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This article addresses the roots of the racialist fantasies found in the pages of Mein Kampf, which were among Hitler’s earliest influences in Vienna and Linz. It discusses the role of racial occultists like Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels and Guido von List, the chief ideologues of the virulently anti-Semitic Ariosophy movement. It also discusses the role played by the Austrian Catholic church and its unique currents of clerical populism and religious anti-Judaism in shaping Hitler’s world-altering fantasies and dark designs. It considers, therefore, not only the direct and indirect influences of Lanz-Liebenfels and List on Hitler, but also the shared influences that all three had in common as Austrian Germans, and more specifically, Viennese Germans, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. To do this, the article makes a close textual reading of Mein Kampf to reveal the degree to which Hitler’s language contains numerous phrasings and forms borrowed directly from the vocabulary of Lanz-Liebenfels. This is especially true in reference to his Nazi anti-Semitic tropes, many of which were already common, but several of which are unique to Lanz-Liebenfels’ idiosyncratic twisting of biblical studies from both Hebrew and Christian sources into his sexually-focused, racialist pseudo-religion.