Dr Robin Douglas

"A n---o with his taboos is more credible to me than the man who believes seriously in transubstantiation" - A. Hitler

There have been rumours in more recent years of requiems being said for Hitler in ultra-traditionalist Catholic circles.

Announcement of a Requiem Mass for Hitler and Mussolini from Franco's Spain.

I've been using AI to trace shared patterns in wording (ngrams) in esoteric texts from the Renaissance to the early part of the 20th century.

This gives the following map of relationships between key texts and authors.

It is not always appreciated how deeply implicated the Islamic Republic of Iran is in antisemitic conspiracy theories.

It should be emphasised that these ideas are not believed because of some inherent weakness of Iranians or of Shia Islam - they were imported from Christian European antisemites in the early twentieth century.

Still, they're not very good, are they?

....Instead, they are infused with a narrative that Israel and 'world Jewry' seek to keep Muslims scientifically backward, while manipulating global institutions to prevent Iran’s rise."

Source: isgap.org/flashpoint/a...

"Technical debates about centrifuge cascades or enrichment levels are not simply presented as questions of national sovereignty or development.....

Antisemitic myths have formed part of the discourse around the neuralgic nuclear issue. Jews have been identified as the hidden force behind American policy and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

These ideas persisted in recent years. Ayatollah Khamanei suggested that Covid was created by the USA. He also thought that "demons" were helping the enemies of Iran – a reference to theories that the Mossad work with supernatural entities and that Jews more generally use magic to control the world.

Myths about Jews and Zionists controlling the USA continued to circulate in the 21st century.

The Islamic Republic supported Holocaust deniers and 9/11 conspiracists - and, more bafflingly, blamed the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the cold winter in Europe that year on the "US–Zionist regime".

A burst of paranoia about Zionist control of America came in 1995 when Bill Clinton, probably ill-advisedly, announced of a near-total ban on trade with Iran from the podium of the World Jewish Congress.

In the period after the Islamic Revolution, in the 1980s and 90s, paranoia about "Zionist domination" took on new life, coupled with an interest in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Various editions of the Protocols were published under the patronage of the state.

These theories pre-date the Islamic Republic. It used to be believed in some quarters that the last Shah of the house of Pahlavi was a Jewish agent ("Papa Levi").

The Shah himself liked his conspiracies. He ended up believing that Israel (and the USA, the USSR and the UK) had put Khomeini in.

It is not always appreciated how deeply implicated the Islamic Republic of Iran is in antisemitic conspiracy theories.

From a knowledge lecture - not from the grade rituals, which is what the chart is seeking to track.

You're right, though, I should have expressed myself more accurately. No line on the chart doesn't literally mean "no" textual overlap. It's seeking to track relatively major relationships.

No direct textual borrowings - although Crowley of course published the rituals in The Equinox.

I've been using AI to trace shared patterns in wording (ngrams) in esoteric texts from the Renaissance to the early part of the 20th century.

This gives the following map of relationships between key texts and authors.

Happy St David's Day/ Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant hapus!

Farewell, it seems, to Ali Khamenei.

Cheerio.

Paganism Persisting – In-Conversation & Soirée | Treadwells Robin Douglas and Francis Young explore Europe’s long fascination with reviving its pagan past. Drinks follow.

Book launch event coming up at Treadwell's Books in London on 21 May!

Francis Young and myself will be talking about the paperback edition of Paganism Persisting.

www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/pag...

Paganism Persisting – In-Conversation & Soirée | Treadwells Robin Douglas and Francis Young explore Europe’s long fascination with reviving its pagan past. Drinks follow.

Book launch event coming up at Treadwell's Books in London on 21 May!

Francis Young and myself will be talking about the paperback edition of Paganism Persisting.

www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/pag...

I looked in the clown book and the largest chapter by far was about you.

As I say, the reports are there for anyone to consult. They're online in the British Newspaper Archive. I found them to be detailed rather than vague, but anyone who wants to check that is free to do so.

And yet she didn't. The contemporary newspaper reports describe the observances in some detail, and they make it clear that she did not attend the Mass itself. Feel free to look at the primary sources and you'll see what I mean.

No she didn't.

I've always thought that was confined to its own facts!

I'm leaving the serious commentary on the depravity of the man to others. Others are better placed than me to talk about that.

The concept of a statutory Jew....

One might also postulate other acts falling short of formal conversion which could exclude a person from the throne.

Whether or not Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor could be persuaded to carry them out is another question.