- Part one -
The axioms of the ancient tradition Wiligut outlined in the following short text:
1. God is All One.
2. God is “Spirit and Matter”, the Duality, which is Duality, and hence - Unity and Integrity.
3. God is Trinity: Spirit, Power and Matter. Spirit-God, Pra-God, Being-God, or Sun-Light and Action, Dyad.
4. God is eternal in Time, Space, Power and Matter.
5. God is the First-Cause and Effect; so, from God are given the Law, Power, Duty and Destiny.
6. God is an eternal Creation. Spirit and Matter, Power and Light are generated by God.
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7. God beyond the boundaries of Good and Evil, who gave birth to seven eras of mankind.
8. Eternal passage in the cycle of Cause and Effect gives rise to the Highest - the mysterious Eight.
9. God - Beginning without End - is Everything. He is Completion through Nothingness and threefold triple All-Knowledge. It leads the Circle to the End and to Nothing, from the conscious to the unconscious, and through this it becomes the knower."
He offered Himmler to master the ancient Irminist prayer that Christianity had stolen and disfigured. According to Wiligut, the correct text of the famous prayer "Our Father" in the original edition looked like this:
“Our Father, who is in Aytar Gibor, is the Hagal of Aytar and the Earth! Give us Thy Spirit and Thy strength in Matter and from our Skuld in agreement with Verdandi. Your Spirit will be ours also in Urd. From eternity to eternity. OM!"
Over the years of closeness to Himmler, Weisthor was awarded high titles, a name ring and other attributes, testifying to his position in the hierarchy of the Order. However, this was not enough for him, he wanted to stand not lower, but on a par with Himmler. The latter could not afford this even to his beloved magician. In addition, the Reichsfuehrer began to notice that Wiligut was weakening, repeating himself and sometimes starting to talk complete nonsense. Although Himmler trusted Wiligut's extraordinary memory, even he could not bear this accusatory mentor tone any longer. With surprise, he began to notice that his Weisthor was almost never sober. And after a couple of unpleasant incidents, he began to think that it would be nice to find out in more detail the past of his clairvoyant. It was then that it turned out that the omnipotent Wiligut is just an unhealthy person, or rather a schizophrenic who spent… 15 years in a clinic for the mentally ill!According to the last law of the Reich, he was subject to sterilization and something worse. This misfortune was discovered quite by accident and caused confusion in Himmler. Wiligut, of course, was deprived of all SS insignia, but they did not kill him - the magician simply went to retire.
Having thus parted with the eccentric Wirth and the completely crazy Wiligut, Himmler treated his Ahnenerbe more thoughtfully. After all, it is not good if Hitler himself blames him for the creation of an institution where those who are supposed to be subjected to "processing" work for the money of the Reich. So by 1939, the institute was greatly "cleaned up", and the range of occupations was expanded. Now Ahnenerbe was busy with everything, given the wartime it was completely understandable. True, the main direction of work was still concentrated on the Aryan past. But Himmler wanted more than just scientific chatter and guesswork, he seriously dreamed of real artifacts.
It was then that Otto Rahn, a young researcher of the works of Wolfram von Eschenbach, came into his field of vision. Otto Rahn started searching for the Grail not at the behest of Himmler, but of his own free will and in those years when he was completely unfamiliar with the Reichsfuehrer. After reading Parsifal, he decided to go to southern France, where the events of the poem take place. For himself, he determined that under Eschenbach's Monsalvat he meant a very real place on earth - the castle of Montsegur, which became the last stronghold of medieval heretics - the Cathars.
Rahn arrived in France and walked the mountains around Montsegur up and down, although he was not firm in his language, he nevertheless talked with the locals, and then he got used to it so that he began to write down traditions and legends. At the same time, he studied medieval texts - both poetic and theological. By the end of the journey, he realized that the knights of Eschenbach, who are depicted in the poem, are the Templars, and the Cathar castle was the place where the relic of the Middle Ages - the famous grail - found its last refuge. Moreover, he was not at all convinced that the Grail of the Cathars was related to the Christian.
As a result of searches and reflections, his book "The Crusade Against the Grail" was born. In it, he talked about the crusade of 1209, which stretched out for almost half a century, against dissenting Cathars who did not want to accept the church of their day. With enthusiasm and passion, he narrated about this destruction of an entire region of France - Languedoc and Provence. The Grail in this narrative did not go beyond the scope of legend. For Rahn himself, rather, the Cathar faith was the Grail. But at the same time, he could not deny that for Eschenbach there was also some kind of material confirmation, a relic that could work miracles.
