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It is known that many men in Hitler's inner circle were members of the ancient Rosicrucian-style order Thule, a secret society that is supposed to have had its beginnings in Thule, Greenland, in ancient times. Himmler, Hess, and other prominent figures in the Nazi party spoke privately of strange goals: of creating a New Order in which the masses would be robotized to serve a select inner circle, who in turn would serve undefined supernatural forces. Dr Joseph Goebbels. Hitler's brilliant minister of propaganda, won his PhD with a thesis on The Spiritual and Political Undercurrents of the Early Romantics. In 1925 he wrote, “I want to be an apostle and a preacher". He became instead an apostle to the strangely mesmeric little ex-corporal who set out to rule the world. like his boss, Goebbels had an incredible sense of history and the ability to sway the minds of large groups of people. Hitler, it is said, had such imposing presence and such a brilliant, decisive, seemingly logical mind that when generals and officials barged into his office prepared to argue with him about issues and decisions, they left cowed and awed, convinced he was the greatest man alive. All kinds of kooks and cultists were welcomed into the Nazi inner circle. Many of them suffered from tnessiah complexes, convinced that Hitler was going to save the world rather than destroy it. Vidkun Abraham Quisling, the Norwegian traitor, is a minor bat typical example. Quisling's father was a clergyman who had visited with angels and written books about them. In 1929, Quisling himself published About the Matter That Inhabited Worlds Outside Ours and the Significance Caused by It to Our Philosophy of Ufe. Later he wrote another massive book called Vniversismus. which summarized his cosmology and outlined a new religion. He founded the Norwegian Nazi party in 1933 and served as Premier during the German occupation of Norway, after virtually handing the country to Hitler on a plattej. He was executed at the end of the war. ‘After Quisling was imprisoned in 1945, he was convinced that he would have been able to reach the acme in all sections of art and science," Dr G. Langfeldt wrote in the Psychiatry Digest in May 1970. 'Of interest with respect to his paranoid ideas is that during the trial Quisling maintained on several occasions that he believed in a new world of God to come to this earth and Quisling, like Hitler, was dominated by an overpowering sense of historical mission and, having failed in that mission, degenerated into a babbling lunatic. , European Gipsies were rounded up by the Nazis and slaughtered as we have already noted. Hitler also maintained all-out war against scientists and philosophers who did not conform to his own beliefs and cosmology. Nazi gangs burned down the archives of Rudolf Stei-ner's Anthroposophical Society and attempted to wipe out his life's work. (Sterner was a major philosopher and student of the occult who made many outstanding contributions to human knowledge.) Books were wantonly destroyed, and the leading thinkers and intellectuals of Europe were either killed or driven into exile. i The Speir of Destiny by Trevor Ravenscroft, Neville Spearman. that this faith had been the driving force in all his actions.*