SITTENGESCHICHTE DES WELTKRIEGES. 2 Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges (-) Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges. 2 (II. / 1930) ( - ) Einband ( - ) [Abb.]: ( - ) Titelseite ( - ) Impressum ( - ) Dreizehntes Kapitel Die Erotik des Hinterlandes Prostitution und Geschlechtskrankheiten in den Hauptstädten - Das Liebesleben der Kriegsjugend - Die Zerrüttung der Ehe - Wohin die Millionen der Kriegsgewinner wanderten - Nachtleben, Geheimclubs und Nacktbälle während des Krieges - Männliche Prostitution (1) [Abb.]: Hausball beim Heereslieferanten Zeichnung (1) [Abb.]: Der englische Kriegsgewinner zum deutschen: "Sie, armer Kollege, werden eingesperrt - mir geschieht nichts!" Aus "Punch", 1916 (2) [Abb.]: Zündholzmangel in Paris Zeichnung von A. Guillaume, 1917 (3) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das Hinterland Holzschnitt (2)Europa im Kriege Zeichnung (4) [Abb.]: Die vermännlichte Kriegerbraut Der Standesbeamte: "Entschuldigen Sie, meine Herren - wer von Ihnen ist nun die Braut?" Zeichnung von E. Huldmann in "Lustige Blätter", 1918 (5) [Abb.]: Marguerite vor dem Entblättern Zeichnung von S. Montassier in "Le Sourire de France", 1917 (6) [Abb.]: "Tauben" über Paris Bild aus den Tagen der deutschen Fliegerüberfälle (7) [2 Abb.]: (1)Hunger und Liebe Zeichnung (2)Budapester Kriegsgewinner "mulatieren" Zeichnung (8) [Abb.]: Der Tod und der Kriegskapitalist Zeichnung von Albert Hahn in "De Notenkraker", 1915 (9) [2 Abb.]: (1)Urlaubsfreuden Titelblatt der "Jugend", 1915 (2)Nacktkultur aus Stoffmangel in Frankreich "Ein Meter Stoff genügt, sich anständig zu kleiden." Zeichnung von G. Pavis in "La Vie Parisienne, 1917 (10) [Abb.]: Die Marraine "Heute kommt mein Patenkind von der Front, massieren Sie mir, den Bauch weg!" (11) [Abb.]: Der vielumworbene Gurkha Deutsche Karikatur auf den Rassenfetischismus der Engländerin im Kriege Zeichnung von H. Strohofer in "Muskete", 1915 (12) [2 Abb.]: (1)Kriegsgewinnermoral Aus "Hallo! Die große Revue" (2)Postkarte aus der Kriegszeit Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (13) [2 Abb.]: (1)"Gott der Gerechte! Wird doch nicht ein Frieden ausbrechen, jetzt wo ich noch 10.000 Paar Stiefel und 1000 Rucksäcke auf Lager habe!" Zeichnung von D. R. André in "Glühlichter", 1915 (2)Gold nahm er für Eisen Zeichnung aus "Krieg dem Kriege", Prolet, Freidenker, Leipzig (14) [2 Abb.]: (1)(2)Eisenbahnfahrt im Kriege "Die Passagiere" haben auf die Bequemlichkeit der Mitreisenden Rücksicht zu nehmen." Zeichnung von Martin in "La Vie Parsienne", 1918 (15) [2 Abb.]: (1)Erkennst du mich nicht? Ich bin dein Gatte." Zeichnung von G. Pavis in "La Vie Parisienne", 1916 (2)Gemüsegarten und Hühnerhof im Heim Zeichnung von D. R. André in "Glühlichter", 1915 (16) [2 Abb.]: Vom Bois de Boulogne zum Priesterwald (1)Auf dem Pfade der Tugend (2)Auf dem Wege zum Kriege Zeichnung von C. Hérouard in "La Vie Parisienne", 1912 ( - ) [6 Abb.]: Seine Kriegstrophäen (1)1. "Kommen Sie mit, ich zeige Ihnen meine Kriegstrophäen!" (2)2. "Diese Helme habe ich an der Marne den Boches vom Kopf gerissen!"(3)3. "Diese Granate hätte mir bei einem Haar das Lebenslicht ausgeblasen." (4)4. "Eine ganz hübsche Sammlung, nicht wahr"? (5)5. "Oh, Sie sind ein Held!" (6)6. "Jetzt haben Sie eine Kriegstrophäe mehr!" Aus "La Vie Parisienne", 1915 (17) [Abb.]: Stahlbad zu Hause Zeichnung (18) [Abb.]: Revanche für Kolumbus Die Entdeckung einer neuen Halbwelt in Paris durch amerikanische Seefahrer Zeichnung von G. Pavis in "La Vie Parisienne", 1918 (19) [Abb.]: Graf Bernstorff amüsiert sich Photographische Karikatur aus "Fantasio", 1916 (20) [Abb.]: Rassenverbrüderung in London Zeichnung von Th. Th. Heine in "Gott strafe England", Simplicissimus-Verlag, 1916 (21) [2 Abb.]: (1)Fühlungsnahme Zeichung in "Fidibus", 1917 (2)Französische Kriegswohltätigkeit Plakat im Musee Leblanc, Paris (22) [Abb.]: Kriegskinder beim Broterwerb Zeichnung (23) [2 Abb.]: (1)Beim Uniformschneider "Für den Schützengraben?" - "Nein, für den Boulevard." Aus "Le Rire rouge", 1917 (2)"Licht auslöschen, Zeppelin kommt!" Zeichnung von Raoul Vion in "Le Rire roug", 1915 (24) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die fallengelassene Brotkarte Zeichnung von Auglay in "Le Rire Rouge", 1916 (2)Hinterlandstaumel Holzschnitt (25) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Stratege in Paris Zeichnung von Fournier in "Sourire de France", 1917 (2)Plakat einer Wohltätigkeitsaktion der Pariser Restaurateure zugunsten der Urlauber aus den besetzten Gebieten Nach dem Original im Musee Leblance, Paris (26) [2 Abb.]: (1)Frau Hamster im Kriege Zeichnung von Th. Th. Heine, aus "Kleine Bilder aus großer Zeit" (2)Untauglich "Aus dem nämlichen Grunde, der die Musterungskommission veranlaßt hat, Sie zurückzustellen." Zeichnung von K. A. Wilke in "Muskete", 1915 (27) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Amerikaner und die Pariserin Aus "Lustige Blätter", 1917 (2)Das Kriegskind hungert Zeichnung (28) [Abb.]: Durchhalten Zeichnung von George Grosz in "Abrechnung folgt" (29) [Abb.]: Aus der großen Zeit der Lebensmittelkarten "Haben Sie vom Arzt eine Bezugskarte für Milch?" Zeichnung von G. Zórád in "Fidibus", 1917 (30) [Abb.]: "Dreißigtausend Tote? Kellner, noch 'n Schnaps!" Zeichnung von E. Thöny in "Franzos' und Russ' in Spiritus", Simplicissimus-Verlag. 1915 (31) [Abb.]: Der lustige Krieg Zeichnung (32) [2 Abb.]: Das Kriegskind bei Volk und Hautevolee (1)Verdächtige Fülle "Was haben Sie da unter ihrem Rock verborgen?" "n'lütten Kriegsjung', Herr Wachtmeister!" (2)Im Zweifel "O Gott, Herr Sanitätsrat! Glauben Sie den wirklich, daß ich in der Hoffnung bin?" Aus der Mappe eines Heimkriegers, Sammlung des Instituts für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin ( - ) [2 Abb.]: (1)"Sie sagen, das Kind ist schwarz? Hätten sie Ihre Frau nicht in den Unterstand kommen lassen!" Zeichnung von M. Rodiguet in "Le Rire Rouge", 1916 (2)Das Lob das Unabkömmlichen "Unsere Jungens schlagen sich gut, das muß man ihnen lassen!" Zeichnung (33) [Abb.]: Erwünschter Zuwachs "Warum sind Sie den heut' so kreuzfidel, Herr Offizial?" - "Ja wissen S', Fräul'n Mizzi, meine Frau hat Drillinge kriegt, und da bekommen wir jetzt um drei Brotkarten mehr." Zeichnung von H. Krenes, 1917 (34) [Abb.]: Auf der Flucht vor dem "Raid" Die Luftüberfälle auf Paris, vor denen man sich in die Keller flüchtete, gaben dem Klatsch und dem Witz reichen Stoff und den Friedhöfen Tote Zeichnung (35) [Abb.]: "Oh, the Zeppelins!" Zeichnung (36) [Abb.]: Die Zuaven in Paris Zeichnung aus "L'Illustration", 1914 (37) [3 Abb.]: (1)"Das Mehl oder das Leben!" Zeichnung von D. R. André in "Glühlichter", 1914 (2)Der Kriegssäugling (3)Hochbetrieb bei der Wahrsagerin Zeichnungen von Th. Th. Heine in "Kleine Bilder aus großer Zeit" (38) [Abb.]: Atelierfest in den Kriegsjahren Sammlung C. Moreck, Berlin (39) [2 Abb.]: (1)Mit Blut begossen blüht das Kapital Zeichnung (2)Siegreich woll'n wir Frankreich schlagen! Zeichnung von George Grosz in "Abrechnung folgt" (40) [2 Abb.]: (1)Wer ist an der Teuerung schuld? "Was diese verfluchten Sozialdemokraten nur immer vom Zwischenhandel wollen? Soll ich die Ware vielleicht unterm Selbstkostenpreis hergeben?" Zeichnung von R. Herrmann in "Glühlichter", 1915 (2)Der unerschöpfliche Stoff für Pariser Karikaturisten: Vor dem Zeppelin in den Keller (41) [2 Abb.]: (1)Pariser Geselligkeit 1917 Zeichnung (2)Schlußvignette aus "Fidibusz", 1916 (42) Vierzehntes Kapitel Die Verwundeten und Kranken Hodenschüsse und Rückenmarksverletzungen - Die Eunuchen des Weltkrieges - Der Invalide und die Frauen - Perversionen und Impotenz als Kriegsfolge - Kriegsneurosen und Sexualität - Sadistische Behandlungsmethoden - Selbstverstümmelung durch venerische Selbstansteckung (43) [Abb.]: "Weißt du, Kamerad, was sie mir wegoperiert haben?" Zeichnung (43) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ein Geschenk vom Militär Zeichnung von M. Dufet in "Le Sourire de France", 1917 (2)"Ich danke schön! Wenn man sich seine Verwundeten nicht einmal aussuchen kann, da tue ich nicht mit!" Zeichnung von R. Herrmann in "Glühlichter", 1914 (44) [Abb.]: Der Neid (!) Zeichnung von J. Simont in "L'Illustration", 1916 (45) [Abb.]: "Man hat mir's abgeschnitten." Zeichnung (46) [Abb.]: Ein Kriegseunuch Der von einem Geschoß entmannte italienische Soldat zeigt in typischer Weise Enthaarung, Fettablagerung und Gesichtsausdruck des Geschlechtslosen. Aus Hirschfeld, Sexualpathologie I (47) [Abb.]: Plakatkrieg im Kriege Links: Eine Kundmachung des Bürgermeisters des besetzten Brüssel, worin er eine von deutscher Seite verbreitete "Stimmungsnachricht" dementiert. Rechts: Die deutsche Antwort. Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (48) [Abb.]: Der Invalide und die Frauen Zeichnung ( - ) [Abb.]: "Nur Mut, mein Lieber, in acht Tagen sind Sie wieder an der Front!" Zeichnung von R. Harrmann in "Glühlichter", Wien 1915 (49) [Abb.]: Für die Reichen ist die Beute, für das Volk die Not der Kriege Zeichnung von George Grosz in "Abrechnung folgt" (50) [Abb.]: Große und kleine Zeit "Jetzt hör' ma auf! Wiast Sodat warst, hast an Ausnahmspreis begehrt, und jetzt kummst mit der Ausred' als Heimkehrer." Zeichnung von D. Knapp in "Faun", 1919 (51) [Abb.]: "Den Kerl kenne ich, das ist ein Simulant, das falsche Bein ist nicht echt!" Zeichnung von R. Herrmann in "Bilder aus dem Alltagsleben" (52) [Abb.]: Die belohnte Tapferkeit oder der Singalese im Lazarett Zeichnung (53) [Abb.]: Der einbeinige Verehrer Zeichnung (54) [Abb.]: Ein von einer Granate verschütteter Soldat, der knapp vor dem Verhungern als Knochen und Haut gerettet und ins Lazarett geschafft wurde Photographische Aufnahme, Sammlung Dr. Sax, Wien (55) [Abb.]: Der Invalide Zeichnung von V. Erdey, 1915 (57) [Abb.]: Hoher Besuch im k. u. k. Kriegsspital Zeichnung (58) [Abb.]: Die Lesestunde Zeichnung von J. Simont in "L'Illustration", 1916 (59) [Abb.]: Die Kaufmannmethode In der Behandlung der Zitterneurose im Kriege lebten die mittelalterlichen Torturen mit modernsten Raffinement auf Zeichnung (60) [Abb.]: Hinter Lazarettmauern Zeichnung (61) [Abb.]: Dirne und Krüppel Zeichnung (62) [Abb.]: Der Pflichtvergessene Zeichnung (63) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Wunde Holzschnitt (2)Grabkarte eines jüdischen Soldaten im englischen Heer (64) [Abb.]: Das Brandopfer Aus dem russischen Antikriegsfilm "Der Mann, der sein Gedächtnis verlor" (65) [Abb.]: Freund Janosch hat es gut, seine Frau hat ihn besucht Zeichnung (67) [Abb.]: Der kriegsblinde Gatte Zeichnung (68) [Abb.]: Theatervorstellung der Patienten in einem englischen Kriegslazarett Photographische Aufnahme (69) [Abb.]: Frisch aus dem Stahlbad Zeichnung (70) [Abb.]: "Diese Leute könnten wohl - sie wollen bloß nicht arbeiten!" Zeichnung von George Grosz in "Gesicht der herrschenden Klasse" (71) [Abb.]: Verwundetentransport beim geschlagenen serbischen Heer auf mazedonischen Bauernkarren Aus "L'Illustration", 1916 (72) [Abb.]: "Der Dank des Vaterlandes ist euch gewiß!" Zeichnung von George Grosz in "Gesicht der herrschenden Klasse" (73) [Abb.]: Die Zarin und ihre zwei Töchter, die Großfürstinnen Olga und Tatjana, als Pflegerinnen Aus "L'Illustration", 1915 (74) [Abb.]: Die Nerven im Kriege 1. Vollkommen durchtrennter Nerv. 2. Scheinbar unvollkommen durchtrennter Nerv, der aber keinen Impuls mehr vermittelt. 3. und 4. Durch Geschoß zur Schwellung gebrachte funktionsunfähige Nerven. 5. und 6. Zerstörte Nerven (partielle Paralyse). Aus "The Graphic", 1916 (75) [Abb.]: Bordell in der französischen Etappe Zeichnung (77) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Klassenordnung Zeichnung (2)Es lebe Poincaré! - Es lebe Stinnes! Zeichnung von R. Minor, New York (79) [Abb.]: Das Kriegsbeil wird im Tintenfaß begraben Zeichnung (80) [Abb.]: Ernteurlaub Zeichnung von A. Stadler, 1916 ( - ) Fünfzehntes Kapitel Die Gefangenen Die Frauen und der Kriegsgefangene - Die Geschlechtsnot und ihre Folgen - Surrogatonanie und andere sexuelle Ersatzhandlungen - Homosexualität und Transvestitismus hinter dem Drahtzaun. (81) [Abb.]: Schönheitsparade vor dem Gefangenenlager Zeichnung (81) [2 Abb.]: (1)Hinter Stacheldraht Aus "L'Illustration", 1915 (2)Dämonen im Gefangenenlager Zeichnung eines Kriegsgefangenen Sammlung A. Munk, Subatica (82) [Abb.]: Deutsche Kriegsgefangene In "L'Illustration", 1915, als Photo zum Studium deutscher Physiognomien veröffentlicht (83) [Abb.]: Menschen im Käfig Szene aus dem amerikanischen Antikriegsfilm "Stacheldraht" (84) [2 Abb.]: Schwarze Franzosen in der Gefangenschaft Aus "Ill. Geschichte der Weltkrieges", Stuttgart (85) [Abb.]: "Russische Kriegsgefangene sterben Hungers!" Französisches Plakat Archives photographiques d'art et d'histoire, Paris (86) [3 Abb.]: (1)Der kriegsgefangene französische Maler Rogerol wurde wegen Rauchens in der Baracke in Holzminden drei Tage lang je zwei Stunden angebunden Nach der Originalaufnahme im Musée Leblanc, Paris (2)(3)Erlebnisse eines in Deutschland internierten japanischen Malers Links: Brotausgabe bei strömendem Regen, rechts: Eine Ausländerin wird eingeliefert Aus "The Graphic", 1915 (87) [Abb.]: Ein angeblich in deutscher Gefangenschaft während des Anbindens gestorbener Engländer Zeichnung von J. Touchet in "L'Illustration", 1916 (88) [Abb.]: Der Gefangenschaft entgegen Photographische Aufnahme (89) [Abb.]: Von englischen Luftballonen abgeworfene Botschaft an die deutschen Soldaten Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (90) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Künstler des Lagers bei der Arbeit Zeichnung (2)Der Starschi schmuggelt eine Frau ins Gefangenenlager Zeichnung (91) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Internierten in Deutschland Darstellung eines französischen Plakats, 1917 (2)Russische Kriegsgefangene als Bühnenkünstler Sammlung des Instituts für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin (92) [2 Abb.]: Die deutschen Gefangenlager in Frankreich (1)für gewöhnlich . (2). und wenn der amerikanische Botschafter revidieren kommt Zeichnungen von O. Gulbransson in "Franzos' und Russ' in Spiritus", Simplicissimus-Verlag, 1915 (93) [Abb.]: "Fünfzig Kopeken für das Nachschauen!" Zeichnung (94) [2 Abb.]: (1)Geschlechtsnot und Geschlechtshunger hinter dem Zaun Zeichnung (2)Typen aus dem Jekaterinburger Freudenhaus Zeichnung eines Kriegsgefangenen Sammlung A. Munk, Subotica (95) [Abb.]: "Herbstmanöver" in einem russischen Kriegsgefangenentheater Photographische Aufnahme (96) [2 Abb.]: Typen aus einem französischen Gefangenenlager (1)Oben: Das Liebeslied. - (2)Unten: Der kleine Herrgott des Lagers. Zeichnungen von M. Orange in "L'Illustration", 1915 ( - ) [4 Abb.]: Französische und englische Kriegsgefangene spielen Theater Aus der Sammlung des Instituts für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin (97) [Abb.]: Erotisches Ornament - ein häufiges Mittel der Ersatzbefriedigung im Gefangenenlager Zeichnung eines Kriegsgefangenen Sammlung des Instituts für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin (98) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das dramatische Ensemble des österreichisch-ungarischen Mannschaftstheaters in Kresty (2)"Othello"-Aufführung im Gefangenenlager in Ruhleben Aus "The Graphic", 1916 (99) [2 Abb.]: (1)Szene aus einem Kriegsgefangenentheater deutscher Soldaten Sammlung des Instituts für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin (2)Programm eines französischen Gefangenentheaters Sammlung des Instituts für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin (100) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ein transvestitischer Gefangener in seiner Lieblingsrolle Photographische Aufnahme Sammlung K. F. (2)Der mannweibliche Star des Gefangenentheaters Sammlung des Instituts für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin (101) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Transvestit des Lagers und seine Flamme Lichtbild aus dem Besitz eines Kriegsgefangenen (2)Kriegskinder spielen Zeichnung von Th. Th. Heine in "Kleine Bilder aus großer Zeit" (102) Sechzehntes Kapitel Erotik und Spionage Die Frauen im Geheimdienste - Berühmte Spionageaffären und Spioninnen des Weltkrieges - Märtyrinnen, Abenteurerinnen und Kokotten (103) [Abb.]: Das Schlafpulver der Spionin Zeichnung (103) [Abb.]: Das Feldgericht als Hinrichtungsmaschine Plakat aus dem besetzten Rußland Sammlung A. Wolff. Leipzig (104) [Abb.]: Leibesvisitation einer Spionin durch russische Soldaten Zeichnung (105) [Abb.]: Was die Liebe bei ihr kostet Zeichnung (107) [Abb.]: Miss Edith Cavell, deren Hinrichtung als Spionin durch die deutschen Besatzungsbehörden in Belgien der Ententepropaganda die besten Dienste erwies Photographische Aufnahme (108) [Abb.]: In London wird die Hinrichtung der Pflegerin Miss Cavell zu Rekrutierungszwecken benutzt Photographische Aufnahme (109) [Abb.]: Die Hinrichtung der Miss Cavell im Spiegel der englischen Propaganda Postkarte, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (110) [Abb.]: Vor Landesverrat wird gewarnt! Photographische Aufnahme in "L'Illustration", 1915 (111) [Abb.]: Eine Kollektion deutscher Spione Zeichnung von L. Métivet in "Fantasio", 1915 (112) [Abb.]: Die Spionageangst auf einem deutschen Plakat Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig ( - ) [Abb.]: Typen deutscher Spione Pariser Straßenplakat zur Ankündigung eines Zeitungsromans über Spionage Archives photographiques d'art et d'histoire, Paris (113) [Abb.]: Das Schäferstündchen bei der Spionin Zeichnung (115) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ausschnitt aus der Wilnaer Armeezeitung Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (2)Warnung vor Spionen Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (117) [Abb.]: Der Kampf der deutschen