/lit/ - Literature

Picrelated is my favorite book of his because it speaks to my own interest in Gnosticism, is a pretty good introduction to Western Esotericism, does a good job muddying the boundary between truth and fiction. It does however also expose how credulous he was, seeing for example how he was still falling for Allied WW2 propaganda about the Nazis trying to invade the US, more than 30 years after the war.

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>It can only be evil and malicious, but what it is is the subject of so much debate and speculation. It's communists, marxists, liberals, jews, secret nazis, aliens, the NWO, the Illuminati, reptilians, capitalism, white privilege, the patriarchy, the cathedral.
Yeah but then Wikipedia was invented and now everyone who isn't mentally retarded knows that it's Jews, so the question is narrowed down to figuring out which of the people involved are following an actual plan (e.g. Shabbataians/Frankists), which are just engaging in nepotism and have common shelling points, and whether there is a real metaphysical significance to them (e.g. them being servants of the Demiurge/YHWH and deceiving the rest of humanity as part of their mission) or if they were just random niggas who happened to have some smart guys among them who came up with basic rules of behavior that would cause them to collectively accumulate economic and ultimately political power (like lending without interest among each other but charging interest when lending to non-Jews).

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