Lebensraum 

Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier note in their classic work, The Morning of the Magicians, that Nazism was “‘Guénonism’ plus tanks.”[1] Guénon’s “King of the World,” or Satan reigning from Shambhala, was of central concern for the Nazis who sought to connect with their supposed Aryan heritage in Tibet. The Thule Society, alleged Dietrich Bronder, author of Bevor Hitler Kam, was to have established contact with the secret monastic orders of Tibet through a small colony of Tibetan Buddhists, which was established at Berlin in 1928. In 1937, in Geheime Weltmächte (“Secret World Powers”), S. Ipares mentioned an occult hierarchia ordinis of the Lamaist theocracy, who invisibly influence and control the East. In the same year, Fritz Wilhelmy published Asekha. Der Kreuzzug der Bettelmönche (“Asekha: The Crusade of the Mendicant Monks”), according to which “Tibetan Buddhism… [is] openly appointed to play a more than mysterious role in the great global hustle and bustle of suprastate pullers of strings.”[2] Similarly, J. Strunk, in Zu Juda und Rom. Tibet, Ihr Ringen um die Weltherrschaft (“To Judah and Rome: Tibet, Their Struggle for World Domination”) (1937) claimed to uncover a conspiracy of an international ecclesiastical elite, formed from members of all the world religions, with the living Buddha, the Dalai Lama from Lhasa as their head: “What there are of organizations and new spiritual currents running alongside and in all directions nearly always end up on the ‘roof of the world,’ in a Lama temple, once one has progressed through Jewish and Christian lodges.”[3]

In his Le tyran nazi et les forces occultes (1939), Edouard Saby identified Hitler as a medium, a magician, and an initiate of a secret “Rosicrucian society” with links to Tibet and the Holy Vehm. In was under the influence of Aufbau member Karl Haushofer (1869-1946), a close friend of Dietrich Eckart, that the theosophical theories about the origins of Tibet inspired the Nazis to send several expeditions in search of their Aryan ancestors, and to make contact with a mysterious organization known as the Society of the Green Dragon. Born in 1869, Haushofer had been a military attaché in the German Embassy at Tokyo. Travelling extensively throughout the Far East, he studied oriental philosophy, and while in Japan became initiated into one of the most arcane Buddhist secret societies, Society of the Green Dragon.

According to Hess, Haushofer was “the magician, the secret master” of the Thule group.[4] Pauwels and Bergier, the synarchist authors of The Morning of the Magicians (1960), conclude “that Hitler must have been the medium, and Haushofer the magician.”[5] Haushofer was supposed to have been with George Gurdjieff in Tibet, and it was then that Gurdjieff supposedly advised Haushofer to adopt the symbol of the swastika.[6] In Monsieur Gurdjieff, Pauwels, a former student of Gurdjieff, asserts that Haushofer was one of the “Searchers After Truth” that Gurdjieff speaks of in Meetings with Remarkeable Men.

Haushofer proclaimed the necessity of “a return to the sources” of the human race in Central Asia. Halford Mackinder’s Heartland Theory was enthusiastically taken up by the German school of Geopolitik, of which Haushofer was the main proponent. According to Haushofer, if Germany could control Eastern Europe and subsequently Russian territory, it could control a strategic area to which hostile sea power could be denied. Allying with Italy and Japan would further augment German strategic control of Eurasia, with those states becoming the naval arms protecting Germany’s insular position. Haushofer thus advocated conquering territory to gain more Lebensraum, meaning living space, as a means of acquiring power.

But Haushofer’s theories also had an occult basis. Pauwels and Bergier, authors of The Morning of the Magicans, claim that Haushofer was also a member of the Luminous Lodge, a secret Buddhist society in Japan, as well as the Thule Society. Haushofer believed that the Germanic race had originated in Central Asia, and that, in order to preserve German superiority, the Reich should expand to the eastward. This expansion should, argued Haushofer, not only include Eastern Europe, but should encompass the Ukraine and Russia, Turkestan, Iran, Mount Pamir, the Gobi and Tibet. The key would be finding the forefathers of the Aryans, the guardians of the secrets of Vril. For this purpose, as various researchers including Pauwels and Bergier claim, after serving as a general in World War I, Haushofer founded the Vril Society in Berlin in 1918. They also thought that it was in close contact with the English group known as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.[7]

It shared the same basic beliefs as the Thule Society and some say that it was its inner circle.[8] After a world cataclysm, Agharti sank beneath the earth, and the Aryans then split into two groups. One went south and founded a secret center of learning beneath the Himalayas, also called Agharti, where they preserved the teachings of virtue and of Vril. The other Aryan group tried to return to Hyperborea-Thule, but instead  founded Shambhala, a city of violence, evil, and materialism. Agharti belonged to the right-hand path and positive Vril, while Shambhala was the keeper of the left-hand path and negative energy.[9]

In 1923, when Hitler and Rudolf Hess were imprisoned after the Munich Putsch, they were visited by Haushofer who spent six hours visiting the two, bringing along a copy of Friedrich Ratzel’s Political Geography and Clausewitz’s On War. Haushofer, therefore, apparently acquainted Hitler with the teachings of the Society of the Green Dragon, and taught him the techniques of Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way, which were ostensibly based on the teachings of the Sufis and the Tibetan Lamas.

Ahnenerbe

Hitler combined the theories of Karl Haushofer and those of fellow Aufbau member Alfred Rosenberg to form the basis of Mein Kampf. When Hitler became chancellor in 1933, he adopted Haushofer’s pan-German geopolitics as his policy for the Aryan race to conquer Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. Whoever could control them, he believed, could control the world. He therefore advocated the Nazi colonization of the area in order that Germany could have access to its hidden centers of power.[12] Under Haushofer’s influence, Hitler authorized the creation of the Ahnenerbe, the scientific institute of the SS, that regarded itself as a “study society for Intellectual Ancient History.”

After the rise to power of the NSDAP, Herman Wirth rejoined the party in 1934 and shortly thereafter became a member of the SS, and was personally re-awarded his former NSDAP number by Hitler. In 1934, the journalist and Nazi functionary Johann von Leers had brought Wirth into contact with Himmler, an avid student of the occult, who became the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany and among those most directly responsible for the Holocaust. In 1935, Wirth and Himmler founded the Ahnenerbe to research the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan race, and later to experiment and launch voyages with the intent of proving that prehistoric and mythological Nordic populations had once ruled the world, including sponsoring expeditions to Tibet in search of their Aryan forefathers.

