Heinrich Himmler

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Heinrich Himmler - Nazi Leader

   Heinrich Himmler—Nazi Leader: (1900-1945): October 7, 1900, Munich, Germany, 3:30 PM, MET. (Source: Gauquelin) Died, May 23, 1945, Lüneburg, Germay.         


(Ascendant, Aquarius; MC, Sagittarius with Uranus and Jupiter both conjunct in Sagittarius and conjunct the MC; Saturn also in Sagittarius; Sun in Libra; Moon in first degree of Aries; Mercury in first degree of Scorpio; Venus and Mars in Leo; Neptune and Pluto in Gemini)         

Heinrich Himmler was surely one of the most evil and enigmatic of all the Nazi leaders. Those who knew him rightfully feared him even more than Hitler. He served the Nazi cause as supreme leader of the dreaded SS, and, eventually, head of the Gestapo and all German police forces. He was responsible for ordering the deaths of millions—starting with the “blood purge” of 1934 and ending with the systematic murder of Jews, Slavs, Communists, Gypsies, intellectuals, churchmen, etc.—all those who were considered undesirable, racially inferior or dangerous to the Nazi cause.       

Himmler was the ultimate racist/mystic/idealist. He was educated as an agriculturalist and sought to breed the new “Aryan Superman” just as one cultivates new strains of plants or breeds animals for improved genetic qualities. This selective approach to human genetics (and his intense focus upon the genealogy of his elite SS corps) demonstrated his powerful seventh ray—probably the ray of his soul, though the conditioning presence of the first ray cannot be denied. The following quotation from the Tibetan is relevant for many of the Nazi leaders, no matter what their principal ray:      

“the bulk of the egos now in power in Germany are on the first subray of the seven different rays, and hence they are from one dominant angle the transmitters of first ray force.” (EP I 386)       

Himmler was a seventh ray occultist. He had a great interest in astrology, reincarnation, herbalism, and in magic, ceremonial rites, rituals and mystical orders. He was profoundly influenced (as was Hitler) by the periodical, Astara (Hitler was an avid collector), published by the Austrian mystic, occultist, racist, Jorg Lunz—a former monk with a vision of a glorious Aryan future, ruled by occultist priest/kings To this end he formed the Order of New Templars, attempting to revive the ancient tradition of the Knights Templar of the Middle Ages. From Lunz Himmler eagerly absorbed a burning faith in Aryanism, and began, earnestly and methodically, to create, through the SS, a mystical order of “knights” (reflecting, in their highest echelons, the Knights of the Round Table) which would form the elite vanguard of a new Aryan Civilization composed only of those of “pure” Aryan blood. Eventually he created an SS Army (the Waffen SS) of a million men, and an corps of exterminators known as the Death’s-Head SS.      

The doctrines of the East propounded by Madame Blavatsky were woefully, distorted materialized, and literalized. “God” was seen as embodied in blood and race, and the most ‘spiritual’ of all quests was considered to be the elimination of all racial “impurities” from the German racial stock which, according to this theory, was the genetic pool containing the greatest concentration of ancient Aryan blood. Eventually, within 120 years (so Himmler confidently estimated) the German people (and especially the SS) would become an entirely regenerated Aryan race, purged of all racial contaminants.      

Himmler’s Sun Sign was Libra. His decision (“Let choice be made”) determined life or death (mostly death) for millions. The seventh ray combining with Libra made him interested in the “perfect form” and, indeed, those considered racially pure or qualified were selected according to many superficial, external criteria (seventh ray)—blond hair, blue eyes, and the shape and proportion of head, body and limbs. As well, in the Himmler-sponsored breeding programs for the “new race”, he and his officials determined (especially in relation to the SS) who was allowed to marry (Libra) and who was not. Any bride of a prospective SS member, had to prove her German/Aryan heritage back to the year 1750. Eventually, these marriage restrictions extended to all of German society, in which it was, for instance, forbidden for Germans to marry those with Jewish blood.        

Some of Himmler’s Libran qualities were strangely horrifying. He loved music, so it is said (Venus, ruler of Libra, sextile Neptune and sextile Mercury) and sponsored concentration camp orchestras (the performances of which he appreciatively attended). A concentration camp inmate might survive by playing a musical instrument sufficiently well. Further, his refined Libran sensibilities made the mass shooting of thousands of “undesirables” personally distasteful to him. He sought a less crude and objectionable way of eliminating “sub-human” groups—gas!         

