Thread by @JimmyFalunGong

"In Ascona, a tiny Alpine village at the southern tip
of Switzerland, Central European naturalists, pacifistic
vegetarians, Nietzsche-obsessed writers, radical anarchists, Runeists, and devotees of free love and
Ausdruckstanz set up various ramshackle campsites and
sanatoriums."

"In the shadow of Monte Verita, Ascona’s bohemian leaders preached new health regimens, new diets, new communal values, and new sexual practices. By the end of World War I, their teachings had spread to Germany. It was the beginning of an international counterculture."

California was round 2

Otto Hanisch aka Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, created a neo-zoroastrian cult in Switzerland that made it's way to Southern California

Mazdaznan Egyptian postures

Mazdaznan's Cures

Otto Hanish established the Church of the Master of Divine Thought in Central Park, NYC, but it was broken up due to his constant pederasty

New Age excellence

apparently it was a big influence on bauhaus, spiritually speaking

the Mazdaznanians worshipped three beings...

they had all the hits: racial purity, breathing exercises, rhythmic gymnastics, and proper mastication

"Week-long fasts, vomit fêtes, high colonics, and “natural
laxative” tonics—made from linden and elder blossoms—ensured a craving for Mazdaznan bean stews and hot fruit juices."

"Their prayer services involved symbolic color projections and Near-Eastern chants. These devotional acts and constraints were said to “super-activate” the glands that produce rejuvenating sex hormones."

"Hanish’s students were instructed to laugh and smile without lapse throughout their waking days. A telepathic readiness enabled them to read character by a mere handshake or by listening to slight changes in vocal pitch."

"More menacingly, the adherents were subject to detoxifying Mazdaznan needle “machines,” which pricked the skin and caused infectious blisters to erupt. Extraction of the bloody pus further cleansed the bodies of the mental warriors."

"[Hanish] wrote that sexual desire was linked to electrical vibrations emanating from the outer cosmos and the earth’s core. Mazdaznan purification augmented their planetary charge"

"By 1932, Hanish’s cult claimed some 70,000 members in eight countries but the movement was dogged by serious internal strife and scandal."

"Over one dozen wealthy enthusiasts had died under mysterious circumstances, following fasting sessions, “baptisms” in ox blood, and the transdermal applications of “cleansing oils.” A large number of the Mazdaznan inner circle suffered complete mental breakdowns or suicides."

"Worst of all, two young converts, Hanish’s “adopted children,” initiated million-dollar legal suits against their Man-God for sexual abuse. The girl (11) and the boy (16) were part of eight-children teams being prepared for the Mazdaznan priesthood in each local temple."

skipping the specifics, but it's dark as fuck ritual abuse

"Hanish died in 1936, the year his organization was banned and shuttered by the Nazis. Mazdaznanism continued in Switzerland and Southern California, where it still draws fourth-generation scrubbed and smiley-faced zealots."

here's an Aryan sex religion, Saeming

when u nut and she keep suckin'

jk this one's called SATAN (1908)

ahahahahah why does he look like that

Satana, by same artist

"The first known Black Mass in modern times unfolded at midnight in December 1919 at the Café Kerkau on Behrenstrasse. Five hundred celebrants stripped off their clothing in the club and circled around an altar covered with a black-and-red Pentagram."

"One hundred Polenta, with revolvers drawn, interrupted the solemn rite and the stark naked devotees were herded into police lorries. Among the law-breaking enthusiasts was the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, supposedly in exile with the Kaiser’s family in Holland."

Hearst paper spreading stories of Black Masses in Weimar Germany

FRATERNITAS SATURNI’S SEX MAGIC RITE: “GRADUS PENTAPHAE”

"Eighty guests arrived around midnight, decked out in high fashion. They were separated by gender and directed into two dressing rooms, where costumes and tables of intoxicants awaited them."

"Besides champagne and brandy, there were boxes of powdered heroin, cocaine, hashish, bottles of morphine, assorted pills, and hypodermic needles. Only a few of the women dabbled with the hard drugs. The others good-naturedly donned the party animal skins, loincloths, and togas."

"In the brightly lighted ballroom, an orchestra played strange syncopated music. A huge drum overpowered the musicians with a relentless, frenzied thump. The crowd, mostly in solo positions, moved in jerky steps to the primitive percussive beat."

"Tethered to a center platform was an oversized black he-goat. More than frightened, it seemed to be repulsed by the constant din and unnatural movement around it. The bucking animal bleated in counterpoint to the deafening tom-tom."

