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If you have been reading the excerpts from the late Lutheran pastor Richard Wurmbrand‘s Marx and Satan, I hope that you have found it useful. The book is available online for free at Scribd.
Its content both shocked and amazed.
In an age when we are told that Marxism and the Gospel go hand-in-hand, this book may come as a surprise.
I started learning a lot of left-wing ideas at (Catholic) school from ages 9 – 21 back in the 1960s and 1970s, reinforced by mass-media. It’s not just state schools that teach them. Any church-affiliated school could (and probably is) teach these concepts, therefore, it is important that this book serve as an antidote to whatever our young people are absorbing today. Whether you decide to study this short book together as a family or, even better, use it as a series for a church youth group, I offer below the salient points it offers chapter by chapter. Pastor Wurmbrand asked us to share this knowledge, expanding on it if possible, and to ensure that our families and friends understood that we can choose Christianity or Marxism, but not both.
Wurmbrand introduces the book by saying that he has found clear indications linking Karl Marx with Satanism.
Marxist regimes have controlled over one-third of mankind and remains a fact of life for all of us, even if we live in the free world and support conservative politics.
The Communists have read — and condemned — this book. It has been translated into several languages and was widely circulated in the former Eastern Bloc countries.
Marx and Satan explains the roots of this political philosophy and why every believing Christian should resist it.
This book brings out aspects of Marxism previously unknown to many believers. Wurmbrand explains that very few of Marx’s writings have actually been published. Many are hidden from view. From his research, he could only deduce that they are purposely concealed in order not to reveal their true content — no doubt demonic.
Pastor Wurmbrand was imprisoned and tortured by communists over the course of 14 years from the 1940s to the early 1960s. Eventually, he made his way to the United States (read more about his life story).
Today, a number of clergy believe that Marxism is about fairness and equality, emanating from Karl Marx’s love of mankind. They not only think but preach that communism is a fulfilment of Jesus Christ’s teachings.
Yet, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, Marx — who scored highly in religious studies classes at school — turned from Christ as a young man. He came to hate Christianity, God and his fellow man. He wrote that people were ‘human trash’. He often used the word ‘destroy’, which became his nickname in early adulthood.
We do not know why Marx turned against God or what the catalyst was. He came from comfortable surroundings and a God-fearing family.
After finishing school, he began writing plays and poems. These featured verses to Satan and used a number of verbal inversions, often used in satanic speech. He called his own writings ‘sh-t’ and ‘swinish’. In one of his plays, he condemns humanity to destruction.
In his personal life, he fell into debt and quarrelled with his father over finances. Marx’s friends and associates describe him unflatteringly.
When Marx began writing (see Chapter 1) he was only 18. None of what he wrote was about making mankind equal around the world. Nor did he write about improving fairness or the human condition. He merely wanted to destroy the world and preside over it.
When he found he could not make a living from his writing, he abandoned the creative side of it, as did Hitler as a young man. Both turned to political or philosophical subject matter with a dose of satanism. Even then, for Marx, ridding the world of religion was his principal goal. Even once he embraced socialism (see last paragraph in this section), it was but a veneer for atheism, a useful means of luring people to his cause.
With no God, Marx said, there would be no (need for) morals. He continues to use the inverted — satanic — verbiage he used in his poems and plays.
Most of Marx’s familial relationships (these I did not excerpt) were strained or unhappy. He seemed to be closest to his daughter Eleanor.
As to his appearance, which to us looks typical of the 19th century, most men of his time had groomed hair and trimmed beards. Marx would have stood out in a crowd.
He continued making friends with others who shared his tastes for atheism, a love of Satan and a desire to overthrow the world. One of these was a Frenchman, possibly the first person to refer to himself as an anarchist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. They shared a mutual friend, Moses Hess, who was instrumental in teaching Marx about socialism and getting him to embrace it.
Marx meets Friedrich Engels, who, interestingly, shared a number of things in common with him. Engels was also brought up in a comfortable Christian household and wrote religious poetry.
Unlike Marx, however, Engels had a clear reason for departing from Christianity. Then, he read a book by a liberal theologian of the time, Bruno Bauer, who preached atheism, saying that Jesus was not the Son of God, just a man. Bauer clearly realised he blasphemed not only in print but from the pulpit. He wrote in 1841 that he believed himself to be demon-possessed.
Afterward, Engels made Moses Hess’s acquaintance (see last paragraph of the preceding section) and parted from his company a communist. Hess was delighted to have made another convert. Engels then wrote of a ‘devilish spirit’ which had been permeating the world since the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century.
Meanwhile, Marx — who had been brought up as a Lutheran — turned his attention to the Jewish people. (His father had converted from Judaism to Christianity. This was not unusual in that part of Europe. It meant less persecution and better employment prospects.) Marx wrote an anti-Semitic tome, The Jewish Question, in 1856. However, he came out strongly in favour of Jews in other publications.
This next paragraph is extremely important for anyone who fancies Marxism as a panacea for our global ills. As for virtually all nationalities and groups, Marx hated them, too. He loathed most countries and peoples. And he did not like blacks, not hesitating to use the ‘N’ word in print. He hoped certain nations and peoples would be destroyed in his great revolution.
Engels’s writings also tied in with Marx’s, encouraging violence as a means to the revolutionary ends. Neither of them liked the proletariat.
When Marx died, one of his servants explained to a devotee in the US Navy that Marx used phylacteries and had lit candles. She, therefore, assumed that he was devout and prayerful, however only Jewish men use phylacteries. Furthermore, they do not use candles. Marx might have been worshipping Satan or his statue of Zeus in his room.
Zeus, by the way, is the only deity represented in the UN building in New York.
Marx once addressed his son as ‘my dear devil’ in correspondence. Marx’s wife referred to him as a high priest and bishop. Marx lived near several prominent Christians, yet their paths never once crossed.
Marx, Wurmbrand wrote, died ‘in despair’. Not unusual for someone who has not believed in Christ.
As for later communists, Leon Trotsky related that, at the age of 16, Vladimir Lenin tore a cross from around his neck, spat on it and stamped on it. This is common in satanic circles.
Whilst in power, Lenin lamented that the Soviet state was not moving in the way he desired. In 1921, he wrote that he hoped that he and his fellow travellers would be hanged ‘from a stinking rope’. On his deathbed, he was haunted by the blood of his many victims. He said that only ‘ten men like Francis of Assisi’ could have saved Russia.
So much for the communist dream.
Chapter 5 – A Cruel Counterfeit
As a child, Bukharin, who was one of the 20th century’s main Marxist doctrinaires, dreamt of being the Antichrist and tried to co-opt his mother into his ambition. He later wrote that Joseph Stalin was ‘a devil’.
Stalin’s brother-in-law wrote that the iconic Soviet leader was devoid of humanity. Many of Stalin’s state colleagues termed him demonic.
Stalin believed that believing parents, even those only under suspicion of religious convictions, should be separated from their children. He said that he derived the greatest pleasure from drawing people close to him in perceived friendship, only to plant a dagger in their backs. He considered love and forgiveness to be the greatest of crimes.
Milovan Djilas, a Communist leader in Yugoslavia who knew Stalin, said that Uncle Joe ensured a reign of terror through constant ‘confusion and stupefaction’. He said that the USSR had false claims to equality of social classes; the Soviets wanted only one thing — power.
Even Stalin’s daughter, who emigrated to the United States in the 1960s, said her father was possessed by a demon. Interestingly, as a young man, Stalin wrote not under his own name but under pseudonyms for Satan.
Stalin, too, spent time studying Christianity diligently. He went to seminary as a young man, believing he had a vocation. Whilst there, he joined the communists, and left the seminary. He even committed robberies successfully for the Party.
A Soviet official, whom Stalin had shot, had a picture of Satan in his room, where, normally, an Orthodox icon would have stood.
Marx wrote about society’s ‘bloody birth pangs’, which would arise with the revolution. Che Guevara, he of the t-shirts, wrote that a revolutionary must be a ‘cool, calculated and cold killing machine’.
Marx advocated a ‘permanent revolution’. There would be no goal other than ongoing bloodshed. Lenin opined that atheism is part and parcel of communism. Fighting against religion was the main goal. Furthermore, he hoped that the United States would fall into communist hands ‘like overripe fruit’.
Khruschev said that those who believed the philosophy of Marx, Engels and Lenin was dead were deceiving themselves.
Russian children became members of communist youth groups, took the required oaths then informed against their parents, who were imprisoned and sometimes killed. Children learned at school that ‘religion is a capitalist superstition — we live in new times now’. We have the same message today. Each generation thinks it is hearing something new.
Priests and pastors were crucified in prison, just as Jesus was. Some were disemboweled. One had an unborn baby from a female prisoner placed in his stomach. Life is cheap to communists. They do not care about humanity, only themselves and their cult of death.
Elsewhere in the world, similar atrocities occurred. During the Spanish Civil War, the communists killed 4,000 Catholic priests. In Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, tribe members — trained by the North Koreans — were ordered to kill their own sons. Those who refused were killed alongside their sons.
The communists have a number of front organisations in order to lure the unwary and naïve. Wurmbrand says this is an artifice of the Devil. Having no beauty of his own and hating it in equal measure, he must fabricate and deceive in order to get his way.
The last thing the communists wanted were martyrs for Christ. So, they brutally tortured their prisoners in order to get them to blaspheme and to renounce Jesus. They fully intend for Christians to go to Hell and will do everything they can to inflict horrific acts of physical and psychological pain to ensure it happens. Granted, their methods do not always work, but they have the will and many of the ways. They want their prisoners to praise Satan.
When a husband is jailed, his wife normally is, too. Their children are removed from school. Some go to atheistic schools where they can be retrained.
As people who are interested in Satan, communists reword prayers and distort Holy Scripture in order to prey on people’s greed and a false sense of ‘oppression’. These are ways in which they can ‘re-educate’ people. Sometimes they use mass-media broadcasts for this purpose. Sometimes they use school curriculum.
Chapter 6 – A Spiritual Warfare
A Soviet newspaper from 1974 chronicled Latvian schools (which was part of the Eastern Bloc at the time). Pupils at these schools were called, depending on their year, ‘little devils’ or ‘servants of the Devil’.
Although they forbade worship of the one true God and His Son Jesus Christ, they openly encouraged young children to think that devil worship was normal. Those who refused were often sent away to atheist boarding schools.
A branch of the Russian Orthodox Church was given over to Satanist priests. Human blood was used instead of consecrated wine during the blasphemous communion services.
In prisons, guards used various techniques to humiliate and weaken prisoners in an attempt to get them to blaspheme. They knocked a priest’s teeth out with an iron rod. They raped nuns and Christian laywomen, including girls, sometimes anally. Others they forced to perform fellatio.
Marx approved of torture, saying it led to ‘ingenious inventions’. Let it not be said that this man was a humanitarian.
A psychiatrist told a friend of a detainee that he (the friend) was pulling the prisoner towards God. The psychiatrist was pulling him towards the Devil and restricted all contact between prisoner and friend.
Elsewhere — in Angola, Communists invaded a church to perform satanic rituals in front of the congregation. They then killed the pastor and his 150 parishoners.
In Albania, a priest was sentenced to death for having baptised a child. In the former Soviet Union, anyone wishing to have his child baptised had to register his request with the State, ostensibly a member of the church board. The person who placed the request was then persecuted.
