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The allies understood that Hitler was very committed to a an occultist strategy where he used all sorts of magical elements to make his military strategies. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts. Hello, welcome to War College. This is your host Matthew Galt. With us today is media

theorist and author Douglas Rush Gough. Rush Gough has written novels, comic books, and

non-fiction works. He's produced documentaries for PBS, lectured at Google, and warned of the dangers of social media.

Today he's here to talk to us about Alistair and Adolf, a comic book about the occult conflict underpinning

World War II. It stars General Patton,

Ruyoff Hess, and James Bond creator Ian Fleming, and it's true, mostly. Douglas Rushgoff, thank you so much for joining us.

Hey, thanks for having me.

So I want to start off by explaining one of the central figures of this story,

famed British occultist Alistair Crowley.

Could you tell our listeners who he was

and why he was important to the Allied war effort?

So, Alistair Crowley was the classic British occultist maybe the the preeminent an arctippel one he

you know climbed mountains he did yoga he had somewhat abusive relationships with women and self-abusive

relationships with drugs and he was very much about finding other

dimensions and other beings and mapping the terrain of the psyche and getting in touch

with his own will.

You know, his motto was, you know, do what that wilt should be the whole of the law,

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