The sign Aquarius (in its lowest manifestation) is directly associated with the Nazi Party and it was Himmler’s Ascendant. Himmler worked through groups. The formation of the SS as an elite (and standardized) corps of racially superior men is a negative reflection of his Aquarianism. This sign, when combined with the seventh and sixth rays, gave Himmler his passion for mystical “orders”. He purchased an old, romantic yet formidable German castle, renovated it at tremendous expense, and made it the mystical heart of the SS “Order”, conducting occult rituals in its specially re-designed ceremonial chambers and crypts. There he would commune with the “Aryan Race Soul” and with the spirit of Heindrich I of Saxony (of whom Himmler believed he was the reincarnation). King Heindrich I drove the Slavs back to the East in the year 900, and Himmler believed that he and his “holy order” (the SS) had a similar and far grander destiny in the modern world—to protect and defend Aryan Civilization from a great onslaught which could be expected from the East.

There is no question of Himmler’s intense sixth ray, even though, so it appears, he was cold, calculating and self-controlled. Hitler called him, “my loyal Heinrich”. Himmler was fanatical in his pursuit of “Aryan Destiny”. He was guided by a mysterious, old German occultist who claimed to have psychic powers which revealed to him the origin of the true Aryans, some 225,000 years ago, and their irresistible destiny in the modern world. Himmler believed (sixth ray) and followed, fanatically, these beliefs. According to this perverted and mystical ideology, the ancient, occult and psychic powers were lost to the German race by interbreeding with inferior races, and would again, through the most stringent racially selective breeding processes and purging of inferior types, be fully restored. The Aryan “Superman” (latent in the blood of the German race) would be bred into existence. Himmler set himself to engineer this breeding.         

It is easy to see evidences of Himmler’s idealism and fanaticism in the chart. Jupiter (the esoteric ruler of the Aquarius Ascendant), is culminating in idealistic, visionary, sixth ray Sagittarius, and conjunct both the MC and Uranus. This indicates the grand vision by which he was possessed. (He was possessed as well by a powerful, evil entity or entities as was Hitler; most of the high Nazis were, in the end, but “shells” through which black magicians on the astral and mental planes expressed their evil designs). The revolutionary nature of this vision (a whole new, idealistic “order”) is indicated by Uranus in Sagittarius. Himmler sought a huge (Jupiter) transformation (Uranus) of society and eventually humanity. This was his perverted dharma (MC and tenth house). It should also be remembered that both Jupiter and, especially, Uranus have potent seventh ray qualities, and, together, would serve as a powerful center of expression for his seventh ray soul. It is also interesting to see that Uranus and Jupiter are both the rulers of his Ascendant, Aquarius—Uranus, exoteric, and Jupiter, esoteric. For Himmler, these two are, indeed, planets of destiny. They are strengthened by sixth ray Mars (conjunct dedicated Vesta) in first ray Leo—trine, and conferring command and egotism (Himmler was a formidable opponent—seventh house), and the Moon in first ray Aries, conferring impulse, eagerness, and a militant and yet obedient attitude. A grand trine in fire signs is thereby created, giving the great confidence (and over-estimation) typical of his character.

Was Himmler a “disciple”,  and is it, therefore, justified to use an esoteric ruler (like Jupiter) in the case of such an individual? He was certainly a disciple of the “Black Lodge”. Further, let it be remembered that until approximately midway between the second and third initiations, it is not known which way a man will “go”. He probably will go on, sacrificially, towards the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet, following the “Christ-line”. But it is also possible for an probationary initiate of the second degree (“pure” and self-controlled) to reject the way of love and consciously or unconsciously apply for membership in the Black Lodge. Very proably, Himmler was such an ‘initiate’, and Hitler certainly was. Therefore, esoteric rulers can reasonably be consulted in such cases, although, in Himmler’s case, Jupiter would be powerful anyway because it is found in the sign which it rules exoterically—Sagittarius.         

