I think “We” must thank Alexander Dugin for defending the Hebrew Kabbalah against the demagogues of Jewish modernity 😭; the kind of self-enlightened minds like Leon Wieseltier, who embody everything that went wrong after Mendelssohn/Friedländer&co.
When the reformers of the german Haskalah reduced the Kabbalah to a mere superstition, the so-called “Jewish rationalism” was born, and with it, the slow death of Jewish metaphysics (Sorry for saying this). For this rationalism, all mystery and transcendence was translated into sociology, and the infinite made ethical. The liberal Jew confuses the Kabbalah with magic, superstition, or folklore, “Populism”; he doesn’t know that what he calls “irrational” is, in truth, supra-rational; the very structure of divine life.Liberal jews speak of “reason,” of “progress,” of “ethics,” but what they really defend is a Judaism amputated from its own vertical fire… Wieseltier is a perfect example of that liberal rationalism: what could he possibly know about Kabbalah? Only inherited prejudices.
The Jewish Enlightenment at its romantic afterglow, by “universalizing” Kabbalah, destroyed it. It desacralized what it could not penetrate and, later, blamed the sacred for the chaos it had caused. From there was born the thick demonization of Kabbalah that infected both the Left and the Right: the rationalist who mocks it as myth, and the conspiracist who sees in it a dark code of satanic control. They are twins; the same modern disease, the same blindness turned in opposite directions. There is no mystical tradition so vilified, so misunderstood, so methodically inverted as Kabbalah. And yet, the Jewish Kabbalah is the hidden grammar of Western mysticism and Christian Kabbalah. One cannot understand Christianity, nor the deep architecture of European thought, without passing through the Kabbalistic imagination.
Scholem saw this clearly when he said that the Kabbalah is the true soul and original thinking of Judaism. The Kabbalah cannot be studied as a discipline (and yet it can be); something Christianity lost a long ago and Islam, contradicting here Rene Guénon, never really had, only perfically; namely, esoterically. The Kabbalah annihilates the liberal mind: it destroys the fantasy of human autonomy as its true nature by restoring vertical dependency, the great chain of being where knowledge is received, not just invented under X or Y criteria. There is nothing absurd in an Orthodox Christian studying Kabbalah, why?... The theosis of the East and the devekut of the Kabbalist are mirrors: both point to a transfiguration of being through participation in divine light. I have spoken with true Orthodoxs, those not corrupted by politics or modern ideologies (idolatries), and with them the dialogue on mysticism reaches heights that few Catholics could approach and almost no Protestants at all. In those conversations, the language of Ein Sof and the language of divine energies converge. The tzaddik and the staretz speak the same metaphysics. Orthodoxy, through Byzantium, drank deeply from that same fountain. The apophatic mystics of the East, who speak of the uncreated light, move within the same metaphysical geometry as the Kabbalist ascending through the Sefirot toward Ein Sof. Both negate in order to affirm, both rise by silence, both unveil the Absolute through unknowing. The Orthodox and the Kabbalist are two forms of the same vertical being. The politics of the church and the way the jewish people fighted the humiliation doctrins is a completely different topic. So yes; I thank Dr. Dugin as a rare defender of the sacred axis. Mysticism is not the margin of religion, but its center; the world stands not by reason’s calculation, but by the descent of divine light.
Aleksandr Dugin’s invocation of the Kabbalah as “the greatest achievement of the human spirit” raises an interesting question about the source and nature of wisdom within a tradition. The Kabbalah, as a mystical interpretation of the Torah, represents an esoteric pursuit—a quest for hidden meanings and divine mysteries accessible only through disciplined study and spiritual ascent. It is not populist in the sense of being immediately available to the masses; rather, it presupposes hierarchy, initiation, and depth -- all of which support Traditionalist thought.
Christian tradition, particularly in its patristic and ascetic streams, shares this layered approach. While the Gospel is proclaimed openly to all, the deeper mysteries—the Logos, theosis, and the contemplative life—require spiritual formation and grace. Both traditions affirm that wisdom does not arise from mere instinct or “faith in the people,” but from participation in something transcendent: for Kabbalah, the emanations of the divine; for Christianity, union with Christ, the Logos made flesh.
