SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazis’ Incredible Secret Technology (19 page)

The four young people hoped that during these meetings in Vienna they would learn something about the secret revolutionary texts of the
Knights Templar
and also about the secret fraternity DIE HERREN VOM SCHWARZEN STEIN (“The Lords of the Black Stone”).
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Again, there is, on the surface, nothing new about Van Helsing’s allegations; one encounters the familiar names – Von Sebottendorff and General Haushofer, Hitler’s “geopolitics” guru – in connection with familiar themes: the fascination for the Orient and for its “secret wisdom”.

But, again, Van Helsing imparts new information – again without the slightest substantiation – that is unique to him, namely, that the Vienna meeting was for a twofold purpose: (1) to acquire knowledge about some apparently (very) secret Templar texts, and (2) to acquire knowledge about an even more secret fraternity, the Lords of the Black Stone. And of course, lest it be forgotten, the words Black Stone, in German, are
schwarzen Stein
, abbreviated as

“SS”. It is not long, therefore, before Van Helsing couples this new twist to another ancient occult doctrine, the “Black Sun” (
schwarze Sonne)
of illumination, also abbreviated “SS.”
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Then in September of 1917, Baron Von Sebottendorff allegedly
met
with leaders and members of this mysterious “Lords of the Black Stone” fraternity in “Untersberg to receive the power of the ‘Black-Purple Stone’ after which the secret society was named.”
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Again, no substantiation or evidence of this assertion is offered. However, perhaps a very indirect corroboration exists in the form of the famous traveler-explorer-occultist Nicholas Roerich, an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roerich, of course, had a similar preoccupation with “magic stones”, namely, the celebrated chintimanti stone of Mongolia.

In any case, whatever happened in September 1917 appeared to have been successful, for in 1918 a group formed around Von Sebottendorff in Bad Aibling, which would become the notorious Thule Society. It is here that “scientific magic, astrology, occultism and Templar knowledge as well as ‘Golden Dawn’ practices like Tantra, Yoga and Eastern meditation” were all combined.”
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And among this potent mix was also a tincture of messianism, for the
Thule Gesellschaft
also “believed, following the Revelation of Isis, in a Coming Saviour (German: Heiland = the Holy One), the ‘Third Sargon’ who would bring to Germany glory and a new Aryan culture.”
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In other words, the program was a total one: the goal of the secret society not only continued to be to (re-)discover and (re-)construct a lost and exotic technology of hegemony, but it also sought to place its ideas and agendas into power. Once in power, it would maintain itself in authority by the very technological means it was seeking to (re-) discover. Thus, by implication Van Helsing is saying that one of the
hidden
or “occulted” agendas of the Nazi Party since its inception was always technological and occult in nature; it was
committed
to the (re-) discovery of a lost and buried technology of hegemony, in short, to the creation of exotic and massively destructive weapons. It was, so to speak, the one political party in the world with an occult-weapons agenda that could be called “Atlantean.” It was the one political party in the world with
both
feet planted firmly in Atlantis.

To drive home this point, Van Helsing cites the famous work of Dietrich Bronder,
Befor Hitler Kamm
(
Before Hitler Came
), which lists the following people as members of the
Thule Gesellschaft:

1. Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff, Grand Master

2. Guido Von List, Master

4. Adolf Hitler, later Reichschancellor, and “SS Superior”

5. Rudolf Hess, later Deputy Führer and SS Obergruppenführer

6. Hermann Göring, Reichsmarschall and SS Obergruppenführer

7. Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer SS and Reichsminister

9. Hans Franck, NSDAP Reichsleiter and later Governor General of occupied Poland

10. Juilius Streicher, SA Obergruppenführer

11. Major General Prof Dr. Karl Haushofer, occultist and geopolitician, considered to be the architect of Hitler’s
Lebensraum
doctrine

13. Dietrich Eckart, poet, occultist, and Editor in Chief of the
Völkischer Beobachter
newspaper

15. Dr. Theo Morell, Hitler’s personal physician

16. Franz Gurtner, Munich police president

18. Prof Dr W.O. Schumann of the Munich Technical University

20. Countess Westrap.
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This list is illuminating in a number of respects.

First, it provides a general context from which to view the possible occult influences at work behind the Nazi Antarctic expedition in 1938-1939, for that expedition was under the patronage of
Reichsmarschall
Göring. Second, it provides a similar context from which to view the allegations of some that Hess was privy to whatever secrets that expedition found, and that these were the ultimate motivation for the Allied Powers keeping him – or his imposter – imprisoned for so long after the war. Finally, it provides an interesting context from which to view the Third Reich and its secret weapons black projects themselves, projects which included a heavy admixture of occult doctrine and experimentation. From a glance at the list, it is apparent that the SS itself is the visible extension of the
Thule Gesellschaft
into the Third Reich. Or, to put it differently, via the National Socialist Party, an occult secret society had seized the reigns of authority in one of the world’s great powers, and could thus direct the entire energies of that state into the overt and covert pursuit of its agendas.

