Free Nazi Secrets: An Occult Breach in the Fabric of History by Frank Lost

first stage of the Magnum Opus (i.e., the Great Work, at the end of which production of gold is obtained), also called the Nigredo or blackening phase.

    Considered from an operative view point, the Magnum Opus resembles greatly to the physical principle of nuclear fusion, but one should not neglect the speculative or mystical aspect of this alchemical process that may also refer to an internal spiritual transformation, popularized under others by Paulo Coelho in his book The Alchemist.

    The Egyptian and historically unrelated Mesoamerican myths of the Black Sun referring to death, rebirth and fecundity suppose the underlying alchemical intermediary concept of Putrefactio (putrefaction or rotting in Latin).

    A Black Sun can be seen in the colorful alchemical manuscript called Splendor Solis ("The Splendor of the Sun"), allegedly written in 1532/1535 by Solomon Trismosin, the spiritual father of Paracelsus. This sun is only partially visible, could be setting or rising, in a desolated dried landscape of leafless trees, though remaining golden rays of light can be seen radiating weakly out of it. This Black Sun stands for putrefaction in alchemy. The accompanying text says that dissolution is required in alchemy in order to obtain a black matter like the nigredo phase does.

    Salomon Trismosin - Splendor Solis 1532-1535 at the
    Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

    Putrefaction, or death, is needed in order to give way to life and rebirth, while the unconscious reconciles with the conscious. The culmination of this conciliation corresponds to the making of the Philosophical Stone, where the Putrefactio or Nigredo is the first part of the process. It is a phase where the pure should be separated from the impure, or as Carl Gustav Jung put it in the field of psychoanalysis, to integrate the shadow to one's self, i.e., the dark side inside of us.

    Some alchemists saw all of this also as the association between the woman/moon and the man/sun into a Black Sun, or a mystical wedding.

    Theosophical Nemesis – In The Secret Doctrine (1888), Helena Blavatsky, founder of theosophy, mentioned a central invisible sun in the Milky Way. It would act as a center of attraction on our sun, and an energetic source for the universe. Its energy was seen as a "creative light," though invisible, and which the Jews of the Cabala would call "the Black Light."

    Interestingly enough, this matches exactly the modern astronomical theory of the existence of Nemesis, which would be a hypothetical hard-to-detect brown dwarf star. The hypothesis was made in 1984 by paleontologists David Raup and Jack Sepkoski, who claimed that they had identified a statistical periodicity in extinction rates over the last 250 million years, which could be explained by the regular passing of Nemesis.

    The Wewelsburg Sonnenrad – The castle of Wewelsburg was built in 1603 in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. In 1934, one year after the Nazi rise to power, Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler leased the castle for 100 years from the Paderborn district in order to make an ideological center for the Black Order of the SS.

    The castle became an almost religious place where esotericism, runes, pagan lore, and racial theories were studied by a handful of high-ranking SS, i.e., an elite within the elite. Himmler adapted the legend of King Arthur and his Knights to a new Grail mythology, based on Germanic paganism.

    The Black Sun in the Gruppenführer hall of
    the Wewelsburg lies exactly above the swastika
    on the ceiling of the crypt underneath.

    In the center of the marbled floor of the Gruppenführersaal (SS Generals' Hall) on the first floor of the castle lies an inlaid dark green Sonnenrad (“sun wheel” in German). The axis of the Sonnenrad was made out of a pure golden disk that was supposed to become the center of whole "Germanic world empire" from 1941 on. The design resembles that of Early Medieval Germanic brooches (Zierscheiben), possibly worn on