For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.”― Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol PotOperation Parricide: Sade, Robespierre & the French Revolution, by Erik von Kuehnelt-LeddihnThe First French Communists: The Conspiracy of the Equals, By Murray N. RothbardThe French Genocide That Has Been Air-Brushed From HistoryFor the most influential historians who held positions of power in major French institutions, the French Revolution was not a research topic but an origin myth—the heart of their secular faith’s cosmology, by Jaspreet Singh BoparaiFire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith, by James H. BillingtonLeftism: Its Origins and ConsequencesThe primary ideological/spiritual disease our civilization has faced for untold centuries is Leftism. Let us briefly explore the roots and dire consequences of this malignant set of beliefs. We shall start at the beginning:Gnosticism: The Enduring Heresy and Menace to Western CivilizationThe arcane subjects of Gnosticism and Hermeticism are some of the most important and impactful areas of study in world history, with tremendous consequences both ancient and modern few non-initiates can fathom. It has fascinated a wide range of dedicated scholars with which many readers are familiar such as Eric Voegelin, Frances Yates, D. P. Walker, Norman Cohn, James Billington, James Lindsey, Stephen McKnight, Michael Burleigh, Murray Rothbard, Henri de Lubac, Thomas Molnar, John Gray, Glenn Alexander Magee, Terry Melanson, and F. A. Hayek who have documented the emergence of ersatz gnostic political religions and this elitist scientism as outgrowths of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.Utopian Nightmares and Gnostic Political ReligionsOver five years ago I sat and reflected very hard after almost fifty years of intense thought, observation and reading about politics what the Left was really all about. I wanted to go beyond the superficial labels and rhetoric to the ultimate ontological reality — that which deals with the nature of being.The True Face of the Left RevealedLeftists, ultimately can be traced back to ancient pagans, particularly the Gnostics, who did not believe the Universe was created by a transcendent Other (which we call God). They are in total revolt and total denial of the very facts of Creatology and Cosmology. Like their Gnostic forebears, they hate the material creation of the Universe by this false “God” (whom the Gnostics called the Demiurge.)Think and reflect upon these facts the next time you read about the transgender movement or transhumanism.Christianity and the West have been at war for hundreds of years with a succession of gnostic political religions and mass movements seeking to impose brutal elite rule and mastery of their subject peoples. These sinister efforts have been responsible for untold death, destruction, and misery. Over one hundred million persons alone perished in the 20th Century as a result of these murderous totalitarian gnostic regimes.Leftism: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse, by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn The post Why the Left Has Been the Most Destructive Force in Human History appeared first on LewRockwell.