Ectoplasm

[Jan Klimkowski]

Had a coupla queries on the nature and source of that ectoplasm -   
amusing, but not really to the point. Which, IMHO, is briefly as follows:

The Nazi state was led by a bunch of wackos with unlimited power, money   
and hubris.  The entire paraphernalia of Nazism is occult, from the SS   
symbol to the Swastika, and the thinking is occult racist-eugenic right   
down to the Blicerian sexuality.

Hitler dedicated "Mein Kampf" to Dietrich Eckart - mentioned in my   
earlier ectoplasmic post - and once called him "my John the Baptiser".   
 Indeed, shortly before his death in 1923, Eckart wrote to a friend:
"Follow Hitler! He will dance, but it will be to my tune. We have given   
him
the means to maintain contact with them [meaning the Masters of the Other   
World]. Don't grieve for me for I have influenced history more than any   
other German"

Other key occult influences on Uncle Adolf were Guido von List   
(1848-1919), whose Wotanist obsessions are responsible for all those damn   
Nazi runes, and Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels (1874-1954), whom Hitler first   
met in Vienna in 1909.    Lanz wrote: "Hitler is one of our pupils...   
through him we will one day be victorious and develop a movement that   
makes the world tremble".

Interestingly, Hitler banned Lanz's writings in 1933.  Had he really   
rejected his former mentors?  Or did he decide the, ahem, intellectual   
roots of Mein Kampf were better buried in a trench somewhere?

Certainly, much of the occultist agenda was achieved by the Nazis.  For   
instance, in the occult journal "Ostara", Lanz proposed that   
'unsatisfactory' racial types be eliminated by abortion, sterilization,   
starvation, forced labor and other means. He also recommended Aryan   
breeding farms where a master race, destined to control the world, could   
be hatched. Of course, the Nazis went on to give us the Aryan breeding   
colonies of Lebensborn - the details of which have never been properly   
historically documented.

The Nazi seances so wonderfully described by Pynchon are poetic   
reworkings of a piece of real history.  Sure, Nazis still think like   
Nazis when They enter the Other World, but where did They learn to think   
like Nazis in the first place, heh-heh....

Paranoically yours
jan