Norithien, the new kingdom of Thule

By Hyranio Garbho

Norithien is one of the most fascinating mysteries of arkhanen esotericism. This was communicated to him by his teacher Agrippa Gabriel Grenze. It writes at length in his book Diaries an Initiate. According Grenze Agrippa had told once the glories of Night would return in all its glory and majesty in the land where once flourished Norithien, the new kingdom of Thule. To Grenze Norithien he would have found on the reverse side of the world where the forest Neegal was found. This would coincide with the end opposite Chilean Patagonia-Argentina. Hence the importance of being Agrippa (Chile) and Look (Argentina) initiates arkhanen esotericism.

Grenze in the opinion of the telluric energy of the planet and how it charges the landscape in these lands have led to the survivors of the ancient Thule there to reestablish their ancient kingdom, the new Thule Thule of the ends of the Earth (the Thule Finis Terrae), also called Norithien in Arkhanen Weddings. The architect of this feat would have been a survivor of Atlantis (the Thule origins) called Lin, a disciple of Arpha, and alter-ego of Yrmion. City Lin, capital Norithien (the New Kingdom of Thule), was called Lin-Lin or Élelin in antiquity (almost antique mythical times) and City of the Caesars by those who knew her thanks to the chronicles of Cesar Francisco. This city and this kingdom would have found in the Chilean-Argentine Patagonia, up to where today are the cities of Osorno (Chile), Angostura (Argentina) and Bariloche (Argentina). Information extracted from the chronicles of Francisco Caesar leads us to situate in a region completely different from that prescribed by Grenze in the early days of their relationship with Agrippa.

It is known that Francis told Caesar and his expedition had found the City of the Caesars into the Argentina pampas, particularly in the region of the nearby mountains to the city of Cordoba. Esoterically cultivated a secret tradition placed the magical city of Élelin in 33º South latitude. According to this tradition the city was locked and hidden in a mountainous region of difficult access. This led to Francisco Caesar and his entourage scout to believe that he had found the city in the vicinity of where today is Cordoba in Argentina. This enclave complied fully with the secret reports available to the Spanish expeditionary. Near the parallel thirty-three, at the foot of a mountain range (the call Pampas saw), Cordoba, was offered as the best scenario to interpret its esoteric keys. But behold, he did not know then, because he had not yet discovered the valleys of a vast territory located at the foot of an authentic inaccessible mountain range. This was an enclave located in the very south of latitude 33º. The valleys, which would then founded the city of Santiago de Chile, interpreted well, much better, esoteric keys to find the legendary lost city of the Caesars.

Grenze Gabriel ignored it until shortly before his death. Sick and meet their tragic end goal, sent for his favorite disciple, Agrippa, and told in detail everything about these mysteries. He talked about some secret keys whose origin was not authorized to disclose. According to these Norithien, the New Kingdom of Thule have been founded by Lin-Lin in the peaks of the Andes that happen, exactly, by the 33º South latitude. There, in the center of the kingdom, Élelin would be found, the magical city that comes and goes, residence of Lin. This would have been the City of the Caesars Caesar believed that Francisco found at the foot of the Pampa sierras, and another tradition places south of the Chilean-Argentine territory, in magical Patagonia. This would Grenze Agrippa told in the end of his life. And that Agrippa would be tried here in Chile, with little success, the esoteric circles of scholars who cultivated these mysteries. Agrippa talked about this also in the autumn of his life. And since then I have sought tirelessly to corroborate what signs witnessed by Agrippa on Chile, Santiago, and the kingdom of Thule once supposedly was founded here. Pongo now available to all preliminary results of my research. Most of this is pure speculation; but speculation not based on anything, but on the basis of an alternative knowledge, whose keys can not yet reveal here.

The Stone Uril and the Mysterious Forest Neegal

By Hyranio Garbho

Neegal Forest is an archetype of the esoteric and arkhanen privilegiadísimo alchimicum ururiano symbol opus. Located where today is the Teutoburg Forest in the past constituted the most sacred place for the Aryan-arkhanen for three significant reasons. First, because it was the place where weddings were held arkhanen. Second, because the region was chosen to place the Uril. And third, because it is the stage where the magical story of Sigur and Vaal de Marne, archetypal epic aria initiation A-Mor, whose echoes will develop life in historical times, the legend of the Grail.

At weddings Arkhanen the magical and mysterious forest Neegal is the central theme of the fourth day. There informs us that this was the place where the first inhabitants of the planet, coming from another star, hid their most sacred relic, a stone known as of Uril. The word Neegal and Uril are both ururianos iroglifos. The first Earth literally means "Neeg" because the suffix AL, composed of Ar Rune and Rune Laf, is often interpreted as "Earth" or "Region". The word "Neeg" in kalico, composed of Noth runes, double Eh and Gibor literally means "The Nuptials of the Gods under the Act is Destiny." These divine nuptials (nuptials of Gotten) are replicating the arkhanen weddings happen in this plane (or in this new planet). The second word, "Uril" (of Ur, and Laf Is runes), invokes the idea that inner knowledge is inner strength and vision of the whole.

According to Agnes Lazio Neegal old forest, a place which was originally brought the Stone of Uril comprised a much larger territory than today covers the Teutoburger Wald. It started in the mythical Ljvdwert in Friesland, extending east to where today is the city of Berlin. To the south hugging the north limits of the current modern Belgium and Luxembourg. In Germany the forest extended to the current Frankfurt.

In Neegal Forest it was where it all started. The Arkhanen Weddings, attributed to the mythical Urur, said the site was chosen to guard the Uril long before the founding of Thule. Among this mythical city and the very place where he was born Uril had, according to The Wedding Arkhanen, 2600 steps (something like 2756 kilometers, if we consider the indication of the Lazio, whereby a arkhanen step would have measured 106 centimeters) .

According to The Marriage Arkhanen Neegal Forest it became a magical place, retirement, precisely thanks to the Stone Uril. In the earliest, before the collapse of Alt-Land (Old Land), the Thule origins times, this place was considered sacred. And the way that he led a pilgrimage path. That journey began at the ancient port of Kadik, which the Sippe arkhanen came from the Puerto Brazil, located in the southeast region of the island of Thule, parallel to the Strait of Gibraltar. And he consulted a journey that spanned all Hispania, by stations next to sites where today cities like Cordoba, Toledo, Teruel and Huesca are in the old Ar-Agon places. After crossing the Pyrenees the next station of the route was Carcassonne, where the road continued up to the route of the Rhone; and thence along one of its branches, entered today's Germany, to the region where hallábase formerly Forest Neegal (then called Nieg-al, Ning-al-al-ning Oster, Os-ning-al, O- ning, Osning).

In the Forest of the Arkhanen Neegal Weddings they were held. These mythically represent the union of the two planes of events, symbolized the mystery of duplication Rune Noth. Such a prodigy was updated by Wotan (or their loyal fans) in the Forest of Neegal. Ururiana legend has it that Wotan, the aged, there conceived a second form of transmutation necessary to restore äthion asleep. Electron-or äthion Divine, as called Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels- then vibrated at its minimum, due to the remoteness of the garbharien were on the mother star, his ancestral homeland, Aldebaran. This produced that they lose their balance and incurring erratic, inconsistent and against all sense harmony and behaviors. They then made the racial sin and the beautiful revolted against the established order. Wotan, leader of the garbharien even fear for the Stone of Uril, he marched with his loyal followers to the forest Neegal, to make it safe from the rebels. Because they knew the power contained in the Stone. The Uril, Stone brought Aldebaran, was the energy used to maintain the magnetic equilibrium of the planet-and it was also the energy that had made Earth a habitable place (for this planet, energy Uril, would I remained very similar to what are now the other planets of the solar system). That stone containing all the necessary elements to rule on power; and also was the source from which emanated all the wisdom and knowledge of antiquity. Who she was with her was done with all the power. Why it was necessary safekeeping.

The legend is erratic noting what was then the fate of Uril. At weddings they Arkhanen minimally three different courses of this sacred stone listed. The first says that after conducting the wedding Arkhanen, transmutation that turned the garbharien in arkhanen, Wotan instructed the Uril was taken Neegal Forest and taken to the center of the Earth. This would be today what some call the Sun Black, portentous core energy emanating from Inner Earth. A second possible destination Uril Stone notes that this, in his trip to the Inner Earth, was intercepted by the rebels and broken into three parts. These three pieces of rock have fallen in related areas geometrically around what today we measure at 33º North latitude and 33º South latitude, forming a triangle with the Azores by primary vertex and the cities of Santiago and Cape Town as BOP. The third possibility Arkhanen pointing Weddings suggests that Stone was taken to a place considered the exact equivalent in the other hemisphere of the earth, to where it was in the forest Neegal. Referencing the capital of the island of Thule, as old used to locate the center of the planet, the exact equivalent in the other hemisphere (measured with current coordinates) is 70 ° west longitude and 33 ° latitude south-ie some thirty kilometers southeast of Santiago.
This third possibility, the most esoteric of all, is related to Lin, the white magician disciple of Arpha, who traveled to this land presumably about 6000 years before Christ, in search of the Stone Uril, and founded on the hills where shall find it a magical city called Norithien, which honor his memory and became known then as Élelin. This wonderful story, historical and archetype, begins with the wedding of Lin (Lin read the consecration of the Bar-in demotic kalico Lin, why the city where this event took place after llamóse Barlin), the white king uril (king or god, either), around which the magical legend of Sigur and Vaal de Marne develops. According Weddings Arkhanen Lin, the white king, he had been chosen to march in search of Uril the other hemisphere. But to do so, it needs to be enshrined. When he is on his way to his consecration is beset by enemies who hurt him in the groin death. Agony, unable to recover, is brought to a mysterious inn, deep and unfathomable forest, where a woman with her son and his servants live. This son is called Sigur and was brought here by his mother to prevent it from becoming a warrior as was his father. But Sigur, of warlike race, takes combat, war and adventure in their veins. When Lin gets home, he tells him that the only way to survive their wounds mortals is putting these Uril stone. An esoteric legend has warned him to Lin when Wotan instructed to bring the relic to the other pole, extracted from this seven small pieces the size of a hand, they could decorate your crown, to maintain the connection with Mother Stone it would be taken to the southern lands. In his trip to the island of Thule one of these pieces came off Uril Crown Wotan and disappeared without a trace. But Lin had received news of where he might be. That was when the young Sigur voluntarily offered to go in search of Uril, the stone of immortality. In his adventure he meets Vaal, Queen of Marne, land which is then called Aragon. To reveal the secret of Uril she makes the obligatory question whose answer Sigur ignores the hero, because he has not been started. Then entrusted to overcome seven events after the realization not only know the whereabouts of Uril, but also get your hand. The hero then embarks seven adventures, one of which leads to the underworld, where lies buried the sword that he will invisible and invincible. Sigur triumphs in all its tests and marries Vaal de Marne. After that carries far Uril Lin and heals so you can be consecrated.

