Marx and Satan by Richard Wurmbrand

Posted by admin_akashic on Feb 15th, 2022 in History, Human

What made a father suddenly express the fear of demonic influence upon a young son who until then had been a confessed Christian? Was it the poems he received as a present from his son for his fifty-fifth birthday?

The following quotation is taken from Marx’s poem “On Hegel”:

Words I teach all mixed up into a devilish muddle.

Thus, anyone may think just what he chooses to think.

Here also are words from another epigram on Hegel:

Because I discovered the highest,

And because I found the deepest through meditation,

I am great like a God;

I clothe myself in darkness like Him.

In his poem “The Pale Maiden,” he writes:

Thus heaven I’ve forfeited,

I know it full well.

My soul, once true to God,

Is chosen for hell.

No commentary is needed. Marx had started out with artistic ambitions. His poems and drama are important in revealing the state of his heart; but having no literary value, they received no recognition. Lack of success in drama gave us a Goebbels, the propaganda minister of the Nazis; in philosophy a Rosenberg, the purveyor of German racism; in painting and architecture a Hitler.

Hitler was a poet too. It can be assumed that he never read Marx’s poetry, but the resemblance is striking. In his poems Hitler mentions the same Satanist practices:

On rough nights, I go sometimes

To the oak of Wotan in the still garden,

To make a pact with dark forces.

The moonlight makes runes appear.

Those that were sunbathed during the day

Become small before the magic formula.

“Wotan” is the chief god of German heathen mythology. “Runes” were symbols used for writing in olden times.

Hitler soon abandoned a poetic career, and so did Marx, who exchanged it for a revolutionary career in the name of Satan against a society which had not appreciated his poems. This is conceivably one of the motives for his total rebellion. Being despised as a Jew was perhaps another.

Two years after his father’s expressed concern, in 1839, the young Marx wrote The Difference Between Democritus’ aid Epicures’ Philosophy of Nature, in the preface to which he aligns himself with the declaration of Aeschylus, “I harbor hatred against