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MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT
CATHOLIC OR JEWISH?
PART I
"And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of
abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." -Revelation 17:4-5
INTRODUCTION
As a rule, theories of a Jewish conspiracy for world domination condemnallJews as megalomaniac conspirators and the enemies ofmankind. However, any treatment of a Jewish conspiracy must take into account the ancient schism that divided the nation of Israel in
Biblical times. This division was precipitated by the apostasy of King Solomon, whose idolatry was afterward carried on by the northern
tribes. This ancient schism has profoundly affected the subsequent history of the Jews and is the dynamic of the alleged Jewishconspiracy of the present day.
Following the death of King Solomon, the tribes of Israel separated into two independent kingdoms. The ten northern tribes formed the
northern kingdom of Israel and the southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin were thereafter called the kingdom of Judah. The schism
between Judah and Israel, from which the Israelites never recovered, is recorded in 1 Kings. The Daily Bible Study gives a brief overview:
One of the most misunderstood subjects of Bible study involves the total political division of Israel and Judahthat occurred at the time of King Rehoboam. Before then, all twelve tribes of Israelites were a united kingdom
through the reigns of David and Solomon, but after Solomons death they split into two completely separate andindependent kingdoms - the southern kingdom of Judah, consisting of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with partof Levi since the Levites were distributed among the other tribes (1 Kings 12:23) with their capital at Jerusalem, and
the northern kingdom of Israel, consisting of the other ten tribes (Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher,Issachar, Zebulun, Ephraim and Manasseh (Joseph was divided into Ephraim and Manasseh), with part of Levi since
the Levites were distributed among the other tribes), with their capital up in Samaria.
Israel and Judah were never united again... Surprisingly, they even fought wars against each other from time totime... A very important fact that many do not realize is that Judah, that is, the Jewish people of today, are only one
of the tribes of Israel - while all Jews are Israelites, not all Israelites are Jews.
Because of their forsaking of Him, God permitted the two kingdoms to be destroyed. First, the northern kingdomof Israel was gradually conquered by the Assyrians, and by 721 B.C. they had practically all been taken into exile toAssyria (2 Kings 17:1-23). The vast majority of them never returned, and have become known as the Lost Ten Tribesof Israel.
Then, about 135 years later, by 586 B.C., the southern kingdom of Judah was completely conquered by theBabylonians,... and the people of Judah were taken into captivity to Babylon. The original Temple of God in
Jerusalem was destroyed at that time... The people of the southern kingdom of Judah however did return after theBabylonians fell to the Persians..., and their descendants have become the Jewish people of today - but that return
in the time of Nehemiah, or the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948, were not the fulfillment of the many
prophecies dealing with the future (as the context of the prophecies clearly show) gathering of all of Israel, Israel
and Judah.
The designation Jew belonged exclusively to the southern kingdom ofJudah, the very word Jew having been derived from Judah.And so technically, only the kingdom of Judah was Jewish and the other tribes of Israel have no right to call themselves Jews. That thisdistinction was understood in the Old Testament is seen in II Kings 16:5-6 (KJV) where the people of Israel and the King of Syria fought
against the Jews of the southern kingdom.
In the New Testament, in His message to the Church at Smyrna, the Lord Jesus Christ referred to a synagogue of Satan as them whichsay they are Jews, and are not. In other words, there was a synagogue of Israel that was not Jewish:
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which saythey are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but
thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue ofSatan. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye
may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.(Rev. 2:9-10)
The Synagogue of Satan which is the subject of this series must not be confused with the Remnant of Jews, who will receive the LordJesus Christ at His Second Coming and be saved by Him. The Synagogue of Satan are an occult power elite which, having rejected Jesus
Christ as the Messiah of Israel, conspire to substitute another messiah made in the image of their master, Satan, and to establish a world
kingdom under Satan. The Synagogue of Satan claims Jewish descent, but does not fit God's definition of a Jew, either in the Old
Testament or the New: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter;whose praise is not of men, but of God. (Romans 2:29)
The Synagogue of Satan have contempt, not only for Jesus Christ, His Church and the Gentile masses, but for the Jewish Remnant whoare Torah-observant and anti-Zionist are, therefore, awaiting the kingdom of Israel to be restored when the Messiah appears, and not
before. As well, the Synagogue of Satan have conspired to eliminate all people, whether Jew or Gentile, who stand in the way of their
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world kingdom. To this end they have developed a staggering number of fronts, as well as the capacity to create blinds and diversions, to
obscure the fact that they are Cabalist Jews with an anti-Christ agenda. Through the centuries, the Synagogue of Satan have, by means of
false identities, infiltrated Gentile institutions where they act as agents provocateurs undercover agents who provoke violence andbeget scandals, which are used to bring reproach upon Jesus Christ and His Church.
The division within Jewry is no longer neatly delineated along tribal boundaries; rather the lines have been spiritually drawn between the
Synagogue of Satan and the Remnant of Israel
I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the
sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude
ofmen. (Micah 2:12)
The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth:for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid. (Zeph. 3:13; see also 2 Chron. 34:9, Isaiah10:20, Jer. 6:9, 31:7,Ezek. 11:13)
Scripture is clear that the plans of the Synagogue of Satan shall utterly fail, and that they will ultimately be destroyed. What fraction of all
Israel does the Synagogue of Satan represent? The Old Testament prophets foretold their proportions at the time they attack Jerusalem,
whose rescue and restoration will be accomplished by the Lord Himself:
The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the g lory of theinhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah. In that day shall the LORD defend the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David
shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to
destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem...And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD,two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but thethird shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined,
and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they
shall say, The LORD is my God. (Zech. 12:7-10; 13:8,9)
In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that Ihave afflicted; And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the
LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. And thou, O tower of the flock, the
strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the
daughter of Jerusalem. (Mic. 4:1,2,6-8)
INDEX
PART I
The CabalaThe Pharisees
The Essenes
The Alexandrian Gnostics
Jewish Community in Rome
The Judaizers
Roman Catholicism
PART II
Crypto-Jewry
The Merovingians
Mount Sion
Monasticism
The Prieur de Sion
The Knights Templars
The Cathari
The Illuminati
The Six-Pointed Star
The Jesuits
PART III
The Medici
The Sabbateans
The Frankists
The House of Rothschild
The Zionists
PART IV
The Vatican
The Jewish Conspiracy
The Synagogue of Satan
Zionism: of God or Satan
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THE CABALA
Following the division of Israel and the Assyrian captivity of the northern tribes, the southern kingdom of Judah adopted the pagan
traditions of the heathen nation of ancient Babylon. These traditions, with their associated rituals which included human sacrifice,
provoked God to judge the southern kingdom, which judgment the prophet Jeremiah forewarned the Jews for a period of forty years, to
no avail. The Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem in three stages, from 605 to 586 B.C., in which year the Temple of Solomon was
demolished and the remaining Jews were carried into captivity. During the Babylonian captivity, the prophet Ezekiel continued to reprove
Judah for its apostasy from the God of Israel and their love affair with Babylon. Note, in the following passage, the Jews admiration for
the images of rich, brightly attired Babylonian princes, which evoke visual images of the elegant processions of the princes of the RomanCatholic Church attired in their rich and colorful vestments:
...*Jerusalem+ increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of theChaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their
heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: And
as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. And
the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted
with them, and her mind was alienated from them. So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her
nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her... (Ezek.23:14-18)
Moreover, as Matthew Henry noted in his commentary on this passage, the kingdom of Judah patterned its own worship after the pomp
and pageantry of the Babylonians with whom they had become enamored:
Thus she increased her whoredoms; she fell in love, fell in league, with the Chaldeans. Hezekiah himself was faultythis way when he was proud of the court which the king of Babylon made to him and complimented his
ambassadors with the sight of all his treasures, Isa. 39:2. And the humour increased (v. 14); she doted upon thepictures of the Babylonian captains (v. 15, 16), joined in alliance with that kingdom, invited them to come and settle
in Jerusalem, that they might refine the genius of the Jewish nation and make it more polite; nay, they sent for
patterns of their images, altars, and temples, and made use of them in their worship. Thus was she polluted with
her whoredoms (v. 17), and thereby she discovered her own whoredom (v. 18), her own strong inclination to
idolatry.
