Battling Cthulhu

(Above: The Conspiracy Nation editor, looking purposeful)

Who Is Cthulhu?

Cthulhu comes from the “fictional” works of H.P. Lovecraft. From what vision-world did H.P. Lovecraft perceive and write about “the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men... They had shape but that shape was not made of matter... the Great Old Ones spoke to (the first men) by molding their dreams; for only thus could Their language reach the fleshy minds of mammals...” This, as will be seen, contains a great deal of truth.

From the fish to the lizard... And even the venerated H.P. Lovecraft had a strange atavism: "He (Lovecraft) seems to have developed a rare, little-understood affliction called poikilothermism. The victim loses the normal mammalian ability to keep his body's temperature constant, regardless of changes in the ambient temperature. His (Lovecraft's) body assumes the temperature of its surroundings, as if he were a reptile or a fish." This poikilothermism allowed Lovecraft to tune in to a more subtle vibration; he had some affinity toward undercurrents, underworld, and undersea.

In his stories, H.P. Lovecraft refers to a strange book called The Necronomicon, written by Abdul Alhazred circa 750 A.D., in Damascus. According to Robert Anton Wilson's research, Abdul Alhazred's book was originally entitled Al Azif. It was supposedly translated into Latin by Olaus Wormius under the title Necronomicon. Dr. John Dee, a favorite of Queen Elizabeth, apparently translated the Necronomicon into English. H.P. Lovecraft's father (who incidentally went insane and was committed to an asylum circa 1893, where he died a few years later) is said to have borrowed a copy of Dee's translation from the Grand Orient Lodge of Egyptian Freemasonry in Providence, Rhode Island, H.P. Lovecraft's home town. In this way, Lovecraft may have come to read the book.

The Necronomicon, reportedly, "holds that entities far greater than mankind once roamed this earth and still remain present and potent 'not in the spaces we know but between them.'" (“Lovecraft's Rediscovered Land,” http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Lovecraft.htm)

This creature, called an “anomalous being” by Andre Gorodovoi, chairman of Russia's Anomalous Phenomena Service, was recently fished from the deep, then eaten, by Russian fishermen. It is the best representation found of Cthulhu. (Google image searches yield other depictions.) Cthulhu is known to have undersea minions, so the creature found by the Russians may not be the actual Cthulhu. (See “Rense Returns On Lupercalia,” http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Lupercalia.html for further background.)

“In the Cthulhu mythos,” writes Robert Anton Wilson, “godlike entities do exist – godlike compared to us – but they are only parts of a mindless universe, and they are more likely to eat us than to do us any favors.” (Everything Is Under Control, HarperPerennial, 1998.)

It has been claimed that Cthulhu and his minions were unleashed by the “magick” of the notorious Aleister Crowley. (Wilson, op. cit.) This veers off into a different subject, practitioners of “the left-hand path” and how they wield unholy influence. For example, Adolph Hitler and his lieutenants delved into unseemly realms. These evil-doers were continually stymied in the 1920s by the counter-magic of anthroposophist Rudolph Steiner.

(Note the British connection between Aleister Crowley and Adolph Hitler. In Hitler Was A British Agent, author Greg Hallett probes time spent by Hitler, during his youth, in Great Britain.)

“There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight.” (Arthur Machen, qtd. In “The Horror at Red Hook,” by H.P. Lovecraft)

    The Human Battleground

Each person is created as a vessel through which Life manifests in a special way. Mankind is a special creation, where the spiritual world is conjoined with the natural world. Each individual human, be they male or female, is a microcosm of the universe.

This is an ancient idea: that each individual is a battleground between Heaven and Hell. A larger battleground is the world itself, where falsities multiply upon falsities. “The angels,” according to seer Emanuel Swedenborg, “are in sorrow about the darkness of the earth. They say that hardly anywhere do they see light, and that men seize upon fallacies.”

Many charlatans claim clairvoyance, but this does not mean all clairvoyants are charlatans. Swedenborg (1688 – 1772) seems fairly solid. However you, the human battleground, must discern such things for yourself. You do this through your spiritual intuition. Sight does not belong to the eye, nor hearing to the ear. It is the spirit which sees and hears by means of these bodily organs.

Long ago, in the Golden Age, mankind had no difficulty in perceiving the spiritual world. In that ancient time, worldly objects (matter) were as nothing, except insofar as what they represented. The Bible is old, but before the Bible there existed a prior universal record. Based upon oral tradition, the Old Testament began to be written down circa 1000 B.C. By that point, spiritual vision had already declined, and prophets and seers were considered somewhat special.

Divine manifestation through angelic intermediaries gradually faded away as mankind fell into increasing spiritual darkness. Occasionally, still, seers and prophets are born. Rely upon your own inner voice, be it but a whisper, for discernment. (An introduction to Swedenborg, edited by Michael Stanley, is recommended. But you must decide.)

Worldly objects once were as nothing, except insofar as they corresponded with the real, subtle world. Over time, the knowledge of these correspondences became perverted by being used for magical practices of an evil nature. The objects themselves began to be worshiped, rather than their internal correspondences.

In Egypt, there once was communication with Heaven. But those who did not live in the good of charity began to have open communication with evil spirits. Hence came selfish magical practices. Lest the representatives and significatives of the spiritual be wholly turned into magical things, the Israelitish people were selected. That people were of such a character that they could not fabricate anything magical, since they were altogether in externals, and had no belief in the existence of things internal. With people of such a character what is magical cannot exist in the same way as it did among the Egyptians.

Because information concerning heavenly things could not be imparted to the Israelitish people by influx into their interiors, and thus by enlightenment, therefore angels from heaven spoke by a living voice with some of them, and instructed them about external things, but little about internal things, because they could not comprehend these.

The Last Judgment of the Most Ancient Church, which had existed before the Flood; the Last Judgment of the Ancient Church; the Last Judgment of the Representative Church – all came to pass when, in the world of spirits below the heavens, evil had been multiplied to such an extent that the angels could no longer counter-balance against it. Last Judgments occur many times, whenever evil begins to predominate. On such occasions, there is an influx of the Divine until the point is reached when the evil are unable to sustain it, and flee away. A Last Judgment commenced in 1757 as the result of accumulated distortions of the Christian message and growing hypocrisy and worldliness within the churches of that time. The purpose of such Last Judgments is to maintain spiritual equilibrium between Heaven and Hell in order to preserve man's freedom to choose.

