The Memory of Abraham

Abraham's (אַבְרָהָם) Sacrifice
by Andre del Sarto

The Memory of Abraham |
Monday – September 14, 2026

Memories are fleeting things, and yet we still remember Abraham (אַבְרָהָם) over 4000 years later, truly the light remains in the world still, although it is getting evermore faint, read "My Views on the Unity of the Source". Of course, the memory of Abraham is thus preserved, but can we be sure that he will be remembered in another 4000 years? Hardly, but then again, it all comes down to the cyclical progression of the world: will we still remain in a world void of truths, of true knowledge in another 4000 years? It may even be the case that the world will have been completely wiped out in 4000 years... If indeed, humanity is wiped out in 4000 years, what will then be of the memory of Abraham? Hear hear, these things matter, and they will matter in the future; we are bound by our past and we are destined for our future, for these things depend on each other, and a world without Abraham, would at the very least be a world without Near Eastern and Western Civilization.* Perhaps civilizations in the Far East could be preserved without the memory of Abraham, but the Western world, the Near Eastern world, and parts of the Middle East, would quite clearly and frankly not be possible without the account of Abraham, without the memory of Abraham. It should be fitting then, that I am able to direct you to my "Bible Study series", where I am just now uncovering the story of Abraham in Genesis (בְּרֵאשִׁית).

    Now, Abraham was, according to some scholars, the father not only of nations, read "Genesis, Chapter 12", but of monotheism. Well, this is a point that must be disputed, and indeed is disputed by many Jewish scholars, for the fact is that humanity had degenerated and devolved away from monotheism, or the concept of monotheism, in the times of Abraham, which is why Abraham's father and people was pagans that prayed to idol Gods, that is false Gods, read "Idols", and the point of the Bible is, the Torah (תּוֹרָה שֶׁבִּכְתָב) specifically, that men degenerated away from The Primordial Body, and this is why the flood was necessary—in order to restore the scales of the celestial order, read "Destruction!"—because man had fallen so low and so deep into the infrahuman state, that they required a reckoning, which in the Biblical testimony happened with the Great Flood, read "Genesis, Chapter 5". Of course, Abraham lived after the Great Flood, but close enough to it to still hold a certain sense of this event, yet the people of his days had fallen and degenerated, and the fact then that he is still remembered today must also be taken as a sign of the everlasting truth of this story, for the example of Abraham makes him nonpareil amongst his contemporaries. This last point should however not be taken as proof that he was the founder of monotheism, read "Proof of the Name of Yahweh", but rather as proof that he indeed was destined, for he had been elected by Yahweh to carry out this necessary mission, and for this he is still remembered, and as long as there still is some light in the world he will still be remembered for his actions all those centuries ago, read "Who or What is God?". It is certainly not the case that you need to hold a certain conviction in this regard, but convictions can be helpful; I will add though, that convictions need to stand on their own, and if they cannot be upheld, they are of very little use, a point that many people appear to forget or simply and frankly dismiss. If you are hearing a voice, this voice must be able to carry meaning, and if the voice speaks to you without carrying any kind of meaning, then you are either mistaken or you are too ignorant to understand the voice. An example of this could be a child failing to head the commands of his father, either because he is sinful and hiding, or because he is still to infantile to understand the commands issued by his father to begin with, which could indicate that his father should take this into consideration, which most fathers would do.

    At any rate, once there is no light in the world, the memory of Abraham will no longer be, and this is just as well, for those people will be completely solidified and lost to history, which is why it is quite fitting to conceive of the completely "liberated" man as a kind of anti-man or at least everything that is not human, read "Transhumanism". What makes you human? Yes, ask yourself this, because this question deserves to be answered by you and nobody else. If what makes you human is everything that you are attempting to escape, then you do not understand Abraham, and you cannot really be said to have a memory of Abraham, for a memory requires more than mere recitation: a memory requires understanding and really higher knowledge. Why did Abraham offer his son Isaac, why did he bind him to be offered to Yahweh, if he was not sure of the endurance of Yahweh and of his commands? These actions were carried out because they had to be carried out, in order for Abraham to obtain the blessing from Yahweh, and in order for the history of the world to progress.† I suppose that, from a modern point of view, that it would be quite necessary to discard notions of false righteousness in order to fully understand this story, but more on this later. I should say this too about the memory of Abraham: while most people would consider all of this phantasmagoria, they will still admit that without this story, without this fantasy in their view, the world would be quite different, and perhaps some contingent of these modern people would admit that because of the story of Abraham, the world is a better place; sure, most of them, the moderns, would still proclaim that the world was worse of because of Abraham and these "hysterical desert tribes", and so be it. I have no intention of "converting" people, as if the purpose of a memory is to convince people; either you hold the memory or you do not, and it seems actually that most people only hold a virtual memory of Abraham on the road to global catastrophe. Again, so be it.

    Lastly, I want to say this about the preservation of this memory: beyond being merely a folk memory in the tales of Jewish tradition and folklore, I believe that it would be true to describe this foundational memory of the world, as a turning point, and in the case of Abraham, it describes a turning point away from deviation and disease towards righteousness and order. Today therefore, would we not be prudent in asking ourselves why the world is turning away into deviation, is it because we are so lacking in memory?

Reginald Drax (AKA, M. C. Dutt) – September 14, 2026.

Footnote(s)

* For more on this, I direct you to my posts: "Can Western Civilization be Restored?" and "Modern Civilization".

† Do not confuse "the history of the world to progress" with some kind of do-good liberal and modern notion of moral relativism; this has nothing to do with the legacy of humanism. I must direct you to my posts: "My Views on Liberalism" and "My Views on the Progress Maxim".