Did the Nazis know that their V-2 missile campaign against England culminated in a form of astral magic, specifically the ‘ritual of Mars’ & ‘prayer to Mars’ outlined in Book III of the Picatrix?
Dropping an offering to the ground from a high place & burning human blood were critical to the ritual for summoning the spirit of the planet Mars, according to this 10th c. Arabic text.
In this thread, I’ll explain how the final six V-2 strikes on England on Tuesday, March 27, 1945 completed an important medieval magic ritual meant to summon an evil Martian war god to earth.
Nine months later, Sabaoth, the archon associated with the fifth realm of blood (Mars) in early Gnostic texts, unconcealed himself when the Gnostic library at Nag Hammadi was discovered by a deranged Egyptian cannibal.
I’ve written several threads about how German-American rocketry and ‘high-energy human sacrifices’ (that term will be explained in this thread) created rifts in the firmament that allow demons to attack us.
Specifically, I’ve argued that Sabaoth has corrupted the American empire’s Faustian spirit and bent it to his will. Our godless hubris & lust for domination left us vulnerable to demonic possession.
From the beginning of my research, we’ve known that the V-2 program had esoteric and spiritual significance. We knew that it involved the occult & was related to Sabaoth’s eventual triumph over the United States.
This thread shows that Sabaoth did not just show up at Nag Hammadi uninvited—the archon was *summoned* to earth by the performance of astral magic.
Medieval Arabic magic rituals for summoning the spirit of the planet Mars, an evil war god, were woven into the fabric of Renaissance esoteric humanism. It’s a complicated story, but well worth telling.
In the 950s AD, a Muslim polymath in Islamic Madrid named al-Qurtabī wrote a magic compendium in four books explaining the theory of astral magic and offering many rituals, images, talismans.
al-Qurtabī’s book was the Ghāyat al-Hakīm, or ‘the Goal of the Sage.’ He reported consulting 224 books of ancient & contemporary philosophy, including lost works of Aristotle, brilliantly synthesizing ancient magic into a comprehensible system.
The Ghāyat is filled with ingredients, prayers, descriptions of images, names of spirits in multiple languages, celestial objects, and magic words.
It explains how the astral spheres rotate & synchronize in the sky like the mechanism of a celestial clock, opening up portals of influence between the heavens & earth.
In ‘the ritual of Mars’ in Book III, the sorcerer is to sacrifice an animal, create a special incense or ‘suffumigation’ from wormwood & other ingredients, fill a basket filled with offerings, and get a pitcher of wine.
Then the sorcerer, carrying all of that, climbs high in a tree and drops the sacrifice onto the ground, shattering it. The sorcerer descends and lights a fire where the sacrifice fell, burning the suffumigation.
The sorcerer says prayers to Mars. Earlier at Book III.7.23, al-Qurtabī specifies that the suffumigation burned before a prayer to Mars must be mixed with human blood.
Crucially, none of the rituals to the other planets involve dropping the offering, or using the acceleration of gravity to define a parabola & location of a sacrifice.
It is only the Picatrix’s ‘ritual to Mars’ that relies on ‘gravity’s rainbow,’ or the physical fall through the air to the ground, to destroy, to burn human blood in a sacrifice to a demonic war god.
And none of the prayers to other planets involve human blood or any human substance at all—just Mars. Both the ‘drop’ and the burning of human blood are unique to Mars.
And importantly for events much later in 1945, al-Qurtabī says “When you wish to operate through Mars, do this on Tuesday with the sun in Aries (which is the house of Mars).”
Why would a medieval Andalusian sorcerer want to ‘operate through Mars?’
“Entreat Mars for conquering of enemies, emboldening of hearts, tracking and hunting harmful animals, setting fires, war planning, and conquest over enemies.”
-Picatrix IV.4.7
-Picatrix IV.4.7
This astral magic, this esoteric Martian spiritual warfare, was centuries old by the time al-Qurtabī compiled his book, & was likely the basis of how the Muslims were able to conquer so much of Europe.
A little more than a century after al-Qurtabī completed the Ghāyat, Alfonso VI of León and Castile attacked Madrid as part of a broader campaign against Toledo. By 1123 it was firmly under Castilian control.
al-Qurtabī’s magic book nearly disappeared, but seven generations later, a new, more intellectual nobility was in control of central Spain. The magical archives of Toledo were mined & translated.
