Black Sun #5: Passwords, Pentagrams, and the Protocols
How White Power Music, Nazi Satanism, and Christian Identity Feed the Same Machine
In the previous session of the “Black Sun” book club, I discussed Wilhelm Landig, Nazi UFOs, and Miguel Serrano’s Esoteric Hitlerism. Those chapters revealed what I called the Luciferian face of neo-Nazism. It’s colorful, fantastical, and virtually tailor-made for meme culture.
This session, that mask comes off.
We covered three chapters:
White Noise and Black Metal (Ch. 10)
Nazi Satanism and the New Aeon (Ch. 11)
Christian Identity and Creativity (Ch. 12)
What emerges in these three chapters is the transition from the fantastical to the explicitly violent. In other words, from Lucifer to Satan.
The Luciferian imagery of Hyperborean gods and Aldebaran UFOs drew men in with fascination. But fascination has a shelf life. Beneath the colorful surface lies the darker face of neo-Nazism that most people actually recognize: the skinheads, the black metal underground, the satanic rituals, and the pseudo-Christian theologies of racial holy war.
Here’s what makes these chapters urgent: the men laundering neo-Nazi ideas into the mainstream today have scraped the skinhead aesthetic off and replaced it with Serrano’s symbolic language, but the worldview underneath is drawn from exactly these chapters.
The appealing imagery comes from Serrano. But the rage, the alienation, the ideology? They come from here.
An Important Announcement
Before getting into the session, I announced that the next book club selection will be Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Norman Cohn.
The Protocols show up in virtually every chapter of Black Sun. They appear today in the rhetoric of Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Chris Langan, and dozens of other influencers with massive followings. Sometimes the Protocols appear by name, more often by implication. Push far enough into the conspiracy world and you land at the Protocols every. single. time.
Warrant for Genocide was written in 1967. It’s rare, out of print, and copies run $40+ on eBay. Cohn did extraordinary primary-source research into where the Protocols came from: it was forged from Napoleonic French and Tsarist Russian source material, then launched into the world to become perhaps the most destructive document of the 20th century.
This matters because the Protocols are not a dusty relic. Chris Langan posted material referencing “the elders” to his hundreds of thousands of followers just last week. A young Christian influencer I know with more than 100,000 followers on X called me out of the blue last year and spent half our conversation arguing for the Protocols’ authenticity.
The grip this document has on men’s hearts is staggering, and Lord willing, the facts in Cohn’s book may be the cold water that loosens it. And if not, I pray that it protects others who are yet to be exposed.
We begin Warrant for Genocide in approximately four weeks. I have a digital copy of the book I will distribute to paid subscribers who wish to read along.
White Noise and Black Metal
Goodrick-Clarke opens this chapter by naming what many of his colleagues in academia find politically uncomfortable: increased immigration is fueling white identity movements. He doesn’t endorse this response. He simply observes, with increasing directness throughout the book, that the causal link is undeniable.
The skinhead phenomenon emerged in Britain in the late 1960s. By the mid-1970s, the National Front was recruiting skinheads as street fighting troops, and Ian Stuart Donaldson’s band Skrewdriver became their charismastic rockstar leader. Resistance Records was founded to produce and distribute the music.
The strategy was explicit: use popular music to broadcast racism to a new generation.
Stuart understood the power of the medium. “A pamphlet is read once,” he observed, “But a song is learned by heart and repeated a thousand times.”
The delivery mechanisms have changed over the years—from vinyl to CDs to YouTube videos to reels—but the strategy never does: compress dark ideas into cultural forms that spread through peer networks.
Goodrick-Clarke’s painted a familiar portrait of who got drawn in to skinhead gangs: young men from broken families, with minimal education, engaged in a desperate search for identity and peer recognition. These are the same phenomena I talk about every week. Only today the same phenomena show up in the crisis of fatherlessness, the collapse of tradition, and the absence of hierarchy and meaning which combine to produce radicalization.
I get pushback on this constantly. People tell me these young men all come from great families. Nonsense.
But it’s not only lower-class youth. William Pierce, author of The Turner Diaries, was a physicist. George Eric Hawthorne of Resistance Records was a savvy operator who turned a skinhead music label into a slick international operation. David Myatt was studying physics at Hull University while running a Nazi satanic order.
In other words, these ideas capture intelligent, educated men too.