Karl Marx called himself the ‘Pope of Communism’.
Marxism became a sort of cultish ‘church’ with its own rituals, including confessions in groups of Party members.
YET, despite this, a number of American seminary professors saw no dichotomy between a seminarian professing both Marxism and Christianity. Sixty-eight per cent of Episcopalian professors and 53% of Lutherans felt that this was acceptable.
Chapter 7 – Marx, Darwin and Revolution
Marx found Darwin’s work useful and inferred from it that Man was concerned only with eating adequately. All else, even family and marriage, was secondary.
To be fair to Darwin, he actually included the words ‘breathed by the Creator’ in second and subsequent editions of Origin of the Species.
Wurmbrand traces objectified man back to the French Revolution. Russia, however, was of a similar mind. Poets of Marx’s time wrote of the Devil. Love, mutual respect and kindness went by the boards. Destruction was viewed positively.
Moses Hess (see Chapters 2 and 3 above) condemned priests for encouraging the oppressed masses to accept their lot in life. He said that revolution could be none other than international. Once the established order had gone in one country, comrades must help each other in the rest of the world to do the same.
He wrote the Red Catechism for the German People. The use of Christian terminology — ‘catechism’ — was no mistake. He intended to lure believers in as useful idiots — as dupes. He said that the Socialist society would be the true fulfilment of Christianity. Not unlike today, then! Once again, we see Satan as the Light-bringer, the false Christ the Book of Revelation describes.
Like Marx, Hess had ambivalent feelings towards the Jewish people. He spoke of them in contradictory terms. Hess despised traditional Zionism and wanted to replace it with a racial struggle where each Jew would see himself as partly divine. Every male Jew could be a messiah. Every Jewess could be Mary. But, contrary to what the Old Testament foretells, there would be no Jesus Christ as Messiah.
Hess wrote that the primary international struggle is based on race. Class struggle is secondary. Like Marx, he hated the idea of nation states and national identity, issues with which we wrestle today. Because socialism was so complete in his eyes, it would replace Christianity. Wurmbrand theorises that Hitler might have obtained some of his ideas from Hess.
Wurmbrand says that one has to understand Hess in order to understand Marx. Both write in a muddled up way. Each contradicts himself and therein lies the problem of discovering what they were really saying.
Marx said that he knew he wrote in a ‘devilish muddle’ and that everyone was entitled to think what he wished. Hegel, his mentor and teacher, was the first author to satirise Jesus Christ. On the other hand, Hegel also wrote complimentary things about Christianity. What do we think? Or is this an eternal puzzle to piece together?
Wurmbrand mentions earlier that Communism revolves around its front organisations in order to maintain credibility. In practice, when one front organisation falls, another rises to take its place. As they say, nature abhors a vacuum.
An early communist, Netchaiev, wrote The Catechism of the Revolutionist. Netchaiev proposed dividing humanity into two groups: 10% would control the other 90%. The 90% must lose their personalities and become sheeple. Not unlike today, then. All institutions, including the Church, would succumb to this new order.
The Marxist idea was — and is — to bamboozle the middle classes and lure the willing and the uninformed to communist ranks through honeyed words and seemingly kind ideology.
For the rest of the story, please click on the Marx and Satan link. It is essential that we bear this content in mind the next time we think about supporting a Socialist or a Democratic Party candidate.
Today’s post features the last chapter of the late Lutheran pastor Richard Wurmbrand‘s Marx and Satan, a book which is available for free on Scribd. (The Appendix is available at the link to Wurmbrand’s name in the first line of this paragraph.)
Wurmbrand closes with considered remarks to Marxists. With one of the communist quotes — from Ernst Bloch — he answers a question I had on Saturday as to how atheists propose that Godlessness will bring us freedom. An interesting perspective, as you shall see below.
These excerpts come from pages 76 – 79 of the Scribd text. Subheads are from the original. Bold emphases in the text are mine.
Chapter Ten – Marx or Christ?
A Word to Marxists
If I were to address a rank-and-file Marxist, I would express the following concerns:
Many Marxists today are not animated by the spirit that controlled Hess, Marx, or Engels. They really love mankind; they are confident they are enrolled in an army fighting for universal good. It is not their desire to be tools of some weird Satanist sect.
Sadly, Satanic Marxism has a materialistic philosophy that blinds its followers to spiritual realities. But matter is not all that exists. There is a reality of the spirit, of truth, beauty, and ideals.
There is also a world of evil spirits, whose head is Satan. He fell from heaven through pride and drew down with him a host of angels. Then he seduced the progenitors of the human race. Since the Fall, his deceit has been perpetuated and increased through every conceivable device, until today we see God’s beautiful creation ravaged by world wars, bloody revolutions and counterrevolutions, dictatorships, exploitation, racism of many kinds, false religions, agnosticism and atheism, crimes and crooked dealings, infidelities in love and friendship, broken marriages, rebellious children …
Man must and will have some kind of religion. It is his nature to worship. If he has not a God-fearing religion, he will have the religion of Satan and will persecute those who do not worship his “god.”
P[re]sumably only a few top leaders of communism have been and are consciously Satanists, but there is also an unconscious Satanism. A man can be a Satanist without being aware that such a religion exists. But if he hates the notion of God and the name of Christ, if he lives as though he were only matter, if he denies religious and moral principles, he is in fact a Satanist. Those who delve into the occult are in the same class.
On Sundays in Frankfurt, West Germany, more people go to spiritualist meetings, where the dead are allegedly called up, than to church services … There are many such churches in France, Britain, the U.S.A., and other countries as well.
In Great Britain there are thirty-five thousand practicing witches. American universities and even high schools offer courses in witchcraft, astrology, voodoo, magic, and ESP. In France forty thousand black masses are conducted annually.
… Downtrodden man cannot save himself, any more than a drowning man can fetch himself out of the water. So Jesus, full of understanding for our inner conflicts, took upon Himself all our sins, including the sins of Marx and his followers, and bore the punishment for what we have done. He expiated our guilt by dying on a cross on Golgotha, after suffering the most terrible humiliation and agonizing pain.
Now we have His word that whoever puts faith in Him is forgiven and will live with Him in eternal paradise. Even notorious Marxists can be saved. It is worth noting that two Soviet Nobel prize winners, Boris Pasternak and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, both former Communists, after describing the extremities of crime to which Satanic Marxism leads, have confessed their faith in Christ. Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Stalin, the worst of the Marxist mass-murderers, also became a Christian.
Let us remember that Marx’s ideal was to descend into the abyss of hell and draw all mankind in after him. Let us not follow him on this vicious path, but rather follow Christ who leads us upward to peaks of light, wisdom, and love, toward a heaven of unspeakable glory.
The Great Gulf
It is manifestly impossible a to compare Jesus with Marx. Jesus belongs to an entirely different realm altogether.
Marx was human and probably a worshiper of the Evil One. Jesus is God and reduced Himself to the level of mankind in order to save it.
Marx proposed a human paradise. When the Soviets tried to implement it, the result was an inferno.
Jesus’ kingdom is not of this world. It is a kingdom of love, righteousness, and truth. He calls to everyone, including Marxists and Satanists:
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28)
All who believe in Him will have eternal life in His heavenly paradise …
Some proclaim that they are Marxist Christians. They are either deceivers or are deceived. One cannot be a Marxist Christian any more than one can be a devil-worshiping Christian.
Over the years, the Satanist aims of Marxism have not changed one bit. The Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch writes in his book Atheism in Christianity that
the seduction of the first human couple by the serpent opens the way of salvation for mankind. So man starts to become a god; it is the way of rebellion. Priestcraft and the possessors of goods repressed this truth. The original sin consists in the fact that man does not wish to be like God. Man must conquer the power. The theology of revolution wills it that man should conquer the power of God. The world must be changed in the image of man. There should be no heaven at all. The belief in a personal God is the fall into sin. This fall must be repaired.
… Marxists are concerned with social and political problems, but these will have to be solved outside the tenets of Marxism. For Marx, socialism was only a pretense. His aim was to ruin mankind for eternity, a diabolical plan. By way of contrast, Christ desires our eternal salvation.
In the fight between Christianity and communism, believers “wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12) …
The average Marxist and the sympathizer of Marxism should not follow Marx in this spiritual aberration. Let us reject the bourgeois Marx, bearer of darkness, and Engels, factory owner and therefore, according to Marxist dogma, an exploiter. Let us rather choose the Light of the World and mankind’s prime Benefactor, Jesus the working man, the Carpenter, the Savior, Lord of all.
“Proletarians of the World, Forgive Me!”
That Marxist Satanism has ravaged the world is terrible. That it has penetrated high places in the church is unthinkable. Yet such is the case.
To give just one example, the late Pope John Paul I praised Giuseppe Carducci, an Italian university professor, as an example of a good teacher of youth. Who is the man recommended by no less than the Pope? Carducci became famous through his “Hymn to Satan,” which begins: “My ardent verse is for Thee. I invoke you, Satan, king of the feast.” It ends: “In holiness, incense and vows should ascend to thee, Satan. You have defeated Jehovah, the god of the priests.” (I grant to this Pope that he might not have known whom he recommended, but it is wrong for a bishop to endorse an unknown.)
In 1949 a Soviet general said to a Catholic priest, Werenfried van Straaten, “We are Satan’s elite, but you, are you God’s elite?”
We must not remain silent about these matters.
We have seen in this book what length devil worshipers are willing to go. May their dedication to evil be an incentive for us to behave like God’s elect!
During the troubles in Poland in 1982, one could see mocking inscriptions on the walls. For example, “Marx said, Proletarians of the world, forgive me!” instead of the usual “Proletarians of the world, unite!”
… It is said about Engels that he repented before his death. There is no such record about Marx. In 1983, many commemorated the centenary of his death. Might he have held this same commemoration in hell? …
Are the Polish people right when they have Marx say “… forgive me”? Does he indeed cry out from the fire-as it might truly be-”Send someone to my house, for I have many comrades, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment’ (Luke 16:2?, 28)
The Soviet Communists did damage to their cause by disowning Stalin, who had become a popular idol. One can only speculate why they permitted such a reversal of policy, since it was certainly not in their best interests to remove Stalin’s corpse from the mausoleum. Likewise, the Chinese Communists harmed their own cause by disowning Mao and jailing his wife.
Perhaps in the hidden depths of their souls, Soviet and Chinese Communist leaders felt what is now the burning desire of their former idols, who too late were remorseful about what they had done and taught.
As for me, I love every man, including Marxists and Satanists. If Marx and Engels and Moses Hess were alive today, my most ardent wish would be to bring them to Jesus Christ, who alone has the answer to man’s ills and the remedy for his sins.
This is my wish for you, the reader. You have walked with me through the terrible pages of this book. Now I urge you to consider carefully your loyalties before it is too late. Abandon Satan and his evil cohorts. History proves he is never true to his own. Therefore, choose life and love and hope and heaven.
Marxists and proletarians of the world, unite around Jesus Christ!
Tomorrow: Salient points from Marx and Satan
Today’s entry is from the penultimate chapter of Richard Wurmbrand‘s Marx and Satan, a must for anyone who is bewildered by sociological, religious and political developments from the 20th century to the present.
