As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that ‘the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be judged by its standards. Standing under a new spiritual law and representing as it were a new kind of reality, they are beyond good and evil’. Strauss’s philosopher-prophet is a secularized version of the same conceit.
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