CYCLE TWENTY

1. Because the 'Holy Trinity' is broadly purgatorial, with a purgatorial cynosure in Christ which is flanked by the sub-purgatory of the Father and the super-purgatory of the Holy Ghost, it is nnonconformist in three different ways, viz. the emotional nonconformism of the Father, the intellectual nonconformism of the Son, and the spiritual nonconformism of the Holy Ghost. In denominational terms, this would suggest a distinction between Presbyterianism, Puritanism, and Roman Catholicism, since all three denominations are different forms of nonconformism, the first two relevant to the Father and the Son, the third relevant to the Holy Ghost.

2. Hence the sub-purgatorial bias towards poetic emotion of Presbyterianism and the purgatorial bias towards epistolary intellectuality of Puritanism would contrast, as Protestant forms of nonconformism, with the super-purgatorial bias towards philosophic spirituality (prayer) of Roman Catholicism, and all within the cerebral parameters of Christianity. However, down below, in the realms of Protestant and Catholic humanism, we would find the World, and the World (of 'Christian' humanism) would be divisible between the humanism of the Mother and the humanism of the Blessed Virgin, the former effectively Anglican and the latter Eastern Orthodox, each of which would be sensual or, rather, instinctual with a dramatic bias. For the Mother is of course instinctual (in sensibility) whereas the Trinity is emotional/intellectual/spiritual, after the manner of its cerebral essence, an essence no less masculine than (the essence of) the womb is feminine.

3. Hence nonconformism, whether Protestant or Catholic, is that which, appertaining to the brain, is closer to the masculine than to the feminine, whereas humanism, whether Protestant of Catholic, is that which, appertaining to the womb, is closer to the feminine than to the masculine. Nonconformism is a revolt against humanism, and Nonconformists are more purgatorial, and hence Christian, than worldly, or Marian. The first revolt, or schism, was between Romanism and Orthodoxy (or what became known as such), and led to the hegemony of the Holy Ghost over the Blessed Virgin. The second revolt, or schism (third if we include the Reformation), was between Puritanism/Presbyterianism and Anglicanism, and led to the hegemony of the Son/Father over the Mother. The World always precedes Purgatory, but then nonconformism rises up against humanism, and the Son (or the Father/Holy Spirit) lays claim to an independence of the Mother/Virgin, as the brain triumphs over the womb. Nonconformists are saved from the World, whereas Humanists are saved to the World. For the World is just as entitled to its feminine salvation (in maternal sensibility) as Purgatory to its masculine one (in cerebral sensibility).

4. The nonconformism of Protestantism stands to Catholic nonconformism pretty much as Rugby League/Union to Hurling, whereas the humanism of Protestantism stands to Catholic humanism pretty much as Association Football to Gaelic Football (and/or some Eastern-European equivalent).