Pynchon's RC Sources

[Doug Millison]

A great deal has been written about the "religion" of Nazism -- Nicholas
Goodricke-Clark calls it a "pseudo-religion" in his very interesting book
The Occult Roots of Nazism (which traces the influences of the Ariosophists
on Nazi ideology). I'm waiting for the PhD dissertation that shows how
Pynchon works much of that same turn of the century stuff that came together
to create Nazism into his novels.  

Michel Ryckx 
 One could easily qualify the Nazi Party meetings in Nuerenberg as having a
religious character; or the massive May 1st in Moscou --and they were
intended to be that way.