The Rise and Fall of a Frankist Monster

 

 

Mr. Leo Lyon Zagami on the Sabbatian Legacy (1:34 min)

This article was inspired by the video interview by Prof Hamamoto with Leo Leon Zagami  (see the video above) and I aquired the Kindle version of the book which I will attempt to summarise briefly below.  Here is a screenshot of the chapter headings to give you an idea of the content (click image):

 

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Leo Zagami attempts to link the legacy of Sabbatai Zevi and his “reincarnation” Jacob Franks with Epstein who became the “Frankenstein” creation or Golem of Zionism. In this he understands Zionism as the synthesis between secular nationalism and Judaism with the Sabbatian Frankist acting as the bridging mechanism.   While I do not accept all of his connections, there are some very interesting insights.

The late Rabbi Marvin Stuart Antelman wrote, the Frankist “concept had been preserved, and not by accident, in the novel Frankenstein, which deals with the creation of the Frankenstein monster.” [p.123] Literature critics may well disagree as they find connections either between John Milton’s Paradise Lost or Nogaret’s  book from 1790 (Le Miroir des événemens actuels, ou la Belle au plus offrant ) in which the fictional mad scientist “Wak-wik-vauk-an-son-frankésteïn” creates a life-sized automaton. In 1814, prior to writing the famous novel, Shelley took a journey on the river Rhine. She spent a few hours in the town of Gernsheim, which is located about 16 kilometres (10 miles) from castle Frankenstein. The alchemist and theologian Johann Konrad Dippel  stayed (and tried to purchase) Frankenstein castle and Emmanuel Swedenborg began as a disciple of Dippel, but eventually dismissed him as a “most vile devil … who attempted wicked things.”

So, there are lots of threads to pull on but the idea of the “mad scientist” (alchemist) reflects scientific transhumanism and the teleology of “progress” which Epstein was heavily involved with in his funding of, and interest in science, particularly life extension and bio-digital convergence.  Interestingly, Shelley has her fictional mad scientist study  at Ingolstadt university the same university where Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati was a professor and it seems that her husband was a member of the secret societies. Moreover Milton on whom Shelly drew, was himself  seemingly influenced by the Sabbatian movement (Did the False Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Sevi Inspire John Milton’s ‘Paradise Regained’?).  The connections with alchemy and theology are intriguing.  As to the name Frank it has relatively unclear origins but is thought to mean “free”. Notably, the Germanic peoples known as the Franks gave their name to France and stein obviously means stone.   The law became a burden (Lk 11:36) and Jerusalem is depicted as a burdensome stone (Zech 12:3).  Perhaps Frankenstein stood for the stone of liberty as in Jacob anointing the stone pillar at Bethel (Gen 28:18) with the ladder that ascends to heaven which is depicted in many Masonic paintings.

Here we have another Jacob (Frank) promising redemption through “holy sin”.  And “…. teaching that violating Jewish moral and religious laws through ritualized orgies, pedophilia, or incestuous acts was indeed a good thing and necessary to achieve spiritual liberation and hasten messianic redemption    …of “redemption through sin” to its most extreme conclusion. Rabbi Antelman’s central assertion was that Sabbateanism was simply the opposite of Judaism. That Sabbatai Zevi’s program was to destroy all the tenets of the Torah (i.e., the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) and replace them with their opposites. Incredibly, more than half of the Jews believed Zevi would be revealed as their promised messiah” (p.16).

Not only does Leo Zagami make the case for the penetration of Islam by followers of Sabbatai Zevi after his forced conversion (the creation of crypto Jews or Dönmeh Turks who were outwardly Islamic converts while still practicing Sabbateanism) but Jacob Frank became a Roman Catholic and his followers married into the nobility in the Austrian-Habsburg Empire.  Not only did this insidious ideology spread its malign influence in Judaism but it disappeared underground in Islam and in Christianity and was accordingly incorporated into Zionism.  It appears in all the occult, theosophic and Satanic movements and the roots trace back to ancient apostasies of Gnosticism and Hermeticism.

