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Reghini's 'Imperialismo pagano' (2d Part)


The Empire and Christianity

We have already said that we do not believe in the sincerity of
clerical nationalism. We do not believe in it because we know too
well the sneaky systems of our enemies, and because the interest and
the necessity which have led them to this masquerade are too obvious.

And they'd better not talk to us about Catholics who are not
clerical. The mentality, the sentimentality, the belief of a Catholic
are too favourable a ground for the intensive cultivation of
clericalism for us to dwell at length on this distinction ; the
priests exercise over the spirit of the faithful such an ascendancy
that, at the appropriate time, they will always be able to make of
the uncultivated masses of believers everything they want, and it
would then be small comfort to note that the distinction between
catholic and clerical would have allowed to some semi-independent
person to act off their own bat.

A nationalist should want above every other thing the good of the
nation. To add or to imply the adjective 'catholic' shows the
existence of a mental restriction, shows that one wants the good of
the nation if and to the extent that it proves to be to the advantage
of a special belief. And then one can be a sincere nationalist only
if the two ends pursued never come to contrast with each other.

Now, in our case, there is a natural, fatal, deep, irremediable
contrast. In the long series of centuries, since the foundation of
the Church of Rome, Papacy has constantly been the natural enemy of
Rome and of Italy.

The Latin, eclectic, serene, open, in a word 'gentile' civilisation,
and the Roman Empire with it, have been suffocated by the exotic,
intolerant, fanatical, dogmatic mentality of Christianity.

And this a crime which still awaits its atonement.

Virgil, the great imperial poet, had just sung the return of the
golden age, "Jam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna", and
prophesied the coming of a greyhound which the destroyers of the
Virgilian ideal had had the impudence to identify with Jesus ; And
here is an hypocondriacal and sentimental megalomaniac, the world-
outlook of whom was created by his over-compassionate and whining
God, who thought he was the unique wise man arisen in the vale of
tears and made the weird discovery that to settle human matters, all
there was to do was to make men better. Once this was discovered, all
you had to do was to persuade them to love each other.

Less wise than Faust, he was mistaken about knowing what should be
taught.

Die Menschen zu bessern und zu bekehren

and his ominous preaching of the love of the neighbour and of
Christian charity, a universal panacea based on honey and on
rossolis, a true blessing for all the sentimental languors of
humanity, started. The preaching was to be inevitably successful ; in
fact, the paradise promised to the faithful, a blessed future life in
which the wrongs of this life would have been redressed and the evils
compensated, ensured to the preaching of the mild Jesus the approval
of all those who felt the cerebral necessity to license the
regularity of a divine justice made in the image and in the likeness
of their derisory human criterion.

There will be no shortage of occasions to examine the splendours of
Christian charity and the merits of the love of the neighbour.
Theological hatred, blind fanaticism, persecutions, excommunications,
wars of religion unknown to heathen humanity, were the natural result
of this crazy propaganda. Men's fault, our potential Christian
readers will say ; Jesus' fault, we say, because, if he had been
really wise, he should have foreseen that men would never have been
able to put into practice his superhuman sayings. To do it, they
should have stopped to be men. And the one who is cannot be changed
by being persuaded not to be.

But let us return to our main argument and see how and why the first
Roman emperors were not able to defend the empire from the Christian
danger.

The first emperors probably did not realise exactly the unusual
nature of this danger. Used to the most serene tolerance towards all
the cults and all the sects which coexisted and thrived peacefully
near each other without proselytisms and claims of monopoly, they did
not even think that in some whimsical mind the absurd idea that truth
could be achieved and happiness gained by becoming simply the
faithful of a religion could germinate. No heathen religion had ever
made claims of this type ; and, throughout the whole antiquity in
Rome and elsewhere, wisdom was not obtained by means of beliefs and
religions, but by participating in the Mysteries.

The State then, essentially secular, left aside the varied cults, and
based its administrative wisdom on social necessities and pure law.

Law, free from any idea of the religious character, did not lean on
some morale which would claim its origin from theories, from
postulates and from prejudices ; but it only leaned on a healthy
empirical knowledge of the practical necessities of life. Neminem
laedere, unicuique suum tribuere, honeste vivere ; without religious
frameworks or philosophical morales, without classifications of good
and of evil.

The State towered in this way above all the cults, and its authority
had not limits. That small rapacious and quarrelsome people, to which
it did not appear unlikely that the Lord God had for it a special
predilection, stuck to this proud persuasion of its and did not feel
the zeal of propaganda. How to suppose that a man, whetting
sentimental hysteria, intoxicating intelligence, promising, what's
more, the moon, sky and paradise to those who followed him blindly,
would have aroused in men the missionary mania, that is, the holy
zeal of the spirit of proselytism?

When the emperors realised the novelty it was too late. The infection
had rapidly spread across the empire, had reached the Urbe ; and the
fire and the sword that, unfortunately, were not used as generously
as they should have been, had they been used this generously, would
not have been able to save the West. Thus, while the Pax Romana
ensured to a large part of humanity a condition of well-being and of
happiness which, according to Gibbon, was no longer ever reached, the
empire was flooded fully by the flood of milk and of honey.

A morbid sentimental mysticism drowned the sound and serene Italian
practicality, the Italic 'prudentia' ; and the Roman eagle, used to
ample flights, mired its claws in the sticky sweets of universal
love. It is in the proud, realist, hard and severe character of the
Roman citizen that much of the force of Rome lied ; and the tender
and innocent bleat of the Christian lamb was not what was required to
jam on the brakes the barbarians pressing at the frontiers.

Firmly established in Rome, the new religion took up, to its profit,
the force itself and the ascendancy concealed in the soil, in the
air, in the holy name of Rome. It stole to the ancient and destitute
cult of Janus the keys and the small boat and made them the keys and
the small boat of Saint Peter ; it stole to the archaic Masonic
symbolism the very name of the highest priest, usurping the name and
the functions of the pontifex maximus ; and, in a way to hide its
insane original exotism, it proclaimed itself Roman.

The first effect of Christian prevailing and of the bondage of the
imperial authority to the new authority was the abandonment of the
unitary Pythagorician conception of the Roman State with the creation
of the Eastern empire. And, immediately after, a series of ruins :
the break-up of the Western empire, the political unity and the
consciousness of the Italian national unity lost for centuries and
centuries, the wreck of culture, of thought, of letters, of arts ;
Christian barbarity in short substituted for heathen civilisation.
Dante said quite rightly (Paradise, XX) that the world was destroyed
in this way by Constantine.

And the barbarians should not be held responsible for this ruin ;
because, in the first centuries of the 'vulgar' era, Alexandria was
the centre of Greek-Roman culture ; and it was certainly not the
Vandals nor the Wisigoths who destroyed the Library and the Museum
and persecuted and killed the Neoplatonicians and the Gnostics, the
mathematicians and the Hermetists.










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