17-09-2013, 10:14 AM
UPDATE 23 MAY 2013
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Another curious Nazi Occult artefact featuring Hitler is the 40-page stapled pamphlet, I Saw Hitler Make Black Magic (The Prosperos & Inner Space Center 1973). It was written by Thane, a pseudonym of the American, Kenneth Walker (circa 1900-1989), mentalist, actor, world adventurer, and pupil of the mystic Gurdjieff. He co-founded and, as the "Dean", led a spiritual society named The Prosperos, chartered in Florida in 1956, named after the magician in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and based on Gurdjieff's "Fourth Way School" concept. First published as a newspaper article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer
in 1946, I Saw Hitler tells the story of Thane's bold activities in the anti-Nazi underground during 1937-1938. After his impressive demonstration of thought transmission in Nuremberg, Thane was invited to perform for Hitler, who was always on the look out for effective persuasive mental techniques. Thane and Hitler became friends, and lunched together at der Fuhrer's Eagle's Nest retreat in the Bavarian Alps. Thane relates how the property was a magical laboratory, with rooms set aside for astrology and other occult experiments, especially visualisation, all designed to assure the Third Reich's success. The latter technique involved detailed photomontages projected on the wall, showing what was desired to occur, such as the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, complete with Nazi flags and symbols and Hitler parading through the main streets of Prague. Another showed Hitler in a superior body posture stance, his dominant arm outstretched above British Prime Minister Chamberlain. Teams of highly-trained visualisationist and projectionist magicians sat for long periods concentrating on these image spells of sympathetic magic, regarding the dream as fact, to make it fact.
Thane was eventually imprisoned by the Nazis, had a powerful evolutionary epiphany in custody, and was released soon after.
I Saw Hitler is scarce and expensive secondhand, but it may be reprinted later by The Prosperos, that is still active: www.theprosperos.org
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Another curious Nazi Occult artefact featuring Hitler is the 40-page stapled pamphlet, I Saw Hitler Make Black Magic (The Prosperos & Inner Space Center 1973). It was written by Thane, a pseudonym of the American, Kenneth Walker (circa 1900-1989), mentalist, actor, world adventurer, and pupil of the mystic Gurdjieff. He co-founded and, as the "Dean", led a spiritual society named The Prosperos, chartered in Florida in 1956, named after the magician in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and based on Gurdjieff's "Fourth Way School" concept. First published as a newspaper article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer
in 1946, I Saw Hitler tells the story of Thane's bold activities in the anti-Nazi underground during 1937-1938. After his impressive demonstration of thought transmission in Nuremberg, Thane was invited to perform for Hitler, who was always on the look out for effective persuasive mental techniques. Thane and Hitler became friends, and lunched together at der Fuhrer's Eagle's Nest retreat in the Bavarian Alps. Thane relates how the property was a magical laboratory, with rooms set aside for astrology and other occult experiments, especially visualisation, all designed to assure the Third Reich's success. The latter technique involved detailed photomontages projected on the wall, showing what was desired to occur, such as the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, complete with Nazi flags and symbols and Hitler parading through the main streets of Prague. Another showed Hitler in a superior body posture stance, his dominant arm outstretched above British Prime Minister Chamberlain. Teams of highly-trained visualisationist and projectionist magicians sat for long periods concentrating on these image spells of sympathetic magic, regarding the dream as fact, to make it fact.
Thane was eventually imprisoned by the Nazis, had a powerful evolutionary epiphany in custody, and was released soon after.
I Saw Hitler is scarce and expensive secondhand, but it may be reprinted later by The Prosperos, that is still active: www.theprosperos.org