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Book Review

New book points to gnostic
satanism of Britain's Prince Charles
by Mark Burdman

ery being openly espoused by inftuentials such as former

The Prince and the Paranormal/The
Psychic Bloodline of the Royal Family
by John Dale
W. H. Allen. 1986. 247 pages

Royal Institute of InternationalAffairs director Arnold Toyn­bee, an advocate of the cults of Mithra and Isis, and of othersin the ambience of the House of Windsor, too many people

have been inured to, or tolerant of, figures in the British
Establishment espousing the same views as' those against

which the British population Was mobilized to fight a world
war in the 1939-45 period.

It is no secret that a substantial part of the British Establish­

ment cringes at the thought that Prince Charles will some day
be the Sovereign of Great Britain and head of the Church of

England. Charles's left-radical sympathies, his "green" en­vironmentalist views, and his proclivities for talking to plants
and engaging in other kooky activities, have all been con­demned in one form or another. This has been particularly
the case, in the national mood in Britain defined by the July­

Although limited in its historical and epistemologicaldepth, The Prince and the Paranormal: The Psychic Blood­

line of the Royal Family. by British writer John Dale, begins

to point in the right directioni if the political, cultural, andconstitutional crisis erupting around the House of Windsor,

is ever to be efficiently resolved.

Dale not only identifies the main kernel of gnosticism(although he shies away from using the term) in the Prince ofWales's adopted world view, but also tries to locate this, inAugust 1986 "Palacegate" controversy between the House ofWindsor and Mrs. Thatcher, and, more recently, by the re­a historical strain of kookery that has been practiced by thedied of AIDS, and that the Palace is rampant with homosex­

in the 19th century. The expression "psychic bloodline" mayports that the Prince of Wales's private valet, Stephen Barry,

House of Windsor, since at least the time of Queen Victoria

ual perversity.

itself have some regrettable connotations, but the correct

Sonntag even suggested that Charles renounce his claim topatronage has helped tum Britain into the occult capital of

On Nov. 2 of this year, the West German daily Bild am

the throne, because of his weird practices and beliefs.

What occurs to the outsider looking at the United King­dom, is the question: Why have things reached the point thata gnostic kook such as Prince Charles could become Sover­eign? One suspects, first, that the actual moral criminality ofthe views of Charles and his favorite gurus, has never beenpresented in a form that would outrage moral and patriotic
layers in Britain to a sufficient degree. Specifically, the factthat Charles, by his endorsement of the ideas of the late C.
G. Jung in particular, has endorsed the same brand of mys­tical gnosticism which characterized the Nazi regime and theinner core of the Bolsheviks, has never, to our knowledge,

been clearly stated or proved.

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Featurechallenge is posed by the author. As Dale puts it, "Royalthe Western world. Paranormal practices which are illegal inother countries can be promoted without hindrance."

In his own way of arguing the matter, Dale poses thefundamental dilemma facing Britain. If Prince Charles'sviews, and/or those of his ideological mentors, continue to

be tolerated, then the cultural matrix of Great Britain would

no longer be that of Western; Judeo-Christian civilization.
As a hostile reviewer of Dale's book, the Daily Telegraph's

Christopher Booker, pointed out recently, there is no pointin criticizing Charles in the way Dale does, since most Brit­ons, in one form or another, do just what Charles does!

Conversely, were there to be a strong reaffirmation of thevalues of Judeo-Christian civilization in Britain, this would
necessitate a constitutional crisis challenging the House of
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Windsor, if not under the current reign of Queen Elizabeth,then certainly under that of her successor.
Dale has two main lines of argument:• First, the Prince of Wales himself has, from all avail­able evidence, been recruited into belief in, and support for,Jungian psychology. This has been done largely through themediation of Sir Laurens van der Post, the closest friend of

the late C. G. Jung in the latter's last 12 years of life. At thesame time, Charles has become a sponsor of "alternative

medicine," and, perhaps, of a wide range of other "occultand paranormal" activities. As a result, says Dale, he hasdeveloped a "super-ecumenicist" world view, that would bein contradiction with his future role as head of the Church of
England.

• Second, the House of Windsor itself, at least since thetime of Queen Victoria, has been a hotbed of "psychic"

activities.This primarily involves the practice, in and aroundBuckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, of "spiritualism,"

including seances, discussions with ghosts, and the like. It

has also involved overt backing, including by Queen Eliza­

beth II, for all sorts of "alternative medicines," including aparticularly mystical branch of homeopathy that Dale traces

to the activities of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
in the late 19th century. The case of the late Lord Mountbat­ten, Charles's "favorite uncle," is most notorious. Mount­batten, as Dale reports, came firmly to believe in flying sau­cers during the 1950s, while he was becoming an importantmember of the British defense Establishment.

