Giant Paranoids indeed....

[Jan Klimkowski]

Whilst we're on the subject of the materialization of paranoia, I ran across 
the following in Michael Howard's "The Occult Conspiracy":

"In 1918 the Thule Society had over 250 members in Munich and nearly 1500 
members scattered across the Bavarian countryside....  Among its leading 
members were Franz Gurtner, the Bavarian Minister of Justice, who later held 
the same position in the Nazi regime; Pohner, the police commissioner of 
Munich; and Wilhelm Frick, the assistant police chief who became the 
Minister of the Interior in the Third Reich.  Another leading member of the 
Thulists was an occultist called Deitrich Eckart who held seances with two 
White Russian emigres.  Eckart was associated with a White Russian printing 
house which produced an anti-Communist newspaper specializing in stories 
alleging that the Jews had financed the Bolshevik revolution.

"At the occult seances organized by Eckart, the medium was a peasant woman 
who allegedly manifested ectoplasm from her vagina.  This ectoplasmic 
substance formed into human shapes representing long-dead spirits.  While 
she was in trance the medium spoke in foreign languages and predicted the 
rise of a messiah who would lead Germany to victory and world domination. 
 Dead members of the Thule Society materialized at these seances, including 
Prince von Thum und Taxis who had been murdered in early 1919 by the 
Communists.  The Prince had been a member of the Order of Bavarian Mystics 
which claimed descent from the Illuminati."

And later:

"The Communists were well aware of the Thule Society's political activities 
by this time.  In the April 1919 coup, Communist militia raided the 
Society's headquarters in Munich.  Several leading Thulists were taken 
hostage and later shot dead, including Prince von Thum und Taxis and several 
titled aristocrats.  When the hostages were shot, the Thulists organised a 
citizens' army against the Communists and on 1 May troops loyal to the 
counter-revolution entered Munich and regainded control of the city."

Interesting spelling...
jan