According to two authoritative sources, H.P. Blavatsky and the Jewish Encyclopedia, the Jews also acquired from the Chaldeans their
doctrines of Eastern mysticism. These were later developed into a written compendium of esoteric literature known as the Jewish
Qabbalah or Kabalah, and in the Middle Ages as the Latin Cabala.
Kabalah (Heb.) The hidden wisdom of the Hebrew Rabbis of the middle ages derived from the older secretdoctrines concerning divine things and cosmogony, which were combined into a theology after the time of the
captivity of the Jews in Babylon. All the works that fall under the esoteric category are termed Kabalistic.(Blavatsky, Theosophical Glossary, p. 168)
The Pythagorean idea of the creative powers of numbers and letters, upon which the Sefer Yetzirah isfounded, and which was known in tannaitic timesis here proved to be an old cabalistic conception. In fact, thebelief in the magic power of the letters of the Tetragrammaton and other names of the Deityseems to haveoriginated in Chaldea(see Lenormant, Chaldean Magic, pp. 29, 43). Whatever, then, the theurgic Cabala was ,the very fact that Abraham, and not a Talmudical hero like Akiba, is introduced in the Sefer Yetzirah, at the close,as possessor of the Wisdom of the Alphabet, indicates an old tradition, if not the antiquity of the book itself
The whole dualistic system of good and of evil powers, which goes back to Zoroastrianism andultimately toold Chaldea, can be traced through Gnosticism; having influenced the cosmology of the ancient Cabala before it
reached the medieval oneThe gradual condensation of a primal substance into visible matter, a fundamental doctrine of the Cabala, is
the ancient Semitic conception of the primal ocean, known to the Babylonians as Apsu (compare Jastrow,Religion of Babylonia), and called by the Gnostics = (Anz, Die Frage nach dem Ursprung desGnostizismus, p. 98).
The Chaldean religious tradition that was embraced by apostate Jews during their captivity in Babylon was delivered to subsequent
generations by word of mouth. According to Blavatsky, these disseminators of the Chaldean tradition in the few centuries before Christwere known as Tanaim:
Kabalist. From Q B L H, Kabala, an unwritten or oral tradition. The kabalist is a student of secret science, one whointerprets the hidden meaning of the Scriptures with the help of the symbolical Kabala The Tanaim were the firstkabalists among the Jews; they appeared at Jerusalem about the beginning of the third century before the Christian
era This secret doctrine is identical with the Persian wisdom, or magic. (Ibid. p.167)
The dictionary defines the Medieval Latin cabalaas derived from the Hebrew word qabb l which means received doctrine, tradition,
from qibb l , to receive. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, Cabalists claimed to have received these oral traditions, not from ancientChaldeans, but from the Patriarchs and Prophets by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Cabala comprised originally the entire traditional lore, in contradistinction to the written law (Torah), andtherefore included the prophetic and hagiographic books of the Bible, which were supposed to have been received
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by the power of the Holy Spirit rather than as writings from Gods hand... Each received doctrine was claimed astradition from the Fathers...to be traced back to the Prophets or to Moses on Sinai... The chief characteristic of the
Cabala is that, unlike the Scriptures, it was entrusted only to the few elect ones;
Because of its heretical nature, the Cabala was not generally promulgated among the Jews but remained the secret doctrine of electJews. That is to say, certain Jews who were deemed worthy could comprehend hidden teachings in the written Torah and, through
mystical techniques, make direct contact with God. Among these practices are rapid recitation of the Holy Name of God (YHVH, orTetragrammaton), meditation on the 11 Sephiroth of the Tree of Life which are believed to be emanations of God, learning to use the 22
letters of the Hebrew alphabet as force-carrying energy patterns which serve as the building blocks of the cosmos, and, finally,
transcending the space/time limitations of the physical world to realize ones inner divinity. This secret doctrine has been preservedthroughout the ages to the present time by a spiritual brotherhood who progress individually to various stages of enlightenment and
proficiency in the hidden wisdomfrom elect to adepts to wise men to adepts in grace:
Cabala... The specific term for the esoteric or mystic doctrine concerning God and the universe, asserted to havecome down as a revelation to elect saints from a remote past, and preserved only by a privileged few. At first
consisting only of empirical lore, it assumed, under the influence of Neoplatonic and Neopythagorean philosophy, a
speculative character. In the geonic period it is connected with a Mishnah-like text-book, the Sefer Yetzirah, andforms the object of the systematic study of the elect, called mekubbalim or baale ha-kabbalah (possessors of, oradepts in, the Cabala). These receive afterward the name of maskilim (the wise), after Dan. xii. 10; and because the
Cabala is called (Hokmah nistarah = the hidden wisdom), the initials of which are , they receive
also the name of (adepts in grace) (Eccl. ix. 11, Hebr.). (Ibid.)
THE PHARISEES
The Tanaim, which meant teacher of the law, were the Scribes, the rabbis whom Blavatsky identified as the first Kabalists. From theranks of the Scribes evolved the sect of the Pharisees. According to Occult Theocrasy, by Edith Starr Miller, the creators of the Cabala were
the Pharisees, who had formed their sect in Babylon during the captivity and functioned as a secret society after the Jews returned to
Israel. The secret doctrine of Babylon remained the oral tradition of the Pharisees until they committed it to written form:
In his bookNicholas II et les Juifs,Netchvolodow explains that the Chaldean science acquired by many of theJewish priests, during the captivity of Babylon, gave birth to the sect of the Pharisees whose name only appears in
the Holy Scriptures and in the writings of the Jewish historians after the captivity (606 B.C.). The works of the
celebrated scientist Munk leaves no doubt on the point that the sect appeared during the period of the captivity.
From then dates the Cabala or Tradition of the Pharisees. For a long time their preceptswere only transmitted orally but later they formed the Talmud and received their final form in
the book called the Sepher ha Zohar.
The Pharisees were, as it were, a class whose tendency was to form a kind of intellectual aristocracy among theJews. At first, they formed a sort ofbrotherhood, a haburah, the members being called haburim or brothers. Theywere a subversive element, aiming at the overthrow of the Sadducean High-priesthood, whose members prided
themselves on their aristocracy of blood and birth, to which the Pharisees opposed an aristocracy of learning. The
war raged by the latter extends over a long period of time, and the rivalry was bitter...
The power of the Sadducees fell with the destruction of the Temple by Titus and thenceforth the Pharisaicelement held supremacy among the Jews. Quoting an acknowledged authority on Judaism, Mr. Flavien Brenier, Lt.
Gen. Netchvolodow further describes the policy of the sect as follows:
Before appearing proudly as the expression of Jewish aspirations, The Tradition of thePharisees had serious difficulties to surmount, the chief of which was the revival of the
orthodox faith stimulated in the Jewish people by the Captivity. To the exiles, bemoaning the
fall of the Temple of Jerusalem and begging Jehovah to end the misfortunes of their
homeland, the revelation that Jehovah was only a phantom, entailed not only a certain
defeat, but also their own exposure to perils the least of which would have been the loss of all
authority over Israel.
