Rome vs. Judea;

Judea vs. Rome

 

ESSENTIALLY . . .

 

Christianity, as a slave rebellion devised and led by Jews with the aim of destroying Roman power —

and, ultimately, all European power —

was and is a doctrine aimed at converting vigorous peoples into a domesticated flock of sheep.

 

A complete version of this essay essay appears in the 2019 edition
of
The Fair Race’s Darkest Hour (pages 27-114). 

For those looking for a general overview, what follows is a redaction

of an 80-page essay down to about 18 pages, edited without comment

or changes by John Kaminski 4/21/2019.



 

 

ROME CONTRA JUDAEA; 

JUDAEA CONTRA ROME 

by Evropa Soberana 

for more information on Evropa Soberana, see

https://chechar.wordpress.com/category/evropa-soberana-webzine/

This is precisely why the Jews are the most disastrous people in world history:

they have left such a falsified humanity in their wake that even today

Christians can think of themselves as anti-Jewish without understanding

that they are the ultimate conclusion of Judaism. 

— Nietzsche 

 

We will also see the impossibility, in the long term, of the coexistence between

two radically different cultures, in this case, the Greco-Roman and the Jewish. 

 

For now, the Romans will meet a people who take the tradition with the

same seriousness as them, but replacing that Olympic, artistic, athletic and

aristocratic touch with a spark of fanaticism and dogmatism, and changing

the Roman patriotism for a kind of pact sealed behind the backs of the rest of humanity. 

 

In 56 BCE, in a speech entitled De Provinciis Consularibus given in the

Senate of Rome, Cicero himself describes the Jews, along with the Syrians as

a ‘race born to be a slave’. Syrians and Jews were ethnic communities in which

the Armenid race was strongly represented, and which are encompassed as

Semitic cultures. The Semitic waves constituted, for millennia,

a source of pain, malaise, violence and tragedy for Europe, from the

Carthaginians to the Ottomans. The present book will deal particularly

with the Jews, without forgetting other groups that, like the Arabs, Persians

and Syrians, made common cause with them on many occasions,

including during the rise of Christianity. 

 

Pre-Christian Rome

 

The world, before the eyes of a Roman, was a magical and holy place where

the ancient gods, the Numens, the Manes, the Lares, the Penates, the geniuses

and infinity of folk spirits, campaigned at ease influencing the lives of the mortals

even in their most daily ups and downs (the Civitas Dei of St Augustine,

despite attacking the Roman religion, provides valuable information about its complexity). 

 

Despite the subsequent influence that Greece had on them, the seriousness

with which the Romans took ritualism and folklore was so extreme, and

their patriotism so incredible, that we may seriously think that fidelity

(what they called the pietas: the fulfillment of duty to the gods in everyday tasks)

they professed to the customs and ancestral traditions,

was the secret of their immense success as a people. 

 

From the remotest antiquity, the Jews proved to be an unassimilable

and highly conflictive people, endowed with an unprecedented ability

to climb the social positions of other civilisations, undermine

their institutions and destroy their traditions and customs from a

parasitic and advantaged position; enrich themselves in the process,

take whatever was useful, become increasingly sophisticated and,

finally, survive the fall of the civilisation they devoured, taking a

baggage of experience and symbols stolen to the next

civilisation destined to suffer the repetition of the cycle. 

 

In all the countries that welcomed them, the Jews were accused of appropriating

the riches of others without working (usury), of exercising vampirism over the

economy, of being sycophants with the nobility and openly hostile to the people,

of indebting the States and to mortally hate, in secret, all the non-Jewish humanity. 

Cicero (106-43 BCE), as we shall see later, condemns Jewry considering that

their mentality of skulduggery and cowardice is incompatible with the altruistic

mentality of the best in Rome. He wrote: ‘The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive

force. I know how numerous these cliques are, how they remain united and what

power they exert through their unions. They are a nation of liars and deceivers’. 

