CYCLE THIRTY-SEVEN
1. It rains so much in Ireland that, were it not
to retain what amounts to an ideological bias for agriculture over industry, it
would be even more exposed to the danger of civilization than Britain, with all
the attendant 'feminine' features that such a danger poses. Obviously, for a country that prides itself
on being religious, that is avowedly masculine in its rural base (the necessary
precondition of any higher culture), the threat posed by 'falling water', in
the most literal sense of that term, to its natural/cultural bias is very real,
particularly in view of the, compared to Britain, greater volume of rainwater
per annum. One could easily infer, under
constant pressure of the rain, a fatality towards humanism within the Catholic
Church in Ireland, and such a fatality could only detract from what should be
its nonconformist bias, such that elevates Christ above the Blessed Virgin, and
thus, in true Catholic fashion, paves the way for the Holy Spirit, that
transcendentalist or, more correctly, pseudo-transcendentalist flower of
Christianity.
2. Only by maintaining a firm agricultural and
rural base in nature generally ... can the masculine/pseudo-divine aspects of
Catholicism be protected from encroaching humanism. For wherever such a base has been eroded, one
can only assume the worst, i.e. the growth of 'Heathen' tendencies, under cover
of industrial/urban expansion, at Christianity's expense. Such a growth means that the feminine and,
via that, the Diabolic, will be replacing the masculine and, via that, the
Divine. In short, that civilization will
be eclipsing nature and, through that, barbarism eclipsing culture. Instead of Ireland being a country where God
and the Church come first, it will simply become a place where the Devil and
the State come first, a place where the masculine resolve ... to cling to
nature in the teeth of so much 'falling water' ... is systematically thwarted
by industrial/urban expansion, and what was once a comparatively religious
country, given to masculine/pseudo-supermasculine
subjective deliverance from the World, becomes just another secular society,
little different from Britain in the way that civilization lords or, rather,
'ladies' it over nature at man's expense.
3. Probably, things are not yet as bad as
that! But, even so, there would still be
no grounds for complacency. For
