Part II
„The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books
of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the
latter a little later; but they contain materials much older than themselves...
In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from
a source of infinite Light.“ (Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma).
„Alexandria, newly built, was colonized by the Jews, who came in crowds
to people the new town. The result was a mixture of men of different nations
and religions, who gave rise to several philosophical and religious associations.
Platonism was publicly taught by the Greeks in Alexandria, it was eagerly
received by the Alexandrian Jews, who communicated it to the Jews of Judea and
Palestine...In Egypt and Judea, before the commencement of Christianity the
philosophy of Pythagoras and Plato had thrust deep roots among the Jews, which
gave rise to the dogmas of the Essenes, Therapeuts, Sadducees, Carpocratians,
Cabalistic-Gnostics, Basilideans, and Manichaeans; all these dogmatists adapted
part of the doctrine of the Egyptian Magi and Priests of the above philosophy.
They spread in time into Asia, Africa, and Europe. These different Jews
preserved the mysteries of the Temple of Solomon with the allegory of the Grand
Architect, who was the Jewish Messiah, an idea still preserved by the Jew
today.“ (Reghellini de Schio, in 1833)
„Judaism: Judaism denotes the Jewish faith in its extravagant form of
blind attachment to rites and traditions, and national exclusiveness. This must
have been prevalent in the time of Christ, because of His constant exposure of
their formalism and self-assumption, and because in John's Gospel 'the Jews' is
used as synonymous with opposers of Christ and His teachings.“ (The
Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopedia, Vol. II, (1901), p. 999).
„Judaism was not a religion but a law.“ (Moses
Mendeissohn, The Jewish Plato)
„When only Jews are present we admit that Satan is our god.“ (Harold
Rosenthal, former administrative aide to Sen. Jacob Javits, in a recorded
interview)
„It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who
becomes a danger to the world.“ (Rabbi Stephen Wise, New York
Tribune, March 2, 1920).
„The principal characteristic of the Jewish religion consists in its
being alien to the Hereafter, a religion, as it were, solely and essentially
worldly. (Werner Sombart, Les
Juifs et la vie économique, p. 291).
„Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to
punish or reward he can only do so during the life of man. it is therefore here
below that the just must prosper and the impious suffer.“ (Kadmi
Kohen: Nomades, F. Alcan, Paris, 1929 p. 277; The Secret Powers Behind
Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins, p. 164)
„To his unsociability the Jew added exclusiveness. Without the Law,
without Judaism to practice it, the world would not exist, God would make it
return again into a state of nothing; and the world will not know happiness
until it is subjected to the universal empire of that [Jewish] law, that is to
say, to the Empire of the Jews. In consequence the Jewish people is the people
chosen by God as the trustee of his wishes and desires; it is the only one with
which the Divinity has made a pact, it is the elected of the Lord...This faith
in their predestination, in their election, developed in the Jews an immense
pride; They come to look upon non-Jews with contempt and often with hatred,
when patriotic reasons were added to theological ones.“ (B. Lazare, L'Antisémitisme,
pp. 8-9; The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte
Leon De Poncins, 184-185)
„Judaism presents a unique
phenomenon in the annals of the world, of an indissoluble alliance, of an
intimate alloy, of a close combination of the religious and national
principles...
There is not only an ethical
difference between Judaism and all other contemporary religions, but also a
difference in kind and nature, a fundamental contradiction. We are not face to
face with a national religion but with a religious nationality.“ (G. Batault, Le problème juif, pp.
65-66; The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon de Poncins, 197)
„The idea of God, the image of
God, such as it is reflected in the Bible, goes through three distinct phases.
The first stage is the Higher Being, thirsty for blood, jealous, terrible,
war-like. The intercourse between the Hebrew and his God is that of an inferior
with s superior whom he fears and seeks to appease.
The second phase the
conditions are becoming more equal. The pact concluded between God and Abraham
develops its consequences, and the intercourse becomes, so to speak, according
to stipulation. In the Talmudic Hagada, the Patriarchs engage in controversies
and judicial arguments with the Lord. The Tora and the Bible enter into these
debate and their intervention is preponderant. God pleading against Israel
sometimes loses the lawsuit. The equality of the contracting parties is
asserted. Finally the third phase the subjectively divine character of God is
lost. God becomes a kind of fictitious Being. These very legends, one of which
we have just quoted, for those who know the keen minds of the authors, give the
impression, that they, like their readers, of their listeners, look upon God in
the manner of a fictitious being and divinity, at heart, from the angle of a
personification, of a symbol of the race [This religion has a code: The
Talmud].“ (Kadmi Cohen, Nomades, p. 138; The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by
Vicomte Leon de Poncins, 197-198)
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