The Ahnenerbe was incorporated into the SS by Himmler in 1937. As supreme leader of the SS, Himmler consulted seers, fortune-tellers, amassed the largest private library of witchcraft outside of the Berlin University, and immersed himself in the legends of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The SS adopted the racial guidelines of Liebenfels’ Ordo Novi Templi (ONT) for admission into the order.[13] The SS also adopted the swastika and the skull and bones, but their most famous symbol was the double S-rune, an emblem derived from the doctrines of Guido von List, who identified it with the insignia of the Holy Vehm.[14]

Himmler was inspired to adopt the rune symbols by occultist Karl Maria Wiligut, who was also associated with the ONT. Once diagnosed as a schizophrenic and megalomaniac, Wiligut allegedly possessed of an “ancestral memory” that allowed him to recall the history of the Teutonic people all the way back to the year 228,000 BC. Wiligut introduced Himmler to Otto Rahn, who became a full member of the SS in 1936. Rahn came to Himmler’s attention for his book Crusade Against the Grail, which became required reading for SS officers. In addition to Maurice Magre of the Brotherhood Polaires, Rahn was also influenced by Joséphin Pélandan’s Le secret des troubadours (“The Secret of the Troubadours”). According to Rahn, the Cathars were inheritors of the worship of Abellio, a species of dying-god worshipped in the Pyrenees with the Latinized form of Belenus-Apollo whom he equated with Lucifer. Rahn also pointed out that Grail author Wolfram von Eschenbach identified Percival with the Cathar Raymond-Roger of Trencavel and his mother Adelaide with Herzeloyde. Esclarmonde de Foix was identified by Rahn as a historical precedent of the protector of the Grail “Repanse de Schoye” in Eschenbach’s Parzival. Rahn speculated that the treasure possessed by the Grail represented the treasures of the Jews captured by Alaric and then the Byzantine general Belisarius, as recounted by Procopius. Rahn was convinced that Pope Innocent III had initiated Albigensian Crusade as a crusade against the Grail, which he believed was hidden in the Cathar fortress of Montsegur, which he equated with Wolfram’s Grail castle of Munsalvaesche. Himmler was sent by Hitler in 1937 to attempt to locate Alaric treasure, which was believed to have been buried with him beneath the Busento river in Italy.

In 1936, Rahn undertook a journey on behalf of the SS to Iceland, and in 1937 he published Lucifer’s Servants, a travel journal of his quest for the Gnostic and Cathar tradition across Europe, which he portrayed positively as preserving the Luciferian tradition. The book is thought to have inspired a character in the 1989 Steven Spielberg film, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, where finding the Grail first required locating the “Grail Diary” of an old archeologist.

According to The Desecrated Abbey, by Montserrat Rico Góngora, Himmler thought the Holy Grail would help Germany win the war and grant him supernatural powers. Himmler came to Montserrat inspired by Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal, which mentions the Holy Grail could be in kept in “the marvelous castle of Montsalvat in the Pyrenees.” In Wagner’s Parsifal, both the Holy Spear, which pierced the side of the Redeemer on the Cross, and the Holy Grail, which caught the flowing blood, had come to Monsalvat to be guarded by the Knights of the Grail under the rule of Titurel, father of Amfortas. Though others have claimed it was Montségur in France, it was widely believed in Nazi circles that this castle was Montserrat, a belief strengthened by the fact the first performance of the opera was held at the Liceu Opera House in Barcelona in 1913.

Himmler used the Renaissance castle at Wewelsburg in the north of Germany as a Grail castle and central cult-site of the SS, where he officiated at a kind of coven of twelve appointed SS member and performed pagan ceremonies. The focal point of the Wewelsburg complex was the Obergruppenführersaal, referring to the original twelve highest-ranking SS-generals. It was a stone-lined chamber with twelve pillars and niches, in which Himmler had installed an oaken Arthurian round table to seat the twelve. A twelve-spoked sun wheel, known as the Black Sun was embedded in the floor, representing the occult Saturn.

In 1935, the Ahnenerbe sponsored expeditions to locate the Aryan forefathers in Shambhala and Agartha. The 1939 expedition was said to have gone to Tibet with the specific purpose of setting up vital radio contact between the Third Reich and the lamas in 1939, and Blavatsky’s Stanzas of Dzyan were used as a code for all messages between Berlin and Tibet during World War II.[15] Pauwels and Bergier argue that Hitler sent the expedition out of his desire to find Agarthi, which he had been made aware of from his relationship with “the man with the green gloves.”[16]

After the Italian surrender to the Allied forces in 1943, Evola moved to Germany where he spent the remainder of the war and also worked as a researcher on Freemasonry for the SS Ahnenerbe in Vienna. Inspired by SS member Herman Wirth, Evola reinterpreted Guénon’s perception that the origin of the “Primordial Tradition” was Hyperborean.[17] Guénon’s theory, however, was void of racism. Guénon, in his Introduction générale a` l’étude des doctrines hindoues (“General Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines”), referred to the myth of the Aryan origin of civilizations a “classical illusion.” Guénon was nevertheless convinced that the Hyperborean tradition was the oldest of humankind and had spread to different civilizations from the North Pole.[18]

According to Joscelyn Godwin: “the basic outlines of Evola’s prehistory resemble those of Theosophy, with Lemurian, Atlantean, and Aryan root-races succeeding each other, and a pole-shift marking the transition from one epoch to another.”[19] In Revolt Against the Modern World, Evola explains that there is not one tradition, but two: an older and degenerate tradition that is feminine, matriarchal, unheroic, associated with the telluric negroid racial remnants of Lemuria; and a higher one that is masculine, heroic, “Uranian” and purely Aryo-Hyperborean in its origin. The latter one later gave rise to a Western-Atlantic tradition, which combined aspects of both through the historical migrations of the Hyperboreans and their degenerating assimilation of exotic spiritual influences from the South.

