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After WWI, many Germans retreated into gnostic beliefs. Paul Johnson, in his book "Modern Times" had a strange quote by T.S. Lawrence writing from Berlin in 1923. Lawrence was a rather strange person himself, but he wrote that "you could feel it in the night air". A sense that Germany had ceased looking towards the West, but "was ebbing back towards the East, towards the old ways".

They certainly were. The *beliefs* of the Nazi hierarchy were an amazing mishmash of assorted gnostic teaching. The Sword of Longanus, the search for the Holy Grail, all beliefs suspending rationality and calling on some *hidden wisdom* known only to the initiates. Accounts of secret SS rites are eerie, to say the least. And during this, the Arabs were courted and fitted right in.

...but one common theme seems to remain. They all seem to attack Israel even from contradictiry viewpoints. For this reason I tend to believe they reveal a Satanic source much more closely related to possible supernatural origins and evil deception than simply an evil man-made construct.

You nailed it.

Thanks for the quote from Lawrence. As you say, he was a bit of an odd one himself. I believe that L. got to know something of these esoteric beliefs because he worked in the Middle East as an archeologist, especially on the crusader fortresses in Lebanon and Syria. Those towers are surrounded by legends, and as someone who could speak both Arabic and French L. would have heard it all.

Thanks for posting this insightful link, Destro. As Cvengr and xJones have posted, I think we see the hand of the Evil One in all these belief systems.

Holger, the writer of this piece, may be the face of the new accomodationists in Europe as they assimilate the Muslims in their midst (rather than the other way around).