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4. Godhead takes human form, which allowed for leaders
of the sect to be incarnated into that Godhead, from
Shabbetai Tzvi through to Frank and others.
5. "believer" must not appear to be as he really is.
The last belief justified its followers' pursuit of the double
type of life that they led. One could appear to be a religious
Jew on the outside and in reality be a Frankist. For though the
Donmeh officially converted to Islam and the Frankists to
Catholicism, the great majority of Frankists who outwardly
appeared to embrace Judaism integrated themselves into the
Jewish community. Despite the fact that they were all
outwardly religious, they still cherished as their goal "the
annihilation of every religion and positive system of belief," and
they dreamed "of a general revolution that would sweep away
the past in a single stroke so that the world might be rebuilt."
Of the revolutionary philosophy of the Frankists and its
mystical symbolism, Gershom Scholem writes elsewhere in his
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"This Life, however, is not the harmonious life of all things in
bond with God, a world ordered by divine law and submissive
to His authority, but something very different, utterly free.
Fettered by no law or authority, this 'Life' never ceases to
produce forms and to destroy what it has produced. It is the
anarchic promiscuity of all living things. Into this bubbling
caldron, this continuum of destruction, the mystic plunges. To
him it is the ultimate human experience. For Frank, anarchic
destruction represented all the Luciferian radiance, all the
positive tones and overtones, of the word 'Life.' The nihilistic
mystic descends into the abyss in which the freedom of living
things is born; he passes through all the embodiments and
forms that come his way, committing himself to none; and not
content with rejecting and abrogating all values and laws, he
tramples them underfoot and desecrates them, in order to
attain the elixir of Life. In this radical interpretation of a symbol,
the life-giving element of mystical experience was combined
with its potential destructiveness. It goes without saying that,
from the standpoint of the community and its institutions, such
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