Tacitus (56-120), the famous historian who praised the Germans, also spoke

about the Jews but in very different terms. He says that they descend from

lepers expelled from Egypt and that under the Assyrians, the Medes and Persians,

they were the most despised and humiliated people. Among the terms with

which Tacitus qualifies Jewry we have ‘perverse’, ‘abominable’, ‘cruel’, ‘superstitious’,

‘alien to any law of religion’, ‘evil’ and ‘filthy’ among others. 

Hecataeus of Abdera (around 320 BCE), not an Alexandrian himself, was

probably the first pagan who wrote about Jewish history, and he did not do

it on good terms: ‘Due to a plague, the Egyptians expelled them... The majority

fled to uninhabited Judea, and their leader Moses established a cult different

from all the others. The Jews adopted a misanthropic and inhospitable life’. 

Manetho (3rd century BCE), an Egyptian priest and historian, in his History of Egypt

the first time someone wrote a history of Egypt in Greek—said that at the time

of King Amenhotep, the Jews left Heliopolis with a colony of lepers under the

command of a renegade Osiris priest named Osarseph, whom he identifies with

Moses. Osarseph would have taught them habits contrary to those of the

Egyptians and ordered them not to relate to the rest of the villages, and

also made them burn and loot numerous Egyptian villages of the

Nile valley before leaving Egypt in the direction of Asia Minor. 

Lysimachus of Alexandria (1st century BCE) said that Moses was a kind of

black magician and an impostor; that his laws, equivalent to those

recorded in the Talmud, were immoral and that the Jews had been sick: 

The Jews, sick with leprosy and scurvy, took refuge in the temples,

until the king drowned the lepers, and sent other hundred thousand

to perish in the desert. A certain Moses guided and instructed

them so that they would not show goodwill towards any person and

destroyed all the temples they found. They arrived in Judea and

built a city of temple robbers. 

Apion, Egyptian writer and main promoter of the pogrom of Alexandria of the

year 38 CE that culminated in a massacre of 50,000 Jews at the hands of the

Roman military, said that the Jews were bound by a mutual pact

to never help any foreigner, especially if he was Greek: 

The principles of Judaism oblige to hate the rest of humanity.

Once a year they take a non-Jew, they kill him and taste his insides,

swearing during the meal that they will hate the nation from

which the victim came. In the Holy of Holies of the sacred temple

of Jerusalem there is a golden ass head that the Jews idolise.

The Shabbat originated because of a pelvic ailment that the Jews

contracted when fleeing from Egypt, forced them to rest on the seventh day. 

Celsus, a Greek philosopher of the 2nd century, especially known for The True Word

in which he attacked Christianity and also Judaism, wrote: ‘The Jews are

fugitives from Egypt who have never done anything of value

and were never held in esteem or had a good reputation’. 

Burning the library of Alexandria

In 48 BCE, while the Roman and Ptolemaic fleets were engaged in a naval battle,

an event was held to further tense the relations between Jews, Greeks and Egyptians:

the burning of the library of Alexandria. Of all the ethnic groups that were

in the city, none could have anything against the library. The Greeks had founded it;

the Egyptians had contributed much to it, and the Romans sincerely

admired this Hellenistic legacy. The Jews, however, saw in the library an

accumulation of ‘profane’ and ‘pagan’ wisdom, so that if there was a group

suspected of the first burning of the library, logically it was the

Jewish quarter or the most orthodox and fundamentalists sectors. 

 

Josephus considers the Zealots as the fourth Jewish sect together with—from

least to greatest religious extremism—the Essenes, the Sadducees and the

Pharisees. The Zealots were the most fundamentalists of all: they refused

to pay taxes to the Roman Empire. For them, all other Jewish factions were

heretical; any Jew who collaborated minimally with the Roman

authorities was guilty of treason and should be executed. 

