About the diabolical sources of communism: Was Stalin a Satanist?
02.06.2023
Some researchers (including Norman Cohn, Alain Besançon, Mikhail Agurski and Aleksandr Dugin) have been increasingly raising the topic of esoteric sources of communism. Theses that try to explain the phenomenon of Marxism as more than just the incalization of dry materialism and mechanical practicism have also appeared in the books of two Italian professors: Politics and Magicians Giorgio Galli and The Political and Esoteric Culture of the Russian Left 1880-1917 Nicola Fumagalli. The Vatican researcher of esotericism, Massimo Introvigne, and the American scientist Berenice Glatzer-Rosenthal, who gave a lecture on Occultism in contemporary Russia and Soviet culture during the "Le Delfi Magique" conference in Lyon, also wrote about some aspects of the occult roots of communism. A lot of material on this subject was also collected by members of the research group "Politica Hermetica" under the leadership of prof. Emila Pula A fundamental work on the totality of the relationship between communism and esotericism has not yet been written, but it is worth mentioning some of their aspects now.
Charles "The Teufel" Marx
Adolf Hitler's most prominent biographer, British historian Alain Bullock, directly suggested that the leader of the Third Reich was possessed. A similar opinion was formulated in 1922 by the creator of anthroposophy Rudolf Steiner, who then called Hitler the incarnation of Aryman.
As for Marx, there is no certainty whether he was possessed. However, it is known that he belonged to the Satanist sect. His childhood and youth did not bode well for anything like that.
He was raised in a Protestant family of Jewish origin. His matriculation work was entitled Union of the Faithful in Christ and contained the credo of its author:
Remain in union with Christ, in the most warm, living society, imbued with the love of Christ. Keep your hearts open to the brothers with whom Jesus connects us with a deep love, for whom he offered himself.
The archive of the history of socialism and the development of the workers' movement in Germany keeps Marx's middle school testimony, in which professors wrote on the subject of "religious education": "the knowledge of the faith of Christ and moral principles - clear and edifying".
Marx's worldview changed dramatically in 1841 due to an encounter with the leading ideologist of socialism, Moses Hesse. The latter, in a letter of September 2, 1841 to Bertold Auerbach, wrote: "Dr. Marx, this is the name of my idol. He is still quite a young man, at most 24 years old. He will deal the final blow to medieval religion and politics."
During his university studies, Marx dabbled in poetry, the pronunciation of which was satanic ["Satanic Poems" by Karl Marx were published in "Frond" 1 - editorial note]. In "Desperate Prayer" he wrote:
So God tore my everything,
in misfortunes, blows of fate.
All these worlds of his
dissipated without hope of returning.
And I have nothing left from now on, only revenge.
I want to build myself a throne in the heights.
Its peak will be icy and gigantic.
His protective shaft will be insane fear,
as the peak of the darkest agony.
And who will raise his healthy sight to this throne,
will turn away from him pale and silent as death.
He will fall into the claws of the blind, with a shudder of poignant
mortality, so that his happiness would find a grave.
The motif of revenge on God appears not only in the literary work of young Marx, but also in his private correspondence. This is what he wrote in one of his letters to his father Heinrich:
I want to take revenge on the One who reigns in heaven [...] The veil has fallen, it has torn off everything that has been sacred so far, now new gods must be established
A special place in Marx's literary work was occupied by his poem "Oulan". The title phrase is an anagram of the sacred word "Emanuel". Emanuel, the biblical name of Jesus, means “God with us” in Hebrew. His reversal means as much as "we without God" (separated from Him by our conscious decision, by breaking up). "Oulan" is the key word of black Satanic masses, in which all liturgy and symbolism (for example, an inverted cross) is a reversal, a parody and a mockery of the Christian liturgy and symbolism.
Marx's poem clearly indicates that ritual Satanism was not alien to him, and the meaning of the work is unambiguous:
He hits with a stick and gives me a sign
and I, with increasing certainty
I dance the dance of death.
And here they are also Oulan! Oulan!
This word resounds like death,
then it lasts until it expires.
Stop! I'm holding it!
And then it rises from my mind,
Bright as air, connected, like my bones.
But I have the strength to crush you with my arms
and crush you (humanity),
with the force of the hurricane, while we together
the abyss opens open in the darkness.
You will sink to the depths,
And I'll go with you laughing.
Another work by Marx, "Le Menestrel," contains a poetic description of the sale of the soul to Satan:
The infernal expos come from my brain
And they fill it up until I go crazy.
Until my heart becomes completely changed.
Look at this spad,
The Prince of Darkness sold her.
