201. In eclipsing Romanticism and Classicism, Expressionism and Impressionism paved the way for the eclipse of Western civilization by universal barbarism, viz. light art.

 

202. The modern age is presided over not by the god of worldly or, indeed, any other denial, but by the devil of worldly, and other, affirmations.

 

203. Everywhere the alpha of immoral folly unashamedly proclaims itself, to the detriment of moral wisdom!

 

204. There are those for whom denial of the will through art is an end-in-itself, without reference to the possibility of divine salvation.

 

205. Generally, those for whom worldly denial is an end-in-itself are artists and hard-line Catholics, for whom worldly salvation is sufficient.

 

206. Feudalism, Capitalism, and Socialism are simply different class approaches to the same goal - namely the pursuit of materialism, and hence power.

 

207. Feudalism is the naturalistic approach to power of the ruling class.

 

208. Capitalism is the materialistic approach to power of the middle class.

 

209. Socialism is the realistic approach to power of the working class.

 

210. Feudalism, Capitalism, and Socialism can never provide a solution to the problem of power, but only perpetuate it according to different class interests.

 

211. The only way that power will ever be overcome is through the rejection of class in and by a classless society whose economic base is communist (with regard to Centre trusteeship).

 

212. Such a base cannot be maintained without due reference to a revolutionary religious or moral superstructure which it is intended to serve.

 

213. Such a superstructure can only be transcendentalist, concerned with the advancement of the Holy Spirit of Heaven through spiritual self-denial.

 

214. The less people own materially, the more eligible they will be for divine salvation in and through the Holy Spirit of Heaven.

 

215. State Socialism, or Bolshevism/Stalinism, is a quasi-fascist approach to Socialism, and has little or nothing to do with Marx.

 

216. State Socialism is simply the proletarian equivalent of State Capitalism, or Fascism, as reflecting the economic dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

 

217. Such a dictatorship may well be in alliance with State Feudalism, the neo-royalist Fascism of the aristocracy, which was the more genuine mode of Fascism in the twentieth century.

 

218. State tyranny was the twentieth-century equivalent of monarchic tyranny, or unbridled Royalism, and it took the quasi-fascist form of State Socialism (Bolshevism), the pseudo-fascist form of State Capitalism (Nazism), and the genuinely fascist form of State Feudalism (Neo-Royalism).

 

219. Whether dictatorship be of the aristocracy, the bourgeoisie, or the proletariat, State tyranny is its inevitable corollary.

 

220. It is not enough to overcome tyranny; ultimately the State itself must be (democratically) overcome in the interests of an expansion of the Church towards the absolutist salvation of the (Social Theocratic) 'Kingdom of Heaven'.

 

221. The least objectionable form of the State is a People's Republic, because that is the only State which is subjectively of the World.

 

222. Both the bourgeois (parliamentary) and aristocratic (royalist) forms of the State are objective, and therefore ranged against the World from contrary standpoints - the standpoints, respectively, of Purgatory and Hell.

 

223. The tyrannical forms of the State are all, in their different ways, fiery (fundamentalist) manifestations of Hell on Earth.

 

224. Not until the Church triumphs, through the Social Theocratic ideology of the Second Coming, over the State ... will the airy (transcendentalist) manifestation of Heaven on Earth finally come to pass.

 

225. Such a Heaven, necessarily communist, will be at the furthest possible ideological remove from the fascist hells of State tyranny.

 

226. Where the fascist State is diabolical in its noumenal objectivity, the communist Church, or Centre, will be divine in its noumenal subjectivity.

 

227. Thus true Communism (Centrism, pronounced Center-ism) has nothing whatsoever to do with either the false (alpha) Communism of Marx (a sort of Neo-Jehovahesque idealism) or the quasi-fascist State Socialism of Lenin, Stalin, et al, but is beyond the State in what I have termed a Social Theocratic Centre.

