Nazi Secrets: An Occult Breach in the Fabric of History (11 page)

These esoteric currents are mainly linked to Savitri Devi and Miguel Serrano, though there are also less famous authors from the far right and neo-pagan movements that contribute to what could be called the "semi-religious developments of Nazism." Let us add that the majority of neo-Pagans are not neo-Nazis nowadays.

Savitri Devi, who had French, Greek and English blood, was born Maximiani Portasis. She studied chemistry as well as philosophy in France, where she obtained her PhD in Lyon. She can be rightfully regarded as the major post-war thinker of "esoteric Hitlerism," aiming clearly at creating a religious movement from Nazism. According to her, Hitler's death in 1945 could be seen as martyrdom or a voluntary, Christ-like self-sacrifice. When the Russians entered Hitler's bunker, it was indeed empty, giving birth firstly to all kinds of escape speculations, and secondly to a semi-religious myth.

Savitri Devi aka Maximiani Portasis

This is how Savitri Devi writes in her book called Pilgrimage: "…National Socialism is infinitely more than a mere political creed; the fact is that it is a way of life, a faith in the fullest sense of the word – one could say a religion, however different it may at first appear, from every existing system thus labeled in current speech. Religions are not as easy to uproot as mere political creeds."

Savitri Devi, who stood for Indian independence from British rule, merged somehow her esotericism with Hinduism, considering Hitler to be Kalki, the tenth and final Avatar of Vishnu. For her, he was undoubtedly "the god-like Individual of our times; the Man against Time; the greatest European of all times."

Hitler's death, in this way, could be seen as the beginning of a new religion, aiming at the spiritual and physical resurrection of the Aryans, in order to rule the world again as the elected people.

Miguel Serrano is the next most important figure, who contributed to this religious trend of Nazism after 1945. He was a Chilean diplomat and had therefore many opportunities during his career to meet with people like Léon Degrelle, Otto Skorzeny, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Marc Augier (aka "Saint-Loup"), Julius Evola, Wilhelm Landig, Herman Hesse and Carl Jung.

While younger, in 1941, Miguel Serrano was initiated into an esoteric order in Santiago, Chile, practicing ritual magic linked with the Holy Masters who dwelled somewhere in Tibet. They were admirers of Hitler, whom they regarded as a bodhisattva incarnated on Earth to counter the evil effects of the Kali Yuga age.

Serrano's theories basically state that our material world is ruled by the Demiurge (Jehovah), who populated the planet with primitive beings doomed to be endlessly reincarnated, always at the same low level of existence. This purely gnostic and Manichaean view admitted of course their counterpart of good gods (the Hyperboreans of extraterrestrial origin), who tried their best to elevate the conscience and moral level of the Demiurge's poor humanoid creatures.

Like the ancient astronaut theories, he lamented that the Nephilim (Fallen Angels), or renegade Hyperboreans, took advantage of their relationships with the Demiurge's human creatures to have sexual intercourse with them. This miscegenation diluted their light-bearing blood, emerging from the Black Sun, and their divine energy power called Vril. To the Demiurge's delight, i.e., the tribal deity Jehovah of the Jews, this diminished the conscious awareness for the divine on this planet, making it easier for him to control.

Miguel Serrano as a diplomat in India in 1957

Serrano states thus that "There is nothing more mysterious than blood. Paracelsus considered it a condensation of light. I believe that the Aryan, Hyperborean blood is that but not the light of the Golden Sun, not of a galactic sun, but the light of the Black Sun, of the Green Ray." (See chapter on the Vril for explanations on the Green Color).

In this context, Hitler was seen as an emissary of the Higher Gods who vanished in his bunker in 1945, but who waits underground somewhere in Antarctica, to emerge in the future with a fleet of UFOs, beat the Forces of Darkness (i.e. the Jews) and start a Fourth Reich.

The Black Sun

History of religions, esotericism and pseudo-sciences provide not a single aspect of the Black Sun, but many. Beyond these differences, the question is to know if one deals with different facets of the same theme, and if so, if they can be structured into a single one, or if the Black Sun is just a generic name for unrelated phenomena. Nowadays the Black Sun refers almost exclusively to a neo-Nazi symbol that can be found inlaid in the marble floor of the Wewelsburg castle in Germany.

The Egyptians
– Alchemy, like Freemasonry, plunges its roots into Egyptian mythology. The solar cycle is probably at the origin of one of the oldest myths that inspired the ancient Egyptians and mankind, as can be seen in the duality of Ra/Osiris. Ra dies after 12 hours of reign and resuscitates as Osiris during the next 12 hours, after which the latter dies to be reborn as Ra. Osiris stands for the Black Sun, and this natural cycle is tuned to the rhythm of our daily biological physiology, as well as to our souls reincarnating from a body to another.