Besatzungsbehörden gegen Spionage Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (118) [Abb.]: Mata Hari vom ritterlichen Frankreich hingerichtet Zeichnung von Trier (nach einem Gemälde von Manet) in "Lustige Blätter", 1916 (119) [Abb.]: Die Treuhänderin der Generalstabsgeheinisse Zeichnung (121) [Abb.]: Spionagepsychose Deutsches Plakat aus dem Jahre 1914 Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (122) [Abb.]: "Du warst vor dem Kriege Spion?" "Keine Spur, ich war Fräulein bei einem Generalstäbler in Verdun." Zeichnung von R. Joly in "Baionnette", 1916 (123) [Abb.]: Russische Strafjustiz an einer Spionin Zeichnung (125) [Abb.]: Sexus dominator Zeichnung (126) [Abb.]: Spionage und Liebe Zeichnung (127) [Abb.]: Französische Haß- und Hetzkarikatur anläßlich der Hinrichtung der Miss Cavell ( - ) [Abb.]: Die Töchter des französischen Generals: "O Papa, das neue Fräulein ist ein Wunder; sie hat ihre Augen überall!" (Die in Frankreich beschäftigten deutschen Erzieherinnen wurden nach Kriegsausbruch samt und sonders für Spioninnen erklärt) Zeichnung von Gerda Wegener in "La Baionnette", 1916 (129) [Abb.]: Die Bekanntmachung des Todesurteils der Miss Cavell Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (130) [Abb.]: Englische Soldaten verhaften in Frankreich einen Spion beim Signalgeben Zeichnung eines englischen Offiziers in "Illustrated London News", 1915 (131) [Abb.]: Der russische Militärattaché in Bern Oberst von Romejko-Gurko (x) im Dienst Aus Ronge, Kriegs- und Industriespionage, Amalthea-Verlag (133) [Abb.]: Die Spionin im Kurierabteil Zeichnung (135) [Abb.]: Brief des russischen Generalstabes an Oberst Redl Aus Ronge, Kriegs- und Industriespionage, Amalthea-Verlag (136) [Abb.]: Oberst Redl Photo aus M. Hirschfeld, Geschlechtskunde (137) [2 Abb.]: Russische Konfidentin (Ruthenin) (1)in der Stadt (2)an der Front Aus Ronge, Kriegs- und Industriespionage, Amalthea-Verlag (139) [Abb.]: Schnelljustiz gegen Spione in Galizien Photographische Aufnahme (140) [Abb.]: Ein Exempel wird statuiert Zeichnung (141) [Abb.]: Auch die Kenntnis des Aufenthaltes eines Spions kostet das Leben Plakat aus Russisch-Polen Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (143) [Abb.]: Damenduell in Paris 1916 Zeichnung aus "La Baionnette" ( - ) [Abb.]: Hinrichtung eines Südslaven Photographische Aufnahme (145) [2 Abb.]: (1)Irma Straub, die gefürchtetste deutsch Spionin des Weltkrieges Photographische Aufnahme (2)Augustine - Joséphine A., eine in Nantes hingerichtete Spionin (146) [Abb.]: Deutsche Bekanntmachung im besetzten Nordfrankreich Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (147) [2 Abb.]: (1)Eugéne T . in Gesellschaft eines ihrer Liebhaber (wahrscheinlich deutscher Spion) (2)Der deutsche Geheimkrieg gegen Frankreichs Armee Das deutsche Fräulein: "Merk dirs, Kleine, Kinder zur Welt zu bringen ist eine Dummheit - du wirst das später verstehen!" Zeichnung von P. Portelette in "La Baionnette", 1916 (148) Siebzehntes Kapitel Der Drill Sadismus und Masochismus im Drill - Erotik in Verbrechen und Strafe - Hinrichtung zur Kriegszeit - Psychologie der Fahnenflucht - Vorgesetzte und Untergebene (149) [Abb.]: Kriegsgreuel einst wie jetzt Aus "Los desastres de la Guerra" von Francisco Coya (1746 - 1828) (149) [Abb.]: Manneszucht Zeichnung (150) [Abb.]: Offiziers- und Mannschaftsdienst Zeichnung (151) [3 Abb.]: (1)(2)Gestörtes Rendezvous oder die stramme Ehrenbezeigung Zeichnung von Puttkammer in "Lustige Blätter", 1917 (3)Äh, bei Etappenbelichtung, Krieg jöttliche Einrichtung Hurra, bei Lieb und Suff immer feste druff!! Aus "Hallo! Die große deutsche Revue", Bilderbuch zur Reichstagswahl 1924 (152) [Abb.]: Der deutsche Militarismus Russische Karikatur von J. Griselli in "Solnze Rossij" 1915 (153) [Abb.]: "Wie soll ich ihn nur aufmerksam machen, daß die Frau nicht standesgemäß ist?" Zeichnung von Rajki in "Le Rire rouge",1916 (154) [Abb.]: Willies letztes Aufgebot Aus dem Bilderbuch "The sad experience of big and little Willie", London (155) [Abb.]: Erziehung zum Blutdurst im englischen Heer - "Hau hin! Bring ihn um! Du kitzelst ihn ja nur!" Zeichnung von F. Reynolds in "Punch", 1918 (156) [Abb.]: "Wenn die Soldaten nicht solche Dummköpfe wären, würden sie mir schon längst davongelaufen sein" (Fridericus Rex) Zeichnung von George Grosz in "Abrechnung folgt" (157) [Abb.]: Erziehung zur Wehrhaftigkeit Zeichnung (158) [Abb.]: Die Offiziere trinken - die Mannschaft draußen zitterte vor Kälte Zeichnung (159) [Abb.]: Das Kriegsgericht Kupferstich von Jacques Callot (1594 - 1635) (160) [Abb.]: Blutrausch und Geschlecht Zeichnung von P. Nanteuil, Pairs 1916 ( - ) [Abb.]: Der Sturmangriff Zeichnung von Ch. Fouqueray in "L'Illustration", 1915 (161) [Abb.]: Moderne Sklaverei Zeichnung von R. Herrmann in "Bilder aus dem Alltagsleben" (162) [Abb.]: Die Frau des Majors und ihre Zofe Zeichnung (163) [Abb.]: Aus "Sourire de France", 1917 (164) [Abb.]: Französische "Nettoyeurs" an der Arbeit Zeichnung (165) [Abb.]: Aus großer Zeit . und die, denen die Verbindungen zur Kirche, Militarismus und Kapital fehlten, die nahm der Herr zu sich Zeichnung von J. Danilowatz in "Faun", 1919 (166) [Abb.]: Angebunden! Zeichnung (167) [Abb.]: Der Feldherr in der Kaserne und zu Hause Zeichnung (168) [Abb.]: Lustmord im Bilde Aus der Kriegsmappe des französischen Zeichners J. S. Domergue "Die deutschen Greuel" (169) [Abb.]: Aus großer Zeit - Verdiensttauglich! Zeichnung (170) [Abb.]: Wie die Kriegspropaganda arbeitet Dem auf dem Bilde ersichtlichen russischen Unteroffizier sollen die Deutschen die Ohren abgeschnitten haben. (!) Wenigstens wurde das Bild mit diesem Kommentar in einer Anzahl Ententezeitschriften veröffentlicht. Aus "The Graphic", 1915 (171) [Abb.]: Das Spielzeug für brave Kriegskinder (172) [Abb.]: Notzucht Zeichnung von H. Paul, Paris 1916 (173) [Abb.]: Ein französischer Soldat zeigt den Deutschen drüben sein auf Bajonett aufgespießtes Brot Zeichnung eines englischen Soldaten 1916 (174) [2 Abb.]: Kriegslüge und Photographie (1)Die Originalaufnahme, in einer englischen Zeitung veröffentlicht, zeigt den russischen Einfall in Ungarn. (2)Die retouchierte Wiedergabe in der "Wiener Illustrierten Zeitung" soll bereits den Zusammenbruch der Russen in Galizien darstellen. Aus "L'Illustration", 1915 (175) [Abb.]: "Um Gotteswillen, was treibt ihr hier?" - "Wir machen einen Gasüberfall" Aus "Punch", 1916 (176) [Abb.]: Die Streichholzkrise Zeichnung von G. Léonnec, Paris 1917 ( - ) [Abb.]: Knüppelpost, durch die französische Truppen die Deutschen zur Übergabe aufforderten Photographische Aufnahme (177) [Abb.]: Die Rednerkunst im Kriege Holzschnitt (178) [Abb.]: Ist der Krieg schon zu Ende? - Hausfassade mit Kriegsgreueln in Leipzig Photographische Aufnahme, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (179) [Abb.]: Der Zensor Zeichnung von R. Herrmann in "Glühlichter", Wien 1915 (180) [Abb.]: Vor der Schändung Aus der sadistischen Mappe von J. S. Domergue, "Les Atrocités Allemandes", 1915 (181) [Abb.]: Der Herr hat's gegeben, das Volk hat's genommen Zeichnung von Roland in "Faun", 1919 (182) Achtzehntes Kapitel Die Propaganda Die zwei Kategorien der Haß- und Lügenpropaganda - Haß und Sadismus in Literatur, Kunst und Pornographie - Wie Frauen und Kinder hassen - Die unbeabsichtigte Lüge im Weltkrieg - Massenpsychose in den Franktireurkämpfen - Einige sado-erotische Kriegslügen - Sexuelle Anwürfe gegen den Feind: die "deutsche" Päderastie und die "französischen" Perversitäten (183) [Abb.]: Der Sadismus in Kriegszeichnungen Das Blatt, der Mappe "Les Atrocités Allemandes" von J. S. Domergue entnommen, zeigt die Hinrichtung eines belgischen Soldaten, dem drei Deutsche den Halswirbel brechen. Der Bericht und seine Darstellung sind gleichermaßen bezeichnend für die sadistische Phantasie der Zeit (183) [Abb.]: Die Presse im Kriege Holzschnitt (184) [4 Abb.]: Vier Blätter aus der italienischen Mappe "Danza macabra". Die vor Italiens Kriegseintritt veröffentlichten, gegen alle Kriegsteilnehmer gerichteten Zeichnungen sind ausgesprochen sadistischer Art (185) [Abb.]: Deutsche Gedenkmünze - der Haßgesang in Metall Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (186) [Abb.]: Der Triumph des Hasses Zeichnung von Gordon M. Forsyth in "Labour Leader", 1915 (187) [Abb.]: Eine typische deutschfeindliche Hetzkarikatur Zeichnung von Emilio Kupfer in "Critica", Buenos Aires, 1915 (188) [2 Gedichte]: (1)Richard Dehmel wird nicht leugnen können, daß er einmal ein Gedicht geschrieben hat "An mein Volk": (2)Heute ist er Freiwilliger geworden und seine Begeisterung entzündet sich an dem Bersten des Schrapnells, an dem Zerschmettern des Fendes: (188) [Abb.]: "Wie sie Krieg führen!" Hetzgemälde (189) [Gedicht]: So kommt Arno Holz zu seinem "deutschen Schnadahüpfel": (189) [Gedicht]: Erwähnt sei noch H. Vierordts Aufruf "Deutschland, hasse"! (190) [Abb.]: Beitrag zur Franktireurpsychose: In