For many readers, Dale's accounts would make it prob­

lematic to differentiate between the Royal Family's house­holds and the neighborhood lunatic asylum. But the way suchpractices propel Britain toward a constitutional crisis, is much
more interesting.

With a measure of diplomatic tact, Dale argues:
On the positive side, these ideas are moulding afuture monarch who � HI offer sincere, compassionate

and idealistic leadership . . . although in a mannermany will find puzzling. On the negative side, they

threaten Britain with the biggest constitutional crisis

since the Abdication [of King Edward VIII], especiallyin his role as Protestant King, head of the Church of

Beginning in 1977, he began to climb off the fence

and to line up with the mixed bag of visionaries,

intellectuals, cranks and lunaq.cs who say there areother planes of existence tangled inside and aroundthe one we inhabit.

Later, after quoting a mid-1985 statement by the Princeof Wales stating that Jung "makes a great deal of sense inmany, many areas," and stressing Charles's close relations

to van der Post, Dale writes: "These were dangerous words
from a future head of the Church of England. The Prince
was taking the Jungian view that all religions are of equalvalue. . . . It is surely a proper question to be asked, whether
Prince Charles fully agrees with van der Post. If so, thenCharles, the future head of the Church of England, may be

a super-ecumenicist. It would caUse tremendous trouble inEngland and Defender of the Faith. For, there is evi­almost every country in the world."

a super-ecumenicist-somebody who believes that eachJung, the gnostic

contains a relative truth, rather than an absolute

flirtation with the occult and paranormal is in violation of thedence that deep inside himself, the Prince has becomeof the world's religions-including Christianity­
one. . . .

The truth is that the Prince has come to hold beliefs

that many of his future subjects will find strange andWhat Dale omits to say, but implies, is that Charles's1701 Act of Settlement, by which the House of Windsor
became constitutionally obliged to uphold the values of tra­ditional Protestant Christianity. While many traditionalists

questionable.They allow him to put aside rationalism,in the Church of England today point to the Act of Settlement,

In a word, he has become absorbed in the paranor­

ing an ecumenical deal with the Church in Rome, the muchby modem science. . . .

legal Sovereign of the Church of England as well, is obligatedfor instance, and to surrender to psychic influences.

mal-that is, phenomena which cannot be explained

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in the narrower sense that it forbids the Sovereign from reach­more important issue is that the Sovereign of the nation, as

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to uphold fundamental tenets of Christian doctrine and of

Judeo-Christian, Western civilization, more broadly.

Again to put the case more strongly than does Dale,

Charles's flirtation with Jung, is an endorsement of the ideas

tive: His first book, written anonymously about 1916, wascalled, Seven Sermons to the Dead, based on explicit gnostic
doctrine, and for which Jung used the pen name "Basilides,"after one of the Alexandria-based gnostic writers of the sec­of a man whose career was devoted to the destruction of

ond century A.D.

on gnosticism.

by Paul and Mary Mellon of the Mellon banking family inChristianity, and to the creation of a new world order based

Similarly, the Bollingen group, set up in significant part

The evidence for Charles's commitment to Jungian ideas

the 1940s and 1950s to popularize the writings of Jung andeffect, an initiation into the Jungian network, through a se­colophon as its symbol.The reason? Because in the Bollingen

Additionally, outside of Dale's book, there is some star­tic Wheel," based on the contention in the Book of Signs, by

is strong. Dale himself claims that Charles, in 1977, had, in
cretive trip to Kenya, sponsored by Laurens van der Post.

tling evidence from the Prince's speech at the Harvard Uni­

associated thinkers, utilized, on Mary Mellon's decision, thecommunity, the colophon has always been called the "Gnos­

one Rudolf Koch, that "this talisman has its origin in theversity 350th anniversary in September, when he counter­

Gnostic conception of the world."

scientific and technological progress, and called for the cre­Satan's 'New Age' project"religion" as a course of study.
We now consider the beliefs and evil influence of Jungdeeper you look.

posed the "dark side of the psyche" to the "mad rush" toation of a curriculum of "natural psychology" to replace

There's more to the story ilian that, and it gets worse, theJung, by the 1930s, became the central figure in a yearly

himself. Jungians are not only anti-Christian, they are also

conference series in Ascona, Switzerland, called the &'Era­

at, with passing references to the old British "Hellfire Club,"where jaded noblemen practiced devilish rites; to the Her­

