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Hitler and His God: The Background to the Hitler Phenomenon
Hitler remains an enigma in spite of everything that has been written about him. Historians like Alan Bullock, Ian Kershaw and HR Trevo-Roper confess their perplexity openly. How was it possible that an unknown, solitary and futureless front-soldier in 1918 became, some years later, the Leader and Messiah of the German people? How could a nullity unleash the most destructive and deadliest war humanity has ever known? Academic historians give countless reasons because the essential reason keeps escaping them; fantasy writers find the most bizarre occult explanations, disregarding the historical facts. Hitler remains an enigma in spite of everything that has been written about him. Historians like Alan Bullock, Ian Kershaw and HR Trevo-Roper confess their perplexity openly. How was it possible that an unknown, solitary and futureless front-soldier in 1918 became, some years later, the Leader and Messiah of the German people? How could a nullity unleash the most destructive and deadliest war humanity has ever known? Academic historians give countless reasons because the essential reason keeps escaping them; fantasy writers find the most bizarre occult explanations, disregarding the historical facts.
712 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2012
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Georges Van Vrekhem
33 books2 followersGeorges Van Vrekhem (1935 – 2012) was a Flemish (i.e. Dutch-speaking) Belgian journalist, poet and playwright, who was the artistic manager of a professional theater company, the "Nederlands Toneel te Gent". He became acquainted with the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in 1964. In 1970, he joined the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry, and eight years later, in 1978 he moved to Auroville. He has translated as selected writings from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and several books of Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, Peter Heehs, and Satprem into Dutch.
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October 16, 2012
Georges Van Vrekhem’s “Hitler & His God” (2006) is that rare thing which seeks to wed conventional historical research to latescent numinous factors, which, even if in the final analysis are unsubstantiated by material evidence of the indubitable variety, casts unexpected light on the internal cohesion of disparate historical data.
The beginning sections enumerate the role of the hidden hand that aided the ascent of a relative nobody, a comical corporal with iconoclastic ambitions and the face of a starving dog, as one of Hitler’s early acquaintances puts it, into the political echelons where his verbal diarrhoea would find a rapt audience. The Thule society, at heart an occult organisation of local eminences which sought to study spiritualistic science, was responsible for the rise of Hitler by allowing the starving dog a chance at raising his territorial hindquarter on history.
Hitler’s techniques of ascent, often seen as unprecedented and in contrast with his express ambitions before he had unleashed his worst excesses, are demonstrated as being nascent in Mien Kampf- a document which expresses more than what he had intended to express; the thorough going blue print of his rule of a thousand years, which, surprisingly for everyone, he intended quite literally. Dietrich Eckart, Hitler’s often ignored mentor, himself a rabid anti-Semite and occult buff, is shown as a man not to be taken lightly owing to his morphine addiction and beer hall eloquence. The man’s fame and credibility is accorded anew to German culture where tall mugs of beer and intellectual stature can go hand in hand; his faith in Hitler as the leader Germany needed to achieve to its old glory was born of their joint séances, as well as those conducted with other members of the Thule society. The corporal would by these spiritual diktats come to wrest power from his superior companions in the Thule society, and its more covert arm the DAP.
Considerable documentation which exposes the spiritism, occult ritual mongering and the impression of his contemporaries and friends introduce the main thesis that Hitler was a vacuous vessel filled by a demonic god for its own saturnal purposes. All in all an intriguing read, at least until insane assertions that Sri Aurobindo astrally decimated Hitler’s Asuric aides and thereby mitigated the damage to the world are forwarded. While less preternaturally, Sri Aurobindo’s political opinions can be seen as prescient and important as a map of Indian spiritual consciousness during the time of our world’s Hitlerian upheaval, the argument that Sri Aurobindo, breaking his right thigh in a battle with the four Titans [horsemen of the apocalypse], broke the evil yolk of Hitler by astral projection and yogic awareness with the assistance of Mira Alfasa is just a little too much to consider with any seriousness. This book is best read, however, as a lesson in correlations that elevate the veracity of facts into a higher cohesion; the plea that in Hitler there was something which was equal to the massiveness of his destructive actions must be entertained, regardless of one’s belief in the supernatural, in order to make sense of a man who indubitably embodied the human face of evil if there ever was one.
Vrekhem, G., V. (2006). Hitler & His God. India: Rupa & Co. [700 pages]
The beginning sections enumerate the role of the hidden hand that aided the ascent of a relative nobody, a comical corporal with iconoclastic ambitions and the face of a starving dog, as one of Hitler’s early acquaintances puts it, into the political echelons where his verbal diarrhoea would find a rapt audience. The Thule society, at heart an occult organisation of local eminences which sought to study spiritualistic science, was responsible for the rise of Hitler by allowing the starving dog a chance at raising his territorial hindquarter on history.
Hitler’s techniques of ascent, often seen as unprecedented and in contrast with his express ambitions before he had unleashed his worst excesses, are demonstrated as being nascent in Mien Kampf- a document which expresses more than what he had intended to express; the thorough going blue print of his rule of a thousand years, which, surprisingly for everyone, he intended quite literally. Dietrich Eckart, Hitler’s often ignored mentor, himself a rabid anti-Semite and occult buff, is shown as a man not to be taken lightly owing to his morphine addiction and beer hall eloquence. The man’s fame and credibility is accorded anew to German culture where tall mugs of beer and intellectual stature can go hand in hand; his faith in Hitler as the leader Germany needed to achieve to its old glory was born of their joint séances, as well as those conducted with other members of the Thule society. The corporal would by these spiritual diktats come to wrest power from his superior companions in the Thule society, and its more covert arm the DAP.
Considerable documentation which exposes the spiritism, occult ritual mongering and the impression of his contemporaries and friends introduce the main thesis that Hitler was a vacuous vessel filled by a demonic god for its own saturnal purposes. All in all an intriguing read, at least until insane assertions that Sri Aurobindo astrally decimated Hitler’s Asuric aides and thereby mitigated the damage to the world are forwarded. While less preternaturally, Sri Aurobindo’s political opinions can be seen as prescient and important as a map of Indian spiritual consciousness during the time of our world’s Hitlerian upheaval, the argument that Sri Aurobindo, breaking his right thigh in a battle with the four Titans [horsemen of the apocalypse], broke the evil yolk of Hitler by astral projection and yogic awareness with the assistance of Mira Alfasa is just a little too much to consider with any seriousness. This book is best read, however, as a lesson in correlations that elevate the veracity of facts into a higher cohesion; the plea that in Hitler there was something which was equal to the massiveness of his destructive actions must be entertained, regardless of one’s belief in the supernatural, in order to make sense of a man who indubitably embodied the human face of evil if there ever was one.
Vrekhem, G., V. (2006). Hitler & His God. India: Rupa & Co. [700 pages]
December 11, 2020
I couldn't put it down. Fascinating account of the occult Nazi origins and the Thule Society.
June 10, 2012
Terlalu banyak tanggapan dari penulis tapi cukup banyak pengetahuan yang tidak di bahas secara buka-bukaan di buku-buku lain
Over all 3 bintang keknya cukup deh
Over all 3 bintang keknya cukup deh
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