The numbers in Germany tell a relatable story. Asylum applications rose from 30,000 per year in the early 1980s to over 400,000 by 1992. Alongside those numbers, neo-Nazi organizations grew 25% in three years. Surprise surprise. Meanwhile, the median age of those involved in extremist violence dropped from 27 to barely 19.
Here’s the thing: eighteen-year-old men don’t think rationally about immigration policy… or anything for that matter. They feel. And their most accessible emotion is anger.
Goodrick-Clarke closes the chapter by naming what white power music achieved: a set of passwords. Nietzschean anti-Christianity, Social Darwinism, racial intolerance, and white supremacy became the shared language of a right-wing youth culture spanning North America, Europe, and Australasia. In-group signals became gates for belonging. That’s the dynamic I described in “Eight Steps to Scapegoating” and it’s the same thing happening now.
Nazi Satanism and the New Aeon
This is where the book descends into undeniable darkness.
Behind the white power bands, Goodrick-Clarke writes, lurks an international network of small extremist groups devoted to Nazi Satanism, Nordic cosmology, magic, and occultism. Their staggering core belief: a new elite of supermen will sweep away the inferior masses and usher in a new aeon of planetary evolution.
Before getting to the worst of it, Goodrick-Clarke carefully distinguishes three strains of modern Satanism.
Aleister Crowley was an occultist who claimed direct communication with a spirit entity called Aiwass. His religion of Thelema was built on “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” He combined Nietzschean will-to-power with yoga and tantric sex magic.
Anton LaVey founded the Church of Satan in 1966, but he did not believe in a literal Satan. His Satanism was psychological: self-gratification, personal power, the purging of Christian morality. Satan was a principle, not a deity. This is Satanism as self-worship.
Michael Aquino broke from LaVey in 1975, taking a majority of his followers to form the Temple of Set. Unlike LaVey, Aquino believed in the objective reality of the devil. His rituals invoked the Prince of Darkness as an actual supernatural power.
The distinctions here matter more than it may seem. From God’s perspective, worshiping yourself in defiance of His law and worshiping a literal demonic entity may amount to much the same thing. But the movements are structurally different.
During the book club session, a participant named David raised a sharp question: is the racial self-worship we see on the right today essentially LaVeyan self-worship by proxy? It is just worshiping the self through worship of one’s ethnos?
I think that’s exactly right. It’s never framed in LaVey’s explicit terms, but the dynamic is the same. Alan Bloom wrote in The Closing of the American Mind that in the West today, the soul has been replaced with the self, which we worship. On the right, that self-worship now has an ethnic face.
Then there is David Myatt.
Myatt founded the Order of Nine Angles (ONA / O9A) in Britain. ONA was a Nazi satanic order that combined paganism, Hitler worship, and ritual magic. For Myatt, Satanism went far beyond LaVey’s pleasure principle. The true Satanist must “transcend his limitations” to make direct contact with “acausal sinister forces” in the cosmos. Access to these forces is provided through “nexions,” or gates opened by evil acts and blasphemous rituals.
Including human sacrifice. Myatt wrote actual guidelines for the selection and ritual execution of victims.
This is the logical endpoint of the will to power stripped of Christian moral constraint. When you reject the Bible and pursue personal and racial power as the highest good, the road doesn’t end in Hyperborean memes. It actually ends here.
Myatt also studied “Aeonics,” a theory that satanic ritual can channel cosmic energy into cycles of politics. He saw National Socialist Germany as “a practical expression of the Satanic spirit” and Hitler as a figure who had utilized acausal energy to achieve political goals. The Third Reich was, in his words, “a burst of Luciferian light in an otherwise [Christian], pacified, and boring world.”
When Nick Fuentes says “Hitler is cool,” is this what he’s channeling, even if unconsciously? Probably.
What happened to Myatt after this book was published is telling. He converted to radical Islam because he admired Islam’s posture against the West! The Islamists never accepted him, so he returned to neo-Nazism.
Eventually he disavowed all forms of extremism. Whether genuine repentance is possible for a man who wrote guidelines for ritual murder, I leave to God.
Christian Identity and Creativity
This chapter made me highlight entire pages.
Christian Identity is the theological engine behind a significant portion of the American white supremacist movement. Its doctrine: white Aryans are the true descendants of the biblical tribes of Israel, and the Jews are the literal children of the devil. They’re the offspring of a sexual union between Satan and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The forbidden fruit was supposedly a sex act, with Cain as the product. His descendants are the Jews, and everyone who isn’t white is a “pre-Adamic mud person.”
