The Occult and the Third Reich: The Mystical Origins of Nazism and the Search for the Holy Grail

by Jean-Michel Angebert

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THE NAZI NIGHTMARE - THE LAST BUT NOT THE FINAL ACT"The Occult and the Third Reich marks a giant step forward in Hitler scholarship. It is the first work to demonstrate that the Nazi cosmology was an intricate synthesis of the occult, nurtured by an ancient neo-Paganism... The ability of neo-Paganism to militantly reaffirm itself and contest with Christianity for men's minds and bodies tells us that the Nazi nightmare is only the last, but not the final act in a larger human tragedy still show more being played out... The authors are doubtless right in predicting that certain practitioners of the black arts will yet play a major role in determining the shape of a not-too-distant future."-Lewis A. M. SumbergJEAN-MICHEL ANGEBERT is the joint signature of Michel Bertrand and Jean Angelini, two French scholars who have extensively researched the role of mystical cults in European history. Their fields of specialization include regional history, law, political science, and the history of religions.LEWIS A. M. SUMBERG, the translator, holds his doctorate in French medievel history and literature from the University of Paris. A professor and consultant to the Office of Educational Planning at the University of Tennessee, his publications range from literary criticism to the history of the Crusades. show less

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Adquirido em 05/09/1992 - Bienal do Livro. Edição Portuguesa
HITLER Y LA TRADICIÓN CATARA

En Berlín, este 30 de abril de 1945, los jardines de la Cancillería
han adquirido un aspecto lunar: la ciudad se ha convertido
en la Sodoma o la Gomorra del siglo xx.

A ocho metros bajo la superficie del suelo, dentro del bunker del
Führer, se oculta la araña en el centro de su tela. Seguido por
Goebbels y su ayudante de campo, Adolf Hitler profetiza: «Ya lo
veréis. Los rusos sufrirán la mayor y más sangrienta derrota de
su Historia ante las puertas de Berlín.»

Pero Goebbels, que tres meses antes proclamaba: "Si tenemos
que desaparecer, toda la Tierra temblará», repetía este día a todo
aquel que quería escucharle: «Esta no es solamente la derrota
militar del III Reich; es toda una concepción del mundo show more lo que
se desploma"

Veinticinco años después de esta declaración, queda planteada
una pregunta: Cuál era, pues, esta nueva concepción del mundo?
Cuál era, para emplear una expresión alemana, esta Weltanschauung
que la Alemania nacionalsocialista quería expandir por
toda la Tierra?

Sigue desconociéndose sobre qué concepción del hombre descansa
el nazismo (al menos, en el espíritu de sus guías espirituales); a lo
sumo, se creía poder buscar en una cierta Logia del
Vril (emanación de la Rosacruz) y en la personalidad de Karl
Haushoffer, los balbuceos de la Weltanschauung hitleriana. En
esta dirección trabajaron autores como Louis Pauwels y Jacques
Bergier en su célebre obra El retorno de los brujos*

No obstante, Bergier y Pauwels cometieron un error de filiación
en la tradición a la cual vinculaban el nazismo: es cierto
que en esta tradición existía, de hecho, una corriente oriental,
pero ésta ha venido a incorporarse a una corriente principal...
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1971; 1972 (1st Spanish ed.) (1st Spanish ed.); 1974 (1st American ed.) (1st American ed.)
First words
Berlin, April 30, 1945. The Chancery gardens are like a moonscape; the city has become the Sodom and Gomorrah of the Twentieth Century.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In anticipation of this event, a watchful guard made up of the faithful of the Black Order maintain their vigil all about the mountain, to receive the "Supreme Revelation."

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Nonfiction, History, Religion & Spirituality
DDC/MDS
135.4Philosophy and PsychologyParapsychology & occultismDreams and mysteriesRosicrucianism, Hermetism, cabala
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DD247 .H5 .A81713History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaGermanyHistory of GermanyHistoryBy periodModern, 1519-19th-20th centuriesRevolution and Republic, 1918-
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