Black Sun #5: From the Arctic to Aldebaran
How the Losers of WW2 Built a Religion in Outer Space
In the last session of the “Black Sun” book club, I discussed Savitri Devi and the Nazi Mysteries. Those sections explain how popular culture stripped Nazis of their historic brutality and gave them an “occult mystique” that inadvertently made them fascinating instead of reprehensible.
This session, as promised, things get much weirder.
We covered three chapters:
Wilhelm Landig and the Esoteric SS (Ch. 7)
Nazi UFOs, Antarctica, and Aldebaran (Ch. 8)
Miguel Serrano and Esoteric Hitlerism (Ch. 9)
What emerges across these three chapters is a pattern of incredible escalating fantasy.
After 1945, a group of former SS men in Vienna couldn’t accept that they’d been defeated. Rather than confronting what they’d done, they turned to occultism and racist myth-making. This led them to begin constructing an elaborate alternative reality on the thinnest slivers of historical fact.
Yes, German U-boats did surrender in Argentina, and yes, Himmler’s Ahnenerbe did fund Tibetan expeditions and engage in occult speculations. Those parts of history are real, and really weird!
But from these scraps, Nazi enthusiasts constructed—brace yourself—a mythology of secret polar bases, flying saucers, extraterrestrial Aryan origins, and a “last battalion” poised to sally forth from Antarctica and save the world from globalism and liberalism.
Any day now, right?
In all seriousness, this isn’t humorous fringe nonsense. Wilhelm Landig’s novels popularized the mystical “Black Sun” wheel symbol and planted seeds for neo-Nazi mythology in the 1990s underground. Ernst Zündel laundered Holocaust denial with one hand, while selling UFO sensationalism with the other.
And by the late 1970s, the wealthy and connected Chilean diplomat Miguel Serrano had woven every single thread—the Protocols, Kundalini yoga, Jungian archetypes, Gnosticism, Hindu avatars, UFOs, Julius Evola, and the Black Sun—into a unified system he called Esoteric Hitlerism.
Serrano is the convergence point. He’s where 40 years of post-war neo-Nazi mythmaking crystallized into something tailor-made for the internet age.
His theology and worldview is a colorful, syncretic, mystical Nazism that glosses over concentration camps with images of Hyperborean gods, astral travel, and Hitler escaping through a dimensional portal near Venus.
No, I’m not making that up.
This matters because Serrano’s cocktail of ideas—repackaged, meme’d up, and stripped of his name—is exactly what’s circulating in online spaces today. The Hyperborean imagery, the Black Sun edits, the Agartha references… it all traces back to one man and the fantastical ideas he wove together into a single, mystical tapestry.
As I argue in this session: what we’re seeing in these chapters is the Luciferian face of neo-Nazism. It’s colorful, fantastical, and appealing to young men’s imaginations.
But Lucifer always flips to reveal his true identity as Satan.
The remaining chapters of Black Sun will begin to show that darker face. And my prayer is that seeing the full picture will change how you understand what’s happening online, especially on the right.
You’ll hear much more in the Book Club. Full video and audio below.
Next Book Club Meeting
Thursday, March 6
2:30pm Pacific / 5:30pm Eastern
For discussion:
Chapter 10: White Noise and Black Metal
Chapter 11: Nazi Satanism and the New Aeon
Chapter 12: Christian Identity and Creativity
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