Why would Nazis attack fellow-occultists?

[joeblow]

http://www.greyfalcon.us/restored/Nazis ... %20Age.htm

Why would Nazis attack fellow-occultists?  

According to research (see Adolf Hitler, The Occult Messiah, Gerald Suster), Hitler was devoted to Theosophy and kept a copy of Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine by his bedside. Yet from the 1920s, his thugs ruthlessly attacked and killed adherents of Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Freemasons and others who shared the same occult doctrines. He banned their groups from the Third Reich, and publicly denounced occultists Rudolf Steiner and Aleister Crowley. He ignored astrologers, séance mediums, fortune tellers and similar groups, until 1942 when they also were banned. This has led historians to assume that Hitler was simply anti-occult, a conclusion that fails to explain all the evidence to the contrary.

The Nazi relationship to the Thule Society in particular begs for an explanation. By 1933, when occultist Sebottendorf sought to revive Thule, he found himself roundly rejected by the Nazi party he had nurtured. He retaliated by writing a book, Bevor Hitler Kamm (Before Hitler Came), claiming credit for Thule's role in launching Hitler into leadership. The book was apparently popular and sold well, until the Nazis confiscated all available copies and sent the author into enforced retirement. Thus Nazi origins in the occultic Thule Society, as well as Nazi plagiarism of many Theosophical and Thule terms, were buried; to this day they remain relatively unknown to many students of the Holocaust.

One explanation is camouflage. Hitler seemed determined to keep his occult roots hidden from the general public; the groups and individuals he targeted for early elimination were those who knew of those roots and who might expose him (thereby challenging his control of the "Plan"). This would explain why the Nazis burned every available copy of Sebottendorf's book which proclaimed those roots, and why Rudolf Hess's defection to the West in 1941 prompted Hitler to outlaw all remaining occultists in the Third Reich, such as astrologers, mediums and even parlour magicians. (Carr)

Such actions can be also be understood as attempts to eliminate competition. Hitler recognized occultic power in each of the banned groups which could compete with his own occult enterprise, and eliminated them from the field. He considered Steiner a particular threat, making him the first target. [According to Angeberts, Steiner was an avowed practitioner of "white magic" who viewed Hitler as a tool of "black magic" . Since they both believed they manipulated the same Force, this equality would have suggested to Steiner the possibility of thwarting Hitler, a direct threat which Hitler in turn would have recognized.] This would make sense of the fact that he confiscated (rather than burned) all the books of the outlawed groups, and is the only explanation for his treatment of the Thule founder to whom he owed so much. Heinrich Himmler confirmed this when he defended the official Nazi policy banning astrology: "We cannot permit any astrologers to follow their calling except those who are working for us." (SS astrologer William Wulff, Zodiac and Swastika, quoted by Sklar) While Himmler fell back on the traditional esoteric rationale, "It is not for the broad masses", who would misinterpret the occult secrets, the fact that recognized adepts were also disenfranchised betrays more of an attempt to clear the field.

Hitler did make one exception, however; his 1942 law banning secret societies and confiscating their assets specifically exempted the "old Prussian" Freemason lodges, otherwise known as the Bavarian Illuminati. This group followed the Nazi racial purity ideal far more closely than the "humanitarian Freemasonry" (as the Angeberts distinguish the different streams), and in fact the Bavarian sect shared Hitler's disdain for the other branches of Freemasons, not to mention for the Jews as well. [This would imply another reason why Steiner and the Freemasons, as "humanitarian" strains of occultism, were ruthlessly attacked by both Thulists and Nazis: they were considered too compassionate to do what was needed to usher in the New Age.]

[nik]

They also happened to be the lodges that were central to Adam Weishaupt's constellation. *shrugs*

[Anonymous]

Well it makes sense to me. You know you were trained by these organizations claiming secret knowledge and put into power by them, you eliminate your competition and the underbelly of subversion to your power. These organizations have long been used as my freemason friend says the police force of the new world order.

if you throw out all the mystical crap what are you left with.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Frankly, I think the Nazi's were threatened by any organization or assembly that was not vetted as ideologically "approved". Criminal Gangs were wasted to the Nth degree under the Nazis.
Basically, if some group meets in secret -- they were going to get wasted. Nazis were paranoid that a group like themselves was going to rise up, low under the radar, and waste a lot of high ranked Nazis.
The Communists and Socialists were famous for creating semi-occult or literary groups themselves in Germany before 1933.

[hurensohn]

Perhaps Hitler was taking his orders from those "old preussian lodges"?

[nik]

Perhaps Hitler was taking his orders from those "old preussian lodges"?

They are definitely part of something that is overlooked

[Duncan]

Are we forgetting Hitler's blood line is Rothschild?

[hurensohn]

Not at all, why would the one exclude the other?