The Pharisees, then, judging it wiser to capture the confidence of their compatriots by
taking the lead in the religious movement, affected a scrupulous observance of the slightestprescriptions of the law and instituted the practice of complicated rituals, simultaneously
however cultivating the new doctrine [i.e. secret doctrine] in their secret sanctuaries. These
were regular secret societies, composed during the captivity of a few hundred adepts. At the
time of Flavius Josephus which was that of their greatest prosperity, they numbered only
some 6,000 members. (Occult Theocrasy, pp. 76-78)
To these hypocrites, Jesus reserved His most scathing condemnations:
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appearbeautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly
appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (Matt. 23:27-28)
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And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition...Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things
do ye. (Mark 7:9,13)
According to Occult Theocrasy, the Pharisees assumed the outward appearance of religious scrupulosity all the while they were
conducting pagan rites in secret, as did their antecedents, the elders of Judah, in the Temple of Solomon, as the Lord revealed to the
prophet Ezekiel.
Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes theway toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. He said
furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel
committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater
abominations. And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. Then said
he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto
me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of
creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round
about. And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them
stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every
man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. He
said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. Then he brought me
to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for
Tammuz. (Ezekiel 8: 5-14)
Netchvolodow likens the Pharisees to our modern Freemasons, whose Gnostic and dominionist agenda were subversive of society.Compare Netchvolodows characterization of the Pharisees to our modern Zionists, i.e. the Judeo-Freemasons, who are secretpractitioners of the Kabalah, while affecting to hold to the traditional beliefs of Judaism as set forth in the Old Testament.
This group of intellectual pantheists was soon to acquire a directing influence over theJewish nation. Nothing, moreover, likely to offend national sentiment ever appeared in their
doctrines. However saturated with pantheistic Chaldeism they might have been, the
Pharisees preserved their ethnic pride intact. Thisreligion of Man divinised, which they had
absorbed at Babylon, they conceived solely as applying to the profit of the Jew, the superior
and predestined being. The promises of universal dominion which the orthodox Jew found in
the Law, the Pharisees did not interpret in the sense of the reign of the God of Moses over
the nations, but in that of a material domination to be imposed on the universe by the Jews.
The awaited Messiah was no longer the Redeemer of original Sin, a spiritual victor who would
lead the world, it was a temporal king, bloody with battle, who would make Israel master of
the world and drag all peoples under the wheels of his chariot. The Pharisees did not ask
this enslavement of the nations of a mystical Jehovah, which they continued worshipping in
public, only as a concession to popular opinion, for they expected its eventual consummationto be achieved by the secular patience of Israel and the use of human means.
Monstrously different from the ancient law were such principles as these, but they hadnothing one could see, which might have rendered unpopular those who let them filter, drop
by drop, among the Jews.
The admirably conceived organization of the Pharisees did not fail soon to bear fruit.One cannot better define its action in the midst of Jewish society before Jesus Christ,
said Mr. Flavien Brenier, than in comparing it with that of the Freemasons in modern society.A carefully restricted membership tightly bound, imposing on their membersthe religion
of the secret, the Pharisees pursued relentlessly their double aim which was:1. The seizure of political power, by the possession of the great political offices (the
influence of which was tremendous in the reconstituted Jewish nation) and the conquest of
the Sanhedrin (Jewish parliament).
2.To modify gradually the conceptions of the people in the direction of their secretdoctrine...
The second of these aims and its method of attainment is exposed in the so-called Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion so loudly denounced by the descendants of those
who devised The Secret Doctrine in Israel, Israel here meaning the Jews as a religious
community, most of whom remain quite ignorant of the intricate subversive schemes
imputed to them.
The attitude of Jesus Christ to this sect is definitely expressed in the New Testament (seeLuke XI and John VIII (Ibid. pp.76-80)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are as graves which appear not, andthe men that walk over them are not aware of them. (Luke 11:44)
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murdererfrom the beginning, and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him (John 8:44)
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Here is confirmation of a long-standing division within Jewry that is in evidence today between the Zionist High Cabal and the non-Zionist,
Torah Jews, as well as the common Jew who knows nothing of the Cabalists diabolical schemes perpetrated upon the Gentile world andeven upon their own race.
THE ESSENES
Another faction within Jewry associated with the Kabalah were the Essenes, a monastic community which lived in the desert of Qumran,
the area near the Dead Sea which had formerly been Gomorrah. The Jewish Encyclopedia describes the cabalistic practices of the Essenes,which were Judaized elements of Eastern mystical traditions:
So, too, were the Essenes familiar with the idea of the journey to heavenand they were also masters ofangelology. The practise of magic and incantation, the angelology and demonology, were borrowed
from Babylonia, Persia, and Egypt; but these foreign elements were Judaized in the process, and took the form of
the mystical adoration of the name of God and of speculations regarding the mysterious power of the Hebrew
alphabet , the name of God creates and destroys worlds), to become, finally, foundations of the philosophy ofthe Sefer Yetzirah. (Jewish Encyclopedia)
According to the Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus, as cited in the Jewish Encyclopedia, the Essenes were guardians of the secret writings of the
Cabala:
In fact, the apocalyptic literature belonging to the second and first pre-Christian centuries contained the chiefelements of the Cabala; and as, according to Josephus ( l.c.), such writings were in the possession of the Essenes,
and were jealously guarded by them against disclosure, for which they claimed a hoary antiquity (see Philo, De VitaContemplativa, iii., and Hippolytus, Refutation of all Heresies, ix. 27) (Ibid.)
The Essenes claimed to be the legitimate sonsof Zadok, or Temple priesthood. They are credited with writing the Dead Sea Scrolls whichwere discovered in 1945 and are now being promoted as the oldest known copies of Jewish scripture. According to a Coptic-
Orthodoxsource, Gnosis is a key word in the scrolls of the Jewish Essene sect found at Qumran. H.P. Blavatsky noted that the Esseneswere pagan priests of the Greek goddess, Diana of Ephesus, where the Tanaim had established a college for instruction in the Chaldean
mystery religion:
Essenes... They had many Buddhistic ideas and practices; and i t is noteworthy that the priests of the GreatMotherat Ephesus, Diana-Bhavani with many breasts, were also denominated... It was at Ephesus where was the
great College of the Essenes and all the lore the Tanaim had brought from the Chaldees... Essenes, believed in
reincarnation. (Theosophical Glossary, pp. 113-14; The Secret Doctrine, Vol. II, p. 111n)
The Masonic writers, Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, are part of a great campaign to legitimize the Dead Sea Scrolls as the true
scriptures and the Essenes as the rightful priesthood of Israel (based on personal sanctity rather than lineage). They further misrepresentJesus and John the Baptist as high-ranking Essenes and the Qumran Community as the original Jerusalem Church:
That the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, who we know call the Qumran Community, were Essenes is nowbeyond doubt; and that these people were the Nasoreans or the original Jerusalem Church
To us it seems inescapable that the man who was Jesus the Christ must have been a leading Qumranian figureduring the crucial years of the third and fourth decades of the first ce ntury. The communitys numbers were tiny atthat time, possibly no more than two hundred people, and perhaps there were little more than around four
thousand Essenes in total. Theysaw imminent salvation from their problems through holiness and, although theywere not hereditary priests, through living a monastic existence. This involved a society that was extremely
hierarchical, from the Guardian or Grand Master downwardsInitiation into the higher echelons required vows of secrecy that carried threat of horrible punishments should
the secrets of the brotherhood be revealed to the outside world. This sounds like a highly Masonic practice Theywore white robes, took vows of poverty, swore to secrecy under threat of terrible punishment and claimed to
possess secret knowledgeFinally the imagination of Ezekiel establishes the rules for the priesthood that would become the landmarks of
the Essenes of Qumran. The legitimate priests of the sanctuary are to be the sons of Zadok, the erstwhile chiefpriest. Known to the people of Qumran as Zadokites, these sons of Zadok would wear white linen garments when
they entered the inner court. (The Hiram Key, pp. 54-58, 181)
Knight and Lomas also inadvertently reveal that an Essene monk will be the False Prophet who rises to power during the Tribulation
period. Acclaimed as a Teacher of Righteousness and an Interpreter of the Law, this Cabalist will re-institute the proper worship inthe Temple of Jerusalem:
Whoever the Teacher of Righteousness was, he must have been a pious, holy man and apparently was a priestlydescendant of Zadok, who revealed to his Community that they were living in a time that would be the end of daysas predicted by the old prophets. Soon, he told them, God would crush His enemies in a final cosmic battle and
usher in the new age of righteousness, and as the Community was the last remnant of true Israelthe people ofYahweh's covenantit would be they who would fight the battle and would return to Jerusalem to purifythe Temple and re-institute proper worship.