This is an entirely esoteric story. Everything about it points to an initiation, initiation aria in A-Mor. Its structure, but differs in some minor details, serves the same archetype of Teutonic legend of Parsifal. More than legends both are key to encrypt the secret of true Aryan initiation. That same archetypal structure will be present in the story when, after being consecrated, Lin leave to the other pole, in pursuit of Uril, the big stone that has been hidden in the peaks of the southern hemisphere.

On the differences between Sigur Uril Uril Lin and it should be noted the following. On seven occasions in The Marriage of Arkhanen referring to Uril Sigur as a power through which we learn that the gods or heroes reborn in the law of loss or fall. The keys to this learning determinants are defined by four concepts: 1) gods or heroes, 2) Renaissance, 3) Law and 4) Defeat or fall. If we interpret each of these concepts as we runic wisdom that the former is equivalent to Gib or Gibor rune, the second Rune Ar, rune Renaissance, the third Ried Rune, Rune law; and the fourth to Laf rune, rune fall or defeat. If we use the literal values ​​of these runes, although not necessarily in a sequential way, we can form the word GRAL (G Gibor, R Ried, A Ar and L Laf). Now if we consider that esoterically defined as true only to the archetypal, that is, it has its counterpart in the other plane, which is represented in the duplication of a rune, if this Uril speaks of real rebirth, then we have a duplication Rune Ar, rune renaissance, forming the word "Graal". This is, indeed, a personal hypothesis. Weddings in Arkhanen never speaks of Graal. But, taking into consideration the points made above, it is likely that's the difference between a Uril another. Yet beyond these latest speculation, it is clear to who is knowledgeable about these issues, there is an undeniable parallel between the Uril of Arkhanen Weddings and Grail Von Eschenbach's Parsifal. Just as inevitably, the name the word Uril not think about the Vril by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Vril and Grail could be related, so, from these legends. As, by the way, what are the magical places that hosted yesterday and today, these precious relics.

The Meaning of Name of Thule

By Hyranio Garbho

Very few, if not almost anyone, knows the meaning of Thule and its symbol. Thule is the name of the ancient homeland of the Aryans; land some ignorance, and others for mental laziness, mistakenly called Hyperborea. Hyperborea is not a name, but an expression-that is, a figure of speech, of expression, used by the Greeks to nominate Thule. Hyperborea word means "beyond Boreas," that is, beyond inhabited the north-wind god, whose name is Boreas, and the Greeks believed was the region of Thrace.

Pindar was the first to use this expression, but oddly never talked about Hyperborea (Ὑπερβορέια), but the Hyperboreans (Ὑπερβορέιοι). This is significant, because it reveals the extent to which the poet did not know the name of this land and its inhabitants named as best I could do in Greek, the Hyperboreans, that is, those who live beyond the north wind.

But Hyperborea was not the name of this Earth, and its inhabitants called themselves hiperbóreos. The real name of Hyperborea was Racks and proto-inhabitants called themselves "arkhanen". Both names, the country and its proto-inhabitants are runic origin. It is sacred or iroglif Kalas (in listiana language). The sacred Kalas, unchanging proto-runic forms, are a set of hieroglyphs above immemorial Aryan even simple yrmionen kalas or runes. Autonomous from the latter can sometimes (and the case of Thule and the words "arkhanen" is one), come to depend on simple kalas in its name, meaning and design when they involve the combination of three or more yrmionen runes. Although the reason is unknown, this may give the idea that Kalas is a simple breakdown of sacred Kalas, the meaning and use of the latter.

Thule word was used for the first time in the fourth century before the Common Era, by a Greek sailor and explorer known as Pytheas of Massalia. This Thule identified with the name of an island located six days north of Britain, where, in his words, the summer sun never set there. It is, therefore, was old and mythical land of the Hyperboreans Pindar, White Island (Leuke, Albionia, Avalon, Cveta Dvipa) than in the days of The Marriage Arkhanen represents the old vanished continent, Old Earth (Alt Atlantis Land o) of the "arkhanen Sippe". The word that Pytheas of Massalia was used for the country Θουληlo that can be pronounced as "Thule" or "Zule". Hence the Latin transliteration of the word was "Thule". Many centuries later, European cartographers, particularly Olaus Magnus, motivated by the transcription of the word, and in absolute ignorance of the original script and the sound of it in Greek, interpreted the "U" America as "Ypsilon" Greek, They changed the name on their maps by "Tile", thinking that the original Greek was not Θουλη Θυληy (ie a capital importance to us Chileans, who inhabit "Tile" or "Zile" , CHILE remote origin of the name and by that, do not think I'm aware that I have revealed a secret initiation).

The iroglif "Thule" results from the combination yrmionen four runes. These runes are the rune "Thor" Rune "Ur" Rune "Laf" and Rune "Eh". Thor, in yrmionen futhark, represents victory over death. Its meaning is associated with rejuvenation, renewal. Rejuvenate (do not forget that Apollo was every nineteen years Hyperborea-read to rejuvenate Thule-) means overcome death. It is the reverse process of senescence, the reverse path of aging which leads to death. And that is the esoteric meaning of the rune "Thor", the sense that rediscovers for us the old visionary composer of the novel Carnuntum. Rune "Ur" means beginning. This is the beginning in this world, on this plane of reality, not the other. That start is associated with a fall, a defeat, one Untergang, represented by Rune "Laf". One of the esoteric meanings of Rune Laf in yrmionen system is to "fall." It teaches that every true rise as a precondition have a "fall" a "defeat." But not just any fall. It is the fall of mystical death, the death of initiation, the symbol of the bird flue Phoenix (an Aryan myth, indeed, not medioriental) what is represented in this defeat. It is the descent into Hades Orpheus and Dionysus. This testifies Rune Laf accompanying the name of Thule. The latter is the rune rune "Eh," Rune magic marriage, the "Heshe" Serrano, yoga or union between heaven and earth, male and female. This rune determines the character of the fall. It is a remarriage, a wedding, Yoga. It is a covenant to conquer the sky. The name of Thule teaches (points, remember, recalls) that to overcome death, renew the life, conquer the sky is required before "waste" be "defeated". And sacrament be a battlefield. It is this sense that the term is so dear to Serrano, "win by losing."

Arkhanen at weddings, original written entirely in kalico, Thule is the name of the country of arkhanen. The arkhanen are the tribe of the planet's first inhabitants arrived from the stars, particularly in the constellation Taurus, the star Aldebaran (called "Arkhana" by arkhanen). They have been defeated there by the Yrosen (a degeneration of Haggen of The Marriage Arkhanen), whose race is destined to disappear also. This defeat is an archetypal defeat. It is an alchemical symbol, a lapis exilis, pointing the way back to the original homeland. It overcomes death in the bridal knowledge, yogic, the fall is the precondition for promotion, which expressed in esoteric terms is the equivalent of the formula Nunc scio tenebris lux (now I know the darkness -the fall, defeat-is-the light climb, conquer the sky, rejuvenation or triumph over death). The country's name recalls (in a landmark sense) formula, the path, the path that leads back to the lost homeland of origins.

In one of the most significant symbols of the above hermetic esoteric circles to the arrival of the glories of Night, shared equally by the Thule Gesellschaft and Vril Society, reads as follows:

Dem neuen Zeitalter entgegen
Sieg Heil und Grossdeutschland
Im Kampf für die Welt
Heil das neue Reich Thule!

Which translated into english is:

Towards a New Era
Hail to the Great Victoria Germany
In the fight for the world
Save the new kingdom of Thule

In the perspective of this legend Arkhanen Weddings is a prophecy. If Germany is the new kingdom of Thule, only from the ashes of defeat, he will be reborn the new era. So Germany must lose to win. This well knew Miguel Serrano, but he also knew the members of the Thule Society, which was initiated Arhag, according to the testimony of his teacher and initiator, Thoreh own. The defeat of Germany will bring darkness to the world, but there will be sown the seeds of Porvenir, light will replace the darkness.

When Thule was founded, one day far back in time, so it was called to record a fire in memory the direction and destination of Sippe arkhanen. They should go back through the defeat to sow the seeds germinate New Age. That already happened monumental defeat. And improvised trenches of resistance, emerging everywhere from the very May 8th year 56 NHK, he began to germinate the New Age. It was this new era back to the Satya Yuga, return to the ancestral homeland, Golden Age of the Gods (the arkhanen) - is already germinating in the deepest spiritual darkness where known in history. But that darkness will spring the light of the New Dawn. Well, after all, that's what the name Thule (After Night, Day - or that as indicated by the Chilean National Shield Proto Post Tenebras Lux).