You are a battleground, upon which good and evil struggle for dominance. The angels are protecting you constantly and are warding off the evils that evil spirits direct against you. Without the protection of these angels, you would be lost. Man (and woman) in no sense produces any falsity and evil from himself. Yet part of evil is that it convinces man (and woman) that the evil has originated in himself. Techniques used by evil spirits are many and are done so cleverly as to defy description.

Case in point: the neighbors one day gather to discuss you. “What does he do all day?” they wonder aloud. These neighbors are weaker sorts, easily overtaken by a malign influence. It is not the neighbors themselves who direct negativity in your direction. They are merely tools of evil spirits. In them, the human battleground has been conquered for the time being.

Such situations especially occur in periods of creativity. Cthulhu and his minions for some reason greatly dislike the creative act. You are exerting yourself, trying to reach for the stars. In such a circumstance, you are vulnerable to spiritual attack. Weaker sorts are quickly mobilized and zombified temporarily by evil spirits. They suddenly take it upon themselves to pass the time gathered together and staring at your residence.

Remember, as Swedenborg says: Techniques used by evil spirits are many and are done so cleverly as to defy description. The “What does he do all day?” attack is only one manifestation of an infinity of such possible attacks.

Again, Case in point: Vaguely becoming aware of some malign influence, you glance out the window and behold! There are the neighbors all gathered together and staring hard in your direction. Dear reader, it is time then to go in motion. Put on your coat and go for a walk. Secretly double back and spy out the situation. Surprise! The neighborhood discussion group has adjourned!

Generally speaking, the going in motion technique is an effective strategy against malign influence. The evil spirits are slow. They settle in like a vapor. A moving target is harder for them to hit. Unaware, this is what Mike Ruppert did in his various relocations. Ruppert was under spiritual attack and dimly realized he must go into motion. Unfortunately Ruppert did not understand to remain always “light on your feet.” Instead, he moved to Oregon, then settled in. Like a vapor, the malign influence slowly surrounded him, then manifested via zombies who entered his offices and sledge-hammered his computers. Ruppert again dimly realized he must go into motion, so he fled to Venezuela. At the time, this writer advised, “The battle, dear Ruppert, is spiritual.” (“Ruppert Flees United States,” http://www.shout.net/~bigred/RuppertFlees.html)

Remember too you are protected by the angels. When an evil spirit is merely looked at by the angels, he falls into a swoon. Angels have the power of restraining evil spirits. They defend man (and woman) at times against many hells, and this in thousands of ways.

The battle against Cthulhu is spiritual. In the hells, there is from the false light of the ego a delusion of self wisdom which prevents the reality of utter bleakness, ugliness, and devastation from appearing. As long as man (and woman) is living in this world, he is not actually conscious of in reality being there, right now, in heaven or in hell. But all the same he is there and is governed from there.

In the Arcana Coelestia, Swedenborg further expands upon his conversations with angels.

By things of sense and of mere knowledge, love and faith had been extinguished. The senses, as anyone who has studied Rene Descartes knows, are the “great deceivers.” Yet positivist scientists limit their investigations to mainly sight and hearing. These “scientists” are necessarily deceived.

The evil spirits bear the utmost hatred against all that is good and true. Unless the deity defended the individual every moment, he or she would instantly perish in consequence of the indescribably intense and mortal hatred which prevails in the world of spirits.

Those of the Most Ancient Church conversed with the deity and with angels, and were also instructed by visions and dreams. In those far distant times, when anything false presented itself it was not merely avoided, it was regarded with horror. To investigate the larger world by sense and memory alone led not only to falsities but also to evils of life. The more one relies only upon the things of sense, the more one is blinded, until at length one believes in nothing. Whoever assumes as a principle that nothing is to be believed until it is seen and understood, can never believe, because spiritual and celestial things cannot be seen with the eyes, or conceived by the imagination.

The angels do not know what “time” is, because they have no Sun and Moon that distinguish times; consequently they do not know what days and years are, but only what states are and the changes thereof. “Time” is only successive states of consciousness, projected upon the outside world, and interpreted as “time.”

The falsities of the past are even worse at the present day (1700s), for now there are persons who not only disbelieve everything they cannot see and feel, but who also confirm themselves in such incredulity by knowledges (scientifica) unknown to the ancients, and thus occasion in themselves a far greater degree of blindness. This has given birth to an indescribable degree of darkness.

Mankind is now [1700s] solely in what is of the body and the senses, that is, their life is in the most external things. For this reason they do not know that there is in every man and woman something that is interior, and something still interior to that, and indeed an inmost.

A man or a woman is a kind of least heaven. The whole human race on Earth is as a body with its parts, wherein the church is as the heart.

Men and women at times are attacked by evil spirits. There are two basic types of attack: (1) things of knowledge and reason (scientifica ejus et rationalia); and (2) yearnings. The evil spirits who excite an individual's reasonings bring forth all his falsities, and endeavor to persuade him or her that they are true, and even turn truths into falsities. A man or woman must fight against these spiritual attacks; but it is really the deity who fights, through the angels who are adjoined to each person. What sustains each of us is our conjunction with heaven.

There are with every one of us at least two evil spirits and two angels. Each of us, while living in the body, is in some society of spirits and of angels, though entirely unaware of it. Misfortunes, griefs, and anxieties, and also sicknesses and diseases of the body, are often really attacks by the evil spirits. Also, whatever is in one's memory is sometimes used by the evil spirits against us, and this is done with a skill and malignity so great as to be indescribable. We do not produce anything false or evil from ourselves. It is the evil spirits who produce it, then aggravate this by making us believe we have done it of ourselves. Such is the malignity of the evil spirits. And what is more, at the moment they are infusing and compelling the belief, they accuse and condemn us.

