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So in the 15th and 16th hundreds, it pretended it was religion, and you had a huge flourishing of things like Rosicrucianism which pretended to be Christian. Swedenborgianism or whatever, which pretended to be Christian Kabbalah. Kabbalah, which pretended to be Christian and Jewish. Everybody thinks it's just Jewish, it was both, you have all these kinds of weird sects latching onto the major religion. Swabian pietism was Lutheranism by name, but it was hermeticism in practice.
The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay
Sovereign Nations
The good intentions of socialism run up against the hard limits of human nature and reality. In seeking to overcome these limits, socialism necessarily becomes a totalitarian tyranny. Furthermore, it is the worst kind of tyranny, that of the well-intentioned tyrant who tyrannizes you for your own good and with a clear conscience.
Don’t Get Fooled Again: The Continuing Necessity of Anti-Communism
Murray Bessette
Remember two things: i. that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period;
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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