Evola admired Himmler and regarded the SS as a model elite, of which he wrote in Vita Italiana, “We are inclined to the opinion that we can see the nucleus of an Order in the higher sense of tradition in the ‘Black Corps.’”[20] Himmler then commissioned Wiligut to assess Evola. Apparently jealous, Wiligut concluded that “Evola works from a basic Aryan concept but is quite ignorant of prehistoric Germanic institutions and their meaning,” areas Wiligut was supposed to have excelled in, and recommended rejecting Evola’s “utopian” proposal.[21]

Mad Baron

Gurdjieff also had alleged ties to British intelligence, serving as a British asset in Central Asia and the Near East, and has been repeatedly identified with Lama Agvan Dorjieff, chief tutor of the Dalai Lama XIII.[22] In 1931, in New York City, Achmed Abdulla, a.k.a. Nadir Kahn, confided to Alfred R. Orage that he had met Gurdjieff in Tibet, and that he was one and the same as Lama Dorjieff.[23] It is possible that Lama Dorjieff was also involved in a later plot to carve out a huge Mongol empire in Central Asia, by the “Mad Baron” Roman von Ungern-Sternberg. Ungern-Sternberg, who was born in Austria to a Sabbatean family of noble Baltic German descent. Roman was descended from Count Ungern-Sternberg, whose nephew married Maria-Anna, the eldest daughter of Moses Dobrushka, Jacob Frank’s cousin and founder of the Asiatic Brethren. Count Ungern-Sternberg himself married Maria-Stella who claimed to be the daughter of Philippe-Egalité, Duke of Orléans.[24]

Ferdinand Ossendowsky became one of Ungern's very few friends and in 1922 published a best-selling book, Men, Beasts and Gods, about his adventures in Siberia and Mongolia. In 1942, Julius Evola wrote an article about him, titled “Baron von Ungern Venerated in Mongolian Temples,” and reported that René Guénon published passages of letters written in 1924 by major Alexandrovitch, who had commanded the Mongolian artillery under Ungern-Sternberg. Schwaller de Lubicz, founder of Les Veillieurs, was the son of a Baltic baron who had links to von Ungern-Sternberg.

In 1917, the Mad Baron was transferred to the Caucasus in 1918 and 1919 where he befriended Boris Brasol’s associate, Ataman Grigory Semenov, a Russian officer fighting Ottoman Turks on behalf of the Central Powers, and later one of most well-known Russian anti-communist warlords in Siberia. Semenov was a Japanese-supported leader of the White movement in Transbaikal and beyond from December 1917 to November 1920, Lieutenant General and Ataman of Baikal Cossacks. According to Richard Spence, “The excesses committed by him or under his name earned Semenov a reputation as a pillager, a mass murder, and a pogromist.”[25] Semenov handed out copies of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to the Japanese troops he associated with.[26] Nevertheless, Semenov’s most illustrious mistress and partner was a Jewish cabaret singer named Mashka Sharaban.[27]

In 1921, when Semenov decided to head for Europe via America, Brasol successfully lobbied the US State Department to grant him a visa. Semenov’s arrival in United States however was greeted with protests by “angry Russian Jews.” Soon after, in April, 1922, police arrested him and held him in jail. Brasol painted the Jews demonstrating outside the jailhouse as a part of a conspiracy against Semenov. The source of the protests, according to Brasol, was Youraveta Home and Foreign Trading Company of New York, which Brasol had described as “practically taken over” by Jacob Schiff. Additionally, the opposing attorneys questioning Semenov were Jews—David Kahn and E. S. Greenbaum.[28]

Following the Russian Revolution in 1917, Ungern-Sternberg and Semenov had immediately declared their allegiance for the Tsar and started their own counter-revolution, outside of the White Russian movement. During the Russian Civil War, Ungern-Sternberg’s interest in Vajrayana Buddhism and his eccentric, often violent treatment of his enemies and his own men, earned him the reputation as “the Mad Baron.” Ungern-Sternberg further developed his mystical interests and proclaimed himself the reincarnation of Genghis Khan. To his soldiers he was the “God of War” who would lead them to countless victories. In 1921, he defeated the Chinese, and declared an independent monarchy under the spiritual rule of Bogd Khan with Ungern-Sternberg as its de facto dictator. His plan wasn’t just to revive the Mongol Empire, but to re-establish monarchies all over the world. Ungern-Sternberg adhered to the “Shambhala” myth, and tried to contact the “King of the World” in hopes of furthering his scheme. One of Dorjieff’s disciples was Ungern-Sternberg’s supply officer, and Ferdinand Ossendowsky became Ungern-Sternberg’s political advisor and chief of intelligence. He established a Tibetan colony in Urga and had good relations with the 13th Dalai Lama who supplied him with warriors. Ungern-Sternberg was also a notorious anti-Semite who was personally responsible for the execution of more than 800 Jews within the Mongol region.[29] Ossendowski reported that he convinced Ungern of his story of Agarthi and that, subsequently, Ungern twice sent missions to seek the lost city, led by Prince Poulzig.[30]

Society of the Green Dragon

According to Pauwels and his co-author Jacques Bergier, the Thule Society sought to make a pact with Shambhala, but only Agarthi agreed to offer help. Already by 1926, explained the authors, there were colonies of Hindus and Tibetans in Munich and Berlin, called the Society of Green Men, in astral connection with the Green Dragon Society in Japan to which Haushofer belonged. The leader of the Society of Green Men was a Tibetan lama, known as “the man with green gloves,” who supposedly visited Hitler frequently and held the keys of Agharti.[31] A 1933 book, Les Sept Tetes du Dragon Vert (The Seven Heads of the Green Dragon) by Teddy Legrand, also makes mention of a Society of the Green Dragon, comprised of Tibetan Lamas who were secretly guiding the aspirations of the Nazi party. “Teddy Legrand” was a pseudonym, the author’s real name being Pierre Mariel, a journalist with ties to French intelligence. Mariel was also a one-time French grand master of Antiquus Mysticusque Ordo Rosae Crucis (AMORC) and a member of the Martinist Order, which he hinted was responsible for the French Revolution and other later political upheavals, and which might have had links to the Green Dragon.[32]

In Les Sept Tetes du Dragon Vert, two brother spies are inspired by their shared curiosity about an object supposedly found on the executed Tsarina Alexandra’s body, which bears an enigmatic inscription in English: “S.I.M.P. The Green Dragon. You were absolutely right. Too late.” They quickly determine that the first element—which is accompanied by a six-pointed “Kabbalistic” symbol of the Martinists—stands for “Superieur Inconnu, Maître Philippe,” referring to Papus’ “spiritual master.” As reported by Legrand, Maître Philippe had tried to warn the Tsarina of the threat of the Green Dragon, represented by Rasputin, who eventually replaced him at the court. Mariel also implies that also connected with this conspiracy was Rudolf Steiner, founder of the Anthroposophical Society, through his connections to pan-German secret societies. Mention is also made of Gurdjieff and Annie Besant.

