Comp. Paranoid Analysis of the History of Nazi Occultism (Pt. I): Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, & Theosophical Racism

Welcome back to ParaPower Mapping. We embark on a brand new series today—likely our lengthiest yet. A comparative paranoid analysis of the history of Nazi occultism, beginning w/ an investigation into Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, the Theosophical Society, their racist doctrine, & some truly sus & eye-opening connections. Subscribe to the Boston Brahmin Watch Premium Feed on Patreon: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping In this EP, we discuss: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Ukrainian & Baltic German Noblewoman; her aristocratic heritage, including the von Hahn, Rottenstern, & Dolgorukov families; we play 6°s of Separation w/ Blavatsky & Pynchon, in part because Pynchon mentions Blavatsky & Theosophy in Against the Day & also bc it's fun; we talk Vladimir Nabokov & his nobleman father V. D. Nabokov; the Kadets, his Constitutional Democratic Party in pre-revolutionary Russia; the fact he was a deputy in the First Duma w/ Sergei Witte, cousin of Blavatsky & first PM of Russia; the possibility V.D. Nabokov was part of the delegation sent to negotiate the cease fire to end the Russo-Japanese War in Portsmouth, NH; we talk the assassination attempts on the both of them; V.D. Nabokov's likely "western democracy" backers & his émigré newspaper "Rul" in Berlin; bacterial meningitis; the fact that V.D. Nabokov's killers were later connected to the NSDAP via Alfred Rosenberg & Dietrich Eckhart; we talk Prince Dolgorukov's esoteric library, Rosicrucianism, & membership in the Masonic Rite of Strict Observance; we talk early visions of Ascended Masters; we talk a few different influences on Blavatsky, including Swedenborg, Franz Anton Mesmer, Thomas Lake Harris, & Edward Bulwer-Lytton; we explore the instructive & mind-boggling story of Henry Steel Olcott; the fact he was on the level; his early work as an agriculture journalist & correspondent for the NY Tribune prior to the Civil War, where he worked w/ Assistant Sec. of War Charles A. Dana; Olcott's service before contracting dysentery; his ascent into the War Department Secret Service Bureau, where he was made Special Commissioner & tasked w/ investigating wartime fraud by military suppliers; his close relationship w/ Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; the fact that he volunteered himself via a telegram to Stanton directly, offering to help lead up the "investigation" into Lincoln's assassination two days after it went down in Ford's Theater; I'm not going to divulge everything here, you just have to listen to the EP, but he played a major role in some very sus c*v*r-up shit; the curious fact that he survived the war, when many people involved in the "investigation", like his higher-up Col. Lafayette Baker—Lincoln's spy chief—did not; his law career following the War; his spiritualist meet cute w/ Blavatsky in Chittenden, VT; the likelihood she had him made as a mark, tho Olcott didn't care; spiritualist seance routines; "apports"; Daniel Douglas Home, spiritualist to the stars & royalty; a breakdown of the Blavatsky & the Theosophical Society's racist doctrine, eugenicist beliefs, & "Root Races", setting the stage to explore its influence on various German ethnonationalist occult orders that led to the formation of the NSDAP & Himmler's SS; American influence on Nazi eugenicist beliefs; the quasi-downfall of Blavatsky; accusations that Blavatsky was in the "employ" of Russian Imperial Tsarist secret police; decent chance that Olcott served a similar purpose; their support of Indian Nationalism, which brought 'em into beef w/ the Raj, British, & Christian College; Emma Coulomb's blackmail of Theosophical Society re: her assistance in helping Blavatsky create "phenomena"; Society for Psychical Research's investigation into Blavatsky; etc. Songs: | Scott Walker - "Opening" (The Childhood of a Leader OST) | | Todd Rundgren - "Eastern Intrigue" | | Ethel Raim, Elizabeth Knight, and Joyce Gluck - "Johnny Is My Darling" | | Blondie - "(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear" |