Nordfrankreich werden Geiseln ausgehoben Plakat aus der Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (190) [Lied]: So, Sudermann, der über Nacht zum Bänkelsänger geworden war, mit einem Lied, das, von Humperdinck vertont, im Berliner Theater des Westens unter lebhafter Beteiligung des Publikums vorgetragen wurde: (190) [Abb.]: Neun Deutsche und eine Französin Aus der sadistischen Kriegsmappe "Les Atrocités Allemandes" (191) [Lied]: Das Lied, als dessen Herausgeber die "Vereinigung der Kunstfreunde" zeichnet, lautet: (191) [Gedicht]: Alfons Petzold schreibt: (191) [3 Gedichte]: (1)So feuerte ein dichtfroher französischer General, der wahrscheinlich niemals in der Kampflinie war, dafür aber allem Anschein nach als Sadist anzusprechen ist, seine Soldaten mit folgenden Versen zum Kampfe an: (2)Und in einem anderen "Chanson de route" überschriebenen Gedicht: (3)Der Choral der Gepeitschten. (192) [Abb.]: Flieger über Paris Zeichnung von A. Vallée in "La Vie Parisienne", 1918 ( - ) [Abb.]: Wie sie sich begeilen Zeichnung aus der sadistischen Hetzmappe von J. S. Domergue "Die deutschen Greuel", Paris 1915 (193) [Abb.]: Die Schreckensnacht in Löwen Französische Propagandapostkarte (194) [Abb.]: Die französische Propaganda gegen deutsche Waren. "Der Boche, der gemordet und geplündert hat und der Geschäftsvertreter, der seine Ware anbietet, sind ein und dieselbe Person" Nach dem Original im "Musée Leblanc", Paris (195) [Abb.]: Unterhaltung in Mußestunden Hetzkarikatur aus dem italienischen Kriegsalbum "Gli Unni e gli altri", Mailand 1915 (196) [Gedicht]: Wir zitieren als Beispiel ein Gedicht von Pierre Chapelle aus dem Jahre 1917 "L'horrible conception": (197) [Abb.]: Ein Beitrag zum Stahlbadhumor: Eine als Postkarte verbreitete Todesanzeige (198) [Abb.]: Das französische Mobilisierungsplakat in der Pariser Straße. Darunter gleich ein Plakat der Hetzpropaganda Archives photographiques d'art et d'histoire, Paris (199) [Abb.]: Die Stunde des Morgenhasses bei einer deutschen Familie Aus "Punch", 1915 (200) [Abb.]: Serbischer Knabe als Soldat Photo aus "La France héroique", Éd. Larousse, Paris (201) [Abb.]: Wie Kinder hassen! Zeichnung eines achtjährigen griechischen Mädchens. Der niedergestochene Feind ist ein Bulgare Aus "Fantasio", 1916 (202) [Abb.]: Helden fern vom Schuß "Haltet stand, ihr tapferen Soldaten - wir verspritzen begeistert unsere beste Tinte - tut ihr dasselbe mit eurem Blut!" Zeichnung von R. Herrmann, 1915 (203) [Lied]: Fast alle von uns hatten Frauen oder Geliebte, die zu Hause auf uns warteten, und es war ergreifend, eine Schar von Männern, deren Leben neun Pence von einem Pfund wert war, die Ballade singen zu hören: (203) [Lied]: Im übrigen stehe hier das unbestritten beliebteste und meistgesungene Lied der amerikanischen und englischen Soldaten des Weltkrieges, eine prächtige Blüte der Friedenssehnsucht: (203) [Abb.]: Englische Unschuld "O Mutter, ich möchte so gerne ein Engel sein!" - "Warum?" - "Weil ich dann fliegen und Bomben auf die Germans werfen könnte!" Aus "Punch", 1915 (204) [Abb.]: Von Pferden zerrissen Die Zeichnung, aus der sadistischen Hetzmappe von J. S. Domergue, "Die deutschen Greuel", zeigt die Hinrichtung eines französischen Offiziers, die zwar gemeldet wurde, aber natürlich niemals stattfand (205) [Abb.]: Russische Kinder spielen Soldaten Photo aus "Solnze Rossij", Petrograd 1915 (206) [Abb.]: Pariser Straßenplakat für einen deutschfeindlichen Roman aus den ersten Kriegswochen, von Abel Truchet Nach dem Original im Musée Leblance, Paris (207) [Abb.]: Die Französin zum französischen Offizier: Bring mir einen neuen Gummibusen aus Paris - der alte ist kaputt." - Der Offizier: "Ich schicke ihn ins Kriegsmuseum - es heißt ohnedies, die Deutschen schneiden unseren Frauen die Brüste ab!" Zeichnung (208) [Abb.]: Der erotische Kitsch in der Kriegspostkarten-Industrie der Entente ( - ) [Abb.]: Wo die Kriegsgreuel erfunden wurden Zeichnung (209) [Abb.]: Mit den Augen des italienischen Kriegskarikaturisten Zeichnung von Cesare Piris, 1916 (210) [4 Abb.]: Indische Kriegskarikaturen (1)Deutschland wird erdrosselt (2)Der britische Löwe und der Hunne (3)Indien betet für Englands Sieg (4)Indien und England einig Aus dem Witzblatt "The Hindi Punch", Bombay 1916 (211) [Abb.]: Feuilletonisten an die Front! "Behalten werden sie uns gewiß nicht. Wie könnten wir denn die Psychologie des Schützengrabens täglich beschreiben, wenn wir sie einmal selbst erleben müßten?" Zeichnung von Carl Josef in "Muskete", 1915 (212) [Abb.]: Anzeige einer Ausstellung über die "deutschen Verbrechen" in Paris (1917) Archives photographiques d'art et d'histoire, Paris (213) [Abb.]: D'Annunzios Manuskript zu seinem beim Flug über Wien abgeworfenen Flugzettel (214) [Abb.]: Der englische Schauspieler Salisbury als Wilhelm II. in einer englischen Kriegsposse, 1915 in London aufgeführt Phot. Foulshalm & Bonfield (215) [Abb.]: Die niedliche Marneschlacht Zeichnung von Hansi, 1915 (216) [Abb.]: Die Vergewaltigung Serbiens Nach einem Gemälde (217) [3 Abb.]: Das Hinterland soll Tabak, Zucker und Leder sparen! Plakatentwürfe französischer Schulkinder (218) [Gedicht]: Auch ein französisches, in einem Schulbuch abgedrucktes Gedicht von Flament berichtet in schlichten Worten: (218) [Abb.]: Der Haßgesang! Zeichnung von David Winar, London 1915 (219) [Abb.]: Plakat einer Ausstellung des begabten Kriegszeichners und Deutschenhassers Louis Raemaekers in Paris (1916) Archives photographiques d'art et d'histoire, Paris (221) [Abb.]: Französisches Plakat gegen den Ankauf deutscher Waren Nach dem Original im Musée Leblance, Paris (223) [Gedicht]: Ponsonby zitiert ein patriotisches Gedicht aus einem erst kürzlich erschienenen Band, worin die Leistungen des englischen Heeres im Kriege also gefeiert werden: (224) [Abb.]: Eine Kundgebung englischer Kinder zugunsten des freiwilligen Eintritts in die Armee - (Auf der Tafel "Mein Papa ist an der Front!") Aus "Illustrated London News", 1915 (224) [Abb.]: Erotische Karikatur auf die Entente Der Lord-Ober des Nachtcafés zum Viererverband: "Meine Herren, verhalten Sie sich nicht gar so neutral. Die Damen verlangen kein Geld, sondern bezahlen sogar ihre Liebhaber." Zeichnung von G. Stieborsky in "Muskete", September 1915 ( - ) Neunzehntes Kapitel Die Verrohung Regression als Kriegsfolge - Das Verhältnis der kriegsführenden Menscheit zum Tode - Schmutz und Laus im Schützengraben - Alkohol und Nikotin im Kriege - Verbrecher und Psychopathen in den Heeren - Religiöse Wiedergeburt oder Hochkonjunktur im Aberglauben? - Die erotische Verrohung (225) [Abb.]: Verrohung im Bilde Französische Karikatur auf die Fleischnot in Deutschland. Aus "La Baionnette", 1916 (225) [Abb.]: Englisches Familienidyll zur Kriegszeit - Die Damen wetteifern in der Herstellung von Dumdumgeschossen Aus dem "Simplicissimus", 1914 (226) [Abb.]: Kosaken verfolgen deutsche Soldaten, die in einem polnischen Dorf - Gänse requiriert haben Zeichnung von J. Waldimirow in "The Graphic", 1916 (227) [Abb.]: Der Papst und das Diplomatenkorps aller Länder beten in Rom für den Frieden Photographische Aufnahme (1915) (228) [Abb.]: Die beiden Geschlechter im Kriege Zeichnung von D. R. André in "Glühlichter", Wien 1915 (229) [Abb.]: Battisti und seine Henker Eine berühmte Aufnahme, die in Italien zu Ehren Battistis, in Österreich zur Abschreckung vor Landesverrat massenhaft als Postkarte verbreitet wurde (230) [Abb.]: "Herr Huber, n'Großvater haben's g'halten!" Zeichnung von D. R. André in "Glühlichter", Wien, 1915 (231) [Abb.]: So gebet dem Kaiser, was des Kaisers ist - und Gott, was Gottes ist Zeichnung (232) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Segen Zeichnung (2)Nenette und Rintintin, die wundertätigen Fetische der französichen Soldaten Aus "La Baionnette", 1918 (233) [Abb.]: Ein italienischer Priester segnet die Kanone Photographische Aufnahme, in "The Graphic", 1916, mit folgendem Zitat aus einer Rede Salandras veröffentlicht: "Ein atavistischer Rückfall in primitive Barbarei ist viel schwerer für uns, die wir zwanzig Jahrhunderte Kultur mehr hinter uns haben, als unsere Gegner" (234) [Abb.]: Eisernes Kreuz als Verzierung überall Eine kleine Kollektion von Kriegsgeschmacklosigkeiten (235) [Abb.]: Weihnachtsverbrüderung zwischen französischen und deutschen Soldaten Zeichnung eines französischen Frontsoldaten (1915) (236) [Abb.]: Russische Popen besprengen die Truppen vor dem Abgang an die Front mit Weihwasser Zeichnung von A. Garratt in "The Graphic", 1915 (237) [Abb.]: Der Feldkurat Zeichnung (238) [Abb.]: Die Kirche im Krieg Holzschnitt (239) [Abb.]: Kriegsannonce einer Wiener Likörfabrik (240) [Abb.]: Kriegskinder spielen Bilderbogen von Raphael Kirchner, Paris 1916 ( - ) [Abb.]: "Der Weg des Ruhmes" Französische Greuelkarikatur auf die Trunksucht im deutschen Heer. Aus "Le Rire Rouge", 1915 (241) [Abb.]: Läuse fraßen im Schützengraben den Soldaten auf - im Hinterland boten