Hello,

As is any cult in which the relationship between man and the divine
is conceived of in sentimental terms in the broadest sense. For
Evola, this was already clear at the time of Ur.

Thompkins&Cariou



--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "Giacomo Crasti"
<leonida68@t...> wrote:
> So the conclusion could be that - in essence - all the tree
> Abrahmic religions are spiritually feminine/lunar?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: evola_as_he_is
> To: evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 4:40 PM
> Subject: [evola_as_he_is] The Relationship between Judaism and
Freemasonry
>
>
>
> (In this message, which stands as a remainder of the third
footnote
> of 'The Relationship between Judaism and Freemasonry'-
> http://thompkins_cariou.tripod.com/id60.html - the reader will
find
> names of organisations, of orders and of societies with which
> the 'conspiracy theory', of whichever flavour, is used to
juggling,
> while exercising considerable imagination to trace in them the
origin
> of speculative Masonry of the present day. Our approach is
completely
> different. We consider them from the point of view of the "race
of
> the spirit", and, from this point of view, they all turn out to
have
> similarities between each other)
>
> On Muhammad's pagan background, F. E. Peters wrote : "Contrary to
the
> Muslim conviction that Muhammad was originally created by God as
a
> believer in His Oneness, he is reported to have worshipped and
> offered sacrifices to Al-Uzza, an idol the pagans believed to be
one
> of the three daughters of God (cf. 42:52). The Quraish venerated
Al-
> Uzza highly, believing that her intercession on their behalf
would be
> acceptable to God, her father. One of his uncles was named after
this
> idol ; he was called Abd al Uzza, the slave of Uzza, before he
was re-
> named Abu Lahab, the Father of Flame, by his Muslim foes.
>
> According to a famous, though much edited, tradition, it was
young
> Muhammad who was the pagan and Zayd ibn Amr who was the
monotheist.
> Peters also quotes Zayd ibn Haritha, who is said to have narrated
the
> following story to his son : The Prophet slaughtered a ewe for
one of
> the idols (nusub min al-ansab) ; then he roasted it and carried
it
> with him. (Muhammad and the Origins of Islam, p.126). While
preaching
> the oneness of God, Muhammad continued, in one form or another,
to
> venerate the idols - up to the time he conquered Mecca, when he
> finally had all the idols, housed inside and outside the Ka'aba,
> destroyed". (http://www.mukto-
> mona.com/Articles/asghar/muhammad_islam3.htm)
>
> As a matter of fact, it is believed by some scholars that
henotheism,
> the worship of only one god while not denying the existence of
other
> gods, may have existed in pre-Islamic society and that Allah, or
al-
> Ilah ("the god"), can be traced to Ilah, the South Arabian moon
god,
> who was the 'father' of three deities popular at Mecca at the
time of
> Muhammad's birth : Uhzza or al-Uzza, "the mighty one" (her
sanctuary
> was in a grove of acacia trees to the south of Mecca) ; Lat, or
al-
> Lat, "the goddess", the deity of the sun ; and Manat, the deity
of
> good fortune. These were three different aspects of the same
> goddess : the warrior virgin, the Mother, and the crone,
> respectively. The Koran mentions these deities in Sura 53:19-
> 20 : "Have ye seen Lat, and `Uzza, and another, the third
(goddess),
> Manat?". Those three goddesses, represented by the waxing moon,
the
> full moon, and the waning moon, respectively, are sometimes
engraved
> together with Allah, represented by a crescent moon above them.
> Interestingly enough, 'Allah' is of the feminine gender in
classical
> Arab.
>
> According to the soi-disant "Dr John Coleman, ex-MI6 officer",
the
> Muslim Brotherhood is a Masonic sect created by British
> Intelligence's Middle East Division. Although, as ex-intelligence
> officers often do, "Dr Coleman" may be peddling disinformation,
the
> fact remains nonetheless that the Muslim Brotherhood and
Freemasonry
> are as alike as two peas in a pod ; their tenets are the same.
The
> Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt, two years before Guénon
was
> to settle down in Cairo, by the eldest son of a famous sheikh,
Hasan
> al-Banna. Hasan, in his teenage years, had joined the Sufi sect
of
> the Hasafiyya Brotherhood, and had set up, later on, the
Hasafiyya
> Society for Welfare. However, Freemasonry was not a new element
in
> the Arab world. "Freemasonry appeared in Egypt soon after
Napoleon's
> conquest in 1798, when General Kleber, a French Mason and top
> commander in Napoleon's army, established the Lodge of Isis.
French
> Masonry dominated Egypt until British lodges began to appear
after
> the British occupation in 1882. Freemasonry was very popular in
the
> first half of the twentieth century, and many important Egyptians
> were Masons, along with the British rulers and aristocrats who
> occupied the country. In fact the Egyptian monarchs, from Khedive
> Ismail to King Fouad, were made honorary Grand Masters at the
start
> of their reigns. From 1940 to 1957 there were close to seventy
> Masonic lodges chartered throughout Egypt. At one time the
leaders of
> the Nationalist and Wafd parties were Freemasons, and many
members of
> the Egyptian parliament were Masons as well, where they mingled
with
> the military commanders and aristocrats of the ruling British
> occupation" (http://www.redmoonrising.com/Ikhwan/MB.htm). Not
only
> was Masonry not new in the Arab world at the beginning of the
XXth
> century, but there are grounds for thinking that Freemasonry may
> originate in the Semitic world and that, in fact, Masonry as it
> emerged in the West in the sixteenth century may merely be an
> imported product, created a long time before by revolutionary
> subversive groups. The sect of Roshaniyya ('illuminated ones'),