Mercury is in the beginning of deadly Scorpio, giving plot, strategy and the ability to think (Mercury) the deaths (Scorpio) of millions. It is also sextile to his Venus in Leo giving his artistic appreciation, furthered by a sextile from Neptune in Gemini in the house of creativity (H5) and a trine from Saturn in the house of culture (H11). This Neptune position is interestingly placed in the house of “children”. So much of Himmler’s idealism (Neptune) was focussed on his eugenics programs, on his “Well-Born” houses, where SS men were bred with any sufficiently Aryan German woman willing to become a “mother” in service of the State. We can see, therefore, how a major aspect of glamor (Neptune) was focussed in this house of “creativity”.     

Pluto, too, is interesting (and “lethal”) in the fourth house of heredity. Himmler applied his formidable powers of research (Pluto) to eliminate (Pluto) all those whose family or heredity (fourth house) were considered inferior or sub-standard. Pluto in this position (combined with the seventh ray) indicates genealogical research.        

In summary, Himmler’s rays are principally the seventh and the sixth. The seventh is probably the ray of the soul. He sought the manifestation of a new super-race enthroned in a new super-state, and he organized brilliantly, thoroughly (and magically and occultly) to manifest this vision. His fanatical loyalty and intensely narrow vision (for him, the War in the West with France and England was just a “distraction” in relation to his ‘greater’ plans in the East for racial purification and domination) speaks for a sixth ray personality.  The first ray is pervasive in most of the Nazi leaders, as the quotation above from Esoteric Psychology I, states. The fifth ray may, perhaps, be found in the mind, evidenced in his emphasis upon genetic research, and his technical, methodical, and cold-minded procedures.           

In Himmler we see a truly terrifying human being—a talented, intelligent, highly accomplished, fanatically motivated psychopath—a man blinded by his own idealism and visions of grandeur, and in search of the restoration of ancient, gods, and the supremacy of the ancient Nordic “racial soul”. He longed for the return of the Aryan”, occult powers—for himself and for his ‘elite’ race—the “Master Race”—whom he envisioned as the destined rulers of the world.   

Fortunately for humanity, his plans (Saturn) were frustrated (Saturn in the eleventh house opposed to dissolutive Neptune). He attempted to escape the encircling Allies disguised as a common soldier. He was recognized, took a cyanide capsule (elusive Neptune sextile Venus, ruler of the eighth house of death), escaped capture and trial, dying on May 23, 1945.   

It would be well for all those who love the Ageless Wisdom to remember how a beautiful and redemptive Teaching can be perverted by those whose selfish love of power and hatred of the human heart are inconceivably great. As we deliberate upon the type of individual we would wish to become, let us be warned by this example of the depths of evil to which a human being can descend, all the while glamoured by lofty idealism and a vision of a glorious destiny.   

 

Quotes

All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.

I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe

It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.

Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life

Once we have the power we will never give it up! (Pluto trine Sun in 8th house)

One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us.

Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.
(Moon in Aries trine Mars in Leo)

The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death.

The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.

The only thing that matters is that we stand firm.

These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the Germanic Reich.

Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere.

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution.

We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so.

I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.
ATTRIBUTION: Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945), German Nazi leader. diary entry, Nov. 1921. Quoted in Derek Raymond, The Hidden Files (1992).

My honor is my loyalty.
ATTRIBUTION: Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945), German Nazi leader. Formulated as the watchword of the S.S. Nazi elite, ch. 10, trans. by Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951).

"I know there are many people in Germany who feel sick at the very sight of this black (SS) uniform," said Himmler in 1936. "We understand this and we do not expect to be loved...All those who have Germany at heart, will and should respect us. All those who in some way or at some time have a bad conscience in respect to the Führer and the nation should fear us. For these people we have constructed an organization called the SD (SS security service) and in the same way...the Gestapo (secret state police)..."

"Unconditional and highest freedom of will," Himmler instructed his SS, "comes from obedience, from service to our Weltanschauung (world view), obedience which is prepared to render each and every sacrifice to pride, to external honor and to all which is dear to us personally, obedience which never falters but unconditionally follows every order which comes from the Führer or legally from superiors..."

Thus, when the order came from Hitler to exterminate the Jews, they obeyed.