sie Anlaß zu solchen Spässen (242) [Abb.]: Gesellschaftsspiel bei der Kriegsmarine Zeichnung eines Kriegsteilnehmers in der Sammlung des Instituts für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin (243) [Abb.]: Granatformen zum Hausgebrauch Photo aus "Geschichte des Völkerkrieges", Verlag Müller Nachf., Soest (244) [Abb.]: Mensch, Gott und Gaskrieg Szene aus dem russischen Film "Der Mann, der sein Gedächtnis verlor" (245) [Abb.]: Fronleichnamsgebet in einer deutschen Bomben beschädigten Kirche Zeichnung von J. Simont in "L'Illustration", 1918 (246) [Abb.]: Das Spiel mit Leichenteilen im Schützengraben Kriegsphantasie von L. Gedö 1916 (247) [Abb.]: Kriegsreklame einer ungarischen Bierbrauerei Plakat in der Sammlung der Nationalbibliothek, Wien (248) [Abb.]: Der Tschiksammler - ein Typus aus der Zeit der Tabaknot im Hinterland Zeichnung von R. Herrmann, 1917 (249) [Abb.]: Kinder hinter der französischen Front werden mit Gasmasken ausgerüstet (250) [Abb.]: Seite aus einem von Bédier in Faksimile veröffentlichten deutschen Soldatentagebuch, deren Inhalt sich auf Vergewaltigung bezieht Aus Bédier, Les crimes allemandes, Paris 1915 (251) [Abb.]: Einzug in eine polnische Stadt Zeichnung (252) [Abb.]: "Wie stolz sie einmal in der Heimat auf ihren Sieg sein werden!" Zeichnung aus "La Baionnette", 1916 (253) [Abb.]: Das Begräbnis zweier von Zeppelins getöteter Kinder Photographische Aufnahme (254) [Abb.]: Eine Strecke des Weges der deportierten Armenier, in der Nähe von Angora Sammlung des Mechitaristenstiftes, Wien (255) [Werbung]: Setzen wir also die Original-Anzeige hierher: (255) [Abb.]: Frauenraub Zeichnung (256) [Abb.]: Wilhelm II. in der russischen Karikatur. (Man beachte das Überwiegen des tierisch-satanistischen Elementes!) Fünf Blätter aus der Mappe "Wojna russkich s njemzami", Petrograd 1915 ( - ) [Abb.]: Worüber der Klerus sich ausschweigt: die Armeniergreuel Zeichnung (257) [Abb.]: "'s war so a zwölf vom 36 er Regiment" Zeichnung (258) [Abb.]: Szene aus dem Balkankrieg Zeichnung aus der Bildermappe "Balkangreuel" (259) [Abb.]: Der "Koltschaksche Handschuh" Koltschaksche Truppen zogen Gefangenen die Haut von den Händen und ließen ihre Oper verbluten. Originalphotographie (260) [Abb.]: "Bordell und Notzuchtslegende" Zeichnung (261) [Abb.]: "Die will ich haben!" Aus "Los desastres de la guerra" (262) Zwanzigstes Kapitel Grausamkeit und Sadismus im Weltkrieg Moderne und historische kriegsgreuel - Mordlust, Lustmord und Verstümmelung - Die primitiven Völker - Südslawische Kriegsbräuche - Die Armeniergreuel - Die Notzucht im Weltkrieg und die Frauen - Das Kapitel der Kriegskinder (263) [Abb.]: Der Zeppelin kommt! Pariser Straßenszene aus dem Kriege. Zeichnung von H. Lanos in "The Graphic", 1915 (263) [Abb.]: "Siehst du, Jumbi, zu uns kommen diese weißen Leite und predigen Nächstenliebe und sie selber töten hundertmal mehr, als sie auffressen können" Zeichnung von R. Herrmann in "Glühlichter", Wien 1915 (264) [Abb.]: In London lehrt man die Kinder, wie sie sich bei Zeppelinüberfällen zu verhalten haben Photographische Aufnahme (265) [Abb.]: Krieg! Zeichnung aus dem Balkankriege. Sammlung Prof. Fr. S. Krauss, Wien (266) [Abb.]: Serbien 1915 Nach einem Gemälde (267) [Abb.]: Der Neger mit der Zahnbürste Federzeichnung eines französischen Soldaten (268) [Abb.]: Vergast Zeichnung von Steven Spurrier in "The Graphic", 1915 (269) [Abb.]: Opfer des Ruhmes: Mangels Kohlen wirft Frankreich seine 17 jährigen ins Feuer Aus "Lustige Blätter", 1917 (270) [Abb.]: Die Zeppelins im Anzug! Zeichnung von David Wilson in "The Graphic", 1915 (271) [Abb.]: Gasvergiftete Soldaten, halb wahnsinnig, winden sich auf dem Boden vor dem Feldlazarett Photographische Aufnahme, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (272) [Abb.]: Zimmer in einem belgischen Schloß Photographische Aufnahme, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (273) [Abb.]: "Kolossal! Auch Frauen und Kinder gibt's darunter!" Französische Propagandapostkarte, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (274) [Abb.]: Der Zukunftskrieg Zeichnung (275) [Gedicht]: dann leistete er aber auch noch ein übriges: (275) [Abb.]: Eine Frau in Verdun Aus "The Graphic", 1916 (276) [Lied]: fing laut zur allgemeinen Erheiterung seiner Kampf- und Leidgenossen folgendes Lied zu singen an. Es ist eigentlich eine Verhöhnung des Krieges. (277) Sonstiges (277) [Abb.]: Der Sohn des Grauens Zeichnung von Michael Gábor, 1915 (278) [Abb.]: Mord aus der Luft Zeichnung (279) [Abb.]: Kreuzland, Kreuzland über alles: Die Waisen Zeichnung (280) [Abb.]: Wenn Deutschland Bulgarien als Verbündeten weiterhaben will, so muß es sich in die Rolle Salomos versetzen und entscheiden, ob das Kind (Dobrutschka) entzweigeschnitten werden soll, wie die Türkei es will, oder lebendig seiner wahren Mutter übergeben werden soll Aus einem bulgarischen Kriegsbilderbogen, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (281) [2 Abb.]: (1)Französisches Plakat Zur Ankündigung bombenfester Keller (2)Der Krieg mordet die Symbole des Friedens Kundmachung der deutschen Kommandantur in Kowno Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (282) [Abb.]: Der frisch-fröhliche Gaskrieg Zeichnung (283) [Abb.]: Stilleben in Schabatz nach Abzug des österreichischen Heeres Aus "L'Illustration", 1915 (284) [Lied]: ein altes Lied, das über die meuchlerische Ermordung des Cengic Smailaga durch die Schwarzenbegler berichtet. Da heißt es: (284) [Abb.]: Ein Kriegskind von Soldaten in den Trümmern eines abgebrannten Hauses aufgefunden Belgische Postkarte, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (285) [Abb.]:"Sie gehen schon wieder von Wien fort?" - "O ja, und wie gern! Sie müssen nämlich wissen, daß die wienerische Gemütlichkeit jetzt in Galizien ist." Zeichnung von Willy Stiborsky in "Muskete", 1915 (286) [Abb.]: Wie die "wienerische Gemütlichkeit" in Galizien aussah Wegen angeblicher Spionage gehenkte Frauen Photographische Aufnahme (287) [Abb.]: Der deutsche Olymp: Mars in neuer Rüstung Karikatur auf den Gaskrieg von J. Kuhn-Régnier in "Fantasio", 1916 (288) [5 Abb.]: Plakate der ungarischen Revolution und Gegenrevolution Obere Reihe: (1)1. Gegen den k. u. k. Stadtkommandanten von Budapest, Lukacsics, der knapp vor dem Umsturz eine große Anzahl Deserteure hinrichten ließ. (2)2. "Zu den Waffen!" Aufruf zum Eintritt in die Rote Armee der Räteregierung. - Untere Reihe: (3)1. Wahlplakat der Sozialdemokraten unter der Károlyi-Regierung. (4)2. "Schufte! Habt ihr das gewollt?" Plakat zur Proklamation der Räteregierung. (5)3. "Sie waschen sich." Plakat der Reaktion nach dem Sturz der Räteregierung. ( - ) [Abb.]: Armenische Bäuerinnen auf dem Weg zur arabischen Wüste Sammlung des Mechitaristenstiftes, Wien (289) [Abb.]: Deportierte armenische Kinder in der Wüste, dem Hungertod entgegenharrend Sammlung des Mechitaristenstiftes, Wien (290) [Abb.]: Auf dem Wege zur Deportation verhungerte Armenier Sammlung des Mechitaristenstiftes, Wien (291) [Abb.]: Die Armeniergreuel Englische Karikatur aus "Punch", 1916 (293) [Abb.]: Eine armenische Mutter, die mit ihren zwei Kindern verhungert am Wege liegen lieb Aufnahme deutscher Soldaten in der Türkei, 1915 Sammlung des Mechitaristenstiftes, Wien (295) [Abb.]: Die Kinder hungern Zeichnung (297) [Abb.]: "Wer ist der Vater?" Zeichnung (299) [2 Gedichte]: (1)Ein französisches Gedicht sagt: (2)So jung die Wissenschaft der Sexualpsychologie, so alt ist diese Erkenntnis, die schon vor zweitausend Jahren den Liebeslehrer Ovid seine Jünger den Rat erteilen läßt: (300) [Abb.]: Die "deutsche Notzucht" Zeichnung in "Le Mot",1915 (301) [Abb.]: "Mir scheint, du bist nur ein Kaffehaus-Schwarzer - Herzklopfen könnte man bei dir auch nicht bekommen" Zeichnung (302) [Abb.]: Liebesszene Zeichnung (303) [Abb.]: Tröste dich Kleine, wir werden sagen, ein Deutscher hätte dich vergewaltigt!" Zeichnung ( - ) [Abb.]: U-Boot-Ungeheuer Zeichnung von H. Lanos in "The Graphic", 1915 (305) [Abb.]: Die Opfer eines deutschen Fliegerüberfalles im Dezember 1914: ein Hirt und zwei Lämmer Photographische Aufnahme (306) [Abb.]: Die Nacht des Urlaubers - Zeppelinalarm in Paris Zeichnung von C. Hérouard in "La Vie Parisienne", 1918 (307) Einundzwanzigstes Kapitel Die Erotik der Umsturzzeit Die Frauen in der Revolution - Russische Liebesleben im Krieg und Bürgerkrieg - Der Sadismus in der Gegenrevolution - Prostitution und Liebesleben im besetzten Rheinland - Schwarze Schmach und Reparationskinder (309) [Abb.]:Ordnung und Ruhe Zeichnung (309) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Revolution ist der Friede Zeichnung von R. Minor, New York (2)Verbrüderung zwischen deutschen und russischen Soldaten an der Dünaburgfront, während Miljukow den Krieg bis zum Siege fortsetzen will ("A. I. Z.") (310) [Abb.]: Der letzte Strich des Zensors Zeichnung von Trier in "Lustige Blätter", 1919 (311) [Abb.]: Feindliche Flugblätter ermutigen zur