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Contrary to many historians who prefer to ignore the Nazis' interest in the occult, the author argues that one cannot analyse the political action of the Nazis without taking into account the particularities of Nazi occultism. Long before being a political vision of Germany and the world, Nazism was a mysticism. It is quite normal to speak of a Nazi mysticism, insofar as Nazism had as its foundation a set of beliefs and practices that had as their object a union of man and the principle of being. The principle of being here is neither divinity nor nature, but the idea of the supremacy of a race, the Aryan race; the idea of the world domination of a people, the Germanic people. Adolf Hitler was an initiate, the Nazis were enthusiasts of the occult. An initiate can be defined as a man who by hard work of inner transformation strives to raise the vibrations of his spirit. According to many esotericists, including Samael Aun Weor, the great master of the Gnostics, Hitler experienced the spiritual initiation of the Enlightenment, but later deviated when he met a black magician from Tibet. Hitler was not just a megalomaniacal politician without spiritual knowledge. It is difficult to see Hitler as an enlightened initiate, so dark are his works. It would not be an exaggeration to say that before being a genius politician, Hitler was first and foremost an initiate of darkness, a black magician. From Alexander the Great to Napoleon Bonaparte, via Genghis Khan, can a man decide to conquer the world without calling upon the forces of the spirit? Adolf Hitler was not a madman who wanted to conquer the world, he knew perfectly well the forces with which he had made a pact. It is important to remember the words of Dietrich Eckart, Hitler's mentor, who on his deathbed said: "Follow Hitler. He will dance, but I wrote the music. We opened his eyes, and gave him the means to communicate with them. Don't mourn me: I will have influenced history more than any other German. When Dietric