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Nordic Race
The Nordicists' went further then preceding race-theoriests like Arthur de Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Starting with de Lapouge, they confined the .. (Lutzhöft, p. 84)

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Nazism and Occultism
This ist imporant for two reasons: First, outside academic history, there is a vast modern Mythology of Nazi occultism. For historians focussing on "concrete events, causes and rational purposes" this is indeed of little interest, but teledocumantaries like Hitler and the Occult are watched by many people, and while they have not been shown to be factually wrong, they have been stronlgy critized for a style of presentation which suggests that Hitler and the Nazis possesed magical or occult powers. After he has written that such documentaries make Hitler appear "as an evil wizard spellbinding an unwitting German people to become his zombified servants", Mattias Gardell polemizes in Gods of the Blood: “How convenient it would be if that was correct. National socialism could be defeated with garlic."

Nazi occultism
Nazi occultism

Nazi occultism denotes an occult undercurrent of Nazism, a popular theme in modern cryptohistory and documentaries.

Goodrick-Clarke describes Ariosophy as 'occult'. He traces the influences the Ariosophie might have had on Nazism. Mainly the case of Willigut, but the possibility of a contact between Lanz von Liebenfels and Hitler and the Thule Society also need to be looked at. but he does not

Thule Society

The Thule Society was an ariosphic lodge in Munich in the years 1918-1923.

The Thule Society during the Bavarian Revolution
assasination of Kurt Eisner by Count Arvo auf Valley, "a young jew resentful at his exclusion from the Thule who wished to prove his nationalist commitment." A coalition government was established by the Social Democrat Johannes Hoffmann, but this government was forced to flee to Bamberg in early April. Soviet Republics were proclaimed on the 6 and the 13 April. hostages Apparantely Sebottendorf was blamed by other members for the lost of the membership list to the reds.

Introduction

An explanation of Nazism in terms of the occult is put forward by an abundant modern mythology of Nazi occultism.

Still, there is a justification for the use of the term Nazi occultism. Although religious scientists generally prefere the term esotericism (as occultism might be considered pejorative), the historian Goodrick-Clarke has

Apparantly "tempted into an exciting field of intellectual history" he has written The occult roots of Nazism, which is the most important work on this topic and the major reference of this article. This book uses the term occult (instead of esoteric) to describe the Ariosophy-ariosophic groups in Germay and Austria between 1890 and 1930.

The modern mythology of Nazi occultism:

Whereas Goodrick-Clarke focusses on the literature... Gardell

Ariosophy
The term Ariosophy is an anglization of the German word 'Ariosophie', consisting in German of the particles 'Arier' (German for aryan) and sophos (greek for wisdom).

Even accepting the thesis that a semi-religious belief in the needful extermination of inferiors by the Nazi leaders explains why they ordered the death camps to be constructed - there still remains the question why these orders where carried out. Even accepting the thesis that a semi-religious belief in a wonderful millenial future explains why Hitler began the second World War - there still remains the question why millions of Germans followed him to their deaths.



Early Norwegian black metal scene
Lords of Chaos indeed tries to make it appear as if "the ongoing campain of church arsons adds psychological terror and religios intimidation to the list of Black Metal's arsenal."

However,

The group, that had named itself Lords of Chaos, did not actuallya attack specifically churches. They "began their crusade by burning down a supermarket construction trailer"

February 7, 1993: Lundby New Church, build in Gothenburg in 1886 ref: LoC (1998), 269

List of Esotericists deserving their own article

 * Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden (Goodrick-Clarke 1985: 23-25, 28)
 * Hermann Pohl (Goodrick-Clarke 1985: 126-8, 130-3, 142-4)
 * Walter Nauhaus (probably) (Goodrick-Clarke 1985: 143, 149)

Esotercism in Germany and Austria
Esotericism in Germany and Austria

Between 1921 and 1923 Sebottendorff wrote seven astrological text-books.

