His controversial promulgations and religiously fanatical publications such as The Dove of Noah and The Triumph of the Stone cut without Hands created hopes and theological tensions among major religions of those days.
It appears, he made lot of fortune on then, prosperous slave trade in the West Indies and on the coast of Guinea.
He justified his claim showing the name Paulleli as a combination of Greek Paulus and Hebrew Eli; thus, meaning God supplies the inadequacy.
He also claimed that, at the age of 13, he made a blood covenant with God, who exchanged a yodh for the he in his baptismal name, thereafter, renaming his original name from Holiger to Oliger (Olliger), to connote "through him Jesus would be brought to the Jews."
[12] He was imprisoned at Amsterdam in 1701, for publishing a book ridiculing Christianity and announcing a plan and project to establish a new religion on its ruins.
A number of Jews encouraged his efforts to establish a new kingdom of Israel with frequent Jewish assemblage at his home and several meetings where Oliger spoke on his holy mission.
[8] Jeannine Kunert: 'I who knows no Hebrew': On the relation of language, identity and millenarian expectations as exemplified by Oliger Paulli", in Sabine Sander (Ed.
): Language as Bridge and Border – Linguistics, Cultural, and Political Constellations in 18th to 20th Century German-Jewish Thought, Berlin 2015.