THE SPEAR AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE NEW AGE

The solitary iron spearhead black with age still rests on a faded red velvetdais within an open leather case. Its long tapering point is supported by a widebase with metal flanges depicting the wings of a dove. Within a central apertureof the blade a hammer-headed nail is secured by a cuff threaded with gold,silver and copper wire. On the side of the lowest portion of the base goldencrosses are embossed.

The Spear of Destiny has an altogether different presence to the crowns,sceptres and other rich and gaudy paraphernalia on display in the Treasure Housein the Hofburg in Vienna. The various items of royal regalia are but mementoesof a bygone age. The Spear of Longinus however is no mere historical artifactbut a resonator of great spiritual power as relevant to the destiny of mankindtoday as it was when the Roman Centurion Gaius Cassius pierced the side ofChrist with it two thousand years ago.

The illustrious claimants to the Spear throughout two thousand years were awareof its magical powers to shape the destiny of mankind. Today these powers are nolonger the sole preserve of an élite chain of good and evil initiates, butbelong to each and every human being of any race or creed who seeks tounderstand them. Any sensitive human soul who beholds the Spear today andbecomes aware of its powers finds himself at the threshold between theterrestrial world and the spiritual world. This dramatic change in the role ofthe Spear has been brought about by the Spirit of the Time to enable eachindividual to face and understand the working of good and evil in theapocalyptic age which has already begun.

Because mankind now stands at the very threshold of the spiritual world, thepurpose of this volume is to enable the reader to understand the spiritualpowers behind the Spear in order to gain a new and deeper insight into theunfolding pattern of his life. It will also serve to interpret the symbolism ofthe Revelation of St John and to transform it into a magic mirror revealing thedread countenance of the Apocalypse within the unfolding fabric of contemporaryand coming events.

Few people yet realize that the first phase of the Apocalypse began in theopening years of this century at the time when the young Adolf Hitler stoodbefore the Spear of Destiny in the Hofburg. This moment of insight enabled himto lift the veil to perceive how he could harness its powers to rule the world.Thirty years later Adolf Hitler, now Führer of the German Reich, conqueredAustria and became the successor to the Habsburg Emperors. On this occasion whenhe entered the treasure house there were no guards, petty officials orattendants to keep a suspicious and wary eye as there were when he first saw theSpear as an unkempt outcast. Now he was free to remove the ancient weapon fromits faded red velvet dais behind protecting glass. One can only presume that heheld the Talisman of Power in his own hands, feeling the black metal of thetapering point which two thousand years before had pierced the side of Christ atthe crucifixion.

It was surely a scene which that genius of the bizarre, Charlie Chaplin himself,would never have dared to stage. And yet it was a happening so potent with evilthat it would cause an eruption more violent and destructive than the entireworld had ever known: a happening which caused the first incendiary flicker of amerciless 'Will to Power' that would quickly spread in blazing desolation toturn a whole continent to rubble. An unseen communing with dark Principalitiesand Powers which would inspire a demonic reign of terror and cold-bloodedbutchery outstripping in primitive savagery and bestial cruelty all previousages of tyranny and oppression in the entire history of mankind.

This very night when Hitler secretly claimed the Spear of Destiny was to becomeknown in Vienna as 'The Night of Terror'. He left the treasure house to initiatea most dreadful pogrom against the Jewish population and some one-hundred-thousandJews were arrested. Such were the scenes of sadism and brutality in thestreets of the city that many Jews even fled into Germany itself to find refuge.A new concentration camp was set up on the north bank of the Danube which was toearn an infamous reputation – Mauthausen. Here the official execution list wasto be longer than any other camp within the confines of the Reich. It wasrevealed at the Nuremberg trials that the decision to go ahead with the plansfor the 'final solution' dated from that night. For Adolf Hitler this was thenight of decision. He no longer needed instruments of guile and politicalcunning for he now used the powers of the Spear as a catalyst and becamecompletely ensouled by the Leviathan who struck out openly to achieve theultimate aim – the conquest of the world.

The conflict which came a year later quickly became global in its effects as noother previous war had ever done, not only involving the belligerents but alsoevery nation in the world including those who remained neutral. No one wasexempt from its reach. Entire civilian populations were subject not only to theterrors of aerial bombardment but also to the deliberate and calculated policyof genocide. The concept of crimes against humanity resulting from these eventsled to the Nuremberg trials where for the first time leaders of defeated nationswere arraigned. Yet these trials failed to identify the nature of the evil atwork behind the outer façade of National Socialism.

The Allied prosecutors apparently lacked the moral imagination to perceive theapocalyptic countenance of the civilization which had arisen in Germany betweenthe two world wars – a civilization based on a magical Weltanschauung which hadsubstituted the Swastika for the Cross. It appears there was a unanimousagreement among the judges to treat the accused...