Serrano and Evola
Evola As He Is
An article about 'Evola y Serrano' was published last year in the online journal 'Ciudad de los Césares' (http://revistaciudaddeloscesares.blogspot.com/) by Marco Ghio, the president of Centro de Estudios Evolianos de América (Buenos Aires). It was published at es.metapedia.org/wiki/Evola_y_Serrano/ a few months ago. It shows that Hitlerism, as reconstructed by M. Serrano, is not very different in its principles from many modern views in force today. First, a critical review, or, shall we say, translation of it will be offered, which, then, will allow us to elaborate on the more or less occult roots of the anti-European notion of 'Hitlerian esotericism'.

Arguably, just as a literature emerged that projects Nazism as the absolute evil, there appeared, as a backlash to it, a literature that sees it as the absolute good, thus avoiding, in the same manner as in the previous case, to take an objective view of the facts.

In South America, the main representatives of the latter group are Salvador Borrego and Miguel Serrano. The former wrote a whole book devoted mostly to show that Hitler was not wrong in doing what he did, and that he almost won the war. Nazism, from his point of view, never made mistakes, was not wrong in invading Russia, did not mistakenly address the Jewish problem, did not err in a biological racism which was as limited as its views, and did not assume a narrow-minded nationalism that ultimately proved fatal to Germany. Everything went wrong because those who were around Hitler, either failed to live up to the goals he had set himself or simply betrayed him.

The latter assumes even more far-fetched views in this respect. True, Hitler lost the war, even though he was an Avatara, i.e. an incarnation of divinity, but he did it 'on purpose' or rather, while losing the war on the material level, won it on the supra-material one. This view reaches a level of consistency even greater than Borrego's view, since a god could not make mistakes when choosing his collaborators.

We have no way to check the accuracy of M. Ghio's account of Borrego's views on National-Socialism and, more specifically, on Hitlerism, since we are not familiar with Borrego's work, which is summarised in broader outlines at rationalwiki.com/wiki/Salvador_Borrego/ However, M. Ghio, like many metaphysicians keen on meta-history, seems to have a rather superficial knowledge of history. For example, according to an insider, V. Suvorov, a former Soviet spy who defected to the UK after WW2, Hitler was probably neither wrong nor right in attacking Russia in June 1941 : he simply did not have the choice, since Stalin planned to attack Nazi Germany from the rear in July 1941. This is what all Werhmacht leaders claimed in Nuremberg trials. Their claim was later supported by the archive materials that were declassified by the Russian ministry of defense in the early 1990's (see, for instance, www.vivamalta.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-910.html)

As far as M. Serrano is concerned, it is not very clear why M. Ghio considers his belief in the avatareness of A. Hitler as a "literary device meant, through the formulation of fanciful statements, to induce one to read his voluminous work consisting of several volumes in which endless ramblings follow one another (...)". As a matter of fact, one of the main reasons why we have never really felt like reading `Adolph Hitler, el Último Avatãra' is precisely the author's assumption that A. Hitler was an Avatara. It also appears that M. Ghio has been fooled by one of the biggest hoaxes of the XXth century. M. Ghio, however, may not be wrong in dismissing M. Serrano's work as "endless ravings" :

"In 1984 he (M. Serrano) published his 643-page tome, Adolf Hitler, el Último Avatãra (Adolf Hitler: The Last Avatar), which is dedicated "To the glory of the Führer, Adolf Hitler". In this arcane work Serrano unfolds his ultimate philosophical testament through elaborate esoteric and mythological symbolism. He insists that there has been a vast historical conspiracy to conceal the origins of evolved humankind. Serrano's epic vista opens with extragalactic beings who founded the First Hyperborea, a terrestrial but nonphysical realm which was neither geographically limited nor bound by the circles of reincarnation. The Hyperboreans were asexual and reproduced through "plasmic emanations" from their ethereal bodies; the Vril power was theirs to command, the light of the Black Sun coursed through their veins and they saw with the Third Eye. Serrano contends that the last documents relating to them were destroyed along with the Alexandrian Library, and that latterly these beings have been misunderstood as extraterrestrials arriving in spaceships or UFOs. However, the First Hyperborea was immaterial and altogether outside our mechanistic universe.