This is a mutilation of scripture. There is zero biblical evidence that Eve had sex with the serpent. But the theology is internally coherent enough to capture men who don’t read their Bibles, as it drapes racial grievances in the stolen-valor authority of biblical language.
Christian Identity grew out of British Israelism, a 19th-century movement that claimed the British were descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes. In fact, British Israelism was originally philosemitic. It honored the Jewish people as heirs of the two southern tribes.
Then it encountered the Protocols.
William J. Cameron, editor of Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent, introduced the Protocols to the American public and fused them with British Israelism. The result was the antisemitic mutation that became Christian Identity. A movement that once honored the Jewish people was warped into one that declared Jews the cosmic enemy.
This is how powerful the Protocols are. This is why we’re reading Warrant for Genocide next.
Richard Butler then established Aryan Nations at Hayden Lake, Idaho in 1974. It was 20 acres of razor wire, German Shepherds, and a watchtower draped with a swastika flag. He preached that Christian Identity gave whites “divine permission to hate.” His rallying cry: “As long as this alien tyranny of evil occupies our land, hate is our law and revenge is our duty.”
There are men today who call themselves Reformed Christian pastors who seem to believe they have divine permission to hate. I read Butler’s words and wonder if they’re not secretly heading in a Christian Identity direction.
Robert Matthews founded The Order in 1983: a terrorist cell that stole $3.8 million from a Brinks armored car, assassinated a Jewish radio presenter in Denver, and was destroyed by the FBI when its founder was killed in a hail of bullets, and his followers were sentenced to 100+ years in prison. Each.
Matthews’ final letter is a window into radicalization: a man who loved his son, feared for the future, read Oswald Spengler and the Protocols, and concluded that violent insurrection was the only answer.
Finally, Ben Klassen’s Church of the Creator rejected Christianity entirely as a “suicidal religion” that the Jews invented to destroy Rome. Klassen deified the white race and shouted “RAHOWA!” or RAcial HOly WAr.
Klassen’s apocalyptic vision was extermination: the white race and the “mud races” cannot coexist on the same planet. And when I read Klassen’s writings, I’m shocked by how closely the language mirrors what I encounter from contemporary influencers.
What all of these movements share is self-marginalization. They retreat to compounds in the wilderness, convinced they’re planting seeds for an impending Aryan renewal.
What they build instead are graveyards. Without external accountability, without biblical authority that is bigger, older, and higher than any man, ideas get refined and purified to become ever more destructive. Purity spirals beget races to the bottom, before the communities collapse like dwarf stars.
Someone told me during 2020 that Satan’s strategy is to lure individuals into the wilderness so they can be killed. Think of a shepherd’s flock: you lead one sheep away so the wolves can attack. That is precisely what happens in these communities, while the people inside them are deceived into believing they’re growing stronger.
Sadly, in the age of the internet, the people may retreat into the wilderness but the ideas don’t stay there. Now they percolate through the internet and surface in mainstream discourse, scrubbed of their origins.
When Candace Owens calls Jews “shapeshifters,” she is echoing Wesley Swift.
When influencers talk about a conspiracy that “must not be named,” they are talking about the Protocols.
When the reaction to strikes in Iran becomes “the tail wagging the dog,” the unspoken word is ZOG, or “Zionist Occupation Government.”
This is straight from the Christian Identity lexicon.
These are not new ideas. They are an unbroken chain stretching back decades.
What’s new is that influencers with millions of followers are providing air cover for men to bring them out of the shadows.
What Comes Next
The final Black Sun session will cover Nordic Racial Paganism, Conspiracy Beliefs and the New World Order, and the conclusion on the Politics of Identity.
Then we turn to Warrant for Genocide. I don’t expect it will change every mind. But my prayer is that seeing the primary sources—who forged the Protocols, why, and how—will loosen the hold this document has on men who have built their entire worldview around it.
If you’re listening to creators who talk about Jewish conspiracies, who reference a hidden hand, who speak of shapeshifters and dual loyalty and a conspiracy that must not be named, it’s time to start asking them very hard and direct questions.
Because this is exactly what’s going on.
Next Book Club Meeting
Thursday, March 20 2:00pm Pacific / 5:00pm Eastern
For discussion:
Chapter 13: Nordic Racial Paganism
Chapter 14: Conspiracy Beliefs and the New World Order
Conclusion: The Politics of Identity
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