The core kernel of Abrahamic monotheism

German Egyptologist Jas Assmann's concise summary of what constitutes the core of Abrahamic monotheism:

"Before this shift [i.e. origin of monotheism and the Mosaic distinction] there were only tribal and “polytheistic” cult and national religions, which had evolved over time; afterwards, new religions emerged to rival and increasingly supplant these historically evolved religions, several of which still survive in various cultures today. These new religions are all monotheisms, religions of the book (or revealed religions), and world religions… What all of these religions have in common is an emphatic concept of truth. They all rest on a distinction between true and false religion, proclaiming a truth that does not stand in a complementary relationship to other truths, but consigns all traditional or rival truths to the realm of falsehood. This exclusive truth is something genuinely new, and its novel, exclusive and exclusionary character is clearly reflected in the manner in which it is communicated and codified. It claims to have been revealed to humankind once and for all, since no path of merely human fashioning could have led from the experiences accumulated over countless generations to this goal; and it has been deposited in a canon of sacred texts, since no cult or rite would have been capable of preserving this revealed truth down the ages. From the world-disclosing force of this truth, the new or secondary religions draw the antagonistic energy that allows them to recognize and condemn falsehood, and to expound the truth in a normative edifice of guidelines, dogmas, behavioral precepts, and salvational doctrines. The truth derives its depth, its clear contours, and its capacity to orient and direct action from this antagonistic energy, and from the sure knowledge of what is incompatible with the truth. These new religions can therefore perhaps be characterized most adequately by the term “counterreligion.” For these religions, and for these religions alone, the truth to be proclaimed comes with an enemy to be fought. Only they know of heretics and pagans, false doctrine, sects, superstition, idolatry, magic, ignorance, unbelief, heresy, and whatever other terms have been coined to designate what they denounce, persecute and proscribe as manifestations of untruth."

Benevolent Liberalism

"Benevolent Liberalism" is a concept I've been toying around with; of course this only makes sense from the perspective of Metaphysical Traditionalism (what some might call Sophia Perennis). Whereas Liberalism is no longer seen as unequivocally antagonistic toward Tradition, but rather a historic political force containing utility value in service of genuine restoration: namely a Liberalism that served as a potent dissolving against the corrupted institutional forces of Medieval Europe, i.e. Christian theocracy and the Monarchies which serves as the prime political enabler of monolithic Church hegemony. This may have in fact been the true motive of some of the more enlightened American Founding Fathers, as their "true religion" was Hermetic Cosmotheism, a *true* Tradition in every sense of the word. This set of beliefs flew in under the radar using a series of time-sensitive guises like Freemasonry, Deism, Enlightenment Humanism, ect.

Of course this young Liberalism quickly became corrupted and even twisted into grotesque forms (see: the French Revolution, Socialism, Marxism, ect.) which fully embodied the Abrahamic shadow it was attempting to revolt against. And then as we know quite well, the rising economic powers of Europe, the Bourgeoisie/Oligarchs/Vaishyas ended up hijacking Liberal imperative and turning it into an ideology that championed their own supremacy and the economic rape, pillage and plunder of the planet (for their sole benefit) that followed.

Can Liberalism today be salvaged and re-invented and redirected toward the goal of restoring the Natural Way (Dharma)? Perhaps so. If so, it would have to:

(1) Confine itself to the political realm and thus keep its nose out of the metaphysical. Unlike contemporary "progressive" liberalism, which very much behaves like an aggressive monotheistic religion, with its "my way or the high way" ethos and MO it actively works to forcefully impose on everything it comes into contact with.
(2) In the political realm, it shall redefine itself as a mediating mechanism that keeps belligerent and expansionist ideologies, both religious and secular, in check and thus unable to gain any considerable degree of control over the levers of state power.
(3) Uphold the virtues of ideological pluralism and a form of secularism that favors cultural decentralism and thus doesn't infringe upon the religious, spiritual and cultural liberties of law-abiding constituent populations; this secularism should however draw its inspiration from cosmotheistic wisdom tradition, which itself is a truly universal spiritual base.

There's probably more points I could add to this at a later time.