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he travelled to Germany, where he was captured and later met an
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ignominious end. A similar type of person was Sabbatai Zevi
who promised the world to depose the Sultan and then free Palestine
from Turkish rule. He travelled to Constantinople, was captured
and became - a Mohammedan. Adventurers of this type who seem
totally pathological Judaism has brought forth in great numbers.
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In the Zohar, the notorious masterpiece of the Kabbala,
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the Jewish hope finds the following expression: "When the 60 and
66 th year have crossed the threshold of the first millennium of the
world (65060/66, i.e. 1300/1306) the Messiah will appear, but some
time yet will elapse before all the peoples are conquered and Israel
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is gathered together". When a certain Mordechai rose in Persia
to become a high notable ofthe state, the people coined the following
verse:

Mordechai is a brilliant prince,
Powerful in rule, loved by the king and great men,

His name is on the lips of the great and small,
God bestowed rule on the holy people in his time.

These thought-processes return over and over again. We
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already heard some Jewish Freemasons speak in the 19 century,
also the "German" poet Heinrich Heine. He knew what he was saying
when he wrote the story of a shepherd and his herd.
And in his posthumous works one finds a significant
confession that every German must take note of: "Is the mission of
the Jews finished? I think when the worldly Messiah comes: Industry,
Work, Joy. The worldly Messiah will come in a railway train.
Michael 438 builds the way for him". (Since 1933 Michael has finally

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[The Zohar is the fundamental text of the Jewish Kabbalah. It consists of a
mystical commentary on the Torah as well as discussions of cosmology and
psychology. It was first published in Spain in the 13 th century by Moses de Leon,
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who ascribed the work to a rabbi of the 2 c. A.D., Shimon bar Yochai.]
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Graetz, Geschichte der Juden, Vol. VII, p.228.
438 ["Der deutsche Michel" (the German Michael) is a pejorative name for a German,
considered to be typically simple-minded.]
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