Hitler's Terror Weapons (29 page)

The Coming Race
was supposed to be simply an occult novel, although it reads like a treatise and, bearing in mind its author's affinities, was considered by many to be fiction containing a number of occult truths. For Hitler and the National Socialist Movement it crystallized into the blueprint for the world's future.

What could
Vril
be? The aviation historian and author Trevor James Constable wrote:

“The daily etheric breathings of the Earth produce a barometric pressure wave twice daily, which formal science has never been able to explain. There is enough energy in these barometric waves to run the world's machines – if we can but find the transducer. The torque drive of the Earth itself is an inexhaustible, life-positive energy source of staggering magnitude. Before long, someone will uncover that all important step (discovered by Wilhelm Reich but not disclosed by him) by which etheric force can be transduced … the price for this new technical epoch is a forced overhaul of our whole mode of existence. We will see the beginning of a reunion between science and religion as the cosmic energies – pervaded with life and themselves the milieu of living beings – come into technical utility. Man will find the central parts of his own physical existence inseparably bound up with etheric energies, and he will be opened to a wider understanding of himself and the cosmos that produced him.
The ultimate consequence will be a new humanity.”
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And how was this to be achieved? First there had to be produced by mutation the men and women who would form the new humanity capable of understanding and controlling
Vril
power. Bulwer-Lytton had stated that the power could only be acquired through heredity, indicating that the secret was transmitted through the blood. At once we begin to suspect a mystical answer involving
siddhis
or super-normal powers. The only access to the sum total of the knowledge in the Universe is through mystical enlightenment which, so it is claimed, involves changes in the blood. The progeny of enlightened mystics would themselves be enlightened mystics from conception.
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According to Rudolf Hess, the Master Magician of the Third Reich was Karl Haushofer.
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Prior to the Great War, Haushofer was attached to the Staff Corps of the German Diplomatic Mission in Tokyo. He was a clairvoyant of mystical inclination and during his tour of duty in Japan, the language of which he spoke fluently, was initiated into a Buddhist sect known as The Green Dragon. He left the Army following the defeat of 1918 in the rank of general and graduated in political geography at Munich University shortly afterwards. The periodical
Geo-Political Review
which he founded was dedicated to propagating the idea of Aryan supremacy, a belief he had embraced while travelling in Central Asia in 1905. Karl Haushofer believed that the Earth was a living being and a cosmic organism: the world was a system of undulating waves, matter was nothing more than vibration and energy. This is Hermetic doctrine. If an initiate of an esoteric monastic order professes Hermeticism, it is a safe bet that his order is Hermetic. A disciple of Karl Haushofer was the Egyptian-born Rudolf Hess, a fanatical vegetarian and abstemient, who served as his assistant at Munich University and was the intermediary between Haushofer and Hitler. The first meeting with the latter occurred in 1924 at Landsberg Prison. Subsequently Haushofer visited Hitler every day and spent hours expounding his theories. It was the doctrine of Haushofer which eventually formed the basis for
Mein Kampf,
compiled by Hess at Hitler's dictation and published in 1925. That same year Haushofer founded an occult organization known as The Luminous Lodge of the
Vril
Society. Hitler was allegedly much impressed by Bulwer-Lytton's book, a copy of which he received in 1924 from Haushofer, who believed it contained occult truths dressed as fiction.

The German rocket scientist Willy Ley who left Germany in 1933 stated that the purpose of the
Vril
Society was to create the Aryan super-race.
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For this purpose a large contingent of Tibetan lamas with connections to the esoteric disciplines was invited to take up domicile in Berlin. They wore a green cap and gloves and one assumes there was a connection with Haushofer's Order of the Green Dragon in Japan. As it also had initiatory centres in Turkey for its clandestine connection with Islam through Sufi, Druze and Dervish doctrines it was also transreligious. The Tibetan lamas were not particularly secretive. The senior lama gave an interview to the
Berliner Zeitung
predicting correctly on three occasions the number of deputies that the NSDAP would send to the Reichstag. The French spy Teddy Legrande wrote extensively about these Tibetan lamas in Berlin in his book published in 1933, the year of his mysterious suicide.
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Hitler often made visits to one particular Tibetan lodge in Berlin where he consulted with the senior lama.
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Hess informed his OSS inquisitors that the
Vril
Society was an active occult organization drawn from the upper echelons of society:

