The Occult Corps

In the late 19th and early 20th Century, there had been many
flourishing esoteric orders in Germany and Austria that sought to
establish a reborn Germanic identity and to reconnect the people with
their repressed archetypes. One of the most significant of these Orders
was founded in Germany in 1912 - the German Order, and from this sprang
the Thule Society (Thulegesellschaft). The Thule Society took its name
from the fabled land of Ultima Thule, which the Ukrainian witch Madame
Helena Blavatsky learned of after having been contacted by the Great
Race that had survived its destruction.

These ancient, highly intelligent beings worked in concert with certain human adepts - individuals with highly developed
occult powers. The truly initiated could, by means of magic-mystical rituals, establish contact with these beings and learn
secret arts unknown to the rest of humanity. The Nazies believed that with the help of this Great Race they could create
a race of Aryan supermen with supernatural strength and energy.

These Ancient Masters told Blavatsky that she had been selected to play a part in the revival and public promotion of
their secret occult tradition, which had lain hidden for centuries in secret monasteries and libraries in the remotest
reaches of the Himalayas. Accordingly, Blavatsky spent a number of years in Tibet, learning the ways of the occult and
the keys to unlocking the mysteries of the secret doctrine. Among the magical runes and symbols was the swastika,
which became a common good luck charm in Germany and the symbol of the Thule Society. But the traditional 'righthanded'
swastika was to be reversed, forming an evocation of evil, spiritual devolution and black magic.

Both the Thule Society and the German Order became interchangeable in ideas and even membership.

In 1917 one woman and three men met in a cafe in Vienna under a veil of mystery and secrecy. The woman, called Anna
Sprengel, was a spiritual medium and she too had made contact with the Great Race. The four Austrians formed the Vril
Society, and their emblem was the 'Black Sun' symbol which could be found in many Babylonian and Assyrian places of
worship. They depicted the Black Sun's inner light in the form of a cross almost identical to the German Iron Cross.

With the victory of the NSDAP, the SS (Schutzstaffel) carried on the occult tradition in the Third Reich. Its Reichsführer,
Heinrich Himmler, was a member of the Vril Society and shared Hitler's obsession with the occult. He believed that the
persecution of witches in the 17th century represented a kind of Holocaust of the German race carried out by the Roman
Catholic Church. "The witch-hunting cost the German people hundreds of thousands of mothers and women, cruelly
tortured and executed," Himmler said.

In 1935, Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Security and Intelligence Service (Sicherheitdienst - SD) reported to Himmler
that he had discovered the case of a witch called Margareth Himbler, burnt in Germany in 1629. The similarity of names
encouraged Himmler's interest in German witchcraft, and in 1935 he set up Special Unit H (Sonderkommando H) in
Archive Department 7 of the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptarmt - RSHA), the umbrella organization
of the SS, Gestapo and criminal police. The "H" stood for the German word hexen (witches).

Himmler deployed Special Unit H to discover any traces of old Germanic magic that survived the witch-hunts, while Archive Department 7 administered book stocks, archived the confiscated materials, and then assessed their value.
Special Unit H would eventually loot more than 140,000 books on the subject of the occult from libraries across Nazioccupied
Europe, and among the manuscripts they found was a copy of Von Juntzt´s Unaussprechlichen Kulten and a
version of the Necronomicon written in ancient Gothic. These cursed books told of a race much older than mankind: the
nightmarish Ancient Ones.

The top-secret Occult Corps (Geheimnisvolle Korps) was soon established as the Paranormal Division of SSHauptsturmführer
Wolfram Sievers' Ancestral Inheritence Office (Ahnernerbe), which was responsible for investigating all
aspects of ancient German tradition. The Occult Corps incorporated into one organization the Thule Society, the Vril
Society and the German branch of Crowley's OTO. Despite her Slavic blood, Madame Helena Blavatsky's granddaughter
Marianna Blavatsky was then recruited as its High Priestess. (Allegedly the Ahnernerbe traced the Blavatsky roots back
to the Rhos - Scandanavian Vikings that had come into contact with the Slavs in 860 A.D.)