 

228. True Communism is the economic support, germane to a Christ-like sacrifice on the part of the Second Coming of bearing 'sins of the World', for the religious development of Transcendentalism.

 

229. Such a sacrifice would amount to an acceptance of economic, judicial, and political sovereignties by the Second Coming in the interests of the People's freedom from such 'sins of the (republican) World'.

 

230. One could speak of a deal being struck between the People and the Second Coming whereby the former receive religious sovereignty from the latter (in the event of their voting for it, following his official recognition as Messiah), who agrees to take their 'worldly sins' upon his shoulders in their own moral interests.

 

231. Thus the Second Coming offers the People the opportunity of deliverance from 'worldly sins' through the agency of religious sovereignty - the ultimate sovereignty in the evolution of sovereignties from secular to divine levels, and no small aspect of Messianic credibility!

 

232. Without such an ultimate sovereignty the People not only remain enslaved to their own 'worldly sins' within the republican contexts, but remain worshipfully subject to the more authoritarian aspects of ecclesiastical tradition, including subjection to the Father.

 

233. It could be said that religious sovereignty confers the 'right' to spiritual self-determination within the institutional framework of a Social Theocratic Centre.

 

234. With religious sovereignty, the 'Kingdom of Heaven' literally comes to pass, and the People accordingly gain the right to become, officially and eternally, the Holy Spirit of Heaven.

 

235. The Holy Spirit of Heaven contrasts absolutely with the Clear Light of the Void, and is thus at the farthest possible remove from cosmic mysticism.

 

236. There is nothing mysterious about the Holy Spirit of Heaven, which is consciousness of the (lightness of) air.

 

237. God the Holy Spirit of Heaven is thus a composite of two factors - the factor of consciousness on the one hand, and the factor of the air of which it is internally conscious on the other.

 

238. God the Holy Spirit of Heaven is neither consciousness nor air, but internal consciousness of the air.

 

239. Hence God, in any ultimate sense, is dependent on the connection of consciousness with air, and is only possible on the basis that air is being consciously inhaled, thereby becoming heavenly.

 

240. Air is not Heaven by itself, but only in relation to its conscious inhalation by a consciousness focused, at the 'crown centre', on the air that is being inhaled.

 

241. Similarly, consciousness is not holy spirit by itself, but only in relation to the air of which it is internally conscious.

 

242. Such holy spirit contrasts with unholy, or profane, spirit, which is rooted in the Clear Light of the Void and enters human consciousness in the form of light energy.

 

243. A consciousness given over to optical appreciation of phenomena exists more in terms of profane spirit than of holy spirit.

 

244. That man has not died to the spirit who is overly curious in regard to the phenomenal world.

 

245. To die to the spirit in order to be reborn into the Holy Spirit, substituting the inner noumenal for the outer phenomenal as, transvaluated, one's consciousness becomes focused on the lightness of air.

 

246. To live in the spirit is to suffer the curse of Original Sin which, by making the phenomenal world a focus of (optical) consciousness, perpetuates the World.

 

247. The World, being phenomenal, is merely temporal, and accordingly phenomenal life is subject to death.

 

248. Only by rejecting the World, and hence the Original Sin which perpetuates it, can man live the Eternal Life of the Holy Spirit of Heaven.

 

249. By contrast to Original Sin, such Eternal Life is an Ultimate Grace, for it leads not to suffering, but to bliss.

 

250. The bliss of being at one with the universal self of the air is the bliss of salvation in and through the Holy Spirit of Heaven.

 

251. What began in the light will end in the air, whether this air be natural or, more probably, supernatural, and hence chemically manufactured.

 

252. Consciousness is a slave to perceptions when heathen, a slave to conceptions when Christian, and free from both perceptions and conceptions when transcendent, and hence purely receptive of the air.

 

253. Transcendental consciousness, stretching beyond things and words, knows nothing but the bliss of its own joy from being at one with the lightness of air.

