The End of Judaism: A Note on the Clerk’s Well

Harari sees a catastrophe for religious Judaism and so do I.

Jerusalem in London

“And did those feet in ancient time

Walk upon England’s mountains green.”

What are the rugby crowds doing singing this ‘hymn’ to the words of Blake? His mystical vision was appropriated for patriotism later on and music added. Nevertheless, like with psycho-geography, residue remains. If you are interested in such matters, listen to my talk on Esoteric Geography of London.

Lenin first met Trotsky near King’s Cross in London. A central activity that led to the origins of Bolshevism, in Clerkenwell down the road was their printing of Iskra (the spark).Whether the nuns or the knights or the parish clerk’s, religious people were drawn to Clerkenwell. Henry II was important in establishing the Priory and link to Jerusalem. Henry II was the king who claimed Ireland after the Normans came. When people talk about connections between Ireland and the Holy Land, you must at least consider this last thousand years. But then as Blake walked the streets around Clerkenwell and up to where the Bolsheviks would be based, he envisaged Jerusalem there. Back through the tradition of earlier monks, geography of Jerusalem was critical in the minds of holy people. In the late 600’s, the Irish monk Adomnán wrote a guidebook to the holy places based on eye-witness accounts. Even before the century that Islam spread, the geography of Jerusalem informed the monastic traditions. From before the time of Jesus, trade between the Holy Land and Ireland and Britain was continuous. This is no merely modern preoccupation. That is why Blake wonders in Jerusalem whether Jesus had come to England like some legend suggests or perhaps whether the divine presence came and could come back.

“And was the holy Lamb of God,

On England’s pleasant pastures seen!”

If you walk through Jerusalem Passage in Clerkenwell in London to the Priory of St. John, you are coming to a nodal point of a network of the Knights Hospitaller involved in management of the Crusader states. They were evicted during the Reformation as the Master of the Revels or censor was based there. The knights were part of an order linked to Jerusalem in the 11^th century that were assimilated into the Crusader enterprise. We seem to forget that there were four Crusader states of Tripoli, Antioch, Jerusalem and Edessa. Palestine or Palestina was a presence in this foreign policy.

Yuval Noah Harari mentioned in June 2025 in London at a live podcast that Israel would probably be successful but something would change. It would no longer be spiritual or religious. In fact it would be a spiritual catastrophe for Judaism, as a Greater Israel formed based on Jewish supremacy. It was potentially the greatest danger since the fall of the Second Temple nearly 2000 years ago. The military operation could succeed but at spiritual cost. This would make it difficult through the rupture for religious Jews to continue. I think he is right but the basis of his analysis might be different from mine. When the end of Judaism is not God, it will be the end of Judaism as we know it.

On my view, the construction of Israel and Zionism was primarily a project of the Reformation and modern empire that surfaced in London and Geneva. We see this esoteric tradition of British Israelism allying with an older imperial mentality of the Normans (or Franks as they were often called in the Holy Land) back to the strategic and esoteric interests in Babylon and Egypt informed by residual ex-Roman connections. The Guildhall in the independent City of London is built on a Roman camp. The growing empire would later use  these sites in its quest to control the Suez Canal. Before that the Holy Land became critical in the Great Game against the Russian Empire. This is context of the creation of Dispensationalism and convenient colonial support of the Rapture that continues today. That will end Protestantism but also Judaism as a religious force. I agree with Harari. The unfortunate consequence for Jewish people is that they will have to be Zionist. This was made clear enough in the early work of Leo Strauss who argued that a ‘purely political Zionism’ was the only outcome of the atheistic policy that rejected God, though he was concerned with religious Zionism. That is linked to neoconservatism, curiously linked to Trotsky. Now we are being told that America and Britain will be involved in rebuilding or ruling Gaza. Surprise, surprise! Who could have foreseen that?

The New World Order is clear. Nation state, religion and family must go for global governance. Protestantism will fade despite apparent growth in places. Historic Protestantism is dying in Europe. Now religious Judaism is being eroded. Catholicism and Islam will be undermined, perhaps conveniently by cultivating a war between them through plantation post-military intervention by the continuity of Atlanticist forces. The basis of the Order was conceived by H.G. Wells who lived up the road from Clerkenwell and supported by other Fabians around there. Blair was one of them. They talked about him coming back to help. God help them. I wonder if Britain could have been able to be military adventurous in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Libya and so on if he hadn’t worked his magic in Northern Ireland. Amazing how the spigots can be turned on an off. Amazing how the power network is continuous. Interestingly, Clerkenwell was not only a centre for  clockmaking which might reflect the new religious mindset, but significant experiments in electricity. From the Balfour Declaration to Churchill’s visit to Washington at the outbreak of war, London determined what was happening. Churchill, who understood Wells’ vision told us the next empire would be one of the mind. Techno-Jerusalem would be part of the new atheistic world order embodying Solomon’s Temple as a Baconian vision of the New Atlantis. Thus it could be a central node in the religion of ‘dataism’ that Harari predicted.

Strauss knew revolution would be against revelation. I suggest the mono-revolution goes back 3000 years at least. It was an Epicurean and then Promethean rejection of God which will lead to a Protean reconstruction of humanity and the world to suit the madness of its extended phenotype. King David warned us in Psalm 2.2.

"The kings of the earth stood up,

and the princes met together,

against the Lord and against his Christ."

There will be little sustenance soon to draw from the well of the clerks or clergy.

My father’s family appear to have come from the same source as the monk I mentioned. In 1945 in Egypt he was asked to join the Palestinian Police Force. We have been intertwined in these contexts whether we like it or not. He refused. State, mandate, now stewardship, the Normans never let go, but they will let go the Jewish people when they do not serve their tech-totalitarian aims.