Alfonso X—‘the Wise’, also nicknamed el Astrólogo, or ‘the Astrologer’—was different from the early reconquistadors. Alfonso wrote poetry & created the famous Alfonsine Tables of astronomical data.
Alfonso the Wise was also an esotericist, & in 1256 he had al-Qurtabī’s book, the Ghāyat al-Hakīm, translated from Arabic into Castilian, a medieval Spanish dialect.
The translator was a Jewish scholar & physician named Yehuda ben Moshe ha-Kohen, the rabbi of the synagogue of Toledo. He also translated the Lapidario, a treatise on magical stones & talismans.
Alfonso el Astrólogo flipped the Muslims’ astral war magic on them, conquering their cities, translating their archives, and appropriating their rituals.
The same astral magic that underpinned the Umayyad conquest of Hispania was studied & deployed by the Castilians in the Reconquista.
By 1300, scholars believe that the Ghāyat, now known as the Picatrix (possibly a corruption of ‘Biqrātīs’ or ‘Hippocrates’), had been translated into Latin.
But the Picatrix wasn’t widely circulated until 1450, when it was taken up by Renaissance humanists. The book influenced esoteric philosophers Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) & Pico della Mirandola (1463-94) in particular.
Sumptuous manuscript copies made their way to libraries in Paris, Florence, Oxford, London, Krakow, Hamburg, Prague, and Darmstadt.
Many Renaissance humanists—all Christians–didn’t like what they read in the Picatrix.
“It is a very pointless book, full of superstitions, and structured like a ladder toward idolatry,” wrote the Lyonnese doctor Symphorien Champier in the 16th century.
Champier considered Arab magic & medicine to be a corruption of Greek science. Other voices were harsher.
“It is to be hoped [the Picatrix] may never be translated into any modern language,” wrote the Reverend J. Wood Brown in 1897.
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Brown was less dismissive, and perhaps more cautious, than Champier about the efficacy & danger of the rituals found in the Picatrix.
But in the early 20th century, a group of scholars funded by the Warburg banking family began to study magic manuscripts including the Picatrix.
But in the early 20th century, a group of scholars funded by the Warburg banking family began to study magic manuscripts including the Picatrix.
I’ll get back to this later, but it’s possible that scholars connected to Aby Warburg and his successor Fritz Saxl were trying to ‘expose’ this astral magic.
But these scholars were persecuted by the Nazis. They couldn’t publish the Picatrix or stop the V-2…
especially not after the V-2’s power was dramatically increased by the occult initiation ritual at Schloss Varlar on Dec. 9, 1944.
The SS arranged an occult initiation ceremony at Schloss Varlar on Dec 9, 1944, that paired the awarding of medals with missile launches & served to bind the top V-2 men together & enhance the efficacy of the powers they wielded.
I’ve written about that medal ceremony here:
Strengthening their astral magic through ritual allowed the Peenemünde team to successfully carry out a human sacrifice while the Sun was in Aries in 1945 (March 20-April 19).
In 1945, the Sun entered Aries at 23:38, almost midnight, on March 20, a Tuesday. There were V-2 launches that day, and deaths, but the latest fatal launch on March 20 was at 8:13 AM, impacting Chislehurst.
March 27 was the next Tuesday in Aries, and V-2 missiles rained down on Edmonton, Cheshunt, Ilford, Hutton Park, and Stepney, killing approximately 140 people.
The Stepney hit was by far the worst: two city blocks of apartment buildings were flattened, killing 134 people and seriously injuring 49.
Those high-energy human sacrifices completed the ‘ritual to Mars’ to summon the Gnostic archon to earth. Most incredibly, March 27, 1945 was the last day *anyone* was killed by a V-2 missile.
There were a few launches the following day, March 28, that impacted in fields in the Netherlands, but there were no casualties. After that, the V-2 battalions were converting to infantry or surrendering to Americans.
So, in a literal, real way, the entirety of the Nazi V-2 missile campaign against England & the Netherlands, approximately 3,200 missiles fired in anger, culminated in one day, March 27, 1945.
And that day was the only day during the entirety of WW2 when the V-2s could have met the ‘ritual to Mars’ requirement of a Tuesday when Sun is in Aries, due to the V-2 development & production schedule.
Combining the destructive acceleration of gravity with the smoke from human blood, these high-energy human sacrifices summoned the Martian archon Sabaoth to Earth with the Nag Hammadi Gnostic library discovery in Dec. 1945.
