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The very notion of spiritual crisis is linked to what exists most deeply within us. This is
why reading the content of some pages can cause some confusion. It is essential to
digest this content at your own pace, ending it if possible with a gentle listening to
classical music or a walk in nature. Meditate and breathe, pray to God.
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Preface: Pride
. and revolt.
« The spiritual warfare we have to wage during life is an unceasing struggle between good
and evil....
What we see in our own lives, we see at work on a large scale in the world. How is it that
human history is a long web of wars, violence and injustice?
When it has been stopped in a given place or time, it reappears elsewhere or later? And yet
we are all hungry and thirsty for peace, life and happiness!
We are confronted here with this mysterious presence of Satan, this angel remarkable for
the gifts he has received, but who, out of pride, rebelled against GOD, and who wants to
bring as many men as possible into his revolt. »
Preamble
• or again: what are the links between the history of the West, the mechanisms
of evolution of Western societies, and spirituality in the West?
• Jakub Lejbowicz
1726-1791
• Sabbatai Tsevi
1626-1676
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Our purpose
• This conference proposes to detail the history itself, the main
aspects of their very particular dogmas as well as the historical
influence on the West that 2 heretical messianic sects still far too
little known had:
– the Sabbatians (of Sabbatai Tsevi) who appeared in the 17th century
– the Frankists (of Jacob Frank) who appeared in the 18th century.
Part 1
Introduction to mysticism
and messianic movements
within Judaism
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The importance of historical sources
• Only authors who are specialists in these 2 religious movements, academics,
rabbis, priests and/or internationally recognized historians
• 17th century: [Nathan of Gaza] (he), Thomas Coenen (ne)
• 18th century: >12 authors [Hayon, Wehle, Eybeschütz], Jacob Sasportas, Jacob Emden,
Eléasar Fleckeles, Ber of Bolechow, Nicolaus Serra (he, po, it, lat)
• 19th century: >21 works (he, de, po, fr, eng, ru) including Peter Beer (note), Franz
Molitor, Heinrich Gräetz, [Moses Porges], Aleksander Kraushar, Abraham Danon
• 1901-1950: >21 books or articles
– Jewish Encyclopedia, Gershom Scholem, David Philippson, David Kahana, Dr. Rıza Nur, Joseph Kastein, Cecil
Roth, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Knowledge, and others authors’ works in Hebrew
• 1951-2000: >75 books or articles
– Gershom Scholem, Encyclopedia Judaica, Joseph Dan, Abraham Duker, Abbot Francesco Ricossa, Israel Shahak,
Norton Mezvinsky, Moshe Temkin, Dovid Russoff, Jan Doktór, Rachel Elior, Abraham Rabinovich, Chone
Shmeruk, David Ruderman, David Pidcock, Jacob Katz, Magdalena Opalski / Yiśraʼel Barṭal, Marvin Antelman,
Emanuel Feldman, Elisheva Carlebach, Abraham Rabinovich, Paul Arnsberg, Michael Löwy, Arthur Mandel, Meir
Benayahu, Etienne Balibar, Cengiz Sisman, Aubrey Ross, Ilgaz Zorlu, Hillel Levine
• 2001-2017: >41 books or articles
– Jerry Klinger, Ramiz Mammadov, Isaiah Berlin, Charles Novak, Shmuel Feiner, Moshe Idel, Michaël Freund,
Pawel Maciejko, Marc Baer, Frederic Miller / Agnes Vandome / John McBrewster, Sid Zalman Leiman, David
Halperin, Matt Goldish, Christoph Schulte, Eli Shai, Melila Hellner-Eshed, Orly Halpern, The YIVO Encyclopedia
of Jews in Eastern Europe, M. Goldish, R.H. Popkin, Bram Mertens, John Freely, Harris Lenowitz…
• For a complete bibliography, see http://conscience-sociale.blogspot.com/2019/03/sabbateanism-and-
frankism-spiritual.html ; Be careful when researching variations on transliterated names.
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The importance of historical sources
• Rab. Jacob ben Aaron • Rab. Jacob Ashkenazi "Emden" (1697-1776)
Sasportas (1610-1698) • Edut be-Ya'aḳov, Altona, 1756.
• Tzitzat Novel Zvi, • Shimush, Amsterdam, 1758-62.
Amsterdam, 1737 • Shevirat Luḥot ha-Aven, Altona, 1759.
• Morocco, London, • Kitzur Tzitzat Novel Zvi, Altona, n.d.
Hamburg, Livorno, • Megillat Sefer, biographies of himself and his
Amsterdam father, Warsaw, 1897; first edition in French:
. Mémoires de Jacob Emden ou L'anti-Sabbataï
Zewi, Cerf, 1992.
• illustrious rabbinic lineage; recognized as one of
the main rabbinical authorities of the 18th
century.
