For many decades I have been fascinated with esoteric and gnostic political religions and their tremendous impact upon Western civilization. It is one of the major topics I have discussed in various articles/blogs here at LRC — including those here, here, here, here. The mythos of the lost continent of Atlantis was at the seminal core of how Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime made use of ancient mysticism and occultism to manufacture a new Germanic mythology, the religion of National Socialism, that combined ancient legends and esoteric cosmologies with cutting-edge theories of genetic science, in their quest to create an Aryan super race. The study of the … Continue reading “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” ― G.K. Chesterton