born
> in Afghanistan in the fifteenth century, is one of them, and the
> notorious sect of the Assassins, better known as the Ismailis,
which
> had its hour of glory at the end of the eleventh century and
which
> may have had some influence on the Templars "in moulding, or at
> least in suggesting, some of its esoteric dogmas and ceremonies"
> (http://www.antiqillum.com/pdf/qadosh097.pdf) is another ; it is
> believed that the former was and is still a branch of the latter,
and
> interestingly enough, the members of this sect claim to gain
power
> from the spirits of their dead members.
>
> Both "are supposed to have derived their doctrines from the sect
of
> the Sofis in Persia" (ibid.), whose system of initiation, like
the
> Masonic one, is divided into degrees. Now, it is most interesting
to
> note that, according to von Hammer, Sufism, before even being a
> philosophical and mystical sect, was a political one, and its
main
> aim was to overthrow the Abbassids in favour of the Fatimids.
Junaid
> (tenth century), head of the Safavid sect, is suspected of having
> sought to turn sufism into a political power ; he combined
warlike
> policies with Shi'a piety. And so the Fatimids came to power. A
few
> years after having created the city of Cairo, the Fatimids, who
we
> know were sensitive to 'esoteric doctrines', established the
Great
> House of Wisdom, where scholars translated the main philosophical
and
> scientific works of antiquity, especially those of Greece and
Egypt,
> into Arabic, while trying to show that Islam could make faith and
> reason coincide and experimenting in rationalism ; the Fatimid
caliph
> was called the Grand Master and, according to the Muslim
historian
> Ameer Ali, "the account of the different degrees of initiation
> adopted in the [House of Wisdom] forms an invaluable record. In
fact,
> the [House of Wisdom] at Cairo became the model of all the
> [Freemasonic] Lodges created in Christendom." Many scholars
> associated with the Great House of Wisdom were Sufis. It is
precisely
> these that the Fatimid caliphs chose to propagate Islam, or
rather
> its esoteric doctrines, throughout the world, especially
throughout
> the West, where, as prophesied by Muhammad, the time would come
> when "the sun (of Islam) would rise". Any outer form, whether
> artistic, scientific or religious, could be used to achieve this
> goal. This is how the European courts of the late twelfth
century,
> beginning with that of Eleanor d'Aquitaine and Marie de
Champagne,
> already weakened as a result of the domestication of the warriors
by
> the Church institution of chivalry, succumbed to the enervating
> melodies and lukewarm poetry of the fidèles d'amour, whose forms
> originated, as perfectly seen by de Rougemont, in the Middle
East,
> and whose vision of woman, idealised, risen above man, is
completely
> opposed to the traditional customs and conceptions of the West.
In
> this connection it should be noted that, besides including women
in
> their ranks, Sufi leaders have championed 'women's rights' within
> their own sects.
>
> Sufism, like any Islamic esoteric sect, contains a greater or
lesser
> quantity of pre-Islamic elements in its doctrine and in its
> practices, though it is often assumed that these constitute only
> peripheral residues. Specialists in sufism certainly make this
> assumption, as do most modern sufis. But, what if, on the
contrary,
> they were the core of the teaching and the elements belonging to
> Islamic exoterism were only a 'cover', having the dual purpose
of,
> first, protecting sufism from the attack of exoteric Islam, and
> second, to hide its real nature from the non-Muslim milieux which
it
> has successfully infiltrated by playing on an apparent
syncretism, a
> vague pantheism, and the concept of a unity of all religions? We
may
> instance here the teaching of Al-Bistami, who was quoted as
having
> advocated a return to a pre-Islamic cult through sufism. This
cult,
> which various groups, operating together or alone, but, whether
they
> are aware of it or not, synergetically, while from time to time
in
> conflict with each other, have been trying to spread, by the
means
> either of exotericism (the Abrahamic religions) or of esotericism
in
> the spiritual field, is the Chthonic-Telluric worship of the
Great
> Mothers of nature, which derives ultimately, to quote Evola
> in 'Guerra occulta nell'antichità - Roma, i "Libri Sibillini" e
> l'ebraismo' ('Occult War in Antiquity - Rome, the "Sibylline
Books"
> and Judaism'), from a "substratum of ethnic, religious and even
> mystical elements in which a strong Semitic-Pelasgian component
is
> unquestionable." This substratum gives birth to a social
organisation
> in which women exercise political functions and politics is
> subordinated to economics ; juridically, it is based on the
doctrine
> of so-called 'natural right', which posits equality between all
human
> beings, and between men and women, as stated in the
> notorious "Déclaration des droits de l'homme", whose evil Edmund
> Burke once warned against with an appropriate scorn ; in
> the "Universal Declaration of the United Nations", the "European
> Convention of Human Rights", etc., all of whose evils Michel
Villey
> warned against with a similar scorn ; politically, it finds
> expression either in democracy, whether parliamentary or not, or
in
> its borderline form : tyranny.
>
> At the risk of disappointing some people, we must make it clear
that
> the Jews, who are along with the Chinese possibly the most
feminine
> people on earth, are only instruments of the forces of chaos, or
> infra-human forces, which are behind this process which has led
the
> West to gynaecocracy ; among their most efficient instruments, to
be
> sure, but merely instruments nonetheless.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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