 

254. Whatever holds men back from experiencing this ultimate consciousness is damnable, and deserves to perish, whether gradually or presently.

 

255. Only a Liberal would have God share the world with the Devil, Man, and Woman for ever.

 

256. The will of the Second Coming is to bring the World to God the Holy Spirit of Heaven by saving those who can be saved from the Devil, Man, and Woman.

 

257. To be saved from the Devil of upper-class Fundamentalism, from the Man of middle-class Nonconformism, and from the Woman of lower-class Humanism for the God of classless Transcendentalism.

 

258. To be saved from the Devil of upper-class poetry, from the Man of middle-class fiction, and from the Woman of lower-class drama for the God of classless philosophy.

 

259. To be saved from the Devil of upper-class strength, from the Man of middle-class goodness, and from the Woman of lower-class beauty for the God of classless truth.

 

260. To be saved from the Father of upper-class time, from the Son of middle-class volume, and from the Mother of lower-class mass for the Holy Spirit of classless space.

 

261. To be saved from the Devil of upper-class fire, from the Man of middle-class water, and from the Woman of lower-class earth for the God of classless air.

 

262. To be saved from the naturalism of upper-class soul, from the materialism of middle-class intellect, and from the realism of lower-class will for the idealism of classless spirit.

 

263. To be saved from the naturalism of upper-class science, from the materialism of middle-class politics, and from the realism of lower-class economics for the idealism of classless religion.

 

264. To be saved from the authoritarianism of upper-class autocracy, from the parliamentarianism of middle-class democracy, and from the republicanism of lower-class bureaucracy for the totalitarianism of classless theocracy.

 

265. That man who eats but doesn't defecate soon becomes physically constipated.  Likewise, he who reads but doesn't write soon becomes mentally constipated.

 

266. To write is effectively to excrete one's thoughts, which would otherwise pile up and lead to mental constipation.

 

267. Writing is of no value until it has been recycled in book and/or disc format (published) and made available to be read for mental profit.

 

268. Sculpture is the most realistic (worldly) of the Arts, whose basis is the will (earth).

 

269. Literature is the most materialistic (purgatorial) of the Arts, whose basis is the intellect (water).

 

270. Art is the most naturalistic (hellish) of the Arts, whose basis is the soul (fire).

 

271. Music is the most idealistic (heavenly) of the Arts, whose basis is the spirit (air).

 

272. The eclipse of literature by art (photography) is a fact of liberal decadence.

 

273. Literature is damned to and by art, whether photographic or otherwise.

 

274. Sculpture is saved to and by music, whether phonographic or otherwise.

 

275. To be saved from the naturalism of upper-class art, from the materialism of middle-class literature, and from the realism of lower-class sculpture for the idealism of classless music.

 

276. The air is polluted just as much by electronic emissions as by chemical or industrial ones.

 

277. Electronic pollution of the airwaves is simply less conspicuous than the cruder, because perceptible, forms of pollution, but potentially no less damaging!

 

278. Sight is the sense through which the negative spirit of optical consciousness mediates with the world.

 

279. Hearing is the sense through which the negative soul of aural consciousness mediates with the world.

 

280. Smell is the sense through which the positive spirit of nasal consciousness mediates with the world.

 

281. Taste is the sense through which the negative will of dietary consciousness mediates with the world.

 

282. Touch is the sense through which the positive will of tactile consciousness mediates with the world.

 

283. Feeling is the sense through which the positive soul of racial consciousness mediates with the world.

 

284. Feeling, the sixth sense, is of the blood, and contrasts with hearing, its negative counterpart.

 

285. Likewise smelling, the third sense, is of the air, and contrasts with seeing, its negative counterpart.

 

286. Similarly, touching, the fifth sense, is of the flesh, and contrasts with tasting, its negative counterpart.

 

287. Thinking is the sense through which the positive mind of intellectual consciousness mediates with the world.

 

288. Talking is the sense through which the negative mind of social consciousness mediates with the world.

 

289. Hence thinking, effectively a seventh sense, is of the mind, and contrasts with talking, its negative counterpart.

 

290. To see, to hear, to talk, to taste on the one hand, but to smell, to feel, to think, and to touch on the other - such is the full gamut of sense distinctions.