• famous for his obstinate fight against the crypto-
Sabbataism of the very famous Rab. Jonathan
Eybeschütz in 1750-60, in Altona/Hamburg. The
great Rab. Landau of Prague threatened in 1752
to excommunicate anyone who accused
Eybeschütz of Sabbatianism. It was Eybeschütz
who was excommunicated in 1756.
• His father "Chacham" (Rav Tsvi Hirsch ben
Yaakov Ashkenazi) (1656-1718) and Moses Hagiz
had fought hard against Nehemiah Hayyun's
crypto-Sabbataism in 1713 in Amsterdam.
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Our main sources for this conference are
• Aleksander Kraushar (1843-1931), Prof. Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) historian
• Frank I Frankisci Polscy 1726-1816, and philosopher
(Frank and the Polish Franks 1726-1816. • Die Theologie des Sabbatianismus im
A monograph based on archival sources Lichte Abraham Cardozos, 1928
and manuscripts), Crakow, 1895. • Majors Trends in Jewish Mysticism, 1941
• translated into he, eng, fr. • The Sabbatian movement in Poland (in 3
• A lawyer, historian and science buff, he articles), 1953 (fr)
advocated the assimilation of the Jewish • The messianic idea in Judaism and other
population. He was a member of the essays in Jewish spirituality, including
Tłomackie synagogue construction The Holiness of Sin / Redemption through
committee. Sin, 1971 (he 1937, fr. 1974)
• In 1903, after the death of his parents, • Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah,
he and his wife converted to 1973 (en), 1957 (he), 1983 (fr)
Catholicism. • His immense work has brought the study
• Decorated Officer of the Order of the of Kabbalah into the academic field of
Polish Renaissance on August 5, 1921. the humanities.
.
• "He humbled you, he made you hungry and fed you with manna, which you did
not know and which your ancestors had not known either, in order to teach you
that man does not live by bread alone, but by all that comes out of the mouth
of the Lord." (Deuteronome 8:3)
– "everything that comes out of the mouth" is the translation of the Hebrew motzah
(mem-vav-tzaddi-aleph) which means expression or emanation, and which has as
gematria 137
– the Hebrew word Kabbalah also has as gematria 137. Sephirots are called
emanations.
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A personal illusion
MEMORIES OF J. CASANOVA DE SEINGALT, Written by himself.
New edition based on the text of the Leipzig-Brussels-Paris (1826-1838) princeps edition.
Variations of Schütz and Paulin-Rosez editions. Historical and critical comments.
Volume III, Ed. de La Sirène, 1926.
Introduction, pp. xxi and xxvi.
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Part 2
The emergence of Sabbatianism,
and its development until 1726
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source: Gershom Scholem, : The messianic idea in Judaism and other essays in Jewish
spirituality, Schocken Books (1971) where the essay on "Redemption through Sin / Holiness
of Sin" appears.
. Original book in hebrew: 1937 ; french tr.: 1974, Calmann Lévy.
• [Note]: Sin means breaking the law (in the singular) which refers to all the civil, religious,
ethical and family laws found in the 5 books of the Pentateuch (the Torah), in particular
the 10 commandments in the book of Exodus.
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• Reproduction published in
Eli Shai`s book, Messiah of
Incest - New and
Uncensored History of the
Sexual Element in Jewish
Mystical Messianism (in
Hebrew), 2002.
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• The Great Vizier had Sabbatai Tsevi imprisoned in the fortress of Abydos as soon as
he approached the Marmara Sea with his followers on 2/6/1666.
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• Tsevi summoned a prophet from Lwow who had announced the coming of the
Messiah. They met in September 1666. The interview lasts 3 days and ends very
badly. Tsevi's followers seek to assassinate the prophet, who fled to
Constantinople.
• He managed to alert the Grand Vizier to the danger posed by Tsevi. The latter
brought Tsevi in, and gave him three possibilities: either he was impaled, or he
underwent a divinity test by receiving a flock of arrows, or he converted to Islam.
• On September 15 or 16, 1666, Tsevi converted in front of Sultan Mehmet IV!
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Part 3
"For he who finds me has found life, he has obtained the favor of the Lord.
On the other hand, he who sins against me harms himself. Everyone who hates me
loves death."
(Book of Proverbs, 8:35-36)
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disputes
Poland Ukraine
Slovakia
Moldova
Hungary
Romania
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A secret cult,
hidden inside another
• 1166. [Frank telling a parable] "Prince! We are men, not demons. We have one mountain
of which the earth is gold. We constantly make pure gold, but we have a great deal in the
world. If you will be faithful and keep the matter secret, nothing evil will happen to you,
and on the contrary you will have a great present from us; but if you reveal [it] to the
emperor or to anyone whoever, then we will kill you no matter where you are. He
promised them and rode off to Vienna. Several years passed; that one endured and kept
the whole matter secret. Then several men in the form of merchants came to him and
brought him as a gift some 15 million. Now see how good silence is.
