-Caveat Lector-
FWIW, I've run across a story about one of the "retreats" at the Wewelsburg
called by Himmler for his twelve SS-Gruppenf�hrer (generals), including, of
course, Heydrich. (That there were twelve of them was not a coincidence;
Himmler deliberately invoked the image of the Knights of the Round Table.)
Each man was assigned a room (identified by a medieval knight's heraldic
shield, probably drawn from the Arthurian legends), where he was supposed to
meditate on the classics of German literature, such as *Das Niebelungenlied*
or *Parzival*. And most of them duly, if awkwardly, did just that. Heydrich,
however, did not. Defying Himmler's instructions, he had packed a bottle of
Schnapps, several packs of cigarettes, and a detective novel, and while his
colleagues were contemplating such figures as Siegfried and Klingsor,
Heydrich stretched out comfortably with the latest "Krimi."
Himmler and Heydrich were merely two sides of the same coin. Himmler
believed in the occult, as did many of the Nazi Reichsleiter; Heydrich did
not believe in anything except Heydrich, a belief system shared by quite a
few of the Nazi elite. When Heydrich banned all occult groups and practices,
his objective was to focus the attention of the masses entirely on the
person of Adolf Hitler and the institution of the NSDAP. Himmler's seances
were *not* public affairs; they were intended to raise supernatural power
for the benefit specifically of the SS and particularly its Reichsf�hrer,
Heinrich Himmler. Both Himmler and Heydrich were concerned solely with
power, however that might manifest itself. That Heydrich was a thoroughgoing
cynic (as befitted a Nazi leader who may well have been part Jewish) and
Himmler was a complete, even credulous, believer, becomes essentially
irrelevant in considering their respective roles in the history of the Third
Reich. What matters is the way they exercised their very considerable power,
and the way they increased that power by manipulating the structure and the
symbols of the Nazi state.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 12:00 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [CTRL] Crowley & Freemasonry
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> In a message dated 11/17/99 1:29:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > The Nazi attitude toward the occult was contradictory and paradoxical,
> as
> > was everything associated with the Third Reich. When Reinhard Heydrich
> was
> > named to head the Sicherheitsdienst (SD, the SS Security Service) in
> 1935,
> > his first act was to ban every form of popular and elite occultism,
> from
> > Tarot card readers to the Thule-Gesellschaft. At the same time,
> however,
> the
> > SS itself was promulgating its own highly esoteric occultism, centered
> on
> > the Wewelsburg in Westphalia in the heart of Nibelung country. There,
> > Himmler gathered his generals for meditation and seances, seeking to
> raise
> > the shades of the heroes of Germany's past... It seems that the Nazis
> were
> > not so much outlawing superstition and fakery when they banned
> occultism,
> as
> > they were eliminating actual or potential rivals (such as Rudolph
> Steiner's
> > Anthroposophy).
>
> Truly this is the difference in form from Heydrich and Himmler. Himmler
> "seems" to have been much more inclined towards hedging his bets on
> occultism
> and was much more credible in these matters than Heydrich who was a
> pragmatic
> materialist (at least so far as we know). It is probably a really good
> thing
> that Heydrich was offed and Himmler was the main man because the war would
> have been worse. Incidentally I don't buy the British offing of Heydrich
> story, and attribute his death to more of a mystery, perhaps with Himmler
> behind it or other members of the Nazi party.
>
>
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