WTF Did I Just Read?

If you want to see something that’s occupying serious fruit loop territory, check out Lanz von Liebenfels. Who was a defrocked Cistercian monk who launched into some truly bizarre realms of fantasy with his magnum opus, a frankly wacky excursion into Biblical exegesis which claimed, among other things, that the Jews were “beast-men” who buggered Jesus before the Crucifixion.

Yes, you read that correctly. His warped little tome bore the wonderfully Pythonesque title of Theozoology, or the Account of the Sodomite Apelings and the Divine Electron. No, I kid you not. You can, if you wish to read some completely moon pie gibberish, download this freaky piece of scribbling and experience the weapons grade tard for yourself.

This would be a source of the purest comedy of the absurd, but for one hideous detail … Liebenfels’ outpourings were influential in the formation of Hitler’s view of the Jews, and led in turn to the historical horrors of the Holocaust.

Yes, Liebenfels was a far right racist who mixed the rind peelings of Madame Blavatsky’s “Theosophy” with his own unique mediaeval bestiary, and a heavy leavening of his own brand of fulminating anti-Semitism.

You can learn more about this individual and his twisted influence on history here.

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