To be sure many peoples have emerged as conquerors, many personalities have risen to be rulers.
This striving for power is not at all to be condemned unconditionally, and often even a moral necessity; ancient Rome, for example, saw itself in the midst of a mixture of peoples; in order to protect his family, his state, the Roman had to surround himself with a solid bulwark.
He carried laws, order and customs into the conquered lands, and only when new tribes swamped Rome, when Syrians, Africans, degenerate soldier emperors took control, did justified will to power become untrammelled greed for power, and Rome lost its strength thereby.
Even in Bismarck and Napoleon there existed an enormous will to power, but whereas in the first it was controlled and ennobled by a high idea, in the other the will to power raced without limitation
throughout Europe.
I can, in contrast to all pacifists, see no crime in the will to power itself, the one and only thing that is decisive is the
character of the people or of the personality that stands behind it.
Sometimes a social, civilisatory, cultural idea can be realised thereby, at other times plundered countries and peoples are the consequence of a ramification of power.
Now, everywhere that the Jewish
character has been at work, we see it, even in the highest development of its power, marked by total sterility.
Never has a people shown such a greed for power as the Jewish, not striving for some accomplishments but merely because it considered itself as "chosen",
but never has a people been able to do so little with the acquired power as, again, the Jewish.
The slave feeling which is indeed the
characteristic Jewish gospel with regard to god (not the feeling of a child, as among the Indo-Europeans) penetrates the Jew deep into his blood; but that the slave thereafter demands most greedily to play the lord, that the slave who has become a knight however rides his horse to death, are both easy to understand.
The power instinct of the Jews is therefore of a different sort than that of the ancient Romans, Alexander, Bismarck,
Napoleon.
He does not as a lord demand respect and obedience naturally, the Jew as a personality does not stand openly before his work, but he goes on his way through intrigue, lies, deceit and assassination, he stands as a secret assistant feeling like a communist behind all the corridors of destructive work.
The entire Jewish history provides proofs thereof.
Thus have we precisely outlined the type and manner of the Jewish character.
Now it is self-evident that this character expresses itself not only instinctively but also finds its conscious imprint in writing.
Enough has been written about the literature of the ancient times, I should just like to point briefly to the promise
that they will be able to devour all peoples whom God would hand over to the Jews, that princesses would be their nurses, that all silver and gold would one day belong to them, that all would fall at their feet to lick the dust thereof, and that the Jews would suck milk from the heathen and the breasts of queens would suckle them.
I do not wish to go closer into all that.
But these old thoughts were never forgotten.
Over and over again emerges the unbridled greed for rule of this world as a principal "legitimate" claim.
The Holy One spoke to the Israelites: "You have made me the sole ruler of the world, so I shall make you the sole rulers in this world".
If in any country Jews attained influential positions, if the position of the Jewish community consequently developed in a
brilliant manner, this power was often seen as the first sign of the coming world-rulership.
Thus did the Jews, for example, live under Leo X in such an intoxication that they inquired in Jerusalem if the signs of an
imminent salvation were not manifest.
Thus did a David Reubeni appear in Rome with the very exciting news that, under the command of his brother, a great army stood assembled which now only need
armaments in order to conquer the Holy Land.
He betrayed though his speeches not only the Jews but also the Pope who provided him with recommendations.
David travelled through Italy celebrated like a king.
Then he travelled to Germany, where he was captured and later met an ignominious end.
A similar type of person was Sabbatai Zevi who promised the world to depose the Sultan and then free Palestine from Turkish rule.
He travelled to Constantinople, was captured and became - a Mohammedan.
Adventurers of this type who seem totally pathological Judaism has brought forth in great numbers.
In the Zohar, the notorious masterpiece of the Kabbala, the Jewish hope finds the following expression: "When the 60th and
66th year have crossed the threshold of the first millennium of the world (65060/66, i.e. 1300/1306) the Messiah will appear, but some time yet will elapse before all the peoples are conquered and Israel is gathered together".
When a certain Mordechai rose in Persia
to become a high notable ofthe state, the people coined the following verse: Mordechai is a brilliant prince, Powerful in rule, loved by the king and great men, His name is on the lips of the great and small,
God bestowed rule on the holy people in his time.
These thought-processes return over and over again.
We already heard some Jewish Freemasons speak in the 19th century, also the "German" poet Heinrich Heine.
He knew what he was saying when he wrote the story of a shepherd and his herd.
And in his posthumous works one finds a significant confession that every German must take note of: "Is the mission of
the Jews finished? I think when the worldly Messiah comes: Industry, Work, Joy. The worldly Messiah will come in a railway train. Michael builds the way for him". (Since 1933 Michael has finally awakened).
I would not like to take leave of expressions from the Jewish past without mentioning in conclusion a personality who seems to me in every aspect to be the embodiment of all that Judaism can be characterised as: Isaac Orobio de Castro (1616-1627), unquestionably one of the most significant Jews of his time.
He first emerged as a professor of philosophy in Salamanca, was then
handed over to the Inquisitional court, travelled to France after his release, where he became professor of medicine in Toulouse.
Later he travelled to Amsterdam, where he ended his days.
In the world-view of this man are revealed to us the characteristic limitation of the Jewish mind and the relentless will of the Jewish character working together to produce a characteristic unity.
This world-view is based on the typically Jewish supporting columns of an unchangeable dogma (in this case the law of Sinai), hatred of Christians and Jewish world-rule.
With sure instinct he repudiates the absoluteness of the prophets (who indeed strove in vain to reform the obstinate Jewry).
"The recognition of the true God does not in any way depend on the prophetic revelations. God commanded to his people the cult with which they should serve him, and this cult is independent of what the prophets had to announce to them further".
"The prophets, who are the oracle of Christianity, and without whom the Christians could not have made a Messiah unto themselves, have followed the laws with conscientiousness, their
prophecies are filled only with warnings to the children of Israel to ensure that they keep the law given by Moses. And what may not these be against those who neglect it? If it is God who has made the law, if it has been written in his hand, if it has been declared from his mouth, then it is untouchable and nothing can be changed in it without it ceasing to exist".
"One cannot believe that God has held his people so long to the fulfilling of his law, which he gave on Mt. Sinai and then repeated word for word on Mt. Horeb, if this were imperfect".
This thought-process returns with great stubbornness in many places.
Such a small-mindedness was transferred to the Roman Catholic principle where the Old Testament Will achieved a victory over free-thought.
But Origen could still write: "If we keep to the letter and understand that which was written in the law in the manner of the common people, I would have to blush to acknowledge that it was God who gave these laws. Then the laws of men, for example, the Romans, the Athenians, Spartans, would be more excellent and
reasonable".
Origen was indeed a free man, but the view of the "common people" has won, until today when a second Reformation
stands at the door to remove the Jewish mind entirely and to release the New Testament finally from the clasp of the Old.
De Castro cannot satisfy himself, and rightly, in providing proofs that Christ could never ever have been the Messiah promised to the Jews.
"What has he fulfilled of the prophecies? Did he ever have power over the Israelites? He did not sit on the throne of David, he did not hold his people in the truth, his family was one of the most common, and his deeds prove that he was not the rightful Messiah".
If it says that at the time of the Messiah all the righteous of his people, all the refugees from Israel from all fourquarters of the world would be gathered together, the mind captivated by the Christian religion must admit that Christ did not do that.
"Who are the poor of the world whom he has justly judged? Did he possess any worthy Sanhedrin to which alone God has given the right to judge?"
I think it was) a thread about heraldry by @Rebarcock.
