Margaret C. Galitzin
Book-review of Fumus Satanae (The Smoke of Satan) by Atila Sinke Guimarães, Volume 8 of the Collection Eli, Eli, Lamma Sabacthani?, TIA: Los Angeles, 2015, 398 pp.
I find one of the most interesting aspects of the teaching
of Prof. Plinio Correa de Oliveira to be his perception and
understanding of the
vocations of peoples.
It is not just individual men who have special vocations that, if
followed, will lead them to practice virtue and achieve salvation. It is
also the peoples and nations, each one considered as a whole, that
have specific vocations and are either faithful or unfaithful to the
plans God has for them.
In his latest book Fumus Satanae, Atila Sinke Guimarães applies
what he learned on this topic from his mentor Prof. Plinio to examine
the capital vice of the Jewish people. Then he masterfully shows how
this vice contributed to the birth of the Kabbalah (Chap. 7 § 21). It
is a brilliant analysis and a fascinating study for anyone interested
in the psychology of peoples as well as in the underlying cause of the
infidelity of the Jewish people. This vice also has a direct
relationship to the present day change of doctrine in the Conciliar
Church, as Guimarães also demonstrates.
The principal vice of the Jews
Based on numerous episodes from the Old Testament, Guimarães shows that
the principal vice of the Jews is their human respect before others and
their fear to manifest the true Faith. This was, in fact, their
vocation, to preserve and faithfully guard the true Faith as a people
apart, a Chosen People. From their succumbing to human respect came the
consequence of their servile imitation of the pagans they were called to
convert.
Imitating the Egyptians the Jews adored a golden calf
Time and time again in History we find the Jews abandoning the Faith and
turning to pagan ceremonies because of their lack of confidence in the
Lord. I note several of the many instances Guimarães cites:
- After being freed from the Egyptian captivity, the people made a golden calf inspired by the cult to the Egyptian god Apis;
- During their time of wandering in the Sinai before reaching the
Promised Land, they imitated the Moabites by adoring their gods;
- During the Babylon captivity they imitated first the Assyrians and Chaldeans, and then the Persians, their liberators;
- They also imitated the Greeks with the general Hellenization
introduced in Judea in the time of the Selleucids, and the Romans with
the reform carried out by Herod the Great in the whole Kingdom of Judea
and principally in the Temple.
Guimarães notes: "The growth of this vice continues to the point that
Scrip¬ture generalizes: “They walked according to the customs of the
nations which the Lord had destroyed in the sight of the children of
Israel” (4 Kgs 17:8). Still more clearly: “They followed their vanities
and became vain, and followed the nations that were round about them,
concerning which the Lord had commanded them not to imitate” (4 Kgs
17:15).
The key to the Kabbalah
It is this vice of servile imitation of other peoples that Guimarães
points to as the key to understand the formation of the Jewish Kabbalah.
To formulate the Kabbalah, Jewish scholars and rabbis turned to
the old Gnostic sects to borrow and imitate their tenets. Guimaràes
quotes noted contemporary authors who affirm this link of Gnosis with
the Kabbalah, to the point that the latter was sometimes actually called "the Jewish Gnosis" (Chap 7, § 21).
Why is this connection important for the purposes of his study? Guimarães points out two reasons:
"The first is that the men who explicate and accept such doctrine
would fight against the one true Faith, in which intolerance toward any
form of error or evil is a presupposition.
"The second is that they would try to break this exclusivity and
intolerance so that the true Faith would become relative and could also
be included in their amalgam."
The first fight, Guimarães explains, is carried out occultly and
is the secret conspiracy directed by the Jews against the Catholic
Faith. To support that statement he provides a psychological analysis of
vice and virtue and the historical evidence from Scriptures to prove
such a conspiracy of evil men who have caballed against God and His
followers from the beginning of the world.
What Guimarães aims to prove – and does so convincingly – is that "the Kabbalah
is a conspiracy made against God and the truth, and, therefore, against
the just in the Old Testament and against Our Lord Jesus Christ and the
Holy Catholic Church in the New Testament." I invite the reader to
pursue his arguments more deeply in Chapter 7, §§ 27-36.
The second fight – to destroy the intolerance of the good toward
any form of error or evil in order to assimilate them into the errors of
the Jewish capital vice – is carried out openly. The aim is to make all
others – and especially Catholics – fall into the same syncretism that
the Jews wrongly adopted following their capital vice (Chapter 7, §§
38-48).
A blend of Catholicism & the Kabbalah was introduced in the Renaisance; today it returns with Progressivism
It was this syncretism between pagan concepts and the true
Faith that marked the early heresies in the Church, many of them of
Jewish origin. The aim is always to relativize the teachings of the true
Faith , and thus change it. Today, of course, this is exactly what we
are seeing in the new theology that has come from Vatican II and has
been promoted by the Conciliar Church.
The strategy is the same one that has been applied for centuries, only
now the syncretism is being made by the Catholic theologians, who have
borrowed from Jewish and Gnostic teachings in order to change the very
nature of the Trinity itself. Guimarães demonstrates this showing how
the documents of the Kabbalah and Gnosis are deeply akin with the thinking of today's progressivists.
Here are some of the many affinities between the teachings of Progressivism, early Gnosis and Kaballah:
- A self-divestment and suffering in God that comes as a consequence of a fall;
- The existence of an Eternal Feminine installed in the Divinity and a consequent divine androgynism;
- The presentation of the Creator as an implacable Judge who does not understand mercy and love, brought only later by Christ;
- The presentation of Creation as a defective process;
- The acceptance of Creation as an emanation of the divine principle and, thus, a divine immanence in all beings;
- The superiority of the feminine element that demands the feminization of men in the Church;
- An androgynous first man that is the ideal of humanity;
- The supposition of an intermediary sphere between God and Creation;
- The admission of an eternal sin committed in this sphere (for the
progressivists, it is the mysterious adultery of the Eternal Church that
demands the crucifixion of Christ);
- A war of the gods, where the Father plots the Son's death on the Cross;
- A final pardon of the Devil who will be admitted into Heaven at the
side of God, just as for the gnostics the demiurge will be integrated
into the divine pleroma at the end of History.
What emerges from a detailed analysis of these points is a clear
demonstration that we are looking at a new doctrine, a new “Catholic”
theology that is based on the old lies, myths and occult teachings of
Gnosis and the Kaballah. I would call Fumus Satanae the key to understanding many of the purposely occult – and shockingly heterodox – teachings of Progressivism.
Related:
Imitating the Egyptians the Jews adored a golden calf 
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