The archetype of Atlantis and The Wedding Arkhanen

Analogies and parallels to other Aryan archetypes of Tradition

By Hyranio Garbho

The Land of the Transfiguration


At weddings Arkhanen Neegal Forest holds the same value as the archetypal Atlantis in the visible and familiar story. And although Neegal is not an island, and its location in space-time is pretty well established, the archetypal foundation of the forest not far even an iota of responding to the same archetypal patterns of the Atlantic island. In short, it would be a magical place, transfiguration, inaccessible by sea, air or land, in which a precious treasure, a golden relic, known as tightly Uril stone is found. Perhaps this has been called the land of the Hyperboreans Pindar. For Neegal Forest hallábase old where he was Osnig Forest, beyond where the wind god inhabits boreal. Over time this place transformose a sacred region, whose religious function should not be far from similar places in the Aryan world. As such this was the last station of a long pilgrimage that began in Kadik, ancient Atlantean enclave known as Tartessos by later Greeks. There came from all parts of the Atlantic island called Thule in The Marriage Arkhanen. It was at this time that became the privileged residence of heroes and gods whom justice was not served.

Equivalent to the Atlantic island, in The Marriage Arkhanen symbol is the magical and mysterious island of Thule. Thule is, esoterically speaking, the visible aspect of the archetype of Neegal. In the mythology arkhanen occupies the same place in the popular Atlantis tradition. It is an island located in the middle of the Atlantic, where arkhanen developed the first human civilization on the planet. Thuleanas colonies were founded by arkhanen in Osnig, Kadik and North Africa. Also in Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula. But Thule, the island collapsed. And with it came the decline also in the colonies. Weddings Arkhanen refer to the destabilization of the planet's gravity brought upon himself the last moon and a big catastrophe he wiped out the island and its civilization. The only survivors were gathered to the colonies, but they also failed to overlap the collapse. Within a generation the world was no longer the same. The men hid in caves. For centuries there was no light, no life, nothing on the face of the earth. The great flood that embraced all the product of the clash of the earth with the moon last forever changed the look of it. The new men who emerged from caves or inside the earth had also transfigured. However, a thin thread of tradition continued cultivated for generations, passing from father to son, and so on. And gradually, the memory of the old country was imposed in the form of legend and myth. Behold, Thule was called "ancestral homeland", "old earth"; which in Germanic language "Alt-Land" is said. Neegal Forest was almost completely forgotten. Not its symbolism and archetype, which was still present in the collective unconscious of the new generations, in the form of a land of transfiguration, of difficult access, which either by sea or by land nor ships, nor feet could be reached.

There are many legends and historical references to places such features in the ground or inside it. The Greeks spoke of a region beyond the northern wind, located in the septentrión end, which served as the residence of the god Apollo. They called land of the "Hyperboreans" (it is, land of those who live beyond the realms of "Boreas" god). According to legend Apollo has retired to Hyperborea every nineteen years to rejuvenate. This suggests that the region was conceived by the ancient Greeks as a magical transfiguration. Apollo rejuvenates in Hyperborea. We rejuvenate accept that is another form of rebirth. The reborn is a rejuvenated since the rebirth experienced ALCHIMICA it operates in the act of rejuvenation. Now in Sanskrit language, the word for "rebirth" is "aryo" whence the modern word "Aryan". The Aryan or aryo is reborn, rejuvenated in spirit. It should emphasize the latter, as the condition of "aryo" or Aryan is a "spiritual man," or a man reborn in the spirit. The word also in other meanings, identified with noble status, which let go of that, in ancient times, the nobility was associated rather a spiritual condition (initiation) rather than the possession of material riches.

If Apollo rejuvenates it is because Hyperborea Hyperborea is a magical place, a land of transfiguration. That power is represented in other myths by various objects or qualities, among which the "shining" colors "gold" or "white," and, in some cases, spherical or pyramidal ownership of objects. Example (as we saw) are the "golden" apples from the garden of the Hesperides, or fleece "gold" that guards the dragon on the remote island of Colchis (apples are also guarded by a dragon). Both objects are golden and glowing just as the Isle of Avalon and Cveta Dvipa, the Hyperborea of ​​the Hindus, Vishnu residence. But both elements are magical and represent immortality. Who eats the golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides attains immortality, like who owns the precious golden fleece.

In the oldest pagan mythology the same function is reserved for the Grail, the magic stone detached from the crown of Lucifer. The Graal is also a shining stone, with whose power reaches the maximum ALCHIMICA operates, the transformation of the elements. Additionally, apples garden of Hesperides and the golden fleece possess the same faculty. This led to postulate the ancient land of the Hyperboreans as the original homeland of this ancient power. The Golden Fleece, apples garden of Hesperides and the Graal are but three distinct to refer the same archetypal reality names. That reality is nothing more than the Opera ALCHIMICA, the power of the transformation of the elements, the transfiguration (or release) of the Spirit.

Lucifer and the original Graal

According to medieval stories Avalon is the residence of Graal. The Graal answers a spoiled by the distortions and additions made by the Judeo-Christian ancient pagan tradition. In its original sense, the Grail has nothing to do with the glass of any crucified Galilean carpenter in the Middle East. Rather, the Graal is a fundamental archetypal symbol of the Aryan collective unconscious. The oldest of the Grail legends say that it is a precious stone detached from Lucifer's crown after the fall of this paradise (according to sources from the Wartburgkrieg). Lucifer, incidentally, is not the devil. The association between Lucifer and the devil is relatively late and is part of one of the many misrepresentations that has carried out the Judeo-Christianity.

In the oldest traditions Lucifer (Eosphoros in Greek) appears as a minor deity, a god associated with the morning or evening stella stella (Venus). It is the bearer of light or the Aurora, which glows in the dark. There is, in fact, no biblical story that refers to the familiar story of Lucifer and his expulsion from paradise. The only two passages from the Bible in which it seems that this story are so ambiguous that no strong power to refer such events. Despite this, the story seems to have become popular outside of biblical stories and the XIII century is a strong history of deep popular roots. Based on the text of Isaiah 14 and 28 Exequiel medieval imagination assumed that there had been, in the beginning of time, a great conflagration between God and Lucifer, the rebel angel. The reason for the discord would have been the pride of Lucifer, who as the main favorite of God and thought he could match him in power and majesty. With a force equal to a third of the angels of heaven rebelled against God and starred in a war that would leave defeated and expelled to the regions of the underworld. Although this story well told, it does not appear anywhere in the Bible and any other book similar data, has gone down in history as the official version of what happened with Lucifer in paradise. And while this is so, although the story of Lucifer is nothing more than a late recreation, made from elements of Christian oral tradition, it is surprising the deep parallels that keeps this story with other legends arising from other cultural complexes and ethnic, particularly in what is related to the Aryan culture. After all this story was popularized in the Christian Middle Ages, between European people, who could very well, analog partnership, rebuild their own legends from the new elements that concerned Christian folktales.

In Wartburgkrieg it is that Lucifer, after his fall to the underworld, lost a precious object, a stone that emerges from his crown. That stone is the Graal and symbolizes, in principle, the power and majesty Lucifer lost after his defeat. The stone is, according to medieval stories, Avalon, White Island (remember that leuke, Cveta Dvipa and Hyperborea are white Islands) and their power is such that it is only reserved for the elect after successfully overcome a number of dangers . The archetypal pattern repeats.

Beyond Lucifer and biblical stories, beyond even the legend of the Grail (which, incidentally, will return later) the oldest Nordic and Aryan stories tell us, indeed, of a great cosmic conflagration of war of epic proportions, in which some gods are defeated and killed in combat (including Wotan) or simply defeating succumb to death (Thor, is an example of the latter). It is Ragnarok, or Sunset Boulevard, occurred in the last and darkest of all ages.

Ragnarok

Like no other Norse mythology describes an end to the gods. Unlike Christian, Jewish and Islamic beliefs (all, of course, that emerged from the same Semitic trunk), whose superstitions lead them to believe in the existence of an eternal God, Norse mythology, however, proposes an end of the gods in the twilight of time, eschatological end whose correspondences and analogies with the archetype of the Atlantic island and myth Forest Neegal be mentioned here. The cause of Ragnarok, the main reason is the conflagration faced with unequal luck, gods and giants; but what is truly important in this line of parallels and synchronicities, is the joint demise of gods, giants and other creatures that inhabit the earth, by the eschatological context that serves as the backdrop for this monumental battle at the end of time. In all lines, this final seems to evoke the last days of Atlantis, or Thule, Ogigia, Avalon, leuke, Cveta Dvipa, or whatever it is called this island. Eddas can be read as follows:

"The Fimbul winter has arrived. Heavy snow falls from the four corners of the world; killer frost prevails. The sun at noon darkens; no longer joy; devouring endless storms blow. Men wait for the arrival of summer in vain. Winter follows winter three times in a world full of snow, frost and ice ... however, they make war, shed blood and there is growing evil ... "

And in another passage:

"There disaster in the sky. The giant wolf Skoll has come increasingly to the Sun, and now swallowed. The Moon is engulfed Hati-Managarm ... So the sun is obscured at noon, and the heavens and the earth become red blood, the thrones of the great gods dripping blood. The Moon is also lost in the dark, while the stars disappear from the sky ... Midgard destroyed; the smoke round the tops of the mountains; everything burns; nothing lives. Asgard is destroyed and the fire envelops the trunk Ygdrassil ... Earth, burning and black, it sinks into the ocean; the waves cover ... Now there is nothing else but a thick darkness and total silence ... "

Völupsá also provides a similar description of Ragnarok:

"The sun darkens, earth sinks in the sea, stirred the sky bright stars; Steam comes furious, fire rises and reaches the heat to the very heavens. "

All these passages of Nordic literature reflect an eschatological end of time, in which gods and heroes disappear. These gods and heroes of Ragnarok are the kings and queens of the mythical Atlantis, preserved in the memory of the poet of the Edda in the form of the Germanic gods. For the Atlantic island, according to the accounts of Plato, also it succumbed to an eschatological catastrophe proportions.

At weddings Arkhanen the equivalent of Ragnarok takes the form of a general collapse of the island of Thule motivated by the shock of the last moon. At that stage of final and last days the gods and heroes battle for possession arkhanen stone Uril. A large conflagration then takes place in the mythical island. Uril stone symbolizes the greatest power on earth. This is in Forest Neegal. But it has been secretly taken away by their princes custodians. The arkhanen legend is not needed in this area. The Uril pray so worn into the earth, now south of the American continent, now split into three pieces located in various regions aligned geometrically. Uril dislocation is the cause of energy imbalance of the planet, empowering gravity catches the last moon. The tragic outcome of all this affects the sinking of the island and its eschatological end.

