p.1 Marxism’s Beginnings

Karl Marx in 1835 at the age of 17 wrote, ‘ The Union of the Faithful with Christ,’ a devotional commentary on abiding in Christ based upon Chapter 15 of John’s Gospel. Through love of Christ we turn our hearts at the same time toward our brethren who are inwardly bound to us and for whom He gave Himself in sacrifice.”He wrote on the vine and the branch, “where He calls himself the vine and us the branch? The branch cannot bear fruit of itself, and likewise, says Christ, you can do nothing without Him. He states this even more strongly when he says: "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered [John 15:5-6]."

...Religion itself teaches us that the Ideal toward which all strive sacrificed Himself for humanity, and who shall dare contradict such claims? If we have chosen the position in which we can accomplish the most for Him, then we can never be crushed by burdens, because they are only sacrifices made for the sake of all.”

Sound very much like someone understood the Scripture on this.His statement, You can do nothing without Him must have been the main contention point because the ideology of communism came out of the very opposite concept of this teaching.

Richard Wumbrand reminds us Marx began as a Christian believer. “When he finished high school, the following was written on his graduation certificate under the heading "Religious Knowledge": "His knowledge of the Christian faith and morals is fairly clear and well grounded. He knows also to some extent the history of the Christian church." (Marx, Karl. Archiv filr die Geschichte cles Sozialismus und der Arbeiterbewegung. (Archives for the History of Socialism and the Workers Movement) MEGA, I, i (2), 182-3.)

He appeared grounded at a young age in his teens, even showing insight but he would be no match for what he would encounter later at school, as the “young Hegelians,” a cult of intellectuals attacked his faith.

It was at the University he totally rejected Christianity, learning the philosophy of Hegel. There is nothing worse than knowing the truth and leaving it. Hegel invented this mind-convoluting way to arrive at what he called truth that confused people. For it had them come to the wrong conclusion of a matter, it is now called the Dialectic process.

It is said that Marx's first teacher was the philosopher Hegel, he absorbed this poison from Hegel, and then from others he surrounded himself with. Marx had wrote in his book German Ideology, calling God "the absolute Spirit." He wrote, "We are concerned with a highly interesting question: the decomposition of the Absolute Spirit."

He calls God "the absolute Spirit," as he learned from his teacher Hegel. His was not a fight against a false belief, in a nonexistent God that now preoccupied him. He was no atheist, he believed that God did exist and wanted to see this Absolute Spirit decompose. And so his philosophical rebellion began. His pride had him think he knew better than God and developed with others concepts that would challenge what God wanted and instructed for mankind

While most see Marxism as atheism, he personally never stopped believing in God, he just could not get past his newfound hatred of God and his creation. And, he wrote pernicious poems of his destiny in hell as he challenged Gods influence on mankind

Georg Hegel, was a German occultist who conceived what is called the ‘Hegelian dialectic,’ a mind-changing contentious process.

In School the pupils of Hegel assaulted the foundations of Karl’s Christianity. The young Hegalians used the dialectic process to criticize and break Karl convincing him that it was irrational, outmoded. It was mainly Hegel’s diabolical philosophy that was used to stumble a young Karl Marx and him turn aggressively on Christianity, God and humanity.

Marx's poem "On Hegel": Words I teach all mixed up into a devilish muddle. Thus, anyone may think just what he chooses to think . On Hegel: Because I discovered the highest, And because I found the deepest through meditation, I am great like a God; I clothe myself in darkness like Him.”

Shortly after his encounter in school with the Young Hegalian’s correspondence between Karl and his father became estranged. Using cryptic language Karl writes, A curtain had fallen. My holy of holies was rent asunder and new gods had to be installed. This was written on November 10, 1837 by a young Karl, who had formerly professed Christianity declaring that Christ was in his heart; but no longer. Who are the new gods installed in Christ’s place? When one reads his poems and works we find out it was ‘self.’ The fallen man had risen.

The father replied, “I refrained from insisting on an explanation about a very mysterious matter although it seemed highly dubious.” What was this mysterious matter? No biographer of Marx have explained these strange sentences. On March 2, 1837, Marx's father wrote to his son:

“Your advancement, the dear hope of seeing your name someday of great repute, and your earthly well-being are not the only desires of my heart. These are illusions I had had a long time, but I can assure you that their fulfillment would not have made me happy. Only if your heart remains pure and beats humanly and if no demon is able to alienate your heart from better feelings, only then will I be happy.”

