The New York Times spread Fake-News (see the fourth paragraph "The Nazis’ Occult Obsession") in an article that stated, that the "racial ideology" of hitler grew up from "astrology, theosophy, parapsychology and other border science", a big lie, that even in serious historical science became meanwhile an obsolet mistake, or at least, should be. Its all about a new book from Eric Kurlander ("accidentally" he got a Wiki-Entry a few month ago, there titled as an "expert", expert of fake news?) named Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich and you can read other articles, with the same false allegations regarding to this book in RawStory, Slate, The Catholic Herald and The National Review etc.
For example in the last article we can read:
Joerg Lanz von Liebenfels and Guido von List [both raccists, founder/supporter of a crude world view named Ariosophy] led Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society in Germany [verry wrong, never they lead this], where Lanz published Hitler’s favorite magazine “Ostara,” [also wrong, Hitler contemned an "occult" worldview and particular the world view of both] and later (with List) the Theosophical magazine “Lucifer”. [also verry wrong, a big lie, never they published this magazine]. Lanz was “The Man Who Gave Hitler His Ideas” (according to Austrian psychologist Wilfried Daim in his 1957 book of that title) and flew a swastika flag above his castle in Bavaria in 1907, a dozen years before the Nazi Party was even founded [may also with no evidence, verry wrong and terrible].
This is a Professor of History? Unbelievable! We all should not forget, that the Third Reich was a catholic and not an occult state (all "occult" societies were forbidden in the Third Reich) and that we can find therefore in both system, the nazi and the catholic one (and its split offs, at least in history) antisemitism, slavish obedience, kill of innocent people etc., but never in Theosophy.
A. Roy Eckardt (leading scholar of Christian-Jewish relations and former chairman emeritus of religion studies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem) has asserted that the foundation of antisemitism and responsibility for the Holocaust lies ultimately in the New Testament.[1], [2]. That's a truth we don't read about, but from such horrific and stupid lies, that the Third Reich was an occult or pagan state and that Theosophy, a doctrin of philanthropy, common sense, unity, was a base of such a contemptible system.
We Theosophists know, where all this allegations to harm Theosophy, Esotericism etc. have its roots. I wrote already here about this and other false allegations.
In the same direction other articles targeting, but now, to connect Theosophy and or the "Occult" (here especial Blavatsky) to Steve Bannon and/or the Alt- or Far-Right in USA, as you can read here, here and here. Whats going on?
Looks like a new campaign against Theosophy and Esoteric started in the New York Times. And what we should do, we should buy and analyze this book from Eric Kurlander, review and vote it down on Amazon and should tell Mr. Kurland (ekurland@stetson.edu) and that newspapers that spread this fake news, that they are at least with the theosophical point very wrong.
HPB's opinion in such a case is quite clear, she answered to the questions, how can someone help the Society:
Fourthly, by defending the Society from the unjust aspersions cast upon it, by every legitimate device in their power. ("The Key to Theosophy" by H. P. Blavatsky, Section 12)
So we should start together a "counteroffensive" in public media! We should first, after analyzing his book, collect strong scientific (historic) evidence to proof, that this so called Professor of History has done a terrible job, then we should with the power of all TS wrote an open letter to all of this exploited media and also Mr. Kurlander.
What do yout think? How can we in this case defend Theosophy? Or are we to weak and to quarreling? At least the official Societies should act immediately, together and well eliberated. Who can and will help, who has the important contacts? Drope me a line.