The latter is under the jurisdiction of the Demiurge, an inferior godlet whose realm is the physical planet earth. The Demiurge had created a bestial imitation of humanity in the form of proto-human "robots" like Neanderthal Man, and intentionally consigned his creatures to an endless cycle of involuntary reincarnation on the earthly plane to no higher purpose. The Hyperboreans recoiled in horror from this entrapment within the Demiurge's cycles. They themselves take the devayana, the Way of the Gods, at death and return to the earth (as Bodhisattvas) only if they are willing.

Determined upon a heroic war to reclaim the Demiurge's deteriorating world, the Hyperboreans clothed themselves in material bodies and descended on to the Second Hyperborea, a ring-shaped continent around the North Pole. During this Golden Age or Satya Yuga, they magnanimously instructed the Demiurge's creations (the Black, Yellow and Red races native to the planet) and began to raise them above their animal condition. Then disaster struck. Some of the Hyperboreans rebelled and intermingled their blood with the creatures of the Demiurge, and through this transgression Paradise was lost. Serrano refers to Genesis 6.4: "the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them". By diluting the divine blood, the primordial miscegenation accelerated the process of material decay. This was reflected in outward catastrophes and the North and South Poles reversed positions as a result of the fall of a comet or moon. The polar continent disappeared beneath the deluge and Hyperborea became invisible again. The Hyperboreans themselves survived, some taking refuge at the South Pole. Serrano regards the mysterious appearance of the fine and artistic Cro-Magnon Man in Europe as evidence of Hyperboreans driven southward by the Ice Age. In the then-fertile Gobi Desert another group of exiled Hyperboreans established a fantastic civilization.

The world thus becomes the combat zone between the dwindling Hyperboreans and the Demiurge and his forces of entropy. But Serrano claims that the Golden Age can be reattained if the Hyperboreans' descendants, the Aryans, consciously re-purify their blood to restore the divine blood-memory (...) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Serrano)

M. Ghio is right in speculating that the lack of any reference to M. Serrano's work in J. Evola's is due to the fact that the former's was completely unknown in Italy during the latter's life. Now, if, as claimed by him, the Chilean writer did visit the Italian author in Rome a few months before the latter's death, it is not completely unreasonable to assume that he could have thought of bringing along with him a copy of a book of his. A few years ago, we read a letter by J. Evola in which he wrote to a correspondent of his that M. Serrano had asked him for a meeting at his apartment in Rome, that he had accepted his request, that M. Serrano had not showed up, and that he had had no news from him since then. We are unfortunately unable to find again the book in which that letter was printed.

A few comments on J. Evola are found in M. Serrano's work. In 'El Cordón Dorado', the Chilean writer sees the Italian author as superior to R. Guenon and laments over the influence exerted by the French metaphysician on him. He blamed R. Guenon for having prevented J. Evola to become aware of the 'esoteric Hitlerism' which he supported, and, as a result, for having supposedly turned him into a mere conservative author and a mere traditionalist. In other parts of his work, J. Evola's racial pedigree, due to his Latin and Roman (sic) origins, is deemed as far inferior to the Germanic type, which, to M. Serrano, was Hyperborean, even though, as M. Ghio rightly notes, the Chilean people can hardly claim Nordic origins, and, as he could have added, the Sicilian nobility to which J. Evola belonged has Norman origins.

M. Ghio, on the other hand, does add that Serrano was also greatly mistaken when he claimed that J. Evola had overlooked 'esoteric Hitlerism', insofar as the Italian author referred to this issue in various articles and, in particular, in his major work on National-Socialism, 'Notes on the Third Reich', which stands as the second part of 'Fascismo visto della destra. Note sul Terzo Reich'. In these notes, which refer specifically to the Thule Society, that existed before the foundation of the German National Socialist Party, and to which several leaders, such as Rudolf Hess, belonged, J. Evola rejected the thesis that the Thule society was an esoteric group. Incidentally, we may add, in relation with 'Fascismo visto della destra', that the most critical text ever written by J. Evola on A. Hitler, which was published in that book, is entirely based on 'Hitler's Table Talk', and that 'Hitler's Table Talk' has been proved a forgery in the meantime.