Among these anti-semitic organisations, some had adopted a conspiratory approach. This ultimately turned against them, when the Nazi party had seized power. As the statement about the "völkisch wandering scholar" in Mein Kampf shows, Hitler favored the strategy of the political mass party over the conspiratory lodge approach. The public demagogie ?? of the Nazi party similarly blamed Freemasons, Jews and Communists.

If Lanz von Liebenfels' works were banned at the direct order of Hitler (who might have wanted to obscure his possible connection to Lanz) is not clear.

Matters of interest
Aside from tracing the devevopments of Freemasonary, Rosicucianism, Astrologyand other occult sciences and modern Esotericism in Germany and Austria, there are also some matters that are of special interest. The German occult revival 1880-1910

The theosophy of Blavatsky had a "racial empahsis".

Hitler
Hitler's Rise to Power -> J.C.Fest, Hitler, S. 370

Hitler favored the strategy of the political mass party over the conspiratory lodge approach.

Varg Vikernes
Vikernes on "Pan-Germanic heathenism":  LoC (1998), 153

Screw this article
"For the most part, there is little evidence any such American Black Circle exists, unless the have simply managed to thus far operate unnoticed. Fans of extreme Metal in this country are often far less intelligent than their Norwegian or European counterparts. The primary American interest outside of music include drugs and alcohol, neither of which played any significant part in the Norwegian Black Metal mileu. As a result, any antiscoial actions are likely to be misdirected at best. The attempts to interrelate them into any kind of grand Satanic conspiracy are fruitless; the main similitude of these crimes lies in their irrational confusion." Lords of Chaos (1998): 289

Attention, strong cynism: ''Yeah, american teenagers are useless. Instead of murdering priests and torching churches, they just think about alcohol and drugs. They don't even have the intelligence that is requiered to kick over tombstones. This is probably due to their interbreding with blacks and hispanics. Like the lead singer of Slayer, who isn't even remotely Aryan, but from a hispanic background. They are not even good to be used in Moynihan's grand Satanic conspiracy sceme.''

Lords of Chaos
Let me provide another quote from the book:

"The signs of Christianity's influence on western culture are everywhere. God is regularly invoked in the speeches of the politicians, and references to his name flow throughout the streams of secular society. God is impossible to avoid. It is thus not surprising that those who proclaim themselves "fists in the face of God" (to borrow a phrase from Fenriz of Darkthrone), would end up attacking society as a whole. It is also in their desire to crush Christianity they should adopt faith - real or symbolic- in other deities and demons. Spirituality is innate to the human psyche, and has a way of rearing its head even in the most rational and atheistic people. The same person who rids himself of one theology may well harbor a desire for a new faith - one full of mighty and unforgiving gods, capable of smashing away the ruins of the old. Black Metal provides all of this. Whether it is centered on Satanic or heathen symbolism matter not. In both instances the iconography and the music fuse together into an odium theologicum directed at the faith and lifestyle of the status quo. It is essentially intolerant, uncompromising, and absolutist in its worldview." (Lords of Chaos, First edition, p.301) Now, I will paraphrase this and add it to the article. That the book includes this statement is fact and can't possible be POV. Whereas I get the impression that Moynihan himself desires to crush Christianity, this would not go into the article, but that he interprets Black Metal as "essentially intolerant, uncompromising, and absolutist in its worldview" has to go in there. And don't tell me that this is prohibited by wp:neutrality.

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If Lords of Chaos were only about the antics of the most extreme wing of black metal, it would be an informative and entertaining look at pop culture Grand Guignol. The book, however, suggests that the events in Norway reflect a growing tendency among alienated youth from Miami to Moscow, who are now allegedly blending black metal, Satanism, and currents of fascism into a culturally explosive Molotov cocktail. Vikemes, however, is really famous for murder, not music, while the overwhelming majority of black metal musicians and fans are not, and are not likely to become, church burners, murderers, or Nazi Odinists.