The Mesoamerican mythology
– The Mesoamerican myths are shared by, among others, the Aztecs, the Mayans, the Mexicas and the Toltecs. One prominent god common to these people is Quetzalcoatl, literally "feathered serpent," who incarnates one of the many mystical beliefs of the Black Sun in Central America. After his shining passage through the sky during the day, he would dive into the underworld with a blackened aura.

The Aztecs compared the passage of the sun into the underworld with a butterfly, which is an archetype for transformation and reincarnation. The only event when the Black Sun would appear during the day would be a solar eclipse. He would then be identified with the earth goddess Itzpapalotl, also called the "Obsidian Butterfly" (obsidian is a very dark volcanic stone), who would eat men during that exceptional cosmic event.

Whereas the Aztecs believed in five successive worlds corresponding to five suns, the fifth being ours, the Mexicas held the Black Sun for such an ancient sun that was the female origin of everything. It could be seen as a fecundity symbol coming from the womb of death, i.e., a metempsychosis or reincarnation principle.

The alchemical Sol Niger
– Alchemy, hermeticism and gnosis tell us of the existence of two opposed Manichaean beliefs, corresponding, in our case, to two suns: an apparent material one (or "material gold") and a hidden one (or "philosophical gold"). The material sun of our planetary system, which consumes itself through a simple nuclear fusion based on hydrogen, could as such possibly be seen as a "Dark Sun," but still not a black one.

The strict alchemical principle of Sol Niger (literally: "Black Sun" in Latin) refers to the first stage of the Magnum Opus (i.e., the Great Work, at the end of which production of gold is obtained), also called the Nigredo or blackening phase.

Considered from an operative view point, the Magnum Opus resembles greatly to the physical principle of nuclear fusion, but one should not neglect the speculative or mystical aspect of this alchemical process that may also refer to an internal spiritual transformation, popularized under others by Paulo Coelho in his book The Alchemist.

The Egyptian and historically unrelated Mesoamerican myths of the Black Sun referring to death, rebirth and fecundity suppose the underlying alchemical intermediary concept of Putrefactio (putrefaction or rotting in Latin).

A Black Sun can be seen in the colorful alchemical manuscript called Splendor Solis ("The Splendor of the Sun"), allegedly written in 1532/1535 by Solomon Trismosin, the spiritual father of Paracelsus. This sun is only partially visible, could be setting or rising, in a desolated dried landscape of leafless trees, though remaining golden rays of light can be seen radiating weakly out of it. This Black Sun stands for putrefaction in alchemy. The accompanying text says that dissolution is required in alchemy in order to obtain a black matter like the nigredo phase does.

Salomon Trismosin - Splendor Solis 1532-1535 at the

Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Putrefaction, or death, is needed in order to give way to life and rebirth, while the unconscious reconciles with the conscious. The culmination of this conciliation corresponds to the making of the Philosophical Stone, where the Putrefactio or Nigredo is the first part of the process. It is a phase where the pure should be separated from the impure, or as Carl Gustav Jung put it in the field of psychoanalysis, to integrate the shadow to one's self, i.e., the dark side inside of us.

Some alchemists saw all of this also as the association between the woman/moon and the man/sun into a Black Sun, or a mystical wedding.

Theosophical Nemesis
– In The Secret Doctrine (1888), Helena Blavatsky, founder of theosophy, mentioned a central invisible sun in the Milky Way. It would act as a center of attraction on our sun, and an energetic source for the universe. Its energy was seen as a "creative light," though invisible, and which the Jews of the Cabala would call "the Black Light."

Interestingly enough, this matches exactly the modern astronomical theory of the existence of Nemesis, which would be a hypothetical hard-to-detect brown dwarf star. The hypothesis was made in 1984 by paleontologists David Raup and Jack Sepkoski, who claimed that they had identified a statistical periodicity in extinction rates over the last 250 million years, which could be explained by the regular passing of Nemesis.

The Wewelsburg Sonnenrad
– The castle of Wewelsburg was built in 1603 in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. In 1934, one year after the Nazi rise to power, Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler leased the castle for 100 years from the Paderborn district in order to make an ideological center for the Black Order of the SS.

The castle became an almost religious place where esotericism, runes, pagan lore, and racial theories were studied by a handful of high-ranking SS, i.e., an elite within the elite. Himmler adapted the legend of King Arthur and his Knights to a new Grail mythology, based on Germanic paganism.