Page 117 - The Track Of The Jew Through The Ages - Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg :

present can be dismissed with a smile only by a child or a Jewish
boss. It oozes from all the leaves ofthe forest ofJewish newspapers,
and it resounds, only half hidden, from the mouths of Jewish
politicians
And to understand the same more deeply: no people in the
world despises mysticism, the apprehension of a secret that can be
put in words only with difficulty, so much as the Jews. They consider
the absence of such a quality not as a lack, on the contrary, as the
sign of an outstanding gift, and boast that they do not possess either
mythology or allegories (the necessary consequence of all
mysticism). One need only cast one glance at the history of religions
to confirm that. Let me give you just one sentence dating from 1 905
"Judaism is the only one of all the religions that has not created any
mythology and, what is to be stressed more, basically contradicts
every mythology". 198 Further: "The religion is removed from all
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mysticism and all esotericism", and many other passages. Now
there is in Europe perhaps no nation that has explored and explained
the inner mystery of man as the German. It therefore forms in its
deepest character the spiritual antithesis of the Jew; if, however,
anybody thinks that this remained without any influence on conduct
he is greatly mistaken. For what stands in the deepest core of man
as oppositions, law and religion, formula and imagination, dogma
and symbol, that will manifest itself on the surface of life as an
opposition, mostly unconsciously, but not less clearly for that reason.
And one who has explored the Russian soul somewhat will also
hear from it deep tones which almost never achieve a synthesis but
stand no less in opposition to the disposition of the Jew.
To that is added, in the case of the German, his proverbial
honesty and incorruptibility (which unfortunately has suffered much

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[The Congress ofVienna took place in 1 8 1 4- 1 8 1 5 and was chaired by the Austrian
prince Mettemich. After the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars it sought to redraw
national borders within Europe in such as way as to effect a balance of power.]
197
[The Franco-Prussian War was concluded by a peace treaty that was signed first
in Versailles in 1 87 1 and then ratified, in the same year, in Frankfurt. It marked the
rise of a unified German Empire.]
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L. Back, Wesen des Judentums, Berlin, 1905. p. 62.
'"Ibid., p.22.
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