Hi Q.,

Thanks for your thoughtful comment and reading my piece! I could not have access to another picture of the Bektashi seal; I also thought this one looked very nice and aesthetic. Thanks for mentioning the proper origin though.

Well, as for the direction of the swastika, I must say I was puzzled for years by this intentional change but I found a picture of the New Templar Order showing the same orientation. So, the question was, did Liebenfels have an intent when he selected the elements in the most truthful representation of the Neo Templar ideals, such as the association of the lys flower with the swastika. Although it might not seem obvious at first, the french aristocratic blasonry had been linked to eastern symbolism as early as the Middle Ages. Falque de Bezaure, himself a descendant of Templar knights, explains in a number of his publications ( all of them in french, maybe translated but I am not sure ) how swastikas were identified in the secret Templar iconography. And it is well possible that the semi-mythical Order of Sion had occult members who had adopted the swastika with its negative connotation long before the Nazis did. I personally believe that the direction of the Hakenkreuz was ‘indifferent’ until a deliberate ritual was applied to it to turn into a symbol of death charged with evil intents. You can check the Secret History, a set of graphic novels, in which a long lost rabbi shows a swastika pattern embedded inside a sephiroth to his student, forecasting a dark future for Judaism as a culture and a people. If I recall, the swastika is oriented in the ‘nazi direction’. So many interpretations have been proposed that it would be interesting if new research uncovered new information in that regard.

Again thanks for your readership and looking forward to my next publication in the following weeks,