"Gnosticism," and "Manicheanism" were discussed. As­

spawned the leading satanist of this century, Aleister Crow­blue capitals of the past 100 years' "New Age"/"Age ofsatanic. Dale hints that this is what he is ultimately getting

metic Order of the Golden Dawn, the organization thatley; and to the strange decision by the British Parliament in
1951, to legalize witchcraft. Dale also reports that, in pre­vious decades, the Church of England was wont to denounce

the practice of "spiritualism" as devilish.
The simplest proof of the satanism of the Jungian world

view might, indeed, be the statement made by the head of theso-called Church of Satan, Anton LaVey, as quoted in a

Washington Post feature in the summer of 1985, that he wastrying to bring into being in the United States a form of"Jungian neo-romanticism."

In a 1985 interview, a leading American self-professed

gnostic, James Robinson, who directs the translation of the

Nag Hammadi manuscripts that Jung had been largely re­nos" conferences, at which themes like the "Great Mother,"cona, in fact, is one of the central points of creation of cults,
East and West, over the past 100 years, and one of the true­

Aquarius" movement. The story of Ascona, Switzerland,

like the story of the Island of Capri, unravels most of the dark

secrets of the past century. It was frequented by Russian
Bolshevik leaders Lenin and Trotsky; by Anthroposoph foun­

der Rudolf Steiner; by founders of the Theosophists, and soon.

Ascona was one of the chief centers for creating the "NewAge" movement, and for the activities of the occult apparatusof the Trust, the East-West joint-stock agency behind the

Bolshevik and Nazi movements. In the same sense that thecircles of the Trust conspired to put the Bolsheviks into pow­

er, it is no accident that one find!; io the corpus of Jungianand Steinerianl Anthroposophic literature, books which con­sponsible for popularizing before his death, responded to atend that Russia will be the ruling world power of the "Ageimportance cannot be exaggerated. He is the man who up­,
dated gnosticism. ; Robinson, correctly, equated this "updat­

to nature found in "Mother Russia."question on Jung's importance for gnosticism today, "Jung'sof Aquarius," because of some mystical link to the soil andSo odd were the goings-on at Ascona, one historian ofed gnosticism," with the eruption of "Age of Aquarius" cults

the Jungian Bollingen Foundation has written, that Alice A.

decades.

right, believed that Ascona "had been the center of a cult ofthat have appeared on the American scene in the past two
Robinson claimed that this gnostic tradition might becharacterized as "post-nihilistic," and founded on a belief

that "the God who made the world is evil." Compare this, tothe prospective future head of the Church of England's com­Bailey, a Theosophist and cultist of some repute in her own

the Black Mass." The same historian reports an anecdote,
about comments made by Jung during a walk in the hills

between Ascona and Locamo, Switzerland, where there were

simple religious shrines everyWhere, reflecting upon which,ments on the "dark side" of the human psyche.

Jung said: "They are in the same places where the forefathers

Bishop Stephan Hoeller of California, published a book inplaces of potential danger, to ward off evil. We who are so

itself on a fact of Jung's life that had not been well known

a little more superstition and to be closer to nature-to take

One of Robinson's closest collaborators, gnostic Church

1982, entitled, Jung the Gnostic. The book, in part, bases
until recent years, but of which Jung himself was not secre-

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civilized and unsuperstitious would do better perhaps to havethe Devil into account." The historian, himselffavorable to

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Jung-Bollingen-Ascona, adds his own comment: "One re­members Alice Bailey's apprehension that traces of the Black
Mass were still in the Ticinese air."gence community in the past five! decades. Take the case of:
the Dutch patroness of mysticism and insider in the Ascona­
Bollingen circuit, Frau Olga Froebe-Kapteyn, ironical espe­

cially in light of the Prince Charles-Jung connection. Ac­

Jung and the Nazis

cording to the aforementioned Bollingen historian, the U.S.

cited here, portray Jung as "anti-Nazi," and as contemptuous

British intelligence," had been investigating Froebe-Kap­

While most "revisionist" historians, including the oneof the Hitler clique, this characterization is a self-serving lie
on the part of the authors.

