The Aura Catena

"The will to power is so hated in democratic ages that their entire psychology seems directed toward belittling and defaming it".
[Nietzsche, WzM 751]

As has already been shown, Moeller van den Bruck was thoroughly immersed in the teachings of Friedrich Nietzsche. In his recent book on Moeller, Lauryssens discusses the proximity of the two authors;
"Nietzsche is convinced that the future of German culture rests on the shoulders of the sons of Prussian officers".
['The Man Who Invented the Third Reich', Lauryssens]
One of Moeller's books was an excursus on 'Prussian Style'.

"Nietzsche describes the coming 'Ubermensch' or 'superman' - a term he borrowed from Goethe's 'Faust' - as a new, biologically more valuable, racially improved, stronger type of man, with a greater capability for survival and preservation of the species".
[ib.]
Another like-minded author of this inter-war period, Carl Jung, made similar connexions;
"Thus Spake Zarathustra, like Goethe's Faust, was a tremendous experience for me. Zarathustra was Nietzsche's Faust....
The second part of Faust was more than a literary exercise. It was a link in the Aura Catena ('The Golden Chain' in alchemy] which has existed from the beginnings of philosophical alchemy and Gnosticism down to Nietzsche's Zarathustra. Unpopular, ambiguous, and dangerous, it is a voyage of discovery to the other pole of the world...
Goethe's secret was that he was in the grip of that process of archetypal transformation which has gone on through the centuries ...
The Dionysian experience of Nietzsche might better be ascribed to the god of ecstasy, Wotan ..."
[ 'Memories, Dreams and Reflections', CG Jung]

And by that Golden Chain, Jung brings us back to the Teutonic god Wotan, and therefore to things Germanic in the deepest, most esoteric sense.
This aspect of Nietzsche is emphasised in Lauryssen's book on Moeller;
"Nietzsche's 'Superman', perfect in body and mind and one who delights in battle, is happy in the consciousness of his own strength, and disdains man-made laws and man-made gods. What is soft must become hard; man must become a Superman, trained for war. Those who are weak and sick must be eliminated, for the Superman will not weaken himself by feeling pity:
'There is no such thing as a right to live, the right to work, or the right to be "happy" ', writes Nietzsche; 'In this respect, man is no different from the meanest worm. Society can only be a scaffolding for a select race of Supermen to elevate themselves to higher duties'.
The complete man is the complete beast.
Nietzsche longs to see the strong, hard, barbarian Teutonic Knights of former times revived in a new aristocracy of 'UBERMENSCHEN' ".
[Lauryssens,ib.]

Lauryssens gives an indication of other influences on Moeller besides Nietzsche - they make a familiar role-call for fascist culture;
Wagner, HS Chamberlain, Dostoevsky [Moeller did the first German translation of Dostoevsky's COMPLETE works], and the poet Stefan George.
Of the latter, he says;
"In Stefan George's poetry, words such as 'Reich' and 'Fuhrer' figure prominantly. He believes in the vision of the poet, in the Aristocracy of the Spirit, and in the revival of Teutonic Supremacy.
He is attracted by the idea of ruthless, unlimited power, and predicts the birth of a Hero who will plant the seeds of a new Reich and lead first of all Germany, then a 'European Union', and finally 'the world government' into a new 'World Order' ...
George advocates a secret academy called the 'George Circle', with himself as the high priest, and Nietzsche, as one of its apostles. Wearing only black clothes of a clerical cut, and using the Swastika as his symbol, he moves from city to city preaching to a small audience".
[ib.,]

Strangely, George - like Moeller - is given scant attention in today's 'democratic age' !