It is characteristic that for many 19th-century progressives, Satan was a role model and an object of glorification. The Russian anarchist Bakunin, with whom Marx maintained friendly contacts for a long time (until the last congress of the First International), wrote about Satan:
The devil is the first freethinker and savior of the world. He freed Adam, squeezed victory and the freedom of humanity on his forehead by making him disobedient.
Karl Marx liked to be called the devil. His son Edgar in a letter to his father on March 31, 1854 addresses him: "My dear devil". On the other hand, Marx's wife, Jenny, writes to him in correspondence from 1844: "By your last pastoral letter, high priest and bishop's souls, you filled your poor sheep with peace and tranquility".
It is no coincidence that the French writer Françoise Giroud titled her biography: Jenny Marks, or the devil's wife. This book ends with the statement: "The illusion is dead, the myth has disintegrated, scientific socialism will remain the most tragic illusion of our century. Jenny von Westphalen, a being full of love and faith, became his first and voluntary victim.
Karl Marx was a real tyrant to his wife, and she humbly endured all humiliation. It is worth adding that Marx's two daughters, Eleonora and Laura, committed suicide, and three children died of malnutrition. In addition, the author of Capital was an addicted alcoholic, drowning in debts, which were paid for by a rich financier Fryderyk Engels. The latter also contributed to the maintenance of the illegitimate son of Karl Marx with his servant Lenchen.
The Great Esoteric October Revolution
In pre-revolutionary Russia, neo-occultism represented by the Order of the Martinists (after the name of the creator of the secret doctrine, Louis-Claude de Saint Martin; Mircea Eliade writes more about Martinists in more detail in his essay "Occultism and the Modern World"). This order included: the outstanding Russian painter Nikolai Roerich and his wife Helena, academician of prof. Oldenburg, sculptor Sergei Mierkulov (Gurdjieff's half-brother), the editor of the magazine "Russkoje Bogatstvo" Paweł Makijewski and a certain Aleksander Barchenko. The latter was a well-known hypnotist in Russia, an occult writer and the founder of the "One Workers' Brotherhood" - an organization that brings together many Martinists. Its members, like theosophers associated with Madame Blavatsky, maintained that in the East (most likely in Tibet or the Himalayas) there is an underground land, the forefather of the Aryans, inhabited by holy, immortal people (or rather superhumans) who secretly participate in the management of the affairs of the world. These beliefs were written about by Rene Guénon in The King of the World and Ferdinand Ossendowski in the book "Through the Land of Gods, Men and Animals".
The emergence of communism and its triumph were perceived by many occultists as active inclusion in the struggle for the soul of the world of these invisible immortals. They saw the Bolshevik Revolution as a mystical action. In the Barchenko order, the concept of building socialism was popular, understood as the restoration of the "golden age" in the history of humanity.
All this would remain within the academic framework if it were not for the acquaintance of one of the occultists Paweł Makijewski with the revolutionary Gleb Bokij, who has always been interested in the secret sciences. In 1909, Makijewski introduced Bokij to the Martinist lodge. Years later, Bokij became one of the most influential Chekists in the country and even headed the Special Unit of the GPU [GPU is the later name of CheKa, preceding the NKVD - author's note].
In 1924, GPU officers Riks, Otte, Lejsmer-Szwarc, and Bliumkin, who offered him to incorporate their occult ideas into the GPU structures, arrived at Alexander Barchenko's apartment. Barchenko agreed and since then the "One Workers' Brotherhood" became part of the Soviet counterintelligence, and Bokij took care of it. It dealt with the use of paranormal phenomena for intelligence and counterintelligence work. Barchenko (first an employee of the biophysics laboratory of the Moscow University of Technology, then of the Moscow Energy Institute, and finally the neuroenergy laboratory at the Institute of Experimental Medicine) taught the Chekists telepathy, hypnosis and occult techniques. It was about mastering unconventional techniques of communicating at a distance or recruiting colleagues.
In the Gestapo archives, captured by the Red Army, and currently located in the Historical and Documentary Collection Storage Center in Moscow, there are files of the case of a certain Jagilski, a young German who in the 1930s became involved with a group of Buddhists in Berlin. Over time, the "Buddhists" persuaded him to cooperate with Soviet intelligence. Jagilski first agreed, but then informed the Gestapo about everything.
At the end of the 1930s, when one of the members of the Brotherhood - Jagoda - became the head of the NKVD, a secret expedition to Tibet was planned in search of the underground land of the Aryans. These plans were interrupted in 1937 by a purge in the power elites carried out by Stalin, who ordered the murder of as many as eighteen of the twenty-two members of his government. Bokij was also arrested and shot, and with him all his associates. Their fate was also shared by the omnipotent Jagoda.