    Steiner Battles Hitler

Rudolph Steiner (1861 – 1925) and his followers fought against the emerging Nazi party in Germany in the early 1920s. This was done not only through ideas, but also in the psychic realm. Members of Steiner's group saw the rise of the Nazi party through contact with the astral world. They directed spiritual light at the Nazis. The brutal Nazis counter-attacked. One by one, the members of Steiner's group disappeared and were killed. In a morning meditation in 1922, Rudolf Steiner foresaw his own death, to occur later that day, in the Munich train station, by members of the Nazi party. He left for the train station nonetheless. Meanwhile, his friends learned of the murder plot, and rushed to the train station to prevent him from boarding the train on which he was to be killed. They evacuated Steiner to Switzerland, where he continued his metaphysical work. (http://www.lauriebaum.com/elections2004.html)

Steiner articulated an ongoing stream of "experiences of the spiritual world" — experiences he said had touched him from an early age on. He believed that non-physical beings existed everywhere and that through freely chosen ethical disciplines and meditative training, anyone could develop the ability to experience these beings, as well as the higher nature of oneself and others. Reacting to the catastrophic situation in post-World War I Germany, Steiner went on extensive lecture tours promoting his social ideas. In 1919, the political theorist of the National Socialist movement in Germany, Dietrich Eckart, attacked Steiner and suggested that he was a Jew. In 1921, Adolf Hitler attacked Steiner in an article in the right-wing "Völkischen Beobachter" newspaper and other nationalist extremists in Germany were calling up a "war against Steiner". (“Rudolph Steiner,” Wikipedia reference, February 19, 2007)

Steiner had been a key member of the German Theosophical Society at Berlin, but his mystical Christian interests estranged him from the Hindu bent of Theosophy. Steiner broke away and founded the Anthroposophical Society in 1912.

German history between about 1920 and 1945 represents a “strange interlude,” writes Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. Wading through various fantastic claims, the reader can easily find themselves in a hopeless labyrinth. Some basic things, such as Nazi involvement with the occult, are beyond doubt. On the other hand, there is the intriguingly speculative, such as Goodrick-Clarke's account of how Trevor Ravenscroft came to write his book, The Spear Of Destiny.

In Appendix E of his book, The Occult Roots Of Nazism, Goodrick-Clarke includes the following: Trevor Ravenscroft, after World War II, met Walter Johannes Stein, who had once taught at a school run according to the anthroposophical principles of Rudolph Steiner. Stein believed that the grail romance of Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, had been written with an actual 9th-century historical background and that the fabulous characters of Parzival corresponded to real people. The battle between the Christian knights and their evil adversaries was thought to be an allegory of the struggle for possession of the Holy Lance which pierced Christ at the Crucifixion.

According to Goodrick-Clarke, Ravenswood based his 1972 book, Spear Of Destiny, on Stein's work. In August of 1912, in an occult bookshop in Vienna, Stein had purchased a used copy of Parzival. The copy had scribbled notes in the margins, jotted down by the previous owner. The name written on the inside cover showed the book's former owner to have been none other than Adolph Hitler. Stein asked the owner of the bookshop, Ernst Pretzsche, if he knew anything about this Hitler. Pretzsche informed Stein that Hitler was an assiduous student of the occult.

Goodrick-Clarke considers Ravenscroft to have been a “crypto-historian” who adapted material from Rudolph Steiner's prolific writing, sprinkled it with some Walter Johannes Stein, and produced somewhat of a best-seller.

Adolph Hitler has a tendency to pop up in unlikely places: South America, the United States, and possibly in Great Britain. In Hitler Was A British Agent, Greg Hallett (and anonymous collaborator “The Spymaster”) bases much of his theory on a book written by Brigid Hitler, My Brother-in-Law Hitler. Alois Hitler had been the half-brother of Adolph who had been the fourth son of his father's third marriage. The second marriage produced a boy, named Alois after his father, and a girl. Alois, Jr. married Brigid (a.k.a. Bridget) Elisabeth Dowling on June 3rd, 1910, in London.

Brigid reportedly claimed to have met Adolph in Liverpool, England, in November 1912. The claim of Hitler having even been in England then is disputed by historians. It has not been proven, other than in the book written by Brigid Dowling Hitler written in the 1930s and by local legend. Local Historian Mike Royden knows the story well, "As I was growing up, every time Adolf was mentioned, my father would say he was once in Liverpool, and the street was pointed out to me later when we would be driving home from Town and he would say 'This is Upper Stanhope Street where Hitler once lived.'” (“Adolf Hitler - did he visit Liverpool during 1912-13?,” http://www.btinternet.com/~m.royden/mrlhp/local/hitlerinliverpool/makinghistory.htm See also “Bridget Dowling,” Wikipedia reference, February 20, 2007.)

Hallett claims that between February and November of 1912 Adolph Hitler had been “training in the England's [sic] Tavistock Psych-Ops War School.” A problem is, Tavistock did not exist at the time. The Tavistock Clinic was founded in 1920. The Tavistock Institute was founded in 1946. Modern psychology is a relatively young science. In 1912 psychology was, so to speak, “still wearing diapers.” Yet somehow we are asked to believe sophisticated techniques had been used back then to de-pattern the future Fuehrer's mind. This was all part of “double agent training”, supposedly.

And why would the British have especially bothered about young Adolph? Hallet embraces the rumor of Hitler having been an illegitimate blood-line Rothschild. The true facts are interesting enough, even though they might not lead to the House of Rothschild. Hitler's father, Alois, was born on June 7, 1837 to Maria Anna Schickelgruber, unmarried daughter of Johann Schickelgruber. When Alois was five years old, his mother married a mill worker named Johann Georg Hiedler. The spelling was later inadvertantly changed to “Hitler.” So who had secretly fathered Maria Anna Schickelgruber's child? It turns out that Adolph Hitler's grandfather may have had the last name of Frankenberger, and was Jewish. This would mean, by the Nazi's own guidelines, that Adolph Hitler was technically a Jew! Going “one step beyond,” Maria Anna Schickelgruber, employed by the Frankenberger family, might somehow have been impregnated by a visiting Rothschild. But that would be stretching things a bit. (For further background see, “1910 - 1940's Hitler: His Irish Connections,” by Tony McCarthy. http://www.dowlingfamily.info/i1910hit.htm)

Hallett and “The Spymaster's” book is another labyrinth. There is occasional good information to be picked up on the trail, but the trail itself could have been better-written. Hitler's peculiar sexuality, including enjoyment of being defecated upon and secret masochism is covered. But did Hitler really have a radio receiver wired into his mouth, with transmissions tuned to his dental work only?

On the other hand, Goodrick-Clarke's book, despite its “way out” title (The Occult Roots Of Nazism), is well-written and meticulously-researched. Here we are on solid ground. What makes the book a stand-out is its unorthodox approach to understanding how the nightmare of Nazi Germany came to be. Rather than view things from a typical perspective, Goodrick-Clarke traces the rise of an alternative belief system which drastically rejected the heretofore zeitgeist. Repercussions from this then infected the political realm. Taking a cue from the theme of this present work-in-progress (“Battling Cthulhu”), “The Great Old Ones spoke by molding their dreams.”

