Spear of Destiny
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Manufacturer: Weiser Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 133.44
EAN: 9780877285472
ISBN: 0877285470
Label: Weiser Books
Manufacturer: Weiser Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 362
Publication Date: 1982-06
Publisher: Weiser Books
Studio: Weiser Books
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The occult power behind the spear which pierced the side of Christ. How Hitler inverted the Force in a bid to conquer the world. Fascinating reading.
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Summary: The real deal
Comment: This is a fantastic read. Ravenscroft really nailed it on the head as far as I'm concerned. I have spoke to older people who walk in esoteric circles and threw the names of Stein,Steiner, and Eckart and they were all familiar to them. It was great to be able to know for sure what I had expected all along. Without giving anything away, I highly recommend "The Spear of Destiny" and Ravenscroft's other two titles also. Very deep reading.Edge of your seat stuff.
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Summary: A little academic
Comment: I bought this book with very high expectations since I have always been interested by the occult and the notion of Hitler being a close follower of the occult and seeking items of the occult for world domination. This book goes back and forth between fascinating and disappointing for me.
The book starts off great telling the story of the crucifiction of Christ and the Roman soldier driving the spear into his side to keep His body from being mutilated while still on the cross and then goes off into what a state of desperation Hitler was in during his younger years, how he lived like a vagrant and tried to sell his mediocre artwork instead of getting a job and how he became obsessed with the occult and tried to unlock the secrets of the spear of destiny.
From there the book seems to wax and wane on its focus of Hitler and tends to go off on teangents about other sects of the occult and secret societies that people in Hitler's inner circle were in and this goes on for pages and pages before ever getting back to the original point. I've had lots of trouble keeping my focus while reading this book. At certain parts I'm very fascinated by it and then at others I'm bored with it. This book is written like a research paper so if you're a historian or have a die hard interest in the spear and black magic then this book is for you. If you just have a casual interest in it like myself, you might try something else.
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Summary: Oldie but Goodie!!
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Christianity's Missteps Cause WWI and II- Well Argued!
Comment: I read the book almost 22 years ago, and after living in Europe, having grown up Catholic, and reflecting on Europe and the Church's history, 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.
The Church's failure in this regard 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.
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Summary: This book was intense and loaded with facts
Comment: It is amazing how this book maps out the travels of the spear. if you love facts, a great historical story-line, and religion. Then this book is definitely for you.
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