This is just one example of the activity of esoteric structures within the Soviet government. Russian historians also write about other similar organizations - sometimes friendly, sometimes hostile, competing with each other or isolated - such as the anarchist Karelina group or the "Order of the Polar", to which Tuchaczewski was supposed to belong. It is difficult to say anything more about their importance and real influence until the Soviet archives are opened. However, there is no doubt that the esoteric current in communism existed and it is waiting for its researchers. However, even with the current state of research on this problem, we can see the similarity of communist occultism to Nazi esotericism: the same motif of "Aryan ancestors", the same fascination with Tibet, a similar interest in telepathy and hypnosis, a kind of "cosmism" and eschatology.
Alexander Dugin, the most outstanding representative of integral traditionalism in Russia, believes that Bolshevism did not destroy the esoteric Russian tradition at all, but assimilated it in a new form.According to Dugin, the main feature of Soviet communism was not materialism at all, but cosmism.
Its first propagator was Nikolai Fyodorov, who after the "illumination" in 1851 began to proclaim the need to create a "New Theurgic Man", using the achievements of science and psychology for this purpose. [Recall that theurgy is a variety of magic, occultism, which involves putting pressure on a deity or spirit to force them to act as desired.]
The continuation of Fyodorov's thought was one of the main communist ideologues, Alexander Bogdanov. In his novel called The Red Star, he describes the construction of communism on Mars - a planet that in Kabbalah and Gnosis means Satan. Communism propagated by Bogdanov has a magical and theurgic character, the "god of the proletariat" is Satan. Dugin recalls that former Georgian seminarian Joseph Dzhugashvili aka Stalin signed his first works with the pseudonyms "Demonoshvili" and "Biesoshvili".
Anatoly Lunacharski, the first People's Commissar for Education in the Bolshevik government, dreamed of embodying the Religion of the Human Race in the person of Satan. The prominent Russian poet Velimir Khlebnikov believed that the "New Theurgic Man", or Cosmic Anthropos, would be the sum of the Beast and the Number.
In Polish literature, Adam Pomorski was the only one who developed similar themes in his work "Spiritual Proletary" (1996). This title "spiritual proletarian" is the aforementioned "New Theurgic Man", in other words: the Soviet Übermensch, or homo sovieticus. Pomeranian is more interested in Gnosticism, cosmosm and theurgism than occultism or esotericism of this idea.
According to Carl Schmitt, all significant concepts of modern politics are nothing more than secularized theological concepts. In the Eastern Christian tradition, eschatological reflection and the idea of transformation and deification of man have developed more than in the Western one. Suffice it to mention St. Gregory of Nyssa (with his theory of sphragidation), St. Gregory Palamas (on whose teaching Georgios Mantzaridis recently published a book entitled The Deification of Man) or St. Seraphim of Sarov (who, according to the testimony of his disciple Motowilow, suffered a transfiguration similar to Christ on Mount Tabor).
With the progressive de-Christianization, these ideas in a secularized form also found themselves in the conceptual arsenal of the communists. The idea of universal resurrection of the dead was developed in the 19th century by Nikolai Fyodorov. It was a Gnostic anti-Utopia, but it clearly referred to Christianity. Fedorov claimed that after Christ the power of salvation settled among people, so the realization of salvation depends entirely on people. Therefore, he called for an eschatological transformation of civilization, the coupling of all human forces, abilities and scientific achievements for the purpose of universal resurrection not only in spirit but also in body. The eschatological act to which he called for obviously had a sacred dimension.
It is worth mentioning that Fyodorov's concept was the basis for the development of Soviet cosmonautics. Namely, one of his students, Konstanty Ciołkowski, was so concerned about the visions of his master that he concluded that after the universal resurrection, there would be no place for people on Earth, so we must think about colonizing the cosmos. Fear of overpopulation pushed Tsiolkovsky, now called the father of Russian cosmonautics, to research on the construction of spacecraft. The work was continued by his student, Sergei Koroliov – in the future chief designer of the Soviet rocket program.
Fedorov's concept was revolutionized by removing elements referring to Christianity, Alexander Bogdanov, the main ideologue of the Proletcult, a mass communist organization (at its peak numbering 400,000 people), striving to create a "proletarian culture". It was supposed to consist of abolishing "the division into scholars and non-learned, into rulers and ruled, on organizers and organizers, into the psychological and physical dimension of man, into consciousness and existence, into knowledge and action".
As we can see, this idea assumed a radical transformation of man through a collectively organized work experience. This transformation was also supposed to concern the very nature of man - his mortality. Bogdanov was preoccupied with Fyodor's concept of resurrecting humanity, which he understood as a Cosmic Man, not as a community of individuals. The proper goal of the communist revolution was - in his opinion - the fight against death. The spiritually deified proletarian was to turn into a space man - Anthropos, while the revolutionary apocatasis was to be the reverse of cosmogony.The path to the goal was to lead through the struggle of the old man with the new (what in Christianity had the character of an internal spiritual struggle - in communism became a bloody bath cooked for its opponents).