Guido von List disliked modernity and used to escape to the countryside to strengthen his soul. He preferred to forsake “the foggy shroud of the metropolis” and its “fearful scenes of the wild pursuit of profit.” The modern economy had led humanity astray, he felt.

The research of Guido von List caused him to conclude that, long ago, Germany's civilization had been interrupted by Christianity, which he called “the other Rome.” Before being usurped by the Roman civilization, disguised as Christianity, the ancient holy priesthood of the Wotan cult had been the national religion of the Teutons. “Now,” he wrote, “because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot deny the primal laws of nature, a distorted morality had to be developed, which spreads hypocritical appearances over hidden actions. This has brought to a head all those outward forms of modern life, whose vacuousness and corruption are now beginning to disgust us.” (“Guido von List,” Wikipedia, February 20, 2007)

Von List claimed that the original Teuton priest-kings, faced with Christian persecution, had entrusted their secrets to the rabbis of Cologne during the eighth century. These religious secrets were put into cabbalistic books and erroneously thought to belong to the Jewish tradition.

Christianity, claimed von List, was the negative and destructive principle which had extinguished the Wotanist religion. Christianity represented a vicious assault on national integrity. Von List was sympathetic to the ideas of Giordano Bruno, who had proclaimed that Judaism and Christianity had corrupted the ancient and true religion, Egyptian Hermeticism.

Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels (image, left), mentor to Adolph Hitler, had been a member of the Cistercian order, the power behind the Knights Templar. Lanz, with incredible stupidity, confused the Arius heresy with Aryanism. The suppression, by the Roman emperor Constantine, of the Arius heresy, which denied the Trinity, was seen by Lanz as a victory for devotees of the beast cults.

Ariosophy developed as a belief in a lost Germanic religion. The term “Ariosophy” (occult wisdom concerning the Aryans) was coined by Lanz von Liebenfels in 1915, and replaced “Theozoology” and “Ario-Christianity” as the label for his doctrine in the 1920s. (Wikipedia) Ariosophy is generally used to describe Aryan-centric occult theories and hermetic practices. Lanz traced the revival of Ariosophy to his own (former) Cistercian order. The Knights Templar, according to Lanz, were the armed guards of Ariosophy.

To make some sense out of all this, older readers might recall a book popular in the late 1960s, The Making Of A Counterculture, by Theodore Roszak. At that time there was widespread dissatisfaction with how things were in the social and political realm. When it was published, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels—and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground between 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts in their mutual rejection of what he calls the technocracy -- the regime of corporate and technological expertise that dominates industrial society. (http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6642.html)

A counterculture is a means of self-defense for desperate people. It is, according to the Wikipedia reference (“Counterculture,” February 21, 2007), “the cultural equivalent of political opposition.” In the late 19th century, aboriginal Americans (“Indians”) developed a belief in the “ghost dance” which would, they felt, bring victory against the federal onslaught. The late 19th century and early 20th century Germans, as shown by Goodrick-Clarke, were apprehensive about the effects of industrialization. They yearned for a return to a simpler, rural society, founded on agriculture and individual craftsmanship.

Notable is that Theodore Roszak “was much influenced by... modern theosophists such as H. P. Blavatsky and Rudolph Steiner.” (“Theodore Roszak,” Wikipedia, February 21, 2007)

In Germany, the descent into the irrational continued with the ideas of Karl Maria Wiligut, dubbed “Himmler's Rasputin.” (Which is unfair to Grigori Rasputin, who was not a bad fellow, contrary to widespread belief.) Wiligut claimed to be heir to an ancient tradition termed “Irminism.” He bore “a secret line of German kingship.” Wiligut longed to pass on his “secret knowledge” to a male heir, but only daughters were forthcoming. (“Karl Maria Wiligut,” Wikipedia, February 20, 2007) This is one take on Wiligut, but Wikipedia's understanding may be limited. Wiligut, on behalf of the Gypsies, could have been engaged in a spiritual battle against Nazism.

Wiligut identified Irminism as the true ancestral religion, claiming that Guido von List's Wotanism was a schismatic false religion. Heinrich Himmler, on Wiligut's recommendation, had many of List's followers and non-official Nazi occultists imprisoned in concentration camps. (Ibid.) But Wotanism, as will be seen, was a progenitor of Nazi “Aryan” ideas and so Wiligut might have been steering things into a less dreadful atmosphere.

Encapsulated, Wiligut taught that German history went way back, to 228,000 BC. There were three Suns at the time, and giants roamed the land. (The latter, incidentally, is true: there were “giants in those days.” Read Stephen Quayle's excellent book on the subject, Genesis 6 Giants, for superb coverage.) By around 12,500 BC, the “Irminic religion of Krist” had been revealed. This was the true German faith, until it was supplanted by heretical Wotanists. Christianity had stolen “Krist” and repackaged the deity as Christ. (Ibid.)

Early Kabalists made of soul and body two lives, independent of each other. In some cases, the soul can “die” and yet the body remain living. The soul could free itself from and quit the tabernacle for various reasons, such as insanity, spiritual and physical depravity, etc. In such cases, the soul still dwells in the unseen world, while its body goes on living on Earth. (Blavatsky, Secret Doctrine: Vol. I, Stanza VII, Verse 3.) Did something like this happen to Karl Maria Wiligut (image, right)?

In Stephen King's novel, Salem's Lot, a priest is defeated in a spiritual battle with a vampire. The priest's soul quits the tabernacle as a result, and people instinctively shun him. Wiligut seemed to be doing alright, until he was appointed to the staff of Reichfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Thereafter, Frau Gabriele Winckler-Dechend noticed a dramatic change.

Frau Winckler had been spontaneously adopted as a step-daughter by Wiligut in happier times. The older man was an inspiration to Frau Winckler. But, in a 1997 interview, Frau Winckler sadly recalled, “Much to our regret, the Colonel gradually changed.” Whereas before she had been delighted to be in his company, after Wiligut began working directly under Himmler, Frau Winckler began to avoid Wiligut as if he had become a man without a soul. She sought to get out of the Wiligut household, but Himmler, hungry for further spiritual essence, delayed her request. Eventually Frau Winckler succeeded in escaping. (Appendix E, The Secret King, by Michael Moynihan (Editor))

Karl Maria Wiligut, a career German military officer, had long since retired by the 1930s. Wiligut was married to the daughter of the Venetian Doge, which opened doors for him in high society. Even more intriguing is that Wiligut, according to Frau Winckler, was the Secret King of the Gypsies. (Not the secret king of Germany, as Wikipedia suggests.)