 

291. To be saved, positively, from touch to smell, but damned, positively, from thought to feeling.

 

292. To be saved, negatively, from taste to sight, but damned, negatively, from talk to hearing.

 

293. The First World War was effectively the War of the Father (Kaiser Wilhelm II).

 

294. The Second World War was effectively the War of the Son (Hitler).

 

295. Although there is unlikely to be a Third World War, logic would suggest that, were it to happen, it would effectively be a War of the Mother and/or the Holy Spirit (the Second Coming), assuming one could have such a thing.

 

296. To be saved from the supernationalism of the Father, the nationalism of the Son, and the internationalism of the Mother for the supra-nationalism of the Holy Spirit.

 

297. Just as, logically, one should think in terms of the Holy Spirit of Heaven (rather than of just the Holy Spirit or Heaven), so it would be logical to think in terms of the Father of Hell, the Son of Purgatory, and the Mother of the World.

 

298. The deceptions of the flesh contrast, relatively, with the conceptions of the mind.

 

299. Likewise, the receptions of the air (breath) contrast, absolutely, with the perceptions of the spirit.

 

300. Like the spirit, the intellect also makes use of the sense of sight, but it does so at a conceptual remove from the purely perceptual realm of optical curiosity.

 

301. The intellect's use of sight resembles the moon, which shines with a borrowed, or indirect, light, whereas the spirit's use of sight is akin to the sun in its fiery directness.

 

302. Intellectuals can usually be distinguished from spirituals (as we may call those whose use of sight is primary rather than secondary) by their dependence on spectacles, which confer an indirect light.

 

303. Spectacle-wearers are usually, though not invariably, middle class, the class, par excellence, of the intellect.

 

304. Logic should allow for the establishment of a correlation between long-sightedness and perceptual consciousness on the one hand, and short-sightedness and conceptual consciousness on the other hand - the former spiritual and the latter intellectual.

 

305. A long-sighted intellectual would strike this thinker (himself distinctly short-sighted) as being as improbable as a short-sighted spiritual.

 

306. Just as there are two ways of being objective, viz. a perceptual and a conceptual, so there are two ways of being subjective, viz. a perceptual and a conceptual.

 

307. To contrast the perceptual extroversion of absolute objective consciousness with the conceptual introversion of absolute subjective consciousness.

 

308. To contrast the conceptual extroversion of relative objective consciousness with the perceptual introversion of relative subjective consciousness.

 

309. Absolute objective consciousness, being perceptual, is of the Devil, whereas absolute subjective consciousness, being conceptual, is of God.

 

310. Relative objective consciousness, being conceptual, is of Man, whereas relative subjective consciousness, being perceptual, is of Woman.

 

311. Objective consciousness, whether perceptual or conceptual, absolute or relative, is free, whereas subjective consciousness, whether perceptual or conceptual, relative or absolute, is bound.

 

312. To contrast the absolute freedom of perceptual extroversion with the absolute boundness of conceptual introversion.

 

313. To contrast the relative freedom of conceptual extroversion with the relative boundness of perceptual introversion.

 

314. Perceptual extroversion, being objective, is of the free star, whereas conceptual introversion, being subjective, is of the bound cross.

 

315. Conceptual extroversion, being objective, is of the free cross, whereas perceptual introversion, being subjective, is of the bound star.

 

316. Considered objectively, freedom is bad, because objective, and hence diabolic/masculine.

 

317. The only freedom that is good is the 'freedom' from objectivity which implies a binding to subjectivity, and hence to feminine/divine criteria.

 

318. Hence it is freedom from Freedom which makes binding to perceptual introversion (the bound star) or conceptual introversion (the bound cross) possible.

