors of physics, including a number of Party members, expressing his concern to the Reichsminister for Education, Bernhard Rust, at the official policy of discrediting theoretical physics.
The nomination of Heisenberg as the leading candidate to succeed to the vacant Chair at the Faculty of the University of Munich the following year brought the matter to a head and the vehemence of the opposition to him from supporters of Aryan Physics rallying around its founders, Lenard and Stark, became almost hysterical. The swell of protest culminated in an anonymous article entitled White Jews in Science attributed to Johannes Stark which appeared in the SS-journal Das Schwarze Korps in its edition of 15 July 1937.
“Just how secure the White Jews feel themselves to be is demonstrated by the behaviour of the Professor of Theoretical Physics at Leipzig, Professor Werner Heisenberg, who in 1936 managed to smuggle an article into an official party newspaper describing Einstein’s relativity theory as ‘the obvious basis for further research’.”
After a catalogue of complaints alleging a pro-Jewish bias in making appointments the article continued:
“In 1933 Heisenberg received the Nobel Prize at the same time as the Einstein boys, Schroedinger and Dirac – proof of the ways Jews influence the Nobel Committee against National Socialist Germany. Heisenberg paid his own tribute in August 1934 by refusing to sign the Declaration of German Nobel Prize Winners For the Führer and Reichskanzler. His answer was: ‘Although I am personally in favour, political affirmations by scientists seem wrong, since it was never the practice in the past. Therefore I won’t sign.’ This answer identifies the Jewish spirit of its author, who considers the unity of the people and national responsibility of scientists to be improper. Heisenberg is only one example of many. They are all vessels of Jewishness in German intellectual life and must disappear as must the Jews themselves.”
Johannes Stark contributed his opinion in a footnote to the article warning that:
“whilst the influence of the Jewish spirit has been removed from the German Press, literature and art as well as from German jurisprudence, it still has its defenders and protagonists among Aryan associates of Jews and those who have been pupils of Jews. In this situation, the Schwarze Korps renders great service if by virtue of its courageous and important utterances it directs public awareness to the amage to which German intellectual life and the education of its academic youth is being exposed by White Jews.”
Realizing now that he was in serious danger, on 21 July 1937 Heisenberg responded with a letter to SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler requesting a decision on the principle and offering to resign if the view of Herr Stark corresponded with that of the Government,
“But if that is not the case, as I have already been expressly assured by Reich Education Minister Rust, then I request you as SS-Reichsführer to defend me effectively against such attacks in this newspaper.”
During the next twelve months Heisenberg was frequently summoned to hearings in Berlin. These were under the personal direction of Gestapo Chief Reinhard Heydrich. Many interrogations were conducted in the notorious Gestapo prison on the Prinz Albrecht Strasse, from where Heisenberg would return exhausted and distressed. One of the problems confronting the SS inquisition was their uncertainty of the political implications of a science they did not understand. The frightening interviews were attended by an SS physicist, Johannes Juilfs, a former student of Heisenberg, who saw to it that he was not brutally treated.
On 21 July 1938,
exactly a year since his letter, Himmler exonerated Heisenberg:
“I do not approve of the attacks made against you in the Das Schwarze Korps article and I have therefore ensured that there will be no further outbursts against you. However, I consider it right to mention that in future before an audience, you should clearly distance yourself from the human and political identity of the researcher when recognizing scientific research results.”
A scientific nonentity, Müller, acceded to the Munich Chair of Physics, while Heisenberg resumed academic life at the University of Leipzig. The degree of ferocity with which the proponents of Aryan Physics championed their view of science is difficult to comprehend. Not even Ministers were exempted from attack. Soon after taking over the Armaments Ministry in February 1942, Albert Speer found his attempts to promote atomic physics research, by which he presumably meant the development of the atom bomb, met by a “rubber wall”.30 On one such occasion he was astonished to encounter strident opposition in the Party daily Völkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of which Adolf Hitler himself was the owner. The editorial railed against him in an article entitled Jewish Physics Stirs Again! Speer also found it easy to incur the Führer’s wrath in even mentioning the atom bomb, which Hitler privately described to him as “the spawn of Jewish pseudo-science”.
The Discovery of Neutrons and Nuclear Fission in Uranium
Many scientists assert that the age of nuclear physics began in 1932. On 17 February that year the scientific periodical Nature published an article by the British researcher James Chadwick in which he announced the discovery of the neutron. It was released when alpha-radiation from a radium source penetrated a beryllium atom. The neutrons ejected from the beryllium had no electrical charge and this enabled them to penetrate close to the nucleus of the atom of many other substances tested. This was a new means of splitting the atom, but for the time being at least there was no prospect that the neutron might be used for the production of energy. Nevertheless the discovery was the foundation for the new science of nuclear chemistry and every atom from hydrogen to uranium now came in for experiment in laboratories worldwide.
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