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…

Migdal Oz, the Tower of Power At an early point in its history, the Sabbatian movement was centered at a place called Migdal Oz, the tower where the Messiah dwelled, where his followers would make pilgrimages from all over the world, asking Sabbatai for blessings, believing him to be the highest priest and magician of…

The above passage is crucial because it illustrates how many European Masonic orders of the time did not permit Jews among their ranks, yet were eager to host baptised Frankists within their highest degrees, even harboring sympathies toward Jacob Frank, all while maintaining an overall antipathy toward Jews. This was also true of the Bavarian…

The king whose “reign also encompassed the birth, rise, and fall of the Fascist regime in Italy,” Victor Emmanuel III, ruled during both world wars and gave birth to fascism, bringing Mussolini into power. This fascist king met with Theodore Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, to discuss Zionist ambitions for Palestine. In this meeting he told Herzl…

“Before creation, Issac Luria taught, there had taken place a cosmic catastrophe called ‘the shattering of the vessels’. Sparks of divinity had gone tumbling helplessly into the demonic abyss. There the divinity must descent, to rescue its fallen fragments from the powers of darkness” – Halperin “Whoever probes to find Her must break hidden winged…

The story of the Lost Princess is the central myth of Kabbalistic symbolism, the Shekhina, who is kidnapped by the Kelipah and held captive in the world of shells until she is rescued and restored to glory by the Messiah. While Judaism is often perceived as a strictly monotheistic patriarchal religion, the mysticism of Kabbalah…

I began my series on Mesmerism by analyzing the symbolism of Mesmer’s tombstone. I will begin my series on Sabbatianism the same way. These cemeteries are maintained to this day according to Donme tradition. The Donme sects are the longest lasting Sabbatian sects known to the public, they are the descendants of Sabbatai Sevi’s followers who followed the…

Individuals who transformed society by introducing new ideas are the links in the chain of the human story. We are not taught to think of history as being influenced by hidden forces and secret brotherhoods, but rather by individuals who where bold enough to march their inner thoughts outside into the battlefield of public discourse.…

“They controlled the currents by guiding them with their will-power. The wonders were both of a physical and a psychological character; the former embracing effects produced upon material objects, the latter the mental phenomena of Mesmer and his successors… Mesmerism is the most important branch of magic; and its phenomena are the effects of the…