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William Hugh Tunstall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Anyone who has studied Nazism (and their offshoot here in the
> US, namely, the Christian Identity movement) cannot help but be aware of
> the centrality of the issue of blood. It has any number of different
> mystical and horrific associations, from the Horst Wessel song (...Jewish
> blood will flow...) to Wagner's Parsifal (..search for the Grail)--not to
> mention "the Spear of Destiny."
>
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Actually, Christian Identity is an offshoot of British Israelism, which, as
we've seen here on CTRL, appears to have been engineered by British
Intelligence. Another offshoot of British Israel is the Pentecostal movement,
of which, among many others, Pat Robertson is part.
The symbolism of blood, of course, is found universally, in every human
society and the vast majority of world religions. In Christianity, as
evangelical Christians are fond of pointing out, THE central belief is that
*by his death on Calvary*, Jesus atoned for our sins (although just what
constitutes "our" depends on one's particular theological inclination); the
atonement is confirmed and validated by the Resurrection. One of the most
striking, and in some ways most mysterious, aspects of the Crucifixion is the
piercing of Jesus' side by the Roman soldier, which produces a flow of blood
and water. In some traditions, the Roman was named Longinus, and occult power
is often attributed to the spearhead claimed to be the one used to pierce
Jesus' side.
(This, of course, is Trevor Ravenscroft's "Spear of Destiny", which he claims
is part of the Imperial Regalia kept in Vienna. As it happens, there are
something like five or six spearheads claimed to have belonged to Longinus
scattered across Europe. The one in Vienna, in any event, is clearly too late
in design to have been Roman.)
As many theologians interpret it, this shedding of blood represents the true
sacrifice of Jesus Christ, based on the biblical requirement of live offerings
in the Temple to atone for one's sin: thus "there is no remission of sin
without the shedding of blood."
There are many examples of saint's blood which has been "miraculously"
preserved in assorted Catholic and Orthodox churches, cathedrals, and
monasteries; whether these are genuine miracles is a matter of considerable
question, of course, but the fact remains that Christianity has traditionally
placed great stock in the salvific power of blood.
Exactly what the Nazis believed in their innermost circles may never be known
with certainty. However, it is definitely the case that in public they played
strongly on the symbolism of blood, from the blood-red banner (borrowed in
part from the Communists) to the blood sacrifices of the "hero" (and pimp!)
Horst Wessel and the "martyrs" of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. And they
meticulously recorded the *true* "blood sacrifices" of the Jews, Communists,
Gypsies, homosexuals, and other *Untermenschen* who died in the concentration
camps or at the hands of SS *Sonderkommandos*.
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