The delay, from March to December, is interesting, because the Picatrix specifically tells us:
“Know that Mars is a diverse planet, powerful in his nature and inconsistent in his reception and hearing. Therefore, once you have performed the ritual of Mars, even if he has not come…
at the abovementioned conjunction, do not lose hope. Return home once you have carefully completed these tasks.” Book III.9.3
The Germans weren’t simply irrational fools deluded into believing that a few missiles hitting England per day could turn the tide of the war, while the Wehrmacht was being shattered by the Red Army.
Instead, through the V-2 missile program, the Germans, and eventually the Americans—the Aryans?—were being shepherded toward their destiny by larger, indeed cosmic, forces.
The V-2 missile program, and the majority of rocket launches breaching the Karmán line since 1942, have drawn humanity and the Martian archon Sabaoth closer together.
I return to the original question: did the Nazis *know* that the V-2 campaign culminated in astral magic?
On the surface, it would seem highly improbable. Aeronautical engineers aren’t *typically* occultists (there are important exceptions). And the text of the _Picatrix_ itself was unknown.
But there are reasons to think that the Nazis may have known something about astral magic, because they were hunting down the Jewish scholars trying to bring the text of the Picatrix to light.
The eccentric, sometimes insane, deeply erudite Jewish banking heir Aby Warburg started looking for manuscripts of the Picatrix in 1910, the first step toward systematically studying the text.
Warburg really was insane by the way. As a committed inmate to a mental asylum, he gave lectures on the symbology of Hopi Indian myth to his fellows. But I digress.
Warburg didn’t get very far and died in 1929. Fritz Saxl, his successor, eventually was able to move his incredible library to London & escape with his life. The research institution still exists today.
Later, the neurotic Martin Plessner, working at Fritz Saxl’s direction (Saxl was running the Warburg Institute), kept having mental breakdowns while trying to decipher the Picatrix’s murky textual history.
The orientalist Hellmut Ritter was also involved in Picatrix scholarship for Aby Warburg. He escaped to Turkey after being arrested for sodomy.
Warburgian scholarship on the Picatrix effectively stopped during WW2, and wouldn’t pick back up until the Nazis had been defeated & liquid-fuel rocket technology had been transferred to the United States.
Plessner’s scholarly German translation of the Picatrix wouldn’t be published until 1962. Pingree’s edition of the Latin text–the one that went viral in the Renaissance—wasn’t published until 1986.
Now, what does that imply about the Nazis’ knowledge about the true nature of the V-2 missile program, specifically its powerful astral magic and ability to summon a Gnostic archon posing as a cruel war god?
Were Saxl and Plessner trying to expose this dangerous magic to somehow dilute its potency and lessen its power? To alert the world to what the Nazis were up to?
Or were they trying to study, understand, master, and ‘flip’ astral magic, deploying it for their own purposes, in a parallel to the Castilian’s use of the Picatrix against the Moors?
I won’t pretend to have gotten to the bottom of what the Nazis and the Warburg Institute did or did not consciously know about V-2 astral magic.
It’s certainly possible that guarding & saving the ‘ritual of Mars’ was a matter of high Nazi statecraft, that its esotericists were aware of the Picatrix’s history in the war-torn Iberian peninsula…
And that they wanted to monopolize its power. But it’s also possible that the V-2 rocket men were being guided by a hidden-yet-visible hand that has only begun revealing itself in the fullness of time.
But to me at least, the astral war magic of the Picatrix seems as though it was being contested again, just like between the Moors and the Castilians, except seven centuries later, it was the Aryans and the Jews.
I can tell you that the Picatrix story confirms our initial instincts: that high-energy human sacrifices create rifts in the firmament for demons to enter.
We knew that Sabaoth had entered the world & brought even more demons through these rifts, but the Picatrix, and the V-2 campaign’s final completion of the ‘ritual of Mars’, precisely delineates the ‘how’.
This means that future space exploration must take into account its potentially unintended implications for astral magic. Our faith in Jesus Christ will guide us aright here.
As I have written many times and will continue writing until it happens:
We must go to Mars, sanctify it & consecrate it in a holy war, a spiritual crusade, a space jihad. We must exorcise our own souls and our spacecraft. Mars colonization must be holy.
We must go to Mars, sanctify it & consecrate it in a holy war, a spiritual crusade, a space jihad. We must exorcise our own souls and our spacecraft. Mars colonization must be holy.
Only once we heal & seal the rifts in the firmament will we be able to roll back the damage & degeneracy Sabaoth and his grotesque seraphim have wrought on our empire.
/fin
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