All the warning signs are present in the Epstein saga. As a young man Epstein was hired as a teacher by the father of William Barr despite having no qualifications. William Barr Trump’s former AG was a Jewish convert to RC (is he a Frankist?)  and his father Donald Barr who hired Epstein used to work for the OSS (intelligence services) and wrote a Sci-fi novel about teenage sex slaves.  Epstein’s Muse Ghislaine Maxwell had a Jewish father who was a super spy and who married a French Protestant (Huguenot). Podolia ( circa 1710) was the ancestral home of both Jeffrey Epsteinand Ghislaine  Maxwell [p.89] . Podolia was a crucial center for Sabbateanism and the Frankist movement, a direct offshoot of Sabbateanism. The region was the birthplace of the Frankist movement, founded by Jacob Frank, who was born and grew up in Podolia in a Sabbatean community. The movement later incorporated its own beliefs inspired by Jewish Kabbalah and Catholic mysticism.

Epstein’s blue-striped temple in Little St. James looks like the  historic public bathhouse and Sabbatian meeting point located in Aleppo, Syria named Hammam Yalbugha (pp. 75-76). Aleppo was a stop for Sabbatai Zvi in his recruitment campaign. The large Sephardic community there would have made it a worthwhile destination.The Saint-Simonist Sabbateans and Related Hidden History

Moreover, Leo Zagami states that Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch aka Robert Maxwell allegedly believed that he was the reincarnation of Franks (p.79-80)

I would like a source for that belief, but he certainly looks like Frank but all I could find was this image of Maxwell as a young man.

Here is an interesting website with information The Robert Maxwell Curriculum .  Maxwell started the scientific Pergamon Press with another spy.  The name Pergamon is interesting because it comes from Pergamos where Satan’s seat was and where the doctrine of the Nicolaitans and the doctrine of Balaam was taught.  Sabbatain Frankism is the doctrine of fornication and sacrilege (Rev 2:12-15).

I find it fascinating that Sabbateanism emerged from Smyrna and later Thessaloniki (Salonika) was a major center for Sabbateanism, and the city’s Jewish community had strong ties to the movement, which later evolved into the crypto-Jewish Dönmeh sect. The churches that were warned about corruption in the Apocalypse and the epstile of Thessalonians that warns of the antichrist are the places where Sabbateanism emerged centuries later.  I don’t think that is a coincidence.

Isabel and Christine Maxwell, daughters of Robert Maxwell, were involved in data and computing, co-founding the internet search engine Magellan. Isabel served as a senior vice president for its parent company, the McKinley Group, while Christine was an Internet content pioneer who co-founded Magellan and the software company Chiliad.   The Maxwell family had access to data and scientific information.

Everything has been poisoned by this ideology: “It’s possible to trace a direct link between Thelema and the work of Sabbatai and his successors, not only through the perceived similarity of their teachings and libertine practices connected to sexual magick, but also, formally, thanks to the teaching and connections of the organization Aleister Crowley would eventually take over, the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.).     This makes it more than plausible to assume that Crowley had met, or had at least had, some form of direct contact, with the Sabbatian Frankists through the O.T.O.’s original founders, who claimed to have been in contact with the surviving members of the Knights and Brethren of St. John the Evangelist from Asia in Europe commonly referred to as the Asiatic Brethren (in German Asiatische Brüder), founded by Baron Hans Heinrich von Ecker und Eckhoffen (1750 –1790), a German nobleman and a Bavarian Officer, who established two of the various so-called “fringe-masonic” (p.112-113).

(**O.T.O. is the acronym for Ordo Templi Orientis, a 20th-century occult and hermetic magical organization that means “Order of the Temple of the East” or “Order of Oriental Templars”).

