Grid of the Gods (11 page)

The Convergence of Ley Lines near Hitler’s Wolfsschanze Headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. Note the Placement of the Fortress on the East-West Line.
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B. Grid Geopolitical Geomancy

Might the Nazis have found (or at least
thought
they had found) the means to “activate” or even tap into the physics of the alleged energies of the global grid system?

The answer to this question is more disturbing.

Official and unofficial German interest in the occult in general and geomantic systems in particular goes back at least to the era of the Holy Roman Empire, when the secret imperial star chamber, the
Heilege Vehm
or “Holy Vehm’s” initiates and executioners would often meet secretly at night at various sacred geomantic sites.
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By the time of King Frederick the Great’s Prussia, this esoteric interest had become fully fledged. Frederick founded the
Afrikanischen Bauherren
, or Order of Architects of Africa, centering it at his
Constantinople
structure constant to modern theoretical physics and the anthropic cosmological principle, this is the subject of another book. It should be noted that 137, the basic coefficient of the constant, is the 33
^rd
prime number.
Lodge
in Berlin. There, “its initiates studied hieroglyphics, the sciences, history and antiquities, and the Manichaean Mysteries.”
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This fascination with ancient mysteries, esotericism, and knowledge was accompanied by an interesting claim, for Frederick’s Prussian Grand Lodge also asserted its continuity from another ancient society, the World Wise Men:

This ‘White Lodge’ is the same group of hidden masters described by Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society and the German Thule Society from which many leading Nazis came. The Prussian Freemasons claimed that these World Wise Men were none other than the Carpocratians, a group of Christ’s disciples to whom he communicated a secret science, transmitted afterwards to the Templars and thence via Scotland to the Swedish Rite Freemasons… They were also traditionally endowed with the mastery of a mysterious power drawn from the Earth —
Vril.
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We note then that the idea of continuity with an ancient elite was very much a part of the Masonic tradition,
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particularly in Prussia.

The peculiar connection with the Earth grid, however, is manifest in the fact that the Freemasons of Frederick the Great’s Prussia claimed this hidden elite had the mastery of the
Vril
energy drawn from the Earth. These ideas of a continuity with an ancient elite, and of
Vril
or Earth energy force became cardinal principles of the ideology of the
Thulegesellschaft
, the Thule Society, one of the secret fraternities that helped to midwife the Nazi Party into existence.

The Thule society believed that by harnessing this force they could raise Germany to an unassailable position of world domination. By 1919, the Thule Society (which had been founded in 1912) had become a rallying-point for Bavarian mystical anti-Semites. Anton Drexler, original leader of the German Workers’ Party, was a
member. So was Rudolf Hess, soon to become Hitler’s right-hand man, as was Alfred Rosenberg, future philosopher of National Socialism. This society claimed to be the instrument of the legendary ‘Secret Chiefs’ of Tibet — descendants of the survivors of Atlantis living somewhere in the remote Himalayas.
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These hidden masters the Thule Society — like so many other fraternities that claimed such continuity with an ancient elite — identified with the “white Lodge” or “White Brotherhood,”
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never bothering to consider the other assertion of esoteric tradition: that there was a black Lodge or “Brotherhood” or elite as well, and that they might be in continuity with something whose agendas and moral compass were quite different than what was assumed of the “White” lodges from which they claimed descent.

In any case, by asserting their claims to mastery over the Earth grid, the early twentieth century German occultists could draw on a wide tradition of English and German Earth grid research. Alfred Watkins had already published his now famous study of the grid system of England,
The Old Straight Track
, and the famous astronomer, Sir Norman Lockyear, had extended the idea to include astronomical alignments of many ancient sites, including Stonehenge and the Egyptian temples in his books
Stonehenge
and
The Dawn of Astronomy.