 

319. Freedom is a curse of the Western world, which is dominated by the twin objectivities of perceptual (solar) extroversion and conceptual (lunar) extroversion.

 

320. Not until Freedom is overcome will the World be safe for subjective binding, progressing from the mundane plane of perceptual introversion to the transcendent plane of conceptual introversion, as from the Blessed Virgin to the Holy Spirit.

 

321. Freedom is just another word for Heathen/Protestant anarchy, chaos, tyranny, oppression, etc., which dresses itself up as autocracy, democracy, free enterprise, Liberalism, freedom of the press, free speech, etc.

 

322. An open, or objective, society is always run by the Few against the Many, whether the Few be autocratic (and upper class) or democratic (and middle class).

 

323. A closed, or subjective, society can only be run for the Many by the Few, whether the Many be bureaucratic (and lower class) or theocratic (and classless).

 

324. All open societies are conspiracies of upper- and/or middle-class self-interest against the Many, who are simply 'kept in their place' the better to be exploited.

 

325. A shepherd is akin to a sun who utilizes the moon (sheepdog) to keep the world (of sheep) in their subordinate place.

 

326. Such an arrangement is rather akin to an open, or free, society, in which the masses are governed by an elite of politicians (whether autocratic or democratic), whose resemblance to both shepherds and sheepdogs is more than superficial.

 

327. The main distinction between an autocratic and a democratic society (apart from the fact that the one is effectively run by shepherds and the other by sheepdogs) is that whereas the former utilizes soldiers to protect upper-class interests, the latter utilizes police primarily in the protection of middle-class interests.

 

328. Soldiers stand to the police pretty much as the sun to the moon, or Royals to Parliamentarians.

 

329. Soldiers are traditionally servants of the upper class, whereas the police are effectively servants of the middle class.

 

330. Hence where soldiers are ideologically extreme right, the police are ideologically moderate right.

 

331. The police are only extreme right in the pseudo-fascist context (Nazi) of military police.

 

332. Thus whereas the police can have, or be seen to parallel, a Nazi affinity, soldiers are naturally and more genuinely fascist.

 

333. 'People's soldiers' are simply quasi-fascist (Bolshevik) by dint of their adherence to Marxism-Leninism.

 

334. Such quasi-fascist soldiers stand in-between fascist soldiers and pseudo-fascist military police.

 

335. Of course, soldiers can be effectively of the World, but the only soldiers who are genuinely such tend to be female.

 

336. Hence a socialist People's army would be effectively, if not literally, female, in contrast to a so-called communist People's army.

 

337. A socialist People's army, being properly of the World, will be more disposed to peace-keeping than to war-making, since it is effectively a policing military.

 

338. The only thing beyond a socialist People's army is a communist (Social Theocratic) People's police.

 

339. Such a police, necessarily secret, would be duty-bound to protect the People from violent subversion.

 

340. It would be unrealistic to suppose that human society could manage without either military or police bodies, although the nature of each body will change according to the type of society in existence.

 

341. In a civil society, the military and the police will always keep a low profile, leaving civilians to get on with their lives according to the nature of the society in question.

 

342. This is no less true of a People's civilian society than of a bourgeois and/or pluralist society balanced between bourgeois and proletarian interests.

 

343. Guerrillas and vigilantes are unofficial manifestations of People's military and police within a context, necessarily open-society, dominated by upper-class and/or middle-class powers.

 

344. To contrast the Fascism of a public army with the Communism of a secret police.

 

345. To contrast the Socialism of a policing military with the Nazism of a military police.

 

346. To contrast the Republicanism of a People's militia with the Liberalism of a public police.

 

347. Broadly, it can be said that whereas soldiers are of the star, whether absolute or relative, police are of the cross, whether relative or absolute.

 

348. Generally, long hair on women (as on men) affirms the heaviness of the World, and thus contrasts with the lightness-affirming significance of very short or shaved hair.