This Ragnarok arkhanen also evokes, in form and content, another mysterious Aryan myth popularized in the Middle Ages in the form of millenarianism. According to the structure that this myth comes in The Marriage Arkhanen the eschatological end of time is the prelude to the advent of a golden age, under whose auspices the man (the arkhanen) will be as gods. But first, a great conflagration will take place at the height of the times. There, the heroes and gods will be defeated and exiled from the world, and his loyal followers will be persecuted and harassed; banished wickedly. The magical land of the ancestors succumb under a big catastrophe. And only a select few marched to the center of the earth, separated from the world, to guard the tradition will emerge as the future empire of a thousand years.

Throughout this line of parallels and synchronicities that more than one may leave the impression of syncretism, you can recognize three great ideas-forces that connect the catena aurea aria with arkhanen philosophy. First, the idea of ​​the great conflagration that pitted heroes and gods of the world arkhanen towards the last days of Thule. In the center of that war to conquer the stone was Uril establishing these accounts are linked to the myths of British material or Grail Arthurian cycle. Second, by the same conflagration this story connects with the facts of Ragnarok (and interestingly also narrated in the Book of Enoch, as the conflict began when a group of arkhanen breed with the daughters of the machines). And third, by the collapse of Thule, its final plunge into the Atlantic, the story arkhanen is linked to the sinking of Atlantis and the Eddas, where also the "burning" land and "black", sinks into the waters of Ocean cover everything. Finally, we can not help noticing how extraordinarily proximity of these stories of the theory of eternal ice of Hörbiger, which also reports a series of collisions of the Earth with its moons. The Wedding Arkhanen refer to the final collapse of Thule is due to the collision of the last moon to the earth. The existence of Moonacre expressly suggests the existence of previous moons. Hörbiger's theory emphasizes the existence of three pre-existing moons, all of which would have collided with the Earth causing catastrophes of proportions. The appearance of the earth and described should not be far from what is also narrated by the Edda (which is endorsed in very similar terms in the arkhanen story), "There disaster in the sky ... the moon is devoured by Hati -Managarm ... heaven and earth become red ... the Moon is also lost in the dark, while the stars disappear from the sky ... Midgard destroyed; the smoke round the tops of the mountains, everything is burned, nothing lives . The Earth, burning and black sinks into the ocean, the waves cover ... Now there is nothing else but a thick darkness and total silence ... "

The archetype of Atlantis

By Hyranio Garbho


Plato long before Homer was the first Greek who wrote about Atlantis. In a tight passage of the famous poet Odyssey relates the existence of an island in the ocean, inhabited by a goddess [1], daughter of Atlas witty, knowing the depth of the seas and guardian of the columns supporting the Heaven [2]. In this Island lay captive mythical Odysseus, hero of the epic that tells Homer. The name was Ogigia Island [3] and hallábase twenty days [4] travel by sea, west of another mysterious Atlantic island, named the Odyssey as Scheria [5]. And the myth of the Atlantic island and dominated in time of Homer, the collective imagination of the Greek people. Plato, in this regard, only he had the merit of showing it in its exoteric form. But the heritage of the legend, or its memory (memories), hallábase anchored in the soul of the Greeks even long before the existence of Homer himself.



Four centuries after Plato Plutarch, the famous Greek historian, identified Ogigia an island in the Atlantic Ocean, 180 kilometers [6] away from a continent whose coasts bordering the entire ocean known [7]. "The great continent by Plutarch writes the great sea which is surrounded on all sides ... is closer than the other islands, but about five hundred miles of Ogygia, if we sail in a galley rowing" [ 8]. Plutarch's description of the island (Ogigia) coincides almost perfectly with reports by Plato, about Atlantis, on the Timaeus [9]. Which in itself is already a mystery. In this famous dialogue Plato writes:



"Then that sea could be traversed, for he had an island in front of the mouth that you call, as you say, columns of Heracles. The island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and since it was possible for the passengers in that time access to the other islands. From them you could spend the whole continent which is just opposite and surrounded the true ocean "[10].



Plato and Plutarch writes about an island in the ocean. First match. It is irrelevant, for now, that Plato and Plutarch Ogigia call Atlantis. In either case it is a gigantic island [11]. This is a second coincidence. Among the island Atlantis (or Ogigia) and the continent whose coasts embrace all the great ocean there are a number of smaller islands that operate as bridges or passages from one place to another (Plato says, since she-Atlántida- is possible to access the . other islands, and from there to the mainland bordering the ocean true Plutarch adds the great continent is less distance than the other islands Ogigia). This is the third coincidence, one of the most relevant. And last and least-not intrigante- Plato and Plutarch relate coordinates to locate the location of the island existence of a great continent, one so big that its coasts surround the real ocean.



On this point, no hurt wonder that both Plato and Plutarch wrote about a continent whose coasts bordering the vast Atlantic Ocean. For the continent exists and is called America. What we should wonder is that Plato and Plutarch knew or who have written about him. A continent across the Atlantic whose coasts surround the ocean Could Plato (or Plutarch) be writing about something else other than the American continent? In our opinion, very hard. Especially in the case of Plato, the references in this regard, in the Timaeus, are much more accurate. If Plato knew him with accuracy and veracity of his story is proven at that point why could not be equally true the other side of the story told by him, which relate a series of islands, opposite the Pillars Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar), some of which are huge (as Atlantis itself, for example), so large that continent deserve the name, and become happy waterway that is the Atlantic Ocean? This is an extremely interesting point that has not been repaired properly. The stories of Plato and Plutarch not only concern the Atlantis (or Ogigia), but also a mysterious continent whose west coast border the Atlantic. If the accounts of Plato and Plutarch are true with respect to the latter it does not look how they might be false in relation to the former. Especially if you consider that in the centuries when they wrote no way to impose on the existence of the American continent. Unless availability of a type of information that is not available to everyone. And this, in itself, is another mystery.



One of the most intriguing issues Plato's story of Atlantis plane connects with a fact so far not properly warned. It treats this nature and scale of the author of the story: Plato. Most researchers (if not all) overlook the fact that Plato was an initiate [12]; in circumstances that this is a radical and definitive importance. Not only because it is a subject with special information, a secret or mystery of initiation, but also because no customs such mysteries are revealed to the vulgar. So that, when they are transmitted in a way that implies, or can eventually implicar- the uninitiated, they are deliberately distort, or communicate in the form of the archetype. Eduard Schuré, the celebrated documentary of the Great Initiates, wrote in this regard:



"... Plato could not publicly teach the things that ... (is) covered them with a triple veil ... It is the same esoteric doctrine which appears in his Dialogues, but concealed, mitigated, carrying a dialectical reasoning as an strange weight, disguised herself as a legend, myth or parable "[13].



Plato himself had written on this topic in the Charter VII. There suggests that the truly esoteric teaching was not written down in his Dialogues, and what really matters could only be entrusted to the right people, in the thought of Plato they wore perfectly with the initiated [14].



However, initiation of Plato in the Orphic mysteries is crucial in the debate on Atlantis for two very important reasons. First, because all relevant communicates ideas in his writings lie in the register of the mysteries that has been started. And Atlantis is no exception to this rule. Especially if you consider that his legend comes communicated in the Timaeus, which is one of the most religious dialogues of Plato [15]. And second, because the initiation of Plato forces you to write about Atlantis in the form of a legend, whose "facts" [16] determining, for the modern researcher, have no relevance in the initiatory perspective is privileged only what is registration essential mystery that seeks to convey. In other words, that Plato's Atlantis is not a "fact" material target ordinary. It is not a "fact", in the meaning that this word comes today. Plato is an initiate. Writes and thinks like started. Therefore, we would often ridiculous if we tried to understand him as ordinary men, and we started to pesquisar your Atlantis, based on the details that populate her story-and do nothing, which cloud the understanding, and look back at what you do not is Atlantis (historical Atlantis and the mythical Atlantis).



What is Atlantis, therefore, for Plato? Or even better What is Atlantis for an authentic started? Atlantis is in this perspective sumariamente- let us say, an archetype. This does not mean that it is a reality, that is a historical fact. But that is not what matters here, nor relevant to nor Plato to Plutarch or for the Greek popular imagination that comes through in the work of Homer. Nor, for no one who will return to write about Atlantis centuries later, before the advent of the age of the "lights". What is really important here is the archetype of Atlantis. In this, and no other matter, we dedicate the following lines.



Ignatius Donnelly summarized the facts about Atlantis in little more than ten points. Although not determine what is Atlantis from an archetypal perspective, they serve as a reference, or as a starting point to explain what we mean when we define Atlantis as an archetype. We gather here for this, nine of these points, as they are all particularly interesting in relation to what we want to show. These points are synthetically the following:



1. Was there once an island off the mouth of the Mediterranean, in the Atlantic Ocean, the ancients called Atlantis.



2. The story of Plato, about the same, is not a fable, but a true story.



3. The first great human civilization was Atlantis.



4. The Atlantean civilization brought to the shores of America, Europe, Africa and Asia, which made possible that there also exist civilized human populations.



5. Atlantis, therefore, was remembered as an earthly paradise, named it in different ways by different people.



6. The gods and goddesses of different peoples are none other than the kings and queens, heroes and priests of ancient Atlantis.



7. The original religion of Atlantis must have been a religion of sun worship. For this reason we find in the various peoples of the past, solar deities everywhere.



8. Atlantis succumbed to a terrible catastrophe of nature, sinking into the ocean with all or most of its inhabitants.



9. Those who escaped carried the news of the sinking of the various nations of the earth, thus giving rise to the legend or stories about floods and flooding.