Herr Ernst Lauterer, a Wotanist, had been accused by Wiligut of being a British agent. This accusation, suggests Adolf Schleipfer in an article written in 1982 (“The Wiligut Saga,” Appendix D, The Secret King), was motivated by Wiligut's hostility to Wotanism. Since prehistoric times, the Lauterers and the Wiliguts had been ancestral enemies. According to Wiligut, the original German religion was not Wotanism, but Irmin-Kristianity.

Resistance to the Wotanists became known as the Kristur-Plan, whose followers called themselves the Irminen. They were “the Irmin-faithful.” In the remote past, Kristianity (much earlier than the later Christianity) had altruistically chosen to improve the spiritual development of the “children of stone” by means of methodically mating them with the high, still subtle-bodied, “children of light.” This primordial Kristendom had a plan for human elevation.

Those who were against the cross-breeding plan were called Wotanists. The Wotanists considered Kristendom to be a “salvation religion” and contrary to the joy of creation. For the “children of light” to kindly mate with the “children of stone” was a self-sacrifice, believed the Wotanists, and contrary to natural spontaneity. Researcher Rudolf J. Mund reportedly claims Baldur-Kristos, the original Christ, was crucified due to the ancient feud between the Irmin-Kristians and the Wotanists. Baldur had favored the miscegenation between the “children of light” and the “children of stone.” The Wotanists were furious, and agitated the “Joeten” (ancestors of the Gypsies) into crucifying Baldur.

The accusation by Wiligut, that Lauterer was a British agent, indeed suggests a connection between Britain and the racist Wotanists. There is also a hint of Catholicism in the occult battle between Kristendom and Wotanism. It is disturbing to note, argues Schleipfer, that Wiligut's middle name was Maria, “which in typical Catholic circles is given by parents as a special reference to their Catholic belief!” Wiligut, the Kristian, was in other words a Christian. And Christianity – with or without “K” or “Ch” -- is, according to some, a scion of Judaism, a foreign (to the Wotanists) religion. The Kristur-Plan, claims Schleipfer, works like a Trojan Horse within the enclosed walls of the Wotanic religion. Schleipfer warns that “Irmin-Kristianity and Wotanism represent polar forces within the consciousness of our ancestors.” Today's Wotanist can never wend his way in peace, due to being emotionally interfered with by the Kristur-side.

So Karl Maria Wiligut, secret king of the Gypsies, may have infiltrated the SS in order to effectively combat the forces of Wotanism. In periodicals of the 1930s there began to be mutterings against Guido von List. The “majority of his work is good and faultless,” revealed Hagal in 1934, but von List “also represented things in a faulty manner and that especially his Wotanic attitude is not correct.” The writings of Wotanist von List contain “many errors.” Behind the scenes, forces of Kristianity were chipping away at the foundations of Wotanism.

Wiligut, secret king of the Gypsies, entered the castle of Dracula Himmler. The priest battled the vampire. But while there, Wiligut began to be “treated” with drugs by SS physicians. “It seems that these drugs had the effect of causing certain personality changes...” (The Secret King). “Much to our regret,” Frau Winckler sadly recalled, “the Colonel gradually changed.”

There is also a secretive homosexual influence pervading the SS in those days. Otto Rahn (1904-1939) published The Crusade Against The Grail in 1933. Financial difficulties caused him to move to Germany. In 1936, Rahn joined the SS and was immediately enlisted into the personal staff of Himmler, the Reichsfuhrer-SS. Rahn worked closely with Wiligut while there. Rumors began to spread in Dracula's castle that Rahn was homosexual. Himmler subtly hinted to Rahn that the honorable thing would be for Rahn to swallow a bullet. Reacting to this suggestion, Rahn climbed high into the mountains with a bottle of liquor. There, he drank, fell asleep, and froze to death. (A book, The Pink Swastika, reportedly explores homosexual influence in Nazi Germany.)

What role women played in Nazi Germany, beyond being breeders for blondes, would be an interesting study. In tribal Germany, the Maidentum was based upon recognition of equal social rights for women. This ancient tradition had been extinguished by Christianity. Prior to the arrival of Christianity in Germany, virgins were chosen to be Burgmaidens. The corps of maidens had been divided into four groups:

Out of the Burgmaidens, the later Christian convents developed. Not known as of this writing is whether the Nazis had their own elite version of the Burgmaidens.

The gleaming literati do not like Thomas Wolfe (image, left). Usually they say, “Wolfe is too autobiographical.” One professor explained, “When Thomas Wolfe moved north, his characters moved north with him.” The tendency of this novelist to insert a thinly disguised version of himself into his stories, though, makes Wolfe's writing worthwhile as history.

Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) is not to be confused with the pop author called Tom Wolfe. Thomas Wolfe was in Germany in 1936, and described what he saw, in the novel, You Can't Go Home Again, via the character “George Webber.” Here are some excerpts (abridged, with emphasis added):

Ever since 1933, George had read, first with amazement, shock, and doubt, then with despair and a leaden sinking of the heart, all the newspaper accounts of what was going on in Germany... on the whole he was inclined to feel that the true state of affairs could not be as bad as they were pictured.

George Webber (Thomas Wolfe) arrived in Germany, in 1936.

I had gone back for rest, for recreation, for oblivion, to that land which, of all the foreign lands that I had visited, I loved the best. And now it seemed to me, who had so often gone a stranger and unknown to the great cities of the world, that Berlin was mine.

But George began to hear some ugly things. From time to time, at parties, dinners, and the like, when George would speak of his enthusiasm for Germany and the German people, various friends that he had made would, if they had had enough to drink, take him aside afterwards and, after looking around cautiously, lean toward him with an air of great secrecy and whisper:

“But have you heard...? And have you heard...?”

He did not see any of the ugly things they whispered about. He did not see anyone beaten. He did not see anyone imprisoned, or put to death. He did not see any men in concentration camps. He did not see openly anywhere the physical manifestations of a brutal and compulsive force.

George (Thomas Wolfe) could not get tickets for the Berlin Olympics. He stood outside the stadium with the crowd, who hoped to catch a glimpse of Adolph Hitler.

