Magick as strategy in World War Two

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, was obsessed with the occult. He attempted to read minds and used astrological star charts to inform his battle plans. On the allied side, English magician Aleister Crowley kept in contact with German occultists, fed them false information, and even created the V for Victory. Today on War College, we sit down with media theorist, documentarian and author Douglas Rushkoff to talk about the bizarre occult history of World War II and how it affected strategic decisions during the war. His latest book – Aleister & Adolf – is a historical fiction that tells the story of a strange ‘magickal’ battle between the Allies and Axis powers during World War II. It spans the globe, and connects Crowley, Hitler, General Patton, Heinrich Himmler and even Ian Fleming – the creator of super spy James Bond.

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0:20.0	The allies understood that Hitler was very committed to an occultist strategy where he used all sorts of magical elements to make his military strategies.
0:33.0	On today's
0:40.0	on today's war college, a British double agent world in conflict, focusing
1:01.1	on the stories behind the front lines. Here's your host, Matthew Gault.
1:07.0	Hello. Hello, welcome to War College. This is your host Matthew Galt. With us today is
1:19.3	media theorist and author Douglas Rush Goughts. Rush Gough has written novels, comic books, and non-fiction works.
1:25.7	He's produced documentaries for PBS, lectured at Google, and warned of the dangers of social media.
1:31.5	Today he's here to talk to us about Alistair and Adolf, a comic book about the
1:34.8	occult conflict underpinning World War II. It stars General Patton, Ruyoff Hess, and James Bond creator
1:41.5	Ian Fleming, and it's true mostly Douglas Rushgoff
1:46.6	thank you so much for joining us.
1:48.0	Hey thanks for having me. So I want to start off by explaining one of the central figures of this story,
1:54.8	famed British occultist Alistair Crowley.
1:57.9	Could you tell our listeners who he was and why he was important to the Allied war effort.
2:03.0	So Alistra Crowley was the classic British occultist, maybe the preeminent, an arctic
2:10.0	one.
2:11.0	He climbed mountains, he did yoga, he had somewhat abusive relationships with women and
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