"The Führer has ordered the final solution of the Jewish question," Himmler told Auschwitz Kommandant Rudolf Höss in the summer of 1941. "We, the SS, have to carry out this order...I have therefore chosen Auschwitz for this purpose."

In October of 1943, in a speech to SS group leaders, Himmler spoke candidly. "...It is one of those things which is easy to say. 'The Jewish race is to be exterminated,' says every party member. 'That's clear, it's part of our program, elimination of the Jews, extermination, right, we'll do it.' And then they all come along, the eighty million good Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. Of course the others are swine, but this one is a first-class Jew. Of all those who talk like this, not one has watched, not one has stood up to it. Most of you know what it means to see a hundred corpses lying together, five hundred, or a thousand. To have gone through this and yet - apart from a few exceptions, examples of human weakness - to have remained decent fellows, this is what has made us hard."

"We have taken from them what wealth they had," he continued. "I have issued a strict order, which SS-Obergruppenführer Pohl has carried out, that this wealth should, as a matter of course, be handed over to the Reich without reserve."

"We had the moral right, we had the duty to our people, to destroy this people which wanted to destroy us. Altogether, however, we can say that we have fulfilled this most difficult duty for the love of our people. And our spirit, our soul, our character has not suffered injury from it."

Speeches by Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler before senior SS officers in Poznan, October 4 and 6, 1943.
Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. XIII, p. 323, and Himmler, Reichsfuehrer-SS - P. Padfield, Henry Holt and Co, NY, 1990, p. 469:

I mean the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish race. It's one of those things it is easy to talk about, "the Jewish race is being exterminated", says one party member, "that's quite clear, it's in our program, elimination of the Jews, and we're doing it, exterminating them". And then they come, 80 million worthy Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. Of course the others are vermin, but this one is an A-1 Jew. Not one of those who talk this way has watched it, not one of them has gone through it. Most of you know what it means when 100 corpses are lying side by side, or 500, or 1,000. To have stuck it out and at the same time - apart from exceptions caused by human weakness - to have remained decent fellows, that is what has made us hard. This is a page of glory in our history which has never been written and is never to be written.

I ask of you that what I say in this circle you really only hear and never speak of. We come to the question: how is it with the women and the children? I have resolved even here on a completely clear solution. That is to say I do not consider myself justified in eradicating the men - so to speak killing or ordering them killed - and allowing the avengers in the shape of the children to grow up for our sons and grandsons. The difficult decision has to be taken, to cause this Volk [people] to disappear from the earth.

[This speech was recorded; the magnetic tapes are in the National Archives in Washington, DC]

Speech by Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler at Kharkow, April 1943.
Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1946, Vol. IV, p. 572-574:

We have - I would say, as very consistent National Socialists, taken the question of blood as our starting point. We were the first really to solve the problem of blood by action, and in this connection, by problem of blood, we of course do not mean antisemitism. Antisemitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology. It is a matter of cleanliness.

From the speech of ReichsfŸhrer-SS Himmler, speaking to SS Major-Generals, Poznan, October 4 1943.
Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1946, Vol. IV, p. 559:

One basic principal must be the absolute rule for the SS man: we must be honest, decent, loyal, and comradely to members of our own blood and to nobody else. What happens to a Russian, to a Czech, does not interest me in the slightest. What the nations can offer in good blood of our type, we will take, if necessary by kidnapping their children and raising them with us. Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our culture; otherwise, it is of no interest to me. Whether 10,000 Russian females fall down from exhaustion while digging an anti-tank ditch interest me only in so far as the anti-tank ditch for Germany is finished. We shall never be rough and heartless when it is not necessary, that is clear. We Germans, who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude towards animals, will also assume a decent attitude towards these human animals. But it is a crime against our own blood to worry about them and give them ideals, thus causing our sons and grandsons to have a more difficult time with them. When someone comes to me and says, "I cannot dig the anti-tank ditch with women and children, it is inhuman, for it will kill them", then I would have to say, "you are a murderer of your own blood because if the anti-tank ditch is not dug, German soldiers will die, and they are the sons of German mothers. They are our own blood".