Bogdanov was convinced that the path to immortality leads through the study of blood (the Book of Leviticus says: "The life of the whole organism is contained in the blood; the soul lives in it"). So he founded the Blood Transfusion Institute in Moscow, where he conducted scientific experiments. This became the cause of his death in 1929, because even before the discovery of blood groups, he transfused blood from tuberculosis after malaria.
According to Dugin, from the very beginning, esoteric Bolshevism was influenced from the idea of the resurrection of the dead, stopping the process of rotting and transforming the corpses into new life, mediated from Egyptian beliefs. Lenin's mausoleum, in which the body and brain of the leader of the revolution are preserved, was built according to plans similar to the Egyptian beveled pyramids, in which the embalmed corpses of the pharaohs were waiting to relive. In the spring of 1997, the director of the Lenin Mausoleum announced that it was technically possible to clone Vladimir Ilyich.
Interestingly, Bogdanov preached the theory of "generational cooperation", which is a secularized version of the communion of saints. He wrote that the dead "from the grave give us a helping hand in our pursuit of the ideal". According to Adam Pomorski, in the work of Bogdanow and the followers of his thought there was a "gnosticization of immortality, i.e. its transfer from the idea of the afterlife and the apocalyptic perspective of the future to the eternal present of the practiced anthropocosmism".
In the 1920s, many high-ranking Bolshevik activists, including Ivan Stepanov-Skworcow and Mikhail Pokrowski, preached the need for proletarian science to address the problem of resurrecting the dead. A well-known Marxist historian from the time of the October Revolution, prof. Nikolai Ryzhkov directly claimed that "in the distant future, the possibility of omnipotence in the full sense of the word opens up before humanity, up to communication with other worlds, immortality, resurrection of those who lived in the past, and even the creation of new planets and planetary systems."
A separate group within the Bolshevik movement was also biocosmists, who put forward the slogan: "The proletariat is the winner of the bourgeoisie, death and nature". Their manifesto was published on January 4, 1922 in the official organ of the Soviet government of Izvestia, and one of the main ideologues of the group Paweł Iwanicki proclaimed that
"Proletarian humanity, of course, will not limit itself to the realization of the immortality of the living only, it will not forget the fallen in the name of realizing the social ideal, it will proceed to the liberation of the last oppressed, to the resurrection of those who lived in the past". Thus, the proletariat became a god not only in a metaphorical sense, but in the most religious sense: it had the power to conquer death and resurrect the dead.
It is worth mentioning that based on Bogdanov's experience, a new branch of medicine was created and developed in the Soviet Union - juvenology, or the science of rejuvenation. Over time, its specialists played their part in keeping the Kremlin's geronocracy alive. In the 1970s, Soviet botanist Vasily Kupriewicz wrote:
"Nature, who invented death, must also suggest ways to fight it."
In the post-war USSR, the issue of immortality was therefore taken over by scientific laboratories. In today's Russia, former juvenologists promote the achievements of genetic engineering. Some of them derive from the writings of Konstanty Tsiolkowski and Valerian Muravjov, the slogans of the civilizational change in the human genotype.
It is also worth mentioning that Bogdanov's Gnostic collectivism was associated with the cult of women. The most outstanding "proletkult" writer Andrei Platonov created a hymn in honor of the Great Mother - the redeemer of the world, and in the text entitled Soul of the World he wrote directly: "Woman is the redemption of the madness of the universe". However, this had nothing to do with the widespread Marian piety in Orthodoxy, but rather with the left gnosis of the great goddess.
Apparently, this turn from Christianity to secularized concepts can be traced on the example of the creative evolution of Aleksander Błok, who all his life sought the true incarnation of Eternal Femininity. At first he found it in Sofia or the Wisdom of God, then in his beloved Liubov Mendeleeva, then in Russia, and finally in the Virgin of the Revolution, to whom he prayed in his poems.
The idea of "proletkult" disappeared in the 1930s with Stalinist purses, although it was reborn even later in the history of the USSR in changed forms. Nevertheless, it must be said that the concepts of the theurgic cosmosm had a huge impact on the intellectual life of Russia in the 20th century. In the introduction to his book "Spiritual Proletarian" Adam Pomorski writes:
The Polish reader, not sufficiently versed in Russian personals, should be warned against the somewhat understandable - given the nature of the texts cited below - tendency to recognize the people, ideas and works discussed here as the margins of Russia's intellectual history. The opposite is true. With occasional exceptions - mainly for political activists - the vast majority of the people mentioned here belong to the most closely intellectual and artistic elite of Russia in the last (and previous) century. The extent of their authority and their ideas reaches as far as possible into contemporary times.
Zenon Chocimski
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