At last he came – and something like a wind across a field of grass was shaken through that crowd, and from afar the tide rolled up with him, and in it was the voice, the hope, the prayer of the land. The Leader came by slowly in a shining car, a little dark man with a comic-opera mustache, erect and standing, moveless and unsmiling, with his hand upraised, palm outward, not in Nazi-wise salute, but straight up, in a gesture of blessing such as the Buddha or Messiahs use.

The weeks passed – and then it happened. Little by little the world came in. At first it sifted in almost unnoticed, like dark down dropped in passing from some avenging angel's wing. Sometimes it came to me in the desperate pleading of an eye, the naked terror of a startled look, the swift concealment of a sudden fear.

It came to me full flood at last in confessions of unutterable despair. I don't know why it was that people so unburdened themselves to me, a stranger, unless it was because they knew the love I bore them and their land. They seemed to feel a desperate need to talk to someone who would understand.

They told me stories of their friends and relatives who had said unguarded things in public and disappeared without a trace, stories of the Gestapo, stories of neighbors' quarrels and petty personal spite turned into political persecution, stories of concentration camps and pogroms, stories of rich Jews stripped and beaten and robbed of everything they had and then denied the right to earn a pauper's wage, stories of well-bred Jewesses despoiled and turned out of their homes and forced to kneel and scrub off anti-Nazi slogans scribbled on the sidewalks while young barbarians dressed like soldiers formed a ring and prodded them with bayonets and made the quiet places echo with the shameless laughter of their mockery. It was a picture of the Dark Ages come again – shocking beyond belief, but true as the hell that man forever creates for himself.

Thus it was that the corruption of man's living faith and the inferno of his buried anguish came to me – and I recognized at last, in all its frightful aspects, the spiritual disease which was poisoning unto death a noble and a mighty people.

But even as I saw it and knew it for what it was, there came to me, most strangely, another thing as well. I saw again the haggard faces of the homeless men, the wanderers, the disinherited of America, the aged workers who had worked and now could work no more, the callow boys who had never worked and now could find no work to do, and who, both together, had been cast loose by a society that had no need of them and left to shift in any way they could – to find their food in garbage cans, to seek for warmth and fellowship in foul latrines like the one near New York's City Hall, to sleep wrapped up in old newspapers on the concrete floors of subway corridors.

It all came back to me, all the separate fragments of the vision I had seen, together with the sinister remembrance of that upper world of night, glittering with its riches, and its soft, sophisticated pleasures, and its cold indifference to the misery and injustice on which its very life was founded. It all came back, but now it was an integrated picture.

So it was, in this far place and under these profoundly moving and disturbing alien circumstances, that I realized fully, for the first time, how sick America was, and saw, too, that the ailment was akin to Germany's – a dread world-sickness of the soul. In Germany it was hopeless: it had already gone too far to be checked now by any measures short of death, destruction, and total ruin. But in America, it seemed to me, it was not mortal, not incurable – not yet. It was desperate, and would become more desperate still if in America, as in Germany, men became afraid to look into the face of fear itself, to probe behind it, to see what caused it, and then to speak the truth about it. America was still resilient, still responsive to a cure – if only – if only – men could somehow cease to be afraid of truth. For the plain and searching light of truth, which had here, in Germany, been darkened to extinction, was the remedy, the only one, that could cleanse and heal the suffering soul of man.

The experiences of that final summer in Germany had a profound effect upon George Webber. He had come face to face with something old and genuinely evil in the spirit of man which he had never known before, and it shook his inner world to its foundations. It threw into sharp relief many other related phenomena which George had observed in the whole temper of the times, and it made plain to him, once and for all, the dangers that lurk in those latent atavistic urges which man has inherited from his dark past.

Hitlerism, he saw, was a recrudescence of an old barbarism. But this spirit was not confined to Germany. It belonged to no one race. It was a terrible part of the universal heritage of man. One saw traces of it everywhere. It took on many disguises, many labels. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin – each had his own name for it. And America had it, too, in various forms. For wherever men conspired together for their own ends, wherever the rule of dog-eat-dog was dominant, there it bred.

When George realized all this he began to look for atavistic yearnings in himself. He found plenty of them. Any man can find them if he is honest enough to look for them. The dark, ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back – but, you can't go home again.

Big Bangers Serve Cthulhu

Germany had experienced a “strange interlude.” A common thread in the diverging beliefs, from Guido von List, through Lanz von Liebenfels and Rudolph Steiner, and culminating in Karl Maria Wiligut, is the work of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Some of the German theorists branched off into ultimately harmful realms, yet at least one, Rudolph Steiner, developed good ideas from Blavatsky. Steiner was a pioneer in such diverse areas as education (“independence of educational institutions from governmental control”), cooperative forms of business (“the cultural, political and economic spheres of society need to be sufficiently independent of one another to be able to mutually correct each other in an ongoing way”), biodynamic farming (“an ecological and sustainable farming system”), and medicine (“a holistic and salutogenetic approach to health”). (“Rudolph Steiner”, Wikipedia, February 22, 2007)

Blavatsky, in hundreds of pages, gave her interpretation of how the universe began. Her version of “Cosmogenesis” is markedly different from the later “Big Bang” theory developed by some scientists. In The Secret Doctrine (Vol. I, Cosmogenesis), a philosophically sound schema of the universe and its forces is given.

The “Big Bang” of the mainstream scientists is tellingly similar to the individual “big bang” experienced by most of us at birth. The doctor welcomed us to this world with a whack to the behind. We had been in a gentle, dark, warm womb, and from this went to noise, light and a tremendous additional jolt to our rear ends. It was birth. Birth was a big bang.

The trauma of birth is a subject carefully explored by Otto Rank, a close associate of Sigmund Freud who broke away from his teacher. One ramification of the birth trauma is an inordinate fear of death. The transition to independent life had been severe, and we sense the transition out of life will be equally jarring. This is not so. The transition called death involves nowhere near the shock experienced at birth. Some advanced-thinking persons insist their own newborns must be massaged into birth, rather than stunned into it.

Otto Rank explored various ramifications of the birth trauma, of which there are several. One after-effect not foreseen by Rank is scientists projecting their own birth traumas onto the universe. Their lives had begun with a “big bang,” hence “big bangs” must equal birth. The universe is immensely larger than the scientists, so for it to be born there must have been a really “Big Bang.” The scientists wrapped the newborn in incomprehensible mathematics to protect it against any doubts.