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...God, however, will save His people by the hands oftwo messianic figures who will arise at the end of time; onefrom the Branch of David and the other the Interpreter ofthe Law. (Ibid., p. 201-2)
In The White Goddess, Robert Graves associated the Essenes with the apostate tribe of Dan, the tribe of Samson, the Nazarite who judged
Israel: I also suggest inKing Jesus that the two mysterious Orders of the Essenes, Sampsonians and Helicaeans, were adepts in thecalendar mysteries and were named after Samson...and the Helix, or cosmic circle. (p. 150) It is possible that Samsons riddle was aprophecy that, at a future time, the tribe of Dan would try to usurp the messianic lineage of the tribe of Judah and inaugurate a pagan
messianic kingdom. [See: The Lost Tribe of Dan] Graves states previously, Though Jews... they believed in the Western Paradise which isa reference to Atlantis Isles of the Blest (p.149).
The Essenes, which appeared in Judea during the Hasmonean dynasty (the Maccabean revolt against the Greeks) and continued through
the Herodian dynasty, abruptly disappeared after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Robert Graves stated in The White Goddess that
the Alexandrian Gnostics...were the spiritual heirs of the Essenes after Hadrian had suppressed the Order in 132 A.D. (p.150)
THE ALEXANDRIAN GNOSTICS
Alexandria, Egypt was a center of interchange of religious ideas as well as the intellectual meeting point between the Jews and the Greeks.
After the fall of Jerusalem, Alexandria would become the epicenter from which the Cabalist Jews, who had synthesized their Chaldean
witchcraft with Neo-Platonic philosophy, would cloak the new Cabalism in Christian terminology and attempt to penetrate the fledgling
Church with heresy. As the origins of the Cabala were documented in the Chaldean mystery religion, the Jewish Encyclopedia locates the
source of Gnosticism in Jewish Cabalism:
But especially does Gnosticism testify to the antiquity of the Cabala.Of Chaldean origin... Gnosticism wasJewish in character long before it became Christian... Gnosticismthat is, the cabalistic Hokmah (wisdom)seems to have been the first attempt on the part of the Jewish sages to give the empirical mystic lore, with the help
of Platonic and Pythagorean or Stoic ideas, a speculative turn; hence the danger of heresyof which the systems ofPhilo, an adept in Cabala...show many pitfalls...
Jewish Gnosticism unquestionably antedates Christianity, for Biblical exegesis had already reached an age offive hundred years by the first century C. E. Judaism had been in close contact with Babylonian-Persian ideas for
at least that length of time, and for nearly as long a period with Hellenistic ideas. Magic, also, which,...was a not
unimportant part of the doctrines and manifestations of Gnosticism, largely occupied Jewish thinkers. There is, in
general, no circle of ideas to which elements of Gnosticism have been traced, and with which the Jews were not
acquainted. (Jewish Encyclopedia)
Since the secret doctrine of the Alexandrian Gnostics was simply a Christianized version of that found in the Cabala, we are notsurprised to find many correspondences. In a nutshell, the Gnostic gospel is based on the Cabalistic quest for liberation from the material
world, with the assistance of angels, of course.
Closely connected herewith is the doctrine that the pious are enabled to ascend toward God even in this life, ifthey know how to free themselves from the trammels that bind the soul to the body (see Ascension). Thus were the
first mystics enabled to disclose the mysteries of the world beyond. According to Anz, l.c., and Bousset, the centraldoctrine of Gnosticisma movement closely connected with Jewish mysticismwas nothing else than the
attempt to liberate the soul and unite it with God. This conception explains the great prominence of angels and
spirits in both the earlier and the later Jewish mysticism. Through the employment of mysteries, incantations,
names of angels, etc., the mystic assures for himself the passage to God, and learns the holy words and formulas
with which he overpowers the evil spirits that try to thwart and destroy him. Gaining thereby the mastery over
them, he naturally wishes to exercise it even while still on earth, and tries to make the spirits serviceable to him.(Jewish Encyclopedia)
Contemporary with Jesus Christ was Philo Judaeus (c. 30 BC-45 AD), a Hellenized Jew of Alexandria who is credited with first allegorizing
Scripture and applying the mystical method to the Mosaic writings. Unrivaled in esoteric knowledge, according to Blavatsky, Philo was a
member ofthe elitist Alexandrian society called the Therapeutae, also called an esoteric circle of illuminati of wise men.
Therapeutae. (Gr.) or Therapeutes. A school of Esotericists, which was an inner group within Alexandrian Judaism...They were healers in the sense that some Christian and Mental Scientists, members of the *TheosophicalSociety], are healers, while they are at the same time good Theosophists and students of the esoteric sciences. Philo
Judeaus calls them servants of god...an esoteric circle of illuminati, of wise men... They were contemplativeHellenistic Jews. (Theosophical Glossary, p.329)
The Jewish Encyclopedia states concerning the Therapeutae, The members of the sect seem to have branched off from the Essenebrotherhood. Both of these Gnostic orders were Jewish ascetics who practiced celibacy based on the Gnostic belief that, since thematerial world is was created by an evil Demiurge, to reproduce is to merely to populate and perpetuate Satans evil world system.Professor Constantine Scouteris of the University of Athens describes the differences between the strict celibacy of the Therapeutae and
less rigid Essene community:
In hisDe Vita Contemplativa the Alexandrian Philo makes an extremely remarkable description of an asceticcommunity with which he was familiar and which was settled not far from Alexandria, namely above Lake Mareotis.
Philo's intention in this treatise is...to sketch the way of life of a specific monastic community of Egyptian Jewish
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ascetics. At the very beginning of his treatise, Philo notes the substantial contrast between the Therapeutae and
another Jewish ascetic sect, the Essenes. The Essenes led a more practical and active life, while the Therapeutae
were dedicated to contemplative life. One could observe also other differences between the two ascetic traditions.
