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GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

THE ROOTS OF HUMANISM IN THE KABBALAH
We have seen that certain terms in the Kabbalah contain a false doc-

trine that dates back to Ancient Egypt, and that was later included into the
true religion Allah revealed to the Israelites. We have also seen that its
foundation rests upon a perverse way of understanding that regards
human beings as uncreated though divine creatures that have existed for
eternity.
Humanism entered Europe from this source. Christian belief was

based on the existence of Allah, and the belief that human beings were His
dependent servants created by Him. But, with the spread of the Templar
tradition throughout Europe, the Kabbalah began to attract a number of
philosophers. So, in the fifteenth century, a current of humanism began
that left an indelible mark on the European world of ideas.

This connection between humanism and the Kabbalah has been em-
phasized in several sources. One of these sources is the book of the famous
author Malachi Martin entitled The Keys of This Blood. Martin is professor
of history at the Vatican's Pontifical Bible Institute. He says that the influ-
ence of the Kabbalah can be clearly observed among the humanists:
In this unaccustomed climate of uncertainty and challenge that came to
mark early-Renaissance Italy, there arose a network of Humanist associ-
ations with aspirations to escape the overall control of that established
order. Given aspirations like that, these associations had to exist in the
protection of secrecy, at least at their beginnings. But aside from secrecy,
these humanist groups were marked by two other main characteristics.

The first was that they were in revolt against the traditional interpreta-
tion of the Bible as maintained by the ecclesiastical and civil authorities,
and against the philosophical and theological underpinnings provided
by the Church for civil and political life…
Not surprisingly given such an animus, these associations had their own
conception of the original message of the Bible and of God's revelation.
They latched onto what they considered to be an ultrasecret body of

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