Pastor Wurmbrand knows that some will discount or disregard his message, which he explains below. I, too, have noticed that when I mentioned the book to a couple of people whom I thought would be interested in reading it, they said it was overstated or exaggerated. They had never heard of Marx’s or communist connections with Satan, therefore, it was just another story from an overwrought clergyman.
I also had a conversation recently with someone who said many of the same things that are in this book. He would not consider himself a Marxist, just a well-educated, well-off atheist. He said that God was cruel, that the clergy encouraged people to accept oppression, that the Bible was one tale of divine sadism after another. Only atheism could save mankind by freeing us from God. I read and hear this frequently. Exactly how atheism would bring us this freedom remains unclear.
Today’s excerpt are from pages 73 – 75 from the book, available in full for free on Scribd. Subheads are in the original. Highlights in the text are mine.
Chapter Nine – Whom Will We Serve?
A Call for Action
This book has been written in an exploratory manner. Christian thinkers, like other scholars, often succumb to the temptation to prove preconceived ideas. They do not necessarily present only the truth as far as they have ascertained it. Sometimes they are prone to stretch the truth or exaggerate their argumentation in order to prove their point.
I do not claim to have provided indisputable proof that Marx was a member of a sect of devil-worshipers, but I believe that there are sufficient leads to imply this strongly. There are certainly enough leads to suggest Satanic influence upon his life and teachings, while conceding that there are gaps in a chain of evidence that would lead to a definite conclusion in this matter. I have provided the initial impulse. I pray that others will also continue this important inquiry into the relationship between Marxism and Satanism.
Meanwhile, how can the church defeat Marxism?
The secular anti-Communist world can use weapons of economic sanctions, political pressure, military threats, and broad-based propaganda. The church should certainly support any actions conscience can endorse in the battle against the enemies of God. But it also has a weapon of its own.
The Ukrainian Metropolitan of the Catholic Church, Byzantine rite, Andrew Count Sheptytsky, once requested that Rome order prayers of exorcism against the Communists, whose “regime cannot be explained except by a massive possession of the Devil.”
Jesus did not tell His disciples to complain about demons, but to cast them out (Matthew 10:8). I believe this can be effectively accomplished, though this book cannot enter into details about such prayer.
Readers React
The first editions of this book produced interesting responses. Many greeted it as a new discovery in the understanding of Marxism and gave me valuable hints as to where I could find new material.
On the other hand, a Dutch personality dedicated several columns of his theological magazine to minimizing the importance of the discovery. “Well,” he says, “Marx may have indulged in black magic, but this does not count for much. All men are sinners, all men have evil thoughts. Let us not be alarmed at this.”
It is true that all men are sinners, but not all are criminals. All men are sinners, but some are murderers and some are righteous judges who pass judgment on them.
The crimes of communism are unequaled. What other political system has killed sixty million men in half a century? Another sixty million have been killed in Red China. (Some estimates run much higher.)
There are degrees of sinfulness and criminality. The enormity of crime is a measure of the intensity of Satanic influence on the founder of modern communism. The sins of Marxism, like those of nazism, surpass the ordinary. They are Satanic indeed.
I have also had letters from Satanists offering an apology for their religion. One of them writes:
A defense of Satanism needs only the Bible for documentary evidence. Think of all the thousands of earthly people, created in God’s own image, mind you, destroyed by fire and brimstone (Sodom and Gomorrah), a lethal miscellany of plagues, and, to top everything off, the drowning of the earth’s population, except for Noah’s family. All of these devastations brought about by a “merciful” God/Lord/Jehovah. What could a merciless god have done?
But in all the Bi[ble] there is no record of even one death being brought about by Satan! So, let’s hear it for Satan!
This Satanist has not studied the Bible well. Death came into the world through Satan’s deceit, his luring Eve into sin. This Satanist has also drawn his conclusions too soon. God has not yet finished with His creation ...
The apotheosis of creation will be a new heaven and a new earth in which righteousness will triumph. Then those who have followed Satan will have to suffer an eternity of regrets.
Jesus endured flogging and crucifixion. But whoever wants to know God must look beyond the tomb to Jesus’ resurrection and ascension. In contrast, the enemies of Jesus who plotted His death brought their people and their temple to destruction and lost their own souls.
Our critic wished to comprehend God through reason, which is not the right instrument for a creature. God cannot be comprehended by the mind, but only apprehended by a believing heart.
A Jamaican asked if the America that exploits his country is not as Satanic as Marx. It is not. Americans are sinners, as are all men. America has a small group of devil-worshipers. But the American nation as such does not worship the Devil.
Nauka I Religia, the principal atheist magazine of Moscow, contained a long article written by two philosophers, Belov and Shilkin. They said that
Wurmbrand’s temperament might be envied by the greatest football players. His shouting is savage. This fighter calls for a crusade against socialism, which he calls an offspring of Satan. He was imprisoned in Romania for distributing religious literature instigating revolt against the government!
In this article two things are to be noted. First, I am called a “devilish pastor” for my book Was Karl Marx a Satanist? though the authors cannot produce one single fact to refute the documentation supporting Marx’s links with a Satanist sect. Second, the article congratulates Christian leaders, even anti-Communists, who have taken a stand against me. They might be adversaries of communism, but as long as they oppose Wurmbrand, chief enemy of communism, they were approved by Moscow.
One remarkable letter came from a Nigerian who had been a Marxist labor union leader for twenty years. My writings helped him to see that he had been led astray by Satan. Furthermore, he has become a Christian.
Monday: Chapter 10 – Marx or Christ?
Continuing with Richard Wurmbrand‘s book, Marx and Satan, Chapter 8 recounts satanic masses which the Communists held.
He also tells us what oaths satanists take during initiation rites. We may think that this has little to do with us, however, we will find that these ancient oaths have become, surprisingly, today’s familiar slogans. In fact, one was actively promoted in 1968 by the German student in Paris who is now a French (Green) politician in the European Parliament, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who, earlier in his career, was a teacher’s aide, preoccupied with children’s sexuality. Note that in 2008, a New York Times article lauded Cohn-Bendit’s prominent role in the 1968 student demonstrations (at the same link). Cohn-Bendit probably did not stumble on these oaths by chance — only a few years before he had been a member of an anarchist society. After the student demonstrations, France deported him to Germany (still possible in those days), where he ended up working at the Karl Marx bookstore in Frankfurt. It was at that time that he started work in the crèche.
On a personal note, I recognise from my own acquaintance a number of people who believe that kindness and gentleness are signs of weakness, something to be laughed at and taken advantage of. I find this type of thinking more common, especially among those under the age of 30. It is chilling to encounter. Also note the empathy on the part of many governments and ‘experts’ who are more empathetic towards addicts, cheats and criminals than they are to sober, law-abiding, self-reliant taxpayers. We are all being influenced — through schools and the media — to accept sin and aberration as normal and to view the normal as somehow deficient or repressive. This chapter helps to explain why.
But, it’s also worth noting how Marx’s thinking has helped to shape postmodern society, with its moral and intellectual relativism: think and do what you like — there are no absolute truths. I know a number of clergy and lay pastors who agree!
Although this chapter begins on page 65, the following excerpts come from pages 68 – 73 of the book, available for free on Scribd. Subheads are as in the original, text emphases are mine.
Chapter Eight – Angels of Light
Public black masses are rare today, but Stefan Zweig in his biography of Fouché describes one held in Lyon during the French Revolution.
A revolutionary, Chaber, had been killed, and the black mass was celebrated in his honor. On that day crucifixes were torn from all the altars and priestly robes were confiscated. A huge crowd of men carrying a bust of the revolutionary descended on the marketplace. Three proconsuls were there to honor Chaber, “the God-Savior who died for the people.”
The crowd carried chalices, holy images, and utensils used in the mass. Behind them was an ass wearing a bishops mitre on its head. A crucifix and a Bible had been tied to its tail …
The Russian magazine Iunii Kommunist describes in detail a Satanist mass in which bread and wine, mixed with dung and tears taken from operating on the eyes of a living cock, are “transubstantiated” into the alleged body and blood of Lucifer …
The Communist magazine continues:
In this devilish antiworld, which externally is completely like ours, man must reply with evil to every success in life.
Then it brazenly affirms the following as the slogan of Satanism: “Satan is not the foe of man. He is Life, Love, Light.”
This insidious material is presented in a subtle manner as if to provide information, but its real aim is to arouse the reader’s morbid curiosity, with ravaging effects …
During the initiation ceremony for the third degree in the Satanist church, the initiate has to take the oath, “I will always do only what I will.” In other words, there is no authority beyond the polluted self. This is an open denial of Gods commandment, “… seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, afterwhich you used to go a whoring” (Numbers 15:39)
Marxists appeal to the basest passions, stirring up envy toward the rich and violence toward everyone. “It is the evil side which makes history,” wrote Marx, and he played a major role in shaping history.
Revolutions do not cause love to triumph. Rather, killing becomes a mania. In the Russian and Chinese revolutions, after the Communists had murdered tens of millions of innocents, they could not stop murdering and brutally killed one another.
Is everything permitted?
The Satanist cult is very old, older than Christianity. The prophet Isaiah might have had it in view when he wrote, “We have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him (the Savior) the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:6).
True religious feeling is at the opposite pole. Certain Hassidic rabbis never said “I,” because they considered it a pronoun that belonged only to God. His will is binding on human behavior.
By contrast, when a man or woman is initiated into the seventh degree of Satanism, he swears that his principle will be, “Nothing is true, and everything is permitted.” When Marx filled out a quiz game for his daughter, he answered the question “Which is your favorite principle?” with the words, “Doubt every thing.”
Marx wrote in The Communist Manifesto that his aim was the abolition not only of all religions, but also of all morals, which would make everything permissible.
It was with a sense of horror that I read the mystery of the seventh degree of Satanism inscribed on a poster at the University of Paris during the 1968 riots. It had been simplified to the formula, “It is forbidden to forbid,” which is the natural consequence of “Nothing is true, and everything is permissible.”
The youth obviously did not realize the stupidity of the formula. If it is forbidden to forbid, it must also be forbidden to forbid forbidding. If everything is permissible, forbidding is permissible, too.
Young people think that permissiveness means liberty. Marxists know better. To them, the formula means that it is forbidden to forbid cruel dictatorships like those in Red China and the Soviet Union.
Dostoyevski had said it already: “If there is no God, everything is permitted.” If there is no God, our instincts are free. The ultimate expression of this kind of liberty is hatred. Whoever is free in this sense considers loving-kindness a weakness of the spirit.
Engels said, “Generalized love of men is absurdity.” The anarchist thinker Max Stirner, author of The I and I is Property and one of Marx’s friends, wrote, “I am legitimately authorized to do everything I am capable of.”
Communism is collective demon-possession. Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago reveals some of its horrid a results in the souls a[n]d lives of people.
The Mythical Marx
Let me say again that I am conscious that the evidence I have given to date may be considered circumstantial. But what I have written is enough to show that what Marxists say about Karl Marx is a myth. He is not prompted by concern for the poverty of his fellowmen, for which revolution was the only solution. He did not love the proletariat, but called them “nuts,” “stupid,” “asses,” “rascals,” even obscenities. He did not even love his comrades in the fight for communism. He called Freiligrath “the swine,” Lassalle “Jewish n—er,” Bakunin “a theoretical zero.”