Thus, if populism is framed as mystical faith in the collective, Wieseltier is correct to see a tension. Neither Kabbalah nor historic Christianity locates ultimate wisdom in the crowd but in the divine order that calls individuals upward. The real question is whether modern populism can be reconciled with any authentic tradition—or whether it is, as both traditions might argue, a symptom of the loss of transcendence.
The important contribution of modern populism to the political landscape is its rejection of the left-right paradigm. This certainly fueled the populism in the United States. In Putin's case, it may have been reactionary to the unipolar paradigm after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Η Καμπάλα είναι μία παρερμηνεία τής παρερμηνευμενης Παλαιάς Διαθήκης, καί τό χειρότερο έχουν προσθέσει καί δικές τους ιστορίες. Η Παλαιά Διαθήκη δεν είναι ένα απλό βιβλίο, έχει την εξωτερική ιστορία της αλλά καί την εσωτερική ιστορία,την αληθινή πού υποκρύπτει ότι ακριβώς έχει καί η Ελληνική Παράδοση πού έχει ονομαστεί υποτιμητικά Μυθολογία. Ο Σωκράτης διδάσκει τόν Αλκιβιάδη λέγοντας του ότι οι ποιητές γράφουν υπαινικτικά όπως καί ο κατεξοχήν Θείος ποιητής ο Όμηρος καί επειδή η ποίηση είναι υπαινικτική, είναι για λίγους ανθρώπους. Καί συνέχισε λέγοντας ότι εάν τυχόν ο ποιητής είναι Φαύλος δεν βγαίνει νόημα. Ο Χριστιανισμός έχει ενσωματώσει την Εβραϊκή Παράδοση, την έχει "καταπιεί αμασητη" χωρίς να την έχει ελέγξει ποτέ. Ένα απλό ερώτημα θά υποβάλλω, όποιος θέλει και μπορεί,ας απαντήσει : όταν ο Αβραμ καί η Σάρα μπήκαν στην Αίγυπτο,οι άνθρωποι τού Φαραώ απέσπασαν την Σάρα από τον Αβραμ καί την παρέδωσαν στον Φαραώ. Τί χρειαζόταν ο Φαραώ την Σάρα ? νά τού λύσει τά προβλήματα τού Κράτους ? Απλή ερώτηση νομίζω.
I don’t think it’s about defending Dugin for defending Kabbalah, but rather about Kabbalah itself; which is precisely what Dugin did in that debate, even at the risk of being branded a “Kabbalist” by anti-Jews and antisemites alike. I believe Dugin truly understands Kabbalah, and that in doing so, he is defending the Jewish soul against Jewish liberalism, a liberalism that, having absorbed everything from European liberalism, made the Jew believe that liberalism, not his own spiritual strength, would free him from the ghetto. So here the question becomes a Nietzschean one: the why behind the for-what of this defense. Does multipolarity fear Judaism, fear the Kabbalah, so much? These stupid ignorants who believe there is a great liberal Jewish Kabbalah, when in truth liberalism is the most anti-Kabbalistic thing that exists?
If i met a cannibal in a christian community i would hope he or she might deliberately neutralise their collective soul at least while surveying the territory. While it might be a torment for the magnificent ragnard to be induced for the sake of reality perception to suspend for a while the imperious clamour of his vastly superior collective soul, would that be too much to ask for the sake of continued existence on a planet already seriously damaged by midgets aspiring to the platform shoes of mighty masters?
Pezzo straordinario che denuncia con esemplare chiarezza una delle infinite manipolazioni del pensiero del grande filosofo sociologo e politologo Dugin. Le citazioni a sproposito, per usare un eufemismo, non si contano. E chiunque abbia in testa un neurone ancora funzionante, ne comprende perfettamente il motivo
Agree, appears to be incoherent waffle. If this man is “ Putin’s brain” as the western toady press presents him, he would have been committed years ago instead of of taking Russia from a failed state to a world economic and military power in 20 years. Dugin’s scribblings had absolutely nothing to do with it.