The Essenes were exclusively male communities while women participated in the communal gatherings of the
Therapeutae communities. Although the Essenes highly organized communal life involved great frugality, there isno conclusive evidence that it denied the lawfulness of marriage. The ascetic tradition of the Therapeutae, on the
other hand, insisted on absolute sexual abstinence. The Therapeutae did not practice the Essene communistic way
of life but lived separately as anchorites. They practiced renunciation of property, living a life of severe discipline,
fasting and praying daily according to an established horarium. (The Therapeutae of Philo)
After Philos death in 45 A.D., there arose in Alexandria the Society of Ormus, which meant Sages of Light. The founder of this societywas Ormesuis, a Seraphic monk / Egyptian magus who was reportedly converted by St. Mark (a likely story) and proceeded to blend the
mystery teachings and rites of the Egyptian priests with Christianity. According to Albert MackeysEncyclopedia of Freemasonry, thissociety merged with the Cabalist school of the Essenes and other Jews, presumably the Therapeutae. The Essenes who belonged to the
Society of Ormus were part of the Essene Brotherhood based in Alexandria. The insignia of the Society of Ormus was a red cross.
Their founder was a seraphic priest of Alexandria, a magus of Egypt named Ormesius, or ORMUS, who with six ofhis companions was converted in the year 96 by Saint Mark. He purified the doctrine of the Egyptians according to
the precepts of Christianity, and founded the Society of ORMUS, that is to say, the Sages of Light, to the members of
which he gave ared cross as a decoration. ABOUT THE SAME TIME THE ESSENES and other Jews founded a school of
SOLOMONIC WISDOM, to which the disciples of ORMUS attached themselves. Then the society was divided into
various Orders known as the Conservators of Mosaic Secrets, of Hermetic Secrets, etc. (45) (46). (Antiquities of theIlluminati, quoting Mackey II, p. 636)
Two centuries later, Philos method of allegorical interpretation of Scripture was taught by Clement and Origen in their catechetical school
of Alexandria where they synthesized Neo-Platonism with Christianity to produce a Christianized version of Gnosticism. These misnamedChurch fathers were ascetics, whose harsh treatment of the body is rejected by Scripture: Which things have indeed a shew of wisdomin will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. (Col. 2:23) In hisHistory of theChristian Church, Philip Schaff described the basis of the false doctrine of asceticism as spiritual elitism akin to Gnosticism:
The Alexandrian fathers furnished a theoretical basis for this asceticism in the distinction of a lower and highermorality, which corresponds to the Platonic or Pythagorean distinction between the life according to nature and the
life above nature or the practical and contemplative life. It was previously suggested by Hermas about the middle of
the second century. Tertullian made a corresponding opposite distinction of mortal and venial sins. Here was a
source of serious practical errors, and an encouragement both to moral laxity and ascetic extravagance. The
ascetics, and afterwards the monks, formed or claimed to be a moral nobility, a spiritual aristocracy, above the
common Christian people; as the clergy stood in a separate caste of inviolable dignity above the laity, who were
content with a lower grade of virtue. Clement of Alexandria, otherwise remarkable for his elevated ethical views,
requires of the sage or gnostic, that he excel the plain Christian not only by higher knowledge, but also by higher,
emotionless virtue, and stoical superiority to all bodily conditions; and he inclines to regard the body, with Plato, as
the grave and fetter of the soul. How little he understood the Pauline doctrine of justification by faith, may be
inferred from a passage in the Stromata, where be explains the word of Christ: Thy faith hath saved thee, asreferring, not to faith simply, but to the Jews only, who lived according to the law; as if faith was something to be
added to the good works, instead of being the source and principle of the holy life. Origen goes still further, and
propounds quite distinctly the catholic doctrine of two kinds of morality and piety, a lower for all Christians, and a
higher for saints or the select few. He includes in the higher morality works of supererogation, i.e. works not
enjoined indeed in the gospel, yet recommended as counsels of perfection, which were supposed to establish a
peculiar merit and secure a higher degree of blessedness. He who does only what is required of all is an unprofitable
servant; but he who does more, who performs, for example, what Paul, in 1 Cor. 7:25, merely recommends,
concerning the single state, or like him, resigns his just claim to temporal remuneration for spiritual service, is called
a good and faithful servant. Among these works were reckoned martyrdom, voluntary poverty, and voluntary
celibacy. (Heretical and Catholic Asceticism)
Here we see that the false doctrine of the so-called Christian Gnostics resembled the salvation by works taught by the Gnostic Jews atthe Platonic schools in Alexandria. It is worth noting here that the Gnostic heresiarchs were Jews, a fact well-known to the true Church
Fathers who were their contemporaries. This huge piece of the puzzle has been missing in the sanitized accounts of the Gnostics
disseminated to the Gentile world, but is readily available in the Jewish Encyclopedia:
It is a noteworthy fact that heads of Gnostic schools and founders of Gnostic systems are designated as Jews by theChurch Fathers. Some derive all heresies, including those of Gnosticism, from Judaism ... It must furthermore be
noted that Hebrew words and names of God provide the skeleton for several Gnostic systems... This fact proves at
least that the principal elements of Gnosticism were derived from Jewish speculation, while it does not preclude the
possibility of new wine having been poured into old bottles. (Gnosticism)
Irenaeus, whose treatise,Against Heresies, was directed against the Gnostics, indicted apostate Jews as the inventors of this heresy:
Arising among these men, Saturninus (who was of that Antioch which is near Daphne) and Basilides laid hold ofsome favourable opportunities, and promulgated different systems of doctrinethe one in Syria, the other atAlexandria These men, moreover, practise magic; and use images, incantations, invocations, and every other kindof curious artThey declare that they are no longer Jews, and that they are not yet Christians; and that it is not atall fitting to speak openly of their mysteries, but right to keep them secret by preserving silence. (Against Heresies,Book I, Ch. XXIV)
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The Plot Against the Church, a history of Jewish infiltration of the Catholic Church by Maurice Pinay (a pseudonym for a team of Catholic
priests), documents from various sources the foundation of Gnosticism to be the Jewish Cabala, and the Alexandrian Gnostics to be Jewish
Cabalists.
Matter, the renowned historian of Gnosticism reports to us that the leading Jewish personages, theAlexandrian philosophers Filon and Aristobulus, who were completely and utterly true to the religion of their
fathers, resolved to deck themselves out with the remains of other systems and make a way clear to Jewry for
enormous conquests; both were also leaders of Gnosticism and Cabbalists
The said author explains: that The Cabbala existed before Gnosticism, is an opinion which the Christianwriters little understand, but which the scholars of Judaism admit with true certainty; they also assert, thatGnosticism was not exactly a falling away from Christianity but a compilation of systems, in which several Christian
elements were taken upIn his confirmation that Cabbalists founded Gnosticism, the famous historian of Freemasonry, Ragon, reports
that: The Cabbala is the key of the secret sciences. The Gnostics emanated from the Cabbalists. The JewishEncyclopedia asserts that Gnosticism had a Jewish character, before it was transformed into the Christian
On the other hand, the Encyclopedia Judaica Castellana alludes to the fact, that:The original Gnosticism, both the Christian as well as the Jewish, used Hebrew names in its system and that it
even based its opposition upon Biblical ideas, points to Jewish origin. It says in addition that it influenced the later
development of the Cabala 525:262-3
Perhaps the most influential of the arch heretics was Valentinus, whose Gnostic school endured for over 600 years and whose belief
system exists even today. Valentinus, a Jew born in Egypt around 100 A.D., was educated in Alexandria where he became a disciple of one
Theudas who claimed to have been a disciple of the apostle Paul who privately taught the hidden wisdom to his inner circle. Typical of
the early Gnostics, Valentinus also claimed to have had a vision of the risen Christ, after which he commenced his career as a teacher atAlexandria (c. 120 AD). The truth about Valentinus conversion is more available in historical accounts of the Romans brutal suppressionof Jewish sedition in Egypt in 118 A.D.
