The collapse following the First World War of the Austrian, Russian and German empires was the result of the "Nations Spring" in Europe, which began following the French Revolution.
The monarchy is a national embodiment of the dream of flight. The king was the head of the social pyramid. The Christian Church has completed the work of creating this order. The collapse of the monarchies occurred along with the rise of secularism. The resulting political gap was very large.
The natural fillers of space were the independent European states, which set themselves the goal of replacing the monarchy with the rule of the people, that is, democracy. But democracy, in which everyone is equal, lacks hierarchical symbols. The tangible vertical dimension disappear in it.
There is a need for unifying factors that will generalize national disagreements and elevate them to higher levels. In addition, the new democracies found themselves in a confrontation with each other and had to train strong armies. Society became conscripted and military development became a central value.
Aviation was the ultimate solution. It was a mesmerizing combination of will and necessity. It was the fulfillment of the human dream. The practice of mysticism and the connection to pagan, popular and national sources on the one hand, plus isolation and anti-Semitism, provided the basis for the new totality. They provided a new, extreme definition of the "Me".
In the new social order the Jews did not find themselves. They were seemingly useless. They were identified with the old regime, in which they played a role as mediators between the people and the emperor and as religious symbols.
The German Romantic-National Movement identified with the zeal, irrational belief in everything that was "German''. Although a vocal and influential political pressure group in the early twentieth century, they lacked focus and fervor, contenting themselves with statements of intent and mobilizing public support. The energy that made them active and assertive was provided by the Nazi movement.
From below, out of the embarrassment in which Germany was after the defeat in World War I, came the need for a pragmatic order. Each such order, built from different elements at first, unite into a single central political issue. In the case before us, the entire German political spectrum, eventually united, in different ways, under the figure of the Nietzschean Superman. In Germany "order is order" and the Nazis provided it.
The father of the Nazi political party was Rudolf Sabotendorf, a German who practiced occultism, was greatly influenced by Sufi Islamic mysticism and other Oriental philosophies. He developed the idea of reviving the German myth, assuming the coming of the historical moment when, according to his theory, the Aryan race would return to its ancient glory, through the emergence of the upper human race. Hitler was able to write "Mein Kampf" thanks to the spiritual progress he made in the Sabotendorf movement, between 1919-1924.
The Nazi mysticism described in "Mein Kampf" became a kind of religion for the German people. It included a combination of occultism and naturalistic pursuits, illegitimate manipulation of history, neo-paganism and of course racism. It attributed religious significance to the character of Adolf Hitler.
The founder of official Hitlerite esotericism was SS Commander Heinrich Himmler, who was fascinated by Aryan racism and the paganism of God Odin. Himmler claimed to be the spiritual successor and reincarnation of Heinrich "The Bird Hunter", one of the German pagan tribes leaders and the founder of the German Empire in the Middle Ages. Hitler was perceived in this fantasy as the incarnation of Charlemagne, the founder of the Holy Roman Empire.
The diversity and unique scope of the sources of Nazi ideology are exceptional. Philosophically it is a reinvention of the wheel and the creation of something out of nothing. This diabolical ideology was used to hastily meet needs previously unknown to the human race. This is because to the reality of life was added a significant new component, aviation, which required human adaptation to it.
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