The two suspected candidates for the person of the “the man with the green gloves,” were Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln and Erik Jan Hanussen. Mel Gordon in Hitler’s Jewish Clairvoyant discusses the career of Hanussen as an occult figure in late Weimar Berlin, in the service of the Nazis. Hanussen became famous for giving performances of his psychic abilities at La Scala in Berlin, attracting the attention of people from Sigmund Freud and Thomas Mann to Marlene Dietrich and Peter Lorre. At the Zionist congress in Basel, Hanussen declared his descent in direct line from Judah Leib of Prossnitz, one of the successors of Sabbatai Zevi, according to a list of ordination in the Schiff Collection.[33]

A devotee of Asiatic and tantric traditions, Hanussen enjoyed the company of Germany’s military and business elite, also becoming close with members of the SA. In March 1932, when Adolf Hitler’s political future seemed doomed, Hanussen predicted a resurgence of the Nazi Party. According to Dr. Walter C. Langer’s report for the OSS: “…during the early 1920’s Hitler took regular lessons in speaking and in mass psychology from a man named Hanussen who was also a practicing astrologer and fortune-teller. He was an extremely clever individual who taught Hitler a great deal concerning the importance of staging meetings to obtain the greatest dramatic effect.”[34]

In 1932, Hitler’s mistress Eva Braun attempted suicide. Additionally, Hitler's own political prospects were fading, and became suicidal himself. But his old friend Hanussen produced for him an astrological chart, which predicted that an auspicious future lay ahead, but that Hitler was impeded by a hex. It order to rid himself of the spell, explained Hanussen, Hitler would have to return to his hometown, on a full moon at midnight in a butcher's backyard and remove from the earth a mandrake, a man-shaped root known in European folklore for its magical and medicinal properties. Hanussen performed a ritual, and set off to collect the mandrake himself, returning on New Year's Day 1933 with the root and a prediction: that Hitler's return to power would take place on January 30, a date approximately equivalent to the pagan Sabbath of Oimelc, one of the four “cross-quarter” days of the witches’ calendar. As unlikely as it seemed at the time, Hitler was Chancellor of Germany on precisely the date Hanussen had predicted.[35] Hanussen also made a further prediction, during a séance held at his “Palace of Occultism” in Berlin, that the communists in Germany would attempt a revolution, marked by the destruction (by fire) of an important government building. That was the day before the infamous Reichstag fire, which is widely considered to have been a false-flag operation that provided Hitler the opportunity to seize power and declare himself “Führer.” But Hanussen was eventually killed six weeks later in the purge of the Night of Long Knives, as some claim, because he “knew too much.”[36]

Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln (1879-1943) was a lager-than-life character, a Jewish adventurer of Hungarian origin, who spent parts of his life as a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British Member of Parliament for Darlington, German right-wing politician and spy, Nazi collaborator and Buddhist abbot in China. René Guénon had described Trebitsch-Lincoln as a representative of dark occult influences with a close connection to Crowley. Another French writer, Pierre Mariel, also insists that Trebitsch-Lincoln was a member of the OTO.[37] In 1915, Trebitsch-Lincoln visited the offices of The Fatherland’s, after which he was arrested by the Americans upon pressure from the British government.

Trebitsch-Lincoln worked his way into the extreme right-wing, making the acquaintance of Wolfgang Kapp and Erich Ludendorff among others. American intelligence regarded Trebitsch-Lincoln as the organizer of the Kapp Putsch.[38] Guido Preparata, author of Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich, believes that the British used Trebitsch-Lincoln as “an agent steeped in counter-insurgency tactics and disinformation to thwart, expose and burn all the monarchist conspiracies against the Weimar Republic.”[39] Preparata refers to a British report which suggests that Trebitsch-Lincoln was sent to Germany by then Secretary for War Winston Churchill. The same report claims that when the right-wing Kapp plot began to fail, Trebitsch-Lincoln switched to “working to bring about Bolshevism in Germany.” Although US military intelligence reports declared that Trebitsch-Lincoln “was and still is an English agent,” he was also reported to be “actively engaged in the ‘Red Movement’” and “working in the interest of the Soviet Government in Austria and Hungary.”[40]In 1920, following the putsch, Trebitsch-Lincoln was appointed press censor to the new government. In this capacity he met Hitler, who flew in from Munich the day before the putsch collapsed.

Trebitsch-Lincoln was initiated to the occult by Harold Beckett, an ex-Indian Army officer who allegedly had ties with Maître Philippe and Papus, after which Trebitsch-Lincoln went on to join numerous secret societies including the Freemasons, the OTO and Chinese triads.[41] Among the secrets Beckett supposedly revealed to Trebitsch-Lincoln was that there are only seventy-two “True Men” for each generation. These are identified with the Green Dragon or, more simply, “The Greens,” who number precisely 72 conspirators, who were, presumably, the “72 unknown superiors” of occult legend. They are also considered the same as mentioned by Walter Rathenau, a Jewish politician who served Foreign Minister of Germany during the Weimar Republic.[42] Just before he died, he blamed the “seventy-two men who control the world,” as responsible for his assassination on June 24, 1922, two months after the signing of the Treaty of Rapallo which renounced German territorial claims from World War I. All conspirators were members of the ultra-nationalist secret Organisation Consul (OC), who hoped that Rathenau’s death would bring down the government and prompt the Left to act against the Weimar Republic, thereby provoking civil war, in which the OC would be called on for help by the Reichswehr. One of the assassins, Erwin Kern had argued that Rathenau had, in addition to close ties with the Bolsheviks, had confessed to be one of the three hundred “Elders of Zion” as described in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.[43]

Trebitsch-Lincoln’s troubled history with the British government is interpreted as merely serving as an elaborate cover, as he remained a secret British agent for many years, and perhaps for the remainder of his life. As late as 1937, French writer Robert Boucard referred to Trebitsch-Lincoln as an agent of SIS, alongside T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell.[44] Trebitsch-Lincoln was associated with the “Ace of Spies” Sidney Reilly. They were both employed by international financier and arms trader, Basil Zaharoff, the infamous “Merchant of Death,” who operated a private intelligence service. It is not known whether Zaharoff was Greek, Jewish, or Russian. But the British gave him an Order of the British Empire and a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath for his special services. French investigative journalist Roger Menevee was convinced that not only was he a key British agent, but also a leader of an “International Oligarchy” which dominated the world’s economy.[45] Zaharoff was intimately connected with Round Tabler, and future Prime Minister David Lloyd George, for whom Trebitsch-Lincoln also performed intelligence work. According to Donald McCormick, a “triangular association” existed among Zaharoff, Lloyd George and Trebitsch-Lincoln based on the fact that “each knew a secret about the other.”[46]

Trebitsch-Lincoln is also known to have collaborated with the Abwehr’s station in Shanghai, which in 1941 informed Berlin that Trebitsch-Lincoln—then operating as “Chao Kung”—had long been a member of the “Grand Council of Yellow Cap Lamas” who exercised great influence in Tibet and India.[47] Trebitsch-Lincoln even won the confidence of the Gestapo’s local representative, SS Colonel Joseph “The Butcher of Warsaw” Meisinger, whom he convinced he could rally the Buddhists of the East against any remaining British influence in the area. Meisinger urged that the scheme receive serious attention, and sent him to Berlin, where Heinrich Himmler was enthusiastic about the plan, as was Rudolf Hess, but it was abandoned after Hess’ flight to Scotland in May 1941.