Heinrich Marx, Karl’s father, writes further

At times my heart delights in thinking of you and your future. And yet at times I cannot rid  myself of ideas which arouse in me sad forebodings and fear when I am struck as if by  lightning by the thought: is your heart in accord with your head, your talents? Has it room for  the earthly but gentler sentiments which in this vale of sorrow are so essentially consoling for  a man of feeling? And since that heart is obviously animated and governed by a demon not  granted to all men, is that demon heavenly or Faustian? Will you ever—and that is not the  least painful doubt of my heart—will you ever be capable of truly human, domestic  happiness? Will—and this doubt has no less tortured me recently since I have come to love a certain person like my own child—will you ever be capable of imparting happiness to those immediately around you? (“Letter from Heinrich Marx to son Karl,” Trier, March 2, 1837, published in Marx-Engels Collected Works , Vol. 1, pp. 670-73, posted at www.marxists.org. Also see post at http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon6/letters/papa/1837-fl2.html .)

His father conveyed in no uncertain terms his fear of demonic influence to his young son who had once confessed to be Christian? He spoke of himself as an example to turn his wayward son back, but it was pointless as Marx was no longer what he once was.

Not long after his correspondence with his father, in 1839, the young Marx wrote The Difference Between Democritus and Epicurus' Philosophy of Nature, in the preface of which he aligns himself with the declaration of Aeschylus, "I harbor hatred against all gods."Marx hated any concept of God, true or false. He was willing to be the man who would kick out God. All this was in him before he had fully embraced Socialism.

In his poem "The Pale Maiden," Karl at 19 solemnly writes: “Thus heaven I've forfeited, I know it full well. My soul, once true to God, Is chosen for hell.”

Marx explains his own torment in rhyme, he was convinced to oppose what he once knew as the truth, he became an apostate that would eventually lead many to destruction.

He writes in another poem, "I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above."

He was still convinced that there is One above who rules, but was now in opposition to Him, as he followed the first rebel from heaven in his attempts to dethrone him.

In his poem "Invocation of One in Despair":

“So a god has snatched from me my all, In the curse and rack of destiny. All his worlds are gone beyond recall. Nothing but revenge is left to me. I shall build my throne high overhead, Cold, tremendous shall its summit be. For its bulwark - superstitious dread. For its marshal - blackest agony. Who looks on it with a healthy eye, Shall turn back, deathly pale and dumb, Clutched by blind and chill mortality, May his happiness prepare its tomb.”

Demoralized and confused the people in the school turned him from God and his soul was left bankrupt. Yet he mentions another god and he loosely quotes the scripture that describes him.

Richard Wumbrandt notes the name "Oulanem" which he says is an inversion of God's holy name, is an anagram of Emmanuel, the Biblical name of Jesus which means in Hebrew "God with us." Saying, such inversions of names are considered effective in black magic, certainly in Satanism.

We can understand the drama Oulanemby the strange confession that Marx at age 23 in 1841made in a poem called "The Player," later downplayed by both himself and his followers:

“The hellish vapours rise and fill the brain, Till I go mad and my heart is utterly changed. See this sword? The prince of darkness Sold it to me. For me he beats the time and gives the signs. Ever more boldly I play the dance of death.”

Wurmbrand again points out these lines take on special significance when we learn that in the rites of higher initiation in a Satanist cult an "enchanted" sword ensures success is sold to the candidate. He pays for it by signing a covenant, with blood taken from his wrists, agreeing that his soul will belong to Satan after death.

When Karl Marx moved to France and met Friedrich Engel that began a lifelong friendship. He then began writing for the German French annals. Prussia was displeased with his revolutionary ideology of the paper, and issued warrants for the arrest of the editors. Marx was then unable to return to his homeland. In 1847, attending the first Congress of the Communist League in England where he and Engels were commissioned to write a simple declaration of the League's doctrine, this resulted in what is known today as the Communist Manifesto, published in 1848. Marx being in disrepute in his homeland, France and Belgium, settled in London, England, in 1849 where he lived out the rest of his sordid life.

Marx’s Satanic Friends

Engels wrote poems and such warnings against Satanism, it is said he was a man who prayed with tears to beware of this danger. After meeting Marx He recognized Marx as being possessed with ‘ten thousand devils.’ He wrote, “ Who is chasing wild endeavour? A black man from Trier [Marx's birthplace], a remarkable monster. He does not walk or run, he jumps on his heels and rages full of anger as if he would like to catch the wide tent of the sky and throw it to the earth. He stretches his arms far away in the air; the wicked fist is clenched, he rages without ceasing, as if ten thousand devils had caught him by the hair.”

