Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and M-theory (Michael Faust)
Philosophic Peregrinations of the Ignoranti
[My 1-star Amazon review (NDA) of “Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and M-theory†by Michael Faust.]
First off, this book is badly mistitled, because just a few of its pages pertain to the subjects of Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and M-theory. Moreover, the author does a shameful job elaborating Kabbalah and Hermeticism.
For example, in his disparaging description of Kabbalah, he never mentions the Tree of Life or the Sephirot. And he fails to explain what Kabbalah really means – receiving (and uniting with) the Divine. Worst of all is his statement about Judaism, which also, by implication, pertains to Kabbalah. The author writes, “Even the “prettiest†version of Judaism is repulsive, completely infected with devil worship.â€
The author’s exegesis of Hermeticism (which he considers only “a slightly different version of [his religion] Pythagorean Illuminismâ€) is no better than his description of Kabbalah. Hermeticism consists of the three parts/practices – astrology, theurgy, and alchemy – and the author has nothing to say about the first two. Regarding alchemy, he writes, “Alchemy is the science of Hermeticism and the search for the Philosopher’s Stone, the Panacea and the Elixir of Life. He has nothing to say about the Panacea or the Elixir of Life, and though he describes the Philosopher’s Stone as “symbolizing God†and “where we enter into unity with the divine,†he has nothing to say about how one can attain this divine unity.
The author despises Ayn Rand, so I will borrow a favorite expression of hers to summarize the author’s repeated failure to say something about the topics he portends to discourse on: Blank out.
The author writes: “It is our destiny to enter into communion with that supreme consciousness. [But again, he has nothing to say regarding the practice of this communion]. We will know the mind of God. We will know all things. We will literally become God.This is the Grand Unified Theory of Everything, this is the gospel of the Illuminati.â€
Unbeknownst to the author, the mystical essence of Judaism and Christianity is all about the practice of Divine (or Holy) Communion (which he identifies as the summum bonum of life), but he ignorantly dismisses these religions in toto, in effect throwing the baby out with the bath water. The Illuminati’s religion (Illuminism), he writes,â€rejects the Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, considering these the work of the Demiurge.†If the author studied Christian Hermeticism, he might realize that his rejection of esoteric Christianity is ill-advised.
At the beginning of the book, the author writes, “All the mysteries of the universe can be reduced to a single mathematical question: do the numbers zero and infinity exist as realities rather than mental abstractions?â€
It is reductio ad absurdum to reduce the mysteries of the universe to this single question. On top of this, the author insists that the illuminati have discovered the definitive cosmic equation. The author writes, “Illuminism introduces the r>=0 “cosmic equation revealing the link between the dimemensional and the dimensionless, the physical cosmos and the mental cosmos.â€
Unbeknownst to the Illuminati, the most important equation regarding “cracking the cosmic code†and attaining Divine Union is Ohm’s Law, which, properly applied, yields the Philosopher’s Stone by fostering conduction of the Divine Elixir (the Christian Holy Spirit, the Buddhist Sambhogakaya, the Hebrew Ruach haKodesh, and Hindu Shakti) into the Sacred Heart-center (or Heart-cave) which is the true Holy Grail, or Chalice.
I could go on and on deconstructing the disjointed philosophic ramblings of the author in this book, which is really just a protracted sales pitch for Pythagorean Illuminism presented under the guise of a misleading book title. But at this point I’ll conclude my review by summarizing the reaction of the Cognoscenti to the exoteric, hubris-bloated philosophic pontifications of the author (which includes the laughable assertion, “Only the Illuminati have ever understood the true structure of the cosmosâ€). The Cognoscenti say that book is nothing more than the philosophic peregrinations of the Ignoranti.
[My 1-star Amazon review (NDA) of “Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and M-theory†by Michael Faust.]
First off, this book is badly mistitled, because just a few of its pages pertain to the subjects of Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and M-theory. Moreover, the author does a shameful job elaborating Kabbalah and Hermeticism.
For example, in his disparaging description of Kabbalah, he never mentions the Tree of Life or the Sephirot. And he fails to explain what Kabbalah really means – receiving (and uniting with) the Divine. Worst of all is his statement about Judaism, which also, by implication, pertains to Kabbalah. The author writes, “Even the “prettiest†version of Judaism is repulsive, completely infected with devil worship.â€
The author’s exegesis of Hermeticism (which he considers only “a slightly different version of [his religion] Pythagorean Illuminismâ€) is no better than his description of Kabbalah. Hermeticism consists of the three parts/practices – astrology, theurgy, and alchemy – and the author has nothing to say about the first two. Regarding alchemy, he writes, “Alchemy is the science of Hermeticism and the search for the Philosopher’s Stone, the Panacea and the Elixir of Life. He has nothing to say about the Panacea or the Elixir of Life, and though he describes the Philosopher’s Stone as “symbolizing God†and “where we enter into unity with the divine,†he has nothing to say about how one can attain this divine unity.
The author despises Ayn Rand, so I will borrow a favorite expression of hers to summarize the author’s repeated failure to say something about the topics he portends to discourse on: Blank out.
The author writes: “It is our destiny to enter into communion with that supreme consciousness. [But again, he has nothing to say regarding the practice of this communion]. We will know the mind of God. We will know all things. We will literally become God.This is the Grand Unified Theory of Everything, this is the gospel of the Illuminati.â€
Unbeknownst to the author, the mystical essence of Judaism and Christianity is all about the practice of Divine (or Holy) Communion (which he identifies as the summum bonum of life), but he ignorantly dismisses these religions in toto, in effect throwing the baby out with the bath water. The Illuminati’s religion (Illuminism), he writes,â€rejects the Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, considering these the work of the Demiurge.†If the author studied Christian Hermeticism, he might realize that his rejection of esoteric Christianity is ill-advised.
At the beginning of the book, the author writes, “All the mysteries of the universe can be reduced to a single mathematical question: do the numbers zero and infinity exist as realities rather than mental abstractions?â€
It is reductio ad absurdum to reduce the mysteries of the universe to this single question. On top of this, the author insists that the illuminati have discovered the definitive cosmic equation. The author writes, “Illuminism introduces the r>=0 “cosmic equation revealing the link between the dimemensional and the dimensionless, the physical cosmos and the mental cosmos.â€
Unbeknownst to the Illuminati, the most important equation regarding “cracking the cosmic code†and attaining Divine Union is Ohm’s Law, which, properly applied, yields the Philosopher’s Stone by fostering conduction of the Divine Elixir (the Christian Holy Spirit, the Buddhist Sambhogakaya, the Hebrew Ruach haKodesh, and Hindu Shakti) into the Sacred Heart-center (or Heart-cave) which is the true Holy Grail, or Chalice.
I could go on and on deconstructing the disjointed philosophic ramblings of the author in this book, which is really just a protracted sales pitch for Pythagorean Illuminism presented under the guise of a misleading book title. But at this point I’ll conclude my review by summarizing the reaction of the Cognoscenti to the exoteric, hubris-bloated philosophic pontifications of the author (which includes the laughable assertion, “Only the Illuminati have ever understood the true structure of the cosmosâ€). The Cognoscenti say that book is nothing more than the philosophic peregrinations of the Ignoranti.