M. Ghio accurately summarises J. Evola's views on metaphysics and the traditional conception of man as put forward in 'Revolt against the Modern World'. There are two types of dimensions in man and, therefore, two different ways for him of connecting with reality : the physical way and the metaphysical way. In the first case, man experiences only the phenomena of life, such as time, space and movement. In the second case, on the contrary, there is a supra-life, that is eternity, which is a dimension that is found beyond three-dimensional space and time, life being conceived and experienced, here, not as an end-in-itself, but as a means to achieve something greater than itself, the metaphysical dimension of transcendence.

There is a qualitative ontological difference between soul and spirit, between two types of self, that is, on one hand, a mental and psychic self, that of man understood as a single individual or part of a whole (race, society, history, etc.), and, on the other hand, a higher self, of a spiritual nature, that transcends man as an individual. Man is connected and bound by the former to the sphere of time and physical space, whereas the latter refers to the dimension of the eternal and metaphysical. Just as the physical dimension, this second dimension exists in all human beings, but, unlike the former, it must be actualised through a second birth which is brought about by initiation and rites, so that, while all are born as individuals, not all become actual persons, spiritual and free beings.

The lower self, that is, the psychic sphere peculiar to the conscious being, builds up, throughout life, on contact with the body and the vital phenomena belonging to the unconscious, instinctive and irrational plane. It is a principle of order which survives the body after death, but this phenomenon, although it is different from the physical phenomenon, is not properly that of immortality ; it is simply a way of survival with respect to the body. Thus, a second death, well after physical death, occurs, which consists in the dissolution of psychic phenomena generated throughout life. The only element which is properly immortal is spirit, which, while being in potentia in all human beings, not all manage to actualise ; not all become immortal, although all will survive to various degrees to bodily death.

"These fundamental principles that (...) we have tried to summarise here in the most concise manner, M. Ghio goes on, are the opposite of those upheld by the school known as 'esoteric Hitlerism' of which Serrano appears to us as being one the main exponents. (...) The bottom line is that, to Serrano, it is not a matter of going beyond the physical realm, but rather of stereotyping such dimension in the search for a superman, which, to his eyes, was "the great project of the racial laboratories of Hitlerism". Serrano's Manu, or 'the man coming', is a type of man whose cerebral and physical abilities have a lot in common with those that are displayed by the current common rational man. Even in his rejection of rationality, Serrano shows its full adhesion to Theosophy, including in its exaltation of female knowledge to the detriment of male and manly knowledge. Manu, in his work (p. 49), speaks of the superiority of women over men, insofar as they have been able to develop a brain that is not rational, but emotional. It is not by chance that women were also the main exponents of the Theosophist school. Needless to say, the spiritual has nothing to do with the brain. The brain may be used as a tool, but spirit can by no means be reduced to a dimension of this type. Just as the rational is a higher dimension than the emotional or the irrational, so is supra-rational or intellectual intuition, which consists in the immediate knowledge of essences without the mediation of sensitive forms or of discourse.

Obviously, since he is not able to conceive of a properly spiritual dimension, M. Serrano understands immortality as a permanent reincarnation of the self through successive bodies, while, to him, the psychic, as opposed to the spiritual, a dimension that, just as the crudest materialists do, he denies again and again, can only manifest itself in a material body. Still to him, the psychic self is not dissolved by death, but is perpetuated through successive regenerations.