• 1315. How did you not understand that when one comes to a new place it is necessary to
change all the ways of the first; words as well as deeds and clothes, and so on with all
things, and not to turn one's face back. Just as you, you were Truebelievers [Sabbatians] in
Poland, then you had to alter your deeds, like breaking the fasts and the Laws of Moses;
even though that was in secret, still you had to transform them."
• (in: Words of the Lord)
• see also Mandel, p.122 and Novak, p.91
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"Frankism is a pure anti-nomism" that
depraves the whole human race
• 72. "There has not been a man yet who could tell bad from good. It may be that in that
place which seems to be bad there good is hidden, kept in secret, and likewise the
opposite."
– in: Words of the Lord
• « The new Messiah proclaims the end of all laws, not just Jewish law: "Only to wipe out all
laws, all religions, did I come to Poland, and it is my desire to bring life forth into this world.
[WoL, 130] / Do not believe that only Jews should be saved, God forbid, the whole human
race should be saved. " All social institutions must be destroyed because they stand in the
way of salvation.
• The work of destruction must be accomplished by man's descent into the lowest depths of
the abomination.
• It was a common belief that the coming of the Messiah would be the signal of the end of
evil and sin: either because there would no longer be any sin committed, or because they
would no longer be considered as sins.
• Frankist propaganda copiously referred to [the description of the "end of times" in the
Talmud] as an era of general depravity, where all houses of prayer will be brothels, where
the science of the learned will stink up to heaven and virtue will be despised; in short, the
world will be turned upside down. »
– A. Mandel, The Militant Messiah, pp. 52-54
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"Frankism is a nihilism"
• "I have not come to elevate, I have come to destroy and belittle all things until everything is
swallowed up so deep, that it can no longer descend. / The road to the abyss is terrifying
and frightening. Even our brother Jacob was afraid of it and did not dare to set foot on the
celestial scale./ It consists of two converging parts that meet at the bottom, one part
leading down, the other up, and there is no ascent without prior descent./ So the world had
to wait for another Jacob. "
• "The path leads to the abyss, and everyone must have the heart of a lion and not fear, for I
will walk in the lead. And as I stand before you, ignorant and rude / I have been chosen, for I
am the darkness out of which light emerges! / It has been said: A star came out of Jacob. All
vile and obnoxious things are in his power, and this is the door through which I will lead
you. "
– WoL (including 164, 1116, 1266-67, 1278, 846, 1293) translated by A. Mandel, pp. 52-54.
• Jacob Frank in Skopje around 1754: "The Ran [Rabbi Nathan of Gaza] ordered that after his
death a bag of earth be placed in his coffin, thus giving a sign that he wished to convert the
spiritual world into a world of matter. But I tell you that already in this world, everything
spiritual must be transformed into something similar to our flesh. Then everyone will see,
just as all visible things are seen."
– Polish manuscript referenced by Pawel Maciejko, The Mixed Multitude, p. 16
• This spiritual regression is the perfect antithesis of man's destination in the Tradition.
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"Frankism is a nihilism"
• "487. Why did you not wait for the names which the lips of God himself announce, and not give them to
you yourselves? For all names are secret, only, that which is respected, must be degraded and debased.
Therefore you must be degraded, so that God can uplift you from the rubbish. And nobody has that
power, only God himself. That is why you fell.
• 516. That thing to which we are going, no man has experienced anything from that place even though
the world stands more than 500,000 years and since that time it has not been possible to open that
place all at once for the world could not bear it, as I said to you, that being in darkness one cannot look
at the light all at once. […] Only then will it be possible to give you a thing in your hand so you can search
for God and reach him. Without that it is not even possible to mention the name of God and it is not
possible to reach that thing through the [Jewish] Law; and certainly he who wishes to preserve his soul
must withdraw from it.
• 553. Why could you not understand that if I raised you to the degree of Brothers, I could humble you if
you were not silent and not the lowliest of all?
• 555. The whole world is the enemy of the true God.
• 636. For even though you saw me do things which were strange and bitter in your eyes, you know that it
must be bitter at first and thereafter, sweet; and that after the light, darkness comes and then through
the darkness may be seen light. We need to go to the darkness in which is light. The herb of life is hidden
in that of death.
• 2145. The first man Adam, at every place he trod a city was built,1609 but I, wherever I only tread all will
be destroyed. Because I came only for that, so that everything would become spoiled. But then I will
build, so that it will endure forever."
