Aryan Kult

The Aryan Kult experienced a revival in the late 19th century. It drew on esoteric Bon practices and newly unearthed artefacts of the Aryan Nation in the Ferghana valley to forge what would later be known as the Aryan Kult. It grew in fame and prominence during the reign of Fuhrer Adolf Hitler whose great interest in the Dark fueled much of the cult's rapid development. Following the devastating defeat of the German people, cult members were taken into custody by worldly powers (American, Soviet and City of London) to enhance the esoteric arms race and fuel further research into the Dark.

Absorption

The custody described above was not internment and was not, for most of those involved, punishment. It was recruitment, and it ran alongside the documented recruitment of the Kult's countrymen from the laboratories. See Operation Paperclip. contested

What the Kult had that was worth buying was narrower than its members believed. Not the cosmology, which the men doing the recruiting appear to have regarded as nonsense. Two things: the small number of people who could work through the Tibetan material the Kult's expeditions had brought back, and — decisively — the people who could handle the looted artefacts without coming to harm. The objects were already in Allied hands. The operators were not. defector

The Kult therefore survives in a form its own members would not recognise as survival: its methods entered other hands intact and its aims did not. What is now the CIA's esoteric capability is downstream of this, and so is the founding uncertainty described under Operation Paperclip about whether any of it was answering a real threat. unverified

See also

Their creed is recorded under The Instructions, where the wiki also records why every other creed treats it as the identifying mark of a forgery.