Among the doctrines held by the
Thule Gesellschaft
that lay behind the Nazi ideology were an “Ayro-Germanic construction of religion…by the philosopher Guido Von List… a leaning towards the anti-Old Testament” views of an early Christian heresy known as Marcionism.
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This was augmented by the “esoteric history” of the Aryans believed by the
Thule Gesellschaft
, a history reconstructed from ancient German and Scandinavian myths. Chief among these was the belief in “Hyperborea,” the continent populated by the “ancient Aryans,” with its capital city of “Ultima Thule,” both of which were located in “the highest north”. Moreover, these “ancient Aryans” were space travelers from a planet in the star system of Aldebaran, the main star in the constellation of Taurus.
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According to this myth, the continent sank during the last ice age, whereupon, with customary Teutonic preparation, the ancient Ayrans were supposed to have burrowed into the earth and “settled under the Himalaya region” in huge subterranean cities bored out with huge machines.
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This in turn forms the rationale for the “two large expeditions” that were “sent by the SS to the Himalayas to find those entrances. Further expeditions searched in the Andes, the Matto Grosso mountains in the North and the Santa Catarina mountains in the South of Brazil, in Czechoslovakia and parts of England.”
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As Van Helsing also mentions, Hitler’s geopolitician, General Karl Haushofer, had his own personal dualistic twist to this doctrine, claiming that

Thule was actually Atlantis and – contrary to all other researchers of Tibet and India – he said that the surviving Thule-Atlanteans were separated into two groups, a good one and an evil one. Those who called themselves after their oracle
Agharti
– were the good and settled in the Himalaya region, the evil ones were the
Shamballah
– who wanted to subjugate humanity and they went West. He maintained that the fight between the people of Agharta and Shamballah had been going on for thousands of years and that in the Third Reich, the Thule Gesellschaft as Agartha’s representative – continued it against the representatives of Shamballah, the Freemasons and the Zionists. This perhaps was his mission.
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Haushofer allegedly then went on to found in 1919 “a second order, the ‘
Brüder des Lichts
’ (sic)(Brothers of the Light),” the society that later became the
Vril Gesellschaft
.
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According to Van Helsing this new secret society united the society known as
Die Herren vom Schwarzen Stein
(The Lords of the Black Stone), which allegedly emerged from the old Teutonic Order, and the
Schwarze Ritter
(Black Knights) of the Thule Society and the SS elite of the
Schwarze Sonne
, or Black Sun.
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The occasion of this founding was apparently a meeting in which members of these various secret orders met in a rented forester’s lodge near what would later become Hitler’s lair, in Berchtesgaden. The meeting was also attended by two mediums, who had “mediumistically received transmissions in a secret Templar script – a language unknown to her – with the technical data for the construction of a flying machine. According to Vril documents these telepathic messages came from the solar system Aldebaran which is sixty-eight light-years away in the constellation Taurus.”
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As part of this message, the mediums were “informed” that the non-white races were in “lower (stages) of spiritual development,” and that “the more the races intermixed, the lower the spiritual development of these people sank.”
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They were also “told” that the “divine” people of “Aldebaran” had colonized “the planet
Mallona
(also called Maldek, Marduk or – by the Russians – Phaeton) which existed in the area of today’s asteroid belt, then between Mars and Jupiter.”
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Of course, the idea of the asteroid belt having been a former planet that had exploded is an old hypothesis, first entertained in the early nineteenth century by astronomers after the discovery of the second asteroid, and as they sought to explain why Bode’s Law predicted a planet should be in the orbit of the asteroid belt.
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What is crucial to notice, however, is that Van Helsing’s allegation makes it clear that someone inside of Germany had connected the astronomical theory of an exploded planet to certain ancient Sumerian myths, most likely that of the
Enuma Elish
, an ancient war epic that describes the destruction of the now missing planet by means of an ancient weapon of mass destruction.
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But Van Helsing does not stop there, for he also connects these occult practices, secret societies, astronomical theories, with the secret development of a new science and new technology:

We cannot know whether these statements about Aldebaran were based on facts, but the construction plans and the technical details that the Vril telepaths received – wherever they came from – were so accurate that they led to the most fantastic idea men ever begot: the construction of a
Jenseitsflugmaschine
, a “flying machine for the other side.”
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Let us pause to consider exactly what these statements mean.

First, Van Helsing supplies considerably
more
detail in what is otherwise the old story that the Vril Society receives UFO plans from mediums, namely, he supplies the secret societies that came together, and names the mediums involved,
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the time,
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and the place, a forester’s lodge near Berchtesgaden! But secondly, as the remarks immediately above make clear, his interest is not so much these allegations, but rather that they led to the development of an entirely different technology and science
by a secret society founded for the purpose
by the very man later to be Hitler’s geopolitician!

As if that were not enough, Van Helsing then goes on to make the following statement:

During this early phase of “alternative science” Dr. W. O. Schumann of the Technical University in Munich, both a Thule and a Vril member, held a speech a section of which is reproduced here:

“In everything we recognize two principles that determine the events: light and darkness, good and evil, creation and destruction – as in electricity we know plus and minus. It is always: either – or…..The coming new age will be an age of a new, positive, divine technology!”
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Van Helsing then notes that these remarks – one of the few that he “substantiates” - are drawn from “the German SS secret archives.”
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According to Van Helsing, the first “saucer” was secretly built by the Vril Society in 1922.
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He follows this up with even more specific information. For example, he alleges that this machine was tested for two years before it was “dismantled and probably stored in the Augsburg works of Messerschmitt.”
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Moreover, there were entries in the financial records of German aviation companies “under the codename ‘JFM’ (for
Jenseitsflugmaschine
)” that showed “payments towards financing this work.”
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