Blavatsky and The Rise of Nazism

Blavatsky Net Theosophy - original Theosophy text - focus on Madame Blavatsky

There is a lot of research behind every good historical novel. My new novel is both a thriller and historical, focusing especially upon the Nazi movement, both in Europe and in the United States.

You cannot understand Nazism without taking into account Madam Helena Blavatsky with her connections to Tibet, Russia, London and ultimately Nazi Germany. She died in 1891, just a few years before the momentous events of the twentieth century.

As the site quoted above says, "all her work can be summed up in one of her maxims: Compassion is the law of laws. She explained that brotherhood is not a mere ideal--it is a fact in nature on the spiritual plane.  From that we derive a logical basis and a binding source for morality that can guide and inspire us, even while more traditional religious sources are losing their compelling force. She gives us the metaphysics from which we can deduce the most important priciples of how to live."

How could this so-called wisdom morph into a movement responsible for the deaths of millions? And how could Nazism, informed by the esoterical works of this very strange--no, weird--woman arise on the same soil that spawned the Reformation led by Martin Luther?

In my novel my protagonist, a Lutheran, comes face to face with a woman taught by Blavatsky's teachings, as well as those of her apt and extremely influential student, Guido von List.

One dare never underestimate the power of the written word.