Vienna Circle (esoteric)

Vienna Circle (esoteric)

The Vienna Circle, or Landig Group, was an occultic, völkisch and Germanic mysticist group formed in 1950, that first gathered for discussions at the studio of the designer Wilhelm Landig in Vienna's 4th district of Wieden, in Austria.

The circle's most prominent and influential members were Wilhelm Landig (1909 - 1997), Erich Halik (Claude Schweikhart) and Rudolf J. Mund (1920 - 1985).

The circle has also been referred to as the Landig Circle, Vienna Group and Vienna Lodge.

Background

Landig was the founder of the group, that has since inspired decades of völkisch mysticism. He and his group revived the ariosophical, Ario-Germanic mythology of Thule, the supposed polar homeland of the ancient Aryans.

Landig "coined the term Black Sun, a substitute Swastika [and/or Fylfot ] and mystical source of energy capable of regenerating the Aryan race." ["Black Sun" by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (2002)] Landig, through his circle, popularized esoteric ideas current among the pre-Nazi völkisch movement and the SS relating to Atlantis, the World Ice Theory, pre-historic floods and secret racial doctrines from Tibet.

Landig and other occult-fascist propagandists have circulated wild stories about German Nazi colonies that live and work in secret installations beneath the polar ice caps, where they developed flying saucers [see Nazi UFOs] and miracle weapons after the demise of the Third Reich. [SPLC report: " [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=94 From UFOs to Yoga] " by Martin A. Lee (Summer 2002)] Including the theory that flying saucers were Nazi secret weapons launched from an underground base in Antarctica, from which the Nazis hoped to conquer the world.

The focus of the group’s discussions was a secret center in the Arctic known as the Blue Island, which could serve as a source point for a renaissance of traditional life. This idea was taken from Julius Evola, whose "Revolt Against the Modern World" became the bible of the Landig group. ["Black Sun" by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (2002)]

More so, or at least equally as important to the group as Evola's book, the Vienna Group hungrily devoured the ideas and books of Hermann Wirth. ["Black Sun" by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (2002)]

Further reading

*For a full biography of the Vienna Circle see "Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity" by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke.

*Also see "Invisible Eagle: The History of Nazi Occultism" by Alan Baker

ee also

*Black Sun
*Nazi occultism
*Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
*Hollow Earth
*Esoteric Nazism
*Nazi archaeology
*Vril Society
*Thule Society

References

External links

* [http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_006/invisible.htm The Black Order]


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