LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

stage set, “hast given us the gates of thine enemies” and so on. Well,
comin’ to Europe I thought nothin’ about either of these movements or
drags for the next 30 years and very probably you didn’t either, those of
you who are old enough to have heard of the phantasies of the year
1900. But that is not the end of the story. A few weeks ago in London
there was a powwow between the Archbishop of Canterbury and a
Catholic Archbishop, or Cardinal, and a high Rabbi. And if I were a
Catholic, I should want to know more about what that meeting was up
to. I should want, quite seriously, to see that conventicle in historic
perspective. That perspective is very clearly outlined, or indicated in a
book called La Sibille, by Zielinski, a Polish writer who seems to me to
be imbued with sincere piety. But who sees Judaism in direct contrast,
spiritual, theological contrast, with the Christian faith.
Many other writers have written on the gift of earlier Mediterranean
philosophers to the developments of the Church dogma. Zielinski calls
this the MATERIAL influence of Hellenism on Christianity. But he takes
what is, to me at least, a new angle of analysis. He speaks of the
psychologic preparation for Christianity that was there in the Greek and
Roman religions, both the religion of Delphi, that is of the cult of Apollo
and in that of Ceres Demeter, Mater Dolorosa, and in less degree in
some of the more— —cults.
Few of us know that the Mithraic religion identified their saviour with
Love. As in the gospels we read: God is love, so in Mithraic worship, or
in at least one praise of Mithra, we find the same words: is Love; Mithra
is love.
Zielinski offers a fairly complete list of prototypes, of the essentially
Catholic beliefs, I say essentially Catholic because they are quite
patently NON-Jewish, and ANTI-Jewish, and they are specifically the
features of Catholicism which Protestantism has wiped out.