Serrano claims to have met a certain Master who told him that at a certain point in the practice of Yoga one is able to leave one’s body and go through mystical death to reach the Black Sun, the realm occupied by the Hyperboreans beyond the physical universe. However, such a spiritual voyage is not within the capabilities of all humanity — only those ‘whose blood preserves the memory of the ancient White, Hyperborean race’. (51)
The Jewish people are seen by Serrano as the instruments of the Demiurge (whom he identifies with Jehovah). They constitute an ‘anti-race’ that is engaged in a gigantic conspiracy involving all the world’s institutions, the undeclared enemies of Hyperborean ideals. These ideals gave rise to the Thule Society, which Serrano claims had links with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn but ‘was perverted by the degeneracy of Aleister Crowley and the Jewish Bergsons’. (52)
During the earlier part of Hitler’s campaigns, according to Serrano, his intention had simply been to reconquer the ancient territories of the Aryans or Hyperboreans. Rudolf Hess’s flight to England in 1941 was the last stage of this effort, intended through renewed contacts with the Golden Dawn to unite Germany with her Aryan cousins, the British, and encourage them also to purify their race. But after the apparent failure of this mission, Hitler took up his avataric destiny of total war on all fronts against international Jewry and the Demiurge, attacking them in their most powerful creation, the Communist Soviet Union. (53)
As with other revisionists, Serrano denies that the Holocaust took place (he calls it the ‘Myth of the Six Million’) on the grounds that the German is heroic but not cruel (cruelty being an attribute of mixed blood). Indeed, during the Second World War, the Nazis were allegedly concentrating on the perfection of ‘magical realism’, including the development of disc-planes, establishing contact with ascended Masters in Tibet and dematerialisation. Hitler himself did not commit suicide but escaped through an underground passage, designed by Albert Speer, connecting the Bunker with Tempelhof Airfield where he boarded one of the disc-planes and left the ruins of the Third Reich behind. (54)
As Godwin notes, quoting the Chilean writer thus, Serrano here enters realms usually identified with the bizarre fringes of ufology and cosmology:
Had the German submarines discovered at the North Pole or in John Dee’s Greenland the exact point through which one penetrates, as through a black funnel, going to connect with the Other Pole, emerging in that paradisal land and sea that are no longer here, yet exist? An impregnable paradise, from which one can continue the war and win it — for when this war is lost, the other is won. The Golden Age, Ultima Thule, Hyperborea, the other side of things; so easy and so difficult to attain. The inner earth, the Other Earth, the counter-earth, the astral earth, to which one passes as it were with a ‘click’; a bilocation, or trilocation of space. (55)
Serrano believes that the Hollow Earth is still inhabited by the First Hyperboreans and that the Nazis found a way through to their realm via the South Pole, a belief shared (apparently) by the French writer Jean Robin — although it must be added that Robin is no denier of the Holocaust. In 1989, Robin published his Operation Orth, which offers the account, supposedly given to Robin by a friend, of a journey to a subterranean complex made aboard a flying saucer that could pass through solid rock. The underground city was near the Chilean coastal city of Valparaiso, north of Santiago; it had a population of some 350,000, all of whom were members of the Black Order and some of whom were Jews who blamed ‘their fellows for their “refusal to collaborate” with the evolutionary process’. (56) Robin’s story differs from other Nazi-survival myths in that Hitler died in this new Agartha in 1953 and his body was placed in a transparent, hexagonal casket. Rather astonishingly, this casket also contained the body of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews from the concentration camps and who mysteriously disappeared at the end of the war. Godwin is justifiably nonplussed by this:
Operation Orth poses every manner of problem … to the reader, who can only wonder what prompted Jean Robin to present the shocking images of Hitler and Wallenberg reconciled, and the casual dismissal of the Holocaust by the Jews of the Black Order. In the context of Guenonian attitudes, which are nothing if not respectful of the Jewish people and their tradition, there is nothing to be said, unless it be that Robin actually accepts his friend’s account, and is warning us of the [evolutionary process’s] final obscenity. (57)
Anyone familiar with the above phrase will surely be wondering what possible significance it can have to the present study. I have decided to discuss it for two reasons: firstly, the terrifying conspiracy-to-end-all-conspiracies known as ‘Alternative 3’ has been implicated by more than one writer in the ongoing saga of ultra-secret Nazi activities; and secondly because, since Alternative 3 was actually nothing more than a cleverly engineered hoax, it offers us a salutary lesson in how the public can be manipulated by fantasy and propaganda masquerading as fact. Since many readers may be unfamiliar with Alternative 3, we must review its principal elements before turning our attention to the Nazi connection and the reasons why, even today, it is still believed by many to be essentially true.
The tale begins on 20 June 1977, when the UK Independent Television Company Anglia transmitted a documentary programme in its highly regarded Science Report series. The programme was entitled Alternative 3, and the British TV guide TV Times had this to say about it: ‘What this programme shows may be considered unethical, but this film is transmitted … as a challenge to those who know the answers to the questions raised to tell the truth.’ (58) The programme finished at 10p.m., and from then until midnight and throughout the following day Anglia Television was swamped with telephone calls (10,000, according to one estimate), some from people who had enjoyed the programme and wanted to know if there was any truth in it but many from viewers who were genuinely frightened by its ‘revelations’ and who wanted to know what was being done about them. Anglia hastily issued a statement assuring its viewers that Alternative 3 had, in fact, originally been meant as an April Fool’s Day joke — as evidenced by the closing credits, which included the copyright caption: ‘Anglia Television — April 1, 1977’.
Shortly before the transmission, Anglia had issued a press release, stating:
A team of journalists investigating, among other topical subjects, the drought of 1976, and the changes in the world’s atmospheric conditions, and also a disturbing rise in the statistics of disappearing people, follow a trail of information and scientific research through England and America.
A Cambridge scientist and an ex-astronaut living in unpublicised retirement following a nervous breakdown, are among the links in their investigations, which come together finally in some strange discoveries about the future of life on Earth and elsewhere in the Solar System.
As a result of our private screenings a few weeks ago, this programme has been acquired for simultaneous transmission in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Denmark and Iceland and will be seen eventually in the majority of European and Asian markets.