Some scientists disagree there was any “Big Bang” which started the universe. Physicists Paul Frampton, Louis J. Rubin Jr., and Lauris Baum, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, propose a cyclic model, where the universe does not “begin” but eternally expands and contracts. "This cycle happens an infinite number of times, thus eliminating any start or end of time," Frampton said. "There is no Big Bang." (“No Big Bang? Endless Universe Made Possible by New Model,” http://www.physorg.com/news89399974.html)

The cyclic concept of Frampton et al. is intuitively more sensible than the “Big Bang” idea. What was the universe before the “Big Bang”? How could the universe ever have been naught? Cosmologists first offered an oscillating universe model, with no beginning or end, as a Big Bang alternative in the 1930s. However this would have been tantamount to perpetual motion. “Nyet!” shouted the mainstream scientists. “We have already decreed, There can be no perpetual motion.” (Hidebound Physics Law Number 1)

Cthulhu is also displeased about any “oscillating universe” ideas. This might lead to talk that the universe is some sort of greater Being. From there, people might intuit some sort of deity, which would diminish Cthulhu by comparison. Accordingly, Cthulhu has ordered the Great Old Ones to speak to the mainstream scientists by molding their dreams, thereby reaching the fleshy minds of the mammal scientists. Expect the mainstream mammalian brains to cling tenaciously to “Big Bang.”

Helena Blavatsky, as noted, offered an extensive portrayal of how the universe “began.” Like Frampton and his colleagues, her view was of a universe which eternally expands and contracts. Blavatsky's “Cosmogenesis,” first published in 1888, relied upon exceedingly ancient, esoteric sources, according to the authoress. The universe did not exactly “oscillate”; rather, it breathed, in and out, during an immense period of time.

Blavatsky gave her humble interpretation of what the ancient texts had to say. She considered herself an imperfect messenger. Yet in the face of falsities piled upon falsities emerging from the dominating priesthood of positivist science, Blavatsky decided it was better to say something imperfectly than to say nothing at all. The strait-jacket of so-called science was pushing the world into a dead-end. "[T]he materialism of To-Day is born of the brutal Yesterday,” she had written in 1877. “It is the bastard progeny of the French Revolution and its reaction against ages of religious bigotry and repression." (H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled)

Blavatsky considered herself to be an imperfect explainer. What follows is my own imperfect explanation of H.P. Blavatsky's “Cosmogenesis.”

Cosmogenesis

Beyond the Western Tsai-dam, in the solitary passes of Kuen-lun, along the ridge of Altyn-Tagh, in a tiny hamlet hidden in a deep gorge, within a subterranean crypt, an aged hermit guards the Book of Dzyan. (Dzyan a.k.a. Dzan, from Dan, later rendered Ch'an in Chinese.)

By permission of the Emperor Ming-ti, you have journeyed here to learn what you can. In his bony hands, the hermit brings the Book of Dzyan to you. By the light of a candle, you begin to read...

Space is the “Unknown Causeless Cause.”

“What is it that ever is?”

“Space, the eternal Anupapadaka [parentless].”

One aspect of the Absolute is Eternal, ceaseless Motion, also called the “Great Breath.” An out-breathing produces the Universe; an inhalation causes it to disappear. “In Him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts xvii, 28)

Space was filled with atoms in ceaseless motion. Eventually, as the atoms aggregated, there began to be rotatory motion.

On the one hand, there is absolute, abstract Space; on the other, absolute abstract Motion, symbolizing change.

The Universe in toto is eternal and infinite. Within that Universe there is a periodical playground of numberless Universes perpetually manifesting and disappearing.

The kindly hermit brings you a cup of tea. You pause to sip it, and begin to ponder. “Space and Motion,” you muse aloud. “An outbreathing and an inbreathing. The outbreathing sets the atoms in motion.”

As if in a trance, the hermit speaks:

“The eternal parent wrapped in her ever-invisible robes had slumbered once again for seven eternities.”

“Time was not, for it lay asleep in the infinite bosom of duration.”

“Darkness alone filled the boundless all.”

“Where was silence? Where the ears to sense it? No, there was neither silence nor sound.”

Refreshed by the tea, you continue to read from the Book of Dzyan.

The One Eternal Element is Space, dimensionless in every sense. Motion is one of the three aspects of the Absolute – Abstract Space and Duration being the other two. Primordial matter, before it awakens, is cool Radiance, devoid of every quality and aspect.

Darkness is Father-Mother; Light is their Son. The essence of darkness is absolute light. Light is matter, and Darkness pure Spirit. According to Robert Fludd, “Darkness adopted illumination in order to make itself visible.” Light, the white brilliant Son of the dark hidden Father, a cold flame, was breathed upon Space. Pure Light condensed gradually into form, hence becoming Matter or Evil. “The Spirit of God moved on Chaos.” The primordial Electric Entity electrified into life and separated the primordial stuff into atoms. The Universe expanded under the breath of Fire. Fohat hardened the atoms by infusing energy into them.

Od is the pure life-giving Light, or magnetic fluid. Ob is the messenger of death, the nefarious evil fluid used by the sorcerors. Or is the synthesis of the two. Fire is Aether in its purest form.

Anna, Mother of the Virgin Mary, is represented by the Roman Catholic Church as having given birth to Mary in an immaculate way. Mary is from the Latin Mare, the Sea, meaning the Ocean of Space. Anna is derived from the Latin Anima Mundi, meaning the Soul of the World. Anna (Anima Mundi) is of an igneous, ethereal nature. Through virgin birth, born from Anna is Mare (Mary), the Ocean of Space. From Darkness, into Space is born Light, the white brilliant Son of the dark hidden Father.

The primordial Matter, considered from a different perspective, is Mulaprakriti (Sanskrit), the abstract deific feminine principle – undifferentiated substance. It is literally, “the root of Nature” (Prakriti) or Matter. In one form it is Akasa (Sanskrit), the subtle, supersensuous spiritual essence which pervades all Space; the primordial substance erroneously identified with Ether. But Akasa is to Ether what Spirit is to Matter. Akasa can be considered Aether, compared to the element Ether considered by some scientists. The Akasa is the same Anima Mundi (Anna) on the higher plane as the astral light is on the lower. (The Theosophical Glossary by H.P. Blavatsky)

Fohat digs holes in Space. Fohat hardens the atoms by infusing energy into them. The Mother is the fiery Fish of Life. She scatters her spawn and the Breath (Motion) heats and quickens it. The grains of spawn are attracted to each other and form the curds in the Ocean of Space. The larger lumps coalesce and attract more spawn. Some of the lumps detach themselves and assume spheroidal form. Motion (the Breath) becomes the whirlwind and sets them into rotation.

