The article
"The Role of Kabbalah in the Founding of the United States of America" by Ariel bar Tzadok [should be called The Role of (Pseudo-)Kabbalah in the Founding of the United States of America] is an important article.

The Zohar, which bar Tzadok accepts, is a forgery. It was written in the Middle Ages by Moses de Leon, not by Rabbi Shim'on bar Yochai, to whom it is attributed. De Leon's own family attested that they saw him writing it.

However, though bar Tzadok himself adheres to heretical Lurianic pseduo-Kabbalah, what he writes in this article is very accurate.

It is well worth reading this essay.

http://koshertorah.com/PDF/KabbalahMasonsandAmerica.pdf

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