CYCLE
FOUR
1. Just as Anglicanism is Protestant humanism
compared to the nonconformism of Puritanism and the
'fundamentalism' of Presbyterianism, so Orthodoxy is Catholic humanism compared
to the nonconformism of the 'Celtic Church' and the
'transcendentalism' of Roman Catholicism.
Thus humanism and nonconformism are germane to
both Protestantism and Catholicism, unlike fundamentalism and
transcendentalism, which appertain to the Protestant and Catholic extremes.
2. One could argue, in contrast to the above,
that Pentecostalism is if not Catholic 'transcendentalism' then certainly
Protestant 'transcendentalism', bearing in mind its bias towards the Holy
Ghost. But, frankly, I don't believe
that there is, or ever could be, any such thing as Protestant
'transcendentalism', bearing in mind Protestantism's pseudo-Christian and
effectively Heathen basis, and since there is no way that Pentecostalism could
be described as Catholic, it must follow that it is a radical manifestation of
Protestant nonconformism, whose concept of the Holy
Ghost, doubtless deriving from Biblical references to 'tongues of fire', would
be more mystical than truly spiritual (even to a Catholic degree).
3. The YMCA, with its inverted triangle, prides
itself on being non-denominational in character, but, in reality, it is a
Protestant organization whose emblem reflects, in typically British fashion,
the tripartite character of Protestant civilization, viz. the Mother at the
base of this inverted triangle, with the Son appertaining to the upper right
angle and the Father appertaining, by contrast, to the upper left angle of its
apex. In such fashion, it can be
maintained that Puritanism and Dissenterism stand
above Anglicanism, and pretty much like the Conservatives and the Liberals
(latterly Liberal Democrats) above Labour, or, for that matter,
4. Thus if the YMCA is non-denominational, it
can only be so with regard to the variety of Protestant denominations, not with
reference to Roman Catholicism which, by contrast, has nothing to do with
inverted or any other kinds of triangles but, on the contrary, relates to a
World-denying ethos that, being properly Christian, eschews clashing
objectivities (between the Father and the Mother), as both the Christ Child
(the actual 'Son' of Catholicism) and the Holy Spirit 'turn their backs' on the
Virgin in the interests of subjective deliverance from the World which, being
feminine, is objective in the Mother/Virgin.
Only in nature is 'the World' subjective; but then nature, in the
particular sense I am adumbrating here, is not really the World but, rather,
that which stands at a masculine remove from it in and as the Antichrist.