 

349. Beards are fundamentalist, and contrast with the transcendentalism of pigtails.

 

350. Sideboards are nonconformist, and contrast with the humanism of moustaches.

 

351. Beards are absolutely objective in their centrifugal appearance, whereas pigtails are absolutely subjective in their centripetal essence.

 

352. Sideboards are relatively objective in their centrifugal appearance, whereas moustaches are relatively subjective in their centripetal essence.

 

353. To be damned from sideboards to beards, but saved from moustaches to pigtails.

 

354. Hence it could be said that whereas there is something extrinsically diabolical about beards, there is something intrinsically divine about pigtails.

 

355. Beards that are trimmed to a point are rather more intrinsically diabolical than extrinsically so.

 

356. Ponytails are less intrinsically divine (like pigtails) than intrinsically mundane.

 

357. The ponytail is the salvation of the World (denial of the will), but the pigtail is the salvation of Heaven (denial of the spirit).

 

358. The ponytail contrasts with the pudding-basin hairstyle of World-affirming will.

 

359. The pigtail contrasts with the Mohawk hairstyle of space-affirming spirit.

 

360. Cropped hair is the 'salvation' of Hell (denial of the soul), but back-combed hair is the 'salvation' of Purgatory (denial of the intellect).

 

361. Cropped hair contrasts with the (everywhichway) punk hair of Hell-affirming soul.

 

362. Back-combed hair contrasts with the parted hair of Purgatory-affirming intellect.

 

363. To contrast the naturalism of frizzy hair with the idealism of straight hair.

 

364. To contrast the materialism of curly hair with the realism of wavy hair.

 

365. In football, netted posts (the goal) confirm an omega orientation, whereas unnetted posts confirm an alpha one.

 

366. To contrast the subjectivity of netted posts with the objectivity of unnetted posts.

 

367. Football is divisible between the subjectivity of Association Football/Gaelic Football netted posts, and the objectivity of Rugby League/Rugby Union unnetted posts.

 

368. To contrast the open (unnetted) posts of Rugby Union/Rugby League with the closed (netted) posts of Association Football/Gaelic Football.

 

369. To contrast the alpha-stemming openness of Rugby Union/Rugby League with the omega-oriented closedness of Association Football/ Gaelic Football.

 

370. To perceive an immoral/moral distinction between Rugby (Union and League) on the one hand (immoral), and Football (Association and Gaelic) on the other hand (moral) - the former objective and the latter subjective.

 

371. Hence whereas Rugby Union and Rugby League are objective modes of football, Association Football and Gaelic Football are its subjective modes.

 

372. It could be said that whereas Association Football is of the World in its phenomenal subjectivity, Gaelic Football tends, in its noumenal subjectivity, to intimate of the transcendental Beyond.

 

373. To contrast the phenomenal subjectivity of the Association Football goal, which is limited by its crossbar, with the noumenal subjectivity of that part of the Gaelic Football goal which is open, in its vertical posts, to the sky.

 

374. The Association Football goal, being phenomenally subjective, has an elemental parallel with earth, whereas the Gaelic Football goal, being noumenally subjective, has an elemental parallel with air.

 

375. Thus whereas Association Football is essentially a working-class game in its earthiness, Gaelic Football stretches towards the classless in its elemental affinity with air.

 

376. It could be said that whereas Rugby League is of the nonconformist Overworld in its phenomenal objectivity, Rugby Union tends, in its noumenal objectivity, towards the fundamentalist Behind.

 

377. To contrast the phenomenal objectivity of Rugby League posts, whose focus of play (tries) is beneath the bar, with the noumenal objectivity of Rugby Union posts, which tend to become the focus of play (spot-kicks) above the bar.

 

378. Rugby League posts, being phenomenally objective, have an elemental parallel with water (mud), whereas Rugby Union posts, being noumenally objective, have an elemental parallel with fire (spot-kicking into the sun).

