HISTORY

The Nazi Theory About the Spear of Destiny and Other Occult Matters

The one who possesses the spear holds the destiny of the world

Bryan Dijkhuizen
Historia Corner
Published in
3 min readJan 15, 2022

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Jesus Christ being pierced by “the holy lance” (Wikipeda)

Did you know that Hitler was obsessed with the occult?

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke published a book about this in 1985, called: The Occult Roots of Nazism. In this book, Clarke analyzed the occultism in Hitler’s ideology.

The most important conclusion that he formed was that many of the stories about occultism in Nazism or a certain satanic aspect of Hitler’s way of thinking are just not true — those are created for ‘sensational’ purposes.

So when you read something about Hitler’s obsession with x or y that’s somehow related to the occult, double-check if it’s likely to be true.

To help us separate the facts from the crap, Clark researched the links between the ideas of the occult and Nazism.

The Underlying History of Ariosohpy

In the 1800s and 1900s, Ariosophy developed itself as a racist and nationalist branch in Germany and Austria founded by Guido von List and Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels.

The movement addressed a lot of issues the Germans had with modernism, industrialism, and urbanization…

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Bryan Dijkhuizen
Historia Corner

Writing about the life of a neurodivergent creative in a neurotypical world. — https://bryandijkh.substack.com/