According to local legend, on the night before the assault on Montsegur, several brave Cathars descended on the ropes from the impregnable fortress and carried them to a secret place of treasures, among which, according to legend, was the goblet of Dagobert II, in which Ran suspected the sought-after Grail. Rahn explored Montsegur and its surroundings in detail and was surprised to find significant dungeons within the castle itself and several caves that were used by the Cathars. There was no bowl. However, he hesitated that there is a Grail: according to Eschenbach, this is a special stone that exudes light and periodically demonstrates an inscription that suddenly appears and just as unexpectedly fades away, and according to the Qatari legend, it is clearly a chalice for communion, where an arriving dove puts a wafer. In the end, he made this conclusion: there were two Grails, one of them is a sacred stone, the other is a sacred cup. Obviously, they were used in some kind of rituals. The book came out and got noticed.
This is how the thirty-year-old Otto Rahn ended up in the Ahnenerbe. He was immediately forced to join the SS. He had already gone on the second expedition as a representative of the institute. But the expedition found nothing but the decayed bones of knights and Cathars. Himmler, meanwhile, wished to see the Grail in his Wewelsburg. A special pedestal has already been prepared for the Grail. Nearby and on an equally exquisite pedestal was a copy of Longinus's spearhead, which had been removed for Himmler with special permission from Hitler. But searches in France yielded nothing. Considering that the relics could be moved after the fall of the last stronghold of the Cathars, Ran advised to expand the search area. At the same time he took part in Wirth's expedition to the shores of Iceland. The result of this trip was Rahn's second book, The Servants of Lucifer, and this book caused a storm of indignation.
The thoughts of the young scientist were contrary to the policy of the Reich. As punishment for his obstinacy, Rahn was sent to serve in the guard of the Dachau camp for a year. It turned out to be beyond his strength: he hardly begged for a transfer from the camp. He wrote to his friend that it became impossible to breathe the air of the Reich. But, nevertheless, he still took part in a number of Ahnenerbe expeditions. And in the spring of 1939 he died in the Tyrolean mountains - either he just accidentally froze to death, or he committed suicide. He did not leave any documents revealing the secret of the Grail. However, German specialists worked in Montsegur until the very end of the war.
And here we must pay tribute to the magical thinking of Himmler. Tom was well aware of the legend told by Otto Rahn that the mysterious bowl was hidden in the stone, but it would appear in the castle once every 700 years - exactly on the day of the fall of Montsegur. Monsegur fell on March 16, 1244. March 16, 1944 marks exactly 700 years since the significant event. And that day some mystical nonsense was going on in the castle. A huge banner with a Celtic cross was raised above it, some German plane was circling in the sky, according to the third completely deranged version of the SS and generally projected an image of a huge cross in the sky over Montsegur, and on the fourth - that spring, on the day of the capture of Montsegur, they walked with a torch procession from the side of the Zellertal mountain range to the Schlegels glacier and further along the underground passage leading to Montsegur, they carried a box with them,where supposedly was the Grail, which they returned to the fortress. All this supposedly was supposed to change the course of the war.
Knowing the peculiarities of Himmler's psyche, you can believe in anything. That is, it is completely incomprehensible: they were looking for or hiding, or they were simply performing some mysterious rite.
Himmler greeted the Feast of the Harvest with a sheaf in his hand, appealing to the ancient German gods, why not play a mystery in Monsegur? But it is almost unbelievable that the Grail was found in Ahnenerbe. And that's why. After an unsuccessful search in Europe, Himmler turned the attention of scientists to Tibet. There were two tasty targets - the hidden repositories of ancient knowledge and the Asian analogue of the Grail - the Chintamani stone.
This esoteric pebble is also described as vaguely as the European counterpart. One thing is clear that this is a fragment of a meteorite, which has a strange feature of disappearing and reappearing. He gives strength and power to the elect. In connection with Chintamani, Roerich reported that the stone had long been divided into several pieces, and that the fragments had a magnetic connection with the main stone, that is, a continuous mysticism. The second name of the stone is Lapis Exilis - Wandering Stone. King Solomon owned it, Tamerlane owned it, Akbar the Great owned it. Helena Roerich owned it. The owners must return the stone home - that is, to Shambhala. Or in Agartha - wherever.
Obsessed with mysticism, Himmler, who perfectly knew about the "Roerichs' stone", also hunted for this contraption. Moreover, Tibet was exactly the place where the mystics located Shambhala and Agartha. But even more weighty was the argument that the ancestral home of the Aryans was Central Asia. It was Wirth who suggested looking beyond the Arctic Circle, Himmler believed Liszt and Liebenfels more, and they talked about India and Tibet. The Tibetan campaigns, in addition to the purely mystical, had a completely earthly basis: for the Reich it was very important to create a stronghold in Tibet that would cut off the British from their Russian neighbor, so as not to allow them to unite if military operations moved to Southeast Asia. These very real reasons drove the German expeditions high into the mountains. However, the scientists of Ahnenerbe were happy: they did not believe in stone, nor in Shambhala and Agartha,but Tibet was poorly studied and even worse described, so that there they could be expected simply magical finds.
Schaeffer, without any Ahnenerbe at his own peril and risk, went to Tibet twice - in 1931 and in 1935. Much more than occult books, he studied the real travel diaries of Sven Gedin (whom he considered his teacher), Baron Mannerheim, Russian travelers - Przhevalsky, Kozlov, Arseniev; probably, he did not ignore the expedition materials of the Roerichs, because his first expedition entered Tibet almost immediately after the unsuccessful Roerichs. This brought Schaeffer worldwide fame and an equally keen interest in Himmler.
The next expedition was already forming under the all-seeing eye of Himmler. The tasks were complex: it was necessary to map Tibet in more detail, especially noting the places that are associated with ancient cultures, that is, compiling a kind of collection of historical monuments of Tibet is a very difficult task; if possible, conduct at least prospecting work, as archaeologists around the world do, laying a couple of small pits to determine the time of creation of a particular settlement, study local life, collect local legends, get acquainted with the religions of Tibet.
The Reich had a notion of Lamaism, whose head was the Dalai Lama, but the Germans were much more interested in the incomprehensible religion of Bon Po, which was the predecessor of Tibetan Lamaism. Saturated with elements of shamanism and legends about Shambhala, it could lead to the desired result better than Tibetan Buddhism. Moreover, the study of bon po in the Ahnenerbe was associated with human superpowers.
There were also more mundane tasks: to establish direct radio communication between Berlin and Lhasa (clearly a strategic mission before the big war) and to establish good relations with the Dalai Lama so that he would not see the Germans as enemies. The last task was completed. Hitler received a letter from the Tibetan regent Kvotukhtu, written in the spirit of the Roerich mahatmas: “Dear Mr. King Hitler, ruler of Germany. May health come with you, the joy of Peace and Virtue! Now you are working to create a vast state on a racial basis. Therefore, the now arriving leader of the German expedition, Sahib Scheffer, did not have any difficulties on his way through Tibet. (…) Please accept, Your Grace, King Hitler, our assurances of further friendship! Written on the 18th of the first Tibetan month, the Year of the Earth Hare (1939)."
King Hitler was pleasantly surprised by the courtesy of a distant Tibetan friend of the great Reich.
Schaeffer's third expedition included anthropologist Bruno Berger, who was engaged in racial theory, geophysicist Karl Wienert, operator Ernst Krause, technical specialist Edmond Gere. The acquisition of this third expedition was a close study of the Bonpo religion of Tibet. Moreover, the Tibetan monks even agreed to send their priests to the distant Reich. And they came. These Tibetan priests, dressed in strange green robes, defended the Reich until its very end, it was they who were among the defenders of Hitler's bunker. In addition to the priests, the expedition brought a lot of interesting things - plants, secrets of oriental medicine, descriptions of Tibet and maps, many photographs and archaeological exhibits, ancient manuscripts and even various kinds of zoological material. Himmler ordered to bring Aryan bees and Aryan horses, and he received them. But the magical artifacts, as well as the entrance to the land of Agartha,found, alas, were not.
The last, fourth expedition, which left for Tibet before the start of the war, managed to complete the task and was captured by the British (the war was already underway), escaped from captivity, barely reached Lhasa, returned to Germany after the war, when both Ahnenerbe and Himmler, and the Reich - everything became history.
This was the last expedition to explore the Aryan ancestral home. Soon Himmler had no time for the land of his ancestors.
Lin von Pal
- Part one -