CYCLE TWENTY
1. The 'sign of the cross', as made by Catholics,
confirms a subjective tendency, in keeping with the nature of genuine religion
(even in its phenomenal guise).
Protestants, on the other hand, are comparatively bereft of religious
subjectivity.
2. The very word 'Protestant' suggests a
negative mentality, a mentality of protesting against
something or, more specifically, of being rooted in a protest against
Catholic universality, and hence by implication the
3. The Protestant is
therefore a rather negative and demonstrative individual who, due to an
incapacity to live or understand religious subjectivity, rejects Catholicism
and its promise and hope of a better world (Heaven) to come. For such a 'better world' can only be
established on the basis of a higher order (noumenal
rather than phenomenal) of subjectivity.
4. I have elsewhere effectively argued that
there is no moral justification for Protestantism, since its purgatorial
rejection of the World inevitably leads (given the objective nature of the
plane in question) to lunar materialism, and therefore I resolutely maintain
that the Reformation was an heretical aberration which paved the way for the
worst excesses of materialism and naturalism such that, in the twentieth century,
came to damnable fruition.
5. In fact, so little can Protestantism be
morally justified, in view of its objective nature, that one is led to infer a
class and/or racial disposition of certain people(s) towards an economic, if
not a scientific, hegemony, with the rejection of religion as its logical
corollary.
6. Even Catholicism may only be - as I in fact
happen to believe - a 'bovaryization' of religion
relevant to a political hegemony, whether in terms, traditionally, of Catholic monarchism
or, subsequently, of republicanism.
7. Certainly, Catholicism is less than true
religion in relation to the Social Transcendentalism which the Messianic
equivalent of a Second Coming would establish on the basis of mass religious
sovereignty, and the concomitant acceptance, by the People, of the Holy Spirit
of Heaven as the One True God.
8. One could describe Catholicism as beautiful
religion, given the importance of the Blessed Virgin as the focal-point of
phenomenal subjectivity in relation to the World. Yet, even then, this beautiful religion is
diluted, if not vitiated, by Old-Testament influences which hark back towards
scientific illusion and the correlative subversion of religious truth.
9. There is, within Christianity, a terrible
struggle and tension between, on the one hand, the scientific illusions of the
mystical Old Testament and, on the other hand, the religious truths of the gnostical New Testament (as in the case of an
'eye-for-an-eye' vis-à-vis 'turning the other cheek'), with the further
complication that the Father in relation to Christ is not Jehovah, but a much
more personal Creator who stands at a fundamentalist remove from the
transpersonal 'Creator of the Universe' and His cosmic idealism.
10. What condemns Christianity, in the final
analysis, is not the shortcomings of the New Testament in relation to Christ,
nor even the cult of the Blessed Virgin, but the hopeless muddle and
ambivalence which result from its accommodation, through the Old Testament, of
scientific illusion. The cosmic idealism
of Jehovah acts as a brake and effective block on the development of religious
truth to its optimum level in the gnostical
transcendentalism of the Holy Spirit of Heaven.
Only when mankind are freed, through Messianic deliverance, from the
scientific tyranny of the Bible ... will religion come truly into its own,
consigning the Hebraic Clear Light of the Void to the 'rubbish tip' of cosmic
idealism.
11. Despite the triumph of science in the
twentieth century, including the victory of the Anglo-American/Soviet alliance
against Nazi Germany, religion still survives on a basis, relative to the
Catholic New Testament, which remains open to and hopeful of the Truth,
and thus the establishment, in due Messianic course, of 'Kingdom Come'.
12. It could be argued that the more decadent and
even barbarous the Protestant-dominated West has become, the more the Old
Testament has eclipsed the New Testament in effective usage, until, with the
triumph of Anglo-American scientific neo-paganism, even the Old Testament has
had to make way for older and more idealistic texts of the sort favoured by
devotees of the Clear Light of the Void.