Great Brotherhood of Asia

Ernst Schäfer, a German hunter and biologist, participated in three expeditions to Tibet, in 1931, in 1934-1935, and in 1938-1939, supposedly for sport and zoological research. In the expedition was Dr. Bruno Beger who was also connected to the current reigning Dalai Lama XIV, who was revered as representing a special connection between the Nazis and Tibet.[48] Acting as the young Dalai Lama’s personal tutor until the early 1950s, was former SS officer Heinrich Harrer, best known for his books, including Seven Years in Tibet (1952), which was the basis of two films of the same title, the first in 1956 and the second in 1997 starring Brad Pitt in the role of Harrer. A strong friendship developed between Harrer and the Dalai Lama that would last the rest of their lives.[49]

Coinciding with the Schäfer expedition of 1934-1935 was another conducted by Russian theosophist Nicholas Roerich. It was Roerich who wrote the concept for Igor Stravinsky’s controversial ballet Rite of Spring. As suggested by its subtitle “Pictures of Pagan Russia,” the opera’s theme is the pagan worship of the dying-god, whose resurrection was traditionally celebrated on Easter. In the opera, Stravinsky dared to associate the rite with human sacrifice. When the ballet was first performed at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in 1913, the controversial nature of the music and choreography caused a riot in the audience.

Roerich, along with his wife Helena, was the first to translate Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine into Russian. In 1919, the Roerichs had moved to London where they joined the local Theosophist scene dominated by Annie Besant. A prolific artist, Roerich’s paintings are exhibited in well-known museums around the world. Roerich was also the author of an international pact for the protection of artistic and academic institutions and historical sites, known as Roerich’s Pact, for which he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. The Roerichs were involved in pursuing the aspirations of the synarchists of St. Petersburg for Central Asia, which united Martinists, Russian double-agents and Tibetan Lamas. The Roerichs’ ultimate objective, usually referred to as the “Grand Plan,” was inspired by Master Morya, one of Blavatsky’s primary “Ascended Masters.”

Like Dorjieff and the “Mad Baron” Roman Ungern-Sternberg, the Grand Plan was to establish a pan-Buddhist, transnational “New Country” spanning from Tibet to southern Siberia, including territory that was then governed by China, Mongolia, Tibet, and the Soviet Union. Roerich’s New Country was to be ruled by the Panchen Lama—the spiritual leader of Tibet—who had been forced to flee the country in 1923 because of disagreements with the then Dalai Lama, the country’s secular leader. This “New Country” was conceived as the earthly expression of the invisible Kingdom of Shambhala, “the Holy Place, where the earthly world links with the highest states of consciousness.”[50] It was prophesied that the Panchen Lama’s return would signal the beginning of a new age. As explained by Markus Osterrieder, in “From Synarchy to Shambhala: The Role of Political Occultism and Social Messianism in the Activities of Nicholas Roerich”:

The Altai mountains—and, more widely, Siberia—were at the very core of the Great Plan, an indispensable component of the “New Country”, because Roerich believed the Altai would become a double for Shambhala—as the fabled land of Belovod’e, or the Land of White Waters, celebrated in numerous Russian folk legends, especially among sectarians such as the Beguny. Therefore, one of the Altai legends that most excited Roerich was the tale of a vast tangle of tunnels purported to honeycomb the underground realms deep beneath the mountains. Drawing upon the tales of the underground Agartha (or Agarthi), Roerich envisioned an intricate network of tunnels and chambers linking the Altai with the Himalayas. Even the Dalai Lama was drawn into Roerich’s speculations, for, as he thought, the tunnels in the Altai led all the way to Lhasa and the Potala Palace.[51]

According to some researchers, Roerich became a member of Papus’ Martinist Order while in St. Petersburg prior to World War I.[52] Likewise, Roerich’s affinities to Martinism and synarchy were also found in his link with Harvey Spencer Lewis’ AMORC. In Shambhala: In Search of a New Era, Roerich also hinted at a similarity between Shambhala and Thule, and mentioned the association of Shambhala with the underground city of Agharti, reached through tunnels under the Himalayan mountains. In the United States, Roerich had met Alfred Orage, a disciple of Gurdjieff, and his associate H.G. Wells. Roerich eventually became Gurdjieff’s emissary to the United States. Roerich may have heard about Gurdjieff’s earlier travels to Central Asia from Orage. He had first been exposed to mystical Buddhist teachings and heard of the legend of Shambhala in St. Petersburg, during his involvement with the construction of the Buddhist temple under the guidance of Lama Dorjieff.[53]

Roerich’s expeditions were supported by the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU), the secret police of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1934. The head of the OGPU’s “Special Department” was G.I. Bokii, a former member of Papus’ Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Croix (OKR+C), the “inner circle” of the Martinist Order, and a devotee of Tantric sex rituals. Bokii had put Aleksandr Barchenko, also a former member of the OKR+C, in charge of a special laboratory within the Moscow Institute of Experimental Medicine to study hypnosis, telekinesis, remote viewing, and ESP, with the aim of making use of them for intelligence purposes.

Saint-Yves d’Alveydre’s claim of the existence of a secret brotherhood in Agartha that had supposedly been known to the mystical sects of ancient times and to the Templars, would later become the starting point of the research carried out under the auspices of the OGPU.[54] After his arrest in 1937 by the GPU as part of the Great Purge, Barchenko confessed during the interrogations how he had been approached in 1923 by two members of what he called the “Great Brotherhood of Asia,” which was supposedly an occult umbrella organization for the whole of Inner Asia, uniting diverse Mongolian and Tibetan brotherhoods, Muslim and Dervish orders and even Jewish Hasidic and Christian sectarian groups.[55] Bokii was also a member of the Edinoe Trudovoe Bratstvo (ETB), founded by Barchenko, whose primary aim was establishing direct contact with Shambhala, and which included numerous other current or former Chekists and British double-agents.[56] The ETB lasted until it was disbanded by Stalin in the late 1930s, following charges that their occult activities were part of treasonous plots associated with British intelligence in the Far East.

