By Chris Hale
In 1938, nearly at the eve of conflict, a Nazi excursion set out via British India on a venture subsidized by means of Himmler himself.
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This was the secret Schäfer brought back from Tibet. But like so many others he had merely found what he and his patron already thought they knew. Schäfer’s was just one more myth about Tibet, albeit a most unusual one. Geheimnis Tibet stands at the end of a long tradition. . ’ – Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of the Empty House, describing his activities after an apparently fatal encounter with Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls The ground for these leaps of imagination19 had been well prepared.
Their corpses were delivered to SS Dr August Hirt, an old friend of Beger, to become part of a university anatomical collection. By this time, Schäfer was the proud head of his own ‘Institute for Central Asian Research’, named after Swedish explorer Sven Hedin, headquartered in a castle near Salzburg. He was pleased when Beger, as instructed, sent him the data and face masks he had acquired in Auschwitz. One individual, Beger was pleased to report, had ‘perfect Tibetan features’. The five men who rode into Lhasa in January 1939 were not prophets.
The ‘two chums’ had high ambitions. , as Blavatsky now called herself, found an occult salon where she began to do much more than the usual tricks of ectoplasmic manifestation, table rapping and trumpet blowing. B. conjured up instead one of the great inventions of the nineteenth century – the guru. The elite of America’s East Coast soon flocked to hear words of wisdom from this exotic female magus. Olcott and Blavatsky shrewdly issued shrill attacks on lesser mediums and eventually repudiated the movement altogether.