Letter from ReichsfŸhrer-SS Himmler to the Higher SS and Police Chief in the Ukraine, Kiev, September 7 1943.
Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1946, Supp. A, p. 1270:

Dear Pruetzmann,

Infantry general staff has special orders with regard to the Donetz area. Get in touch with him immediately. I order you to cooperate as much as you can. The aim to be achieved is that when areas in the Ukraine are evacuated, not a human being, not a single head of cattle, not a hundredweight of cereals and not a railway line remain behind; that not a house remain standing, not a mine is available which is not destroyed for years to come, that there is not a well which is not poisoned. The enemy must really find completely burned and destroyed land. Discuss these things with Stampf straight away and do your absolute best.

Extract from Himmler's address to party comrades, September 7 1940.
Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., Vol. IV, p. 1140:

If any Pole has any sexual dealing with a German woman, and by this I mean sexual intercourse, then the man will be hanged right in front of his camp. Then the others will not do it. Besides, provisions will be made that a sufficient number of Polish women and girls will come along as well so that a necessity of this kind is out of the question.

The women will be brought before the courts without mercy, and where the facts are not sufficiently proved--such borderline cases always happen--they will be sent to a concentration camp. This we must do, unless these one million Poles and those hundreds of thousands of workers of alien blood are to inflict untold damage on the German blood. Philosophizing is of no avail in this case. It would be better if we did not have them at all-- we all know that--but we need them.

The one and only thing that matters to us, and the thing these people are paid for by the state, is to have ideas of history that strengthen our people in their necessary national pride. In all this troublesome business we are only interested in one thing--to project into the dim and distant past the picture of our nation as we envisage it for the future.

Every bit of Tacitus in his Germania is tendentious stuff. Our teaching of German origins has depended for centuries on falsification. We are entitled to impose one of our own at any time. In our judgement of homosexuality - a symptom of degeneracy which could destroy our race - we must return to the guiding Nordic principle: extermination of the degenerates.

Biography
(Source: Gauquelin)

(Ascendant, Aquarius; MC, Sagittarius with Uranus and Jupiter both conjunct in Sagittarius and conjunct the MC; Saturn also in Sagittarius; Sun in Libra; Moon in first degree of Aries; Mercury in first degree of Scorpio; Venus and Mars in Leo; Neptune and Pluto in Gemini)

Heinrich Himmler was surely one of the most evil and enigmatic of all the Nazi leaders. Those who knew him rightfully feared him even more than Hitler. He served the Nazi cause as supreme leader of the dreaded SS, and, eventually, head of the Gestapo and all German police forces. He was responsible for ordering the deaths of millions—starting with the “blood purge” of 1934 and ending with the systematic murder of Jews, Slavs, Communists, Gypsies, intellectuals, churchmen, etc.—all those who were considered undesirable, racially inferior or dangerous to the Nazi cause.

Himmler was the ultimate racist/mystic/idealist. He was educated as an agriculturalist and sought to breed the new “Aryan Superman” just as one cultivates new strains of plants or breeds animals for improved genetic qualities. This selective approach to human genetics (and his intense focus upon the genealogy of his elite SS corps) demonstrated his powerful seventh ray—probably the ray of his soul, though the conditioning presence of the first ray cannot be denied. The following quotation from the Tibetan is relevant for many of the Nazi leaders, no matter what their principal ray:

“the bulk of the egos now in power in Germany are on the first subray of the seven different rays, and hence they are from one dominant angle the transmitters of first ray force.” (EP I 386)

Himmler was a seventh ray occultist. He had a great interest in astrology, reincarnation, herbalism, and in magic, ceremonial rites, rituals and mystical orders. He was profoundly influenced (as was Hitler) by the periodical, Astara (Hitler was an avid collector), published by the Austrian mystic, occultist, racist, Jorg Lunz—a former monk with a vision of a glorious Aryan future, ruled by occultist priest/kings To this end he formed the Order of New Templars, attempting to revive the ancient tradition of the Knights Templar of the Middle Ages. From Lunz Himmler eagerly absorbed a burning faith in Aryanism, and began, earnestly and methodically, to create, through the SS, a mystical order of “knights” (reflecting, in their highest echelons, the Knights of the Round Table) which would form the elite vanguard of a new Aryan Civilization composed only of those of “pure” Aryan blood. Eventually he created an SS Army (the Waffen SS) of a million men, and an corps of exterminators known as the Death’s-Head SS.

