This ‘White Lodge’ is the same group of hidden masters described by Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society and the German Thule Society from which many leading Nazis came. The Prussian Freemasons claimed that these World Wise Men were none other than the Carpocratians, a group of Christ’s disciples to whom he communicated a secret science, transmitted afterwards to the Templars and thence via Scotland to the Swedish Rite Freemasons… They were also traditionally endowed with the mastery of a mysterious power drawn from the Earth — Vril.12
We note then that the idea of continuity with an ancient elite was very much a part of the Masonic tradition,13 particularly in Prussia.
The peculiar connection with the Earth grid, however, is manifest in the fact that the Freemasons of Frederick the Great’s Prussia claimed this hidden elite had the mastery of the Vril energy drawn from the Earth. These ideas of a continuity with an ancient elite, and of Vril or Earth energy force became cardinal principles of the ideology of the Thulegesellschaft, the Thule Society, one of the secret fraternities that helped to midwife the Nazi Party into existence.
The Thule society believed that by harnessing this force they could raise Germany to an unassailable position of world domination. By 1919, the Thule Society (which had been founded in 1912) had become a rallying-point for Bavarian mystical anti-Semites. Anton Drexler, original leader of the German Workers’ Party, was a member. So was Rudolf Hess, soon to become Hitler’s right-hand man, as was Alfred Rosenberg, future philosopher of National Socialism. This society claimed to be the instrument of the legendary ‘Secret Chiefs’ of Tibet — descendants of the survivors of Atlantis living somewhere in the remote Himalayas.14
These hidden masters the Thule Society — like so many other fraternities that claimed such continuity with an ancient elite — identified with the “white Lodge” or “White Brotherhood,”15 never bothering to consider the other assertion of esoteric tradition: that there was a black Lodge or “Brotherhood” or elite as well, and that they might be in continuity with something whose agendas and moral compass were quite different than what was assumed of the “White” lodges from which they claimed descent.
In any case, by asserting their claims to mastery over the Earth grid, the early twentieth century German occultists could draw on a wide tradition of English and German Earth grid research. Alfred Watkins had already published his now famous study of the grid system of England, The Old Straight Track, and the famous astronomer, Sir Norman Lockyear, had extended the idea to include astronomical alignments of many ancient sites, including Stonehenge and the Egyptian temples in his books Stonehenge and The Dawn of Astronomy.
Not to be outdone, the Germans Josef Heinsch and Wilhelm Teudt published similar works concerning the grid system in Central and Western Europe and the layout of churches and monasteries over older sacred pagan sites. Studying Stonehenge, Heinsch discovered other alignments overlooked by Lockyear, and extended his observations to include all of Central Europe and its ancient sites, i.e., Germany.16
In 1933, excavations at the Choir in Xanten Cathedral in the Rhineland revealed an ancient geometrical mosaic pavement, Heinsch was called in to examine it. In form, it was a square crisscrossed with lines and diagonals. Heinsch measured its angle of orientation and found it to be the same as that of the Avenue atStonehenge — a misummer sunrise alignment. Its form echoed the ancient cosmic diagrams of the Chinese, Mexican, and Norse cosmology. Testing the pattern on a map of the district, he noticed that the lines of this cosmographic mosaic correspondence with the placement of the churches in the district. From this startling discovery, Heinsch was able to detect a major north-south axis on the Lower Rhine just like those studied in England by Duke, Bennett and Lockyear. He now had the key to the sacred geography of Europe.17
This, of course, was tailor-made to fit the esoteric beliefs of the Thule Society and the Nazis, who had assumed power that same year.
Sir Norman Lockyear’s Simple Triangulation of Locations Around Stonehenge18
Heinsch’s Survey of the Grid System Around Stonehenge19
Heinsch’s Grid Lines at Stonehenge20
Heinsch’s associate Gerlach21 extended this system into a ley line system covering the whole of Central Europe, i.e., Germany and southern Scandinavia, based on the placement of churches in the area.
Gerlach’s System of Alignments in Central Europe22
All of this work on the Earth grid by Heinsch, Teudt, and Gerlach, let it be noted, was being done in Germany in the period immediately prior to, and after, the Nazi assumption of power, which leads to the logical question: what exactly did the Nazis do with it?
With that question, the plot thickens considerably, though the clues are still enshrouded in mystery, leaving researchers to piece them together.