 

‘You worship what you do not know; we worship what

we do know, for salvation is from the Jews’. — John 4:22 

 

Here is the probable cause of the unprecedented historical defamation of

this emperor: The texts of Roman history would eventually fall into the hands

of the Christians, who were mostly of Jewish origin and viscerally detested

the emperors. Since, according to Orwell, ‘he who controls the past controls

the present’, Christians adulterated Roman historiography, turning the

emperors who had opposed them and their Jewish ancestors into disturbed monsters. 

Thus, we do not have a single Roman emperor who has participated in harsh

Jewish reprisals who has not been defamed by accusations of homosexuality,

cruelty or perversion. The Spanish historian José Manuel Roldán Hervás

has dismantled many of the false accusations against the historical figure of Caligula. 

 

Nero has gone down in history as a cruel, tyrannical, perverted, capricious

emperor given to excesses, and it is really incredible the amount of trash

that Christians poured into his biography, to such an extent that the name

of Nero is already synonymous with tyranny, caprice and depravity.

The problem of Nero, we are led to believe, is that he did not tolerate Judaism

or Christianity; and that not a few Jews and Christians found their bones in

the Colosseum, in the jaws of some lion, under the thunderous applause of

the people of Rome by his express mandate. The reality is that, in the year 64,

there is a great fire in Rome that destroys many districts and leaves the city

in a state of emergency. Nero welcomes the victims of the fire, opening the

doors of his palaces so that the people have a place to stay. In addition,

he pays from his own private funds the reconstruction of the city. 

What the emperor did do was take action against the Christians. In the

words of the famous Roman historian Tacitus (55- 120), ‘Nero blamed

and inflicted the cruellest tortures on a class hated for its abominations,

called Christians by the populace’. He orders to arrest them ‘not so much

because of arsonists but because of their hatred of the human race’. 

Nero, despite having shown himself to be magnanimous and generous to

the people, passed into modern history as the Antichrist, a ruthless killer

of Christians who murdered his own wife on a whim, and who for fear of

conspiracy surrounded himself with a personal guard of praetorians of

German origin—the only ones he considered sufficiently loyal. He has also

passed to the popular mind as the perpetrator of the arson in Rome while he

played the lyre, singing a song before the flames; when in real history

Nero was not even in Rome when the fire started. 

 

Also, because he was a Jew and a Sadducee, the works of Josephus must

always be read with caution. For example, he has a writing

called Against the Greeks, in which he makes apology for Judaism. 

 

The Jewish rebellion was condemned as a kamikaze action from the beginning.

Simply, the Roman Empire was a force too irresistible, and only the fundamentalist

fanaticism, preached by minority social sectors, could drag Jewry to fight until

the end in a way so tenacious with an enemy that was the bearer of an infinitely

superior culture and, above all, of a better and more effective way of acting in

the world. Will and faith may move mountains but in this case the Jews did not

achieve miracles but the destruction of their holy

land and the hardening of the Roman occupation. 

 

Vespasian had the Jews of Judea scattered throughout Italy, Greece and,

above all, North Africa and Asia Minor, believing that this was the end of the

Jewish danger to the Empire. Upon returning to Rome, the triumphant

Titus solemnly rejected the crown of laurels of victory offered by the Roman

people, claiming that he fulfilled the divine will and that

‘there is no merit in defeating a people that have been abandoned by their own god’.

Shortly afterward the Romans erected an arc of triumph, under which no

Jew—at least no traditionalist Jew—still passes today. The arch of Titus,

erected in  Rome to commemorate the capture of Jerusalem, shows the

Roman legionaries transporting the fruits of the looting of the temple, highlighting the giant menorah. 

This is a key moment in Jewish history. The Jews saw how their achievements

were crushed by a proud European empire, how their relics were trampled by

Roman sandals and how their sacrosanct Temple was burned by flames.