From these nine points synthesized by Donnelly we can establish with relative certainty, the content of the archetype we call Atlantis. This is summarized in three main points. First, there was an island in the Atlantic, the cradle of Western civilization, he succumbed to a catastrophe of nature, leaving only echoes of their existence in the various news (later transformed into legends) about his disappearance or collapse by survivors transmitted of the disaster. Second, such was the level of development and civilization of the inhabitants of this island that most likely took their culture to the shores of Middle America, North Africa and the European Mediterranean, even to the valley of the Ganges in India, and probably even further. Third, the island succumbed by the disaster, disappeared civilization, humanity entered a frank process of decay and darkness, getting men to flee (to live) in caves, and make their survival utensils from wood and stone, until eventually, they returned to work metals, and undertake again the path towards civilization, inspired, as they could be, by the remnants of that glorious past, preserved most likely in schools of tradition, and transmitted through procedures well Similar to the initiation into the mysteries. This is, in short, the archetype of Atlantis. Desentrañemos, now, line by line, each of these three points deployed above, and revise the criteria of reality, but also for their archetypal substance, the conditions of historical possibility of each of them.



Before going into this analysis include the following. Up to the immediate present he had not paid attention to the legends and myths as a source of historical information. They are mere fabrications was to primitive minds. In recent times, the criterion that the myths and legends can be perfectly stories originated on historical facts, but narrated in a particular way, he has been gaining ground in the field of science skepticism. And therefore, more and more researchers who use them to anchor part of their work or hypotheses. This will be our starting point. The conviction that, in its origin, myths and legends spring from real events, and therefore can no longer be arraigned considering sources of information used. And even more: a widespread legend in almost the entire planet, for us, can have even more scientific value than any fossil piece, isolated and silent about the context of its finding. Therefore mythology and legend will be our starting point; and probably our anchorage.



Regardless of Plato's story of Atlantis, there are many news coming to us about the existence of an island nestled in the Atlantic. Some are so old that easily surpass the thousand years Plato's account. These islands were called in many different ways. Plutarch, according to Homer, called Ogigia-above this we wrote at the beginning. The Celts called Avalon, name whose meaning still remains coated under the veil of mystery. The Greeks called leuke and Hindus Cveta Dvipa. Pytheas of Massilia wrote about an island called Thule located six days sailing trip from the coast of Brittany, and a day away from the Cronio sea (mare Cronide). And although it has not been properly so identified as an island also Hyperborea Pindar described as the archetype of the Atlantic island, especially found her in the septentrión most extreme, in a place or by sea or by land, it is possible access. In the Middle Ages the Aryan collective imagination Atlantic island identified with the island of Brazil, or Island of St. Brendan. As such the island was described in very similar terms to the fortunate islands, or islands of the blessed, which, as is known, also all were in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, off the mouth of the Pillars of Hercules in the Strait Gibraltar. It also evokes the island of Brazil or St. Brendan Island Garden of the Hesperides, which according Stesichorus and Strabo was in Tartessos, it alleged former Atlantis colony on the Iberian peninsula.



There are over a common denominator in all these islands. They were all in their own way, conceived as "white islands". In fact the name comes from Albionia Avalon, with the former name was called the Island of Britain. Greek myths speak of "leuke" White Island, (from "leukos" which in Greek means "white"). Diodorus speaks of Hyperborea and called the "White Island" (leuke). He argues that the island would be in the ocean beyond the Pillars of Hercules, opposite Celtic Homeland. Hindus speak of Cveta Dvipa, White Island, or Resplendent Isle, home of the god Vishnu, also located somewhere in the Atlantic, in the confines of the world. Avalon, leuke, Hyperborea and Cveta Dvipa are "white islands", islands of spiritual transfiguration, the same as the fortunate islands or islands of the blessed, who keep the myth Island Brazil a surprisingly synchronistic analogy. In all these white islands correspondence with Atlantis it is explicit. Enough to move to think that all these stories relate the story of one and the same island reason.



Another common denominator of Atlantean archetype is the sacredness of the island. In all cases it is a place of redemption or spiritual transfiguration, which charged the pilgrimage as a journey of daring adventures sailing the seas of the ocean. In this sense, civilizational supremacy of Atlantis Plato could well be interpreted as possession or display of a spiritual treasure, which can only be reached by way of initiation and overcoming the trials of the spirit. Hyperborea was the residence of Apollo, as well as Cveta Dvipa was the original land of Vishnu. There are maps and extraordinary analogies between Apollo and Vishnu [17]. From an archetypal perspective between Cveta Dvipa identification and Hyperborea is fully justified, as the archetypal role played by the Greeks Apollo keeps synchronicity with the role, among the Hindus, Vishnu. Also the Garden of the Hesperides, another variety of Atlantic archetype, relates to this common denominator. In the Garden a leafy tree (A Ygdrassil? A Irminsul?) Whose fruits, some golden apples, promise fulfillment and immortality is. It should be noted in this regard that, according to another etymology, the esoteric name of Avalon would become place or island of apples, since, in the old Breton, the word for apple is "endorsement". The color of apples and gives us a clue to understand that this is a spiritual archetype, as the color "gold" has been traditionally used to refer such archetypes.



Following Pytheas of Massalia, the Greek historian Strabo wrote about Thule in the same terms of this spiritual archetype. According to him Thule was six days a sea of ​​Brittany near the frozen sea (in this follows the story of Pytheas). Frozen Sea is the Mare Cronide, place where, according to Plutarch and Pliny, Cronos lies dormant. In Greek mythology this is the land that is brought Kronos chained after being defeated by Zeus, his son. This is another interesting symbolic parallel, in this line of research that we conducted, as Cronos represents the time (in fact Xronos, in Greek, means Time). In this Atlantic island Cronos lies dormant or chained. The symbolism of this is obvious. This is an island where time stands still (Eternity), or running in the opposite direction (devolution), the return address to the Golden Age, the Age of Heroes and Gods.



Among this second version of the legend and the first there is yet another interesting analogy. In the first story the island is beyond the Pillars of Hercules, off the mouth of the Strait of Gibraltar. In the second version atlantis island, now called Thule, is beyond the Mare Cronide the frozen sea water. Both seas beyond the Pillars of Hercules, as Cronide Mare are the epitome of the unfathomable, a symbol of the dangers that lie journey itself. Also the forest is an archetype of the dangers of the unfathomable, the region or land is needed to reach the self through self. In symbolic terms, the forest, the sea, the eternal ice represent the evidence of the soul, the challenges the hero must overcome to win immortality. Spooky Atlantic island, in all its various names, symbolizes immortality which can only be accessed after crossing a forest of lush vegetation and a sea of ​​unfathomable waters, or the eternal ice of the frozen seas. In all these versions of the legend the island is in the ends of the earth, this is also last symbol of the unattainable, which either by land or by sea, can be reached.



One last analogical correspondence linking the Atlantic island "Airyanem vâejô", the original home of the Aryan race. The peremnis symbol of the Aryans has always been the Swastika, stylized form of the Hindu swastika or runic fyrfos of Armanen. Indeed Vishnu, the god who resides, according to Hindu mythology in Cveta Dvipa, is the Swastika symbol representative. It has been established that this symbol provides the basic structure to the whole Aryan symbolism, influencing the cultural universe from all forms of culture which, to some extent or another, have some degree of contact or relationship with the Aryans. The primitive form of the symbol prescribed a straight horizontal line crossed by a vertical straight line in the form of a cross with all equidistant and circled arms. The circle symbolizes timelessness, eternity, or a conception of time from the perspective of return or involution. The vertical lines represent the masculine principle of the statement, the horizontal, the feminine side. It is, in short, the Heshe Serrano, or Notheh of Sippe arkhanen. The symbol, in its completeness, represents the idea of ​​the perfect Aryan, Aryan initiation to-mor or magical marriage that unites heaven to earth, in the course of time or eternity (even in their counterclockwise, to so far against time, and therefore needed against corruption of all things in time), in its transcendent ideal that development will go charging other similar forms of representation.



Beyond all these considerations the myth itself is in a basic structure from which we can detach his role as archetype. In all these atlantis island it appears now as a magic land of temperate climate, plentiful and generous vegetation, now freed time, located somewhere in the Atlantic border that can only be reached untold avoiding hazards; either as a civilization that had participated in a form of transcendent knowledge, and in which their inhabitants would have been beings from other stars. All these aspects of the legend speak unequivocally of a symbol-archetype, a structure of the transcendent reality, whose understanding is perhaps clearer if put in relation this myth with the various forms of correspondence which we have already spoken, and is studied critically from these undeniable analogies.



I do not want to close this chapter on Atlantis before archetype without referring a matter of utmost importance. It treats itself as the name of Atlantis, which seems to be telling us something we have not noticed properly, and that is bound up with our hypothesis of Atlantis as an Aryan archetype. "Atlantis" is not a name, but an expression, a way to express themselves. The first that perhaps had the first descendants of the survivors of the collapse of the Atlantic island. The island may well have been called by name, even after missing. But they could also call former nostalgically the "old country", the "old land" no longer exists. In the Germanic family of languages ​​that "Alt Land", "Old Earth" or the "Old Earth" would say. Where I would say that this is the true etymology of the word Atlantis. Plato in the Critias says that the island Atlantis is named after the first king named Atlas (probably the same mythical Atlas holding the sky). But about it I tend to think, with all due respect I feel for Plato, on the etymology attributed to Atlantis. Or rather, more than a mistake, say that Plato did not have all the necessary information to speculate better etymology of the name given to the island. As regards my opinion I think Plato had found amid total confusion regarding everything related to Atlantis. Do not forget that the story was transmitted to him by Solon, who in turn heard it from an Egyptian priest. In essence, he had to imagine that the name Atlantis derived from Atlas, unaware that the main phrase that form the word is a root that is not Greek, but protogermánico face to all the ways that language claimed between the peoples of the north and central Europe. The essential nucleus of the word Atlantis constitutes the word "land", which means "land". "At-land-leg" is a word with Germanic and not Greek root; which proves, incidentally, that Plato did not invent the story of Atlantis, but had been transmitted to him probably in the same terms set out in the Timaeus and Critias.