Engels acutely aware of the dangers of Satanism, wrote in his book Schelling, Philosopher in Christ :“Since the terrible French Revolution, an entirely new, devilish spirit has entered

into a great part of mankind, and godlessness lifts its daring head in such an unashamed and subtle manner that you would think the prophecies of Scripture are fulfilled, let us see first what the Scriptures say about the godlessness of the last times. He then quotes The Lord Jesus saying in Matthew 24:11-13: " Many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many….”

Yet by befriending Marx he became Marx's closest collaborator in his devilish fight, " for Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality...."

Engels was once a believer (and a conservative theologian), even writing against critics of the Bible. Afterward his friendship with Marx himself became a radical critic of the Holy Scriptures and creator of a materialistic Christianity which insisted that Jesus was only human, not the Son of God. As the Scripture says 1 Cor. 15:33 Do not be deceived: "Evil company corrupts good habits. " And this was certainly EVIL company.

Adopting the Devil's view of the world, he had to know that he was accomplishing works of evil.

Marx was not alone in his apostasy, as an organizer he grouped together and deceived others to target the church, the Bible and Christ himself. All of which would undermine humanity.

Many who were friends and associations were influenced by the same spirit

of error, even antichrist that Marx had fully accepted. It was like an infection to those who were around him.

Engels after reading a book written by a liberal theologian, Bruno Bauer who was once a believer. Bauer had sown doubts in his soul, where Engels wrote to some friends,

It is written, " Ask and it shall be given unto you." I seek truth wherever I have the  hope of finding at least a shadow of it. Still I cannot recognize your truth as the  eternal truth. Yet it is written, "Seek and ye shall find. Who is the man among you  who would give to his child a stone, when it asks for bread? Even less will your  Father who is in heaven."

Tears come into my eyes while I write this. I am moved through and through, but I  feel I will not be lost. I will come to God, after whom my whole soul longs. This,  too, is a witness of the Holy Spirit. With this I live and with this I die. ... The Spirit of  God witnesses to me, that I am a child of God.”

Bauer became a staunch critic of the Holy Scriptures insisting that Jesus was only human, not the Son of God; a authentic apostate.

He wrote to Arnold Ruge, was a friend of both Marx and Engels of his struggle that he could not understand taking place. on December 6, 1841:

“I deliver lectures here at the university before a large audience. I don't recognize  myself when I pronounce my blasphemies from the pulpit. They are so great that  these children, whom nobody should offend, have their hair standing on end.  While delivering the blasphemies, I remember how I work piously at home writing  an apology of the holy Scriptures and of the Revelation. In any case, it is a very  bad demon that possesses me as often as I ascend the pulpit, and I am so weak  that I am compelled to yield to him.... My spirit of blasphemy will be satisfied only if I am authorized to preach openly as professor of the atheistic system.”

Marx's conversion to communism is explained clearly in a letter  of his friend Georg Jung to Ruge: it was not the emancipation of the proletariat, nor  even the establishing of a better social order. Jung writes as if warning the creator:

“If Marx, Bruno Bauer and Feuerbach associate to found a theological-political review, God would do well to surround himself with all his angels”

Marx met Moses Hess, the founder of the German Social-Democrat Party. The man who played the most important role in his life. Moses Hess, (Marx's philosophical mentor, one who inspired him to embrace the socialist ideals played a crucial role in his ideological development);

called Karl, " Dr. Marx - my idol, who will give the last kick to medieval religion and politics."

Hess convinced both Marx and Engels of the Socialist idea, Georg Jung said confidently: " Marx will surely chase God from his heaven and sue him."

Hess had more of a metaphysical view of literal scripture that was far from its original intent. In fact he completely missed the meanings in Scripture by allegorizing them. Hess' first book written in 1837, called The Holy History of Mankind . Stating it to be “a work of the Holy Spirit of truth,” further saying that as the Son of God freed men from their own slavery, Hess would free them from political bondage. "I am called to witness for the light, as John has been.”Another man who was sorely deceived.

Here are some of his truth’s he claimed to write, “ Is the Prince of the World, this Evil One or this Devil, against whose seduction Christianity warns us, essentially anything else than this confounded Mammon, which we call our treasure? No, it is nothing but the same...”

“Is hell anything else than this earth under the confounded dominion of money? No, truly this earth is the actual, real hell.”