To see it destroyed was a huge shock in the collective psychology of Jewry,

filling the Jews with resentment and desires for revenge against what they

knew of Europe: the Greek and Roman communities. Rome might have

easily been able to exterminate all the Jews of Judea if she had wanted but

did not, as it seemed that the Jewish power was finished; the Jews had been

traumatised, and their tribal pride shattered. Alas, far from neutralising

them, this psychological shock on their collective unconscious fed them cruel desires for revenge. 

The rebellion began in Cyrenaica, led by Lukuas, a self-proclaimed Messiah.

The Jews, in a swift stroke of hand reminiscent of their rebellion in Jerusalem

half a century earlier, attacked Greek neighbourhoods and villages, destroyed

Greek statues and temples dedicated to Jupiter, Artemis, Isis and Apollo,

and also numerous Roman official buildings. (These actions were a mere

foreshadowing of what the Christians would later

do on a massive scale and throughout the Empire.) 

The famous Roman historian Cassius Dio, in his Roman History, describes

the terrible massacre that was unleashed, referring to Lukuas as ‘Andreas’,

probably his Greco- Roman name. At that time, the Jews who lived in Cyrenaica,

having as captain one Andreas, killed all the Greeks and Romans. They ate their

flesh and entrails, bathed in their blood and dressed in their skins. They killed

many of them with extreme cruelty, tearing them from above head down the

middle of their bodies; they threw some to the beasts while others forced them

to fight among themselves, to such an extent that they took 220,000 to death. 

Cassius Dio also tells us how from their intestines they made belts and anointed

themselves with their blood. These testimonies, although perhaps should not be

taken literally, are certainly interesting to see the negative image that

the Jews had in Europe, as an odious and misanthropic people. 

After the genocide in Cyrenaica, the Lukuas masses went to an unguarded city

that had long been the world centre of wisdom and also of anti-Judaism: Alexandria.

There they set fire to numerous Greek neighbourhoods, destroyed pagan temples

and desecrated Pompey’s tomb. But this Rebellion of the Diaspora was not limited

only to North Africa. Jewish terrorism in Cyrenaica and Alexandria had emboldened

Jews throughout the Mediterranean, who, seeing the absence of Roman

soldiers, felt the call of the uprising against Rome. 

While Trajan was already in the Persian Gulf struggling against the Parthians,

crowds of Jews, fanaticised by the rabbis, rose up in Rhodes, Sicily, Syria,

Judea, Mesopotamia and the rest of North Africa to carry out the ethnic cleansing

against the European populations. In Cyprus, the worst massacre of the entire

rebellion took place: 240,000 Europeans were massacred and the capital

of the island, Salamis, was completely razed, according to Cassius Dio.

Something similar happened in Egypt and on the island of Cyprus under

one Artemion, the chief of barbarism. In Cyprus they massacred another two

hundred and forty thousand people, so they could no longer set foot on the island. 

The first Christians were exclusively Jewish blood communities, converted into

cosmopolitans with their enforced diaspora and Hellenistic contacts. To a

certain extent, these ‘Jews from the ghetto’—of which Saint Paul is the

most representative example—were despised by the most orthodox Jewish circles. 

Christianity, which to expand itself took the advantage offered by the dispersion

of Semitic slaves throughout the Roman Empire, represents an Asian ebb spilled all over Europe. 

Erasing traces of the Gods

At first, Sha’ul had been dedicated to persecuting Christians (which, let’s not

forget, were all Jews) in the name of the authorities of official Judaism. At a

given moment in his life, he falls off the horse—literally, it is said. Then,

after a great revelation, ‘Paul’ decides that Christianity is a valid doctrine to

be preached to Gentiles, that is, to non-Jews. With that intelligent

diplomatic skill for business and subversive movements, Sha’ul/Paul establishes

numerous Christian communities in Asia Minor and the Aegean,

from which the ‘good news’ will be hyper-actively preached. 