“There are all sorts of rumours that some sort of oriental monk is often seen around Nazi Party functions. He is a dark Tibetan who looks incredibly old and wizened. His eyes glow a faint green. He wears a black long woollen cloak with cap, belt and gloves of green. Hess confirmed what most occult experts believe, that the Nazi Party operates on a deeper level still, that perhaps a group of mystic lamas somewhere in Tibet might be the puppet-masters connected with the shadowy organization known as the Green Dragon.”

Haushofer, the leading member of the Luminous Lodge, remained in Berlin with the supreme lama, known only as The Man with the Green Gloves, until the capitulation, when all the Tibetans died either as a result of enemy action or by ritual suicide. It was widely reported on 25 April 1945, for example, that Russian troops in the eastern sector of Berlin found in the ruins of a three-storey building the corpses of six Tibetans dressed in German military uniform without insignia and arranged in a circle around a dead Tibetan monk wearing a pair of bright green gloves. Before Berlin fell on 2 May the bodies of several hundred, some sources say up to a thousand, more Tibetans were found in similar circumstances. Haushofer ended his own life by ritual suicide in 1946.

The Methodology of the
Vril
Society

Many may think it extraordinary to suggest that an advanced western industrial society such as Nazi Germany would have had such links with an undeveloped country in Central Asia, the majority of whose male inhabitants were monks. Tibet was xenophobic, believing that foreigners were the cause of all their misfortunes, and they were always anxious to see them depart. This was especially so in the case of the British, together with the Chinese the only influential presence in Tibet. The British were keen to start up the Tibetan economy but the Tibetans were firmly convinced that in western-style progress there lay a terrible danger. Tibet was so backward that the country had not affiliated to the International Postal Union and the nearest post offices were in India, to where all mail was taken by yak caravan. They had not accepted metric measurement and had a phobia against the wheel, whose use was prohibited in certain territories on the grounds that it threatened the equilibrium of nature. What could not be carried by the arm of man caused death and destruction. Western medicine was held to be a flagrant violation of the life-death equilibrium. Both polygamy and polyandry were practised, together with a form of ritual prostitution of which even the most refined availed themselves. Sex was an effusion only slightly more intense than a handshake and offered to foreigners as a courtesy. Mystics used it “as a means of ascent to the sacred”.

The Tibetan monasteries seem to have been the repository of scientific techniques long lost to the world. The mystery of how the pyramids were constructed, for example, continues to baffle Western scientists and historians, yet the lamas do appear to have the solution. A scientific writer on harmonic theory, Bruce Cathe
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, investigating a report on levitation which had appeared in a German magazine, described how Dr Jarl, a Swedish doctor working on behalf of the English Scientific Society in 1939, visited a certain monastery in Tibet and was offered the opportunity to observe a number of phenomena including the construction of a rock wall in front of a cave entrance about 250 metres up a sheer cliff. In a meadow below the cliff was a polished concave slab of rock on to which blocks of stone measuring 1½ metres in length and 1 metre in width and thickness were manouevred by yak oxen. Thirteen drums and six trumpets (all described in detail in the text) were set in an arc of 90° at a distance of about 63 metres from the stone slab. Together with the chanting and singing of the monks, the orchestra began to play, the noise reaching a tremendous crescendo over a period of four minutes at which point the stone block began to rock and sway and then rose in the air towards the rigging platform 250 metres above. The ascent lasted three minutes. The German magazine report continued:

“They brought new blocks continuously to the meadow and using this method the monks transported five to six blocks per hour on a parabolic flight track approximately 500 metres long and 250 metres high. Because Dr Jarl… had the opinion in the beginning that he was the victim of a mass psychosis he made two films of the incident. The films showed exactly the same things that he had witnessed. The English Society for which Dr Jarl was working confiscated the films and declared them classified for fifty years. This action is rather hard to explain or understand.”

