Green Dragon was a mystical Tibetan or Japanese occult order first mentioned at the beginning of the 20th century. The organization was mainly popularized through the book ''
The Morning of the Magicians
''The Morning of the Magicians: Introduction to Fantastic Realism'' (french: Le Matin des magiciens) is a 1960 book by the journalists Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier. As the authors disclaim in their preface, the book is intended to challeng ...
''.
[Жак Бержье, Луи Повель]
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It is claimed that the order collaborated with Theosophical Society
The Theosophical Society, founded in 1875, is a worldwide body with the aim to advance the ideas of Theosophy in continuation of previous Theosophists, especially the Greek and Alexandrian Neo-Platonic philosophers dating back to 3rd century CE ...
and Thule Society
The Thule Society (; german: Thule-Gesellschaft), originally the ''Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum'' ("Study Group for Germanic Antiquity"), was a German occultist and '' Völkisch'' group founded in Munich shortly after World War I, ...
and influenced well-known secular figures in Europe as well as in Tibet and Japan. It is claimed that the Nazis discovered during the capture of Berlin in World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
were wearing Tibetan (or Kalmyk) garb.["The seven heads of the Green Dragon" (about "Les Sept têtes du Dragon Vert" book by Teddy Legrand)](_blank)
/ref>Hitler et les sociétés secrètes : Enquête sur les sources occultes du nazisme
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Rumored members of the order include Peter Badmayev, empress Alexandra Feodorovna,Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (; rus, links=no, Григорий Ефимович Распутин ; – ) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, thus g ...
, and Karl Haushofer
Karl Ernst Haushofer (27 August 1869 – 10 March 1946) was a German general, professor, geographer, and politician. Through his student Rudolf Hess, Haushofer's conception of Geopolitik influenced the development of Adolf Hitler's expansio ...
.[Михаил Бурлешин «Зелёный Дракон Тибета»]
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See also
* Secret society
A secret society is a club or an organization whose activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence a ...
References
External links
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Order of The Green Dragon
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Esotericism
Japanese secret societies
Occultism in Nazism