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THE RELIGIOUS AND MYTHIC elements of German National Socialism often made the Third Reich resemble a cult in power.

— Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke Black Sun (2002)

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All nature has intrinsic worth and equality, and whatever science that remains should be nondominating.

Hitler's Priestess (1998)

Both the trappings and the myths of American Nazism reflect the behavior of a persecuted religious sect that prepares for militant action against a fallen world.

Black Sun (2002)

Outside a purely secular frame of reference, Nazism was felt to be the embodiment of evil in a modern twentieth-century regime, a monstrous pagan relapse in the Christian community of Europe.

Black Sun (2002)

As long as the West upholds an image of the free human being within an integrated vision of God, heaven, and earth, esotericism will undoubtedly remain a feature of its intellectual and religious landscape.

The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction (2008)

It is a tragic paradox that the colourful variety of peoples in the Habsburg empire, a direct legacy of its dynastic supra-national past, should have nurtured the germination of genocidal racist doctrines in a new age of nationalism and social change.

The Occult Roots of Nazism (1985)

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