Protogermánico derived from the word Atlantis makes sense. As it would become a "land" a "Country", a "place" somewhere on the planet. The Oera Linda gives us a clue in this regard. Old Frisian manuscript speaks of a submerged island in the Atlantic about 3,000 years before Christ. The island bears the name of "Âldland" which means "Old Land" or "Old Country", also "old continent" (of "AML" old, old, etc. and "land" land). Although we can not establish that it is the same story of Plato Island, it gives us an interesting clue to a possible etymology of the word "Atlantis". "At" may well be a contraction of "ALD" and more precisely of "Alt" ("old" in German), where "Alt Land" would be the most likely etymology for Atlantis, meaning this the "old country ", the" old earth ".



One last thing: in ancient Greece known is that Zeus was born on Mount Ida (not to be confused with the Cretan Ida, or the Turkish Ida Mount Ida ... this is mythology ... probably not even be found in the Mediterranean). Is it the most appropriate for Atlantis etymology of "Old Earth Mount Ida"? After all, the Oera Linda, not Plato, calls the old "Âldland" the "land of high mountains. And maybe this" Ida "of mythology, residence of the gods, has been before a land Greek, a place beyond the Pillars of Hercules, the oldest man to have memory of the primordial Earth Europe.

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[1] This is the nymph Calypso.

[2] Homer, Odyssey, Canto I Canto VII 48-52 and 243-246. In the accompanying text reads as follows:. "Unfortunate Ulysses (...) away from all his captive on the island and where the waves break there in the middle of the ocean In its forests lives the goddess born of skilled Atlante ... (Canto I 48-52). " "An island is in the middle of the secluded sea is his name Ogygia Calypso There lives the cunning born of Atlante, the beautiful hair, awful deity ... (Canto VII 243-246).". The texts in ancient Greek are "ἀλλά μοι ἀμφ ̓ Ὀδυσῆι δαί̈φρονι δαίεται ἦτορ, δυσμόρῳ, ὃς δὴ δηθὰ φίλων ἄπο πήματα πάσχει νήσῳ ἐν ἀμφιρύτῃ, ὅθι τ ̓ ὀμφαλός ἐστι θαλάσσης νῆσος δενδρήεσσα, θεὰ δ ̓ ἐν δώματα ναίει, Ἄτλαντος θυγάτηρ. ὀλοόφρονος ... "and" Ὠγυγίη τις νῆσος ἀπόπροθεν εἰν ἁλὶ κεῖται: ἔνθα μὲν Ἄτλαντος θυγάτηρ, δολόεσσα Καλυψὼ ναίει ἐυπλόκαμος, δεινὴ θεός ".

[3] Homer, Odyssey, Canto I 85, Canto VI 172, 244 and 254 VII Canto, Canto XII 448; Canto XXIII 333.

[4] Homer, Odyssey, Canto VI 170-171

[5] Homer, Odyssey, Canto V 34, Canto VI 8 Canto VII 79; Canto XIII 160.

[6] Plutarch writes that Ogygia Island was five hundred miles away from the continent. If we consider that the measure of a Greek stadium was about 174 meters, the distance separating the Americas Ogigia would have been about 870 kilometers.

[7] Roderic O'Flaherty, the famous Irish historian, Ogigia identified with Ireland. Roderic O'Flaherty Ogygia: Seu Rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia.

[8] Plutarch, Moralia, chap. 26.

[9] This was also perceived by W. Hamilton, who pointed out in his work on Plutarch. See W. Hamilton, "The Myth in Plutarch's De Facie (940F - 945D)"

[10] Plato, Timaeus, 24e - 25th

[11] In addition, Plutarch writes that Ogygia island is so great that she deserves to be called continent.

[12] On the initiation of Eduard Schuré Plato wrote in The Great Initiates "... due Plato science and substance of his ideas to his initiation into the Mysteries His genius is the new way to poetic and time. dialectic, who knew them. That not only took initiation at Eleusis. He searched all accessible sources of the ancient world ... followed the lessons of several philosophers of Asia Minor. From there he went to Egypt to be related to their priests, and went through the Initiation of Isis ... Then he went to southern India to enter into relations with the Pythagoreans ... he bought gold weight of a manuscript of the teacher. Having thus studied the esoteric tradition of Pythagorean at its source ... "Eduard Schuré, The Great Initiates, Editorial Olympus, Mexico, p. 264-265

[13] Eduard Schuré, op.cit., P. 265. parentheses within quotation is ours.

[14] Cf. Plato, Seventh Letter, 341 c

[15] The references to Atlantis are also in the Critias, but this dialogue, although it is more full of references to the mysterious island is to be considered an appendix or following the first dialogue, the Timaeus, which was, in fact, written before.

[16] I use here the word "fact" in the same sense as it has in the modern educated minds

[17] Similarities also between Dionysus and Shiva. Shiva Vishnu is what Apollo is Dionysus and vice versa.

HYPERBOREA & THE QUEST FOR MYSTICAL ENLIGHTENMENT

By JASON JEFFREY

Far north, somewhere near the icy regions of the North Pole, legend speaks of an ancient and mostly forgotten civilisation. Mythical in character, the Hyperborean civilisation is said to have flourished in the northern most region of planet Earth at a time when the area was suitable for human habitation.

According to certain esoteric systems and spiritual traditions, Hyperborea was the terrestrial and celestial beginning of civilisation. The home of original Man. Some theories postulate Hyperborea was the original Garden of Eden, the point where the earthly and heavenly planes meet. And it is said Man transgressed Divine Law in this Golden Age civilisation, the ultimate price being his banishment to the outside world. Man ventured into other regions of Earth, establishing new civilisations, bringing to an end this great and glorious Golden Age.

The Golden Age is central to manifold ancient traditions and myths. Significantly, the Golden Age appears most frequent in the traditions of cultures stretching from India to Northern Europe — the area directly beneath the Polar regions. Joscelyn Godwin, in Arktos, The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism and Nazi Survival, says:

  The memory or imagination of a Golden Age seems to be a particularity of the cultures that cover the area from India to Northern Europe… But in the ancient Middle East there is an obvious relic of the Golden Age in Genesis, as the Garden of Eden where humanity walked with the gods before the Fall. The Egyptians spoke of past epochs ruled by god-kings. Babylonian mythology… had a scheme of three ages, each lasting while the vernal [Spring] equinox precessed through four signs of the zodiac; the first of these, under the dominion of Anu, as a Golden Age, ended by the Flood. The Iranian Avesta texts tell of the thousand-year Golden Reign of Yima, the first man and the first king, under whose rule cold and heat, old age, death and sickness were unknown. 1

The most fully developed theory of this kind, and probably the oldest one, is the Hindu doctrine of the Four Yugas. The four ages in this system are the Krita or Satya Yuga (four units), Treta Yuga (three), Dvapara Yuga (two), and Kali Yuga (one), the whole tenfold period making up one Mayayuga. The Kritayuga corresponds to the Golden Age, the Kali Yuga to the current period of time.

Every description of the Golden Age period relates how the ‘gods’ walked with men in a perfect and harmonious environment balanced between the terrestrial and celestial. Humanity suffered no sickness and no aging in this timeless paradise. After the Fall, man ‘fell’ into Time and suffering, forfeiting the gift of immortality.

Madame Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophical Society, claimed the ‘second root race’ originated in Hyperborea, before the later races of Lemuria and Atlantis. The German metaphysician Ulrich von der Vogelweide says that it was the home of the “solar people”, connected to what is now northern Russia. “Solar people,” Alexandre Dugin explains, are a “cultural-spiritual type” who are creative, energetic and spiritual. They are the opposite of “lunar people”, a psycho-spiritual type who are materialistic, conservative and wary of change.

The ancient Greeks had a legend of Hyperborea, a land of perpetual sun beyond the “north wind”. Hecataeus (circa 500 BC) says that the holy place of the Hyperboreans, which was built “after the pattern of the spheres”, lay “in the regions beyond the land of the Celts” on “an island in the ocean.” According to popular accounts, the God Apollo’s temple at Delphi was founded by individuals from Hyperborea. The Greek lyric poet Alcaeus (600 BC) sang of the actual or mystical journey of Apollo to the land of the Hyperborea.

O King Apollo, son of great Zeus, whom thy father did furnish forth at thy birth with golden headband and lyre of shell, and giving thee moreover a swan-drawn chariot to drive, would have thee go to Delphi… But nevertheless, once mounted, thou badest thy swans fly to the land of the Hyperboreans.

The wearing of a star-embroidered robe by the King and ‘Ruler of the World’ — the heavenly sphere serving as a symbol of the earthly one — is a custom that can be traced to the Hyperboreans. Embroidered in gold on blue silk were the figures of the sun, moon and stars. Such robes were worn by the kings of Ancient Rome and Julius Ceasar, as well as Augustus and the Roman Emperors.

Earthenware statuettes found in a grave in Yugoslavia show the ‘Hyperborean Apollo’ in a chariot drawn by swans. The god wears, on his neck and breast, yellow figures of the sun and stars; on his head is a rayed crown with a headband that has a zigzag pattern. His robe, which reaches to the ground, is dark blue with yellow designs.

