Editing Thule Society (section)

==Dissolution==
Early in 1920, Karl Harrer was forced out of the DAP as Hitler moved to sever the party's link with the Thule Society, which subsequently fell into decline and was dissolved about five years later,<ref name="Goodrick-Clarke 1985 221"/> well before Hitler came to power.

[[Rudolf von Sebottendorff]] had withdrawn from the Thule Society in 1919, but he returned to Germany in 1933, hoping to revive it.  In that year, he published a book entitled ''Bevor Hitler kam'' (''Before Hitler Came''), in which he claimed that the Thule Society had paved the way for the Führer: "Thulers were the ones to whom Hitler first came, and Thulers were the first to unite themselves with Hitler."  The Nazi authorities did not favourably receive this claim: after 1933, esoteric organisations were suppressed (including ''völkisch'' occultists), and many were closed down by anti-[[Freemasonry|Masonic]] legislation in 1935.  Sebottendorff's book was prohibited, and he was arrested and imprisoned for a short period in 1934 after departing into exile in Turkey.

Nonetheless, it has been argued that some Thule members and their ideas were incorporated into [[Nazi Germany]].<ref name=Ange9/>  Some of the Thule Society's teachings were expressed in the books of [[Alfred Rosenberg]].<ref>See, for example, Alfred Rosenberg, ''Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts: Eine Wertung der seelischgeistigen Gestaltungskämpfe unserer Zeit'', München: Hoheneichen, 1930.</ref> Many occult ideas found favour with Heinrich Himmler, who had a great interest in mysticism, unlike Hitler, but the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' (SS) under Himmler emulated the structure of [[Ignatius Loyola]]'s [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit order]]<ref>{{harvnb |Höhne |1969 |pp=138, 143–145}}</ref> rather than the Thule Society, according to Hohne.