Decimated by Roman troops deployed in the Jewish quarters, with their urban and religious organisationshattered,remnants of Egyptian Jewry metamorphosed into embryonic Christians(... in the eyes of the localGreeks, Christianity was just another brand of Judaism. Irshai.) Notable among them was a young man he wouldhave been about eighteen at the time of the insurrection studying in the very city of Alexandria and witness to thecarnage: Valentinus. Another was Basilides. Following in the tradition of synthesis and syncretism of long-standing
in Alexandria (e.g. Philo a generation earlier), these proto-Christian theorists, Valentinus and Basilides competedagainst each other, had their own cult followings, and produced their own gospels.
Valentinian Gnosticism attracted a large number of adherents in Egypt and Syria. In 136 AD, Valentinus relocated to Rome where he
founded another school and rose to prominence throughout Europe. Maurice Pinay recounted the powerful refutation of this adversary
of the Christian faith by Irenaeus of Lyons (c. 130-202):
The evidence of the Church Fathers completes the total picture of proofsin order to show that Gnosticismwas the work of Jewry; for they name several of the leaders of the Gnostic schools as Jews
Saint Ireneus, described Valentinus, a Jew from Alexandria, as leader of the GnosticsThe most dangerous of allsecret sects for Christianity was directed by the crypto-Jew Valentinus, who was
the type of classical member of the Fifth Column. For he was outwardly active as true Christian and spreaddisintegration in Holy Church, by spreading out his disastrous sect. At first he had the city of Alexandria as chief
bulwark, but towards the middle of the second century he went to Rome with the intention of undermining
Christianity in the capital of the Empire itself. The Valentinians seriously threatened to disintegrate Holy Church
from within, which finally in order to nullify the disastrous work of this false Christian, a true Jew of the FifthColumn, cast him out of its bosom
The Gnostics had mystery plays and initiations. Tertullian assures us, that the sects of the Valentiniansdestroyed the Mystery plays in Eleusis and made a sanctuary of prostitution out of them. And we must not forget,that Valentine, the false Christ and crypto-Jew from Alexandria was revealed by the Saint Irenaeus as leader of the
Gnostics, whose sects according to several people were directed by one and the same powerThat great leader, who appeared in the Church, in order to combat Gnosticism and to triumph over it, was in
fact Saint Irenaeus, who thoroughly studied its disastrous sects and their dark teachings and mercilessly fought
them in word and deed. Simultaneously heattacked the Jews, whom he described as leaders of this disintegrating
underground movement, [28] whose strongest and most dangerous sect for Christianity was that of the
Valentinians, which was led by Valentinius, behind whose false Christianity Saint Ireneus discovered the Jewish
identity.
Thanks to the manly and ceaseless labour of Saint Ireneus, Holy Church was successful in triumphing over theGnosis, which for rising Christianity was a more threatening internal danger than the grave external intrigues which
were then represented through the frontal attacks of the synagogue and its intrigues Naturally, the existence of adevout and very combative clergy, to whom indulgence was disguised with the cloak of peaceful coexistence or of
diplomacy was not known, had the effect that Holy Church emerged victorious from this terrible struggle, in which it
completely overcame its foes: Jewry, Jewish Gnosticism and Roman paganism*28+ His work Adversus Haereses is especially important. (The Plot Against the Church, pp. 262-8)
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In 143 A.D. Valentinus was a candidate for the office of bishop of Rome, but upon being passed over for that position he left the Christian
community. About the time of Valentinus, another arch heretic, Marcion, arrived in Rome. Irenaeus wrote of his official rejection by the
Church at Rome, which was under the oversight of bishops (not popes):
For Valentinus came to Rome in the time of Hyginus, flourished under Pius, and remained until Anicetus. Cerdon,too, Marcion's predecessor, himself arrived in the time of Hyginus, who was the ninth bishop. Coming frequently
into the Church, and making public confession, he thus remained, one time teaching in secret, and then again
making public confession; but at last, having been denounced for corrupt teaching, he was excommunicated from
the assembly of the brethren.
After Valentinus death, his disciples developed his ideas into a system which they spread throughout the Roman Empire. In his work,Valentinus: A Gnostic for All Seasons, Stephan A. Hoeller theorizes as to the course of Christendom, had Valentinus become Pope:
It is certainly a question of some interest what the course of Christian theology might have been had Valentinusbeen elected to the office of bishop of Rome. His hermeneutic vision combined with his superb sense of the
mythical would have probably resulted in a general flowering of the Gnosis within the very fabric of the Church of
Rome, and might have created an authoritative paradigm of Gnostic Christianity that could not have been easily
exorcised for centuries, if at all. (The Almost Pope)
THE JUDAIZERS
During the first century, the apostle Paul had valiantly contended against the Judaizing heresy, giving no place to the unbelieving Jews
who stalked him from city to city agitating the crowds as he preached the Gospel. Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and withmany tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews... (Acts 20:19)
The Interlinear Greek-English New Testament (Textus Receptus) translates the last phrase of verse 19 plots of the Jews. Verse 3 of thischapter mentions that the Jews who were involved in the uproar at Ephesus continued to plot against the disciples. And havingcontinued three months, having been made against them a plot by the Jews, being about to sail into Syria, arose a purpose to return
through Macedonia. The word plot suggests that the continual attacks on the Gospel were planned, as in a conspiracy: Plot, n.[Abbrev. from complot.] 1. Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of
some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue...cabal (Websters)
It seems that Jews were also infiltrating the churches, bringing their false doctrines with them; as Paul stated, these Jews were falsebrethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into
bondage. (Gal. 2:4) It is likely Paul anticipated that the Judaizing heresy, which had appeared in Corinth and Galatia, would eventuallymanifest in other churches, and especially in Rome, the center and seat of earthly power and government. For this reason, the doctrinal
position of the Christian community in Rome, whose power and influence was destined only to increase, would carry great weight in
deciding the Judaizing controversy. This may explain why Pauls epistle to the Romans was a defense of the fundamental doctrine of the
righteousness which is of faith as contrasted with the Jewish concept of righteousness which is of the law.
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant ofGods righteousness, andgoing about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves untothe righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth... That if
thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved. (Rom.10:2-4,9)
Tragically, before his departure from Ephesus to Jerusalem, whence he would appeal to appear before Caesar in Rome, Paul prophesied
that the Christian churches would be infiltrated by heretics, chief among whom were the Judaizers.
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your
own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and
remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. (Acts 20:20)
Before departing on his final journey to Rome, Paul also commended the believers to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up,
and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified (v.30) as opposed to the works of the law by which no flesh isjustified. (Gal.2:16)
JEWISH COMMUNITY IN ROME
During the time of Christ and the early Church period there was a sizeable Jewish community in Rome, estimated at 40,000 Jews.
Josephus mentioned a lawsuit that involved 8,000 Jews in Rome during the reign of Caesar Augustus (44 BC-14.AD), presumably adult
men each with a family of at least four or five members. (Jewish Antiquities, Vol. II, p. 80) The number of Jews in Rome increased
considerably after the mass deportation of captives from Jerusalem following its destruction in 70 A.D.
