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Himmler reportedly believed himself to be the
reincarnation of Saxon King Heinrich I "The Fowler", first king of
the medieval German state who united the German tribes into in a
short lived kingdom, and protected Germany from Eastern invaders ,
as portrayed in Wagner's Lohengrin opera.
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King Arthur incidentally was not of the Teutonic knights,
his connection to the Grail legend combined with
convoluted Nazi logic seized upon the old Welsh / English legend and
adopted it as 'Aryan'.
Wewelsburg Castle
Nazi Occult Spiritual Center
Wewelsburg Castle was
acquired by Himmler in 1934 when he signed a 100-mark
100-year lease , intending to renovate and redesign the
castle as an SS School. But he became intrigued with the
Castle and developed further plans for it, eventually it
was to become "The Center of the World" in the Nazi SS
religion .During the Dark ages and
inquisition, Wewelsburg played a central role in the
witchcraft trials . The persecution of 'witches' was
cruel and barbaric in many regions of Germany. Scholars
estimate that the number of 'witches' who perished at
the stake was as high as 100,000. In Westphalia, women
accused of witchcraft were held in the dungeons of
Wewelsburg, confessions were extracted in Wewelsburgs
courtroom. and most were sadistically executed on site.
This tradition continued when Himmler's
restoration of the Castle began. A concentration camp
was set up nearby for slave labor. Of the 3900 prisoners
, nearly 1300 died , most were simply starved or worked
to death.
That Himmler wanted Wewelsburg to
serve as a 'Grail' castle is speculative and
unsubstantiated. However, some rooms within the Castle
referred to the Grail legend and Arthurian legends as well as other Pagan
tales König Artus ("King Arthur") - Heinrich der Löwe -
("Henry the Lion") -Arier ("Aryan"), Runen ("runes"),
Deutscher Orden ("Teutonic Order"), were among some of
the names chosen for various rooms within the Castle.
The SS had twelve primary departments, each
Department had a leader, each leader was said to be a member of
the SS round table. Himmler at the helm of this round table made
a complete coven of 13.At Wewelsburg
Castle was Himmlers Round Table where the SS inner
circle of 12 apostles or 'Gruppenführers' ,would meet
dine and engage in occult rituals such as communicating
with dead ancestors and Teutonic knights of the past.
Beneath the stone floor of the Arthurian Round Table was
a small chamber known as the ‘realm of the dead’. This
realm of the dead was meant to serve as the SS holy of
holies, their Vatican, shang ri la, Mecca, basically the
center of their universe, Wewelsburg Castle was to be
the center of the World.
Himmler established festivals on the Summer
and Winter Solstices based on ancient pagan
rituals of sun and nature worship.
Himmler commissioned His
personal occult advisor Karl Maria Wiligut , {sometimes known as “Himmler’s Rasputin”} ,to write
private reports on Runes, ancient and esoteric Germanic traditions,
and prehistory.
After the First World War Wiligut performed as a Neopagan and
claimed to be the last of a line of sorcerers called the
Ueiskuinigsto and to have a clairvoyant recollection of the early
Germanic history .
He met Himmler In 1933 and was appointed to the "SS Race and
Settlement Main Department". He designed the "Totenkopf"
[deaths head] ring, which
Himmler personally awarded to prestigious SS officers. Himmler chose
Wewelsburg to be the ritual headquarters of the SS based on the
advice of Wiligut.
Wiligut claimed to be an adherent of what he called "Irmin-Kristianity."
which endorsed Lanz's belief in an Aryan Jesus. [
The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany
]
Other Occult and Mystical Nazi Symbols
included
The supreme talisman of National
Socialism of course was the swastika, an ancient
symbol that can be traced back thousands of years.
The supreme talisman of the SS was the
black dagger awarded to members upon full acceptance
into the SS, it replaced the crucifix in in some
respects.
A seventh century
fertility symbol, the Black Sun (Schwarze Sonne) or Sun
Wheel also ranked high within their symbolic lexicon.
The Black Sun uses a twelve-spoke design , supposedly it
represents the visible sun on its passage through the
twelve months of the year
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity
, but a myriad of
other symbolic references have been attested to and or
implied.
"a grand force or
a grand god in the background of the multiplicity of
gods and spirits who becomes visible in a multiple
way in the universe, on earth and in the life of all
beings and facts". So the
sun was interpreted as
"only one, but a very important and big expression
(of that force or god) in the surrounding events and
in the life of the ancestors"
Walther Blachetta  :
Das Buch der deutschen Sinnzeichen (The book of
German sense characters - out of print limited
availability)
The SS-Ehrenring ("Honor Ring"),
commonly referred to as Totenkopf ring or
Deaths Head Ring was an award of Heinrich Himmler's SS.
It wasn't a state decoration, but exclusive to the SS,
it was a personal gift from Himmler. In 1938 Himmler ordered the
death's head rings of dead SS-men and officers returned. They were to be stored in a chest
in the castle symbolizing the ongoing membership of the deceased in
the SS-Order[The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology
] . The whereabouts of
over 11,000 rings after the
Second World War is unknown.
Much of Nazi symbolism was derived from ancient Nordic
Runes. The Nazis modernized and stylized them. The SS
symbol, the double lightning bolt, is a stylized version of the Sig
rune {Sieg} drawn from the
Wiligut runes [Karl Maria Wilgut]
The Secret of the Runes
The Swastika: Constructing the Symbol 
 Himmler commissioned His personal occult advisor Karl Maria Wiligut , {sometimes known as “Himmler’s
Rasputin. See The Secret King: Karl Maria Wiligut, Himmler's Lord of the Runes ”} ,to write private reports on Runes, ancient and esoteric
Germanic traditions, and prehistory.
After the First World War Wiligut performed as a
Neopagan and claimed to be the last of a line of sorcerers called
the Ueiskuinigsto and to have a clairvoyant recollection of the
early Germanic history .
He met Himmler In 1933 and was appointed to the "SS Race and
Settlement Main Department". He designed the "Totenkopf" ring, which
Himmler personally awarded to prestigious SS officers. Himmler chose
Wewelsburg to be the ritual headquarters of the SS based on the
advice of Wiligut.
Wiligut claimed to be an adherent of what he
called "Irmin-Kristianity." which endorsed Lanz's belief in an Aryan
Jesus.
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