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2. CATHOLIC NONCONFORMISM. Although the voluminous Volume of nonconformism tends towards the spaced Space of
transcendentalism, as from the religious Left to the religious Extreme Left, or
the Son to the Holy Spirit, it should not be inferred that this implies a
special predilection on the part of Protestantism towards
transcendentalism. On the contrary, it
is the nonconformism (prayer) of Catholicism which is
most orientated towards the heavenly Beyond and the possibility, in
consequence, of an extreme left-wing religious alternative to
Christianity. For, despite its
indubitably populist conservatism, Catholicism still opens out, through
prayerful nonconformism, towards a properly spiritual
salvation in the heavenly Beyond, turning its back, in the process, on the
massive-Mass-to-repetitive-Time attraction which leads from the Mother to the
Father in due fundamentalist fashion, the heart duly eclipsing the womb.
3. PROTESTANT NONCONFORMISM. Only an anti-Catholic reductionist
of overly Protestant tendency would seek to reduce Catholicism to a Mass/Time
fatality on the basis of its 'Heathen' populism, overlooking the Volume/Space
relationship which characterizes its properly Christian dimension, a dimension
as nonconformist/transcendentalist as the popular dimension 'lower down' is humanist/fundamentalist. No, such populism does not exclude the truly
Christian alternative but, rather, extends Christianity to the masses, both
male and, especially, female, who would otherwise be overlooked and scorned ...
as, unfortunately, tends to the case with Protestant nonconformism,
particularly in its overly masculine or purgatorial manifestations, as in
Puritanism and Presbyterianism. However
that may be, it is more damaging to exclude the masses from religion than to
embrace them on a 'pseudo-Christian' basis via Mass and Time; for Christianity
is not intended to be a specifically middle-class religion. Yet the 'nonconformism'
of Protestantism does not lead 'over the moon', in a Saturn-oriented bias for
transcendentalist Space but, on the contrary, either remains loyal to the
intellect per
se, as in the strictly voluminous case of Puritanism (the Son), with its
epistolary New-Testament bias towards writing, or 'bovaryizes'
the intellect towards Time, as in the case of the rather more patriarchal Presbyterianism
... with its poetical Old-Testament bias towards reading, or, alternatively,
towards Mass, as in the case of Anglicanism ... with its dramatic bias towards
speaking, so that quasi-emotional (the Father) and quasi-sensual (the Mother)
modes of intellectual devotion tend to be the prevailing norms, and things
either remain at an overworldly/netherworldly remove
from the possibility of spiritual salvation or, worse again, 'bog down' in the
World, where they tend to glorify what is Heathen to the detriment of all that
is Christian, the dramatic taking precedence, through the Mother, over the
poetic and the epistolary, as in the strictly Anglican mode of nonconformism. Only
the quasi-spiritual 'bovaryization' of the intellect
through prayer actually leads the mind towards spaced Space, and this tends to
be the mode of nonconformism one would most readily
associate with Catholicism, which is arguably more mindful of the Beyond than
its superficially more nonconformist detractors would allow!
4. UNIVERSALITY OF ETERNAL LIFE. Yet, that said, there is still a significant
distinction between the 'spirituality' of the grave and the spirituality, or,
rather, universality, of Eternal Life ... the other side of Christendom, as
espoused by me with regard to 'Kingdom Come'.
This latter is not so much beyond prayer/contemplation in the cerebral
afterlife of the grave ... as antithetical to emotionality in the meditative
calm of pure transcendentalism, which is as religiously extreme left wing as it
is possible to be, the joyful liberation of the noumenally
saved spirit in the holiness of universal Heaven.
