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Alfred Rosenberg

execution. For the murder of this god-man the Aryans have since
then spilled numerous streams of Jewish blood without having
expiated it after 60 generations ... the Church takes care that the
symbol of the crucifix does not become estranged from its original
significance (murder)". 388
These various gradations in the expressions of Jewish
scholars demonstrate such an abysmal misunderstanding that one
should not tire of pointing out anew the danger that a Jewish mind
necessarily brings along with it, willingly or not, when it is allowed
to operate within a Christian community. (Not to mention the much
more foreign Germanic environment). Zunz 389 called Judaism "the
whim of my soul". Now the Jew can never free himself from this
"whim" even if he has been christened ten times and the necessary
consequence of his influence will always and everywhere be the
same: despiritualisation, dechristianisation, materialisation.
That is the insight that one takes home from the history of
the Jewish mind. From religion and philosophy arise technical
compendiums; even the greatest are no exception. One may take
the trouble to read the Moreh Nebukim of Maimonides, 390 a giant
work of enormous scholarship and yet so devoid of every true
greatness of spirit and mind. Many will then mention Spinoza. But,
according to Jowett, it is no longer doubtful that Spinoza owes all
his real thoughts to the minds of two men: Descartes and Giordano
Bruno. As a genuine Jewish technician he accomplished the stunt
ofbringing these opposites to a common denominator and to combine
them in an ingenious "system". That he could do this shows that he
understood neither.
But that Spinoza flirted with ancient Aryan pantheism drew
upon him naturally the bitterest enmity of the Jews of that time. In
his manipulation of it, however, he was as Jewish as any rabbi. He
frankly assures us that everything can be explained in the most
convenient way without a mystery or a secret having to be supposed.

388
Rabbinisch-wissentschaftliche Vortrage, pp. 58, 83.
389
[Leopold Zunz (1794-1886) was a German Reform rabbi who was one of the
founders of academic "Jewish studies".]
390
See Munk's translation, Le guide des egarees, Paris, 1 856. [See above p. 28]
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