Jung himself was appointed, with the intercession by theFederal Bureau of Investigation, "acting on an advisory/rom
teyn in the early 1940s, as someone whose activities wereregarded "as typical of the cover-ups used by the Germans
and the Japanese in espionage wprk." Further, in Switzer­

Nazis in 1933, the same year as Hitler took power, the pres­land, Frau Froebe-Kapteyn was denounced as pro-Nazi, by

the organization through which psychiatric activity was su­of developments in 1943: "At the American Legation in Bern,

Zentralblatt/er Psychotherapie, Jung wrote, in 1933, "Theunknown to her, was actually chief of the OSS mission).

ident of the International Medical Society for Psychotherapy,

pervised in Germany under the Nazi regime. As editor of thedifferences that actually exist between Germanic and Jewish

psychology, and which have long been known to every intel­

ligent person, are no longer to be glossed over, and this canonly be beneficial to science."
Three years later, in an article entitled, "Wotan," based

Baron Eduard von der Heydt. Writes the Bollingen historian,upon Jung's suggestion, she appealed to Allen Dulles (who,After inquiring into her case, Dulles reported there was nobasis for such an accusation, and that cleared Olga for good."

Indeed, the "pollution" factor'in the past five decades of

Anglo-American intelligence could almost be reduced to thecluster, Jung-Dulles-Mellon. Jung emerged as a key mentor

on the name of the old Teutonic god, Jung wrote that what isof both Dulles and the Mellon clan, both banker Paul, and"archetype of Wotan, the ancient Germanic god, worker ofgnosticism, cabalism, alchemy, and the "collective uncon­"moving in the collective unconscious of the Germans" is themagic. . . . The God of the Germans is Wotan, and not theChristian God."

Some "anti-Nazi"! Even if one were to accept some of

his wife, Mary, pumping into such circuits his beliefs inscious." Dulles and Mellon are two of the clans most central

to the past years' evolution of what can be called in the UnitedStates the "bankers' CIA," the powerful clique of treasonous

the tales about how open Nazis were purged from Jung's

U.S. families engaged in deals with the Soviet Union, as a

antipathy to Nazism, a fundamental resonance between Jun­sored various "New Age"/"Age of Aquarius" cults in thewould have to be stressed.

weakening adherence to republican political principles, theirinner circle of intimates, and about Jung's supposed personal
gian psychology and Nazism and other branches of fascism,
The inner-core Nazis were all raving gnostics. Where thefundamental line of difference lies, is that the fascism ofJung, and his various epigones and co-thinkers, is universal.

They objected to the particular linkage of the universality ofirrationalist, fascist belief, to the cruder racial myths of thevirtual "private government." While this group has spon­

United States as a means of demoralizing the population, andrelationship to Jung shows that they, themselves, are true­

blue irrational cultists. It was one scion of the Mellon clan,
Billy Mellon Hitchcock, who bankrolled many of the LSD

and other hallucinogenic experiments that were the substanceNazis, and perhaps, also, to the cruder brutality of the Nazis.

of the "MK-Ultra" drug experimentation program in the 1960s.
For all the revisionism about lung's "anti-Nazism," it isunconscious" is a notion completely alien to the Trinitarianof the early 194Os, as the world was entering the worst phases

Yet, self-evidently, Jung's famous notion of the "collective

conceptions of the Western Judeo-Christian tradition, in which
the sanctity of the notion that man is made in the image ofuseful to review the titles of the various Eranos conferencesof the war against Hitler's aggression.

God, and can participate in God's Creation through progres­The 1940 conference was on the theme, the origins of'Christianity and Gnosis. In early August 1941, two of theunconscious," even if sugar-coated with innocuous-sounding

enyi, spoke on the subject of "Gnosticism." The 1942 con­sive transformations of nature, is primary. The "collective

three Eranos Conference speakers, Max Pulver and Karl Ker­

terms about searching for "inner meaning" and the like, is aference had the title, "The Hermetic Principle in Mythology,

cious individuality-in-the-divinity, and denying the notion of

the five speakers. On the eve of the war, in 1938, the subject

wildly totalitarian notion, robbing the individual of his pre­Gnosis, and Alchemy," with Jung and Kerenyi being two of

individual creative acts. By the worst, most tyrannical sorts

was, "The Great Mother," focusing on "Magna Mater" cults.

symbols, "archetypes," and mythical constructs. Indeed,cheanism," "pagan gods," and various other cultisms-cul­concept that underlies both Nazi Germany and Bolshevik

ostolic Fathers and St. Augustine had been created.

of reductionism, the mind is reduced to patterns of arcane

collective-and of the same nature as the "collective soul"Russia.

The revisionism in respect to Jung is integral to every­

thing that has been wrong with the Anglo-American intelli-

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Throughout these years, typical themes would be "Mani­

tisms specifically against which, the Christianity of the Ap­

Imagine this cluster of ideas bduncing around in the headof the man who is, some day, to be Sovereign of the United

Kingdom, and head of the Church of England!

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