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Today's all about Edward Bulwer-Lytton, whose works are very unique. His writing was incredibly popular and full of high strangeness, if not outright occult themes. In this episode, I talk about The Last Days of Pompeii, Zanoni, and Vril: the Power of the Coming Race. 

I also discuss the Morning of the Magicians, a curious work by some French journalists that discusses (among other things) esoteric Nazism and how it intersects with Vril. I also talk about Willy Ley, an interesting German science fiction author.

To wrap it up, I examine Bulwer-Lytton's family and political legacy, and that of his children. Milner, Rhodes, and the RIIA come up, and so do the British Theosophical networks in India and Germany. Then I confront the Dope Inc. thesis that there was a "cult of Isis" that British elites sought to foster.

songs:

Flaming Lips - "In the Morning of the Magicians"

Brahmastra - "The Vril Society"

(btw I don't *know* Brahmastra is NSBM, it just looks sus, lol)

(btw, after recording this episode, I did read Vril, so expect a deep dive (wink) on that in the future)

[note: I accidentally attributed a quote of Hitler's to Madame Blavatsky; she did not say "the struggle for world domination will be fought entirely between us, between Germans and Jews". I meant to compare his concept of race to hers and misread my notes. I hope to do more on Blavatsky in the future, thank you]

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Anonymous

great episode and incredible series

Anonymous

Would you please cite where Blavatsky makes those comments about the Germans and Jews? I’d like to look that up and read further and in context, thanks

ProgrammedToChill

Thank you for correcting me. I misread my notes when reading them. That quote, "The struggle for world domination will be fought entirely between us, between Germans and Jews", was from Hitler, and I meant to compare his worldview to Madame Blavatsky's because there’s a case to be made that he borrowed his racial understanding from hers, but Blavatsky did not say that quote. Blavatsky’s worldview was not quite as anti-Semitic or as dualistic as Hitler’s, though it was not far off. She wrote most of her race science in “the Secret Doctrine”, which is where she wrote about ‘the root races’. She speculated that the Jews were imposters, which is another thing Nazis would say. She said, regarding Israel, that "for them Religion is a wise prudential feeling grounded on mere calculation", but worse, she wrote "But now Judaism, built solely on phallic worship, has become one of the latest creeds in Asia, and theologically a religion of hate and malice toward everyone and everything outside itself".

Anonymous

Okay thanks for clearing that up. Yes, she was pretty scathing of the Abrahamic religions in general.

Anonymous

That thunder crack was so realistic I thought our nation was under attack and ripped off my headphones

Anonymous

ngl this Brahmastra is pretty sus yep

Anonymous

Not sure what they call it in India but here in Ireland we call our British led genocide "An Gorta Mór (The Great Pain)" or "The Decade of Suffering" and not famine because the wording famine implies it was an accident and wasnt orchestrated

Anonymous

Great episode! I have to say, that Larouche passage you read got me wondering if Bob Dylan is a secret Larouchian. Besides the obvious fact that he wrote a song called "Isis," check out this quote from an interview he did in 2009: (https://beatpatrol.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/bill-flanagan-interview-with-bob-dylan-part-4-2009/) Do you remember images of Hitler from growing up? "No, not growing up. He was dead by the time I was four or five. I never had a real understanding of that." Never had an understanding of what? "How you take a failed landscape painter and turn him into a fanatical mad man who controls millions. That’s some trick. I mean the powers that created him must have been awesome." Either way, sounds like he's hip to the esoteric Nazism game.