The doctrines of the East propounded by Madame Blavatsky were woefully, distorted materialized, and literalized. “God” was seen as embodied in blood and race, and the most ‘spiritual’ of all quests was considered to be the elimination of all racial “impurities” from the German racial stock which, according to this theory, was the genetic pool containing the greatest concentration of ancient Aryan blood. Eventually, within 120 years (so Himmler confidently estimated) the German people (and especially the SS) would become an entirely regenerated Aryan race, purged of all racial contaminants.

Himmler’s Sun Sign was Libra. His decision (“Let choice be made”) determined life or death (mostly death) for millions. The seventh ray combining with Libra made him interested in the “perfect form” and, indeed, those considered racially pure or qualified were selected according to many superficial, external criteria (seventh ray)—blond hair, blue eyes, and the shape and proportion of head, body and limbs. As well, in the Himmler-sponsored breeding programs for the “new race”, he and his officials determined (especially in relation to the SS) who was allowed to marry (Libra) and who was not. Any bride of a prospective SS member, had to prove her German/Aryan heritage back to the year 1750. Eventually, these marriage restrictions extended to all of German society, in which it was, for instance, forbidden for Germans to marry those with Jewish blood.

Some of Himmler’s Libran qualities were strangely horrifying. He loved music, so it is said (Venus, ruler of Libra, sextile Neptune and sextile Mercury) and sponsored concentration camp orchestras (the performances of which he appreciatively attended). A concentration camp inmate might survive by playing a musical instrument sufficiently well. Further, his refined Libran sensibilities made the mass shooting of thousands of “undesirables” personally distasteful to him. He sought a less crude and objectionable way of eliminating “sub-human” groups—gas!

The sign Aquarius (in its lowest manifestation) is directly associated with the Nazi Party and it was Himmler’s Ascendant. Himmler worked through groups. The formation of the SS as an elite (and standardized) corps of racially superior men is a negative reflection of his Aquarianism. This sign, when combined with the seventh and sixth rays, gave Himmler his passion for mystical “orders”. He purchased an old, romantic yet formidable German castle, renovated it at tremendous expense, and made it the mystical heart of the SS “Order”, conducting occult rituals in its specially re-designed ceremonial chambers and crypts. There he would commune with the “Aryan Race Soul” and with the spirit of Heindrich I of Saxony (of whom Himmler believed he was the reincarnation). King Heindrich I drove the Slavs back to the East in the year 900, and Himmler believed that he and his “holy order” (the SS) had a similar and far grander destiny in the modern world—to protect and defend Aryan Civilization from a great onslaught which could be expected from the East.

There is no question of Himmler’s intense sixth ray, even though, so it appears, he was cold, calculating and self-controlled. Hitler called him, “my loyal Heinrich”. Himmler was fanatical in his pursuit of “Aryan Destiny”. He was guided by a mysterious, old German occultist who claimed to have psychic powers which revealed to him the origin of the true Aryans, some 225,000 years ago, and their irresistible destiny in the modern world. Himmler believed (sixth ray) and followed, fanatically, these beliefs. According to this perverted and mystical ideology, the ancient, occult and psychic powers were lost to the German race by interbreeding with inferior races, and would again, through the most stringent racially selective breeding processes and purging of inferior types, be fully restored. The Aryan “Superman” (latent in the blood of the German race) would be bred into existence. Himmler set himself to engineer this breeding.

It is easy to see evidences of Himmler’s idealism and fanaticism in the chart. Jupiter (the esoteric ruler of the Aquarius Ascendant), is culminating in idealistic, visionary, sixth ray Sagittarius, and conjunct both the MC and Uranus. This indicates the grand vision by which he was possessed. (He was possessed as well by a powerful, evil entity or entities as was Hitler; most of the high Nazis were, in the end, but “shells” through which black magicians on the astral and mental planes expressed their evil designs). The revolutionary nature of this vision (a whole new, idealistic “order”) is indicated by Uranus in Sagittarius. Himmler sought a huge (Jupiter) transformation (Uranus) of society and eventually humanity. This was his perverted dharma (MC and tenth house). It should also be remembered that both Jupiter and, especially, Uranus have potent seventh ray qualities, and, together, would serve as a powerful center of expression for his seventh ray soul. It is also interesting to see that Uranus and Jupiter are both the rulers of his Ascendant, Aquarius—Uranus, exoteric, and Jupiter, esoteric. For Himmler, these two are, indeed, planets of destiny. They are strengthened by sixth ray Mars (conjunct dedicated Vesta) in first ray Leo—trine, and conferring command and egotism (Himmler was a formidable opponent—seventh house), and the Moon in first ray Aries, conferring impulse, eagerness, and a militant and yet obedient attitude. A grand trine in fire signs is thereby created, giving the great confidence (and over-estimation) typical of his character.

