The Morning of the Magicians: Secret Societies, Conspiracies, and Vanished Civilizations by Louis Pauwels

Author:Louis Pauwels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-11T16:00:00+00:00

All these movements: the modern Rosy-Cross, Golden Dawn, the German Vril Society (which will bring us to the Thule Group where we shall find Haushofer, Hess and Hitler) were more or less closely associated with the powerful and well organized Theosophical Society. Theosophy added to neo-pagan magic an oriental setting and a Hindu terminology. Or, rather, it provided a link between a certain oriental Satanism and the West.

Theosophy was the name finally given to the whole vast renaissance in the world of magic that affected many thinkers so profoundly at the beginning of the century.

In his study Le Theosophisme, histoire d'une pseudo-religion, published in 1921, the philosopher Rene Guenon foresaw what was likely to occur. He realized the dangers lurking behind theosophy and the neo-pagan Initiatory groups that were more or less connected with Mme Blavatsky and her sect.

This is what he wrote:

'The false Messiahs we have seen so far have only performed very inferior miracles, and their disciples were probably not very difficult to convert. But who knows what the future has in store? When you reflect that these false Messiahs have never been anything but the more or less unconscious tools of those who conjured them up, and when one thinks more particularly of the series of attempts made in succession by the theosophists, one is forced to the conclusion that these were only trials, experiments as it were, which will be renewed in various forms until success is achieved, and which in the meantime invariably produce a somewhat disquieting effect. Not that we believe that the theosophists, any more than the occultists and the spiritualists, are strong enough by themselves to carry out successfully an enterprise of this nature. But might there not be, behind all these movements, something far more dangerous which their leaders perhaps know nothing about, being themselves in turn the unconscious tools of a higher power?'

It was at this time, too, that that extraordinary personage, Rudolf Steiner, founded in Switzerland a research society based on the idea that the entire Universe is contained in the human mind, and that this mind is capable of activities outside the scope or range of official psychology. It is a fact that some of Steiner's discoveries in biology (fertilizers that do not harm the soil), medicine (use of metals that affect metabolism) and especially in pedagogy (there are numerous Rudolf Steiner schools in Europe today) have rendered considerable service to humanity. Steiner thought that there are both black and white forms of 'magic', and believed that theosophism and the various neo-pagan societies sprang from the great subterranean world of Evil and heralded the coming of a Satanic, or demoniac age. In his own teaching he was careful to embody a moral doctrine binding the 'initiates' to work only for good. He wanted to create a society of 'do-gooders'.

We are not concerned with the question whether Steiner was right or wrong. What does seem to us very striking is that the Nazis from the beginning seem to have looked upon Steiner as Enemy No.

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