The curds (world-stuff) become wanderers (comets). These become stars, and the stars (the centers of vortices) become our suns and planets.

Outside of the hermit's cottage, some of the villagers have gathered. They are discussing something. You strain to hear, and catch these words: “What does he do all day?”

The hermit sighs, then climbs onto a rickety bamboo treadmill. He goes into Motion, an aspect of the Absolute. You continue your reading.

The planets in our Solar System did not evolve from our Sun. The first condensation of cosmic matter did take place about a central nucleus, its parent Sun, but our particular Sun merely detached itself earlier than the other planets. Our Sun is elder, bigger brother to the planets and not their father. Our Sun drew into its mass all the cosmic vitality he could, threatening to engulf his weaker brethren (the planets), before the law of attraction and repulsion was finally adjusted. Thereafter, the Sun began feeding on “the Mother's refuse and sweat,” that is, portions of the Ether.

Fohat represents the active (male) potency of the female reproductive power in nature. It is the essence of cosmic electricity and primordial light. Fohat is the Steed, and the Thought is the Rider. Fohat is the objectivized thought of the gods; the “Word made flesh.”

The Breath produces the Fiery Whirlwind. Fohat separates the primordial atoms and forms the germs of wheels. The wheels are the centers of force, around which the primordial cosmic matter expands. The wheels are also called Rotae and Elemental Vortices. (The rotation of planets are an indication of earlier vortices.)

In Principia Rerum Naturalium, Emmanuel Swedenborg reportedly summarized the Vorticular Theory, also called the Whirlwinds. (Footnote, Stanza V, Part 4, Secret Doctrine: Vol. I) The first Cause is the Infinite or Unlimited. This gives existence to the First Finite or Limited. That which produces a limit is analogous to motion. The limit produced is a point, the Essence of which is Motion; but being without dimension, this Essence is not actual Motion but a change from eternal vibration in the unmanifested to Vorticular Motion in the phenomenal or manifested World. From this first proceed Extension, Space, Figure, and Time.

The limit produced is a point, the Essence of which is Motion. The imperishable Laya Centers are the zero-point from which the Universe manifests. The worlds are built neither upon, nor over, nor in the Laya Centers. The Laya Centers are the zero-points in the sense that they indicate a point at which the scale of reckoning of differentiation begins. Fohat digs holes in Space. Fohat, the one instrument with which the Logos works, is the “Light of the Logos.” It manifests in the plane of the objective Universe as the hidden, as much as the revealed, Electricity. Fohat is behind all such manifestations as light, heat, sound, etc.

There are Seven Elements, of which only four are fully manifested to us. (The other three are there, but we as yet have not the capacity to perceive them.) Fire is the first element, followed by Air, Water, and Earth. The fifth element, Ether, has only partially manifested to us. (Air is synonymous for gas, Water for liquid, and Earth for solids. Fire can be considered as heat, but is a terra incognita to most. Science, at this point, is obliged to define Fire by its outward aspects while remaining ignorant of its nature.)

The characteristics of matter bear a direct relation to the human senses. Matter has extension, color, motion, taste, and smell, corresponding to the existing senses. By the time matter “acquires” its next characteristic of permeability, this will correspond with the arrival of the next sense, “normal clairvoyance.” Space and Time, in certain aspects, are generalizations – concrete experiences of the mind. In the further development of the human senses, Ether (the gross body of Akasa) will, by becoming a familiar fact of Nature to all, cease to be as at present hypothetical.

The ratio of progression in the chemical atoms, from monatomic, diatomic, tetratomic, etc., mirrors the elements of primary creation, Fire, Air, Water, etc.

The two poles of our Earth are the storehouses – receptacles and liberators, at the same time – of cosmic and terrestrial Vitality (Electricity), from the surplus of which the Earth, had it not been for these two natural “safety valves,” would have been torn to pieces long ago.

The Sephiroth of the Hebrew Kabala are the ten emanations of deity. The highest of these is formed by the concentration of the Ain Soph Aur, or the Limitless Light, and each Sephira produces by emanation another Sephira. Water was incubated through Light. The Kabala teaches that the word “Fiat Lux” (“Let there be light”) referred to the formation and evolution of the Sephiroth and not to light as opposed to darkness. There are two “Fiat Lux” occurrences in Genesis, chapter 1: In verse 3, and again in verse 14. The Kabala may be distinguishing between these.

The Dhyan Chohans (Sanskrit), “Lords of Light,” correspond to the Roman Catholic Archangels, Divine intelligences charged with supervision of the Kosmos. Life precedes form. The first Dhyanis, commissioned to “create” man (“Let us create man in our image”), could only throw off their shadows, like a delicate model for the Nature-Spirits of matter to work upon.

At the moment when each of us receives life and being, we are taken in charge by the genii [Elementals; nature spirits personified by gnomes, sylphs, undines, and salamanders] who preside over births. But the reasonable part of the soul is not subject to the genii; it is designed for the reception of God, who enlightens it with a sunny ray. Those who are thus illumined are few in number, and from them the genii abstain: for neither genii nor gods have any power in the presence of a single ray of God. But all other men and women, both soul and body, are directed by genii, to whom they cleave, and whose operations they affect. The genii, then, have the control of mundane things.

Modern materialism, often miscalled “science,” is more properly called sciolism. It alone often bears responsibility for the many illogical theories offered to the world. In its great ignorance, the public feels it is its duty to regard every dictum coming from the priesthood of science as a proven fact, and is taught to scoff at anything brought forward from “heathen” sources. The once sublime ancient traditions have now degenerated into dogmatic faith on the one hand, and dogmatic denials on the other.

You put down the book and rub your eyes. Its ideas have left you at a loss for words. Outside, it looks like the dawn will soon appear. You look more closely and see some sort of luminance heading toward the cabin. Not stopping, it penetrates right through the walls. “Ah, permeability of matter... The developing 'normal clairvoyance',” you surmise. The luminance, you notice, looks like Allen Ginsberg. “What is the ghost of Allen Ginsberg doing here?” you wonder. The ghost is trying to say something, but you can't make it out.

As if in a trance, the hermit speaks: “Recent history is the record of a vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.” (qtd. In Popular Alienation by Kenn Thomas, Editor)