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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

knowledge, a gnosis, which they based in
part on cultic and occultist strains deriving
from North Africa—notably, Egypt—and,
in part, on the classical Jewish Kabbala….
Italian humanists bowdlerized the idea of
Kabbala almost beyond recognition. They
reconstructed the concept of gnosis, and
transferred it to a thoroughly this-wordly
plane. The special gnosis they sought was a
secret knowledge of how to master the
blind forces of nature for a sociopolitical
purpose .39
In short, the humanist societies
As Vatican University historian formed in that period wanted to replace
Malachi Martin has shown,
the Catholic culture of Europe with a new
there is a close relationship be-
tween the rise of humanism in culture that had its roots in the Kabbalah.
Europe and the Kabbalah….
They aimed to create a sociopolitical
change to bring this about. It is interesting

that, besides the Kabbalah, at the source of this new culture were the doc-
trines of Ancient Egypt. Prof. Martin writes:
Initiates of those early humanist associations were devotees of the Great
Force—the Great Architect of the Cosmos—which they represented
under the form of the Sacred Tetragrammaton, YHWH ….[humanists]
borrowed other symbols—the Pyramid and the All Seeing Eye—mainly
from Egyptian sources. 40
It is quite interesting that humanists make use of the concept of "the
Great Architect of the Universe," a term still used by Masons today. This
indicates that there must be a relationship between humanists and Ma-
sons. Prof. Martin writes:
In other northern climes, meanwhile, a far more important union took
place, with the humanists. A union that no one could have expected.
In the 1300s, during the time that the cabalist-humanist associations

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