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:
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> 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).
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> 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.
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