• (in: Words of the Lord) [see also 805]
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Antichrist
• As it is claimed, Frank told his disciples: « You know that the Lord Jesus will come from
Heaven for the Last Judgment, and that is true. But you do not understand the
explanation of these words of the Gospel. Who knows? Who knows? Perhaps He is
already incarnate and will reveal Himself after the end of the Antichrist's persecutions. »
• November 1759: Denunciations to the diocese, transmitted to the Pope's nuncio, by 5
Frankists who confessed their Frankist creed and acknowledged that « Frank had taught
the approaching end of the world and claimed to have seen the Antichrist in the city of
Salonika. The Antichrist would soon perform miracles and persecute Christians. The
coming of the Antichrist was a sign that the definitive unification of beliefs in the worlds
had begun and that soon "there will be one flock and one shepherd." »
– (Maciejko, p.164)
• Results of the ecclesiastical investigation:
– "Church authorities conducted an investigation that revealed that the name of Jesus
in copies of the New Testament belonging to Frank's disciples was crossed out and
replaced by the name Jacob." (Maciejko, p. 164)
– Frank believes in metempsychosis; and he was once a Muslim.
• January 7, 1760: Frank's arrest; he is interrogated (examination) in front of a Catholic
consistory in Warsaw.
• Discredited by a significant part of his Polish followers, except in Warsaw; he no longer
claims to be a Messiah.
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Frank's will
• In 1788, shortly after his first heart attack:
– "Christ said that he had come to deliver the world from the claws of Satan.
But I tell you, I have come to deliver the world from all laws and
commandments. Everything must be destroyed for the good Lord to
appear." (A. Mandel, p.173)
– 2142. “I tell you: As Christ, as you know, said that he came to free the world
from the hands of Satan, but I came to free it from all laws and statutes
which have been till now, for all that was the work of the hands of Satan,
and by that all fell into his hand. I must destroy all that, and only make that
which is black look utterly white. At that time the good God will reveal
himself.” (The Words of the Lord)
• Frank died on 10/12/1791.
• "The French Revolution had confirmed its predictions of the destruction of the
State and the Church, and he saw in it a new opportunity for the conversion and
establishment of the Jews. " (A. Mandel)
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Frankism, from Warsaw to Paris
• In 1725, Louis XV, aged 15, was married to Marie Leszczynska, daughter of the deposed
Polish king Stanislas Leszczynski, seven years his senior. Louis tried to help his Polish
father-in-law recover his crown and, after the failure of this attempt, obtained
compensation from the Duchy of Lorraine.
• Stanislas reigned 28 years in the Duchy of Lorraine, which returned to France upon his
death: he created the "Royal Pologne" regiment, which gave France a Marshal aide-de-
camp of Louis XV (Wojciech Jakubowski, baptized under the name Albert, who was from a
Frankist family, arrived in France in 1732, and who worked at the Secret du Roi. The first
purpose of this service was to influence the French notables to intervene in favour of
Poland.)
• Augustus III of Poland, Jacob Frank's godfather, is, through his daughter Marie-Josèphe,
the grandfather of the kings of France Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X. In 1747, at the
age of 15, she married Louis-Ferdinand of France, the eldest son of Louis XV.
• The two national heroes La Fayette and Kosciuszko became friends in America, where
they fought together in the War of Independence in 1776. Done in 1792 as a "French
citizen" by the National Assembly, Tadeusz Kosciuszko found refuge in France after the
failure of the Polish insurrection, which he led in 1794.
• Before its restoration in 1918, only Napoleon I allowed Poland to regain its independence
briefly, between 1807 and 1815. These few years of rebirth were largely due to the
Emperor's liaison with Marie Walewska, a Polish countess he had met in Warsaw and
whose natural son he had in 1810: Alexander, Count Colonna-Walewski, who was later
Napoleon III's Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Bonaparte supported by the Frankists
• Pius VI had to face the events of the French Revolution:
– the nationalization of clergy property,
– the abolition of monastic vows (law of 13 February 1790) and the abolition of regular orders except those
whose activity is education and charitable works, leading to the exclusion of 100,000 religious, or two thirds of
the clergy of the time in France,
– the civil constitution of the clergy (adopted on July 12, 1790), as well as the schism situation it caused
– in 1791, he watched helplessly as Avignon and Comtat Venaissin were annexed.
• On February 19, 1797, Napoleon Bonaparte forced Pius VI to sign the Treaty of Tolentino with France of
the Directory and to cede the pontifical territories.
• Pope Pius VI was forced by the French Republic to renounce its temporal power and be content with its
spiritual power: it was deposited on February 15, 1798, when the Roman Republic was proclaimed. He
was imprisoned by the French in Siena, Florence, Parma and then in Valencia, where he died on 29
August 1799.
• In 1799, anonymous denunciation against the Bohemian Franks sent to the mayor of Prague:
• "the overthrow of the papal throne had given the Frankists’ day-dreams plenty of nourishment. They
said openly, it is the sign of the coming of the Messiah, since their main belief consists of this. Sabbatai
Tsevi was saviour, will always remain the saviour, but always under a different shape. General
Bonaparte's conquests gave nourishment to their superstitious teachings. His conquests in the Orient,
especially the conquest of Palestine, of Jerusalem [NdA: proclamation published on April 20, 1790 for
the imminent creation of a new Jewish state], his appeal to the Israelites is oil on their fire, and here, it
is believed, lies the connection between them and French society."
