Out In The Open

[Tenet Nosce]

The same thing happened with the swastika. It had meaning similar to the pentagram, but the difference was in which direction it was spinning. Hitler co-opted an ancient symbol and turned it into a symbol for ultimate evil.

The swastika is a revered symbol of the Jains. In my fallible opinion, I believe that the symbol represents a direct lineage of the concept of karman, or "vile icky stuff" that humans collect when they commit "unclean" acts, such as eating a forbidden food, for example. According to this belief system, karman can also be transmitted through heredity, or even simple physical contact, and was used to reinforce the notion of strict caste segregation throughout India, as well as extreme ascetic practices, intended to purge oneself from this defiling karman.

This concept was one of many that were carried by "missionaries" of sorts coming out of India all throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, partially in response to growing concern in India, and what is now Pakistan, as to encroachment by the British Crown.

It would appear that this concept of "defilement by action" became fixated by Hitler's mind on the Jews, and as it stood to reason to this psychopath, the only way to purge humanity of this "evil defiling influence" was to slay those people that he believed to be the carriers of this "uncleanliness". This idea appears to have been further reinforced by his distorted interpretation of the life force energy known as vril, as described in Lord Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race.

Funny how this idea keeps popping up again and again, and never (it would seem) with positive consequences.