Revolution Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (312) [Abb.]: Feindliche Flugblätter ermutigen zur Revolution Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (313) [Abb.]: Illegale deutsche Zeitungen während des Krieges (314) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ein Fetzen Papier Aus "Lustige Blätter", 1919 (2)Postkarte aus dem ersten Nachkriegswochen Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (315) [2 Abb.]: (1)Aus den Januartagen Berlins Photographische Aufnahme (2)Berlin, Januar 1919 Photographische Aufnahme (316) [Abb.]: Berliner Straßenbild aus den Tagen der Bürgerkrieges Photographische Aufnahme (317) [Abb.]: Der Bürgerkrieg Aus "Die Pleite", Zürich 1923 (318) [2 Abb.]: (1)Szene aus dem Bürgerkrieg in Mitteldeutschland Photographische Aufnahme (2)Im Zweifel "Mein Gott, wenn ich nur wüßte, ob das eine Filmaufnahme oder ein Putschversuch ist." Aus "Lustige Blätter", 1919 (319) [Abb.]: Arbeitslos durch die Revolution Zeichnung von S. Heilemann in "Lustige Blätter", 1918 (320) [Abb.]: Die Dame und der Rotarmist Zeichnung ( - ) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ansichtskarte aus München 1918 Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (2)Auf dem Strich der Verfassung Politische Karikatur aus dem Jahre 1919 (321) [2 Abb.]: (1)Krieg und Frieden Karikatur (2)Auf dem österreichischen Aussterbeetat Zeichnung von F. Goebel in "Faun", 1919 (322) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Ententemission in Wien arbeitet Zeichnung von K. Benedek in "Faun", 1919 (2)Plakat gegen das Frauenwahlrecht Zeichnung (323) [Abb.]: "Nach uns der Kommunismus!" Zeichnung von George Grosz in "Die Pleite", 1924 (324) [2 Abb.]: (1)"Jetzt soll s' kommen, die Volksehr, ich bin gewappnet." Zeichnung von F. Goebel in "Faun", 1919 (2)Deutsches Wahlplakat Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (325) [2 Abb.]: (1)Clémenceau:"Wie, Sie gehen mit der neuen Gesellschaft schwanger? Die werde ich Ihnen schon abtreiben!" Aus "L'Assiette au Beurre", 1919 (2)Der Friede, eine Idylle Zeichnung (326) [Abb.]: Der Friedensathlet Russische Karikatur (327) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ein Kommunist "Laßt sie doch sozialisieren, Kinder, laßt sie doch sozialisieren! Ich besitze nichts weiter im Überfluß wie Gallensteine, und die teil' ich gerne!" Zeichnung von F. Jüttner in "Lustige Blätter", 1919 (2)Das französische Siegesplakat "Clémenceau und Foch haben sich um das Vaterland verdient gemacht." Archives photographiques d'art et d'histoire, Paris (328) [Abb.]: Dublin nach sieben Tagen Revolution Aus "Illustrated London News", 1916 (329) [Abb.]: Der Zeichner als Prophet Die Stimme Ludwig XVI.: "Sie froh, Romanow! Kerenski ist kein Robespierre!" Zeichnung von Trier in "Lustige Blätter", 1917 (330) Nach Rasputins Tod Die Petersburger Fürstinnen 1 bis 6: "Ja, ja, mein Kind, nun hast du keinen Vater mehr!" Zeichnung von G. Müller-Schulte in "Lustige Blätter",1917 (331) [Abb.]: Zar Nikolaus II. im russischen Hauptquartier Aus "L'Illustration", 1917 (332) [Abb.]: Wenn der russische Bär Angst kriegt Aus "Glühlichter", 1915 (333) [Abb.]: In Petersburg Der Adjutant: "Majestät, wozu hier diese Fortifikationen? Nach Petersburg wird doch die deutsche Armee nicht kommen." Der Zar: "Die deutsche nicht, aber die russische." Zeichnung aus "Labour Leader", 1915 (334) [2 Abb.]: (1)General Wrangel wäscht sich die Hand Zeichnung von George Grosz in "13 Jahre Mord" (2)Von Koltschak ermordete russische Bauern Aus "An Alle", 10 Jahre Sowjetunion (335) [Abb.]: Der Auftakt zur russischen Revolution: Das Volk Petersburgs plündert Lebensmittelgeschäfte ("A. I. Z.") (336) [2 Abb.]: Bilder aus den Tagen der gegenrevolutionären Ausschreitungen in Ungarn Zeichnungen ( - ) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ein Typus aus dem Todesbataillon Kerenskis Aus dem russischen Film "10 Tage, die die Welt erschütterten" (2)Auf der Strecke des russischen weißen Terrors Russische Zeichnung (337) [2 Abb.]: (1)Eine Tapfere aus Kerenskis Frauenbataillon Aus dem russ. Film "10 Tage, die die Welt erschütterten" (2)Der russische Bourgeois: "Die Arbeiter essen Kaviar, denen geht's gut!" Aus der russischen Zeitschrift "Krassnaja Niwa" (Rote Wiese) (338) [Abb.]: Starkes und schwaches Geschlecht in der russischen Revolution Zeichnung (339) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Budapester Ententemissionen melden: "In Ungarn gibt es keinen weißen Terror." Zeichnung von Vértes, 1919 (2)Transdanubische Landschaft 1919 Zeichnung von Vértes in "Bilder aus der ungarischen Hölle" (340) [4 Abb.]: Köpfe aus der russischen Revolution (1)Lenin (2)Lunatscharski (3)Tschitscherin Zeichnungen von Paul Robert in ""L'Illustration", 1918 (4)Plakat mohammedanischer Frauen in Taschkent für die Gleichberechtigung Aus "Das neue Rußland", 1927 (341) [2 Abb.]: (1)Titelblatt einer Broschüre über den Fall der Frau Hamburger, die nach dem Sturz der Budapester Räteregierung Opfer des gegenrevolutionären Sadismus wurde (2)Antisemitisches Plakat der ungarischen Gegenrevolution nach dem Sturz der Räteregierung. Die Figur auf dem Bilde soll Szamuely darstellen. Die Aufschrift lautet: "Haben wir dafür gekämpft?" Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (342) [Abb.]: Liebesszene aus den Tagen der ungarischen Gegenrevolution Zeichnung (343) [Abb.]: Propagandapostkarte von Matejko Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (344) [Abb.]: Rheinland 1919 Zeichnung (345) [Abb.]: Titelseite eines im besetzten Rheinland von Deutschen herausgegebenen französischen Witzblattes Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (346) [4 Abb.]: (1)(2)Die Ruhrbesetzung Französisches Plakat und deutsche Antwort Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (3)(4)Erotischer Notgeldschein, sogenannte Ruhrtaler Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (347) [Abb.]: Gebet des Besatzungskommandanten: "Lieber Gott, gib, daß die Deutschen möglichst lange nicht zahlen!" Aus "Le Rire du Poilus", 1923 Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (348) [Abb.]: Offiziere und Gemeine im französischen Besatzungsheer am Rhein Zeichnung von Jacquement in "Le Rire du Roilus", 1923 (349) [Abb.]: Lorelei: "Jetzt weiß ich, was soll es bedeuten, daß ich so traurig bin!" Aus "Lustige Blätter", 1919 (350) [2 Abb.]: (1)"Und die deutschen Frauen am deutschen Rhein, Sie haben den Schwarzen zu Willen zu sein." Aus einem Flugblatt zu den preußischen Landtagswahlen 1921 (2)Nach dem Abzug der Engländer aus dem Rheinland "Unser Vaterland kann mit uns zufrieden sein. Wir haben dafür gesorgt, daß die Reparationszahler in Deutschland nicht alle werden." Zeichnung von Faludy in "Der Götz von Berlichingen", Wien 1930 (351) [Abb.]: Titelseite des deutschen Flugblattes "Notruf" gegen die schwarze Schmach Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (352) [Abb.]: Der schwarze Sturm Zeichnung ( - ) [Abb.]: Postkarte gegen die schwarze Schmach Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (353) [Abb.]: Jumbo, der Frauenfresser Zeichnung (355) [Abb.]: Postkarte gegen die schwarze Schmach Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (356) [Abb.]: Plakat gegen die schwarze Schmach Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (357) Zweiundzwanzigstes Kapitel Die Inflations- und Nachkriegsjahre Der Sinnestaumel: Heiratswut, Tanzepidemie, Rauschgiftseuche, Prostitution und Mädchenhandel nach dem Kriege - Erotische Straßenliteratur - Die Sexualreform und ihre Verwirklichung in Rußland - Die neuen Frauentypen: Flapper, Garçonne und die Frau von morgen (359) [Abb.]: Die Heimkehr der Vertriebenen Radierung (359) [Abb.]: Zweierlei Arbeitslose: Drinnen und draußen Zeichnung von J. Danilowatz in "Der Götz von Berlichingen", Wien 1919 (360) [Abb.]: Das Valuta-Mädel "Mein Schwede ist abgereist - nun kann ich mir zehn Deutsche suchen" Aus "Lustige Blätter", 1920 (361) [Abb.]: Nachkriegsidyll Zeichnung (362) [Abb.]: Das Morphium Zeichnung (363) [Abb.]: "Kindertransport" nach Rumänien (zum Thema: Mädchenhandel in der Nachkriegszeit) Zeichnung von F. Bayros, 1919 (364) [Abb.]: Der ertüchtigte Frauenkörper "Ihre Schwächen zeigt sie natürlich nicht öffentlich" Zeichnung von V. Weixler, 1920 (365) [Abb.]: Der Tanz auf dem Vulkan "Der Tanz ist wunderbar, bloß der Boden ist etwas heiß" Zeichnung von Lutz Ehrenberger in "Lustige Blätter", 1919 (366) [8 Abb.]: Der neue Anzug - eine Inflationstragödie (1)Bei noch so wenig Körperfülle bracht man dafür doch eine Hülle. (2)Der Anzug paßt von vornherein nicht gut in das Budget hinein. (3)Zu Ankaufszwecken meistens wir ein Pump und Vorschuß kombiniert. (4)Doch auch beim sorgsamsten Kalkül trifft heut kein Vorschuß in das Ziel. (5)Die Audienz beim "Kleiderkönig" ergab: das Geld ist viel zu wenig. (6)Man spart und wird beim Sparen reifer, doch auch der Kurs wird täglich steifer. (7)Die Kronen türmen sich zuhauf, doch