– source: "The Anonymous B.'s Appeal against the Prague Frankists of 1799,"
reproduced as Appendix 2 to Žáček, "Two Posts," 404. (cité par Maciejko et Duker)
• 9/11/1799: Bonaparte's coup d'état; 13 December: he becomes First Consul
• 10/12/1806: creation of the Grand Sanhedrin of France by Emperor Napoleon
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Part 4
« As for me, I will pray to the Father and he will give you another defender so
that he will stay with you forever:
the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept because it does not see it
and does not know it. But you know him, because he stays with you and he
will be in you. »
(John 14:16-17)
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Keep your mouth shut (Motus et
bouche cousue)
• « The really amazing thing is that although several important texts of the Frankist
teachings do exist, not a single attempt has been made to date to analyze their
content. The reason is simple. Graetz and A. Kraushar, two reputable researchers, one
of whom had written a long study on Jacob Frank and his Polish followers, both shared
the view that there was no such thing as a Frankist "creed", and that The Sayings of the
Lord (Slowa Panskie), which had reached them in Polish version only, was an
incoherent fad. »
• « As for lay historians, they have also been led to underestimate the role of
Sabbatianism, but for a different reason. Not only did most of the families that were
part of the Sabbatian movement in Western and Central Europe continue to remain
inside the Jewish fold afterward, but many of their descendants, especially in Austria,
reached important positions during the 19th century: renowned intellectuals, great
financiers or politicians with high connections. It was hardly to be expected that these
personalities would approve of attempts to "unmask" their "loaded" heredity ,
that goes without saying. Because of their position in the Jewish community, it is not
surprising that their wishes were heard. »
• (Gershom Scholem, Jewish Messianism. Essays on the spirituality of Judaism (tr. fr. 1974), Calmann
Lévy, where the essay on "Redemption through Sin" appears, pp. 27-40, original in Hebrew (1937), tr.
in. 1971)
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• "The grandchildren of the 1759 converts... tried to counter the spread of gossip by
creating an "official" history of the movement. In the case of Aleksander Kraushar,
there is direct evidence that the descendants of the Frankists selected him to
write a censored account of the cult, provided him with manuscripts and
sponsored his research trips to Vienna and Offenbach. Kraushar's mission was
twofold: to establish a clear line between Frank's excesses and his first supporters
and the unfailing conduct of their children and grandchildren; and to ensure that
the history of the movement would be considered over."
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In Poland
• "[Before 1790 in Warsaw], many Frankist families were able to secure their economic
position, their members becoming successful businessmen and factory owners,
effectively dominating several industries, such as breweries, distilleries and the tobacco
monopoly.
• They also played an important role in the reform efforts of Sejm Czteroletni at the time
[in 1788-1792] (Szymanowscy, Orłowscy, Jasińscy), and many of them were Polish
patriots and members of progressive Masonic organizations (Szymanowscy, Krysińscy,
Majewscy, Krzyżanowscy, Lewińscy, Piotrkowscy).
• The Frankists also allegedly dominated Warsaw's legal institutions. According to
Gershom Scholem, the vast majority of lawyers in Warsaw in the 1830s came from
Frankist families. Many of them constituted the growing Polish intelligentsia."
– (culture.pl, 2015)
• 1846 :
– (Reference 32 quoted above by Abraham G. Duker, Polish Frankism’s Duration, 1963 is: Charles
Frederick Henningsen, Eastern Europe and the Emperor Nicholas, 3e éd. vol. iii, London, 1846,
Pp. 274-75)
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In Poland
• Russian Ministry of the Interior, 1847: « His very enemies react with the greatest praise
on the morals of the members of this sect. ...] Is there at the basis of this link with the
Sabbatians a unity of secret dogmas in common, the latter belonging to the dominant
Church, as they do in each country, without this diminishing the independence of the
sect? This is not known, because those who know are committed to preserving their
knowledge in the greatest secrecy towards the ignorant. »
– Quotation taken up by Duker, 1963 from I. Gregoriev, Evreiskiia religioznyia sekty v Rossiyi[Jewish religious
sects in Russia], Ministry of Interior Press, St Petersburg, 1847, p.203
• The great poet Mickiewicz on August 7, 1851 (quotation repeated by Duker, 1963):
• In 1934, Warsaw historians, interviewed by Duker, testified that they had met Frankists:
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In Poland
• « The Frankist converts in Poland were large enough to form a socially autonomous group. A high
birth rate and rapid economic growth through the acquisition of Christian status with Frank's
autocratic leadership has allowed the Sect to maintain its cohesion for some time without
marriage outside the group. »
• « The Frankists were also united by less positive aspects, namely the aversion to Jews who forced
them to transform themselves and separate them from their loved ones and the hatred of the
Catholic clergy who participated in this drastic step. Difficult was the ambivalence of the
sectarians, between yesterday's Judaism and the new Messianism to be realized quickly, clinging
to many aspects of the old, while pretending to play the roles of pious Christians. The task of
raising a new generation under such a condition of dual marranism was indeed difficult and
required a lot of cooperation and hard work. Kinship and close social relations have transformed
Frankism to a large extent into a family religion, which has always been strengthened by
marriages and by the economic ties obtained through concentration in certain professions.
