I'm at it again. I can't stop from playing with creating a few pieces of 'Cover Art'. The new face of Thomas Book is a 1920's - 1930's pulp style of fiction so I'm trying to push things more in that theme. This new cover represents the first adventure (journal) of Thomas Book; "The Jade Dragon".
The first version of the cover has a cool shadow effect but is still legible. I'm not sure if I like this version better than the other, more simple version.
Each of the adventures will be a new journal and based on his own notes about what happened when he was out and about on his travels.
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I like the first one better. It has more oomph. As for the history of The Thule Society, originally known as "Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum," it was started in 1918 by the German occultist Rudolf von Sebottendorff in Munich. It was originally meant as a cover name for a lodge of Germanenorden Walvater of the Holy Grail, which was itself a schismatic offshoot group of the secret society, Order of Teutons which was founded in 1911.
Those wacky occultists and their squabbles over who gets to wear the bigger headdress and the prettier robes.
Anyway, the founder, Rudolf, claims to have meant for the group to push his own occult agenda, but the leadership of the Germanenorden forced him to push the nationalist, anti-semetic themes popular in post WWI Germany, which were then later picked up by the Nazis who made a political system out of them.
This may or may not be true, but the fact that he made this claim while the Nazis were in power, when he had nothing to gain by denouncing anti-semetic beliefs leads lots of folks to think, hey--he may not have been lying. (He also never joined the Nazi party, either and left the Society after it became simply a vehicle for racism. He was pretty disheartened that most of the members were more interested in hating Jews and Gypsies than in Aryan hocus pocus stuff.)
It is pretty fascinating stuff--if I can find the Fortean Times issue that had articles on the Thule Society and Nazi occultism, I will let you know. I may have let my Dad borrow those issues, though, so it may be a while.
Of course, in 1933, esoteric organizations such as the Thule Society, which was by then disbanded--I think they disbanded in the 1920's--were outlawed by the Nazi party.
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