One clue lies in the outright esoteric nature of Nazi practice, a practice that can only be qualified as “geopolitical geomancy.” As the Wehrmacht swept across Europe and smaller nations fell either to outright occupation, or were pressured into alliances with the Third Reich, the SS, behind the scenes, was quietly “collecting” all manner of things. Coupled with this activity, the Gestapo infiltrated secret fraternities, from the Freemasons to the Rosicrucians, and prepared lengthy dossiers on all of them, since they claimed “to possess certain universal secrets which Himmler felt could be put to better us by the SS.”23 The interest of these societies in Jewish Qabalistic esotericism was even held to be “a threat to state security” and “to Nazi magic itself.”24 This “magic” disclosed itself in two ways, the first being the collection of regalia:
In order to consolidate his position as future Emperor of Europe, Hitler became an inveterate collector of regalia. At first, the regalia he presented himself were only replicas, but after the war began in earnest, he appropriated the authentic articles. In 1934, he obtained copies of the crown, orb, and sceptre that had been the imperial insignia of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne. Although he had made this odd gesture on behalf of the German people — “I accept these into my keeping on behalf of the glorious Fatherland” — it is an indication that he actually saw himself in the role of Kaiser of the Third Reich. As the deposed Kaiser Wilhelm II was still alive at the time, it would not have been politic for him to proclaim himself Kaiser, but, had he won the war, it is likely that Kaiser Adolf I would have been crowned at the World’s Fair and victory celebrations planned for Berlin in 1950.
As his conquests proceeded, Hitler continued to accumulate the trappings of sacral kingship. Six months after the Anschluss of Germany with Austria, Mayor Liebel of Nuremburg presented Hitler with more replica regalia, this time of a more overtly occult nature. When Hitler had re-entered his native land as its master in 1938, he had shown an inordinate interest in certain jewels among the Hapsburg regalia. These were the pieces made for the fifteenth century German King Frederick III. Frederick had been a lapidarian as well as an astrologer and alchemist, and, like Hitler, and many Kaisers before and since, had cherished notions of the conquest of other nations. Although Frederick III had failed in his dreams of megalomaniac grandeur, the gold settings of this collection of mystic gems were inscribed with the letters AEIOU. When Hitler was told that this cipher meant Austria Est Imperare Orbi Universo — it is for Austria to rule the whole world — he saw it as an omen for his dreams of the Greater Reich. So before the next Nuremberg Rally, the mayor presented Hitler with facsimile copies of these pieces.
When the war began, Hitler the occultist realized that he needed the real thing, so he personally took possession of all the regalia of the countries that the German Army overran. From Vienna they looted the coronation regalia of the Holy Roman Empire from the Imperial Treasure Room. This wealth included the jeweled crown of the Emperor Conrad, a magic shield, two swords and an orb. These was also the famed Spear of Destiny… Although the regalia had been kept in Vienna since 1804, the Nazis discovered a fifteenth century decreee by the Emperor Sigismund that they should be kept at Nuremberg… From Prague, the
regalia of the ancient Bohemian kings disappeared into Germany, and from the bombed ruins of Warsaw Castle disappeared the Polish royal treasures.
In appropriating these regalia, Hitler continued the ancient magical tradition of conquerors taking away relics of national power as symbols of their victories, for possession of the emblems of rule is traditionally believed to ensure the continuance of that power. The Emperor Napoleon I took the emblems of sovereignty from his subject nations, and the practice was continued in the British Empire. The magical jewel of the Sikhs, the Koh-i-Noor diamond, whose name means Mountain of Light — was taken from India to grace the symbols of British monarchy.25
It is important to understand that this activity was not merely understood by Hitler as the mere exercise of the rightful possession of the victor over the treasures of the vanquished.
Something more was involved:
The ancient tradition of the divinity of kings also applied to their regalia, which were not merely symbols but actually instruments of a magical technology. By appropriating the regalia of subject nations, he believed that the magical powers of rulership inherent in the symbols would be transferred to him.26
This belief in the divinity of Kings and the special powers inherent in their symbols of authority goes back, of course, to ancient Mesopotamia, and to The Cosmic War that was fought over the possession of the Tablets of Destinies.27
While this is not the place to review extensively the beliefs of the ancient Mesopotamian cultures, it is to be noted that two things about those beliefs would have immediately caught the Nazis’ attention: (1) the belief that the ancient kings were chimerical human- divine offspring of a mingling with “the gods,” a belief well in keeping with the Thule Society’s belief that the Aryans originated from “Atlantis” and ultimately, off this planet entirely, and (2) the belief that the Tablets of Destinies and their magical powers showed all the signs of being a lost high technology.
All this breathtaking Nazi “regalia collecting” was accompanied by an even more sinister activity: actual geomancy. As we shall see in subsequent pages, the buildings and temples on sacred sites, sites whose locations were themselves determined by arcane methods,
were specifically designed to channel and enhance those (Earth) energies to the exclusive use of the priesthood that owned then, for to possess these sites was to have control of the ‘psychic body’ of the whole country. In ancient times, the sacred layout of the country was held to be essential for the well-being of the fields, the flocks, and mankind, so the government of a nation depended upon control over the country’s geomancy.28
The origin of this Nazi interest in geopolitical geomancy was most likely Hitler’s geopolitics guru, General Karl Haushofer, head of the Institut für Geopolitik at the University of Munich, and university mentor to Hitler’s first deputy, Nazi Party Reichsleiter and occultist Rudolf Hess.