Not to be outdone, the Germans Josef Heinsch and Wilhelm Teudt published similar works concerning the grid system in Central and Western Europe and the layout of churches and monasteries over older sacred pagan sites. Studying Stonehenge, Heinsch discovered other alignments overlooked by Lockyear, and extended his observations to include all of Central Europe and its ancient sites, i.e., Germany.
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In 1933, excavations at the Choir in Xanten Cathedral in the Rhineland revealed an ancient geometrical mosaic pavement, Heinsch was called in to examine it. In form, it was a square crisscrossed with lines and diagonals. Heinsch measured its angle of orientation and found it to be the same as that of the Avenue at
Stonehenge — a misummer sunrise alignment. Its form echoed the ancient cosmic diagrams of the Chinese, Mexican, and Norse cosmology. Testing the pattern on a map of the district, he noticed that the lines of this cosmographic mosaic correspondence with the placement of the churches in the district. From this startling discovery, Heinsch was able to detect a major north-south axis on the Lower Rhine just like those studied in England by Duke, Bennett and Lockyear. He now had the key to the sacred geography of Europe.
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This, of course, was tailor-made to fit the esoteric beliefs of the Thule Society and the Nazis, who had assumed power that same year.

Sir Norman Lockyear’s Simple Triangulation of Locations Around Stonehenge
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Heinsch’s Survey of the Grid System Around Stonehenge
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Heinsch’s Grid Lines at Stonehenge
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Heinsch’s associate Gerlach
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extended this system into a ley line system covering the whole of Central Europe, i.e., Germany and southern Scandinavia, based on the placement of churches in the area.

Gerlach’s System of Alignments in Central Europe
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All of this work on the Earth grid by Heinsch, Teudt, and Gerlach, let it be noted, was being done in Germany in the period immediately prior to, and after, the Nazi assumption of power, which leads to the logical question: what exactly did the Nazis do with it?

With that question, the plot thickens considerably, though the clues are still enshrouded in mystery, leaving researchers to piece them together.

One clue lies in the outright esoteric nature of Nazi practice, a practice that can only be qualified as “geopolitical geomancy.” As the Wehrmacht swept across Europe and smaller nations fell either to outright occupation, or were pressured into alliances with the Third Reich, the SS, behind the scenes, was quietly “collecting” all manner of things. Coupled with this activity, the Gestapo infiltrated secret fraternities, from the Freemasons to the Rosicrucians, and prepared lengthy dossiers on all of them, since they claimed “to possess certain universal secrets which Himmler felt could be put to better us by the SS.”
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The interest of these societies in Jewish Qabalistic esotericism was even held to be “a threat to state security” and “to Nazi magic itself.”
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This “magic” disclosed itself in two ways, the first being the collection of regalia:

In order to consolidate his position as future Emperor of Europe, Hitler became an inveterate collector of regalia. At first, the regalia he presented himself were only replicas, but after the war began in earnest, he appropriated the authentic articles. In 1934, he obtained copies of the crown, orb, and sceptre that had been the imperial insignia of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne. Although he had made this odd gesture on behalf of the German people — “I accept these into my keeping on behalf of the glorious Fatherland” — it is an indication that he actually saw himself in the role of Kaiser of the Third Reich. As the deposed Kaiser Wilhelm II was still alive at the time, it would not have been politic for him to proclaim himself Kaiser, but, had he won the war, it is likely that Kaiser Adolf I would have been crowned at the World’s Fair and victory celebrations planned for Berlin in 1950.

As his conquests proceeded, Hitler continued to accumulate the trappings of sacral kingship. Six months after the
Anschluss
of Germany with Austria, Mayor Liebel of Nuremburg presented Hitler with more replica regalia, this time of a more overtly occult nature. When Hitler had re-entered his native land as its master in 1938, he had shown an inordinate interest in certain jewels among the Hapsburg regalia. These were the pieces made for the fifteenth century German King Frederick III. Frederick had been a lapidarian as well as an astrologer and alchemist, and, like Hitler, and many Kaisers before and since, had cherished notions of the conquest of other nations. Although Frederick III had failed in his dreams of megalomaniac grandeur, the gold settings of this collection of mystic gems were inscribed with the letters AEIOU. When Hitler was told that this cipher meant
Austria Est Imperare Orbi Universo
— it is for Austria to rule the whole world — he saw it as an omen for his dreams of the Greater Reich. So before the next Nuremberg Rally, the mayor presented Hitler with facsimile copies of these pieces.