Subsequently, numerous preaching centres are founded in North Africa,

Syria and Palestine, inevitably going to Greece and Rome itself. Christianity

ran like wildfire through the most humble layers of the population of the Empire,

which were the most ethnically orientalised layers. It then passes to the

Roman Empire through the Jews, headed by Sha’ul/Paul, Peter and other

preachers. Its nature, based on the sinister Syrian-Phoenician mysteries that

presupposed the sinfulness and impurity of the being which practiced

them, is attractive to the non-white majority: Rome’s slaves. 

Sha’ul/Paul’s speeches are political cries: intelligent, virulent and fanatical

harangues that urge the faithful to accept Jesus Christ to achieve redemption.

The book of John of Patmos is a mixed incendiary formula like delirious visions

of the Apocalypse, the fall of Rome or Babylon, the New Jerusalem, the

slaughter of the infidels, the arrival of the Kingdom of Heaven, the eternal

salvation through Jesus Christ, the horrendous condemnation of pagan

sinners and all those strange oriental ideas. Another key point that must be

recognised as very skillful by the first preachers was to take advantage of the

affinity for the poor, the dispossessed, the abandoned, the vagabonds and

those who cannot help themselves; and the establishment

of institutions of charity, relief and assistance. 

Christianity glorified misfortune instead of glorifying the struggle against it;

considered suffering as a merit that dignifies itself and proclaimed that

Paradise awaits anyone who behaves well. (Remember the difference:

how the pagans taught that only fighters entered the Valhalla.)

It is the religion of the slaves, and they willingly subscribe to it. 

Early Christianity played a very similar role to that of the later Freemasonry:

it was a Jewish strategy dressed up using weak and ambitious characters,

fascinating them with a sinister ritualism. The result was like a

communism for the Roman Empire, even favouring the ‘emancipation’

and independence of women from their husbands by capturing them with

a strange and novel Christian liturgy, and urging them to donate their own

money to the cause (a scam quite similar in its essence to the current New Age cults). 

In 306, Constantine ‘The Great’ rises to power. He reigned from 306 to 337.

This emperor was not a Christian, but his mother Helena was, and he soon

declared himself a strong supporter of Christianity. In the year 313,

through the Edict of Milan, ‘religious freedom’ is proclaimed and the Christian

religion is legalised in the Roman Empire by Constantine representing the

Western Empire, and Licinius representing the Oriental Empire. The Roman

Empire is in clear decadence because not only the original Romans were

debasing themselves with luxury, voluptuousness and opulence and refusing

to serve in the legions. The Christians have now infiltrated the bureaucratic elite,

and already numerous influential characters practice it and defend it. 

Once legalised, the Christians begin to attack without quarter the adepts of

Hellenic culture. The Council of Ancyra of 314 denounces the cult of the goddess

Artemis (the favourite and most beloved goddess of the Spartans). An edict

of this year provokes for the first time that hysterical populaces begin to destroy

Greco-Roman temples, break statues and murder the priests. We have to get

an idea of what was involved in the destruction of a Temple in the Ancient

World. A Temple was not only a place of religious worship for priests but a place

of meeting and reference for all the people. (In our days, soccer stadiums or

nightclubs are minimally similar to what the Temple represented for the people.)

To destroy it was tantamount to sabotaging their unity, destroying the people themselves. 

We cannot doubt that, at least in part, Christianity used its repugnance for

Roman decadence to persecute any pagan cult, just as Islam today rejects

the decline of Western Civilization. This was just the perfect excuse how

Christianity justified its deeds and exterminated classical culture. That

which Christianity systematically persecuted with shameful excuses,

was something pure and aristocratic: luminous Hellenism, love of gnosis,

art, philosophy, free debate and the natural sciences. It was Egyptian, Greek

and Persian knowledge. What Christianity was doing with its persecution

and extermination was literally erasing the traces of the gods. 

Let us not make the mistake of blaming the Christianised Roman emperors.

They were ridiculous and weak men, but they were in the hands of their educators.

