"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago." - Edgar Allan Poe
Poe's retribution on Freemasonry (Judeo-Masonic treachery) in The Cask of American Amontillado
________Edgar Allan Poe, Race and the Jews
By Karl | December 16, 2023
Edgar Allan Poe is a household name today [Editor's note: Poe may be a household name but very few Americans have read all of his works and know very little about Poe's intrigues as a possible "intelligence and counterintelligence asset" who used his intellectual ability to protect America from the Judeo-Masonic threat.] and the amount of influential authors who have been inspired by this American literary great are almost numberless. It is not widely known, but Poe actually create the popular genre of detective fiction with his epoch-making whodunits based on the delightful character of C. Auguste Dupin: 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Mystery of Marie Roget'.
What many people don't know about Poe is that he was strongly anti-abolitionist in regards to slavery and an ardent Southern Nationalist even if it lost him readers. (1) This is so significant part of Poe's life and one which so underlies his literary corpus that Marxist academics have devoted whole works trying desperately to 'prove' that Poe wasn't a racist and did it merely to conform to the political economy and resultant social theory of the day. (2)
These desperate ideological confabulations are however ripped asunder when we quote Poe's own words in a review of an anti-slavery book. To wit:
'The Negro is inferior to the White man, because it was the will of God it should be so.' (3)Then we have the fact that Poe frequently used the prefix 'its' rather 'his' or 'hers' when referring to blacks in his works as well as routinely referring to blacks as 'niggers'. An example of which is his reference to the negro servant 'Pompey' in 'The Man that was Used Up'.
This isn't limited to blacks either as Poe openly refers, in 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket', to Pacific Islanders as savages who are some of the most loathsome people on the planet. This is because they trick travelers and traders into thinking they are their friends before savagely murdering them en masse.
Poe's views on this score stem from both his experience of non-White races in the southern United States and his observations on his travels. In other words experience drove Poe's views unlike the frankly weird cloistered and quasi-Messianic views of pro-abolitionist writers like Henry David Thoreau and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
We can see this keen sense of observation in Poe when he records in his 'The Colloquy of Monos and Una' that the idea of universal equality is complete imaginary nonsense. While in his 'The Philosophy of Furniture' Poe discusses and demonstrates his disgust for 'democratic capitalism' and how it has created an 'aristocracy of the dollar' in the United States when what was needed was an 'aristocracy of the blood'. (4)
We can see a different Poe here and one that is hardly the Poe that autistic oddballs and miscellaneous would-be princes of darkness like to extol. This is the real Poe and the man we see is quite frankly the opposite of many of his groupies today; he was a racial nationalist as well as being a highly skilled writer of stories, novels and poetry.
Even people who know about Poe's views on race and slavery however often haven't heard the other bit of that viewpoint. This is that Poe also wrote a bit on the subject of the jews.
Poe's views on the jews are controversial in large part, because relatively speaking he wrote little about them. However from what we do have I think it is clear that Poe was less enamored of the chosen people as they like to claim. [Editor's note: Many of Poe's papers were absconded by Rufus Griswold so we may never know to what extent Poe wrote about jews.]
It is true that in his stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'Ligeia'; Poe refers to the 'beauty of the aquiline nose', which he labels as being of 'jewish'/'Hebrew' type. However this is Poe making a mistake rather than his professing a great attraction for the jews.
What Poe is actually saying is that he finds the aquiline (better known as the 'Roman') nose attractive, which is superior in his view to the common Greek type as evinced in the many Grecian monuments, statues and freezes then available for his perusal. He just associates the aquiline nose purely with jews for a reason that I cannot and will not speculate on.
This positive mention is odd precisely because in his 'Loss of Breath' Poe makes fun out of ancient jewish beliefs to the effect that the gates of heaven would be thrown open to a jew - whether saint or sinner - who said 'Amen'.
In the same vein in his 'A Tale of Jerusalem' Poe makes fun of jews and their rabbis in particular in regards to their superstitious religious beliefs. The story revolves around the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans where the jews are desperate for lambs to slaughter to Yahweh (as they have run out).
The jews have bargained with the Romans for some lambs to slaughter on their altars and lower down a basket of silver shekels, which Poe calls the 'money with an unpronounceable name' in a clear satire of the jewish belief in the magical power of letters and names. The Romans promptly take the silver and give the jews a pig's carcass instead of the lambs.
The rabbis go into hysterics about the 'unutterable unclean animal' and cannot comprehend that the god Phoebus - to whom the Romans refer - isn't one referred to in the Tanakh so they have a hair-splitting debate about whether Phoebus is actually Dagon or whether he is some other Biblical deity. In other words, the jews are being made fun of by Poe because of the Kashruth dietary laws and their Judeocentric view of the universe that cannot conceive of an existence of a deity outside of the pages of the Tanakh.
This is the kind of anti-Semitic intellectual humour that you'd probably not expect from Poe, but in spite of claims this is just Poe being coarse. (5) Poe is quite clearly mocking jews in a manner not unlike the delightfully vicious anti-jewish satire of Edouard Drumont in 'La France Juive' several decades later.
It is difficult to see Poe as being anything but derogatory to jews here. This is especially true as Poe's comments on jews don't end there; since in 'The Business Man' we find the comment that jews are next to impossible to make money out of (which is probably derived from Poe's experience dealing with them).
While Poe also wrote a piece of doggerel with the following wording:
'Why ask who ever yet saw money made out a fat old Jew or downright upright nutmegs out of a pine-knot.' (6)In other words, Poe regarded jews as being inveterate usurers with stupid religious customs and his positive relations with individual jews - such as the lawyer Mordecai Noah - (7) were more down to Poe's personal penury and his belief that the principle enemies that he had to fight were the abolitionists not jews.
Incidentally he is also frequently accused of plagiarizing Benjamin Disraeli's novels - particularly his 1826 work 'Vivian Grey' = (8) when he was actually satirizing the future Prime Minister of Great Britain. (9) Hardly something that someone favourable to the jews would be doing to a novelist who is famous for flaunting his jewishness in the face of his readers.
Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that while Poe didn't identify the jews as his principle enemies: he didn't exactly have a good opinion of them either.
In essence Poe was a racial nationalist before his time and he and his work belong not to would-be chubby vampires, but rather to the racialist right.
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A history of Poe very few Americans know about:
A history of Poe very few Americans know about:
Poe's nemesis and intellectual rival who slandered Poe in Memoir of Edgar Allan Poe after Poe's death that was likely an assassination:
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most maligned Americans in the post-Revolutionary America likely because he was a formidable counterintelligence agent protecting the republic from a Judeo-Masonic assault.
The murder of William Morgan touched off an anti-Freemason party in America during the post-Revolutionary period:
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