In this episode, I was honored to have Will Tucker of Analogia Entis join me to explore a 500-year span of history that’s packed with rabbit holes—Kabbalah’s influence on Western esotericism, its ties to Freemasonry, and how it’s shaped everything from the Renaissance to the Protestant Reformation to modern transhumanism.
We dig into why Christians need to understand Kabbalah—not to get lost in it, but to see how it’s been weaponized against us. Will breaks down its core ideas—like Tikkun Olam, this “repairing the world” concept that inverts the Christian narrative. Instead of waiting for Christ’s return, Kabbalah is about accelerating human effort to fix a broken creation and usher in the Jewish messianic age of Antichrist. We get into Lurianic Kabbalah, the Zohar, and how it’s all a contradictory hall of mirrors—claiming ancient roots but actually codified millennia later, twisting everything from Genesis to Revelation. It’s mind-bending, and honestly, a little dark, but that’s why we’re here—to expose it to the light of Logos.
From there, we trace its fingerprints through history. The fall of Constantinople, the Medici family, the Renaissance, figures like Pico della Mirandola and John Dee—it’s like this esoteric thread keeps weaving through time. We hit on the Protestant Reformation, the Masonic lodges, and even the founding of America as this “New Atlantis” dreamed up by Francis Bacon. Will’s got some fantastic insights on how technology ties into all this too, from the printing press to today’s transhumanist fantasies. It’s not just ancient mysticism; it’s the mystical framework of the modern world.