In short, it is good to consider Frankist Catholics from a sociological perspective as a well-
established, autonomous and closely linked group. »
• « Polonization most likely also presented obstacles to unions between the two groups, as
extremist Sabbatians had most likely been concentrated among the "Germans" rather than
among converted Polish sectarians. The common practice of marriage between Wolowski's
cousins and other families may have been due to the decrease in the cohesion of the Sect as well
as the separation between rich and poor. »
– Duker, 1963
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In Poland
• Duker, 1963
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In Poland
• culture.pl,
16/04/2015,
11/01/2014
• Olga Tokarczuk.
Księgi Jakubowe
“an attempt at writing an unorthodox history of Poland ” (Jacob's manuscripts),
historical novel,
Oct. 2014, 900 p.,
“a skillful politician and a possible religious charlatan” +70,000 copies sold
• Daas film, by
Adrian Panek, 2011;
3 appointments to
Polish prices
• Zygmunt Krasiński
Nieboska komedia (The
Non-Divine Comedy),
1835
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Yes, I am a Thessaloniki
• Ilgaz Zorlu, Evet, ben Selanikliyim (Yes, I'm a Salonikan), Istanbul: Belgian (1998)
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(The Words
(source: ofofthe
Words theLord)
Lord)
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• The Rothschild dynasty, its links with the Hesse-Kassel dynasty and the
development of the City as an international political and financial centre:
– see : The strange case of the Union Jack and Mr. Hide: the slow decline of London's
financial hegemony (2016/03)
• The links between Hesse-Kassel's family and the courts of Russia, Denmark, and
England:
– see Novak, Jacob Frank the False Messiah (2012), Pp. 130
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In England
• The Fabian stained glass window designed by Shaw,
featuring the Company's founders - HG Wells, Sidney
Webb and Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) himself - who
are helping to build the "new world
– "Reshape it closer to the desires of the heart" /"Pray devoutly,
hammer vigorously"
• The Fabian Society was founded in 1884; its name
comes from the Roman general Fabius, famous for
inventing the attrition war against Hannibal. It has
provided all English Labour Prime Ministers until
2010, as well as the first Heads of State and
Government in India, Pakistan and Singapore.
• The Fabian Society founded the Labour Party and the
London School of Economics and Political Science in
1895 "for the betterment of society", which is now
one of the leading institutions in the world.
• HG Wells : The open conspiracy - Blue Prints for a
World Revolution (1928).
• BBC (2006) summary: "Bernard Shaw was delighted
to subvert the company's standards. ”
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Germany, 1969-70
sources:
• bz-berlin.de, 2/12/2016
• Sputnik, 2/12/2016, 7/12/2016,
16/12/2016
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Sabbatians in Israel
• « 2 men and 2 women from a group qualified by the messianic cult police were
arrested on charges of kidnapping young women. The group controlled young
women with combinations of drugs, alcohol and heavy brainwashing
techniques to convince them to prostitute themselves, often under the
influence of drugs.
• According to the police, attempts were made to persuade these girls that "lying
to non-Jews would hasten the redemption" of the Jewish people and that by
having sex with non-Jews, girls would make them pure and bring their "holy
sparks" back to Israel. The group worked in the streets trying to force young
women to join them and become more religious. He was active throughout the
country. »
– Times of Israel, 7/09/2014
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• Gottlieb Wehle, born in 1802, emigrated in 1849 from Prague, died in 1881 in
New York. In his will, according to Scholem, « far from being ashamed of the
Sabbatians, he enjoins his children not to forget their noble ancestry. »
• His daughter, who died in the 1920s, « still considered Ewa Frank a saint, by the
power of tradition. »
• The rich Frankist families of Bohemia-Moravia, the Bondi, the Brandeis, the
Mauthner, the Dembitz, the Goldmark, the Wehle, the Schwabacher, the
Lichtenberg, the Landsopher, the Petschosch etc. emigrated to the United
States in 1848 / 49.
• Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856 - 1941) was a judge, a member of the United
States Supreme Court (1916-1939) and a major supporter of the American
Zionist movement. One of the chief economic advisors to Presidents Woodrow
Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he was involved in the creation of the
U.S. Federal Reserve.
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US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
• Born Marie Jana Korbelová on May 15, 1937 in Prague from Jewish parents who
had converted to Catholicism. UN Ambassador 1993-1997. Secretary of State
1997-2001.