Traditional thought distinguishes immortality, conceived as participation in an eternal dimension where time does not exist, from infinite immortality, or survival through successive rebirths, which is peculiar to the 'new man' who, according to Serrano, will be born in a new Aquarian Age, which he opposes to the current decadent Pisces age. At this point, one would have to be blind not to realise that M. Serrano's considerations partake of New Age ideologies that are nothing but a modern form of Theosophy influenced by the latest scientific findings. Hitlerism thus becomes part of pseudo-spiritual concepts whose ultima ratio is not an overcoming of the space-time dimension, but rather a stereotyping of it. The new man is therefore not a being who overcomes time, but rather someone who, immersed in it, regenerates himself from it.

Finally, M. Ghio points out that, just as M. Serrano believes in reincarnation, so he accepts the modern myth of evolution, "even though he expresses it cyclically". What he means by that we are not sure, so we will leave it at that and proceed to the conclusion of the study.

"Hitlerism was not esoteric. Hitler died in Berlin fighting for his cause, and it is not certain that he is still living in the Hollow Earth. Just as Serrano Hitlerism is not the overcoming of the scientism that was imposed on us by the secularised modern world, following its victory in the Great War. There is instead a Hitlerism that has nothing to do with Boregga's and Serrano's pretences and that needs to be asserted. Perhaps, it goes beyond the intentions of the founder of National-Socialism. Just as Italian Fascism, as it was entering its final days, gave birth to the legionnaire spirit and thus came close to Tradition, which, however, did not exist in the bourgeois Ventennio, so National-Socialism, in the aftermath of the Great War, as its Germanic supremacist positions were already spelling death for it, struggled for an anti-democratic and anti-modern worldview, for a hierarchical principle and for a spiritual man, and, later, just as 'white' and 'Aryan Germanic' biological racism was collapsing, gave rise to a union of people for whom the fatherland was not race or nation, but the idea that can bring together the most diverse ethnic groups (M. Ghio must be referring to the fact that, from 1943, and despite A. Hitler's reservations, non-Germanic divisions of Waffen-SS were formed, and of course, to a well-known concept developped by J. Evola's in 'Orientamenti'). This 'Hitlerism' is silenced today in the interest of a number of hoaxes such as those that can be found in the work of M. Serrano."

Most of these hoaxes, as evidenced by H.T.Hakl in 'Unknown sources : National Socialism and the Occult' (https://evolaasheis.proboards.com/thread/91/national-socialism-occultism), can be traced back to several works from the early 1940's, twenty years before speculation about National-Socialism and occultism became part of the so-called popular culture, as well as of the so-called far-right culture, by the medium of "sensational and under-researched" (N. Goodrick-Clarke) books such as the notorious 'Le Matin des Magiciens' by L. Pauwels and Jacques Bergier (1960) and 'The Spear of Destiny' by T. Ravenscroft (1972). The first allusions that Hitler was influenced by occult forces, which were taken up by later authors, came from the… French (Jewish)… Christian… Martinist… esotericist René Kopp. The claim that Hitler was a Freemason apparently originates from a book by the Czech Kabbalist Franz Bardon, whose work was highly influenced by Eliphas Levi, an ex-Catholic turned occultist, and Francis Barrett, an English Kabbalist ; according to him, "Hitler belonged to Der Freimaurerischer Orden der Goldene Centurie in Dresden, commonly known (sic) as Lodge 99. All the 99 lodges of this order had 99 members. Each lodge worships a horrible demon. The demon helps members gain money and power. The members of the 99 Lodges are also industrialists and bankers." This "has (…) been confirmed from Moscow, J. Lina stressed in 'The Architects of Deception', where all the documents referring to this subject are kept", apparently so well-kept that, unlike many archive documents to which this Estonian author was able to have access in Moscow to write his remarkably well-researched and well-documented work on the Jewish rise and Russian fall of the Soviet Empire, 'Under the Sign of the Scorpion', it has still not been declassified… The problem with J. Lina's conspirationist books is that the primary sources on which they are based - such as that which enables him to demolish the well-established modern myth that it was German capitalists who provided Hitler's financial support, while failing to realise, as once did A. Sutton, that the simple reason why this support was provided to the NSDAP by Jewish bankers is that most banks were already Jewish-owned - are indiscriminately interwoven with an even larger number of more or less dubious secondary sources, such as crypto-historic articles or books that claim that a man of honour, a both physically and spiritually courageous man of the calibre of the Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, son of Bruno Heydrich and Elizabeth Kranz, was of Jewish extraction ; or, with an even greater dose of intellectual charlatanism, that the Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels, son of Fritz Goebbels and Katharina Odenhausen, was also of Jewish extraction. In late 1941, if we are to believe, for example, 'Hitler's Secret Enemy : Canaris, Patriot or Traitor?', Canaris hid in his safe photocopies of documents about Heidrich's supposedly Jewish origin. Now, M. Williams ('Reinhard Heydrich : The Biography') has showed that "The diary of Canaris was not recovered in the safe. The Zossen papers included a few copy pages of the diary. The unsubstantiated belief that evidence of Heydrich's ancestry was recovered among the Zossen papers stems from an unreliable source, Helmut Maurer, a pianist and counter-intelligence worker from Berlin. He stated that in 1940 he removed documents from the Halle record office and gave them to Canaris. Nobody has ever seen these documents and the Canaris biographer, Höhne, does not even mention them. Had they ever existed, Achim Gercke would have found them whilst conducting his investigation into the allegation of Heydrich's ancestry. Another example of hearsay and tainted, unreliable evidence." (contrary to most scholars, M. Williams does not hide behind his books; he is active on forum.axishistory.com/, where he does far more than just regurgitating endlessly the content his publications)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyWAf2xCq0&feature=related

