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Invisible Eagle
By
Alan Baker
The History of Nazi Occultism
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Search for a Map of Hell
1
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Ancestry, Blood and Nature
- The Mystical Origins of National Socialism
2
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Fantastic Prehistory
- The Lost Aryan Homeland
3
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A Hideous Strength
- The Vril Society
4
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The Phantom Kingdom
- The Nazi-Tibet Connection
5
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Talisman of Conquest
- The Spear of Longinus
6
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Ordinary Madness
- Heinrich Himmler and the SS
7
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The Secret at the Heart of the World
- Nazi Cosmology and Belief in the Hollow Earth
8
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The Cloud Reich
- Nazi Flying Discs
9
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Invisible Eagle
- Rumours of Nazi Survival to the Present
Conclusion
: The Myth machine - The Reality and Fantasy of Nazi Occultism
Notes
Bibliography and suggested further reading
Index
“The historian may be rational, but history is not”.
- Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier
‘I’m a sceptic.’
‘No, you’re only incredulous, a doubter, and that’s different.’
- Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
Acknowledgements
Grateful acknowledgement is given for permission to quote from the following previously
published material:
The Coming Race by E. G. E. Bulwer Lytton, published by Sutton Publishing, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, 1995.
Arktos The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival by Joscelyn Godwin, published
by Thames and Hudson, London, 1993.
The Occult Roots of Nazism by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, published by I. B. Tauris & Co., London,
1985.
Extract from PROJEKT UFO © 1995 W. A. Harbinson. First published by Boxtree Ltd and
reprinted with permission from the author.
Trevor Ravenscroft: The Spear of Destiny (York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1982). Material used
by permission.
The Secret Doctrine by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, published by Theosophical University Press,
Pasadena, California, 1999.
Psychic Dictatorship in the USA by Alex Constantine, published by Feral House, 2532 Lincoln
Blvd. #359, Venice, CA 90291.
The Making of Adolf Hitler The Birth and Rise of Nazism by Eugene Davidson, published by
University of Missouri Press, 1997.
Casebook on Alternative 3 by Jim Keith, published by IllumiNet Press, Lilburn, Georgia, 1994.
Shambhala by Nicholas Roerich, published by the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, 1978.
The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper, published by Macmillan, London, 1995.
Explaining Hitler The Search For the Origins of His Evil by Ron Rosenbaum, published by
Papermac, London, 1999.
The Face of the Third Reich by Joachim C. Fest, first published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson,
1970.
Hitler and the Occult by Ken Anderson, published by Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York,
1995.
While every effort has been made to contact copyright holders for permission to use other
lengthy quotes, this has not proved possible in all cases. Should these copyright holders wish to
contact the publisher, appropriate credit will be given in future editions.
Many thanks also to my agent, Julian Alexander, for his indispensable help and advice over the
past two and a half years; and to my editors at Virgin Publishing, Lorna Russell, who got the
book commissioned, and Kerri Sharp, who made its journey to publication a pleasure.
Introduction: Search for a Map of Hell
This book is concerned with one of the most controversial notions of the late twentieth century,
one that is so bizarre and appalling in its implications that serious historians have consistently
dismissed it as the worst kind of nonsense.
Put simply, the notion is this: that the shocking nightmare of Nazism and the destruction it
wrought throughout the world were the result of an attempt by Hitler and his cohorts to contact
and enlist the aid of supernatural forces in their bid for domination of the planet.
Upon reading this, older readers may be put in mind of the lurid but enjoyable occult thrillers of
Dennis Wheatley, such as Strange Conflict, which deals with Nazi magical practices in a highly
sensational way, and may dismiss the idea for that reason. Other readers may well pause to
consider the hideous excesses practised by the Nazis and be dismayed that the defining tragedy
of the twentieth century should be trivialised by such an idea.
There is no doubt that the subject of the Third Reich inspires a deep and abiding fascination to
this day, with the origin of the awful cruelties perpetrated in its name still the subject of intense
debate.
Ever since Hitler’s death in the Fuhrerbunker in 1945, historians, psychologists and theologians
have attempted to understand and explain the frightful aberration that was Nazism. One of the
foci around which discussion of Hitler moves is the question of where he stands in the spectrum
of human nature.
As the journalist Ron Rosenbaum notes, the very existence of this spectrum suggests an
extremely uncomfortable question: ‘Is Hitler on a continuum with previous and successive mass
murderers, explicable within the same framework, on the extreme end of the same spectrum of
the human nature we supposedly share with Jeffrey Dahmer and Mahatma Gandhi?” Or is he
something else entirely, existing outside the continuum of humanity, evil in some absolute,
ultimate way?
The theologian Emil Fackenheim believes that such was the magnitude of Hitler’s crimes that we
must consider him as representing a ‘radical evil’, an ‘eruption of demonism into history’.
(2) Hitler’s evil is seen by thinkers like Fackenheim as existing beyond the bounds of ordinary
human behaviour (however appalling). Indeed, to them it is so extreme that it transcends the
field of behavioural science and enters the realm of theology: in other words, Hitler’s ultimate
nature can only be completely understood by God.
The industrialised mass murder perpetrated by the Nazis resonated irresistibly through the latter
half of the twentieth century, and is certainly the principal contributing factor to what the British
historian Norman Davies calls ‘a demonological fascination with Germany’.
In summarising the historiography of the Western Powers, Davies states: ‘Germany stands
condemned as the prime source both of the malignant imperialism which produced the First
World War, and of the virulent brand of fascism which provoked the Second.’
(3) In the post-war years, this contributed to the ‘Allied scheme of history’ in which the West
presented (and still presents) itself as the pinnacle of civilisation, morality and altruism. While the
numerous reasons why this is far from the truth lie beyond the scope of this book, the attitudes
that have accompanied the Allied scheme are of extreme importance with regard to our
continuing fascination with the Nazis. Davies writes of ‘The ideology of “anti-fascism”, in which
the Second World War of 1939-45 is perceived as “the War against Fascism” and as the defining
event in the triumph of Good over Evil.’ (4) It is easy to understand, therefore, how such defining
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