He became submerged in the racial mixture, and gradually, more and more, lost his cultural capacity, until at last, not only mentally but also physically, he began to resemble the subjected aborigines more than his own ancestors. This descent occurred by the original sin of blood poisoning, or the contamination of the Aryan blood (soul) by an inferior race: The Aryan gave up the purity of his blood and, therefore, lost his sojourn in the paradise which he had made for himself. Germany's loss of World War I and subsequent economic problems were the visible contemporary evidence of Aryan decline. Indeed, this dying-off of the Aryans was what Adolf Hitler perceived as happening around him. If he dies out or declines, the dark veils of an age without culture will again descend on this globe. Human culture and civilization on this continent are inseparably bound up with the presence of the Aryan. Exclude him-and perhaps after a few thousand years darkness will again descend on the earth, human culture will pass, and the world turn to a desert. This very fact admits of the not unfounded inference that he alone was the founder of all higher humanity, therefore representing the prototype of all that we understand by the word "man." He is the Prometheus of mankind from whose bright forehead the divine spark of genius has sprung at all times. Hitler stated: All the human culture, all the results of art, science, and technology that we see before us today, are almost exclusively the creative product of the Aryan. In other words, all that man calls higher culture was ultimately the product of the spiritual and creative energies that exist in the blood of the Aryans. Since the blood (soul) of the Aryans contained specific spiritual energies, the "cultural energies" or "racial primal elements," 5 as Hitler often called them, the Aryans supplied the culture that creates the beauty and dignity of higher humanity. God Himself had, in fact, created the Aryans as the most perfect men, both physically and spiritually. Hitler believed that the Aryan race, to which all "true" Germans belonged, was the race whose blood (soul) was of the highest degree. Hitler's racial ideology stemmed from what he called "the basic principle of the blood." This meant that the blood of every person and every race contained the soul of a person and likewise the soul of his race, the Volk. "The racial question gives the key not only to world history, but to all human culture." 2 Race was not simply a political issue to be used to curry the favor of the masses, but the "granite foundation" 3 of Hitler's ideology. It is evident from Mein Kampf and Hitler's speeches that he viewed racial conflict as the determining factor in all of human history. What was the "basic principle of the blood" which inspired Hitler's "new order"? What did he mean by the "spiritual energy" of the people and how was it connected to their blood? Why did Hitler envision his movement as generating a "spiritual" and even "divine creation" that would fulfill a "historic mission"? What was the relationship between "the basic principle of the blood" and Hitler's fanatical hatred of Jews? And finally, what were the sources of these ideas, assuming of course that Hitler was influenced by the philosophies of others? Is it possible that occult or esoteric racial philosophy may, in fact, have been one of the major sources for Hitler's racial ideology? In this paper we shall attempt to provide some answers to these questions. This statement by Hitler gives rise to several intriguing questions. Betrayal of the nation is possible even when no crime has been committed, in other words when a historical mission has not been fulfilled. At the decisive moment the decisive factor is not the ratio of strength but the spiritual force employed. I intend to set up a thousand year Reich and anyone who supports me in battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual-I would almost say divine-creation. We judge by the spiritual energy which a people is capable of putting forth, which will enable it in ten years to recapture what it has lost in a thousand years of warfare. We do not judge by merely artistic or military standards or even by purely scientific ones.
In a 1931 interview with a Leipzig newspaper editor, Adolf Hitler made a passionate declaration of the true significance of his National Socialist movement: The Frenchman Gobineau and the Englishman Chamberlain were inspired by our concept of a new order-a new order, I tell you, or if you prefer, an ideological glimpse into history in accordance with the basic principle of the blood. Hitler's Racial Ideology: Content and Occult Sources by Jackson Spielvogel and David Redles
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