Before going any further into this account, let us make ourselves very clear again : "It is not a question of establishing whether given representatives of National Socialism - Heinrich Himmler or Rudolf Hess for instance - adhered to some esoteric doctrine, but whether National Socialism as a whole owed its rise and its power to these influences." The question, to quote further H.T. Hakl, is "to determine whether the claim can be sustained that National Socialism is based on occult doctrines, and on contacts with occult 'Orders', in the sense that the organisations of National-Socialism cultivated an occult culture and maintained close contact with persons and groups associated with occultism."

The Jewish scholar Hans Bertil Mattias Gardel remarked, not without a certain humour : "In documentaries portraying the Third Reich, Hitler is cast as a master magician; these documentaries typically include scenes in which Hitler is speaking at huge mass meetings. [...] Cuts mix Hitler screaming with regiments marching under the sign of the swastika. Instead of providing a translation of his verbal crescendos, the sequence is overlaid with a speaker talking about something different. All this combines to demonize Hitler as an evil wizard spellbinding an unwitting German people to become his zombified servants until they are liberated from the spell by the Allied victory after which, suddenly, there were no German Nazis left among the populace. How convenient it would be if this image were correct. National socialism could be defeated with garlic. Watchdog groups could be replaced with a few vampire killers, and resources being directed into anti-racist community programs could be directed at something else. [...] (Of course, he later added, with the hereditary wanton cynicism of people of his kind : ""The truth, however, is that millions of ordinary German workers, farmers and businessmen supported the national socialist program. [...] They were people who probably considered themselves good citizens, which is far more frightening than had they merely been demons."). Beyond being a Jewish scholar, Hans Bertil Mattias Gardel is also a Swedish good citizen.

