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written by the alchemist Gaston De Mengel.
    De Mengel’s research into pre-Christian,
Indian, Persian and Chinese religious documents was of a sudden interest to
Himmler, and Rahn’s job was to check and to translate the article with the
assistance of the flamboyant mathematician, SS Sturmbannführer Schmid.
    Despite his growing workload, other items kept
landing on his desk for consideration: treatises on Tibetan Buddhism and
tantrism; books by the alchemist Arturo Reghini; articles on the lost Atlantean
civilisation; pamphlets on the goddesses of Earth and Moon; works on Sacred
Geometry – the science of grids, harmonic mathematics and Earth energies;
as well as various texts on alchemy, witchcraft, ancient mythology, numerology
and the science of symbols.
    The list was seemingly endless, and he
wondered how he would ever find time to finish his book. When he asked Weisthor
why Himmler wanted so many reports, his superior had answered him with a
puzzled expression.
    ‘Don’t you know, dear boy? Why, it is for our
Führer. He has had many visions of his past lives. In truth, he remembers one
particular life, which was foremost among them: his time in Atlantis when he
was a great magician and a man unsurpassed in his abilities! What do you think
of that? Now, as you no doubt know, in each life one must relearn the knowledge
of the past before one can begin to work on future abilities. So to this end,
the Führer has been amassing a great number of books on magic and sorcery. He
has a voracious appetite for knowledge but, you see, with all he has to do, he
has no time. Your reports will save him having to read through everything. Do
you understand the great honour he has bestowed upon you? I believe, if you
please him, he might even show you his libraries one day.’
    ‘How many libraries does he have?’
    ‘There are three separate libraries. But it is
at the Berghof that he keeps all his magical works – some five or six
hundred of the rarest volumes on the occult. Everything is managed by his
librarian, a man called Herbert Döhring, whose fervent hope it is to increase
the size of the collection to sixty thousand volumes! In that library, our
Führer has nearly everything written about magic and witchcraft, torture and
ways to summon devils. You will never see anything more beautiful.’
    Ways to summon devils?
    Rahn walked back to his office feeling that
Weisthor was living up to his reputation for lunacy.
    In the coming months, Rahn worked through the
Olympic Games to publish Lucifer’s Court, and had a run-in with his assistant
Hans. The stupid man had interpolated anti-Semitic remarks into the narrative
without his permission! When Rahn complained to Weisthor, he was warned against
going to Himmler – after all, Hans was the Reichsführer’s brother-in-law.
    Disheartened, Rahn observed the
remilitarisation of the Rhineland and the Anschluss of Austria from his
windowless and therefore airless office, rarely noticing whether it was day or
night. He also did his obligatory dismal time as a guard at Dachau, where he
saw happenings that disquieted him and where he heard of even worse things: the
murder of Jewish prisoners and the torture of Marxists and anyone suspected of
speaking out against the Government. He only cheered when he saw the snow begin
to melt, because it meant that he would soon be leaving the camp. But when he
returned to Berlin he not only found it cold, damp and smelling of boiled
cabbage, he also witnessed the same cruelty and inhumanity he had seen at
Dachau, placidly tolerated and even encouraged by ordinary German men and women
alike. Sometimes even children would go out of their way to kick an old Jew who
had been struck to the ground by a Gestapo officer.
    From that time, Rahn began to consider ways of
ending his involvement with Himmler and the SS. What could he have been
thinking? How could a tolerant man continue to live under such a government? He
was pleased, therefore, when