Hermetic Qabalah at core of E. Michael Jones’ contradictory positions

By Timothy Fitzpatrick
October 14, 2026 Anno Domini

What explains the contradictory theological and political positions of so called traditional Catholic E. Michael Jones is the dark art of Hermetic Kabbalah.

All the things his critics accuse him of being that seem to contradict the bowtie-wearing Catholic image: a Communist, modernist defender of the Second Vatican Council, Islamophile, Eurasianist, Duginist, anti-Semite, race denier, Opus Dei member, gun grabber, Kremlin asset—can all harmoniously fit together under the context of an undercover Hermetic Kabbalist within traditional Catholic circles.

Hermetic Qabalah (Kabbalah) was developed during the Renaissance under so called Catholics Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Marsilio Ficino (see this author’s book review Pico della Mirandola the true father of Second Vatican Council, claims author). These two subversives adapted the Jewish Kabbalah, Christianized it, and claimed that it could be used by Catholics to validate the divinity of Jesus Christ. As well, they claimed Kabbalah revealed secret truths not available in Catholic Canon. But beneath their sophistry is a heretical philosophy no true Catholic would ever accept were it presented in its raw form. That is the neo-Platonic “perennial philosophy” or Prisca Theologia, which is a form of universalism or syncretism that sees core truths in all belief systems (what Jones calls the “ultimate reality”). The Catholic Church condemns this as religious indifferentism (the heretical idea that no belief is superior to another and that all beliefs are valid ways to truth or to god[s]). It seems that the goal of this syncretism, under Eastern Kabbalistic Jewish management, is to centralize all beliefs, as it did with the social and political order under Bolshevism, to usher in their false messiah. Russian-Jewish Kabbalist rabbi Mikhail Laitman, with whom Jones debated and agreed in a 2019 interview, sees the Eurasian powers ushering in a utopic Kabbalistic new age of absolute centralized power and worship, under the guise of the redemptive messianic age.

E. Michael Jones claims that he left the anti-war hippy movement of his youth (a Marxist movement) after reading a book by Catholic monk Thomas Merton, himself a seeming perennialist.^[1] Jones’ 2020 book Logos Rising: A History of Ultimate Reality is perhaps the biggest indication that the 78-year-old Indiana-based influencer falls into the perennial school and continues the centuries-old dark legacy of kabbalistic subversion of the Catholic Church begun by Pico. In his book, Jones attempts to depersonalize the unique person of Jesus Christ (God in the flesh) and turn Him into some abstract, pantheistic notion^[2] of the ordering principle of the universe—something perennialists have done for hundreds of years with their idea of “god” (see this site’s review of Logos Rising by Ryan Augustine). While it is not incorrect to refer to Jesus Christ as the Logos (or even loosely as the light) described in the Book of St. John, it is Jones’ overemphasis and overdevelopment of this theme that takes him out of a Catholic position and places him in the Hermetic camp, or at the very least a perennialist camp. St. John does not allow any kind of depersonalization of the Messiah, nor does any other book of the New Testament. The idea of a depersonalized “Logos” (the Adam Kadmon of Ein Soph, to “traditionalist” kabbalists like Jones contemporary Alexander Dugin) is central to perennialist philosophy as well as to its more advanced form of hermetic Kabbalah in Aleister Crowley’s Thelema magik and Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Jones’ logos book happens to depict on its front cover a golden dawn, perhaps over Renaissance Florence—once home to Pico della Mirandola). Crowley’s logos (also Dugin’s “dark logos”^[3]) helps the adept to “do what though wilt”. Jones is an associate of Crowleyite Dugin, an admitted Rene Guenonian perennialist. Jones says he first met Dugin at the Kremlin-sponsored 6^th International New Horizon Conference at Mashad, Iran in 2018. Since then, the two have cross-promoted each other. Jones, who claims “I always felt that my gaze was to the East”^[4] and who prays for the end to the “American Empire, is an ardent supporter of Dugin’s Eurasianism in the form of so called “multipolar” geopolitics, which is nothing more than a repackaged form of anti-Western Soviet Communism. Anti-Zionism is his excuse for embracing this position (see Operation SIG), as the West is just a Zionist lackey state that needs to be abolished in order to achieve world peace, according to Jones. Dugin’s worldview is almost identical to Jones’ except Dugin dresses his agenda in Eastern Orthodox/Fascist garb instead of Catholic. As a side note, Dugin’s late daughter Darya once used the pseudonym surname of Platonova, in honour of Plato. Neo-Platonism lurks behind all the Kabbalah of all these perennialists, it seems.