"When the music died down, a bearded man with a leopard skin covering his loins leaped to the wooden stage, and began to sing [an invocation to Pan]"

"The drunken celebrants responded with disjointed refrains of “Io Pan” and started to disrobe. Then the Dionysian-like festivities began in earnest."

as you might expect, then an orgy and goat sacrifice

maybe my favorite yet is Louis Haeusser, "the naked truth", a conman and German cult leader

"A bald, middle-aged businessman, the frequently unclad Haeusser gathered huge flocks of enthralled disciples, mostly women, to his side as he toured German cities. The female acolytes, who dressed as men, were referred to as the “Greatest Occult Harem in the land.”

"Haeusser manipulated their “sexual dependencies,” claiming they all dreamed of “being God’s mother,” his divine protectors. According to the “People’s King,” his childish and S&M-like activities only increased their earthly devotion."

"In 1922, Haeusser founded the Christian National Party (later renamed the League of National Communists) and ran for President of the Reichstag as "Zarathustra Haeusser", "Christ Haeusser", and "Anti-Christ Haeusser"."

Hitler's backup, apparently

"The “Guillotine-Dictator” had been briefly paired with Hitler by journalists since both rallied for the abolition of the Weimar Constitution. Unfortunately Haeusser’s anarchistic coalition splintered into competing “Jesus-Worker Parties,” led by younger “top-hatted messiahs.”

"The dispirited prophet died in a Berlin hospital in 1927 (possibly murdered in his room by a League rival) but his organization, still numbering in the tens of thousands, continued to promulgate Haeusser’s apocalyptic missives for another five years."

I'm telling you, man. Hitler wasn't the only op, he's just the one that worked. look at this other freak with his "National Communist Party"

"In Vienna, Franz Saettler founded his own private sex cult in 1925. A noted scholar and linguist of medieval Persian, north Arabic dialects, and conversational Farsi, Saettler claimed that he discovered the ancient source of all religions..."

"in the ruins of Olbia, near Mount Olympus, in 1913. It was called Adonism. Its extant rites could be seen in secret ceremonies carried out among the Druses and Yezidis (so-called Devil-Worshippers) in the mountains of Syria."

"Writing under the nom de plume “Dr. Chakum Musallam,” Saettler published over 30 books on the urreligion Adonism and its occult application to modern times."

"Besides subscriber-only tomes and monthly journals, Saettler, through his Master Lodge Hekate, sold astrological readings, aphrodisiacs and “oriental” talismans, pendulums, invisible inks, alchemic formulas, magic gems, and counterfeit resident permits."

Hekate, huh?

"In 1927, Saettler joined with the Berlin mystic, Rah-Omir (Friedrich Wilhelm Quintscher), head of the New Order of Mental Builders, to form the International Adonistic Society."

Rah-Omir Quintscher’s previous claim to fame involved his infamous Tepha machine that projected lethal “astral electro-magnetic” rays into the bodies of his enemies. Like flattened Voodoo dolls, photographs of the beleaguered targets were bombarded by invisible long-range waves.

"Wealthy Adonists were induced to buy their way into the higher branches of the association and then sell lesser titles to more naive initiates or purchase shares in the “Olbia Goldbank.”"

"Besides occult tchotchkes—including a mysterious elixir called Biogon—and overnight dividends, the Adonistic Society’s main appeal was Sex Magic lessons, in pamphlet form, written by an authentic Nuristan seeress, madam to a sacred harem."

ORGONE ENERGY

they were busted in 1932 for fraud and sexual misconduct, but apparently there are still adonists out there today.

"Sättler summarised his faith by remarking that "Adonism is worship of the Devil [i.e. Adonis] with an erotic background.""

Dr. Ernst Schertel was a philosopher and amateur anthropologist who focused on naked trance performance as mankind's primordial art form

"Schertel’s magnum opus, Magic: Its History, Theory, Practice (Prien: Anthropos, 1923), was a revolutionary treatise that intrigued many German intellectuals, including Adolf Hitler."

!!

"The Führer’s personal copy in Brown University’s Rare Book Room is filled with exclamation marks and side column scrawls. For Schertel, all religion was based on magical thinking, which in turn functioned as a sublimation of violent carnal impulses."

"To torturously bind, to savagely whip, to forcefully penetrate the orifices of another body (especially the sphincter)—that is, to violate the sexual autonomy of a fellow human—led to a frenzied orgiastic celebration, the ecstatic foundation of all religious ceremony."

"Fetish-worship, painful sacrifice, joyous embrace with an all-powerful being—were primal experiences that could only be found in two locales: the temple altar and the brothel. According to Schertel, devotional rites to a deity and sado-masochist acts were intimately conjoined."

"Although Schertel had experimented with hypnotic dream induction as far back as 1919, using an eleven year-old Finnish girl as his subject, the “Dreamtheater Schertel,” an ensemble of eight nude female dancers, only surfaced publicly six years later in Stuttgart."

[probably should've made this an episode, lol]

/end

Dr. Oz? oh no

same energy