• Her father Josef, a professor at the University of Denver in international
relations, will have Condoleezza Rice as a student, who was then Secretary of the
Department of State from 2005-2009.
• « I was raised in Catholicism, became a faithful member of the Episcopalian
Anglican Church and later discovered that my family was Jewish. I stand ready to
declare myself a Muslim out of solidarity. »
– Aaretz, 25 January 2017
• - Question: "[Since 1991 and the blockade of Iraq] we know that 500,000 Iraqi
children have died. That's more dead than in Hiroshima. You know... is this price
worth it? »
- Albrights answered: « I think it's a very difficult
choice. But we think the price is worth it. »
– TV interview, May 12, 1996
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"Eliminate religions"
• Dr. Rab. Marvin (Moshe)
Shlomo Antelman • Dr Rabbi Antelman summed up major works on mondialist
Chief Justice of the 13 members of elites by Pr. Robison [Proofs of a conspiracy against all the
the Supreme Rabbinical Court of
America, since its inception in
religions and governments of Europe Carried on in the secret
1974; U.S. coordinator of the meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and reading societies (1797)],
Jewish Survival Legion Pr. Quigley [The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to
• To Eliminate the Opiate, Cliveden (1981)] et Pr. Sutton [Western Technology and Soviet
vol1:1974, vol2:2002
Economic Development (3 vol. 1968, 1971, 1973) ; Wall Street
• B'chor Satan, 1992, about
Rab. Eybeschütz
and the Bolshevik Revolution (1974) ; Wall Street and the Rise of
• Excerpts from Minister Hitler (1976) ; Wall Street and FDR (1976) ; Trilaterals over
Kissinger in 1976, Chomsky Washington (2 tomes: 1979, 1981)] by extending them with
and hundreds of members of the ideological dimension of Sabbatianism and especially
the Marxist New Jewish
Agenda in 1982
Frankism resulting from the historical work of Professor
Scholem.
• Its contribution lies in the description of the internal conflict
since the 18th century between Orthodox Jews and other
currents of Judaism influenced by Frankism.
• A month after the release of Volume 1, Antelman began to
face 20-year legal harassment: 18 trials (all won),
particularly against the Jewish Community Council in
Boston.
Tiqqun in France
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• It is no exaggeration to say that the history of the West and the Near and Middle
East, from the 19th century to around 2013, bears the imprint of
Sabbatianism/Frankism to a very large extent.
• ... but since the wind of history began to turn...
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Part 5
Provisional conclusion
Philosophy of History
• According to historian Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975), the decline of a
civilization is usually the result of its inability to respond to moral and
religious challenges rather than physical and environmental challenges.
• It is opposed to Spengler's deterministic theory exposed in The Decline of the
West (1918-22), according to which civilizations grow and die according to a
natural cycle. Toynbee says "Civilizations die by suicide or murder, not by
natural causes"
– (Editor's Note in an edition of Toynbee's A Study of History, 1947)
• Toynbee presents the history of each civilization in terms of challenges and
responses. Civilizations are bouncing back in response to some extremely
difficult challenges when "creative minorities" design solutions to reorient the
entire society. When a civilization succeeds in meeting challenges, it grows.
Otherwise it declines.
– "The nature of the decline of civilizations can be summarized in 3 points: a failure of the
creative capacity of the minority, which now becomes a only "dominant" minority, with in
response a decrease in mimetic behaviours on the part of the majority, and consequently a
loss of social unity in society as a whole. »
– (Toynbee, A study of History, Vol. 4 (1948), part B, p. 6)
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Philosophy of History
• "Hope for the 20th century lies in the recognition that war and
crisis are man-made and useless creations. They can be avoided in
the future by turning away from the characteristics of the
nineteenth century that we have mentioned (materialism,
selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and returning
to the other characteristics that our Western society has always
considered virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation,
rationality and foresight, and by finding an increased role in
human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self-regulation."
• - Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, 1966, Pp. 1310-1311.
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Philosophy of History
• « The soldier is convinced that he will be given a certain time limit that can be extended
indefinitely before he is killed, the thief - like the traitor, the corrupt, the murderer - before
he is caught, the statesmen before they are caught by history, the men in general before
they have to die.
• This is the amulet that protects individuals - and sometimes peoples - not from danger but
from fear of danger, in reality from belief in danger, which in some cases allows them to
brave it without having to be brave.
• In all other cases, this is the mark of madness that loses individuals - and sometimes peoples
- and justifies repeating this famous word that Sophocles put in the mouth of the people
2500 years ago:
• The one whom a god pushes to his downfall often takes evil for good, and he is
only guaranteed ruin for a very short time. »
– B. Paul (2015/12), freely inspired by Marcel Proust, In search of lost time.
• Toynbee predicted that "at the end of this century [20th century], the world would be
dominated by the West, but that in the 21st century "India will conquer its conqueror.
