This was remarkably brought to light and expressed in a suggestive, yet
distinct, and concise manner by Louis Rougier in a passage from 'Celse contre
les chrétiens' in which the purity of form is only equalled by the depth of the
content. Apparently, it was translated and published in English as 'On the True
Doctrine : A Discourse Against the Christians'. We do not have it. Since this
text is so fundamentally central to the understanding of the issue at stake, we
are taking the liberty to provide those who do not have it either a literal
English translation :

"The romanticism of sin still remained the ultimate seduction of Christianity.
The latter gave pleasure the flavour of danger and turned abjectness into a path
of eminent sanctification. The ecstasy of the woman passionate for love who
savours the giddiness of losing herself eternally for the luxury of one hour of
forbidden pleasure matches the craving for humiliation by which the woman saint
is possessed, the need for self-degradation, the need to be completely snubbed
for the glory of her divine spouse. Love becomes intoxicated with the sacrifices
which it accepts and the degradations to which it agrees. Given the wild
temperament of Saint Theresa, her instinct for domination, mixed with the
chivalrous ideal of her time, she could only become, either the reformer of the
Carmelite order, or a court Lady, leading state intrigues, defying any human and
divine law, and setting the Escurial on fire with her senses. Don Juan is closer
to Saint John of the Cross than assumed. Those with a troubled imagination,
those who worry about their love life, are all aspirants to mystical ecstasy.
Diderot said bluntly of Rousseau : I see him hovering around a 'capucinière'
(figuratively, a religious establishment characterised by strict devotion).
Given their constitution, mainly women yield to this lure. By preventing them
from performing the divine service, the Church humiliated them, but, by keeping
them away from it because deemed dangerous, it made them proud ; by declaring
that their flesh is only corruption and ash, it challenged their beauty ; but,
by making their body the chosen recipient of the Lord and the customary
instrument of our ruin, it gave their self-sacrifice an infinite value. All the
refinement of courtly love and its perpetual flirtatiousness with nature, the
whole romantic praise of passion, proceed from this. In its will to debase them,
Christianity happened to place them on a pedestal. The Ancients would be
surprised at the part they have in our daily concerns. The pleasures of the
soul, the fascination for sin, which is all the more enjoyed as it is fought,
the deification of love, remain the great magic of Christianity." ('Celse contre
les chrétiens', 1925)


--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "nataraja86" <cavalcarelatigre@...>
wrote:
>
> French-speakers and history buffs on this group might appreciate a publication
from last year with the highly significant title, "Dieu changea de sexe, pour
ainsi dire" by Jacques Dalarun at Seuil editions
(http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/publications/religion-faite-femme.htm).
>
> Although we have not been able to read the book, the editor's presentation
reveals much about it that would serve to confirm and elaborate from a
historical basis Evola's diagnosis of the modern world emerging at the end of
the Middle-Ages as a gynecocratic type of society.
>