Christian Art in the 20th Century

"The fiery accents imparted to [David's] divine lyre still resound in all parts of the world after thirty centuries. The synagogue preserved the Psalms; the Church hastened to adopt them. The poetry of all Christian nations has laid hold of them, and for more than three centuries the sun has never ceased to shine on churches whose vaults resound to their sacred hymns. they are sung in Rome, Geneva, Madrid, London, Quebec, Quito, Moscow, Peking, and Botany Bay; they are whispered in Japan." 

- De Maistre - The Executioner   

      

 

(Chapter XIV  Problems of Arabian Culture: Historic Pseudomorphoses), Spengler writes "By historical pseudomorphosis" I propose to designate those cases where an older alien Culture lies so massively over the land that a young Culture cannot get its breath and fails not only to achieve pure and specific enough forms . . . All that wells up from the depths of the young soul is caste in old molds, young feelings stiffen in senile practices, and instead of expanding  its own creative power , it can only hate the distant power with a hate that grows to be monstrous. -Spengler (268)

Rev. a. W. Nix The Black Diamond Express to Hell

. . . world time is also cavern-like. Hence comes the thoroughly Magian Certainty that everything has "a" time, from the origins of the Savior, whose hour stood written in ancient texts, to the smallest detail of the everyday, in which Faustian hurry would be meaningless and unimaginable . . . early-Magian astrology, presupposes that all things are written down in the stars and that the scientifically calculable course of the planets authorizes conclusions as to the course of earthly things.

Bessie Jones with the Georgia Island Singers - Sign of the Judgement -