From Archive Department 7's stolen texts Marianna learned that violence begot a form of orgone energy which, if
properly seized, could be forged into magical effects. Thousands died to help Marianna and her Meta-Psychic Operatives
in the Bio-Energy/Psi-Enhancement Division better understand and control the new "blood magic" they had discovered.

Now under the direction of the SS Paranormal Division, Special Unit H continued to comb German-occupied territories in
search of more arcane knowledge and magical artifacts. Archaeological expeditions were sent to the bottom of the Baltic
Sea hoping to find some lost artifacts or magical items of Ultima Thule. The Spear of Destiny, the weapon that was used
to pierce the side of the Messiah while he was nailed to the cross, was found in Versailles in 1940. Early attempts to
recover the Lost Ark of the Covenant in 1936 and the Holy Grail in 1938, however, were less successful.

Likewise, during this same time Japan's own paranormal division, the Kuromaku (The Black Curtain), was attempting to
recover ancient magical items in Asia, including Genghis Khan's sword, the magical Books of Shan, and a stone tablet
left behind by Buddha.

The original base of operations for the Occult Corps was Castle Wewelsburg in Westphalia, which Himmler bought as a
ruin and rebuilt over the next 11 years at a cost of 13 million marks. The central banqueting hall contained a vast round
table with throne-like seats to accommodate Himmler and 12 of his favorite officers, making his modern-day "Order of the
Black Knights" a dark covenant of 13. The Black Guard, the toughest, smartest and most dangerous officers from the SS,
occupied the upper echelon of Himmler's personal guard. Beneath Castle Wewelsburg was the "Hall of the Dead" where
plinths stood around a stone table and the covenant could practice their witchcraft in secret.

After a crashed spacecraft was discovered in the Black Forest (Schwarzwald) in 1936, the Occult Corps built the Institute
for Science and Mysticism (Die Institut für Wissenschaft und Mystizismus), also known as "Walhalla", to examine the
wreck and its dead crew. Walhalla soon became the headquarters for the Occult Corps' operations, while Castle
Wewelsburg functioned more as more of a private retreat for Himmler and his fellow conspirators.

Over the following years, alien technology was taken and combined with the information the Vril Society had received
through channeling and was made into a further project called the Haunebu I: the first large flying saucer (Flügelrad)
developed in Germany - approximately seventy-five feet in diameter. In fact, the Institute's "X-Labs" acquired so much
science and technology far beyond mankind's current knowledge base that soon various X-Labs were constructed in
several other locations throughout Germany as well, including Castle Erlangen, Castle Heidenheim, Castle Höllenhammer,
Castle Naudabaum, Castle Nuremburg, Castle Wolfenstein and the National Redoubt (the Alpenfestung).

Dr. Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse was the genetic engineer who had performed the alien autopsies at the Institute, and
the head of Operation Eisenfaust ("Iron Fist"). With the help of his assistant Dr. Schabbs, Dr. Strasse's twisted
experiments with orgonomy produced many mutant X-Creatures (X-Geschöpfe).

During this same time, Himmler became convinced that he was the reincarnation of Henry the Fowler, and that he could
raise Heinrich I from the dead. In doing so, the Third Reich would then possess the power to command an army of the
undead against the Allies. With Hitler's encouragement, Himmler began methodically researching how to approach the
dark ritual, throwing scores of scientists, great cashes of wealth, and the full power of the Nazi war machine behind the
efforts of "Operation Resurrection" while Dr. Hermann Schreck's Project Totengraeber had considerable success in the XLabs
with the living dead (Die Untoten)...

A ritual the inner adepts of the Occult Corps (Karotechia) perfected in the winter of 1944.

From: http://www.nemesis-system.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=224

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