I think “We” must thank Alexander Dugin for defending the Hebrew Kabbalah against the demagogues of Jewish modernity 😭; the kind of self-enlightened minds like Leon Wieseltier, who embody everything that went wrong after Mendelssohn/Friedländer&co.
When the reformers of the german Haskalah reduced the Kabbalah to a mere superstition, the so-called “Jewish rationalism” was born, and with it, the slow death of Jewish metaphysics (Sorry for saying this). For this rationalism, all mystery and transcendence was translated into sociology, and the infinite made ethical. The liberal Jew confuses the Kabbalah with magic, superstition, or folklore, “Populism”; he doesn’t know that what he calls “irrational” is, in truth, supra-rational; the very structure of divine life.Liberal jews speak of “reason,” of “progress,” of “ethics,” but what they really defend is a Judaism amputated from its own vertical fire… Wieseltier is a perfect example of that liberal rationalism: what could he possibly know about Kabbalah? Only inherited prejudices.
The Jewish Enlightenment at its romantic afterglow, by “universalizing” Kabbalah, destroyed it. It desacralized what it could not penetrate and, later, blamed the sacred for the chaos it had caused. From there was born the thick demonization of Kabbalah that infected both the Left and the Right: the rationalist who mocks it as myth, and the conspiracist who sees in it a dark code of satanic control. They are twins; the same modern disease, the same blindness turned in opposite directions. There is no mystical tradition so vilified, so misunderstood, so methodically inverted as Kabbalah. And yet, the Jewish Kabbalah is the hidden grammar of Western mysticism and Christian Kabbalah. One cannot understand Christianity, nor the deep architecture of European thought, without passing through the Kabbalistic imagination.
Scholem saw this clearly when he said that the Kabbalah is the true soul and original thinking of Judaism. The Kabbalah cannot be studied as a discipline (and yet it can be); something Christianity lost a long ago and Islam, contradicting here Rene Guénon, never really had, only perfically; namely, esoterically. The Kabbalah annihilates the liberal mind: it destroys the fantasy of human autonomy as its true nature by restoring vertical dependency, the great chain of being where knowledge is received, not just invented under X or Y criteria. There is nothing absurd in an Orthodox Christian studying Kabbalah, why?... The theosis of the East and the devekut of the Kabbalist are mirrors: both point to a transfiguration of being through participation in divine light. I have spoken with true Orthodoxs, those not corrupted by politics or modern ideologies (idolatries), and with them the dialogue on mysticism reaches heights that few Catholics could approach and almost no Protestants at all. In those conversations, the language of Ein Sof and the language of divine energies converge. The tzaddik and the staretz speak the same metaphysics. Orthodoxy, through Byzantium, drank deeply from that same fountain. The apophatic mystics of the East, who speak of the uncreated light, move within the same metaphysical geometry as the Kabbalist ascending through the Sefirot toward Ein Sof. Both negate in order to affirm, both rise by silence, both unveil the Absolute through unknowing. The Orthodox and the Kabbalist are two forms of the same vertical being. The politics of the church and the way the jewish people fighted the humiliation doctrins is a completely different topic. So yes; I thank Dr. Dugin as a rare defender of the sacred axis. Mysticism is not the margin of religion, but its center; the world stands not by reason’s calculation, but by the descent of divine light.
Aleksandr Dugin’s invocation of the Kabbalah as “the greatest achievement of the human spirit” raises an interesting question about the source and nature of wisdom within a tradition. The Kabbalah, as a mystical interpretation of the Torah, represents an esoteric pursuit—a quest for hidden meanings and divine mysteries accessible only through disciplined study and spiritual ascent. It is not populist in the sense of being immediately available to the masses; rather, it presupposes hierarchy, initiation, and depth -- all of which support Traditionalist thought.
Christian tradition, particularly in its patristic and ascetic streams, shares this layered approach. While the Gospel is proclaimed openly to all, the deeper mysteries—the Logos, theosis, and the contemplative life—require spiritual formation and grace. Both traditions affirm that wisdom does not arise from mere instinct or “faith in the people,” but from participation in something transcendent: for Kabbalah, the emanations of the divine; for Christianity, union with Christ, the Logos made flesh.