Jacob Frank was funded by Rothschild: “As the late Barry Chamish reminded us, “Jacob Frank became instantly wealthy because he was given a nice handout by the Rothschilds of Frankfurt. There is no other explanation.” [p. 119]

Sabbatian Frankists  trace their roots back to Gnosticism: “Like Zevi’s mutations in thinking after his conversion to Islam, Frank’s doctrine also underwent further elaboration after his conversion to Catholicism, where the new Messiah first needed to descend into the abyss represented by the city of Rome, and then invite his followers to do the same. In typical Gnostic fashion, Jacob Frank believed that the world was created by an evil entity, and that the laws of this world did not come from the true God, so of course they didn’t apply to him or his followers either. While there are some aspects of Frankism which are highly idiosyncratic (e.g., its cult of personality and militant nature), many of its attributes are nearly identical to those of ancient Gnosticism”.

The late Rabbi Antelman also claimed, ​The entire spectrum of Communist-Socialist Gnosticism was and still is reflected in Gnostic cults. Indeed, Communist Gnostic philosophies go back to ancient Greece and earlier. Gerald Meister, Professor of Theology at Maryknoll Seminary, maintains that Stalin’s behavior was theologically motivated by his Gnostic convictions when he was a monk. Adolph Hitler was known to be heavily involved in Holy Grail Gnosticism

The following is instead an illuminating and rather controversial passage from an interview, given by the late Barry Chamish, on December 26, 2002, with none other than Jeff Rense, from rense.com, a site considered anti-Semitic by the Anti-Defamation League: ​Now, if we’re going to be honest, all of us have to be honest, every one of us. If we’re going to get any semblance of peace around here, we all have to be honest. The Jews have got to figure out where Zionism came from. That in the late 19th century, it was a legitimate national liberation movement that was taken over by the British, I think, through the murder of Herzl in 1905. And it was taken over by Occultism. And it was taken over by Bolshevism, and what we’ve got, Labor Zionism, are the people who murdered Wayne Owens and Yitzhak Rabin. Just so you know. We got stuck. They booted out the genuine moral Zionists, they booted them out through treachery in the 30’s and took over. Now that’s honesty from my part. The other side of that, understand…there was never a Palestinian nation, enough of this crap. There never was, and you know it, OK? There was never a sovereign Arab nation of Palestine with a history and a language. The British also invented that one. Unless both sides understand – that we’ve been set up…that we’ve been utterly set up to murder each other – we’re not, we’re NOT going to get anywhere.[476] Barry Chamish (January 4, 2003), “The Hikjacking of Zionism,” Jeff Rense <https://rense.com/general33/hijack.htm> Retrieved October 23, 2025 [p 214-15]

