NIEBAUR, THE MORMONS AND THE ‘SPIRITUAL HUSBAND’:
One of the most important people that esoteric societies used to control the likes of Hitler, Napoleon, Nixon and others is the personal physician. In this context, we find that Napoleon was later poisoned by his doctor after one of Ireland refused to do as he was told and we find the aegis of something more far-reaching. The religions of this world are all tools of the elite and their social engineers, as Francis Fukayama proudly proclaims in his late 20th century book. The end of history and The last man. It does not tell us who created these religions or what their secret rituals are; if he knows. The main purpose of this book is to explore the esotericism of Josephine and Napoleon in order to find out more about who handled them and how it was done. With that in mind, we look at a Kabbalist who institutionalized the less than equal treatment of women by Joseph Smith and the Mormons. This man’s father was Napoleon’s physician and his father wanted him to be a rabbi, so I’m sure his father also knew Kabbalah to some degree.
“The Council of Fifty in Nauvoo manifests a distinctly Masonic character, and Masonic ceremonial elements were incorporated into the council meetings. A similar tenor emerged in Strang’s Order of the Illuminati. It was only a few months after the alleged revelation that it commissioned to organize the “Illuminati” in Nauvoo that Bennett initiated efforts to form the Masonic lodge. But Mormon historians have yet to specifically explore the implications of another fact: both Bennett’s name for the organization, “Order of Illuminati” “, as the political concept embodied by the organization had a clear Masonic heritage. The parallel is so close that one wonders if Bennett might have brought this and other more esoteric Masonic concepts with him to Nauvoo. At about this same time, the practice of “spiritual husband” or plural marriage was Bennett made several exaggerated claims in his later expositions on libertine sexual practices, alleging that Nauvoo w women were induced to three ritual orders based on the sexual favors expected of them. Such claims are not tenable, but recent historians have nonetheless noted the apparent association of the Relief Society with Freemasonry. And Bennett’s more slanderous claims aside, it is a fact that the leading women of the Relief Society in Nauvoo were all wives of Joseph Smith at one time. Whatever the actual relationship to the practices in Nauvoo, there had been Masonic lodges indulging in such practices, the most specific example being that of Cagliostro {Part of Crowley’s Soul Continuation and if Paschal Beverly Randolph [Merovingian Physiocrat like Dupont] he is correct in his supposed similar connection with Eliphas Levi and later with him as well.} Egyptian Rite. By all accounts, Bennett would have an intimate interest in this kind of Freemasonry, or this kind of Mormonism, and it would be hard to imagine him not encouraging Joseph’s ideas about new forms of ritual marriage.
In this context, another question lingers: Is it possible that Bennett’s meteoric rise to prominence in Nauvoo was related to some unsuspected Masonic factor? Did he arrive in Nauvoo claiming esoteric bloodlines independent of the Hermetic or Masonic priesthood, or some ancient, occult knowledge, statements that Joseph, because of prior life experiences and associations, chose to honor? Although Bennett may ultimately have been no more than a gifted charlatan, it must be granted that a complex legacy of spiritual insight was embedded in Masonic rituals, myths, and symbols; they had a history and lineage that went back many centuries in hermetic, cabalistic and alchemical Gnosis. John C. Bennett may have brought more than Blue Lodge Masonry to Nauvoo. And regardless of his true intentions, what he brought could have been useful to a prophet.
In Nauvoo in 1842 and after, I suggest that Joseph Smith found a reservoir of myths, symbols, and ideas handed down in the context of Freemasonry but with complex and more distant origins in the Western esoteric tradition. They apparently resonated with Smith’s own visions, experiences that have shaped his spiritual life since the time of his first insights into a prophetic call. He responded to this stimulus with a tremendous and creative outpouring, the kind of creative response that Gnostic myth and symbol were intended to evoke, and evidently had evoked throughout a millennium of history. But, leaving Masonry, there was yet another, more primal transmission of this esoteric tradition that would touch Joseph’s creative imagination during his later years in Nauvoo.
Joseph Smith and Kabbalah in Nauvoo
By 1842, it is likely that Joseph Smith had touched on the subject of Kabbalah in various forms and versions, even if such contacts remain beyond easy documentation. However, during Joseph’s last years in Nauvoo, his connection to Kabbalah becomes more concrete. In the spring of 1841 he apparently arrived in Nauvoo an extraordinary library of Kabbalistic writings belonging to a European Jew and Mormon convert who evidently knew Kabbalah and its major writings. This man, Alexander Neibaur, would soon become a friend and companion of the prophet.
Neibaur {The Rothschilds were Bauers before they took the occult symbol and shield as their name. Could this be a ‘nee’ [French for ‘born’]-Bauer?} has received little detailed study by Mormon historians, and his knowledge of Kabbalah has earned only an occasional footnote in Mormon historical work. Neibaur was born in Alsace-Lorraine in 1808, but during his later childhood the family apparently returned to their original home in East Prussia (now part of Poland). His father, Nathan Neibaur, was a physician and dentist, who, according to family sources, was personal physician to ‘the’ Napoleon Bonaparte and whose skill as a linguist made him of “great value” to Napoleon as an interpreter (perhaps inflated claims by posterity). Like his father, Alexander became fluent in several languages, including French, German, Hebrew, and later English. He also read Latin and Greek. {It is reasonable to expect that he understood the symbology and archetypes and what became Neuro-Linguistic Programming and its hypnotic ‘charms’ to control people.} Family lore states that as the first son and eldest son, his father wished that he became a rabbi. , and that the young Neibaur had started in rabbinic training.” (2)