A Lieutenant Tchekhov, a fighter in the revolution of 1848 who spent nights drinking with Marx, commented that Marx’s narcissism had devoured everything good that had been in him.
Marx certainly did not love mankind. Giuseppe Mazzini, who knew him well, wrote that he had “a destructive spirit. His heart bursts with hatred rather than with love toward men.”
Mazzini was himself a “Carbonari.” This organization, founded in 1815 by Maghella, a Genoan Freemason, declared its “final aim to be that of Voltaire and of the French Revolution – the complete annihilation of Catholicism and ultimately of Christianity.” It began as an Italian operation, but subsequently developed a broader European orientation.
Though Mazzini was critical of Marx, he maintained his friendship with him. The Jewish Encyclopedia says that Mazzini and Marx were entrusted with the task of preparing the address and the constitution of the First International. This means that they were birds of the same feather, though they sometimes pecked at each other.
I know of no testimonies from Marx’s contemporaries that contradict Mazzini’s evaluation. Marx the loving man is a myth constructed only after his death …
Marx did not hate religion because it stood in the way of the happiness of mankind. On the contrary, he simply wanted to make mankind unhappy in this world and throughout eternity. He proclaimed this as his ideal. His avowed aim was the destruction of religion. Socialism, concern for the proletariat, humanism these were only pretexts.
After Marx had read The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, he wrote a letter to Lassalle in which he exults that God– in the natural sciences at least– had been given “the death blow.” What idea, then, preempted all others in Marx’s mind? Was it the plight of the poor proletariat? If so, of what possible value was Darwin’s theory? The only tenable conclusion is that Marx’s chief aim was the destruction of religion.
The good of the workers was only a pretense. Where proletarians do not fight for Socialist ideals, Marxists will exploit racial differences or the so-called generation gap. The main thing is, religion must be destroyed.
Marx believed in hell. And his program, the driving force in his life, was to send men to hell.
Robin Goodfellow
Marx wrote,
In the signs that bewilder the middle class, the aristocracy, a[n]d the prophets of regression, we recognize our brave friend, Robin Goodfellow, the old mole that can work in the earth so fast – the revolution.
Scholars who have read this apparently never looked into the identity of this Robin Goodfellow, Marx’s brave friend, the worker for revolution.
The sixteenth-century evangelist William Tyndale used Robin Goodfellow as a name for the Devil. Shakespeare in his Midsummer Night’s Dream called him “the knavish spirit that misleads night wanderers, laughing at their harm.”
Thus, according to Marx, considered the father of communism, a demon was the author of the Communist revolution and was his personal friend.
Lenin’s Tomb
In his revelation to St. John, Jesus said something very mysterious to the church in Pergamos (a city in Asia Minor): “I know … where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is” (Revelation 2:13). Pergamos was apparently a center of the Satanist cult in that period. Now the world-famous Baedecker tourist guidebooks for Berlin state that the Island Museum contained the Pergamos altar of Zeus until 1944. German archaeologists had excavated it, and it had been in the center of the Nazi capital during Hitler’sSatanist regime.
But the saga of the seat of Satan is not yet over. Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm) for January 27, 1948 reveals that:
1. The Soviet army, after the conquest of Berlin, carried off the Pergamos altar from Germany to Moscow. This tremendous structure measures 127 feet long by 120 feet wide by forty feet high.
Surprisingly, the altar has not been exhibited in any Soviet museum …
We have already indicated that men in the top echelons of the Soviet hierarchy practiced Satanist rituals. Did they reserve the Pergamos altar for their private use? There are many unanswered questions. Suffice it to say that objects of such high archaeological value usually do not disappear, but are the pride of museums.
2. The architect, Stjusev, who built Lenin’s mausoleum, used this altar of Satan as a model for the mausoleum in 1924.
Many visitors wait in line every day to visit this sanctuary of Satan in which Lenin’s mummy lies in state. Religious leaders of the whole world pay their homage to the Marxist “patron saint” in this monument erected to Satan.
The Satanist temple at Pergamos was only one of the many of its kind. Why did Jesus single it out? Probably not because of the minor role it played at that time. Rather, His words were prophetic. He spoke about nazism and communism, through which this altar would be honored.
It is worth noting with irony that on the grave of Lenin’s father there stood a cross with the inscription “The light of Christ illuminates all” and a multitude of Bible verses.
Tomorrow: Chapter Nine – Whom Will We Serve?
In the continuing series on the late Lutheran pastor Richard Wurmbrand‘s Marx and Satan, we find out today why Marxism is constructed the way it is and the influence Marx’s friend Moses Hess (mentioned in Chapters 2 and 3) had on shaping it — including its international character, its devaluing of mankind, its anti-Semitism and, sorry to say it, the primacy of interracial conflict. It explains much about our socio-political difficulties in today’s world.
We’ll also discover who else was alive in Marx’s day and what the social climate was like in Russia. It was not much different from today’s, in many ways.
I share with Wurmbrand his idea that one cannot be a good Christian without caring about the Jewish people. It is for this reason that I am suspicious of mainstream Protestant churches which denounce Israel in favour of the Palestinian people. This isn’t to say that one is ‘good’ and the other ‘bad’, just that the more left-wing our churches become, the less likely we are to support the Jews. A controversial position to take, especially here in Europe, but so be it. The other thing I notice is that no one talks about men’s souls anymore; I theorise that the influence of cultural Marxism on our churches is a contributing factor. You’ll see why in this post.
Today’s excerpts from the book, free on Scribd, come from pages 54 – 65. Subheads are in the original text. Bold emphases in the body of the text are mine.
Chapter Seven – Marx, Darwin and Revolution
Marx and Darwin
… The Bible teaches that God created man in His own image (Genesis 1:26). Up to the time of Marx, man continued to be considered as “the crown of creation.” Marx was Satan’s chosen tool to make man lose his self-esteem, his conviction that he comes from high places and is meant to return to them. Marxism is the first systematic and detailed philosophy which drastically reduces the notion of man.
According to Marx, man is primarily a belly which has to be filled and refilled constantly. The prevailing interests of man are economic in nature; he produces in order to satisfy his needs. For this purpose, he enters into social relationships with others. This is the basis of society, what Marx calls the infrastructure. Marriage, love, art, science, religion, philosophy, everything other than the needs of the belly, are all superstructure, determined in the last analysis by the state of the belly.
No wonder Marx praised Darwin’s book The Descent of Man, another masterstroke which makes men forget their divine origin and divine purpose. Darwin said that man springs from the animal world.
Man was dethroned by these two. Satan could not dethrone God, so he devalued man. Man was shown to be the progeny of animals and a mere servant to his intestines …
(It was not Darwin’s original intent to harm religion. He had written, “There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.” In order to make his position more emphatic, Darwin inserted the phrase “by the Creator” after “breathed” in the second edition. It remained there in all the succeeding editions he published.)
Later Freud would complete the work of these two giants, reducing man basically to a sex urge, sometimes sublimated in politics, art, or religion. It was the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung who returned to the Biblical doctrine that the religious impulse is man’s basic urge.
The age of Marx was a time of Satanist ferment in many spheres of life. The Russian poet Sologub wrote, “My father is the Devil.” Another Russian poet, Briusov, said, “I glorify equally the Lord and the Devil.”
Marx was a child of the time that gave us Nietzsche (Hitler’s and Mussolini’s favorite philosopher), Max Stirner, an extreme anarchist, and Oscar Wilde, the first theoretician of freedom for homosexuality, a vice which today has met with acceptance even among the clergy.
Satanic forces prepared Russia for the victory of Marxism. The time of the revolution was a period when love, goodwill, and healthy feeling were considered mean and retrograde. Girls hid their innocence and husbands their faithfulness. Destruction was praised as good taste, neurasthenia as the sign of a fine mind. This was the theme of new writers who burst on the scene out of obscurity. Men invented vices and perversions, and were fastidious in their avoidance of being thought moral …
Beyond the intellectual turmoil of the nineteenth century can be traced the influence of the French Revolution, which was spiritually very much akin to the Russian cataclysm of the twentieth century.
During the upheaval in France, Anarchasis Clootz, a leading French revolutionary and Illuminatus, declared himself to be “the personal enemy of Jesus Christ.” He proclaimed before the Convention of November 17, 1792, “The people is the sovereign and the god of the world…. Only fools believe in any other God, in a Supreme Being.” The Convention then issued a decree proclaiming “the nullification of all religions.”
For those of us who take seriously the words of the Lord’s Prayer, “Deliver us from evil,” the meaning is clear: we implore a loving God to protect us and society around us from false doctrine, from pernicious art that accustoms us to evil under the guise of beauty, and from immorality in life. Then we need have no fear of the Devil’s snares.
Moses Hess’s False Zionism
To complete the picture, we will consider Moses Hess, the man who converted Marx and Engels to the Socialist ideal.
There is a tombstone in Israel inscribed with the words, “Moses Hess, founder of the German Social-Democrat Party.” Hess expounds his beliefs in the Red Catechism for the German People:
What is black? Black is the clergy…. These theologians are the worst aristocrats…. The clergyman teaches the princes to oppress the people in the name of God. Secondly, he teaches the people to allow themselves to be oppressed and exploited in God’s name. Thirdly and principally, he provides for himself with God’s help a splendid life on earth, while the people are advised to wait for heaven.
The Red flag symbolizes the permanent revolution until the completed victory of the working classes in all civilized countries: the Red republic…. The Socialist revolution is my religion…. The workers, when they have conquered one country, must help their brethren in the rest of the world.
This was Hess’ religion when he first issued the Catechism. In the second edition, he added a few chapters. This time the same religion, i.e., the Socialist revolution, uses Christian language in order to accredit itself with believers. Together with the propaganda of revolution, there are indeed a few nice words about Christianity as a religion of love and humanity. But its message must be made clearer: its hell must not be on earth and its heaven beyond. The Socialist society will be the true fulfillment of Christianity. Thus Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
After Hess convinced Marx and Engels of the Socialist idea … an interesting development took place in Hess’ life. He who had founded modern socialism also founded an entirely different movement, a specific brand of Zionism.
Thus Hess, founder of a socialism whose aim was to “chase God from heaven,” was also founder of a diabolic type of Zionism that was to destroy godly Zionism, the Zionism of love, understanding, and concord with surrounding nations. He who taught Marx the importance of class struggle wrote in 1862 these surprising words: “Race struggle is primary, class struggle is secondary.”
As we reject Satanic Marxism, so also must every responsible Jew or Christian reject this diabolical perversion of Zionism.
Hess claims Jerusalem for the Jews, but without Jesus, the King of the Jews. What need has Hess of Jesus? He writes,
Every Jew has the making of a Messiah in himself, every Jewess that of a Mater Dolorosa in herself.
For Hess, Jesus is “a Jew, whom the heathen deified as their Savior.” Neither Hess nor the Jews seem to need Him for themselves.
Hess does not wish to be saved himself, and for an individual to seek personal sanctification is “Indo-German,” he says. The aim of the Jews, according to him, must be “a Messianic state,” “to prepare mankind for the revelation of the divine essence,” which means, as he acknowledges in his Red Catechism, to wage the Socialist revolution through racial and class struggle.
Moses Hess, who allotted to his idol Marx the task of putting an end to medieval religion, replacing it with the religion of Socialistrevolution, writes these amazing words: “I have always been edified by Hebrew prayers” … Jewish prayers can be misused in a blasphemous sense, just as Christian prayers are perverted in Satanist ritual.
Hess had taught Marx that socialism was inseparable from internationalism. Marx writes in his Communist Manifesto that the proletariat has no fatherland. In his Red Catechism Hess mocks the fatherland notion of the Germans, and he would have done the same with the fatherland notion of any other European nation. Hess criticized the Erfurt program of the German Social-Democrat Party for its unconditional recognition of the national principle. But Hess is an internationalist with a difference: Jewish patriotism must remain. He writes,
Whoever denies Jewish nationalism is not only an apostate, a renegade in the religious sense, but a traitor to his people and to his family. Should it prove true that the emancipation of the Jews is incompatible with Jewish nationalism, then the Jew must sacrifice emancipation…. The Jew must be, above all, a Jewish patriot.
… Hess does not state his thoughts clearly; therefore it is difficult to evaluate them. It is enough to know that according to him, “the Christian world views Jesus as a Jewish saint who became a pagan man.” It is enough for us to read in his book, “We today long for a far more comprehensive salvation than that which Christianity was ever able to offer.” FromThe Red Catechism it follows that this more comprehensive salvation is the Socialist revolution.
It could be added that Hess was not only the original source of Marxism and the man who attempted to create an anti-God Zionism, but also the predecessor of the liberation theology currently endorsed in the World Council of Churches and Catholicism. One and the same man, who is almost unknown, has been the mouthpiece of three Satanic movements: communism; a racist, hateful brand of Zionism; and a theology of revolution.
No one can be a Christian without loving the Jews. Jesus was Jewish, as were the virgin Mary and all the apostles. The Bible is Jewish. The Lord has said, “Salvation is of the Jews” (John 4:22). Hess, on the other hand, exalted the Jews as though he consciously wanted to create a violent anti-Jewish reaction. He said that his religion was that of Socialist revolution. The clergy of all “other” religions were crooks. Revolution was the only religion for which Hess had a high regard …
Hess speaks persistently in religious terms, but he does not believe in God. He writes that “our God is nothing more than the human race united in love.” The way to arrive at such a union is the Socialist revolution, in which tens of millions of specimens of his beloved mankind will be tortured and killed.
It is useless and inefficient to elevate the people to real freedom and to make them participate in the goods of existence, without freeing them from spiritual slavery, i.e., from religion …
The Satanic depths of communism can be understood only by knowing the kind of man Moses Hess was, for he influenced Marx and Engels, with whom he founded the First International, as well as Bakunin. Without a knowledge of Hess, Marx is unintelligible, because it is he who brought Marx to socialism.
Consider Marx’s words already quoted:
Words I teach all mixed up into a devilish muddle. Thus, anyone may think just what he chooses to think.
Marx wrote in such a manner. Hess’s writings are an even more devilish muddle, which are difficult to untangle but which must be analyzed for possible a connections between Marx and Satanism.
Hess’ first book was called The Holy History of Mankind. He proclaimed it to be “a work of the holy spirit of truth,” saying further 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.”
At that time Marx, who was still opposed to socialism and had not known Hess personally, started to write a book against him. For unknown reasons, this book was never completed. He later became Hess’s disciple …
Don’t worry if you fail to understand these words. They were written “mixed up into a devilish muddle,” but the hatred for Jewishness contained in them is clear. Hess is a racist, Jewish as well as anti-Jewish, according to the needs of the spirit which inspired his works and which he calls “holy.”
Hitler could have learned his racism from Hess. He who had taught Marx that social class is a decisive factor also wrote the contrary: “Life is an immediate product of race.” Social institutions and conceptions, as well as religions, are typical and original creations of the race. The problem of race lies hidden behind all the problems of nationalities and freedom. All past history was concerned with the struggle of races and classes. Race struggle is primary; class struggle is secondary.
Marx’s first teacher was the philosopher Hegel, who merely paved the way for Hess. Marx, too, had sucked poison from Hegel, for whom Christianity was wretched in comparison to the glorious past of Greek culture. Hegel wrote: “Christians have piled up such a heap of reasons for comfort in misfortune … that we ought to be sorry in the end that we cannot lose a father or a mother once a week,” while for the Greek “misfortune was misfortune, pain was pain.”
Christianity had been satirized in Germany before Hegel. But he was the first to satirize Jesus Himself. He also wrote nice things about Christianity, the same “devilish muddle.”
The Organization “Hell”
Communists have a habit of creating front organizations. All of the above suggests the probability that Communist movements are themselves front organizations for occult Satanism. The means to fight Satanism are spiritual, not carnal; otherwise, while one Satanist front organization, such as nazism, is defeated, another will rise to greater victory. Himmler, the minister of interior affairs of Nazi Germany, thought himself to be King Henry the Fowler’s reincarnation. He believed that it was possible to harness occult powers to serve the Nazi army. Several Nazi leaders were involved in black magic.
What was mere supposition when I published the first edition of this present book is now a proven fact. The proof has been given by the Communists themselves. The story begins with the Netchaiev case, which prompted Dostoyevski to write his renowned novel The Demons.
Netchaiev, called a “splendid, young fanatic” by Bakunin, Marx’s collaborator in founding the First International, wrote The Catechism of the Revolutionist as the guide for the Russian organization “Popular Revenge.” It appeared around 1870 …
Our cause is terrible, complete, universal, and pitiless destruction…. Let us unite with the savage, criminal world, these true and only revolutionists of Russia.
… Netchaiev’s plan was to divide mankind into two unequal parts.
One tenth gets personal liberty [a]nd unlimited rights over the other nine tenths. These must lose their personality and turn into a kind of herd.
They will engage in spy work. Each member of society will spy on the other and will be obliged to denounce…. All are slaves [a]nd are equal in slavery.
Netchaiev wrote in his Catechism:
A revolutionist must infiltrate everywhere, in the upper and lower classes … in churches … in literature.
… On the basis of such a program an organization with an impressive name was formed– the World Revolutionist League. Its constitution was signed by Netchaiev and Bakunin, Marx’s intimate collaborator …
The revolutionist Duke Peter Dolgorukov wrote on October 31, 1862:
In London I met Kelsiev (who belonged to the above organization), a narrow-minded but good man, terribly fanatical, with the face of a soft man. Kelsiev told me softly, with a benevolent look: “If we have to slaughter, why not slaughter, provided this is useful?” … All these London men speak continually about “burning down, slaughtering, cutting in pieces.” These words have never left their tongue since Bakunin came to England…
… In 1872, a revolutionary society was formed under the simple name “The Organization,” which had a super-secret circle chillingly called “Hell.” Though its goals have continued to be pursued for well over a century by groups which continually change their names, its existence has been unknown to the outside world.
Soviet historians have dared to write about the activities of “Hell,” a forerunner of the Russian Communist Party, only as recently as 1965, ninety-three years after its formation …
Here are some of the expressed aims of this Satanic organization:
Mystification is the best, almost the only means to impel men to make a revolution.
It is enough to kill a few million people and the wheels of revolution will be oiled.
Our ideal is awful, complete, universal, and pitiless destruction.
And again:
Mankind must be divided into two unequal parts. One tenth receives personal liberty and unlimited rights over the other nine tenths. The latter must lose their personality and become a kind of herd.
… Churchill says in his Memoirs of World War II that Stalin confessed that ten million people died as a result of the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union.
The important fact to remember is that the Communists have now confessed, after a delay of almost a hundred years, that at the inception of their movement was a circle called “Hell.” Why “Hell”? Why not “The Society for the Betterment of the Poor” or “…of Mankind”? Why the stark emphasis on hell?
Today the Communists are more cautious. But in the beginning their very name revealed that their avowed aim was to recruit men for eternal damnation.
Tomorrow: Chapter Eight – Angels of Light
Continuing with excerpts from the late Lutheran pastor Richard Wurmbrand‘s Marx and Satan, what follows are glimpses into the lives of children and Christians under Communist regimes.
Wurmbrand also explains why the language of Marxism and its offshoots is so complex. It’s meant to confound and confuse. Therefore, if you don’t fully understand their theory after reading them over and over again, consider yourself fortunate. Marx called his own books ‘swinish’ and his ‘criticism’ a ‘nonsense’.
This post is not for those of a sensitive nature — or young children. However, once again, I cannot express how important it is for high school and university students to read this text, whether at home or as part of a church youth group. Marx, Communists, Socialists and theorists (e.g. Fabians and the Frankfurt School) are only attacking God. They don’t really care about building a better, more equal world. Destruction and death are part of their goal — just for the sake of it. What they propose and encourage us to do around the world is nothing short of criminal. Wurmbrand calls it demonic, as it revolves around blasphemy. The economic and social theory is a mere mask. You’ll find out more in this chapter. Unfortunately, many of us have been lured to accept Marxism as something benevolent and loving for mankind. Wurmbrand even gives statistics from the late 20th century showing how many American clergymen find it compatible with Christianity! What a mistake!
Those interested in regression ‘therapy’ may also find this chapter of use to see how the Soviets deployed what Wurmbrand refers to as ‘occult’ techniques.
Excerpts are taken from pages 48 – 54 of the text, which can be found in full on Scribd. Subheads are in the original. Emphases in the text are mine.
Chapter Six – A Spiritual Warfare
The Little and the Big Devils
According to current official Marxist doctrine, which, as has been illustrated, is only a disguise, neither God nor the Devil exists. Both are fancies. Because of this teaching, Christians are persecuted by the Communists.
However, the Soviet newspaper Kommunisma Uzvara (April 1974) reported that many atheist circles were created in Red Latvia’s schools. The name given the children in the fourth through sixth grades was “little devils,” while seventh graders were called “servants of the Devil.” In another school eighth graders had the name “faithful children of the Devil.” At the meeting the children came clothed as devils, complete with horns and tails.
Thus, it was forbidden to worship God, though devil worship was openly permitted and even encouraged among children of school age. This was the hidden objective of the Communists when they seized power in Russia …
The Communists consider it wrong to believe in God. For this “crime,” many children were separated from their families and kept in special atheist boarding schools.
Incredibly, the Communists even wanted to make Satan-worshipers of church leaders. A Russian Orthodox priest named Platonov, an anti-Jewish agitator, went over to the side of the Communists when they came to power in Russia. For this, he was made a bishop and became a Judas who denounced members of his flock to the Secret Police, well knowing they would be severely persecuted …
Pravoslavnaia Rus writes:
The Orthodox cathedral in Odessa, so much loved by the Odessites, became the meeting place of Satanists soon after the Communists came to power…. They gathered also in Slobodka-Romano and in Count Tolstoi’s former home.
Then follows a detailed account of Satanist masses said by deacon Serghei Mihailov, of the treacherous Living Church, an Orthodox branch established in connivance with the Communists. An attendant describes the Satanist mass as a “parody of the Christian liturgy, in which human blood is used for communion.” These masses took place in the cathedral before its main altar …
Religious Obscenities
It might be in somesense “logical” that Communists would arrest priests and pastors as counter-revolutionaries. But why were priests compelled by the Marxists in the Romanian prison of Piteshti to say Mass over excrement and urine? Why were Christians tortured into taking Communion with these as the elements? Why such an obscene mockery of religion? Why did the Romanian Orthodox priest Roman Braga, whom I knew personally when he was a prisoner of the Communists, and who presently resides in the U.S.A., have his teeth knocked out one by one with an iron rod in order to make him blaspheme?
The Communists had explained to him and others: “If we kill you Christians, you go to heaven. But we don’t want you to be crowned martyrs. You should curse God first and then go to hell.”
… Some prisoners were compelled to take off their trousers and sit with their naked bottoms on open Bibles.
Marxists are supposed to be atheists who believe in neither heaven nor hell. In these extreme circumstances, Marxism has lifted its atheistic mask to reveal its true face, the face of Satanism. Communist persecution of religion might have a human explanation, but the fury of such perverse persecution can only be Satanic.
In Romanian prisons and in the Soviet Union as well, nuns who would not deny their faith were raped anally, and Baptist girls had oral sex forced on them.
Many prisoners who were so treated died as martyrs, but the Communists were not satisfied with this. Using Luciferian techniques, they made martyrs die blaspheming because of the delirium provoked by torture …
Torture is productive, it leads to ingenious inventions– this is all Marx had to say about the subject. No wonder Marxist governments have surpassed all others in torturing their opponents! This alone displays the Satanic nature of Marxism …
Satanist desecrations of Catholic churches occurred in the 1970s in Upyna, Dotnuva, Zanaiciu, Kalvarija, Sede, etc., localities in Lithuania. One about which we know happened in Alsedeai on September 22, 1980.
In his book Psychiatric Hospital 14, Moscow, Georgi Fedotov tells of his conversation with the psychiatrist Dr. Valdimir Lwitski about a Christian named Argentov who was detained there. The physician says, “You are pulling your friend Eduard toward God and we toward the Devil. So I’m using my rights as a psychiatrist to deny you and your friends access to him.”
The Christian Salu Daka Ndebele was interrogated by the Secret Police of Maputo in Communist Mozambique. The officer said to him, “We want to kill your God.” He raised his gun toward the head of the prisoner and declared, “This is my God. With this I have the power of life and death. If your God comes here, I will shoot Him dead myself.”
In Chiasso, Communist Angola, Communists slaughtered animals in a church and placed their heads on the altar and pulpit. A poster proclaimed, “These are the gods whom you adore.” Pastor Aurelio Chicanha Saunge was killed, together with one hundred and fifty parishioners.
When the Catholic Lithuanian priest Eugene Vosikevic was killed, his mouth was found to have been filled with bread, an apparent Satanist ritual.
Vetchernaia Moskva, a Communist newspaper, let pass a Freudian slip of the pen:
We do not fight against believers and not even against clergymen. We fight against God to snatch believers from Him.
… We do not wonder at these words in a Soviet newspaper. Marx had said it already in his book German Ideology. Calling God “the absolute Spirit,” as his teacher Hegel had done, he wrote, “We are concerned with a highly interesting question: the decomposition of the Absolute Spirit.”
… In Albania a priest, Stephen Kurti, was sentenced to death for having baptized one child. Baptisms must be performed in secret in many Communist lands, including North Korea …
In the former Soviet Union baptisms could be officiated only after registration. Persons wishing to be baptized or to have their child baptized presented their identity cards to the representative of the church board, who in turn reported them to the state authorities. The result was persecution. Kolkhozniks (workers on collective farms) had no identity cards and could therefore baptize their children only secretly. Many protestant pastors received prison sentences for baptizing people.
The Communist fight against baptism presupposes belief in its value for a soul. Religious people in Israel or Pakistan or Nepal oppose baptism in the name of their own religious outlook, because it is a Christian seal. But for atheists– as Communists clearly declare themselves to be– baptism should mean nothing. Supposedly it neither benefits nor harms the baptized. Why then do these Communists fight against baptism? It is because Communists “fight against God to snatch believers from Him.” Their ideology is not really inspired by atheism, but by a fervent hatred for God.
“Among other purposes,” said Lenin, “we created our party specifically for the fight against any religious deceiving of the people.”
Occult Practices
More about the relationship between Marxism and the occult can be found in Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroder. It is highly significant that the Communist East had been much more advanced than the West in research about the dark forces manipulated by Satan …
In Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, etc., the Communist Party spent huge sums on secret investigation into this science. They hid from the West information about what happened in the twenty parapsychological institutes located in the Soviet Union.
Komsomolskaia Pravda (Moscow) published a lengthy article about hypnotists who help people “regress to past lives.” For the induction process they use the following suggestions:
You descend into earth, deeper, even deeper. You and the earth become one…. You are deep in the earth. You are surrounded by thick darkness…. Around you is eternal night…
Now we approach a spot of light far away… nearer and nearer. We sneak through a small hole to the sky, leaving our own body deep in the earth…. We overcome the frontiers of time … and we return to your past….”
Soviet writers said clearly that this “time machine” was not science fiction. “Transpersonalism” offered this voyage in time.
In the Satanist black masses, all prayers are said from the end to the beginning, and the priestly robe is worn inside out. Inversion is the Satanist rule, and this is applied even to the doctrine of reincarnation. Whereas Indian devotees are concerned about their future reincarnations and try to better themselves by obeying what they believe to be God’s commandments, the Satanists offer a return to former incarnations. They care nothing about a better future in eternity.
Marxism as a Church
… Volume 2 ofThe Works o f Marx and Engels opens with Jesus’ words to His disciples (John
6:63), as quoted by Marx in his book The Holy Family: “It is the spirit which gives life.” Then
we read:
Criticism [his criticism of all that exists] so loved the masses that it sent its only-begotten son [i.e., Marx ], that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have a life of criticism. Criticism became masses and lived among us, and we saw its glory as the glory of the only-begotten Son of the Father. Criticism did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made itself of no reputation, taking the form of a bookbinder, and humbled itself up to nonsense– yes, critical nonsense in foreign languages.
Those knowledgeable in Scripture will recognize this as a parody of Biblical verses (John 3:16; 1:14; Philippians 2:6-8). Here again, Marx declares his own works to be “nonsense,” as well as “swinish books.”
Marxism is a religion, and it even “uses” Scripture. Its main work, The Capitalle by Marx, is called “the Bible of the working class.” Marx considered himself “the Pope of Communism.”
Communism “has the pride of infallibility.” All who oppose the Communist “creed” (this expression is used by Engels) are excommunicated …
Those who die in the service of Marxism are feasted as “martyrs.” Marxism also has its sacraments: the solemn receptions in the toddlers’ organization called “the Children of October”, the oaths given when received as “Pioneers”, after which come the higher grades of initiation in the Komsomol and the Party. Confession is replaced with public self-criticism before the assembly of Party members.
Marxism is a church. It has all the characteristics of a church. Yet, its god is not named in its popular literature. But, as seen by the proofs given in this book, Satan is obviously its god.
It is strange that though Marxism is clearly Satanic, it is not seen as a threat by many churches in the free world. Some illuminating statistics on this are available.
Seminary professors in the U.S.A. were asked, “Can an individual consistently be a good member of your denomination and adhere to Marxism?”
Below are the percentage figures of those who answered Yes:
Episcopalian – 68 %
Lutheran – 53 %
Presbyterian – 49 %
Methodist – 49%
Church of Christ – 47 %
American Baptist – 44 %
Roman Catholic – 31 %
How sad that those who follow the Truth are duped by those who serve the father of lies.
Tomorrow: Chapter Seven – Marx, Darwin and Revolution
Last week, I featured excerpts from the first four chapters of Richard Wurmbrand‘s Marx and Satan, the full text of which is available free of charge on Scribd.
In Chapter Five — A Cruel Counterfeit Pastor Wurmbrand discusses Marx’s successors in the Communist world, among them Joseph Stalin, Yuri Andropov, Mao Tse-Tung and Che Guevara.
He also relates news items about Communism turning children against their parents, effectively sentencing them to imprisonment and death, as well as horrific, unimaginable murders of clergymen. If you are of a sensitive disposition, this post is best avoided.
If you have any teens or university age students in the house, this book is well worth sharing with them. Originally written as a pamphlet, it won’t take them long to read. Wurmbrand, a victim of torture over 14 years under the Communists, did painstaking research, which clearly shows in his content. Marx and his successors were not nice people. If more of our youth were aware of just how awful Marxist regimes were and are around the world, they would be less enamoured of this man and what he started in the 19th century.
The following excerpts come from pages 32 – 47. Subheads are in the original. Text emphases in bold are mine.
Chapter Five — A Cruel Counterfeit
Bukharin, Stalin, Mao, Ceausescu, Andropov
It might be instructive at this point to take a look at some modern Marxists. Bukharin, secretary general of the Communist International and one of the chief Marxist doctrinaires in this century, as early as the age of twelve, after reading the Book of Revelation in the Bible, longed to become the Antichrist. Realizing from Scripture that the Antichrist had to be the son of the apocalyptic great whore, he insisted that his mother confess to having been a harlot.
About Stalin he wrote, “He is not a man, but a devil” …
Similarly, Kaganovitch, Stalin’s brother-in-law and closest collaborator, writes about him in his diary (soon to be published):
I started to understand how Stalin managed to make himself a god. He did not have a single human characteristic… . Even when he exhibited some emotions, they all did not seem to belong to him. They were as false as the scale on top of armor. And behind this scale was Stalin himself – a piece of steel. For some reason I was convinced that he would live forever…. He was not human at all…
He told Kaganovitch:
When I have to say good-bye to someone, I picture this person on all fours and he becomes disgusting. Sometimes I feel attached to a person who should be removed for the good of the cause. What do you think I do? I imagine this person sh-tting, exhaling stench, farting, vomiting and I don’t feel sorry for this person. The sooner he stops stinking on this earth, the better. And I cross this person out of my heart.
… Stalin also thinks that separation from children should be the main punishment for all parents belonging to sects, irrespective of whether they were convicted or not …
Stalin said that the greatest joy is to cultivate a person’s friendship until he lays his head confidently on your bosom, then to implant a dagger in his back – a pleasure not to be surpassed …
It is significant that many of Stalin’s comrades-in arms spoke about him as demonic.
Milovan Djilas, prominent Communist leader of Yugoslavia who was personally well acquainted with Stalin, wrote:
Was it not so that the demonic power and energy of Stalin consisted in this, that he made the [Communist] movement and every person in it pass to a state of confusion and stupefaction, thus creating and ensuring his reign of fear.
He also says about the whole ruling class of the U.S.S.R.:
They make a semblance of believing in the ideal of socialism, in a future society without classes. In reality, they believe in nothing except organized power.
Even Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, who never learned about the depths of Satanism, wrote:
Beria (the Soviet minister of interior affairs) seems to have had a diabolic link with all our family…. Beria was a frightening, wicked demon…. A terrible demon had taken possession of my father’s soul.
Svetlana further mentions that Stalin considered goodness and forgiving love to be worse than the greatest crime.
Such is the Satanic priesthood that rules almost half of mankind and which orders terrorist acts all over the world.
Stalin was the illegitimate child of a landlord by a servant-maid. His father, fearing notoriety, bribed a cobbler to marry the pregnant girl, but the affair became known. During his childhood
Stalin was mocked as a bastard. During Stalin’s teen years, his real father was found murdered. Stalin was suspected, but no proof could be found against him.
Later, as a seminary student, he joined Communist circles. There he fell in love with a girl named Galina. Since the Communists were poor, Galina was given the assignment to become the mistress of a rich man and so provide the Party with money. When Stalin himself voted for this proposal, she cut her veins.
Stalin himself committed robberies for the Party, and in this he was very successful. He appropriated none of the stolen money for himself …
(Andropov, late premier of the Soviets, produced the same impression as Stalin. The French minister of external affairs, Claude Cheysson, who met him, described Andropov in Le Monde as “a man without warmth of soul, who works like a computer…. He shows no emotions…. He is extremely dispassionate…. He is accurate in words and gestures like a computer.”)
Stalin, like Marx, Engels, and Bauer before him, started out as a believer. At fifteen, he wrote his first poem, which begins with the words, “Great is the Almighty’s providence.” He became a seminarian because he felt it his calling …
When he began to write as a revolutionary, the first pseudonyms he used were “Demonoshvili,” meaning something like “the demoniac” in the Georgian language, and “Besoshvili,” “the devilish.”
Other evidences of Satanist persuasion among Marxist leaders are also significant. Troitskaia, daughter of the Soviet marshal Tuhatchevsky, one of the top men of the Red Army who was later shot by Stalin, wrote of her father that he had a picture of Satan in the east corner of his bedroom, where the Orthodox usually put their ikons ...
One of the leaders of a terrorist organization in Argentina took upon himself the nickname “Satanovsky.”
Anatole France, a renowned French Communist writer, introduced some of the greatest intellectuals of France to communism. At a recent exhibition of demoniac art in Paris, one of the pieces shown was the specific chair used by that Communist writer for presiding over Satanist rituals. Its horned armrests and legs were covered with goat’s fur …
One of the oldest devil-worshiping sects, the Syrian Yezidi, was written up in a Soviet atheistic magazine, Nauka I Religia (July 1979). It is the only religious sect about which the magazine wrote not one word of criticism.
Furthermore, Mao Tse-Tung wrote:
From the age of eight I hated Confucius. In our village there was a Confucianist temple. With all my heart, I wished only one thing: to destroy it to its very foundations.
… At the other extreme is St. Paul of the Cross, who from the age of eight spent three hours in prayer every night.
Cult of Violence
Che Guevara learned his Marxist lessons well …
Hate is an element of fight — pitiless hate against the foe, hate that lifts the revolutionist above the natural limitation of man and makes him become an efficient, destructive, cool, calculating, and cold killing machine.
… Marx writes in The Communist Manifesto:
… There is only one method to shorten the murderous pains of death of the old society, the bloody birth pangs of the new society; only one method to simplify and concentrate them, that is revolutionary terrorism.
There have been many revolutions in history. Each had an objective. The American revolution, for example, was fought for national independence, the French revolution for democracy. Marx is the only one who formulates as his aim a “permanent revolution,” terrorism and bloodshed for revolution’s sake. There is no purpose to be attained; violence to the point of paroxysm is its only objective. This is what distinguishes Satanism from ordinary human sinfulness …
A further insight into the fundamental attitudes of Communists can be gained from a few brief quotes …
Lenin: “Atheism is an integral part of Marxism. Marxism is materialism. We must combat religion. This is the ABC of all materialism and consequently of Marxism.”
Lenin, in an address in 1922: “First we shall take Eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia. After that, we shall surround and undermine the U.S.A., which will fall into our hands without a struggle – like an overripe fruit.”
Khrushchev: “If anyone believes our smiles involve abandonment of the teachings of Marx, Engels and Lenin, he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.”
Satanist Cruelty
Solzhenitsyn reveals in his monumental Gulag Archipelago that the hobby of Yagoda, the Soviet Union’s minister of interior affairs, was to undress and, naked, shoot at images of Jesus and the saints. A couple of comrades joined him in this …
In Russia, in Stalin’s day, some Communists killed a number of innocents in the cellars of the police. After their bloody deed, one of the henchmen had second thoughts and went from corpse to corpse, apologizing: “I did not intend to do this. I don’t know you. Speak to me, move, forgive me.” One of his comrades then killed him. A third was converted and later related the incident.
Russkaia Misl, a Russian-language magazine in France, reported (March 13, 1975) the following from the Soviet Union:
D. Profirevitch, in Russia, had a daughter and a son whom he brought up in the faith. Naturally, they had to attend Communist schools. At the age of twelve the daughter came home and told her parents, “Religion is a capitalist superstition. We are living in new times.” She dropped Christianity altogether. Afterwards she joined the Communist Party and became a member of the Secret Police. This was a terrible blow to her parents.
Later the mother was arrested. Under Communist rule no one possesses anything, whether it be children, a wife, or personal liberty. The state can take them away at any time.
After the mother’s arrest, the son exhibited great sorrow A year later he hanged himself. D. Profirevitch found this suicide letter:
Father, will you judge me? I am a member of the Communist youth organization. I had to sign that I would report everything to the Soviet authorities. One day the police called me, and Varia, my sister, asked me to sign a denunciation against Mother because as a Christian she is considered a counter-revolutionist. I signed. I am guilty of her imprisonment. Now they have ordered me to spy on you. The consequence will be the same. Forgive me, Father; I have decided to die.
The suicide of the son was followed by the jailing of the father.
Priest Zynoviy Kovalyk was arrested by the Bolsheviks in the year 1941 and was confined in the Brygidka jail in Lviv, Ukraine. When the Germans put the Bolsheviks to flight that same year, the people of the city found the priest’s blood-stained body nailed to the wall by the arms and legs, as if it were the crucified Lord. They also found about six thousand massacred prisoners, shot in the nape of the neck, whom the Bolsheviks had piled on top of each other in the cellars and covered over with plaster
Dr. O. Sas-Yavorsky (U.S.A.), after the capture of Lviv by the Germans near the end of June 1941, went searching for his imprisoned father and saw in the jail a priest nailed to a cross. Into his slashed stomach the Communists had placed the body of an unborn baby, taken from the womb of its mother, whose corpse lay on the blood-soaked floor. Other eyewitnesses recognized that this was the body of the renowned missionary Father Kovalyk.
Generally, to the Communists human life is cheap …
During the Spanish civil war, Communists killed four thousand Catholic priests.
A renowned Russian Orthodox priest named Dudko reported that six Communists entered the house of Father Nicholas Tchardjov, pulled out his hair, gouged out his eyes, made many cuts on his body, passed a pressing iron over it, then shot him with two bullets. This happened on the Eve of St. Nicholas. It was not only a crime against the priest, but also a mockery of the saint.
The Western press reported on March 10, 1983, that in Zimbabwe three thousand of the Ndebele tribe were killed by the soldiers of the Communist dictator Mugabe. The army had been trained by North Korean instructors. Tribe members were asked to shoot their grown-up sons themselves; if they refused, they were shot along with their sons.
The Devil apes God by promising still waters and green pastures which are not his to give. Therefore he must pretend. And the less he can offer, the more he must pretend. To gain a foothold, he puts on a false front (did you ever wonder about Communist front organizations?) and makes benevolent gestures. But he delivers only misery, death, and destruction– “awful, complete, universal, and pitiless.”
The Devil is jealous and becomes enraged at spiritual beauty. It offends him. Since he cannot be beautiful– he lost his primal beauty because of his pride– he does not want anyone else to be. If it were not for the saints’ spiritual beauty, the Devil would not seem so ugly. Therefore he wishes to deface all beauty.
This is why Christians in the Romanian Communist prison of Piteshti, as well as other Communist jails, were tortured– not only to betray the secrets of the underground church, but to blaspheme.
Regimes under which such horrors occur again and again, regimes that turn even Christians into murderers and denouncers of innocent victims, can only be abhorred by the children of God. Whoever bids them Godspeed is a partaker in their evil deeds (2 John 11).
Satanic Sin
… Satanic crime is of another order. Hitler killed millions of Jews, including babies, with the excuse that Jews had done harm to the German people. For the Communists it was a matter of course to imprison and torture the family members of a person they considered guilty. When I was jailed, it was taken for granted that my wife must be jailed too, and that my son must be excluded from all schooling …
To gain an insight into the life and thinking of a Satanist, one need only read a few mild excerpts from the writing of Al[e]ister Crowley (1875-1947), notorious for his involvement in occult practices:
Pity not the fallen. I never knew them. I console not. I hate the consoler and the consoled …
Blasphemous Versions of the Lord’s Prayer
… The ultimate aim of communism in conquering new countries is not to establish another social or economic system. It is to mock God and praise Satan.
The German Socialist Student Union also published a parody of the Lord’s Prayer, indicating that the “true” meaning of the prayer upholds capitalism …
The identification of Christianity with the interests of capitalism is outrageous. The true church knows that capitalism, too, is stained with blood, for every economic system bears the marks of sin. Christians oppose communism not from the viewpoint of capitalism, but of the kingdom of God, which is their true social ideal. The above is nothing less than Satanic mockery of Jesus’ most holy prayer, as is the one published by the Soviets.
Mockery of the Lord’s Prayer is customary in many Communist lands. Ethiopian children were taught to pray as follows:
Our Party which rulest in the Soviet Union,
Hallowed be thy name …
Give us this day our daily bread, and don’t forgive the trespasses of the Imperialists as we will not forgive them …
Over an Ethiopian Lutheran radio station confiscated by the Communist government, a Satanist version of the Bible a was broadcast. First Corinthians 13 sounded like this:
Though I speak all the languages and have no enmity toward the landlords and capitalists, I have become as sounding brass…. Class hatred suffers no exploitation and is brutal. Class hatred envies their riches and vaunts itself with the successful revolutions in many Socialist states….And now abide faith, hope, and class hatred, but the greatest of these is revolutionist hatred.
Tomorrow: Chapter Six – A Spiritual Warfare
This book just gets better. If your eyes popped out whilst reading Chapter 3, wait until you read the revelations about Lenin in Chapter 4.
Folks, this book proves that Marxism, Communism and Socialism are a sham. And Richard Wurmbrand was no ordinary pastor — he spent a total of 14 years being tortured by Communists, those who want a better, fairer, egalitarian society. They flayed the soles of Wurmbrand’s feet so badly, he was never really able to feel comfortable in shoes again. They tried to get him to renounce Christianity, but he wouldn’t. May we display this type of faith if it is ever demanded of us — and I sincerely hope it is not.
If anyone reading this runs a youth group or is a pastor or elder, please see if you can circulate the link to Marx and Satan to your high school and university student members. It’s vital that kids read it and that your church presents a programme on it. If this book had been around when I was growing up, it would have helped me fall out of love rather quickly with progressivism. Instead, I was deeply influenced by it most of my life — and I do mean most. I never even knew this connection between Marx and Satan existed until a few months ago!
The full text of Marx and Satan is on Scribd.
Today’s excerpts are from pages 28-32 of the book. Subheads are in the original. Emphases are mine.
Chapter Four – Too Late
An American, Commander Sergius Riis, had been a disciple of Marx. Grieved by the news of his
death, he went to London to visit the house in which the admired teacher had lived. The family
had moved. The only one whom he could find to interview was Marx’s former housemaid Helen
Demuth. She said these amazing words about him:
He was a God-fearing man. When very sick, he prayed alone in his room before a row of lighted candles, tying a sort of tape measure around his forehead.
This suggests phylacteries, implements worn by Orthodox Jews during their morning prayers. But Marx had been baptized in the Christian religion, had never practiced Judaism, and later became a fighter against God. He wrote books against religion and brought up all his children as atheists. What was this ceremony which an ignorant maid considered an occasion of prayer? Jews, saying their prayers with phylacteries on their foreheads, don’t usually have a row of candles before them. Could this have been some kind of magic practice?
We also know that Marx, a presumed atheist, had a bust of Zeus in his study. In Greek mythology Zeus, a cruel heathen deity, transformed himself into a beast and took Europe captive–as did Marxism later.
(Coincidentally, the naked figure of Zeus, known for his ferocity, is the only religious emblem in the main lobby of the United Nations building in New York.)
Family Letters
Another possible hint is contained in a letter written to Marx by his son Edgar on March 31, 1854. It begins with the startling words, “My dear devil.” Who has ever known of a son addressing his father like this? But that is how a Satanist writes to his beloved one. Could the son have been initiated as well?
Equally significant, Marx’s wife addresses him as follows, in a letter of August 1844,
Your last pastoral letter, high priest and bishop of souls, has again given quiet rest and peace to your poor sheep.
Marx had expressed, in The Communist Manifesto, his desire to abolish all religion, which one might assume would include abolishing the Satanist cult too. Yet his wife refers to him as high priest and bishop. Of what religion? The only European religion with high priests is the Satanist one. What pastoral letters did he, a man believed to have been an atheist, write? Where are they? This is a part of Marx’s life which has remained unresearched.
Biographers’ Testimonies
… The Marxist Franz Mehring wrote in his book Karl Marx:
Although Karl Marx’s father died a few days after his son’s twentieth birthday, he seems to have observed with secret apprehension the demon is [in?] his favorite son…
Marx died in despair, as all Satanists do. On May 25, 1883, he wrote to Engels, “How pointless and empty is life, but how desirable!”
Marx was a contemporary of great Christians: the composer Mendelsohn, the philanthropist Dr. Barnardo, the preachers Charles Spurgeon and General William Booth. All lived near him in London. Yet he never mentions them. They went unobserved.
There is a secret behind Marx which few Marxists know about. Lenin wrote, “After half a century, not one of the Marxists has comprehended Marx.”
The Secret behind Lenin’s Life
… When I wrote the first edition of the present book, I knew of no personal involvement of Lenin with any rituals of the Satanist sect. Since then, I have read The Young Lenin by Trotsky, who was Lenin’s intimate friend and co-worker. He writes that Lenin, at the age of sixteen, tore the cross from his neck, spat on it, and trod it underfoot, a very common Satanist ceremony …
Lenin was moved to write as follows about the Soviet state:
The state does not function as we desired. How does it function? The car does not obey. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.
In a letter of 1921 Lenin wrote:
I hope we will be hanged on a stinking rope. And I did not lose the hope that this would happen, because we cannot condemn dirty bureaucracy. If this happens, it will be well done.
This was Lenin’s last hope after a whole life of struggle for the Communist cause: to be justly hanged on a stinking rope. This hope was not fulfilled for him, but almost all of his co-workers were eventually executed by Stalin after confessing publicly that they had served other powers than the proletariat they pretended to help …
There exists a “too late” in our spiritual affairs. Esau repented with many tears for having sold his birthright, but the deal could not be undone. And Lenin, founder of the Soviet state, said on his deathbed,
I committed a great error. My nightmare is to have the feeling that I’m lost in an ocean of blood from the innumerable victims. It is too late to return. To save our country, Russia, we would have needed men like Francis of Assisi. With ten men like him we would have saved Russia.
Tuesday: Chapter Five – A Cruel Counterfeit
We continue today with Richard Wurmbrand‘s Marx and Satan, Chapter Three – Ruined Faith.
I really hope that as many of you as possible, particularly if you have children, are reading the excerpts from this intense book which sheds a light on Karl Marx, the likes of which have not been seen before.
Again, please, if you have anything to do with church programmes, particularly youth-oriented ones, it would certainly be worth someone’s time doing a programme on this book. The contents are shocking, but high school and university students need to know what lies behind Marx and Marxism. It is not benevolence. I wish I had known this material years ago.
The full text of Marx and Satan is on Scribd.
Today, we examine more of Marx’s collaborators, including Engels, and find out how they turned from Christianity to satanism.
Some of this content is clearly racist and comes from Marx’s own pen! If readers have a problem with it, they shouldn’t be angry either with Pastor Wurmbrand or me but with Marx himself. The man was nothing short of hateful. I have censored a bit, but Wurmbrand’s text will have the full wording. If you are left-of-centre or are a committed leftist, I urge you to read what Marx said about blacks and slavery, in particular (see pages 27 and 28). You might be surprised to find that this egalitarian hero is not quite what socialists and communists portray him as. Marx was no friend to the minority — ever. He did not care about them one iota. He only cared about himself.
Text is taken from pages 21-28. Subheads are in the original text. Emphases are mine.
Chapter Three – Ruined Faith
Engels’ Counter-Conversion
Since Friedrich Engels figures prominently in Marx’s life, Iwill give brief material about him. Engels had been brought up in a pietistic family. In fact, in his youth he had composed beautiful Christian poems …
Engels had begun to doubt the Christian faith after reading a book written by a liberal theologian, Bruno Bauer. He had had a great struggle in his heart …
Engels never found his way back to the Word of God, joining instead the one whom he himself had called “the monster possessed by ten thousand devils.” He had experienced a counter-conversion.
What kind of person was Bruno Bauer, the liberal theologian who played a decisive role in the destruction of Engels’s Christian faith and who endorsed Marx in his new anti-Christian ways? Did he have any connection with demons?
Like Engels himself, he started life as a believer and later as a conservative theologian, even writing against critics of the Bible. Afterward he 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. Bauer wrote to his friend Arnold Ruge, also a friend of Marx and Engels, 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.
The man who convinced him to become a Communist was the same Moses Hess who had previously convinced Marx. Hess wrote, after meeting Engels in Cologne,
He parted from me as an overzealous Communist. This is how I produce ravages…
To produce ravages-was this Hess’s supreme purpose in life? It is Lucifer’s, too.
The traces of having been a Christian never disappeared from Engels ’s mind. In 1865 he expressed his admiration for the song of the Reformation, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” calling it “a triumphal hymn which became the Marseillaise of the sixteenth century.” There are also other such pro-Christian statements from his pen.
The tragedy of Engels is moving, and even more gripping than that of Marx …
Engels was very well aware of the danger of Satanism. In his book Schelling, Philosopher in Christ, Engels wrote:
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 now …
Engels quotes Scripture after Scripture, just as the most Bible-believing theologian would do …
The man who wrote such poems and such warnings against Satanism, the man who prayed with tears to beware of this danger, the man who recognized Marx as being possessed with a thousand devils, became Marx’s closest collaborator in the devilish fight, “for Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality….”
Liberal theology had accomplished this monstrous change. Thus it shares with Marx and Engels the guilt for the tens of millions of innocents killed by communism to date. What spiritual tragedy!
Marx Hates Whole Nations
Shifting now from Engels to Marx, Marx’s whole attitude and conversation were Satanic in nature.
Here I shall answer some questions about Marx’s religious background. Wikipedia explains that he came from a Jewish background on both sides of the family. Technically, he was a Jew, as his mother was Jewish. (Her family would later go on to found Philips, the Dutch electronics corporation.) However, Marx’s father had converted from Judaism to Lutheranism before Karl was born. This would explain the Christian doctrine and essays that Marx had written at school, of which we read in the first chapter of the book. Back to the book:
Though a Jew, he wrote a pernicious anti-Jewish book called The Jewish Question. In 1856, he wrote inThe New York Tribune an article entitled “The Russian Loan,” in which we read:
We know that behind every tyrant stands a Jew, as a Jesuit stands behind every Pope. As the army of the Jesuits kills every free thought, so the desire of the oppressed would have chances of success, the usefulness of wars incited by capitalists would cease, if it were not for the Jews who steal the treasures of mankind. It is no wonder that 1856 years ago Jesus chased the usurers from the Jerusalem temple ...
(Strangely, Marx also wrote to the contrary, in The Capital, Volume I, under the heading “The Capitalist Character of Manufacture”: “In the front of the chosen people it was written that they are the property of Jehovah.”)
Many other Jewish Communists imitated Marx in their hatred of Jews. Ruth Fisher, renowned German Jewish Communist leader and a member of Parliament, said: “Squash the Jewish capitalists, hang them from the lamp posts; tread them under your feet.” Why just the Jewish capitalists and not the others remains an unanswered question.
Marx hated not only the Jews, but also the Germans: “Beating is the only means of resurrecting the Germans.” He spoke about “the stupid German people … the disgusting national narrowness of the Germans” and said that “Germans, Chinese, and Jews have to be compared with peddlers and small merchants.” He called the Russians “cabbage-eaters.” The Slavic peoples were “ethnic trash.” He expressed his hatred of many nations, but never his love.
Marx wrote in his new year’s roundup of 1848 about “the Slavic riffraff,” which included Russians, Czechs, and Croats. These “retrograde” races had nothing left for them by fate except “the immediate task of perishing in the revolutionary world storm.” “The coming world war will cause not only reactionary classes and dynasties, but entire reactionary peoples, to disappear from the face of the earth. And that will be progress.” “Their very name will vanish.”
Neither Marx nor Engels were concerned about the destruction of millions of people. The former wrote,
A silent, unavoidable revolution is taking place in society, a revolution that cares as little about the human lives it destroys as an earthquake cares about the houses it ravages. Classes and races that are too weak to dominate the new conditions of existence will be defeated.
In contrast, Hitler, who desired only the enslavement and not the destruction of these nations, was much more humane than Marx.
Engels wrote in the same vein:
… without violence and without pitilessness nothing can be obtained in history.
Marx, the man who posed as a fighter for the proletariat, called this class of people “stupid boys, rogues, asses”.
Engels well knew what to expect from them. He wrote, “The democratic, red, yes, even the Communist mob, will never love us.”
Marx identified black people with “idiots” and constantly used the offensive term “n—–” in private correspondence …
Marx even championed slavery in North America …
Without slavery, North America, the most progressive of countries, would be transformed into a patriarchal country. Wipe North America from the map of the world and you will have anarchy- the complete decay of modern commerce and civilization. Abolish slavery and you will have wiped America off the map of nations.
Marx also wrote, “The Devil take the British!”– In spite of such denunciations, there are plenty of British, as well as American, Marxists.
Another interjection — note that Marx thought that London was good enough to live in from 1849 – 1883, the year he died. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery. The father of Ed Miliband, the current leader of the Labour Party, requested burial nearby! The hypocrisy! Back to the end of the chapter now:
Satan Is in the Family
Marx’s favorite daughter, Eleanor, with her father’s approval, married Edward Eveling. He lectured on such subjects as “The Wickedness of God.” (Just as Satanists do. Unlike atheists, they do not deny the existence of God, except to deceive others; they know of His existence, but describe Him as wicked.) In his lectures he tried to prove that God is “an encourager of polygamy and an instigator totheft.” He advocated the right to blaspheme …
Tomorrow: Chapter Four – Too Late
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