Bokii was also connected with the Mongol Dr. Piotr Badmaev, a member of the Green Dragon Society, and an associate of Lama Dorjieff, Ukhtomskii, Nicholas Roerich and Blavatsky’s cousin Sergei de Witte, in St. Petersburg at the court of Nicolas II, in their mission to promote him as the “White Tsar of Shambhala.”[57] In 1939, Edouard Saby published Hitler et les forces occultes (“Hitler and Occult Forces”), in which he depicts Hitler as a medium, a magician and initiate, and also refers to the connection with Tibet: “Wasn’t it Trebitsch-Lincoln, the friend of the Badmaev, who initiated Hitler, by revealing to him the doctrine of Ostara, a secret school of India, where the lamas teach the supremacy of the Aryan?”[58]

However, Roerich’s expeditions to Tibet were simultaneously supported by then Vice President Henry Wallace. Wallace too was a member of the Theosophical Society. According to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., “Wallace’s search for inner light took him to strange prophets… It was in this search that he encountered Nicholas Roerich, a Russian émigré, painter and theosophist. Wallace did Roerich a number of favors, including sending him on an expedition to Central Asia purportedly to “collect drought-resistant grasses.” In a letter to Roerich, Wallace stated, “The search­—whether it be for the lost word of Masonry, or the Holy Chalice, or the potentialities of the age to come—is the one supremely worthwhile objective. All else is karmic duty. But surely everyone is a potential Galahad? So may we strive for the Chalice and the flame above it.”[59]

It is widely suspected that it was Roerich who inspired Wallace to add the Great Seal of the United States, first designed in 1782, on the reverse side of the dollar bill, featuring an unfinished pyramid and the Illuminati symbol of the All-Seeing Eye.[60] Wallace proposed the idea to President Roosevelt in 1934. According to Wallace, in a letter dated February 6, 1951:

Roosevelt as he looked at the colored reproduction of the Seal was first struck with the representation of the 'All-Seeing Eye,' a Masonic representation of Great Architect the Universe. Next he was impressed with the idea that the foundation for the new order of the ages had been laid in 1776 (May 1st, 1776, founding of the Illuminati) but would be completed only under the eye of the Great Architect. Roosevelt like myself was a 32nd degree Mason. He suggested that the Seal be put on the dollar bill rather than a coin.[61]

With Wallace’s help, Roerich was also able to gain President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s support for Roerich’s Pact, for which Roerich was nominated for the Nobel Prize. The Pact was signed in the White House in 1935 with the participation of FDR. Roosevelt had become a member of the high grade Scottish Rite in 1929, and was appointed as Honorary Grand Master of the New York Order of DeMolay in 1934 at the White House. In 1942, inspired by James Hilton’s 1933 novel Lost Horizon—modeled on Roerich’s quest for Shambhala but named in the novel as Shangri-la, a utopian lamasery in the mountains of Tibet whose inhabitants enjoy longevity—Roosevelt named his new retreat in the Catoctin Mountain Park, Camp Hi-Catoctin [today’s Camp David], by the same name.[62]

Lucis Trust

Wallace was also interested in the ideas of Alice Bailey, who played a formative role in the founding of the Eranos Conferences, through her friendship with Olga Froebe-Kapteyn. Despite her New Age pedigree, betrayed some of the same racial thinking that infected the Nazis, and nevertheless went on to provide a formative influence on the establishment of the United Nations. After losing her struggle with Annie Besant for leadership of the Theosophical movement, together with her husband Foster Bailey, Alice launched Lucifer Publishing Company in 1923, which published the theosophical periodical Lucifer. Originally called the Tibetan Lodge, she changed its name once more in 1922 to the Lucis Trust, a name derived originally from the Fratres Lucis, or Hermetic Brotherhood of Light. The work of Lucis Trust is carried out through its Arcane School of the occult and an organization called World Goodwill.

Together, they work to implement what is termed “the Plan,” as was revealed in 24 books written by Bailey and published by Lucis Trust. Alice Bailey, though, claimed that it was Djwhal Khul, her “Ascended Master,” who actually wrote the books that he channeled through her while she was in a state of trance. Bailey and Djwhal Khul taught that the Hierarchy of Masters exists in Shambhala, founded by Venusians 18 million years ago on the sacred Gobi island, which is now in the Mongolian desert. It was here that Atlanteans founded a settlement some 60,000 years ago. After Atlantis was destroyed Shambhala became the cradle of the Fifth Aryan root-race who were ancestors of white Europeans. Bailey wrote that the “Aryan mind” had during this time lost its magical powers over Nature, and to compensate, they developed a superior intelligence to those of other contemporary races.[63] The focus of “the Plan” is to usher in the “Harmonic Convergence,” also known as the Omega, Mind Convergence, Fusion or Turning Point, which can occur only when nations put aside their “differences” in a “New World Order” of global unity based on the principles of Freemasonry.

According to Djwhal Khul, Freemasonry is an earthly version of an initiatory school that exists on Sirius, and that the various hierarchical degrees of Freemasonry parallel the different levels of initiation that an adept must go through in order to enter “the greater Lodge on Sirius.”[64] Sirius has a central role in Theosophy, where it is considered a source esoteric power. To Alice Bailey, Sirius channels energy from the “cosmic center” through the solar system to the Earth. According to the Djwhal Khul, Freemasonry is very ancient and an earthly version of an initiatory school that exists on Sirius, and the various hierarchical degrees of Freemasonry parallels the different levels of initiation of the “greater Lodge on Sirius.”[65] Bailey saw Sirius as the true “Great White Lodge” and believes it to be the home of the “Spiritual Hierarchy.” In Freemasonry, Sirius is the Blazing Star, which Albert Pike equated with Osiris, and the “Star of Initiation” followed by the Magi. According to Bailey, Freemasonry is:

… the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It holds in its symbolism the ritual of Deity, and the way of salvation is pictorially preserved in its work. The methods of Deity are demonstrated in its Temples, and under the All-seeing Eye the work can go forward. It is a far more occult organisation than can be realised, and is intended to be the training school for the coming advanced occultists. In its ceremonials lies hid the wielding of the forces connected with the growth and life of the kingdoms of nature and the unfoldment of the divine aspects in man. In the comprehension of its symbolism will come the power to cooperate with the divine plan. It meets the need of those who work on the first Ray of Will or Power.[66]

Like Rudolf Steiner, Bailey adapted the concept not only of Lucifer, but also of the Antichrist, and this time associated it with the Shambhala Force. From Shambhala, according to Bailey, Lord Sanat Kumara—who was equated with Lucifer by Blavatsky—heads the Spiritual Hierarchy only known to a few occult scientists with whom they communicate telepathically. But as the need for their personal involvement in the plan increases there will be an “Externalization of the Hierarchy,” when everyone will know of their presence on Earth. When world government and religion are finally realized, the New Age, or the Age of Aquarius, will have dawned. Only then will Jesus Christ the Avatar appear and the implementation of the New World Order fully begin. This “Christ,” regarded as a reincarnation of the Comte de St. Germain, is known as Lord Maitreya, and said to be awaited also by Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus, though known respectively as the Messiah, Imam Mahdi, the fifth Buddha, or Krishna.