The instructors, who respond to the type of vampiric and parasitic priest so

hated by Nietzsche, were the true leaders of the meticulous and massive

destruction that was taking place. The numerous bishops and saints to whom

we have referred were ‘cosmopolitan’ men of Jewish education, many of whom

had been born in Judea, or came from essentially Jewish areas. They were

transformed Jews who, having come in contact with their enemies, studying

them carefully and hatefully, knew how to destroy them. They had a broad

rabbinical education and knew in depth the teachings of classical culture,

dominating the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syrian and Egyptian languages.

Such characters, of an intelligence and a cunning as outstanding as their

resentment, were convinced that they were building a new order, and that

to do so it was necessary to erase a hundred percent every trace of

any previous civilisation, and any thought that was not of Jewish origin. 

359 CE: In the very Jewish city of Scythopolis, (province of Syria, today

corresponds to Beit She’an, in Israel), Christian leaders organise nothing

more and nothing less than a concentration camp for the adepts of classical

culture, detained throughout the empire. In this field those who profess the old beliefs,

or who simply opposed the Church, are imprisoned, tortured and executed.

Over time, Scythopolis becomes a whole infrastructure of camps, dungeons,

torture cells and execution rooms, where thousands of Hellenists would go.

The most intense horrors of the time take place here. It was the gulag

that the communism of the time used to suppress the dissidents.

385-88 CE: Organised bands of Christian ‘paramilitary’ murderers travel

throughout the Eastern Empire to preach the ‘good news’; that is, to destroy

temples, altars and reliquaries. They destroy, among many others, the temple

of Edessa, the Kabeirion of Imbros, the temple of Zeus in Apamea, the temple

of Apollo in Didyma and all the temples of Palmyra. Thousands are arrested and

sent to the dungeons of Scythopolis, where they are imprisoned,

tortured and killed in subhuman conditions. 

Bishop Theophilus, the patriarch of Alexandria, initiates persecutions of the

Hellenists, inaugurating in Alexandria a period of real battles on the streets.

He converts the temple of the god Dionysus into a church, destroys the temple

of Zeus, burns the Mithraic and profanes the cult images.

The priests are humiliated and mocked publicly before being stoned. 

391 CE: A new decree of Theodosius specifically prohibits looking at the

shattered statues! The persecutions of the whole empire are renewed. 

Christians murder Hypatia

The protagonist of this year is Hypatia, philosopher and mathematician instructed

by her father, the also famous philosopher and mathematician Theon of Alexandria. 

Hypatia’s biographers say that in the morning she spent several hours in

physical exercise and the she took relaxing baths that helped her to

devote the rest of the day to the study of philosophy, music and mathematics.

Hypatia was virgin and chaste; that is, she was at the level of a priestess—a wise woman,

‘a perfect human being’ just as her father had wanted. Hypatia also ran a

philosophical school from which women were excluded. (This is to give

thought to the feminists who have tried to use her figure in recent times.) 

The bigwig of Alexandria during that time was Archbishop Cyril (370-444),

nephew of the aforementioned Theophilus. He had the title of patriarch, an

ecclesiastical honour that amounted almost to that of the pope, and which

was held only by the archbishops of Jerusalem, Alexandria and Constantinople:

that is, the most Jewish and Christian cities of the Roman Empire. During

this time there was another mass rebellion; once again, street fights,

tensions and settling of scores between Christians and Hellenists followed

each other. Archbishop Cyril had started a persecution of Alexandria scholars,

twenty-four years after the library fire. This time, more radicalised, the

Christians murdered anyone who refused to convert to the new religion.

Hypatia, at that time director of the museum, where she dedicated herself

to the philosophy of Plato, was one of those people—

for which she was accused of conspiring against the archbishop. 

Days after the accusation, friars called parabalani, fanatical monks in

charge of the dirty work of the archbishop and coming from the church of

Jerusalem, kidnapped her from her carriage, beat her, stripped her and

dragged her throughout the city until they reached the church of Caesarea.

