Top 10 similar words or synonyms for occultism

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Top 30 analogous words or synonyms for occultism

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Nazism and occultism "The Occult Roots of Nazism" is commended for specifically addressing the fanciful modern depictions of Nazi Occultism, as well as carefully reflecting critical scholarly work that finds associations between Ariosophy with Nazi agency. As scholar Anna Bramwell writes, “One should not be deceived by the title into thinking that it belongs to the 'modern mythology of Nazi occultism', a world of salacious fantasy convincingly dismembered by the author in an Appendix,” referring the various written, depicted, and produced material that delves into “Nazi Occultism” without providing any reliable or relevant evidence. Instead, it is through Goodrick-Clarke’s work that several scholarly criticisms addressing Occult relevance in conjunction with Ariosophist practices arise.
Nazism and occultism Some of this modern mythology even touches Goodrick-Clarke's topic directly. The rumor that Adolf Hitler had encountered the Austrian monk and anti-semitic publicist, Lanz von Liebenfels, already at the age of 8, at Heilgenkreuz abbey, goes back to "Les mystiques du soleil" (1971) by Michel-Jean Angbert. "This episode is wholly imaginary."
Nazism and occultism Nevertheless, Michel-Jean Angbert and the other authors discussed by Goodrick-Clarke present their accounts as real, so that this modern mythology has led to several legends that resemble conspiracy theories, concerning, for example, the Vril Society or rumours about Karl Haushofer's connection to the occult. The most influential books were Trevor Ravenscroft's "The Spear of Destiny" and "The Morning of the Magicians" by Pauwels and Bergier.
Nazism and occultism An article "Hitler's Forgotten Library" by Timothy Ryback, published in "The Atlantic" (May 2003), mentions a book from Hitler's private library authored by Dr. Ernst Schertel. Schertel, whose interests were flagellation, dance, occultism, nudism and BDSM, had also been active as an activist for sexual liberation before 1933. He had been imprisoned in Nazi Germany for seven months and his doctoral degree was revoked. He is supposed to have sent a dedicated copy of his 1923 book "" to Hitler some time in the mid-1920s. Hitler is said to have marked extensive passages, including one which reads "He who does not have the demonic seed within himself will never give birth to a magical world".
Nazism and occultism From the perspective of academic history, these documentaries on Nazism, if ever commented, are seen as problematic because they do not contribute to an actual understanding of the problems that arise in the study of Nazism and Neo-Nazism. Without referring to a specific documentary Mattias Gardell, a historian who studies contemporary separatist groups, writes: