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Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
reply to post by 2000 Yards
Well, you have to look at how slanted an opinion is presented at times. People always want to associate the occult with Satanism. What is funny about that is that most occultists don't even believe in Satan!!
Now, that is beyond the scope of this thread, but it is a good example of how western culture has an obsession with demonizing the occult.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
reply to post by Chainmaker
Yeah, yeah.... Remain asleep. While the Christian and Muslim countries threaten the world with their over zealous desire for a nuclear Armageddon, keep on telling yourself it's really occultists who are "eeeeevil."
The blindness of the masses amazes me. It really does.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
reply to post by Chainmaker
I've heard it all before. I tell you what. Why don't you get both sides of a story before you start telling people what is "true" and what is not?
That's what is wrong with the world today. People want to criticize every other belief system and religion without knowing anything about their own, much less about the one they are criticizing.
I can't tell you how many so-called, as Iam sure you would agree, Christians don't even know the bloody history of their own religion, but feel free to criticize other belief, which, you guessed it, they also know nothing about.
[edit on 23-12-2009 by SpeakerofTruth]
Originally posted by Chainmaker
I know very well the history of Christianity, which is often confused with the bloody history of the secular organization named Roman Catholicism.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
Originally posted by Chainmaker
I know very well the history of Christianity, which is often confused with the bloody history of the secular organization named Roman Catholicism.
There were no Protestant demoniations of Christianity before the Catholic church!!! Catholicism WAS Christianity before Luther and Calvin!! See what I mean....
You may be very intelligent. I don't doubt that, but you made a perfect example of what I am talking about.
[edit on 23-12-2009 by SpeakerofTruth]
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
reply to post by Chainmaker
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I've heard it all before. I tell you what. Why don't you get both sides of a story before you start telling people what is "true" and what is not?
Originally posted by Epsillion70
OK then If Hitler was not into anything Esoterica why did he use the original religious Hindu/Buddhist symbol of peace, luck and well being the; Svastika
and then slightly redesign it
and turn it into his own infamous symbol of Nazis
Google Video Link |
The REAL Swastika
The right-handed swastika has been used as a
positive expression of life by the ancient
Mesopotamians, the early Christians and
Byzantines, the Mayans, as well as the Hopi
and other Native American Indian tribes.
Hitler's Swastika
The demise of the swastika as an honorable symbol began when Hitler presented to the world the national symbol of the "New Germany". The scarlet background with the white center containing a black swastika would soon become a symbol feared by millions. Dr. Freidrich Krohn designed the symbol, however in his original version the swastika was right-handed. Hitler, after viewing it, ordered that the design be changed and the arms of the swastika face left-handed. Hitler’s demands to change the direction the arms of the swastika face may very well have been his demise. In several different cultures the direction of the arms represent good luck and bad luck depending on which way the arms face. To several Asian cultures the right- handed swastika represents a "sun wheel" or the "wheel of Life", while the left-handed swastika represents death.
Originally posted by Epsillion70
Why did he base his own swastika on such an overtly mystical symbol at all in the first place?
Originally posted by Epsillion70
Or maybe he just saw it as a fashion statement like you see with Atheists who unknowingly wear symbolic Ankhs and Crosses etc
Nazi ensigns had a through and through image, so both versions were present, one on each side, but the Nazi flag on land was right-facing on both sides and at a 45° rotation.
"... Swastikas appear on Paleolitic carvings on mammoth ivory from the Ukraine, dated ca. 10,000 B.C. Swastikas figure on the oldest coinage in India. Persia, Asia Mior, and Greece represented the rotating axis mundi with the symbol of a swastika. On a Boeotian amphora of the 7th century B.C., the swastika was presented as a sacred sign of the Goddess Artemis. It also represented many other deities from Iceland to Japan, Scandinavia to North Africa. It was much used in Troy and Mycenaie before the 13th century B.C. ... In Japan, the reborn Amida, "Buddha of Immeasurable Light", wore a left-handed swastika carved on his breast. A similar left-handed swastika was the sign of Thor's hammer on Scandinavian coins. ... Trojan images of the Great Goddess showed a swastika within a female triangle on her belly, indicating the hidden god prior to his next rebirth. Early Chiristians adopted the swastika to represent Christ, calling it a crux dissimulata or disguised cross. It was also called the crux gammata ... because it showed the Greek letter gamma four times repeated. To Saxons it was fylfot, translated either "four-foot", referring to the four heavenly pillars at the corners of the earth, or "fill-foot", referring to the Christian habit of filling in the foot of a church window with swastikas. ...
The genesis of the swastika symbol is often treated in conjunction with cross symbols in general, such as the "sun wheel" of Bronze Age religion.
The Tierwirbel (the German for "animal whorl" or "whirl of animals"[1]) is a characteristic motive in Bronze Age Central Asia, the Eurasian Steppe, and later also in Iron Age Scythian and European (Baltic[2] and Germanic) culture, showing rotational symmetric arrangement of an animal motive, often four birds' heads. Even wider diffusion of this "Asiatic" theme has been proposed, to the Pacific and even North America (especially Moundville)[3].
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
You think? Look, as I stated previously, I've read about all of the supposed involvement Hitler had with the occult, but given that he had occultists and Masons put to death in his country, I don't see it being very likely.
Everyone wants to bring up the "Master Race" thing and Theosophy. The "Master Race" crappola was derived directly from the Philosopher Nietzsche's "Uberman." That's the cold hard truth. There wasn't and isn't some "occult conspiracy" going on. If anything, throughout the centuries, occultists have been the victims of a conspiracy, not a perpetrator.