Lucis Trust is an influential institution that enjoys “Consultative Status,” which permits it to have a close working relationship with the United Nations, including a seat on the weekly sessions. It also operates the one religious chapel at the UN, the Meditation Room. World Goodwill, founded in 1932, and also a UN recognized NGO was, according to Steven Sutcliffe, promoting groups of “world servers” to, as he quotes Bailey, “serve the Plan, Humanity, the Hierarchy and the Christ.”[67] As explained by Steve Bonta:

The Lucis Trust is also aggressively involved in promoting a globalist ideology, which it refers to as “goodwill.” Its World Goodwill organization is closely connected to international elitist circles. Authors and participants in its various conferences read like a Who’s Who of the globalist Insiders. Featured on its website, for example, is the Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities, put forth in April 1998 as a companion document to the notorious UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Signatories to the World Goodwill document include: Helmut Schmidt, former chancellor of West Germany; Malcolm Fraser, former Australian prime minister; Oscar Arias Sanchez, former prime minister of Costa Rica; Shimon Peres; Robert McNamara; Paul Volcker; and Jimmy Carter.[68]

Among a group of international trustees who run the Lucis Trust have been the leading lights of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), including David Rockefeller’s nephew, John D. Rockefeller IV, Robert McNamara, Norman Cousins and Henry Kissinger. As Terry Melanson pointed out, “this would then tie Bailey’s influential occult organization into the international conspiracy of elitists, including the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Bilderbergs, and the Trilateral Commission.”[69] Writer and editor Norman Cousins became an unofficial ambassador in the 1960s, and his facilitating communication between the Holy See, the Kremlin, and the White House helped lead to the Soviet-American test ban treaty, for which he was thanked by President John F. Kennedy and Pope John XXIII, the latter of whom awarded him his personal medallion.

Cousins was a longtime president of the World Federalists, the American branch of the World Federalist Movement. In 1947, five small world federalist organizations came together in Asheville, North Carolina and agreed to merge as the United World Federalists. These five groups had, in the previous year, met with representatives of fifteen others in Montreux to discuss creating a worldwide federalist organization. It was one year later, in August 1947, also in Montreux, that more than 51 organizations from 24 countries came together at the Conference of the World Movement for World Federal Government. The Movement advocates the establishment of a global federal system of strengthened and democratic global institutions subjected to the principles of subsidiarity, solidarity and democracy.

Federalists had hoped that the anticipated UN review conference in 1955 would move the UN further in the direction of a world federal system. However, lack of political will dissipated any interest in such a conference. Around 1965, the World Federalist Movement had established offices near the UN. Federalists in this period focused on amendments to the UN Charter as a way forward, involving reforms to institutions such as a more representative Security Council, a World Court and a democratically elected General Assembly. Federalists also proposed a number of new institutions such as a commission on sustainable development, an international development authority, a standing peacekeeping corps and an international criminal court.

[1] Godwin. Arktos, p. 90.

[2] The Morning of the Magicians (London: Souvenir Press, 2001) p. 172.

[3] Richard Steigmann-Gall. The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919–1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 88; Erich Ludendorff. Vom Feldherrn zum Weltrevolutionär und Wegbereiter Deutscher Volksschöpfung: Lebenserinnerungen II (Stuttgart: Hohe Warte, 1951), p. 343.

[4] Fritz Wilhelmy. Asekha. Der 'Kreuzzug der Bettelmönche, (Düsseldorf, 1937), p.17; cited in Victor & Victoria Trimondi. “The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Part II – 12.”

[5] J. Strunk, Zu Juda und Rom. Tibet, Ihr Ringen um die Weltherrschaft, (Munich, 1937), p. 28; cited in Victor & Victoria Trimondi. "The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Part II – 12.

[6] Jack Fishman. The Seven Men of Spandau; cited in Allen Greenfield, The Complete Secret Cipher of the UFONAUTS (Martinez, California: Paranoia, 2016) p. 64.

[7] The Morning of the Magicians, (London: Souvenir Press, 2001) p. 187.

[8] Lachman. Politics and the Occult; James Webb, The Harmonious Circle (Thames and Hudson: London, 1980).

[9] Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany 1890-1935 (Wellingborough, England: The Aquarian Press, 1985) p. 220.

[10] Ibid.

[11] Alexander Berzin. “Mistaken Foreign Myths about Shambhala.” Berzin Archives (November 1996). Retrieved from http://www.berzinarchives.com/

[12] Goodrick-Clarke. Black Sun, p. 116.

[13] “SS,” John Michael Greer, The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, (St. Paul, Minn: Llewellyn Publication, 2004) p. 450.

[14] Guido von List. The Secret of the Runes.

[15] Goodrick-Clarke. The Occult Roots of Nazism, p. 221.

[16] L. Pauwels and J. Bergier. The Morning of the Magicians (London: Souvenir Press, 2001, p. 197-198.

[17] Stéphane François. “The Nouvelle Droite and ‘Tradition’.” Journal for the Study of Radicalism , Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring 2014), p. 98.

[18] Ibid.

[19] Godwin. Arktos, p. 60.

[20] (August 15, 1938).

[21] Sedgwick. Against the Modern World, p. 107.

[22] Richard B. Spence. “Red Star Over Shambhala.”

[23] Paul Beekman Taylor. Gurdjieff and Orage: Brothers in Elysium (Weiser, 2001). p. 178.

[24] Charles Novak. Jacob Frank, p. 122.

[25] Richard Spence. “The Tsar’s Other Lieutenant: The Antisemitic Activities of Boris L’vovich Brasol, 1910-1960 Part II: White Russians, Nazis, and the Blue Lamoo.” Journal for the Study of Anti-Semitism, (December, 2012), p. 688.

[26] Marvin Tokayer. The Fugu Plan (New York: Paddington Press Ltd., 1979), p. 47.

[27] Jamie Bisher. White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian (London: Routledge, 2009).

[28] Richard Spence. “The Tsar’s Other Lieutenant,” Part II, p. 688-689.

