The Thule Society

The Thule Society (Thule-Gesellschaft) was a German occultist group in Munich, named after a mythical northern country from Greek legend. A primary focus of Thule Society was to find the origins of the Aryan race. Thule was a land located by geographers in the furthest north. The Thule Society was founded 1918, by Rudolf von Sebottendorff. He had been schooled in occultism, Islamic mysticism, alchemy, Rosicrucianism and much else. Among the members of Thule Society were journalists, poets, professors, and Army officers. Von Sebottendorff claimed that the Thule Society was of huge importance to the founding of National Socialist movement. He also claimed later that he originally intended the Thule Society to be a vehicle for promoting his own occultist theories, but that the Nazis pressed him to emphasize political, nationalist and anti-Semitic themes. The Thulists believed in the hollow earth theory. The Thule Society is the center of many conspiracy theories concerning Nazi Germany. These theories include the creation of spacecraft and secret weapons like the creation of vril-powered Nazi UFOs.