 

379. Generally speaking, Rugby League is more partial to tries than to spot-kicks, on account of its phenomenally objective bias, whereas Rugby Union is more partial to spot-kicks than to tries, on account of its noumenally objective bias.

 

380. Thus whereas Rugby League is essentially a middle-class game, Rugby Union is comparatively upper class, favouring the noumenal objectivity of those who esteem fire (the sun) above water (mud).

 

381. Generally speaking, Gaelic Football is more partial to scores above the bar/between the posts, on account of its noumenally subjective bias, whereas Association Football, being phenomenally subjective, is limited to scores beneath the crossbar.

 

382. To contrast the noumenal objectivity of Rugby Union with the noumenal subjectivity of Gaelic Football - the former absolutely immoral (fire) and the latter absolutely moral (air).

 

383. To contrast the phenomenal objectivity of Rugby League with the phenomenal subjectivity of Association Football - the former relatively immoral (water) and the latter relatively moral (earth).

 

384. To contrast the fundamentalism of upper-class Rugby Union with the transcendentalism of classless Gaelic Football.

 

385. To contrast the nonconformism of middle-class Rugby League with the humanism of lower-class Association Football.

 

386. The salvation of Association Football is in Gaelic Football, the ultimate, because absolute, kind of football.

 

387. The damnation of Rugby League is in Rugby Union, the ultimate, because absolute, kind of rugby.

 

388. A post-liberal society, centred in Transcendentalism, would not encourage the playing of Rugby - neither League nor (especially) Union.

 

389. A transcendental society, commensurate with the Social Theocratic 'Kingdom of Heaven', would maintain a bias for Gaelic Football over Association Football, deeming the latter symptomatic of worldly sin.

 

390. It is debatable whether Association Football would long continue to be played in a transcendental society, in which earth had been transcended by air, and the Blessed Virgin by the Holy Spirit.

 

391. American Football (so-called) stands to Gaelic Football as alpha to omega, or light to air, on account of the openness of its posts stemming, on a horizontal bar, from a single upright confirming a noumenal objectivity or, more correctly, 'subjectivity' (especially when used in conjunction with a stand-off containing net) which is nevertheless higher than and anterior to the noumenal objectivity of Rugby Union posts.

 

392. Hence American Football is less an upper-class fundamentalist game than a leading-class transcendentalist one, in which scores above the crossbar confirm an alpha orientation towards the light rather than, like Rugby Union, into the fire.

 

393. American Football is consequently more cosmic than solar in its scoring orientation, although the bias of play tends to favour earth-affirming 'touch downs' more than space-affirming spot kicks, thereby suggesting the possibility that it is less cosmic than worldly, albeit of a hard-line orientation which reflects republican values.

 

394. It is not the Blessed Virgin but the Cursed Whore who is the worldly parallel which leaps to mind when considering the 'Gridiron' method of scoring points through 'touch downs'.

 

395. Compared to American Football, Association Football is less republican than Anglican in its ideological orientation, suggesting a compromise between the Son (headed goals) and the Mother (kicked goals) which is more specifically of the World than, like Gaelic Football, capable of transcending it towards the Holy Ghost.

 

396. Did Association Football not have nets, we would be unable to infer an omega orientation, and thus the probability of an Anglican parallel, but would have to settle for a republican parallel, after the fashion of 'Gridiron'.

 

397. The twentieth century was, by and large, a light age, a superheathen time dominated by Anglo-American civilization.

 

398. The most obvious historical parallel to the Anglo-American classicism of the twentieth century would be the Graeco-Roman classicism of pagan antiquity.

 

399. Just as pagan civilization was eclipsed by the barbarism of the Dark Ages, so Anglo-American civilization will be/has been eclipsed by the barbarism of a second Dark Ages.

 

400. Without the darkness to eclipse the light, there could be no progress to a Superchristic civilization focused upon the inner light of the spirit.