Was Himmler a “disciple”, and is it, therefore, justified to use an esoteric ruler (like Jupiter) in the case of such an individual? He was certainly a disciple of the “Black Lodge”. Further, let it be remembered that until approximately midway between the second and third initiations, it is not known which way a man will “go”. He probably will go on, sacrificially, towards the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet, following the “Christ-line”. But it is also possible for an probationary initiate of the second degree (“pure” and self-controlled) to reject the way of love and consciously or unconsciously apply for membership in the Black Lodge. Very proably, Himmler was such an ‘initiate’, and Hitler certainly was. Therefore, esoteric rulers can reasonably be consulted in such cases, although, in Himmler’s case, Jupiter would be powerful anyway because it is found in the sign which it rules exoterically—Sagittarius.

Mercury is in the beginning of deadly Scorpio, giving plot, strategy and the ability to think (Mercury) the deaths (Scorpio) of millions. It is also sextile to his Venus in Leo giving his artistic appreciation, furthered by a sextile from Neptune in Gemini in the house of creativity (H5) and a trine from Saturn in the house of culture (H11). This Neptune position is interestingly placed in the house of “children”. So much of Himmler’s idealism (Neptune) was focussed on his eugenics programs, on his “Well-Born” houses, where SS men were bred with any sufficiently Aryan German woman willing to become a “mother” in service of the State. We can see, therefore, how a major aspect of glamor (Neptune) was focussed in this house of “creativity”.

Pluto, too, is interesting (and “lethal”) in the fourth house of heredity. Himmler applied his formidable powers of research (Pluto) to eliminate (Pluto) all those whose family or heredity (fourth house) were considered inferior or sub-standard. Pluto in this position (combined with the seventh ray) indicates genealogical research.

In summary, Himmler’s rays are principally the seventh and the sixth. The seventh is probably the ray of the soul. He sought the manifestation of a new super-race enthroned in a new super-state, and he organized brilliantly, thoroughly (and magically and occultly) to manifest this vision. His fanatical loyalty and intensely narrow vision (for him, the War in the West with France and England was just a “distraction” in relation to his ‘greater’ plans in the East for racial purification and domination) speaks for a sixth ray personality. The first ray is pervasive in most of the Nazi leaders, as the quotation above from Esoteric Psychology I, states. The fifth ray may, perhaps, be found in the mind, evidenced in his emphasis upon genetic research, and his technical, methodical, and cold-minded procedures.

In Himmler we see a truly terrifying human being—a talented, intelligent, highly accomplished, fanatically motivated psychopath—a man blinded by his own idealism and visions of grandeur, and in search of the restoration of ancient, gods, and the supremacy of the ancient Nordic “racial soul”. He longed for the return of the Aryan”, occult powers—for himself and for his ‘elite’ race—the “Master Race”—whom he envisioned as the destined rulers of the world.

Fortunately for humanity, his plans (Saturn) were frustrated (Saturn in the eleventh house opposed to dissolutive Neptune). He attempted to escape the encircling Allies disguised as a common soldier. He was recognized, took a cyanide capsule (elusive Neptune sextile Venus, ruler of the eighth house of death), escaped capture and trial, dying on May 23, 1945.

In this year of the Great Decision (remembering Himmler was a Libran)—at this time of high Aquarian group idealism (remembering that Himmler had an Aquarius Ascendant), we who study the Ageless Wisdom must remember how our beautiful and redemptive Teaching can be perverted by those whose selfish love of power and hatred of the human heart are inconceivably great. As we decide upon the type of individual we wish to become, let us be warned by this example of the depths of evil to which a human being can descend, all the while glamoured by lofty idealism and a vision of a glorious destiny.