Jones’ longtime support of the Eurasianist agenda—the idea that the rulers of the Eurasian landmass have an inherit and even messianic right to rule over the rest of the planet—fits into a perennialist worldview, where borders and races are erased to make way for the universal Soviet man (global Communism) who follows a universal religion of religions. Jones glowingly claims God is bringing about a “Eurasianist…New World Order”.^[5] This perennialism also explains, to a large degree, Jones’ absurd denial of race. If Jones were smart politically, he would back off this position, but he can’t help himself, which seems to suggest he is more than just an opportunistic perennialist. He must be an ideological subverter (and, yes, money factors in as well, as Jones allegedly is a millionaire). Then again, it could merely be his narcissism seeping through on this issue (they can never be wrong). In order to harmonize the world under centralized governance, you have to create the borderless, raceless Soviet man. Jones also isn’t very smart when he makes the implausible assertion that Communism and China were never a threat, so he relies on the ignorance of his audience (narcissists are always smarter than everyone else). Communism becomes a guarantor of his perennialist worldview, for only a collectivist society under a collectivist religion can achieve utopia. He must defend Communism, although couched in vague terms like “solidarism” and “multipolarism”, at all costs if his fellow perennialists are to reach the apex of civilization. We now know that materialistic atheism was never the ultimate goal of the Soviet system but only a step. To institute Kabbalah globally, you have to first destroy the existing order, which is Christianity. To destroy Christianity, you have to implement a temporal phase of anti-religionism but also a permanent phase of collectivism.

“Russia will become the capital of Kabbalah,” writes Laitman. “Marxism-Leninism prepared us for Kabbalah.”^[6]

Showing the Eastern Jewishness of Communism presents a problem for perennialists like Jones. This is why he completely ignores Chabad Lubavitch (the most powerful, kabbalistic, Soviet-derivec Jewish organization in the world)^[7] and instead tries to separate the two and seemingly neutralize them individually. To achieve this, Jones instills in the reader the idea that the threat of Communism is long past and was merely a “category of the mind” and that the Jewish question is really only about Zionism or Western capitalist liberal Jewry. This decouples real Jewry (based in the East) from Communism and, simultaneously, Russia from Jewry. It also leaves the door open for “dialogue” with so called anti-Zionist Jews like Neturei Karta, with whom Jones is chummy. Chabad is also arguably anti-Zionist at its core.

The reader of Jones might argue that Jones attacks Jewry at a fundamental level (namely in their rejection of Christ, which was the theme of The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History). To that I would say that it is more obfuscation, for the different schools of Judaism (Eastern Hasidism vs. Western Talmudic/Zionism) will oppose each another, even to the point of condemnation. These so called Christian Kabbalists can even say anti-Semitic things, for it is the Jew who misinterpreted the Kabbalah, not the learned like the Pico Della Mirandolas, Ficinos, and Joneses of the world. As it is, however, Jones never really goes deep in his critiques of the Talmud (which he doesn’t even mention all that much), and especially not the Kabbalah. He keeps the reader focused on Zionism and the culture warring coming from Jews of the Western Left. He keeps his audience fixated on general, simpleton issues like abortion, feminism, pornography, and war, which are easy to pin exclusively on the West using highly controlled narratives. He knows that as long as he says the word “Jew” enough, his audience will applaud him and not notice the glaring holes and contradictions in his positions or the deeper subjects he ignores. Jones dualistic relationship with Jewry corresponds with Eurasianism founder Yakov Bromberg’s dualism between Eastern Jewry’s Hasidic orientalism that he championed against Western Jewry’s Talmudic-capitalist-liberalism. Dugin seems to have merely repackaged Bromberg’s concept of a Jewish-based Eurasianism and, in turn, Jones has internalized Dugin’s Eurasianism and repackaged it in Catholic dressing. Therefore, Jones’ so-called anti-Semitism is merely selective and strategic, with kabbalistic syncretism as its goal.

