Snapshot · Last Podcast On The Left
Michael Aquino used UN contacts to sneak into Wewelsburg Castle in 1983 and perform an occult ritual in Himmler's ceremonial underground chamber.
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At 57:12 · chapter starts 51:40
After founding the Temple of Set, Michael Aquino settled into the role of an academic, earning a PhD in political science and taking an adjunct professor post at Golden Gate University, while continuing to publish a scathing history of the Church of Satan that debunked LaVey's many self-invented myths. But his more disturbing parallel obsession was with Nazi occultism. In 1983, on a UN work trip to Europe, Aquino detoured to Wewelsburg Castle — Heinrich Himmler's intended ceremonial HQ for his Aryan knighthood — and performed a ritual in the underground chamber Himmler had designed for his own rites. [1] — Marcus Parks "Aquino performed Nazi ritual at Wewelsburg Castle in 1983: Michael Aquino used UN contacts to sneak into Wewelsburg Castle in 1983 and perf…" 57:12 Out of this came the Second Order of the Trapezoid, which Aquino decreed was a chivalric order of occult knights. He denied sympathy for Nazi ideology while simultaneously arguing that Himmler had genuinely summoned an extraordinary psychic force that had merely been 'misdirected.' Henry unpacks the incoherence: you cannot separate a magical tradition from the Holocaust that powered it, full stop. It was not a whoopsie.
In 1983, Michael Aquino used UN work trip credentials to access Wewelsburg Castle — Heinrich Himmler's planned occult headquarters — and performed a ritual in its underground ceremonial space. Out of it came the Second Order of the Trapezoid, a chivalric order of knights. He was, as the hosts note, at least as much of a nerd as Himmler.
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