Rabbi Marvin Antelman

see also https://www.reddit.com/r/NorthwestFront/comments/5v3hq7/what_is_the_stor...

https://zaidpub.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/antelman_to_eliminate_the_op...

"The truth of the matter was, as this book will point out, that there was a conspiracy, but it was neither Jewish, nor Catholic nor Masonic." introduction

Scholem summarizes the five distinguishing beliefs of radical Sabbatianism which are essentially beliefs that the

1. Apostasy of the Messiah is a necessity. 2. Real Torah is not the real Torah, and must be violated by conforming to another superior, alien mystical Torah called the Torah of Atzilut (Aristocracy). 3. First Cause and the God of Israel are not the same, the former being the God of rational philosophers and the latter the God of religion. 4. Godhead takes human form, which allowed for leaders of the sect to be incarnated into that Godhead, from Shabbetai Tzvi through to Frank and others.

Then later Antelman writes:

Since the Hebrew word atzilut has two meanings, aristocracy and emanations, to the innermost adepts or wealthy Sabbatians, the torah of atzilut was the aristocratic torah of Plato--the higher wisdom, of Kings and Priests. To the common Sabbatians, it was preached as the mystical torah of the emanations of the superior spheres. The atzilut emanations concept has been popularized to the masses by the profound saintly mystic, Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534-1572) and his disciple, Rabbi Chaim Vital (1543-1620). The God of Israel who gave the Jews the Torah was considered inferior to Shabbetai Tzvi who received the antinomian torah from a higher Gnostic deity. Nevertheless, in classic Sabbatianism, this deity favors Israel--i.e., people of Jewish descent violating the Torah.