Thus, if populism is framed as mystical faith in the collective, Wieseltier is correct to see a tension. Neither Kabbalah nor historic Christianity locates ultimate wisdom in the crowd but in the divine order that calls individuals upward. The real question is whether modern populism can be reconciled with any authentic tradition—or whether it is, as both traditions might argue, a symptom of the loss of transcendence.
The important contribution of modern populism to the political landscape is its rejection of the left-right paradigm. This certainly fueled the populism in the United States. In Putin's case, it may have been reactionary to the unipolar paradigm after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Η Καμπάλα είναι μία παρερμηνεία τής παρερμηνευμενης Παλαιάς Διαθήκης, καί τό χειρότερο έχουν προσθέσει καί δικές τους ιστορίες. Η Παλαιά Διαθήκη δεν είναι ένα απλό βιβλίο, έχει την εξωτερική ιστορία της αλλά καί την εσωτερική ιστορία,την αληθινή πού υποκρύπτει ότι ακριβώς έχει καί η Ελληνική Παράδοση πού έχει ονομαστεί υποτιμητικά Μυθολογία. Ο Σωκράτης διδάσκει τόν Αλκιβιάδη λέγοντας του ότι οι ποιητές γράφουν υπαινικτικά όπως καί ο κατεξοχήν Θείος ποιητής ο Όμηρος καί επειδή η ποίηση είναι υπαινικτική, είναι για λίγους ανθρώπους. Καί συνέχισε λέγοντας ότι εάν τυχόν ο ποιητής είναι Φαύλος δεν βγαίνει νόημα. Ο Χριστιανισμός έχει ενσωματώσει την Εβραϊκή Παράδοση, την έχει "καταπιεί αμασητη" χωρίς να την έχει ελέγξει ποτέ. Ένα απλό ερώτημα θά υποβάλλω, όποιος θέλει και μπορεί,ας απαντήσει : όταν ο Αβραμ καί η Σάρα μπήκαν στην Αίγυπτο,οι άνθρωποι τού Φαραώ απέσπασαν την Σάρα από τον Αβραμ καί την παρέδωσαν στον Φαραώ. Τί χρειαζόταν ο Φαραώ την Σάρα ? νά τού λύσει τά προβλήματα τού Κράτους ? Απλή ερώτηση νομίζω.
I don’t think it’s about defending Dugin for defending Kabbalah, but rather about Kabbalah itself; which is precisely what Dugin did in that debate, even at the risk of being branded a “Kabbalist” by anti-Jews and antisemites alike. I believe Dugin truly understands Kabbalah, and that in doing so, he is defending the Jewish soul against Jewish liberalism, a liberalism that, having absorbed everything from European liberalism, made the Jew believe that liberalism, not his own spiritual strength, would free him from the ghetto. So here the question becomes a Nietzschean one: the why behind the for-what of this defense. Does multipolarity fear Judaism, fear the Kabbalah, so much? These stupid ignorants who believe there is a great liberal Jewish Kabbalah, when in truth liberalism is the most anti-Kabbalistic thing that exists?
If i met a cannibal in a christian community i would hope he or she might deliberately neutralise their collective soul at least while surveying the territory. While it might be a torment for the magnificent ragnard to be induced for the sake of reality perception to suspend for a while the imperious clamour of his vastly superior collective soul, would that be too much to ask for the sake of continued existence on a planet already seriously damaged by midgets aspiring to the platform shoes of mighty masters?
Pezzo straordinario che denuncia con esemplare chiarezza una delle infinite manipolazioni del pensiero del grande filosofo sociologo e politologo Dugin. Le citazioni a sproposito, per usare un eufemismo, non si contano. E chiunque abbia in testa un neurone ancora funzionante, ne comprende perfettamente il motivo
🤣 needing to write a thesis defending a sentence just shows how polluted the Duginist brain has become
Agree, appears to be incoherent waffle. If this man is “ Putin’s brain” as the western toady press presents him, he would have been committed years ago instead of of taking Russia from a failed state to a world economic and military power in 20 years. Dugin’s scribblings had absolutely nothing to do with it.