– quoted by Swami Prabhavananda, The Spiritual Heritage of India: A Clear Summary of Indian
Philosophy and Religion (1979).
• See 2 of my articles on conscience-sociale.org :
– The inevitable counter-revolution of the American people (2013/03)
– The key to modern history (2017/05)
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Fortes in fide
« It is the quality of our theological faith that will enable all, abbot and community, to advance together
towards the Kingdom of Heaven.
The abbey motto I chose in 1997, engraved on the ring I wear on my finger, is in Latin: "Fortes in fide".
It is taken from the First Letter of St. Peter: "Brothers, be sober, be vigilant! Your opponent, the demon,
like a roaring lion, comes and goes in search of its prey; resist it with the strength of faith, for you
know that all your brothers throughout the world are facing the same sufferings. "
The period in which the apostle wrote was marked by a climate of paganism that quickly overshadowed
the expansion of the Christian faith and responded with persecution.
The religious persecutions of the 20th century had nothing to envy to those of the Roman Empire.
And throughout the past two millennia, spiritual warfare has remained a constant for every disciple
of Christ, even in the absence of open persecution.
The liturgical time of the Passion and that of Easter remind us of this.
The expressive image of the roaring lion must resonate in us with all the terrifying force it carries for the
people living near the desert where it lives!
The mysterious drama of Satan's rebellion against God, his Creator, hardened him into an inexplicable
jealousy against humans called to adopt God's children despite their weaknesses and miseries!
Let us come a little closer every day to the Lord Jesus, from whom we receive in abundance his Word of
truth and the sacraments of his love and forgiveness!
May her life grow in us, so that it may touch through us a great number of people who are thirsty for
it!»
On APRIL 20, 2007, Dom René-Hugues de Lacheisserie, Ganagobie
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Back in 1939
These are the last lines of an article by Albert Camus that was to appear on November
25, 1939 in "Le Soir républicain". It had been censored, and lost. It was found and
published by Le Monde on 18/3/2012.
Afterword :
To lose your mind is to lose
consciousness, to faint.
• « Knowledge begins with the fear of the Lord. You have to be crazy
to despise wisdom and instruction. »
• « To fear the Lord is to hate evil. Arrogance, pride, the way of evil
and perverse mouth, that's what I hate. »
– Book of Proverbs, 1:7 and 8:13
Acknowledgements
• to my family, for their patience and understanding. This work for 10
years is dedicated to them;
• to my late uncle Jean;
Annex
Annex
• Thanks to an American law on the declassification of CIA files, we can now discover a report entitled "France: the defection of
left-wing intellectuals", submitted to the Agency in December 1985. It is said that, "in the post-war period, French intellectuals
contributed significantly to creating international hostility to American politics, both in Europe and in the Third World. From
Beirut to Lisbon and Mexico City, the intellectual elites have listened to and reproduced the thinking and preconceptions in vogue
among coffee experts such as Régis Debray.
• During the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA underhandedly financed the Congress for the Freedom of Culture, a Paris-based
organization that supported intellectual and magazine journals (including the "Paris Review"). "Liberal Conspiracy", as
Australian writer Peter Coleman put it, was based on the idea that the cultural defeat of Marxism would be achieved by
creating a new left rather than by supporting the right.
• The main thesis of the 1985 report is that the French battle has been won. A "new intellectual climate" in Paris, embodied by
Bernard Henri-Lévy, will now work without knowing it for the United States. American spies credit this to a "coterie of young
agitators who, for more than a decade, have converted with great noise in militant circles, attacking the French left, seen as
dangerous and intrinsically totalitarian": the New Philosophers.
• Described as former communists who renounced "the Stalinist sophisms taught at the Ecole Normale Supérieure", led by
Bernard-Henri Lévy and André Glucksmann, they are popular and "compensated for their abstruse prose by becoming
sensational media personalities", thanks to the "television and radio programmes with an intellectual content that the French
love".
• A reason to be pleased: "Lévy became collection director at Grasset - one of the largest publishing houses in France - from where
he was able to ensure that the opinions of the New Philosophers found easy access to the public". According to the Agency, their
growth was made possible by "a general decline in intellectual life in France that undermined the political influence of left-
wing thinkers".
• This "new left" should, according to the CIA, accomplish several works: "They will support the moderate socialists who are
struggling to create a broad centre-left alliance", and they will "oppose any effort by extremist socialists to revive the "union of
the left" with the PC". Above all, it "should aggravate disputes between left-wing parties and within the SP, which will probably
increase the defection of socialist and communist voters". Clearly, the CIA prophesies the advent of irreconcilable lefts and
"permanent non-revolution"
• Search for a platform of expression for writers attached to the country's Christian - or even pre-Christian - roots, in "demand for
cultural renewal", convinced that "French culture has been corroded by external influences".
• Le Nouvel Observateur, 01/05/2017
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• duration 1h : https://wn.com/shabtai_Tsevi
• duration 7 mn :
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