Editing Thule Society (section)

==Beliefs==
A primary focus of the Thule Society was a claim concerning the origins of the [[Aryan race]]. In 1917, people who wanted to join the "Germanic Order", out of which the Thule Society developed in 1918, had to sign a special "blood declaration of faith" concerning their lineage:

<blockquote>The signer hereby swears to the best of his knowledge and belief that no Jewish or coloured blood flows in either his or in his wife's veins, and that among their ancestors are no members of the coloured races.<ref>Rudolf von Sebottendorff, ''Bevor Hitler kam'', 1933, page 42 (original: "Blutbekenntnis": "Unterzeichner versichert nach bestem Wissen und Gewissen, daß in seinen und seiner Frau Adern kein jüdisches oder farbiges Blut fließe und daß sich unter den Vorfahren auch keine Angehörigen der farbigen Rassen befinden.")</ref></blockquote>

"[[Thule]]" ({{langx|el|Θούλη}}) was a land located by Greco-Roman [[geographer]]s in the farthest north (often displayed as Iceland).<ref>[http://artfl.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.12:1:419.geography "Perseus Digital Library"], citing Smith's ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography]]''</ref> The Latin term "Ultima Thule" is also mentioned by Roman poet [[Virgil]] in his pastoral poems called the ''[[Georgics]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Georgics, by Virgil — trans. in 1916 by H. R. Fairclough (1862–1938) |url=https://www.stoictherapy.com/elibrary-georgics |website=www.stoictherapy.com |access-date=15 May 2021}}</ref> Thule originally was probably the name for [[Scandinavia]], although Virgil simply uses it as a proverbial expression for the edge of the known world, and his mention should not be taken as a substantial reference to [[Scandinavia]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hornblower|first1=Simon |last2=Spawforth|first2=Antony |last3=Eidinow|first3=Esther |title=The Oxford Classical Dictionary|year=2012|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-954556-8|page=554}}</ref> The Thule Society identified [[Ultima Thule (disambiguation)|Ultima Thule]] as a lost ancient landmass in the extreme north, near [[Greenland]] or [[Iceland]],<ref>Goodrick-Clarke, Nicolas (1995) [https://books.google.com/books?id=9ZzWRz9x8mwC&q=Ultima&pg=PA145 ''The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology''] New YorkL NYU Press. p.145 {{isbn|9780814730607}}</ref> said by [[Nazi occultism|Nazi mystics]] to be the capital of ancient [[Hyperborea]].