The Spear of Destiny: The Occult Power Behind the Spear Which Pierced the Side of Christ

After 35 years, there has still been no convincing rebuttal to Trevor Ravenscroft's brilliant book. That's really all you need to know before you buy it. The evidence presented is so good, so compelling, that it simply has to be ignored by professional scholarship because they can't deal with it any other way. Essentially, this book gives us Hitler behind the usual list of dates and events. It delves into his personal life to reveal Hitler's hitherto unknown spiritual passions and the tradition from which he drew his inspiration. The Allies always prevented any attempt to explain Nazism as anything other than primitive brute force, because they were well aware of Hitler's rationale.

For the skeptics: the obvious fact that Hitler chose the swastika and reversed (italics) it as his central symbol proves his significant interest in and attachment to occult influences. Aside from the speculations, there is direct material evidence which points to the generally accepted conclusion that Rudolf Steiner was murdered by the brownshirts. He was poisoned. The original Goetheneum (the building which housed Steiner's school)in Stuttgart had been destroyed by arson widely attributed to the brownshirts a few years before. Hitler had at least registered as a student there and is presumed to have attended lectures given by Steiner before the arson. The arson was followed by a number of assassination attempts until he was finally murdered by a poisoned sandwich. Steiner lived for about a year after being poisoned and wrote an autobiography. The reason neither Steiner nor his followers ever pointed fingers at the nascent Nazis are two: 1)they are devout Christians, who turn the other cheek in all conditions; 2) fear and suppression. Ravenscroft's tale of the fateful conflict between Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Steiner is a masterpiece of its kind, a riveting read. Both men worked toward manifesting a vision of reality. Both were doomed. The question which is raised is important. How much can we know of the motives behind the central events in history? Intentionality is incredibly diverse. Appearances often belie reality. Ravenscroft attempts to penetrate the hidden reality, the workings of the engine which drives history, and the results are, at the least, interesting, if not edifying.

In the first pages of The Spear, Ravenscroft states flat out that he considers the third eye (AKA the pineal gland) to be a valid primary source for historical research. To complicate matters even further, Ravenscroft was describing the visions of Dr. Walter Stein, his friend and teacher who was dead by the time Ravenscroft began writing.How you feel about the Spear of Destiny depends a lot on how seriously you take Ravenscroft's ideas on the 3rd Eye. Are you ok with someone writing history as seen in someone else's mystical vision or are you more the footnotesey type? The fact that a lot of Ravenscroft's quoted sources are out of print makes his ideas hard to check or corroborate.Havng said all this, I really love the Spear of Destiny and I've lost track of the number of times I've given copies to friends. I love Ravenscroft's ideas, whereby WWII was really a conflict between famous 9th Century figures reincarnated after exactly 1000 years. Ravenscroft's WWII was a war between cosmic Good and Evil in their most absolute senses. It's all very Michael Moorcock/The Highlander and if anything, Ravenscroft's book highlights how sorely we need a bit of romance and myth in our times. Read it by all means. Maybe you'll take it seriously, maybe not. But you will certainly be entertained.

This book relates the fate of the spear of Longinus used to pierce Jesus on the cross, which spear is said to empower whoever owns it, be it for good as well as evil, while it also explains the rise and fall of Hitler and how the whole horrific holocaust could have taken place. The book is well researched and explains by the way of the occult the evolution of nazism. This book is relevant in today's world as well as we are looking for explanations to the evils constantly present in our lives.

I read the book almost 22 years ago , and after living in Europe , having grown up Catholic, it is painfully obvious that the theological failure of the Church (Roman and Protestant) is primarily responsible for the failed spiritualization of Europe and consequently, the West. Students of Jung, Ouspensky and Gurdjieff, and Castaneda or even fans of the book Jesus, The Man, will find this book a confirmation of the idea that real spirituality in the West has been subverted historically by a group of narrow power oriented "lawyers" (read :theologians and church bureaucrats) who created a monstrous doctrine out of the Christian experience that could not withstand the ravages of science, but whose failure opened the floodgates for nationalism, for the magnification of unredeemed ego expression through the industrialization of war. It is not necessary to believe in reincarnation to embrace the central thesis of this well written , fascinating book.