“once we unite and live in communism, hell will no longer be on earth and heaven will no longer be beyond this world; everything which has been presented to us by Christianity in prophecy and phantasy is about to be wholly realized in the true human society according to the eternal laws of love and reason.”

Hess did not have a true grasp on Scripture, but revisioned it into a new utopian dream which is known today as communism.

These are the kinds of persons Marx became friends with, all these men had some type of belief in God and his Word, and became infatuated with Satan’s view and occult concepts. Is it any wonder Marx was taken captive, being deceived and deceiving others?

Marx was a great admirer of Heinrich Heine the renowned German poet, who was his intimate friend, as well as a distant relative. He said, “I called the devil and he came, His face with wonder I must scan; He is not ugly, he is not lame. He is a delightful, charming man.” (Paul Garus, History of the Devil (Bell Publishing Co.), p. 435.)

Yes he comes as an angel of light, beauty with a false righteousness.

Consider these as only a few points lifted from his writings, as the many works of Marx are kept secret by those who guard his manuscripts are a secret known only to them.

What are we to understand of this man that is honored and esteemed in countries that have inspired totalitarian systems of government. Marx had no regard for his family, including his own mother and father. Marx's wife in a letter from August 1844, addresses him as follows,

Your last pastoral letter, high priest and bishop of souls, has again given quiet rest  and peace to your poor sheep.”

In a letter written to Him by his son Edgar (March 31, 1854). He begins with, "My dear devil." Who would write such a thing, what kind of a son addresses his father like this? Unless he knew something more than others did.

Marx’s writings include “Thy breath, O Satan, my verses inspires, When from my bosom the gods I defy. He called Satan, king of the banquet.“ Satan the great! “the great Vindicator!”

It sounds like he’s reading Masonic literature from its founders His influence may have reached Madame Blavatsky founder of the theosophical society who spoke of Lucifer as the true God.

Arnold Kunzli, in his book Karl Marx - A Psychogram, writes about Marx's life,including the suicide of two daughters and a son-in-law Three children died of malnutrition. His daughter Laura, married to the Socialist Lafargue, also buried three of her children; then she and her husband committed suicide together. Another daughter Eleanor, Marx’s favorite daughter, was apparently not his but Engels. Eleanor was shattered when she heard about her illegitimacy from Engels on his deathbed. It was this that led to her suicide. She had decided with her husband Edward Eveling (who lectured on such subjects as "The Wickedness of God.") to commit suicide. She died; but her husband backed out at the last minute.

Marx died in his own disparity, destitute and impoverished . On May 25, 1883, he wrote to Engels, "How pointless and empty is life, but how desirable!" (Karl Marx, Letter of 20 May 1882 to Friedrich Engels,MEW. XXXV. 65.)

Marx’s message comes through loud and clear his intention is not to improve the world, reform or revolutionize it, but simply to ruin it, from this act he will get enjoyment: “ I wander godlike and victorious Through the ruins of the world And, giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.” (Karl Marx, 'Menschenstolz' ('Human Pride'), MEGA, I, i (2), 50.

Pride had taken over his now lost soul. Wurmbrand points out that Marx had loved the words of Mephistopheles in Faust, "Everything in existence is worth being destroyed." Everything would include the proletariat and his close comrades, all that he told the people is the solution.

In the poem, Oulanem: “If there is a Something which devours, I'll leap within it, though I bring the world to ruins— The world which bulks between me and the abyss I will smash to pieces with my enduring curses. I'll throw my arms around its harsh reality: Embracing me, the world will dumbly pass away, And then sink down to utter nothingness, Perished, with no existence—that would be really living.” At the end of Oulanem Marx writes, “soon I shall howl gigantic curses on mankind.”

This is a man who lost all of his humanity and then says his is the way to solve humanity's problems! How twisted is this?

As Paul Kengor writes on Marx “No other political ideology has produced as much wretched poverty, rank repression, and sheer violence. In country after country, implemented in varying forms across wide-ranging nationalities, traditions, backgrounds, faiths, and ethnicities, communism coldly and consistently violated the full sweep of most basic human rights, from property to press, from speech to assembly, from conscience to religion.”  (THE DEVIL AND KARL MARX COMMUNISM’S LONG MARCH OF DEATH, DECEPTION, AND INFILTRATION)

Jesus said “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” One only needs to read the book of Job to see how he suffered under Satan’s desire allowed to destroy him and his life. Understand this is what Karl Marx wanted for everyone.

 

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