To buttress its thesis, LOC points to metalheads turned murderers, including "Belfagor" from the Swedish Satanic band Nefandus, who attacked a black man in a self-described "niggerhunt"; Bard Eithun ("Faust") from the Norwegian group Emperor, who murdered a gay man that sought to seduce him; and Jon Nodveidt from the Swedish group Dissection, who butchered an Algerian immigrant. LOC even devotes an entire chapter to an obscure two-man German band called Absurd, who coldly executed an annoying fellow high school student. Although the members of Absurd are self-pro-claimed Nazis and Vikernes fans, even they reported that they committed the crime for personal, not political, motives.

LOC also dwells on the activity of otherwise highly obscure fascist propagandists with no direct ties to black metal who are nevertheless trying to recruit its followers into their cause. It even adopts a far right spin on Jungian theory when it suggests that Vikernes may have tapped into an anti-Christian racial/cultural archetype that is allegedly still aglow in the Norwegian collective unconscious. The book also profiles racist killers with no known ties to black metal, such as the Florida youth clique called the Lords of Chaos. Before being dethroned by LOCal police, the Lords burnt down a church, murdered a gay teacher, and were planning to slaughter black visitors to Disney World with silencer-equipped automatic weapons.

LOC culminates with a paean to the "fire" which, it claims, bums bright inside the black metal under-ground. ...

LOC has generally been perceived as an expose of a colorful music sub-culture, and it does indeed provide much valuable information about an otherwise inaccessible scene. Yet what really makes the book fascinating is that its main author, Michael Moynihan, is himself an extreme rightist whose fusion of politics and aesthetic violence shapes a not-so-hidden sub current that runs throughout LOC. The book itself, however, is not a "fascist" tract in the strict sense of the term, in part because Moynihan co-wrote the book with Didrik Saderlind, a former music critic for a mainstream Norwegian paper who is now an editor at Playboy. Moreover, Feral House editor Adam Parfrey clearly wanted to publish a popular book on the strange universe of black metal rather than a political polemic. Nor does Moynihan himself fit easily into the more conventional definitions of fascism. LOC is best characterized as a palimpsest with the author's own political ideology at work just’ below the surface of a text ostensibly devoted solely to analyzing an extremist musical sub-culture.

Earlier stuff
Ideologically, Lanz von Liebenfels is a predecessor to Nazism. In his Theozoology he had ''"obviously [t]he practice of the later concentration and death camps already in view [..]." "Beside the Lebensborn institutes and the concentration camps Lanz already envisioned also the völkisch war - almost four decades before it actually happened."''

"Der spezifische Mythos das Nazis, den man mit Rosenberg als in der Tat deutlich allgemeiner als einen 'Mythos des 20.Jahrhunderts bezeichnen sollte, gründet in "Geheimlehren"der zweiten Hälfte des 19. und des ersten Jahrzehnts des 20. Jahrhunderts. In typisch synkretistischer Weise schütteten sie Platons Atlatnismythe zusammen mit aufgeschnappen Brocken der wissenschaftlichen Theorie der damaligen Zeit: Lemurien, indogermanische Völkerwanderung, der Pseudo-Etymologie von arya. Unter hehren und vermessenen Selbstetikettierungen wie Theosophie (= "Gottesweisheit"), Antroposophie (= "Menschenweisheit") und Ariosophie (= "Arierweisheit") begann aus diesem giftigen Gebräu auf breiter Ebene der Geist aufzusteigen, der sich bald in Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagern, in Lebensborn-Anstalten und in der "Ostkolonisation" brutal materialisieren sollte." (Strohm, 1997, 76)

Padberg on Constantinian shift; Padberg 1998: 181, 182

add: Eric IX of Sweden to Christianization of Scandinavia;

Adam of Bremen noted: Wotan, id est furor.

The historian Peter Brown describes the effect the Christianization had in the Roman Empire: "It was no longer considered advisable to sacrifice, to visit temples, or to celebrate one's city as the dwelling-place of particular gods bound to the civic community by particluar, local rites. Instead the Christian court offered a new, empire-wide patriotism. This was centered on the person and mission of a God-given, universal ruler, whose vast and profoundly abstract care for the empire as a whole made the older loyalties to individual cities, that had been wholeheartedly expressed in the old, polytheistic system, seem parochial and trivial."

Should People of the Book be linked at Religious persecution?