In the 1960's, Gerald Gardner, the founder of the modern witch movement (Wicca), visited J. Evola in Rome, "to inquire about the state of magic and of witches (sic) in Italy", bringing along with him the picture of "one of the witches with whom he had had a close relationship : a completely naked young woman with a perfect body, about whose face expression there was yet something slightly sinister." The Italian author told us about their meeting in an article published in 'Roma' on November 21 1971 and called 'La congrega delle stregghe'. G. Gardner, whom we are told got acquainted with the hardly secret agent A. Crowley only in 1946, was supposedly initiated in the late 1930's by the high-priestess of a convent of witches ; the story even goes that the convent, including him, joined with other witches in southern England on July 31 1940 to perform a ritual to prevent Hitler's forces from invading England. The story, however, may not be true. "That British witches possibly did meet during W.W.II to discourage Hitler is quite possible, but most unlikely. Accounts by Gerald Gardner were plagiarised from Anthropologist Dr. Margaret Murray' landmark folklore book published in 1949, which scholars say instigated the present witchcraft revival. And suggestions from informed sources say Gardner originated his own version of a Witchcraft type organisation in 1951-52, not before." (http://www.illuminati-news.com/081006c.htm) These conclusions, based on research into primary sources, are all the more interesting, and even precious, that they were reached by a man who considers J.K Brennan's 'Occult Reich' - debunked by N. Goodrick-Clarke as one of the numerous works showing "a complete ignorance of primary sources" on the Third Reich and occultism – as "Perhaps the most believable book" on the topic. Perhaps, the emphasis is on that adverb. Much superficial information can be found on the close connection between the British intelligence (sic) service and occultism on conspiracy theory websites, which keep copying and pasting each other's content so much that, after all, one cannot but wonder what agency drafted the original text. However, there is one statement, still by T. Stokes, who claims to have "spent 35 years questioning retired intelligence personnel from the war," that those websites seem to be reluctant to copy and paste : "During W.W.II Winston Churchill, a 33rd degree Mason, and Masonry is about as occult as it comes, took advice from Archbishop Lang, The Church of England occults expert, Dennis Wheatley, Louis De-Whol R.A.F. chief Lord Dowding and others, to form the 'Black-Team'. These were top occultists whose job was to advise the British government, including astrologers, and a celebrity palmist, Dowsers, and according to my friend the late medium Joe Benjamin with Jewish underground sources, several big Spirit mediums too." Two years after T. Stokes, who is certainly aware that modern intelligence (sic) agencies owe a lot to the Welsh Kabbalist John Dee (http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Article/The_British_Occult_Secret_Service.html) wrote that article, some of his claims were fully confirmed by newly released files :

"Britain had an extraordinary secret weapon during the Second World War - an astrologer employed to guess Adolf Hitler's moves, according to newly released files.
Louis de Wohl persuaded MI5 that the Fuhrer's apparently intuitive tactical decisions were heavily influenced by his horoscope.
He offered to study what the stars had in store for both Hitler and other major military figures such as Gen Bernard Montgomery and Emperor Hirohito of Japan in order to give Britain a tactical edge.
Despite grave misgivings among some spymasters that he was a "charlatan" and fond of mumbo-jumbo, de Wohl's services were used by a variety of agencies during the war.
(...)
In 1941 de Wohl was hired by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) - the wartime sabotage organisation - to make a tour of America, which was reluctant to enter the war. The plan was to undermine American notions of German invincibility, thus persuading them to join the Allies."

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1580640/Astrologer-hired-by-MI5-to-guess-Hitlers-plans.html

Hitler was as critical of so-called neo-pagans as J. Evola was : "The characteristic thing about these people [modern-day followers of the early Germanic religion] is that they rave about the old Germanic heroism, about dim prehistory, stone axes, spear and shield, but in reality are the greatest cowards that can be imagined. For the same people who brandish scholarly imitations of old German tin swords, and wear a dressed bearskin with bull's horns over their heads, preach for the present nothing but struggle with spiritual weapons, and run away as fast as they can from every Communist blackjack." ('Mein Kampf', ch. 12)

There is more : "National Socialism is not a cult-movement-- a movement for worship; it is exclusively a 'volkish' political doctrine based upon racial principles. In its purpose there is no mystic cult, only the care and leadership of a people defined by a common blood-relationship... We will not allow mystically-minded occult folk with a passion for exploring the secrets of the world beyond to steal into our Movement. Such folk are not National Socialists, but something else-- in any case something which has nothing to do with us. At the head of our programme there stand no secret surmisings but clear-cut perception and straightforward profession of belief." Nuremberg, 6 September 1938.

Many reasons have been provided in order to explain A. Hitler's aversion towards occultism. They are all more or less well-grounded. The most essential one is often overlooked : occultism is the privileged domain of Jews and idle women.