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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.

— Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke The Occult Roots of Nazism (1985)

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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