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There was also a thriving Jewish community in the area which became the Vatican. According to The Vatican & Rome as elements ofapocalyptic discourse: The origins of the Citt del Vaticano are as an unpleasant neighborhood outside the city walls populated by Jewsand beginning in the first century by (Jewish) Christians and still later by the persecuted Gentile converts to the Christian sect. The Latinword Vatican means divining serpent (see Papal Crest Dragon):
The word Vatican literally means Divining Serpent, and is derived from Vatis=Diviner and Can=Serpent. VaticanCity and St. Peters Basilica were built on the ancient pagan site called in Latinvaticanus mons or vaticanus collis,which means hill or mountain of prophecy. Coins minted in Vatican City often bear the inscription CITT DELVATICANO, which means City of Prophecy. (The Wine of Babylon)
The Jewish community in Rome dates at least as far back as the Maccabees, who had cordial relations with Rome and received pledges of
Roman friendship and protection. (See: Jews become allies of Rome) Jewish culture prospered in Rome during the early centuries of first
millennium, even to the extent that Jews held government positions and received favored treatment from the Caesars. It was not until
Constantine the Great, who reigned as emperor from 306 to 336, that Jews were proscribed from holding state offices, owning slaves or
testifying in court against Christians, among other restrictions. The Jewish Virtual Library reveals the influence and status of the Jewish
community in Rome.
The Jewish community in Rome is known to be the oldest Jewish community in Europe and also one of the oldestcontinuous Jewish settlements in the world, dating back to 161 B.C.E. when Jason ben Eleazar and Eupolemus ben
Johanan came as envoys ofJudah Maccabee. Other delegations were sent by the Hasmonean rulers in 150 and 139
B.C.E. After the Romans invaded Judea in 63 B.C.E., Jewish prisoners of war were brought to Rome as slaves, Jewish
delegates came to Rome on diplomatic missions and Jewish merchants traveled to Rome seeking business
opportunities. Many of those who visited Rome stayed and the Jewish population began to grow.
While the treatment of Jews by the Romans in Palestine was often harsh, relations with the rulers in Rome were
generally much better. Julius Caesar, for example, was known to be a friend of the Jews; he allowed them to settleanywhere in the Roman Empire. According to historians, when Caesar was assassinated by Brutus in 44 B.C.E.,
Roman Jews spent day and night at Caesars tomb, weeping over his death. His successor,Augustus, also actedfavorably toward the Jews and even scheduled his grain distribution so that it would not interfere with the Jewish
Sabbath. Two synagogues were founded by slaves who had been freed by Augustus (14 C.E.) and by Agrippa (12
B.C.E.)...
From the second half of the first century C.E., the Roman Jewish community became firmly established. Amajority of the community were shopkeepers, craftsman and peddlers, but other Jews became poets, physicians
and actors... Evidence has been found that twelve synagogues were functioning during this period.
Always industrious and enterprising, the Jews used Rome as a base to gain influence throughout Europe,. Their success was largely
achieved through finance, and especially usury, the charging of excessive interest on loans by means of which wealthy Jews would
eventually enslave the European monarchies. As the headquarters of the empire, Rome was strategic to the European operations of the
Jewish elite. The scheme employed in the takeover of Rome is revealed by the two Jewish converts to Roman Catholicism who b ecamepriests:
Usury for Power...The human causes of *the persecution of Jews+, unique in history, are witnessed by the Jews insatiable appetite
for turning to usury to gain power through betrayal in order to dominate, and whenever possible, to take over and
overthrow the State.
In every country, this immutable law of Hebrew prosperity in every country is always to the detriment of thewell being and liberty of the inhabitants. Many years before Rome fell into the claws of history, the famous Lemann
brothers, who converted from Judaism and became priests of the Catholic Church, in one of their works, which
merits meditation, wrote:
O Israelites of Rome, we understand the attitude of our people. If you are conceded the right of possessionwhich you invoke, we wager that, within thirty to fifty years from now, Rome will be in your hands. (ff.Rome et les
juives. Rome and the Jews)And so the prophecy came to pass. The city of Rome fell quickly into the abyss, and was economically and
materially subjugated to the Jews, as were all of the major cities ofthe great nations of Europe. (La CiviltaCattolica)
It was into this prospering Jewish community at Rome that the Gospel of Jesus Christ made an entrance, for the it is recorded in Acts 18:2
that, while in Corinth, Paul found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because thatClaudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. A Commentary on Romans by James R. Edwards alludesto the tensions between the Jews and Gentile converts in Rome who, at the council of Jerusalem, as recorded in Acts 15, had been
officially released from the Mosaic Law.
The Edict of Claudius. Claudius, who ruled Rome from AD 41 to 54, found the Pax Romana threatened by Jewishdisturbances from Rome to distant Egypt. In his first year of office he imposed a restraining order on the Jews,
forbidding them to meet together in accordance with their ancestral way of life. Eight years later, in AD 49, hecracked down on foreigners in general. The Roman historian Suetonius says, Since the Jews constantly madedisturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, (Claudius) expelled them from Rome....
The expulsion of Jews from Rome dramatically changed the constituency of the fledgling Christian communitiesthere. A movement that from its inception had identified more or less with Judaism was now confronted with a
predominantly, if not exclusively, Gentile Christian membership. Freed from the influence of scrupulous Jewish
Christians, particularly in dietary matters, the Gentile Christian communities would have grown numerically
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stronger. But more importantly, they more than likely developed a distinctly antinomian consciousness during the
absence of their Jewish Christian counterparts. How long this situation lasted we cannot say, but the five years
between the proclamation of the edict in AD 49 and Claudius death in AD 54 is a reasonable guess.This changed when Claudius died and the edict lapsed. It is not difficult to imagine the difficulties which must
have ensued when Jewish Christians returning from exile tried to reestablish themselves in Christian communities
that had since matured in Gentile character, especially regarding laxness toward the Torah. Pauls greetings at theend of Romans seem directed to several different (house) churches (see 16:5,14,15), the existence of which may be
evidence of tensions between Jewish and Gentile Christians. If our dating of Romans is correct - and the date cannot
have been more than a year or two away from AD 57 - then Romans was written only a few years after the onset
of this social and religious maelstrom. (pp. 8-11)
A maelstrom indeed ensued when Claudius was succeeded by the Emperor Nero who, in A.D. 64, launched the fierce persecutions of
Christians that would continue for two hundred and fifty years. A World History website ascribes the Great Fire of Rome to Jewish
fanatics, who shifted the blame to the Christians:
An official investigation concluded that the fire had been started by Jewish fanatics. This put the Jewish communityin Rome in danger, and Jewish leaders in Rome may have tried to avert this danger by describing to authorities the
difference between themselves and the Christians. The leaders of Jews in Rome could reach the emperor, Nero,
through his new wife, Sabina Poppaea. Nero learned of the separate identity of those Jews who were followers of
Jesus, and he put blame on them for the fire.
It was Constantine the Great whose Edict of Milan in 313 ended the persecution of Christians and legalized the worship of Jesus Christ. At
the same time, Constantine also obstructed Jewish ascendancy in the Roman Empire.
The Jewish position in Rome began to deteriorate during the reign of Constantine the Great (306-336), whoenacted laws limiting the rights of Jews as citizens... Some of the relevant decrees in these codes includeprohibitions against making proselytes, intermarriage, owning slaves (slave labor was very common and this
prohibition severely restricted the economic life of the Jews), holding any esteemed position in the Roman state,
building new synagogues and testifying against Orthodox Christians in court. (Jewish Virtual Library)
Was there an inverse relationship between the two traditions Judaism and Christianity so that the expanding influence of onenegatively affected the numerical growth of the other? And can it be that Constantines conversion and outlawing of Jewish operationsagainst the Christians is the reason this Roman emperor consistently receives bad press from the intellectual community?