                  
Collapse of Hyperborea

One of the most popular theories for the collapse of Hyperborea was a physical inclination (catastrophe) of the Earth’s axis. Man’s transgression of Divine Law caused a shift in the metaphysical balance, the effect of which was catastrophic on the Earth plane. Julius Evola, the noted Italian metaphysician, explains that at this point the first cycle of history closed, and that of the second, the Atlantean, began:

The memory of this Arctic seat is the patrimony of the traditions of many people, in the form either of real geographic allusions, or of symbols of its function and original significance, often transferred to a super-historical significance, or else applied to other centres that may be considered as copies of the original one… Above all, one will notice the interplay of the Arctic theme with the Atlantic theme… It is known that the astrophysical phenomenon of the inclination of the earth’s axis causes a change of climate from one epoch to another. Moreover, as tradition tells, this inclination took place at a given moment, and in fact through the alignment of a physical and a metaphysical fact, as if a disorder in nature were reflecting a certain situation of a spiritual order… At any rate, it was only at a certain moment that ice and eternal night descended on the polar region. Then, with the enforced emigration from that seat, the first cycle closed and the second opened, initiating the second great era, the Atlantean Cycle.2

The memory of a Golden Age, although rendered in an archetypal or mythological form, serves a super-historical purpose. This is why the remembrance of the ancient civilisation of Atlantis is sometimes enmeshed with that of Hyperborea. We cannot expect to ‘prove’ the physical existence of these civilisations. All myths are known to have a historical basis. Transmitted primarily by oral tradition, they are wrapped in a catchy and simple tale that ensures their survival and transmittal down through the ages. Myth serves an extremely vital function — a recollection of our beginnings, a knowledge of where we are heading, and what we are supposed to do. It is only now in the Kali Yuga that we have disconnected from tradition, losing the ability to correctly interpret and understand myths with historical kernels of truth.

               
 Hyperborea Revived

The legend of Hyperborea revived during the 18th and 19th centuries when a flurry of books were published dealing with the idea that civilisation had first appeared not in the Middle East, but somewhere else.

The popular theory of the day postulated that the so-called ‘Aryans’ (Europeans) were superior and more intelligent than Semites (Middle East peoples). Therefore, logically, civilisation could not have originated in the Middle East and Hebrew was probably not the first language.

The Frenchmen of the Enlightenment were in no doubt that “Eden” was situated on higher ground. The Germans similarly, who were looking for their Aufklarung, also sought to be free of a history tied to the Mediterranean and Middle East regions. British and German scholars studied ancient Indian (Vedic) civilisation and leant the Sanskrit language. Many believed Sanskrit the original language of the ‘Aryans’.

With new sources of knowledge from ancient Egypt, Chaldea, China and India, researchers were treading on dangerous ground as far as questioning Man’s origins. Biblical history was still strictly upheld and moving too far from this historical boundary could have you silenced.

Writers such as Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793), the Rev. Dr. William Warren (1800s), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1929) and H.S. Spencer (1900s), developed out theories, often borrowing from earlier sources, attempting to prove man’s origins in the Polar region.

Tilak’s book Arctic Home (published 1903) begins by stating the well known fact that warm weather remains in the Arctic regions, which shows the climate was far different during the interglacial period. According to Tilak, scientists do concede the existence, in the past, of a warm circumpolar continent, and the circumstances there would not have been nearly unfavourable as imagined.

Tilak was convinced the ancient Indian Vedic texts point unmistakably to a “realm of the gods” where the sun rises and sets once a year, showing that their writers could understand the astronomical conditions at the North Pole.

Tilak, who had a perfect mastery of Vedic language, placed the original Arctic home existing around circa 10,000 BC, just prior to its destruction and the beginning of the last Ice Age.

His book had little impact in the West but was popular in India. When the learned Zoroastrian H.S. Spencer wrote his book The Aryan Ecliptic Cycle (1965), a development of Tilak’s work, he was able to obtain endorsements from Sir S. Radhakrishna, then President of India. As well as from dignitaries of the Theosophical Society in Adyar and the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondichary.

Spencer’s approach commenced not with the Vedic but the Zoroastrian scriptures, going further than Tilak in tracing the progress of the ‘Aryans’ from the North to their new homes, and the schisms that beset them on the way.

Spencer’s ‘Aryans’ made their presence felt after they travelled far and wide. They moulded the religions and cultures of Egypt, Sumeria, Babylon, and of the Semites, hitherto worshippers of feminine lunar deities.

However, the search for a terrestrial ‘Hyperborea’ by many researchers and the movement of an original ‘race’ has been extremely difficult and presumptuous. Proving human habitation possible at the North Pole somewhere between 8000 and 10,000 BC is no mean feat, particularly if you were living in the 18th century. The numerous theories posited offering contradictory or tendentious ‘evidence’ has served only to discredit the whole notion of Hyperborea. The same could be said of theories attempting to prove the existence of the ‘lost continent of Atlantis’. The drive to prove the actuality of a terrestrial Hyperborea has overshadowed its occult and symbolic importance.                                     

                
The Spiritual Pole

In the quest to discover the ‘physical’ location of Hyperborea, most writers overlooked the possibility that the mythology served a special symbolic and spiritual purpose. What if the truth behind the legend was esoteric, and not exoteric as some even today still maintain?

Many traditions speak of a supreme spiritual centre or ‘supreme country’. The ‘supreme country’ that does not necessarily lay at a specific earthly point, but exists in a primordial state, unaffected by terrestrial cataclysms.

The ‘supreme country’, commonly regarded as ‘polar’ in orientation, symbolically is always represented as being at the ‘Axis of the world’ — and in most cases is referred to as a ‘Sacred Mountain’. Rene Guenon in his book The Lord of the World says:

Almost every tradition has its name for this mountain, such as the Hindu Meru, the Persian Alborj, and the Montsalvat of Western Grail legend. There is also the Arab mountain Qaf and the Greek Olympus, which has in many ways the same significance. This consists of a region that, like the Terrestrial Paradise, has become inaccessible to ordinary humanity, and that is beyond the reach of those cataclysms which upset the human world at the end of certain cyclic periods. This region is the authentic ‘supreme country’ which, according to certain Vedic and Avestan texts, was originally sited towards the North Pole, even in the literal sense of the word. Although it may change its localisation according to the different phases of human history, it still remains polar in a symbolic sense because essentially it represents the fixed axis around which everything revolves.

The Vedic texts say the ‘supreme country’ is known as Paradesha, also called the ‘Heart of the World’. It is the word from which the Chaldeans formed Pardes, and Westerners Paradise.

There is notably another name for it probably even older than Paradesha. This name is Tula, called by the Greeks Thule. Common to regions from Russia to Central America, Tula represented the primordial state from which spiritual power emanated.

It is known that the Mexican Tula owes its origin to the Toltecs who came, it is said, from Aztlan, the ‘land in the middle of the water’, which is evidently Atlantis. They brought the name Tula from their country of origin and gave it to a centre which consequently must have replaced, to a certain extent, that of the lost continent. On the other hand, the Atlantean Tula must be distinguished from the Hyperborean Tula, which latter represents the first and supreme centre….4

In this case — Tula — representing a centre of spiritual authority — does not remain fixed in a geographical location. Guenon states that the Atlantean cycle, successor to the Hyperborean cycle, is associated with Tula. The Atlantean Tula is an image of the original primordial state situated in a northern or Polar location. As world cycles progress onward, the supreme seat of spiritual power regresses further and further into hiding and obscurity. This, of course, is deliberate and predictable as humanity descends into the end of the age (Kali Yuga), progressively enmeshing itself in the material plane until the reversal of established world order is imposed.

It should be emphasised here that Tula, or the centre of spiritual authority, constitutes the fixed point known symbolically to all traditions as the ‘pole’ or axis around which the world rotates. Metaphysically speaking, the world rotates around this seat of power even if it’s not geographically North or South.

In the Buddhist tradition ‘Chakravarti’ literally means “He who makes the wheel turn”, which is to say the one who, being at the centre of all things, directs all movement without himself participating, or who is, to use Aristotle’s words, the “unmoving mover”.

The turning of the world, the ‘Pole’ and axis, combine to depict a wheel in the Celtic, Chaldean and Hindu traditions. Such is the true significance of the swastika, seen worldwide from the Far East to the Far West, which is intrinsically the ‘sign of the Pole’.

             
The Pole and Mystical Enlightenment

It is in medieval Iran that we find extant literature on the Spiritual Pole and the experience of mystical ascent to it. The Iranian Sufis, drawing not only on Islam but on the Mazdean, Manichean, Hermetic, Gnostic and Platonic traditions, blended a sacred knowledge said to be ‘scientific’, mystical and philosophically practical.

Esoterically… the Persian theosophers situated their “Orient” neither to the East, nor to the South, wither they faced in prayer towards the Ka’ba. “The Orient sought by the mystic, the Orient that cannot be located on our maps, is in the direction of the north, beyond the north.” [The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism by Henry Corbin, 1978] About this Pole reigns a perpetual Darkness, says the Recital of Hayy ibn Yaqzan, one of the visionary recitals of Avicenna (Ibn Sina). “Each year the rising sun shines upon it at a fixed time. He who confronts that Darkness and does not hesitate to plunge into to it for fear of difficulties will come to a vast space, boundless and filled with light.” [Ibid] This Darkness, says Corbin, is the ignorance of the natural man. “To pass through it is a terrifying and painful experience, for it ruins and destroys all the patencies and norms on which the natural man lived and depended…” [Ibid] But it must be faced consciously before one can acquire the saving gnosis of the light beyond.

The Darkness around the Pole, annually pierced by the sun’s rays, is at once terrestrial and symbolic. On the one hand, this is the situation at the North Pole, where there are six months of night and six of day. It is characteristic of esoteric tradition that the same image is valid on two or more levels. But as Corbin and Guenon never tired of pointing out, the symbolic level is not a fanciful construct on the basis of hard terrestrial fact: it is quite the other way round. In the present case, the mystical experience of penetrating the Darkness at the Pole is the fundamental reality and the authentic experience of the individual. The fact that the set-up of the material world reflects the celestial geography is what is contingent. In brief, in this teaching as in Platonism, it is the supersensible realm that is real, and the material realm that is a shadow of it.5

The seeker, through deep meditation on spiritual matters, succeeds in entering a world of mystical experience, and makes a pilgrimage to Hyperborea that can not be discovered from maps. Aristeas, the Greek poet, in shamanic rapture, is said to have travelled to Hyperborea while “possessed by Apollo”. Mystical soul-travel to Hyperborea is common in ancient Greek literature.

The journey to this Pole is sometimes illustrated as the ascent of a column of light, extending from the depths of hell to the lucid paradise in the cosmic North.

As previously mentioned, the Pole is also a Mountain, called Mount Qaf in Islamic tradition, whose ascent, like Dante’s climbing of the Mountain of Purgatory, represents the pilgrims progress through spiritual states.