[29] Nikola Budanovic. “Roman Ungern von Sternberg, the Reincarnation of Genghis Khan In The Bolshevik Revolution.” War History Online (April 20. 2016).

[30] Alexander Berzin. “Mistaken Foreign Myths about Shambhala.” Berzin Archives (November 1996). Retrieved from http://www.berzinarchives.com/

[31] The Morning of the Magicians, p. 189.

[32] Oleg Shishkin. Ubit’ Rasputina, (Olma Press: Moscow, 2000); cited in Dr. Richard B. Spence, “Behold the Green Dragon: The Myth & Reality of an Asian Secret Society.” New Dawn No. 112 (January-February 2009).

[33] Gershom Scholem. Le Nom et les symboles de Dieu dans la mystique juive (Èd. Cerf. 1988), p. 201; cited in Novak. Jacob Frank, p. 187.

[34] A Psychologial Profile of Adolph Hitler; see also Walter C. Langer, The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report (New American Library, 1972), p. 40. Langer originally mistyped his name as “Hamissen,” but in the same sentence subsequently spelled the name correctly two times as Hanussen. In the 1972 reprint of the document by New American Library, the name “Hanussen” is spelled correctly.

[35] John Toland. Adolf Hitler (Garden City: Doubleday & Co. 1976); Peter Lavenda, Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult, (New York: Continuum, 2006) p. 104-106.

[36] Peter Lavenda. Unholy Alliance, p. 106.

[37] Spence. Secret Agent 666, Kindle Locations 2005-2006.

[38] Investigative Case Files of the Bureau of Investigation (BI), #202600-1356, “Trebitsch Lincoln and the Kapp Putsch,” AmMission, Budapest, c. 1920

[39] Guido Preparata. Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich (Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2005), p. 90.

[40] BI, #202600-1356-2, 5 March 1921, Col. Smith, MID to Baley, BI; BI, #202600-1356, Baley to B. Morton, 22 April 1921.

[41] Serge Hutin. Governantes Invisiveis e Sociedades Secretas (Sao Paulo: Hemus, 2004), p. 28, 46, cited in Richard B. Spence. “The Mysteries of Trebitsch-Lincoln: Con-man, Spy, ‘Counter-Initiate’?” New Dawn No. 116 (Sept-Oct 2009).

[42] Jean Robin. Hitler: l’elu du dragon (Paris: Guy Tredaniel, 2009), p. 95-96.

[43] Norman Cohn. Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (New York: Harper & Row, 1967) p. 145-6.

[44] Robert Boucard. Paris Soir, (24 Oct. 1937).

[45] Richard B. Spence. “Perfidious Albion: An Introduction to the Secret History of the British Empire,” New Dawn (Special Issue 11).

[46] Donald McCormick. Peddler of Death: The Life and Times of Sir Basil Zaharoff (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1965), p. 10.

[47] Bernard Wasserstein. The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln (New York: Penguin Books, 1988), p. 311.

[48] Victor & Victoria Trimondi. “The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Part II – 12. Fascist occultism and it’s close relationship to Buddhist Tantrism.” Retrieved from http://www.trimondi.de/SDLE/Part-2-12.htm

[49] “His Holiness the Dalai Lama said Heinrich Harrer Will Always be Remembered by the Tibetan People.” Central Tibetan Administration.

[50] Nikolaj Rerih: Serdce Azii. New York _929, part 2, Šambala, list _0.

[51] Osterrieder. “From Synarchy to Shambhala,” p. 117.

[52] Ibid., p. 15.

[53] Frank Joseph & Laura Beaudoin. Opening the Ark of the Covenant: The Secret Power of the Ancients, the Knights Templar Connection, and the Search for the Holy Grail (Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page Books, 2007) p. 28.

[54] Oleg Shishkin. “The Occultist Aleksandr Barchenko and the Soviet Secret Police (1923-1938)” Birgit Menzel, Michael Hagemeister and Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, ed. The New Age of Russia: Occult and Esoteric Dimensions (Studies on Language and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe, Volume 17) p. 87.

[55] Osterrieder. “From Synarchy to Shambhala,” p. 118.

[56] Oleg Shishkin. Bitva za Gimalai (Moscow: Eksmo, 2003), p. 48; cited in Richard B. Spence, “Red Star Over Shambhala: Soviet, British and American Intelligence & the Search for Lost Civilisation in Central Asia,” New Dawn, September 25, 2005.

[57] Fr. L, “Esotericism and Espionage: the Golden Age, 1800–1950,” Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition, No. 16, Vol. 2. Vernal Equinox 2009.

[58] Edouard Saby, Hitler et les forces occultes: La magie noire en Allemagne. La vie occculte du Fuhrer (Paris: Société d’Éditions Littéraires et de Vulgarisation, 1939): 131, trans. N. Goodrick-Clarke in T. Hakl, Unknown Sources, p. 26.

[59] Terry Melanson. “The All-Seeing Eye, The President, The Secretary and The Guru.” Conspiracy Archive, (July 2001).

[60] Ibid.

[61] Ibid.

[62] Osterrieder. “From Synarchy to Shambhala,” p. 24.

[63] Alice Bailey. “Education in the New Age” (Lucis Trust, 1954); “Discipleship For a New Age” (Lucis Press, 1944) and “The Externalisation of the Hierarchy” (Lucis Press, 1957).

[64] Andrija Puharich. “A Way to Peace through ELF Waves.” Cited in Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince. The Stargate Conspiracy.

[65] Alice A. Bailey. A Treatise on the Seven Rays, Vol. V: The Rays and the Initiations, p. 418.

[66] Alice Bailey. The Externalization of the Hieararchy (Lucis Trust, 1985).

[67] Steven J. Sutcliffe. Children of the New Age: A History of Spiritual Practices (Routledge, 2003). p. 51.

[68] Steve Bonta. “New Age Roots.” The New American. Vol. 15, No. 05, (March 1, 1999). Retrieved from http://web.archive.org/web/20000818225414/http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/03-01-99/newage.htm

[69] Terry Melanson. “Lucis Trust, Alice Bailey, World Goodwill and the False Light of the World.” 

Volume Three

1. Synarchy

2. Ariosophy

3. Zionism

4. Eugenics & Sexology

5. The Round Table

6. The League of Nations

7. avant-Garde

8. Black Gold

9. Secrets of Fatima

10. Polaires Brotherhood

11. Operation Trust

12. Aryan Christ

13. Aufbau

14. Brotherhood of Death

15. The Cliveden Set

16. Conservative Revolution

17. Eranos Conferences

18. Frankfurt School

19. Vichy Regime

20. Shangri-La

21. The Final Solution

22. Cold War

23. European Union