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 | | From: | Muz | | Subject: | Re: Eternal Security (OSAS) | | Date: | Wed, 4 Jan 2005 17:41:13 GMT |
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 | Maupassant's
"Bel-Ami," or Hauptmann's "Hannele's Himmelfahrt") as in numberless
spiritualists and theosophists, or it is a mere passive and unconscious
acceptance of man's religious views which are clung to the more firmly
because of woman's natural disinclination for them. The lover is readily
transformed into a Savior; very readily (as is well known to be the case
with many nuns) the Savior becomes the lover. All the great women
visionaries known to history were hysterical; the most famous, Santa
Teresa, was not misnamed "the patron saint of hysteria." At any rate, if
woman's religiousness were genuine, and if it proceeded from her own
nature, she would have done something great in the religious world; but
she never has done anything of any importance. I should like to put
shortly what I take to be the difference between the masculine and
feminine creeds; man's religion consists in a supreme belief in himself,
woman's in a supreme belief in other people. . . .
Woman is not a free agent; she is altogether subject to her desire to be
under man's influence, herself and all others: she is under the sway of
the phallus, and irretrievably succumbs to her destiny, even if it leads
to actively developed uality. At the most a woman can reach an
indistinct feeling of her unfreedom, a cloudy idea of the possibility of
controlling her destiny - manifestly only a flickering spark of the
free, intelligible subject, the scanty remains of inherited maleness in
her, which, by contrast, gives he
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