Just as man was “created male and female,” so were ‘The Leviathan and its Consort.’ According to Talmudic lore, these primordial sea serpents had to be prevented from mating, or else the world would be destroyed. Therefore the female Leviathan was slain, and the male Leviathan was castrated. The above passage cites a Frankist interpretation…

Richard Cosway’s self portrait depicts him holding open a Kabbalistic manuscript and standing above Hebrew letters that spell out “His name is Esau.” Joscelyn Godwin’s book “The Theosophical Enlightenment” suggests that this is a direct reference to Frankism, a Sabbatian offshoot whose doctrine centers around the figure of “Esau and his land of Edom” which…

The Kabbalah places great emphasis upon the first word of the Torah, Bereshit (בראשית), meaning “in the beginning.” The Sabbatians found encrypted in this word the name of their Messiah, ‘Sabbatai,’ which means ‘Saturn.’ Every letter in the name ‘Sabbatai’ (שבתאי) is also contained in the word ‘Bereshit’ (בראשית). The letter Resh (ר) is the…

Source: Gershom Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi, page 173

The famous Giacomo Casanova, who had contacts with both Eva & Jacob Frank, wrote his memoirs in this castle and worked in the library as a patron of Count Joseph Waldstein. Pawel Maciejko traveled to Casanova’s grave, as well as Duchcov Chateau, when researching for his book The Mixed Multitude, which is considered the seminal…