It is difficult to resist the suspicion that Jews, certain of whom held positions in the Roman state before Constantine, may have been
behind the persecution of Christians, accusing them to the Roman emperors as the Jews accused Paul and Silas to the rulers of
Thessalonica, ...these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus. (Acts 17:7) The issue ofallegiance to Jesus Christ as God in preference to Caesar also recalls the charge which the chief priests and scribes leveled against Jesus
Himself when He stood before Pilate: We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that hehimself is Christ a King. (Luke 23:2)
Having failed to eradicate Christianity by way of extermination, is it possible the Jews then tried to destroy the Christian faith by other
means? In very fact, this was the case, according to Maurice Pinay:
Gnosisfor rising Christianity was a more threatening internal danger than the grave external intrigues which werethen represented through the frontal attacks of the synagogue and its intrigues. The latter attained, as we have
already observed, that the whole power of the Roman Empire was applied with its terrible persecutions, as a result
of which there were so many martyrs for Christianity. These facts prove, that from its first beginnings onwards the
activity of the Jewish Fifth Column which had penetrated into its interior, was far more dangerous than that ofexternal foes. (The Plot Against the Church, p. 268)
Although Constantine restricted Jewish power and influence, the last of his direct descendants to become Roman Emperor favored the
Jewish religion to the extent that he made plans to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon. The deeds of Julian the Apostate are
favorably recorded by Jewish historians such as H. Graetz, whose History of the Jews was cited by Pinay:
In the year 360 Julian, a cousin of Constantine, was proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army. Constantine, whohad prepared for battle against him, died on the way; this made easier the final victory for Julian and his
proclamation as Emperor of the Orient and Occident. The policy of Julian had three principle aims: I. To renew the
Pagan belief and to again declare it a state religion of the Empire, so that Rome which according to his view had
declined through Christianity, might return to its old glory. II. To destroy Christianity. III. To concede to Jewry its old
positions, from which it had been expelled by Constantine and his sons; even the rebuilding of the Temple of
Solomon was to be arrangedThe famous Jewish historian says of Julian:...that Julian paid great admiration to the Jewish religion and confirms
that the period of government by Julian...was a time of highest fortune for the Jews of the Roman Empire...Graetz likewise establishes that Julian called the leader of Jewry in the Empire, the patriarch Hillel, literally his
respected friend, and promised him in a personal letter to make an end of the misdeeds committed by theChristian Emperors against the Jews. Further, Julian made all necessary preparations in order to begin the rebuilding
of the Temple of Jerusalem. He addressed a letter to all Jewish congregations of the Empire, in which he spoke in
friendly way of the leader of Jewry in the Empire, the Patriarch Julos (Hillel), as his brother. He promised the
abolition of the high taxes laid upon the Israelites by the Christians, guaranteed that in the future none should
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accuse them of blasphemy, promised freedom and security and promised to have Jerusalem rebuilt at his expense,
as soon as he returned victorious from the Persian war. For the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem Julian
commissioned his best friend, Alypius of Antioch, to whom he gave instructions to spare no expense, and
commanded the governors of Palestine and Syria, to assist with everything necessary... (pp. 285-6)
The death of Julian in 363 A.D. curtailed plans for rebuilding Solomons Temple; however, the Jewish Virtual Library boasts of a Hebrewrevival in Rome in the centuries which followed:
During this period there was a revival of Hebrew studies in Rome, centered around the local yeshiva, Metivta deMata Romi. A number of well-known scholars, Rabbi Kalonymus b. Moses and Rabbi Jacob Gaon and Rabbi Nathanb. Jehil (who wrote a great talmudic dictionary, the Arukh), contributed to Jewish learning and development. Roman
Jewish traditions followed those practiced in the Land of Israel and the liturgical customs started in Rome spread
throughout Italy and the rest of the world.
ROMAN CATHOLICISM
Did the abovementioned Jewish liturgical customs which started in Rome somehow find their way into the Church at Rome? Were theylittle by little incorporated into its worship, which gradually developed into the Roman Catholic Mass? It may come as a surprise to many
Catholics that the Catholic Encyclopedia officially defines the Catholic liturgy as a carryover from the Mosaic Law:
...the word liturgy...is used for the public service of the temple...the function of the priests, the ritual service of thetemple... So in Christian use liturgy meant the public official service of the Church, that corresponded to the official
service of the Temple in the Old Law.
After which we find a startling admission, viz., that the Mass was a Christianized synagogue service conducted by learned elders:
The Eucharist was always celebrated at the end of a service of lessons, psalms, prayers, and preaching, which wasitself merely a continuation of the service of the synagogue. So we have everywhere this double function; first a
synagogue service Christianized, in which the holy books were read, psalms were sung, prayers said by the bishop
in the name of all (the people answering Amen in Hebrew, as had their Jewish forefathers), and homilies,explanations of what had been read, were made by the bishop or priests, just as they had been made in the
synagogues by the learned men and elders(e. g., Luke, iv, 16-27)... The likeness between the prayers of
thanksgiving (ix-x) and the Jewish forms for blessing bread and wine on the Sabbath (given in the Berakoth treatiseof the Talmud; cf. Sabatier, La Didache, Paris, 1885, p. 99) points obviously to derivation from them.
Little wonder that one Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism made the astounding statement that entering the Catholic Church was not a
conversion experience for him, but rather a continuation of Judaism. Roy Schoeman, the author ofSalvation is from the Jews, confirms
as well that the Mass is based on the Jewish ceremonial worship and that Catholic theology is based on the Old Testament!
As a Jew coming to the Catholic Church, it was natural for me to find the relationship between Judaism andthe Catholic Church among the most interesting things in the world. It was obvious to me that for a Jew to enter the
Catholic Church wasnt a matter of conversion at all, but was rather simply coming into the fullness of Judaism into the form that Judaism took after the coming of the Jewish Messiah.
Although Catholics are aware of this in principle, they often dont think ofthe Catholic Church as thecontinuation of Judaismafter the Messiah... Its everywhere you look. Its obviously in the Sacrifice of the Mass andthe way the Mass is prefigured in Jewish ceremonial worship. Its in the role that the Old Testament, JewishScripture have in Catholic theology and the structure of the Catholic Faith.
A listing of parallels between Roman Catholicism and Judaism, which have analogues in the Eastern Orthodox Church as well, presented
us with the startling prospect that Roman Catholicism may have been a Judaized form of Christianity from its inception. In the list of
traditions below, links to the Catholic Encyclopedia show that the Roman Catholic Church justifies most of its practices by appealing to the
Old Testament. Even in cases where the New Testament is cited as justification, these practices are not required under the New Covenant
but have their basis in Judaism.
Priesthood (cf. Levitical priesthood/mediators between God and men)
Pope (cf. Jewish High Priest)
College of Cardinals (70) (cf. seventy elders of Moses/Deut.17:8)
Confession of sins to priest for forgiveness (cf. Lev.5:5)
Daily sacrifice of the Mass (cf. Daily burnt offering / Heb.10:11)
Altars for sacrifices
Altar vessels of gold and silver
Vestments for priests
Offertory (cf. Offerings)
Church buildings for worship (cf. Temple)
Liturgy (cf. service of the Temple)
Sunday obligation (cf. Sabbath observance)
Ecclesiastical Feasts (cf. Jewish feasts)
Scapular / Hairshirt (cf. Sackcloth)
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Works-based salvation (cf. Mosaic Law)
Sacrament of infant baptism (cf. Rite of Circumcision)
Wafer-only Communion (cf. Manna/Shew Bread)
Sacrament of Confirmation (cf. Jewish Bar/Bat Mitzvah)
Burning of candles and incense (cf. Exodus 30)
Holy water font (cf. The Laver / Exodus 40)
No salvation outside the (Catholic) Church (Gentiles must convert to Judaism to be saved)
The following Roman Catholic traditions were not part of the Mosaic Law but were adopted by the Israelites in their apostasy:
Traditions of men (Mark 7:6-13)
Vain repetitions (Lip service (Isa.29:13)
Veneration o