Guenon, in Lord of the World, explains “the idea evoking the representation under discussion is essentially one of ‘stability’, that is itself a characteristic of the Pole.” The Mountain, referred to as an ‘Island’, “remains immovable amidst the ceaseless agitation of the waves, a disturbance that reflects that of the external world. Accordingly, it is necessary to cross the ‘sea of passions’ in order to reach the ‘Mount of Salvation’, the ‘Sanctuary of Peace’.”

Our search for Hyperborea is our desire to return to Paradesha or Paradise — the primordial spring of Man’s original existence. The importance of knowing the terrestrial location of a lost civilisation at the northern regions is thus overshadowed by its symbolic relevance. 

To seek Hyperborea is to quest for spiritual enlightenment. The Mountain, the Island, the immovable Rock, fixed in a Polar orientation, relays a symbolic repres-entation of our search for Ultimate Reality. Its immovability anchors us to this important task.

Footnotes:

1. Arktos, The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism and Nazi Survival by Joscelyn Godwin, p. 16.


2. Quoted in Arktos, The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism and Nazi Survival, p. 58-9, original source Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola, 1951.


3. The Lord of the World by Rene Guenon, p. 50.


4. Ibid, p. 56


5. Arktos, The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism and Nazi Survival by Joscelyn Godwin, p. 167-8.

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HITLER AND THE HIMALAYAS

The SS Mission to Tibet 1938-39


ALEX McKAY

Of all the exotic images that the West has ever projected onto Tibet, that of the Nazi expedition, and its search for the pure remnants of the Aryan race, remains the most bizarre.

On the nineteenth of January, 1939, five members of the Waffen-SS, Heinrich Himmler's feared Nazi shock troops, passed through the ancient, arched gateway that led into the sacred city of Lhasa. Like many Europeans, they carried with them idealized and unrealistic views of Tibet, projecting, as Orville Schell remarks in his book Virtual Tibet,  "a fabulous skein of fantasy around this distant, unknown land." The projections of the Nazi expedition, however, did not include the now familiar search for Shangri-La, the hidden land in which a uniquely perfect and peaceful social system held a blueprint to counter the transgressions that plague the rest of humankind. Rather, the perfection sought by the Nazis was an idea of racial perfection that would justify their views on world history and German supremacy.

What brings about this odd juxtaposition of Tibetan lamas and SS officers on the eve of World War II is a strange story of secret societies, occultism, racial pseudo-science, and political intrigue. They were, in fact, on a diplomatic and quasi-scientific mission to establish relations between Nazi Germany and Tibet and to search for lost remnants of an imagined Aryan race hidden somewhere on the Tibetan plateau. As such, they were a far-flung expression of Hitler's most paranoid and bizarre theories on ethnicity and domination. And while the Tibetans were completely unaware of Hitler's racist agenda, the 1939 mission to Tibet remains a cautionary tale about how foreign ideas, symbols, and terminology can be horribly misused. Some Nazi militarists imagined Tibet as a potential base for attacking British India, and hoped that this mission would lead to some form of alliance with the Tibetans. In that they were partly successful. The mission was received by the Reting Regent (who had led Tibet since the death of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama in 1933), and it did succeed in persuading the Regent to correspond with Adolf Hitler. But the Germans were also interested in Tibet for another reason. Nazi leaders such as Heinrich Himmler believed that Tibet might harbor the last of the original Aryan tribes, the legendary forefathers of the German race, whose leaders possessed supernatural powers that the Nazis could use to conquer the world.

This was the age of European expansion, and numerous theories provided ideological justification for imperialism and colonialism. In Germany the idea of an Aryan or "master" race found resonance with rabid nationalism, the idea of the German superman distilled from the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and Wagner's operatic celebrations of Nordic sagas and Teutonic mythology. Long before the 1939 mission to Tibet, the Nazis had borrowed Asian symbols and language and used them for their own ends. A number of prominent articles of Nazi rhetoric and symbolism originated in the language and religions of Asia. The term "Aryan", for example, comes from the Sanskrit word arya, meaning noble. In the Vedas, the most ancient Hindu scriptures, the term describes a race of light-skinned people from Central Asia who conquered and subjugated the darker-skinned (or Dravidian) peoples of the Indian subcontinent. Linguistic evidence does support the multidirectional migration of a central Asian people, now referred to as Indo-Europeans, into much of India and Europe at some point between 2000 and 1500 B.C.E., although it is unclear whether these Indo-Europeans were identical with the Aryans of the Vedas.

So much for responsible scholarship. In the hands of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European jingoists and occultists such as Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, these ideas about Indo-Europeans and light-skinned Aryans were transformed into a twisted myth of Nordic and later exclusively German racial superiority. The German identification with the Indo-Europeans and Aryans of the second millennium B.C.E. gave historical precedence to Germany's imperial "place in the sun" and the idea that ethnic Germans were racially entitled to conquest and mastery. It also aided in fomenting anti-Semitism and xenophobia, as Jews, Gypsies, and other minorities did not share in the Aryan German's perceived heritage as members of a dominant race. Ideas about an Aryan or master race began to appear in the popular media in the late nineteenth century. In the 1890s, E. B. Lytton, a Rosicrucian, wrote a best-selling novel around the idea of a cosmic energy (particularly strong in the female sex), which he called "Vril." Later he wrote of a Vril society, consisting of a race of super-beings that would emerge from their underground hiding-places to rule the world. His fantasies coincided with a great interest in the occult, particularly among the upper classes, with numerous secret societies founded to propagate these ideas. They ranged from those devoted to the Holy Grail to those who followed the sex and drugs mysticism of Alastair Crowley, and many seem to have had a vague affinity for Buddhist and Hindu beliefs.

General Haushofer, a follower of Gurdjieff and later one of Hitler's main patrons, founded one such society. Its aim was to explore the origins of the Aryan race, and Haushofer named it the Vril Society, after Lytton's fictional creation. Its members practiced meditation to awaken the powers of Vril, the feminine cosmic energy. The Vril Society claimed to have links to Tibetan masters, apparently drawing on the ideas of Madame Blavatsky, the Theosophist who claimed to be in telepathic contact with spiritual masters in Tibet. In Germany, this blend of ancient myths and nineteenth-century scientific theories began to evolve into a belief that the Germans were the purest manifestation of the inherently superior Aryan race, whose destiny was to rule the world. These ideas were given scientific weight by ill-founded theories of eugenics and racist ethnography. Around 1919, the   Vril Society gave way to the Thule Society (Thule Gesellschaft), which was founded in Munich by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorf, a follower of Blavatsky. The Thule Society drew on the traditions of various orders such as the Jesuits, the Knights Templar, the Order of the Golden Dawn, and the Sufis. It promoted the myth of Thule, a legendary island in the frozen northlands that had been the home of a master race, the original Aryans. As in the legend of Atlantis (with which it is sometimes identified), the inhabitants of Thule were forced to flee from some catastrophe that destroyed their world. But the survivors had retained their magical powers and were hidden from the world, perhaps in secret tunnels in Tibet, where they might be contacted and subsequently bestow their powers on their Aryan descendants.

Such ideas might have remained harmless, but the Thule Society added a strong right-wing, anti-Semitic political ideology to the Vril Society mythology. They formed an active opposition to the local Socialist government in Munich and engaged in street battles and political assassinations. As their symbol, along with the dagger and the oak leaves, they adopted the swastika, which had been used by earlier German neo-pagan groups. The appeal of the swastika symbol to the Thule Society seems to have been largely in its dramatic strength rather than its cultural or mystical significance. They believed it was an original Aryan symbol, although it was actually used by numerous unconnected cultures throughout history. Beyond the adoption of the swastika, it is difficult to judge the extent to which either Tibet or Buddhism played a part in Thule Society ideology Vril Society founder General Haushofer, who remained active in the Thule Society, had been a German military attache in Japan. There he may have acquired some knowledge of Zen Buddhism, which was then the dominant faith among the Japanese military. Other Thule Society members, however, could only have read early German studies of Buddhism, and those studies tended to construct the idea of a pure, original Buddhism that had been lost, and a degenerate Buddhism that survived, much polluted by primitive local beliefs. It seems that Buddhism was little more than a poorly understood and exotic element in the Society's loose collection of beliefs, and had little real influence on the Thule ideology. But Tibet occupied a much stronger position in their mythology, being imagined as the likely home of the survivors of the mythic Thule race.

The importance of the Thule Society can be seen from the fact that its members included Nazi leaders Rudolf Hess (Hitler's deputy), Heinrich Himmler, and almost certainly Hitler himself. But while Hitler was at least nominally a Catholic, Himmler enthusiastically embraced the aims and beliefs of the Thule Society. He adopted a range of neo-pagan ideas and believed himself to be a reincarnation of a tenth-century Germanic king. Himmler seems to have been strongly attracted to the possibility that Tibet might prove to be the refuge of the original Aryans and their superhuman powers. By the time Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in the 1920s, the myth of the Aryan race was fully developed. In Chapter XI, "Race and People," he expressed concern over what he perceived as the mixing of pure Aryan blood with that of inferior peoples. In his view, the pure Aryan Germanic races had been corrupted by prolonged contact with Jewish people. He lamented that northern Europe had been "Judaized" and that the German's originally pure blood had been tainted by prolonged contact with Jewish people, who, he claimed, lie "in wait for hours on end, satanically glaring at and spying on the unsuspicious girl whom he plans to seduce, adulterating her blood and removing her from the bosom of her people." For Hitler, the only solution to this mingling of Aryan and Jewish blood was for the tainted Germans to find the wellsprings of Aryan blood. It may happen that in the course of history such a people will come into contact a second time, and even oftener, with the original founders of their culture and may not even remember that distant association. A new cultural wave flows in and lasts until the blood of its standard-bearers becomes once again adulterated by intermixture with the originally conquered   race. In the search for "contact a second time" with the Aryans, Tibet-long isolated, mysterious, and remote-seemed a likely candidate.