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

Moses Hess quickly transformed young Marx into a freemason, a
socialist agitator and his minion. Marx was still no communist. He wrote
in Rheinische Zeitung, which he edited during the years 1842-43:
"Attempts by masses to carry out Communist ideas can be answered by a
cannon as soon as they have become dangerous..." He then believed these
ideas to be impracticable. Moses Hess essentially corrected all these
opinions. He became the grey eminence behind Marx, intensively guiding
and influencing his protege's work.
In Paris, in the autumn of 1844, Moses Hess presented the 26-year-old
Marx to the half-Jew Friedrich Engels, who was two years younger. This
meeting laid the foundations for their long collaboration. Engels had also
expressed Christian ideas in his youth: "I thirsted for a connection with
God. My religion was and is a peaceful and blessed world and I should be
pleased with it if it were to be with me also after my funeral. I have no
reason to suppose God should take it away from me. Religious persuasion
is a thing of the heart. I pray every day, indeed almost all day, for truth. I
seek the truth everywhere, even where I hope to find just a shadow of it.
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