Hess, in command of the Nazi Party’s own intelligence gathering organ, the People’s Organization for Germans Living Abroad, or the so-called Auslands division, placed his mentor Haushofer at the head of this organization. In this twin role of the head of the premier geopolitical institution in the world as well as having access to the party’s own considerable intelligence organization, Haushofer conceived of his grand geopolitical scheme. “His was the head which conceived of the plan by which Germany was to conquer the world.”29 A veteran of the Kaiser’s General Staff, Haushofer was a military attaché to Germany’s embassies in the Orient including a stint as the military attaché to the German Embassy in Tokyo. There, he learned Japanese and “became initiated into one of the most arcane Buddhist secret societies.”30
But that was not all there was to the general. While in Japan he came to believe
that the Germanic race had originated in Central Asia, and that, in order to preserve German superiority for ever, the Reich should expand to the east. This expansion should not only include Eastern Europe, argued Haushofer, but should encompass the Ukraine and Russia, Turkestan, Iran, Mount Pamir, the Gobi and Tibet.31
The reason for this modern-day expansion of the Teutonic Knights’ Drang nach Osten was for more than just Lebensraum, an idea that also originated with Haushofer, but also because Tibet and Iran were also “places of great importance in sacred geography…”32
This occult influence underpinned the massive research Haushofer’s Institut für Geopolitik undertook.
He had long believed that Germany would give birth to a leader who would rule the earth; and astrological predictions had convinced him that this leader would accomplish his mission in an alliance with Japan. He often had premonitions, upon which he acted. He convinced Hitler that the Institut(sic) must find out everything about its enemies: strengths, weaknesses, impending famine, religious sensibilities, the personalities and tastes of officials, the morals and corruptibility of even minor bureaucrats, the views of opinion makers. To collate, sift through, and interpret all this material on every country in the world, Haushofer enlisted a staff of more than a thousand students, historians, economists, statisticians, military strategists, psychologists, meteorologists, physicists, geographers, and other specialists, working in Germany and abroad.
The researches apparently paid off. When, in 1938, the General Staff was worried that France would mobilize if Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, Haushofer assured them that it neither could nor would. He turned out to be right. He argued that Poland could be conquered in eighteen days. The military disagreed. They feared their armored trucks would bog down in the Polish mud. Haushofer said it was not likely to rain. It did not. The General Staff didn’t believe Germany should invade Norway. Haushofer prophesied that it would be easy. The military wanted to invade France when war first started. Haushofer urged that they wait until German propaganda had made its full impact on the people. He also dictated when the campaigns in Africa and the Balkans would begin. It was his idea that the Nazis make temporary friends with Russia, despite widespread anxiety about collaborating with the Communists. He wooed Latin America for its usefulness against America.33
It is to be noted that among the types of experts that Haushofer gathered in his geopolitical institute were physicists, strongly suggesting that the Nazis knew there was something deeper to ancient geomancy than just peculiar alignments of structures on an astronomical grid. In short — and it is a crucial point to comprehend — Haushofer was attempting, and in a great measure succeeded, in bringing scientific rationalizations to ancient geomancy, transforming it into the modern “science” of geopolitics, a geopolitics that had something to do with physics. There are other clues suggesting this fact, and we shall return to them momentarily.
General Karl Haushofer, Mentor to Nazi Party Leader Rudolf Hess, and Geopolitical Guru of Adolf Hitler
The upshot of Haushofer’s geopolitics, however, and of the Nazis’ more generalized interest in all manner of claimed occult “powers,” was that they were searching for modern scientific rationalizations of ancient legends and lore, and by finding such rationalizations, were attempting to restore lost technologies of power:
…Nazi occultists were deeply interested in all obscure manuscripts. They carefully 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…
… (The) whole science of geomancy finally became an essential magical tool in the conquest of Europe.34
Thus, the “lines of force” which German grid researchers had uncovered in Central and Western Europe were understood by the Nazis as tools to be “used as lines of conquest.”35
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p; But why would Haushofer’s geopolitical institute employ — amid its grab bag of meteorologists, geographers, psychologists, strategists and other specialists — physicists?
C. A Deeper Physics?
1. Ashlars and Engineering
The answer to that question brings us more directly into contact with the Earth grid, and the mysterious energies that may inadvertently have been tapped in the thermonuclear theurgy of those first h-bomb tests. In bringing down the thermonuclear fire of the gods-stars to the surface of the Earth, the scientists and engineers involved in designing and testing those devices were in fact engaged in a very ancient undertaking: alchemical architecture.
The conception of “alchemical architecture” — an architecture deliberately employing sacred geometries and numerology in an attempt to bring down to Earth the transforming powers of the heavens — is an old conception, and forms one of the pillars, pun intended, of Freemasonry. Those “transforming powers” however, are both of a purely physical, but also a purely spiritual and social, nature, and the two, as we shall see throughout this book, are closely connected in the ancient mind by what it considered to be the underlying physics of the medium.
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