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2 Beliefs
A primary focus of the Thule Society was a claim concerning the origins of the Aryan race. In 1917, people
who wanted to join the Germanic Order, out of which
the Thule Society developed in 1918, had to sign a special
blood declaration of faith concerning their lineage:
The signer hereby swears to the best of
his knowledge and belief that no Jewish or
coloured blood ows in either his or in his
wifes veins, and that among their ancestors are
no members of the coloured races.[11]
"Thule" ((Greek): ) was a land located by GrecoRoman geographers in the farthest north (often displayed
as Iceland).[12] The term Ultima Thule ((Latin): most
distant Thule) is also mentioned by Roman poet Virgil
in his pastoral poems called the Georgics.[13] Thule originally was probably the name for Scandinavia, although
Virgil simply uses it as a proverbial expression for the
edge of the known world, and his mention should not be
taken as a substantial reference to Scandinavia.[14]
The Thule Society identied Ultima Thule as a lost ancient landmass in the extreme north, near Greenland or
Iceland, said by Nazi mystics to be the capital of ancient
Hyperborea. These ideas were derived from earlier speculation by Ignatius L. Donnelly that a lost landmass had
1 Origins
once existed in the Atlantic, and that it was the home of
the Aryan race, a theory which he supported by reference to the distribution of swastika motifs. He identied
The Thule Society was originally a German study group this with Platos Atlantis, a theory further developed by
headed by Walter Nauhaus,[6] a wounded World War I Helena Blavatsky, an occultist during the second part of
veteran turned art student from Berlin who had become the 19th century.
a keeper of pedigrees for the Germanenorden (or Order
of Teutons"), a secret society founded in 1911 and formally named in the following year.[7] In 1917, Nauhaus 3 Activities
moved to Munich; his Thule Society was to be a covername for the Munich branch of the Germanenorden,[8]
in Mubut events developed dierently as a result of a schism in The Thule Society attracted about 250 followers
[15]
nich
and
about
1,500
elsewhere
in
Bavaria.
Its
meetthe Order. In 1918, Nauhaus was contacted in Munich by
ings
were
often
held
in
the
luxury
Hotel
Vierjahreszeiten
Rudolf von Sebottendorf (or von Sebottendor), an oc[10]
cultist and newly elected head of the Bavarian province ((German): Four Seasons Hotel) in Munich.
of the schismatic oshoot known as the Germanenorden The followers of the Thule Society were very interested
Walvater of the Holy Grail.[9] The two men became as- in racial theory and, in particular, in combating Jews
sociates in a recruitment campaign, and Sebottendor and Communists. Sebottendor planned but failed to
adopted Nauhauss Thule Society as a cover-name for his kidnap Bavarian socialist prime minister Kurt Eisner in
Munich lodge of the Germanenorden Walvater at its for- December 1918.[6][16] During the Bavarian revolution of
April 1919, Thulists were accused of trying to inltrate
mal dedication on 18 August 1918.[10]
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POPULAR CULTURE
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of Society members seek out a lost ledger containing information about their experiments with necromancy.
8 Notes
The Thule Society play a major role in the Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa, a movie set after
the ending of the 2003 anime of the same name.
In the Secret World Chronicles[28] by Mercedes Lackey, [10] Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 144
the Thule Society is behind the attacks on Echo facilities
[11] Rudolf von Sebottendor, Bevor Hitler kam, 1933, page
on February 15, 2004.[29]
The Thule Society also feature in the video game Clive
Barkers Jericho.
The Thule Society plays a role in the Marvel Comics series, "Fear Itself". In the story, the Thule Society are under the guidance and leadership of the Red Skull, which [12] Perseus Digital Library, citing Smiths Dictionary of
Greek and Roman Geography
he uses to protect the Hammer of Skadi when it is summoned to the earth.
[13] Vergil, Georgics, 1.30
The Thule Society also appears in Steve Gerber's brief [14] Oxford Classical Dictionary 2003
run on Marvels Cloak and Dagger.
[15] Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 143
The Loyalists of Thule, a group dedicated to the hunting of supernatural creatures, is based on the remnants of [16] Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 147
the Thule Society in Hunter: The Vigil by White Wolf [17] Timebase 1919. Timebase Multimedia Chronography.
Publishing
Accessed April 18, 2008.
The Thule Society is present in the eroge/anime 11eyes [18] Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 148.
as a hermetic society of dark magick practitioners aiding
[19] Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 149.
Nazi Germany against the Vatican.
The Thule Society is mentioned in the paranormal novel [20] Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 150
"Night Journey" by Goldie Browning.
[21] Goodrick-Clarke 1985, p. 221
The Thule Society is used as an evil organization in the [22] Goodrick-Clarke 1985, pp. 149, 217225
role-playing game Hollow Earth Expeditions.
[23] Angebert 1974, p. 9
[24] Skorzeny 1995
See also
Guido von List
[25] See, for example, Alfred Rosenberg, Der Mythus des 20.
Jahrhunderts: Eine Wertung der seelischgeistigen Gestaltungskmpfe unserer Zeit, Mnchen: Hoheneichen, 1930.
[26] Hhne 1969, pp. 138, 143145
[27] Goodrick-Clarke 2003: 166169.
Nazi archaeology
[28] The Secret World Chronicle. The Secret World Chronicle. Retrieved 2014-02-24.
[29] The Thule Society. The Secret World Chronicle. 200402-15. Retrieved 2014-02-24.
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References
Angebert, Jean-Michel. 1974. The Occult and the
Third Reich: the mystical origins of Nazism and the
search for the Holy Grail.. Macmillan Publishing.
ISBN 0-02-502150-8.
Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. 1985. The Occult Roots
of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany
1890-1935. Wellingborough, England: The Aquarian Press. ISBN 0-85030-402-4.
Republished 1992 as The Occult Roots of Nazism:
Secret Aryan Cults and Their Inuence on Nazi Ideology: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany,
18901935 (New York University Press, ISBN 08147-3060-4)
and in 2003 as The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret
Aryan Cults and Their Inuence on Nazi Ideology
(Gardners Books, ISBN 1-86064-973-4).
Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. 2002. Black Sun:
Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press. ISBN 0-81473124-4. (Paperback 2003, 384 pages, ISBN 08147-3155-4.)
Hhne, Heinz. 1969. The Order of the Deaths
Head: The Story of Hitlers SS. Martin Secker &
Warburg. ISBN 0-14-139012-3.
Jacob, Frank. 2010. Die Thule-Gesellschaft. Uniedition. ISBN 3-942171-00-7
Jacob, Frank: Die Thule-Gesellschaft und die
Kokurykai: Geheimgesellschaften im globalhistorischen Vergleich, Knigshausen & Neumann,
Wrzburg, 2012, ISBN 978-3826049095
Phelps, Reginald H. 1963. "'Before Hitler Came':
Thule Society and Germanen Orden". Journal
of Modern History 35(3): 245-261. ISSN 00222801/63/3501.
Skorzeny, Otto, tr. Johnston, David. 1995. My
Commando Operations. ISBN 0-88740-718-8.
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