The Occult and the Third Reich: The Mystical Origins of Nazism and the Search for the Holy Grail

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Title Page
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Contents
Translator's Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: Otto Rahn and the Crusade against the Grail
	1. The Grail: Christian Relic, Pagan Relic
		The Satanic Quest
		The Seeker
		The Grail: Myth or Reality?
		The Cathar Phenomenon
	2. The Grail: Neo-Pagan Relic
		The Book of the Key
		The Mysterious Mission
PART TWO: The Great Tradition
	3. The Myth of the Beginnings
		Atlantis and Hyperborea
		The Theories Concerning the Creation of the World
	4. The Gnosis, or Supreme Knowledge
		The Questioning
		Zoroaster and the Religion of Light
		Manes and His School
		Christianity and Gnosis
	5. The Centers of Initiation
		Sanctuaries of Antiquity
		Asgard (“Center of the World”) and the King of the World
		The Templars and the Rose-Cross
		The Order of the Rose-Cross
		The Signs of the Times
PART THREE: The New Era
	6. Nietsche and Superman
		Nietzsche and Wagner
		Man-God and Religious Freedom
		Creation of the Superman
	7. Wagner the Troubadour
		The Master of Bayreuth and the Principal Wagnerian Themes
		Wagner’s Work as a Philosophy
		Hitler’s Interpretation of Wagner
	8. The Secret Origins of Nazism
		The Esoteric Societies: German Freemasonry and Theosophy
		The Racist Groups
		Birth of the National Socialist Party
	9. The Hitlerian Cosmogony
		False Interpretations
		Materialism and Spiritualism
		Man and the Universe
		The Means for Moving Forward
		The Final Goal
	10. The Myth Realized
		Symbols and Emblems
		The Three Degrees of Initiation
		The Orders
		Rosenberg and the Myth of the Twentieth Century
		The Events
	11. Catharism and Hitlerism
		Hitler’s Personality
		The Concordances
		The Metaphysical Affinities
	12. Apocalypse: The Twilight of the Gods
		Apocalypse and Johannite Tradition
		Neo-Albigensianism or Counterfeit?
		The New Tablets of the Law
Notes
Index
Bibliography
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