The Order of the Green Dragon (or the Green Dragon Society depending on your source) were/are a

Japanese secret society dedicated to the mastery of the human body, and of the Time Organism or the
Etheric Body. Mastery allowed access to great power apparently. They also had powers of prophecy.
Other sources suggest that they were able to control the elements within their bodies (I think that these
may have been the five oriental elements rather than the four western elements). Higher level initiates
had to prove themselves by forcing a seed to germinate by their willpower. The Japanese order is
distinguished from western secret societies by it's exacting demands - especially the price of failure.

Karl Haushofer (General and Professor) of Geo-Politics infamy (Alan LeVey was also a fanboy), was
one of only three westerners ever, who have become members of the Green Dragon Society. Haushofer
was a military attache in Tokyo when he joined before WW1. Later Haushofer was a Nazi and was
influential in forming Nazi racial policy. Haushofer was also a member of the Vril Society or Luminous
Lodge. The Vril Society is supposedly one of the sources of the Nazi party with early party members
overlapping with the Vril, Thule and other secret societies [1].

The Vril Society, and later the Nazis, organised expeditions to Tibet starting in 1926, ending in 1942
trying to contact the Cave Oracles of Tibet. These expeditions contacted the Adepts of Agarthi. In 1929
some of the adepts returned to Germany with the Germans and formed lodges in Berlin, Munich and
Nuremburg, though some sources say that only a lodge in Berlin was formed.

The Tibetan monks/adepts of Agarthi in Germany were known as the Society of Green Men. It's
foremost adept was known as the Monk of the Green Gloves/Hands [2], who was renowned for his
clairvoyant abilities and had mastered prophecy. Hitler had audiences with him.

The Society of the Green Men were apparently in astral contact with the Green Dragon Society, and
had been for several centuries. The Green Dragon Society sent seven members to aid the Society of
Green Men in Germany. The Green Men were to help further the Nazi cause and the projected mutation
that would turn the Aryans into God-Men. The activities of the Green Men were under heavy Nazi
security.

The Green Men fell out of favour in 1943/44. This may have due to the failure of the Tibetans to alter
the course of the war, or it may have due to the involvement of Haushofer's son in the 1944
assassination attempt on Hitler. Some sources say that they were put on concentration camp rations. It
is reported that when the Russians entered Berlin in 1945 they came across numerous bodies of
Tibetans. They had all committed suicide by a knife stroke to the stomach. Some sources say the monks
were in German uniform without insignia, other sources say they were naked. Because of his failure,
Haushofer killed his wife and then committed seppuku himself at the end of the war, as would be
expected by the Green Dragon Society.

The last remnants of the Society of the Green Men were eliminated in 1959 by the Communists after
the Chinese annexation of Tibet in 1950.

I don't know about the current status of the Green Dragon Society in post war Japan, but there might be
a link up between the Green Dragon and refugee Green Men.

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Steven Kaye Wrote:

> Still trying to track down that Society of the Green
> Dragon - I wonder if it's meant to be Black Dragon, instead?

Nope, the Black Dragon Society is a Japanese nationalist political secret society, instead of an occult
secret society.

Notes:
[1] - Many members of the Vril, Thule, and OTO societies were forced to join the Ahnenerbe. The
connection between Green Dragon/Men and the Karotechia should be obvious.
[2] - I'm not sure of the exact title used it's in Pauwel & Bergier though.

References:

Trevor Ravenscroft (1973) The Spear of Destiny: The Occult Power Behind the Spear Which Pierced
the Side of Christ. Samuel Weiser, Inc.,York Beach, Maine,USA. ISBN 0-87728-547-0

Michael FitzGerald (1990) Storm-Troopers of Satan: An Occult History of the Second World War.
Robert Hale, London, UK. ISBN 0-7090-4260-4

Louis Pauwel & Jacques Bergier (1971) The Morning of the Magicians. Granada Publishing, London,
UK. ISBN 0-583-11970-0