Zionism understands and defines “Judaism” according to secular and nationalist purposes, and, in essence, it is the ideological underpinning of the Zionist State of Israel; however, Zionism was not a Jewish creation. The anticipation of Jews returning to Palestine and making it their national homeland was first heard among self-identified Christian groups in the 1580s, particularly those aligned with Puritanism, a Reformed branch of Christianity that sought to purge the church of England of any Catholic remains, giving rise to the Congregationalist denomination, where each local church is autonomous and self-governing, whose Separatist Puritans (also known as the “Saints”), made half of the 102 passengers who sailed to North America on the Mayflower in 1620 in search of religious freedom and a new life in America. In the meantime, back in England after the English Civil War, that took place from 1642 to 1651, the Puritans took over the whole country under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658), after executing King Charles I, establishing thereby the Commonwealth of England (i.e., a republican government) between 1649 and 1660 (the year of the restauration of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland). With the execution of King Charles I, and the abolishment of the throne in 1649, a rare window of opportunity opened for the Jews who had been banned from the country since the 13th century, a historic moment that might have quickly passed had there not been a leader with an iron fist on hand to steer its course. Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the young Republic, was determined to be this leader. He was joined on the historical stage by another figure,  Menasseh ben Israel (1604 – 1657), a Jewish thinker who was known throughout Europe as the “Ambassador of the Jews,” and would help to promote a resolution over the “Jewish Question.” For this reason, several of Cromwell’s close advisors, such as John Dury, a known Scottish Calvinist minister, John Sadler, a millenarian thinker and a Member of Parliament, and Hugh Peter, preacher, and political advisor, decided to connect with Menasseh ben Israel, a Dutch-based Jewish founder of the first Hebrew printing press (named Emeth Meerets Titsmah), that he established in Amsterdam, in 1626. Sadler, Cromwell’s secretary, was so impressed by him, he even argued that the British had a special link to the Jews as one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, an astonishing statement made in his pamphlet The Rights of the Kingdom (1649), that initiated what is now known as British Israelism, a doctrine, which peaked in the mid-20th century, supported by some prominent figures, that is still popular amongst some English Freemasons and Rosicrucians from the SRIA (Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia). In Cromwell’s days, Ben Israel became known for publicly advocating for the Jewish resettlement in England, and when the time came for serious discussion of the subject of readmission of the Jews to England, Oliver Cromwell himself sent Ben Israel an official invitation to visit the short-lived republic and discuss a possible solution. One year after the killing of King Charles I, Menasseh ben Israel had published for the first time, in Amsterdam, his messianic masterpiece that had immediately caught Cromwell’s interest in the matter, the tittle was The Hope of Israel, originally published in Latin as Mikveh Israel, hoc est Spes Israelis, and in Spanish, Esperança de Israel, later translated and published into English as The Hope of Israel in 1652. Inside his groundbreaking work, Ben Israel had expressed the hope that the Jews would return to England as a way of hastening the coming of the Messiah, before returning to Palestine. The official discussions for the return of the Jews to the Commonwealth of England commenced in December 1655, in Whitehall Palace, and Oliver Cromwell effectively allowed the readmission of Jews to England in 1656. However, the matter of the readmission of the Jews to England provoked a huge outcry among theologians, merchants, and the rank-and-file citizenry who opposed the prospect that the hated Jews would return once again to British shores, and for this reason Menasseh ben Israel, promptly published in April 1656, an open letter/pamphlet entitled Vindiciae Judaeorum, devoted entirely to one purpose: the systematic refutation of the various accusations made against the Jewish people. This time, Ben Israel abandoned his messianic plea for a more legal-philosophical essay. With the festive conclusion of the meeting at Whitehall, it was decreed that there would no longer be an official law prohibiting the settlement of Jews in England. While the government did not necessarily welcome the return of the Jews as many had hoped at the start of the discussions, the door was opened at last for their gradual return. This policy was maintained and later intensified with the reinstatement of the monarchy in England in 1660.  This period coincides with the initial fortunes of Mordecai Zevi, the father of Sabbatai Zevi, who became, as I explained earlier, the Smyrnan agent of an English trading house led by Puritans. But advocating a Jewish return to Palestine was not Menasseh ben Israel’s original idea, but rather something the “Ambassador of the Jews” had learned in a book entitled Du rappel des juifs, published in 1643 by a prominent Jewish French-born figure called Isaac La Peyrère (1596–1676), who was at the time a Huguenot Calvinist, born to a Huguenot family of Portuguese Jewish Converso or Marrano heritage. [pp.217-219]

Conclusion

I found the book informative and interesting. Some of the links are tenuous and not well sourced but the general thrust highlights the secretive nature of Sabbatian Frankism and their antinomian promotion of nihilistic deconstructionism and “holy sin” using perverse sexuality.  They subverted Judaism, Islam and Christianity and their latent Gnosticism forms the basis of many occult movements.  They want to deconstruct the Imago Dei into a transhuman Golem hence the Epstein obsession with sex magic and science.  The intersection of Sabbatian Frankism with Zionism and the action/reaction of Hasidim and Chabad fill a missing link which compliments my own work.  I believe that the Herodian “red” Edomites who married into Jewish Maccabean aristocracy and persecuted the church saw their Dynasty supposedly disappear from the pages of history but are still present and linked to Rothschild (Red Shield).   In any case we are seeing the convergence of Edomite (Jews), Sabbatian Frankists and Phoenician (Canaanite) bloodlines merging with European bloodlines promoting destructive transhumanist techno-feudalism and a supremacist ideology (Zionism). Here is my previous work which compliments this video:

Occult Empire (Part 1)

 

Phoenicia: The Occult Empire (Part two)

 

The Return of the Jews to Israel

This article highlights the role of Chabad  in Russia and in the USA…

Ezekiel 36-39 Geopolitics (Part 3)