In an attempt to tie together Napoleon and others including Hitler, I offer these thoughts from http://cecilrhodes.net and an author named Vincent Leroux. “This idea came to him at age of 24 with force of a religious revelation. What is interesting is that it struck him in hours immediately following his initiation into Masonic Order while at Oxford University.
Although Rhodes was slightly contemptuous of organisation he had just joined - `I wonder that a large body of men can devote themselves to what at times appear most ridiculous and absurd rites without an object and without an end' - fact remains that whatever Masonic induction he had gone through, it would appear to have triggered something of an epiphany in young student.
On evening after ceremony, Rhodes sat pondering what had happened that day. Then, as he puts it, 'idea gleaming and dancing before one's eyes like a will-of-the-wisp at last frames itself into a plan'. He proceeded to pen his `Confession of Faith' in which he outlined his ambition: to establish a secret society whose objective would be furtherance of British Empire and uniting of entire Anglo-Saxon race, including America, into one single empire.
From that day, June 2, 1877, Rhodes was a man with a mission, with his `Confession of Faith' his guiding star and inspiration. When he had grown to trust anybody, he would confidentially reveal his 'idea' to him and expect man's life to be changed immediately.
Historians and biographers have criticised his naivety, but fact remains that when Rhodes did reveal his 'idea' to others, it often had same effect, resulting in them devoting themselves from then on to helping him achieve his lofty aims. There was an event in Rhodes' life, soon after his `illumination' at Oxford {Site of a Druidic pheryllt or alchemical school in time before Rome. Therefore it is on an important part of Earth Energy Grid.} that is hardly mentioned by his biographers, but which may well provide a key to how Rhodes acquired personal magnetism and power that he displayed from then on.
Three months after his Masonic induction at Oxford, Rhodes was back at diamond diggings of Kimberley, in South Africa. One night, while staying in his bachelor quarters, a very strange thing happened. `His friends', according to his biographer Sir Lewis Michell, `found him in his room, blue with fright, his door barricaded with a chest of drawers and other furniture; he insisted that he had seen a ghost.' Immediately after this pivotal crisis, Rhodes had his previously penned `Confession of Faith' (which also contained his last will and testament) legally formalised by a Kimberley attorney. From then on, his star was in ascendant.
What exactly happened to him alone in his room that night? No one will ever know, except that exactly same thing happened to another man, in following century, who also went on to become one of most powerful men world has ever known - Adolf Hitler.
In his book, ‘Hitler Speaks', published in 1939, Hermann Rauschning writes of an event that took place at beginning of 1930's prior to Hitler's seizure of power and his ascent to fame and infamy. Says Rauschning: `My informant described to me in full detail a remarkable scene - I should not have credited story if it had not come from such a source. Hitler stood swaying in his room, looking wildly about him. `He! He! He's been here!' He gasped. His lips were blue. Sweat streamed down his face. Suddenly he began to reel off figures, and odd words and broken phrases, entirely devoid of sense. It sounded horrible. He used strangely composed and entirely un-German word formations. Then he stood quite still, only his lips moving.... gradually he grew calm. After that he lay asleep for many hours.'