"In place of Christianity, Himmler advocated ancestor worship and a myth of "Blood and Soil," both of which stood opposed to Christian dogma, and belief in immortality and an omnipotent God, whose anti-Christian credentials was considerably more uncertain. The exact form his replacement faith would take led Himmler down several roads. One was an adoration of the ancient King Heinrich I. Himmler celebrated the I,oooth anniversary of his death at Quedlinburg Cathedral in 1936 and was so enthralled with this medieval figure that he believed himself to be Heinrich's reincarnation Another road was the obscure occultism of Hanns Horbiger, who had propagated a theory of "Glacial Cosmogony," in which world history was a record of the eternal struggle between fire and ice, "linking the flood of Genesis and the destruction of the Teutonic kingdom of Atlantis to 'gravitational catastrophes' supposedly unleashed when the Earth 'captured' a moon in its orbit Even among the party's other paganists, Himmler's religious views were regarded as bizarre. Himmler unwittingly acknowledged this, warning his underlings that no polemics against Horbiger's theories would be tolerated. This particular obsession was too much even for Rosenberg, who sent a circular to all NSDAP offices, assuring them that "adherence to these theories was no part of being a National Socialist."
— The Holy Reich, p.130
— The Holy Reich, p.130