Jones’ support for the obviously error-ridden Second Vatican Council appears to be another perennialist-based position. The conciliar errors are all about fostering acceptance of all faiths as equally valid; thereby, preparing the world for acceptance of the false Christ world leader. Jones must defend this robber council above all else, even if he has to attack the traditional Latin mass itself. Jones attacking sedevacantism and the SSPX is one thing, for they are technically schismatic, but for him to attack the Latin mass in general makes no sense from a Catholic point of view. What does make sense is that Jones is not actually Catholic and knows the threat the TLM poses in attempting to undo Vatican 2 prescriptions and restore the Church. The TLM strengthens the idea of one, true faith, tradition, a knowable and personal messiah, and exclusivity; therefore, Jones must deconstruct the TLM and promote the V2 mass in order to prevent any hindrance to the agenda. That’s what Vatican 2-inspired clown masses are all about—to merge Catholicism with every other belief and make a mockery of Catholicism’s uniqueness. These snakes are preparing us for the anti-Christ one-world syncretic religious system, which will accompany a form of global Communism led by Jewish orientalists.

Now that we understand that Jones’ goal is religious pluralism, we can easily understand his championing of Islam and horrendous Islamic regimes like Iran. But his Islamophilic position serves another purpose. Islam is one of the most effective instruments of direct revolutionary terrorism with which to destabilize non-Communist nations in preparation for global collectivism. Jones can declare “Allahu akbar!” with no reservations, as he did with fellow Islamic Communist Kevin Barrett, and have no problem calling himself Catholic.^[8] See this site’s index on the close association between Islam and Marxist revolutionary terrorism.

The “Catholic” cult Opus Dei was started by a man named Josemaría Escrivá, who is believed to have been a Kabbalist^[9]. Opus Dei also has connections to the Communist world, especially Communist influence networks and their operatives posing as traditional Catholics. Jones has denied being a member of this cult, but “the work”, like Freemasonry, instructs its members to obscure their membership from the public. Jones’ overrepresented associations with Opus Dei are well known.^[10]

To finish off any remaining resistance to the New World Socialist Order agenda, the right of the citizenry to bear arms must be removed. E. Michael Jones is all for this. He seems to use his Soviet-based anti-war, anti-U.S. imperialism agenda to validate being anti-gun. His audience should not be fooled by this, though. It makes no sense from a truly Catholic point of view. Jones knows that in order to create the socialist Soviet utopia, individual arms possession must be eliminated in order to create a smoother transition from the free world to absolute anti-Christ collectivism.

Notes:

1. The Engaged Contemplative Spirituality of Thomas Merton, Issue 4, 2017, Beshara Magazine – https://besharamagazine.org/metaphysics-spirituality/thomas-merton-engaged-contemplative-spirituality/ ↑
2. Augustine, Ryan, Logos Rising Book Review Chapter Notes, Oct. 3, 2023 – https://fitzinfo.net/forum/topic/logos-rising-book-review-chapter-notes/ ↑
3. Kazachkin, Andrey, Dugin’s ‘dark logos’ sponsored by Russian Orthodox Church, Jan. 6, 2023 – https://fitzinfo.net/forum/topic/dugins-dark-logos-sponsored-by-russian-orthodox-church/ ↑
4. “I never had that identification with America. I always felt that my gaze was to the East.” —E. Michael Jones (54:07 mark-Guillermo Vásquez Interviews E. Michael Jones: What Is Identity?) – https://player.fm/series/culture-wars-podcast/guillermo-vasquez-interviews-e-michael-jones-what-is-identity ↑
5. Jones, Eugene Michael, Who Is destroying our civilization?, Interview – https://odysee.com/@Fitzinfo:c/Screen-Recording-2026-10-02-at-21.07.14:4 ↑
6. Laitman, Michael, ‘Russia will become the capital of Kabbalah…Marxism-Leninism prepared us for Kabbalah’: rabbi Michael Laitman, Feb. 24, 2003, IZ – https://fitzinfo.net/2024/02/22/russia-will-become-the-capital-of-kabbalah-rabbi-michael-laitman/ ↑
7. Fitzpatrick, Timothy, Most powerful Jewish organization in world Chabad completely absent from E. Michael Jones’ writings, The Fitzpatrick Informer, Jan. 28, 2023 – https://fitzinfo.net/2023/01/28/most-powerful-jewish-organization-in-world-chabad-completely-absent-from-e-michael-jones-writings/ ↑
8. Odysee – https://odysee.com/@Fitzinfo:c/Jones-and-Barrett-praise-allah:8 ↑
9. Carlos de Borbon, Alfonso, Opus Judei, Orion Publications, 1994 – http://www.reductio.net/OpusJudei-Index.html ↑
10. Engel, Randy, All the Men Behind the Opus Dei Curtain – https://newengelpublishing.com/all-the-men-behind-the-opus-dei-curtain/ ↑