There, at the orders of a lector named Peter, they raped her several times

and then skinned her and ripped the flesh with sharp oyster shells.

Hypatia died raped, skinned and bleeding in atrocious pains. After this, they

dismembered her corpse, took her pieces through Alexandria as trophies

and then to a place called Cinarion, where they were burned. The archbishop

who ordered her martyrdom is remembered by the Church as St. Cyril of Alexandria. 

Only a crowd sick with resentment and hatred, and enraged by commissaries

expert in the art of raising slaves, could carry out this act which disgusts any

person with a minimum of decency. Hypatia was the perfect victim for a

ritual sacrifice: European, beautiful, healthy, wise, Hellenistic and virgin.

And that is what excites slaves the most when sacrificing the innocence and

kindness of the victim. The cruelty shown, even in regard to the destruction

of her body, indicates that the Christians greatly feared Hypatia and all that she represented. 

We must recognise the conspiratorial astuteness and the implacable permanence

of objectives of the original Judeo-Christian nucleus! What they did was

literally turn the tables on their favour: turn Rome into anti-Rome; put at

the service of Jewry everything that the Jews so hated; take advantage of

the strength of Rome and its state apparatus, to put Rome against Rome

itself in a sinister political- spiritual jiu-jitsu—from spitted slaves, trampled,

insulted, despised and looked down, to absolute spiritual masters of the Roman Empire! 

Christianity plays the vampire

In a nutshell, Christianity was a subversive movement of agitation

against Rome, against Greece and, ultimately, against the European world. 

As already stated, we have to assume that what has come down to us from the

Greco-Roman world is only a tiny part of what was really there and that it

was taken away by the Judeo-Christian destruction. Christianity, as a

slave rebellion devised and led by Jews with the aim of destroying

Roman power—and, ultimately, all European power—was and is a

doctrine aimed at converting vigorous peoples into a domesticated

flock of sheep. Nietzsche understood it perfectly, but when will we be

able to fully assimilate what this meant and what it still means today? 

Christianity was the vampire of the imperium Romanum — overnight

it destroyed the vast achievement of the Romans: the conquest of

the soil for a great culture that could await its time.

Can it be that this fact is not yet understood? 

Paul, the Chandala hatred of Rome, of ‘the world’, in the flesh and

inspired by genius—the Jew, the eternal Jew par excellence... 

What he saw was how, with the aid of the small sectarian Christian movement

that stood apart from Judaism, a ‘world conflagration’ might be kindled; how,

with the symbol of ‘God on the cross’, all secret seditions, all the fruits of

anarchistic intrigues in the empire, might be amalgamated into one immense power... 

‘Salvation is of the Jews’. Christianity is the formula for exceeding and summing

up the subterranean cults of all varieties, that of Osiris, that of the Great Mother,

that of Mithras, for instance: in his discernment of this fact the genius of Paul showed itself. 

This was his revelation at Damascus: he grasped the fact that he needed

the belief in immortality in order to rob ‘the world’ of its value, that

the concept of ‘hell’ would master Rome, that the notion of a ‘beyond’

is the death of life... Nihilist and Christ: they rhyme, and they do more than rhyme.12 

 

 

Nietzsche wrote:

Didn’t Israel attain, precisely with the detour of this ‘Saviour’,

of this apparent enemy against and dissolver of Israel,

the final goal of its sublime thirst for vengeance? 

Isn’t it part of the secret black art of a truly great politics

of revenge, a farsighted, underground, slowly expropriating, and

premeditated revenge, that Israel itself had to disown and nail

to the cross, like some mortal enemy, the tool essential to its

revenge before all the world, so that ‘all the world’, that is, all

Israel’s enemies, could then take this particular bait without a second thought?... 

At least it is certain that sub hoc signo Israel, with its vengeance

and transvaluation of the worth of all other previous values, has

triumphed again and again over all other ideals, over all nobler ideals.