Mr Cathe pointed out that it is not difficult to understand why the British classified the films once the given measurements had been transposed into their geometric equivalents, for then it became obvious that the monks of Tibet in 1939 were fully conversant with the laws governing the structure of matter.

“The secret is in the geometric placement of the musical instruments in relation to the stones to be levitated, and the harmonic tuning of the drums and trumpets. The sound waves being generated by the combination were directed in such a way that an anti-gravitational effect was created at the centre of focus and around the periphery, or the arc, of a third of a circle through which the stones moved. The distance from the block to the rear face of each drum could be close to 63.75 metres. My theoretical analysis, by calculator, indicates that the exact distance would be 63.7079 metres for the optimum harmonic reaction. I believe that there is not much doubt that the Tibetans had possession of the secrets relating to the geometric structure of matter and the methods of manipulating the harmonic values.”

Linking the yogic practices of the
Vril
Society in Hitler's Germany to mystical Tibetan techniques, the writer Alec Maclellan
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, unfortunately without stating his source, claimed that he had examined copies “of certain strange documents which once belonged to initiates of the
Vril
Society”. What he writes seems authentic, for he admits:

“if the two methods sound like mumbo-jumbo associated with mediaeval witchcraft spells, then it is also a feeling shared by the author. However, as I am not a practising mystic – nor can I claim profound knowledge of the secrets of mysticism – I would not hastily denounce the documents.”

For the foregoing reason, i.e. that Mr Maclellan does not understand the documents and reports them merely as a matter of passing interest, I believe it safe to accept them as genuine. I do not propose to reproduce them here, but for those interested the paperback version of Mr Maclellan's book is still in print, and anybody who has studied Tibetan mysticism will recognize their purpose at once. They are undoubtedly the “methods of concentration and the whole system of internal gymnastics by which the mind is transformed” spoken of by Dr Willy Ley in his Essay
Pseudo-Sciences under the Nazi Regime.

A lodge of the
Vril
Society was essentially a Berlin annexe to a Tibetan monastery. The utmost determination was required of the young women and men accepted as initiates. Mystical attainment is not a matter of performing rites: the prime necessity is to be virtuous and firmly abstain from evil. The difference between realized mortals and ordinary humanity is simply that the former are aware of their underlying identity with Reality. Once the illusory ego falls away, Man becomes heir to special powers and all the knowledge of the Cosmos. Under the close supervision of a lama, who would employ additional techniques such as communication through trance states, a point made by Bulwer-Lytton in a lengthy passage, the initiate would eventually achieve the expansion of consciousness desired. Mr Maclellan's document shows the ‘Mystic Way', a Tibetan meditation technique of the Kalachakra School in which the mind has to be concentrated on a mandala while endlessly intoning the Tibetan letter K. The ‘Scientific Way' is that technique of meditation practised in ritual intercourse between a male initiate and a female adept.

In the chapter of his book headed
Green Dragon, White Tiger,
the Taoist John Blofeld
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described in outline this dual cultivation or sexual yoga which is a strictly regulated discipline. The process is far from simple and requires great yogic skill. It is not a licence for sexual pleasure and is in fact dangerous for men who have difficulty in freeing themselves from the bondage of the senses. Tantric sexual exercises have powerful effects on the bio-tensile field and are capable of charging them with a great quantity of energy. These energies can be directed by the mind, producing effects of movement in matter but the object is to attain mystical understanding. The onset of cosmic consciousness triggered unexpectedly by sexual activity was vividly described thus by a 32-year-old woman: