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"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

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As a young student, Karl Marx went through a total transformation. He<br />

began to hate God. This was something he admitted in his brutal poetry.<br />

Two <strong>of</strong> Marx's poems were published during his lifetime in <strong>the</strong> periodical<br />

A<strong>the</strong>naeum in Berlin, under <strong>the</strong> title "Wild Songs", on <strong>the</strong> 23rd <strong>of</strong> January<br />

1841. Forty poems and <strong>the</strong> verse drama "Oulanem" written <strong>by</strong> Marx (<strong>the</strong><br />

title is an anagram <strong>of</strong> Emanuel, meaning God is with us) have been found<br />

to date. He wrote <strong>the</strong> latter at eighteen years <strong>of</strong> age.<br />

But no one cared about his poetry, which had mostly to do with <strong>the</strong> end<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world and his love for <strong>the</strong> girl next door, Jenny von Westphalen. In<br />

his poems he threatened to revenge himself upon God and time after time<br />

expressed his hatred for <strong>the</strong> world. He vowed to throw humanity into <strong>the</strong><br />

a<strong>by</strong>ss and follow after with laughter on his lips. He flung terrible curses at<br />

humanity. He did not become an a<strong>the</strong>ist, though. In his poem "Der Spiel-<br />

mann" ("The Fiddler"), he admitted:<br />

That art God nei<strong>the</strong>r wants nor wists,<br />

It leaps to <strong>the</strong> brain from Hell's black mists.<br />

Till heart's bewitched, till senses reel:<br />

With Satan I have struck my deal.<br />

In ano<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> his poems, Marx promised to lure mankind with him into<br />

hell in <strong>the</strong> company <strong>of</strong> Satan. These words are reminiscent <strong>of</strong> Jakob<br />

Frank's expressions. This shows that Marx was affected <strong>by</strong> Frankism.<br />

Karl Marx's fa<strong>the</strong>r had come into contact with Frankism and had also<br />

instructed his children in this ideology. This is how young Marx got to<br />

know <strong>of</strong> Frankism, as was mirrored in his poetry. His family's conversion<br />

to Christianity was just a social manoeuvre. Jakob Frank himself had done<br />

<strong>the</strong> same, when he became a "Catholic". Frank had, in his turn, followed<br />

<strong>the</strong> dreaded Sabbatai Zevi's example <strong>of</strong> "changing religion" for <strong>the</strong> sake<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> cause.<br />

Marx was delighted with <strong>the</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> humanity's moral ruination. In his<br />

poetry, he dreamed <strong>of</strong> a pact with Satan. He was especially fascinated <strong>by</strong><br />

violence. Later, in his own ideology, he stressed that one must fight<br />

violence with violence. He called humanity "<strong>the</strong> apes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> cold god".<br />

Marx's religion is clearly revealed in his poem "Invocation <strong>of</strong> One in<br />

Despair" (Karl Marx, "Collected Works", Vol. I, New York, 1974):<br />

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