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An article "Hitler's Forgotten Library" by Timothy Ryback, published in ''[[The Atlantic]]'' (May 2003),<ref>Ryback, Timothy W. [https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200305/ryback "Hitler's Forgotten Library"]. ''[[The Atlantic]]'', May 2003. Accessed 27 June 2009.</ref> mentions a book from [[Hitler's private library]] authored by [[Ernst Schertel]]. Schertel, whose interests included [[flagellation]], dance, occultism, [[nudism]] and [[BDSM]], had been an activist for [[Sexual revolution|sexual liberation]] before 1933. He had been imprisoned in Nazi Germany for seven months and his doctoral degree was revoked. He is supposed to have sent a dedicated copy of his 1923 book ''[[Magic: History, Theory and Practice]]'' to Hitler some time in the mid-1920s. Hitler is said to have marked extensive passages, including one which reads "He who does not have the demonic seed within himself will never give birth to a magical world".<ref>Kelley, JH. [http://www.prlog.org/10238075-new-translation-of-german-book-links-hitler-to-satanism.html "New Translation of German Book Links Hitler to Satanism"] (press release). PRLog, May 17, 2009. Accessed 28 June 2009.</ref>
[[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|Theosophist]] [[Alice A. Bailey]] stated during [[World War II]] that Adolf Hitler was possessed by what she called the ''Dark Forces''.{{sfn|Bailey|1957|p=425}} Her follower [[Benjamin Creme]] has stated that through Hitler (and a group of equally evil men around him in Nazi Germany, together with a group of militarists in Japan and a further group around Mussolini in Italy{{sfn|Bailey|1957|p=258}}) was released the energies of the [[Antichrist]],<ref>Creme, Benjamin ''[[Maitreya (Theosophy)|Maitreya]]'s Mission – Volume III'' Amsterdam:1997 Share International Foundation p. 416</ref><ref group=Note name=Note01/> which, according to theosophical teachings is not an individual person but forces of destruction.
According to [[James Herbert Brennan]] in his book ''[[Occult Reich]]'', Hitler's mentor, [[Dietrich Eckhart]] (to whom Hitler dedicates ''[[Mein Kampf]]''), wrote to a friend of his in 1923: "Follow Hitler! He will dance, but it is I who have called the tune. We have given him the 'means of communication' with Them. Do not mourn for me; I shall have influenced history more than any other German."{{page needed|date=December 2022}}{{ISBN missing}}{{sfn|Kurlander|2017|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=cIMlDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22will+dance%2C+but+it+is+i+who+will+call+the+tune%22%2B%22eric+kurlander%22&pg=PT80 80]}}
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