nie langt's für den Kleiderkauf (8)Der neue Anzug blieb ihm fremd 's langt nicht mal mehr aufs Sterbehemd. Zeichnungen von L. Kmoch, Text von F. J. Gribitz, in "Faun", 1920 (367) [Abb.]: Soziale Umschichtung Der ehemalige Kriegslieferant auf der Heimfahrt von der Auktion: "Ja. den Galawagen hab ich gut gekauft, Rosalinde - ich fürchte bloß, sie wern uns mal für Wilhelm und Auguste halten!" Aus "Lustige Blätter", 1919 (368) [Abb.]: Rassenmischer Krieg Zeichnung ( - ) [Abb.]: Auch die Revolution hat ihr Gutes Der Kriegsgewinner in der Hofloge: "Laura, das Publikum guckt her, verneige dich huldvoll!" Zeichnung von Lutz Ehrenberger in "Lustige Blätter", Dezember 1918 (369) [Abb.]: Rassenmischung Von der Verbrüderung der Rassen halt' ich nichts. Höchstens die Babys hätten als Zebras eine schöne Varietézukunft Zeichnung (370) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das Geheimnis Aus einer Mappe der Nachkriegserotik (2)Der Tanz der Gonokokken "Womit jemand sündigt - damit wird er geplagt" Zeichnung von Rob im "Faun" 1919 (371) [Abb.]: Freut euch des Lebens! Zeichnung von George Grosz in "Abrechnung folgt" (372) [Abb.]: Umsturzphilosophie "Heute müssen wir uns einen Rausch antrinken, daß wir die vielen Heimkehrer ein bißchen vergessen" Zeichnung (373) [Abb.]: Im Wartezimmer des Spezialisten Zeichnung (374) [Abb.]: Der Krieg geht in den Familien fort Zeichnung (375) [Abb.]: Der Triumphzug der Jazz Zeichnung (376) [2 Abb.]: (1)Kinderfürsorge in den Sowjetstaaten Die Moskauer Sammelstelle für Muttermilch, wo die säugenden Mütter ihren Überfluß an Milch abgeben (2)Frauensport in Sowjetrußland Russische Athletinnen trainieren zur Spartakiade ("A. I. Z.") (377) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die russische Propaganda gegen die kirchliche Trauung Zeichnung (2)Die russische Bäuerin verheizt die Ikone Zeichnung von Deni in "Bezboschnik" 1926 (378) [Abb.]: Frau Schesterkina vom Stamme der Mordwinen als Delegierte auf einem Sowjetkongreß (379) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Orientalin verhöhnt den alten Muselmann Karikatur von Deni in "Bezboschnik" 1924 (2)Mutterschaftsfürsorge in der Sowjetunion Aus "Mahnruf" 1930 (380) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die russische Schriftstellerin Sejfullina Aus "Das neue Rußland", 1927 (2)Eine berühmte russische Militärfliegerin: Nadeshda Sumarokowa Aus "Mahnruf" 1930 (381) [2 Abb.]: (1)Russische Arbeiterin lernt mit dem Gewehr umgehen Photographische Aufnahme (2)Die Sowjetdiplomatin und Schriftstellerin Kollontaj Karikatur von Paul Robert (Moskau, 1918) (382) [3 Abb.]: (1)Kinderfürsorge in Sowjetrußland Plakat gegen "schmutzige Kleidung, schlechte Ammen, dunkle Räume, schlechte Luft" (2)Russisches Fürsorgeplakat. "Warum trinkst du meine Milch ? Nährt dich denn deine Mutter nicht ?" (3)Säuglingsrevolution auf einem Sowjetplakat. "Wir verlangen: Schutz vor Fliegen, trockene saubere Windeln, Muttermilch, frische Luft und Sonnenlicht, gesunde Eltern!" Aus Rußland, Neuer Deutscher Verlag (383) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die muselmannische Frau auf dem Wege aus dem Harem Zeichnung von Deni aus "Bezboschnik" 1924 (2)Die antireligiöse Propaganda in Rußland Der Zeichner macht sich über das jüdische Osterzeremoniell lustig Zeichnung von Deni in "Bezboschnik" 1925 (384) [Abb.]: Tanzwut Zeichnung ( - ) [Abb.]: Die Frauenemanzipation in Rußland Samojedische Delegierte aus dem äußersten Norden der Sowjetunion auf einem Moskauer Parteikongreß Aus "Das neue Rußland" (385) [3 Abb.]: (1)Die Befreiung der Orientalin Russische Zeitung (2)Den Schleier nieder! Die Befreiung der Orientalin Zeichnung von Deni in "Bezboschnik" 1926 (3)Die russische Kirche und die Frauen Russische Karikatur (386) [2 Abb.]: (1)Russische Mutter zapft sich Milch für darbende Säuglinge ab. Die so gewonnene Muttermilch wird von der Moskauer Sammelstelle in Flaschen abgeliefert (2)Bäuerin in Turkestan mit ihrer primitiven Kornhandmühle Aus "Das neue Rußland" 1928 (387) [3 Abb.]: (1)Die Sowjetpropaganda gegen Taufe und Beschneidung Zeichnung von Deni in "Bezboschnik" 1924 (2)Die Russin politisiert Zeichnung von Ikoneikow in "Bezboschnik", 1924 (3)Der Pope und die abtrünnige Bäuerin Karikatur von Deni in "Bezboschnik", 1926 (388) [2 Abb.]: (1)Zur Vermännlichung der Frau in der Nachkriegszeit: Amerikanische Universitätshörerinnen in Männerkleidung Sammlung des Instituts für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin (2)Frau Valerie Smith, genannt Captain Barker eine Frau, die, als Mann verkleidet, jahrelang als Führer des englischen Faschismus tätig war Sammlung des Instituts für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin (389) [Abb.]: Genießertum in der Nachkriegszeit Zeichnung (390) [Abb.]: Der Feinschmecker Aus einer Mappe der Nachkriegserotik (391) [2 Abb.]: (1)Früh um 5 Uhr. Zeichnung von Gorge Groß in "Das Gesicht der herrschenden Klasse" (2)Plakat gegen die Tanzwut Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (392) [2 Abb.]: (1)Frühlingserwachen Zeichnung (2)Nachkriegsprostitution: "Kommen Sie mit, Onkel, ich bin minderjährig" Zeichnung (393) [Abb.]: Moderner Akt Zeichnung von Egon Schiele, 1918 (394) [Abb.]: Nachkriegsmoral "Ich würde meiner Tochter nie erlauben, abends alleine auszugehen, wenn sie mir nicht versichert hätte, daß sie unter polizeilicher Aufsicht stehe" Zeichnung von Vértes, 1919 (395) [Abb.]: Französische Soldaten haben in Palaipolis im zweiten Kriegsjahr eine antike Statue entdeckt. Die Statue stellte den Liebesgott des Griechen Eros dar. Gleich wie der Liebe im Kriege die echte Zuneigung und Vergeistigung fehlte, war auch dieser Eros ein Torso ohne Arme und Kopf aus "L'Illustration", 1915 (397) [Gedicht]: Diese Zukunft spricht zu uns aus den schönen Versen des Dichters Hermann Claudius, in denen unsere Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges ausklingen möge: (398) Anhang (399) I. Verbotene erotische Literatur im Kriege (399) [Abb.]: Kriegertraum Zeichnung von E. Hérouard in "La Vie Parisienne", 1917 (399) [Abb.]: Auf dem Friedhof von Ypern "Wofür haben wir uns gegenseitig ermordet?" Zeichnung von Rudolf Herrmann in "Bilder aus dem Alltagsleben" (400) [3 Abb.]: Kriegsnächte (1)Die blaue Nacht (2)Die weiße Nacht (3)Die rote Nacht Zeichnungen von C. Hérouard, Paris 1918 ( - ) [Abb.]: Zu den Waffen! Zeichnung von Alfred Roll, Paris (401) [Abb.]: Anstehen nach Kohlen, 1917 Zeichnung von H. Zille in "Kriegsmarmelade" (Die Veröffentlichung des Blattes war während des Krieges verboten) Mit freundl. Genehmigung des Neuen Deutschen Verlages (402) [Abb.]: Frankreich läßt die afrikanischen Untertanen Kriegsanleihen zeichnen Aus"L'Illustration", 1916 (403) [Abb.]: Wein, Weib und Gesang im Kriege Zeichnung (404) [Abb.]: Kriegsgreuel Zeichnung (405) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Sieger Holzschnitt (2)Etappenmädel Zeichnung (406) [2 Abb.]: (1)Schlachtvieh für das Kanonenfutter Französische Aufnahme (2)Abgesandte der Skupschtina setzen über den See von Skutari Aus "L'Illustration", 1916 (407) [3 Abb.]: (1)Schwarzweiße Liebe Aus "La Baionnette", 1916 (2)Exotische Gäste in Paris Aus "La Baionnette", 1916 (3)Japaner und Pariserin Zeichnung von A. Valès in "La Vie Parisienne", 1997 (408) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Ernte der Geschosse Szene aus dem russischen Antikriegsfilm "Der Mann, der sein Gedächtnis verlor" (2)Saal eines Schlosses in Guè-a-Tresme mit dem für deutsche Offiziere bereiteten Mahl, das von einem feindlichen Überfall unterbrochen wurde Aus "L'Illustration", 1914 (409) [Tabelle]: Es entfielen (in Prozenten ausgedrückt) von den dauernder Prüfung unterworfenen Druckschriften auf (409) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Kellnerin der Offizierskasinos Französische Karikatur (2)Chaplin im Kriege "Warum geht der Mann nicht an die Front? Dort würde er stark und gesund werden." Zeichnung von Reynolds in "Punch", 1917 (410) [Tabelle]: Wegen des gleichen Delikts wurden 1924/25 bestraft in: (410) [Abb.]: Aber die Liebe Die Kriegshunde erwiesen sich im Nachrichtendienst als sehr nützlich. Oft aber werden sie, durch Liebe verblendet, zu Vaterlandsverrätern Zeichnung von E. O Petersen in "Simplicissimus", 1915 (411) [Abb.]: Titelseite einer französischen Schützengrabenzeitung, von der nur die erste, konfiszierte Nummer erschien Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (412) [Abb.]: Aus großer Zeit Zeichnung von U. Zille Mit freundl. Genehmigung des Neuen Deutschen Verlags, aus "Für alle!" (413) II. Die Kriegserotik in der Literatur. (414) [Gedicht]: Aus Herbert Lewandowski, "Der lachende Soldat". Geschrieben 1915. Bezüglich der Zahl der Kriegsopfer habe ich mich allerdings damals erheblich (zugunsten der Diplomatie) geirrt. (414) [Abb.]: Der Tod und das Mädchen (frei nach dem Lied von Schubert) Politische Zeichnung von Jordaan in "De Notenkraker", 1915 (414) [Abb.]: Reicht es? Reichte es nicht? Zeichnung (415) [2 Abb.]: (1)Frohes Wiedersehen (2)Estaminet hinter der Westfront Französische Frontzeichnung, 1915 (416) [2 Abb.]: (1)Traurige Trennung Zeichnung von E. Herouard in "Fantasio", 1916 (2)Windgeblähte Phantasien Zeichnung von A. Guyon in "Le Courire de France", 1918 (417) [Abb.]: Feldbräute rechts und links Zeichnung (418) [Abb.]: Geschlechtsnot Zeichnung (419) [Abb.]: Die Menschheit im Kriege Zeichnung (420) [Abb.]: Die Flucht des serbischen Stabschefs Putnik Albanien Aus "L'Illustration", 1916 (421) [Abb.]: Im Olymp "Fix Laudon, jetzt wird's mir schon selber zu dumm. Jeden Tag an einer neuen Front - da soll ein anderer Kriegsgott sein!" Zeichnung von D. R. André in "Glühlichter", 1915 (422) [2 Abb.]: (1)Brandstifterkollegium Gedenkmünze von K. Goetz, die Außenminister der Entente darstellend Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (2) Paris feiert den 14. Juli im letzten Kriegsjahr Titelzeichnung von J. Simont in "L'Illustration", 1918 (423) [Abb.]: Kriegsliebe "Nur mang mit de Ruhe, Kinna - Krawutschka, der Nächste!" Zeichnung (424) [Abb.]: Englisch-französisches Bündnis Zeichnung (425) [Abb.]: Die Schauspielerin Mlle. Chenal singt in der Pariser Opéra-Comique die Marseillaise Zeichnung (426) [Abb.]: Deutsche Soldaten bewundern den Manneken piss in Brüssel Photo aus der Sammlung des Instituts für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin (427) [2 Abb.]: (1)Rußland stellt sich schützend vor Serbien Italienische Karikatur auf den Kriegsausbruch (2)Die erotische Revolution nach dem Kriege Titelseite eines Berliner Kolportageblattes (428) [Abb.]: Zeichnung von H. Zille Mit freundl. Genehmigung des Neuen Deutschen Verlags, aus "Für Alle" (429) [2 Abb.]: (1)Vorbereitungen zum Sturmangriff Karikatur von J. Priselli in "Solnze Rossij", 1915 (2)Scherz, Ironie und Bedeutung auf einer Postkarte. Umgekehrt gehalten ergeben die Ziffern im Spiegel eine drastisch-knappe Kritik der Reparationsforderungen) Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (430) [Gedicht]: Über die Kriegsprostitution möge hier ein Gedicht vom Schreiber dieser Zeilen Aufnahme finden: (430) [Abb.]: Russische Kriegslandkarte Sammlung A. Woff, Leipzig (431) [Abb.]: Der Elefant und das Nest der kleinen Nationen Eine englische Kaiserkarikatur von B. Partridge in "Punch", 1917 (432) [Abb.]: die gallische Henne hätte die Eier der Friedenstaube ausbrüten können - aber es sind doch nur deutsche Pickelhauben! Zeichnung von F. Bayros, 1919 ( - ) [Abb.]: "Für ein paar Bissen, Herr Oberoffizier!" Zeichnung (433) [Abb.]: "Ja, mein Kind! So ist unser ganzes Leben!" Zeichnung von H. Zille in "Kriegsmarmelade". Mit freundl. Genehmigung des Neuen Deutschen Verlags (435) [Gedicht]: Die Knaben im Krieg. (435) Schlusswort (437) Literaturangaben (439) Dreizehntes Kapitel (439) Vierzehntes Kapitel (439) Fünfzehntes Kapitel (440) Sechzehntes Kapitel (440) Siebzehntes Kapitel (441) Achtzehntes Kapitel (441) Neunzehntes Kapitel (442) Zwanzigstes Kapitel (443) Einundzwanzigstes Kapitel (444) Zweiundzwanzigstes Kapitel (445) Inhalt des zweiten Bandes ( - ) Illustratoren-Verzeichnis zu den zwei Bänden "Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges" ( - ) Verzeichnis der Farbentafeln ( - ) Einband ( - ) Einband ( - )
SITTENGESCHICHTE DES WELTKRIEGES I. BAND Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges (-) Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges I. Band (I. / 1930) ( - ) Einband ( - ) [Abb.]: ( - ) Titelseite ([III]) Impressum ([IV]) Vorwort (V) Einleitung Begriffsbestimmungen - Sitte, Moral und Recht - Sittengeschichtliche Bedeutung der Kriege und des Weltkrieges - Wirtschaftliche Notwendigkeit, Sittlichkeit und Erotik in ihrem Einfluß auf den Krieg (VII) [Abb.]: Der Krieg bei den Amazonen Zeichnung von Kuhn-Régnier, "La Vie Parisienne", 1915 (VII) [Abb.]: Das europäische Gleichgewicht Zeichnung (VIII) [Abb.]: Russische Karikatur auf Rasputin (IX) [Abb.]: Krieg heißt: Diebstahl, Notzucht, Mord Zeichnung von Delannoy in "Assiette au beurre", 1907 (XI) [Abb.]: Unsere Kinder werden ihnen Halt gebieten Zeichnung (XIII) [Abb.]: Wilhelm II. in der Karikatur Französische Postkarte aus der Zeit der Marokkokonfliktes Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (XIV) [Abb.]: Kaiser Franz Joseph als Ballerine Französische Postkarte aus der Vorkriegszeit Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (XV) [Abb.]: "Wo kommt denn diese bewaffnete Bande her? Wir wollen flüchten!" Zeichnung (XVII) [Abb.]: Kamarilla viribus unitis Wiener Diplomatie Zeichnung von Kupka, 1907 (XIX) [Abb.]: Kriegsgrauen (XX) [Abb.]: Italienische Postkarten aus dem Jahre 1916 Wilhelm II. und Franz Joseph I. in der erotischen Karikatur der Entente ( - ) Erstes Kapitel Die Umwälzung der Moral vor und in dem Kriege Sittengeschichtliche Tendenzen der Vorkriegsjahre - Wirtschaftliche, politische und erotische Frauenemanzipation - Die erotischen Typen der Vorkriegsfrau (1) [Abb.]: La belle Otero oder der Zauber des Trikots Ein Beitrag zur Vorkriegserotik Aus Hirschfeld-Spinner, "Geschlecht und Verbrechen" (1) [Abb.]: Nacktkultur in Friedenszeit - zehn Mark Strafe Photographische Aufnahme (2) [Abb.]: Frauensport und Nacktkultur im Kriege Französische karikaturistische Zeichnung von Valdés, 1918 (3) [Abb.]: Die schlafende Unschuld Psychoanalytische Zeichnung aus einem Sonderheft der Zeitschrift "Le Disque Vert" (4) [Abb.]: Die Tänzerin Gaby Deslys, die ihre Schönheit in den Dienst der Kunst und bei Kriegsausbruch in den der englischen Kriegspropaganda stellte Photographische Aufnahme (5) [Abb.]: Das Frauenideal der Vorkriegszeit Die Tänzerin Mata Hari aus Hirschfeld-Spinner, "Geschlecht und Verbrechen" (6) [Abb.]: Der Bürger: "Der nicht arbeitet, soll dafür gut essen!" Zeichnung (7) [Abb.]: Französische Postkarte als Antwort auf den bekannten "Oktoberaufruf der Dreiundneunzig" nach Kriegsausbruch Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (8) [Abb.]: Das Zuhältermotiv in der Karikatur Germania und ihr türkischer Freund, dem sie Geld zusteckt Aus einem russischen Kriegsbilderbogen Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (9) [Abb.]: Französische Frauen am Pflug Photographische Aufnahme (10) [Abb.]: Zum Thema: Krieg und Frauenemanzipation Kriegsbilderbogen "Woche", Berlin (11) [Abb.]: Das Kapital und der Krieg Zeichnung von Boris Jefimoff, Moskau (12) [Lied]: Ein vielgesungenes Pariser Couplet "Elles tiendront" von Jacques Folrey drückt diese Wahrheit auf seine Weise aus, idem es in den ersten Strophen die verschiedenen Formen verulkt, die die Erwerbstätigkeit der Frau im Frankreich der Kriegszeit annahm, um in der letzten Strophe auch gleich die politische Folgerung zu ziehen: (12) [Abb.]: Frauenarbeit im Kriege An der Granatendrehbank einer deutschen Munitionsfabrik Photographische Aufnahme (13) [Abb.]: Massage in der Vorkriegszeit Nach einem Gemälde (15) [Abb.]: Franz Joseph in der englischen Karikatur "Punch", 1916 (16) [Abb.]: Dirne und Zuhälter Rußland und Frankreich im Spiegel der Karikatur, "Muskete", August 1915 Zeichnung ( - ) [Abb.]: Frauenakt Zeichnung (17) [Abb.]: Mädchen (18) [Abb.]: Der Sündenfall Karikatur auf das russisch-französische Bündnis von C. Arnold Flugblatt der "Liller Kriegszeitung", 1916 (19) [Abb.]: Zärtliche Träume Zeichnung von Fabiano, aus "La Vie Parisienne", 1914 (20) [Abb.]: Die Ernte des Jahres 1915 Italienische Kriegskarikatur aus dem Witzblatt "L'Asino" (21) [Abb.]: Bethmann-Hollweg und die Wahrheit Politische Zeichnung (22) [Abb.]: Bad an der Seine Zeichnung von G. Léonnec, aus "La Vie Parisienne", 1914 (23) [Abb.]: Bei der Toilette Üppige Frauenschönheit vor dem Kriege Nach einem Gemälde (25) [Abb.]: "Werden Sie diskret sein?" Zeichnung (26) [Abb.]: Das Gänschen (ein verschwundener Mädchentypus) Zeichnung von A. Vallée aus "La Vie Parisienne", 1913 (27) [2 Abb.]: (1)Jochanaan tragt der Salome seinen Kopf nach Partie aus einem Fries (2)"Du mußt ihn gehen lassen, sonst heißt es gleich, du störst den Burgfrieden." Zeichnung von Th. Th. Heine, aus "Kleine Bilder aus großer Zeit" (28) Zweites Kapitel Erotik und Triebleben bei Kriegsausbruch Die Hurrabegeisterung und ihr libidinöser Hintergrund - Abschwächung oder Steigerung des Geschlechtstriebes bei Kriegsausbruch? - Der Krieg im Lichte der Soziologie und der Psychoanalyse (29) [Abb.]: "Sie müssen schon entschuldigen, seit mein Mann tauglich befunden wurde, läuft er tagsüber nackt herum" Zeichnung von M. Rodiguet in "Le Rire rouge", 1917 (29) [Abb.]: Ausmarsch Zeichnung von B. Wennerberg, aus "Simplicissimus", 1915 (30) [Abb.]: Europa auf dem wilden Stier Zeichnung (31) [Abb.]: Das patriotische Lied Zeichnung von A. Roubille in "Fantasio", 1914 (32) [Abb.]: Das Herz der Dame "Schick' den Kriegskrüppel um Gotteswillen fort. Ist es nicht genug, daß ich die ganze Nacht auf einem Kriegswohltätigkeitsball getanzt habe?" Zeichnung von A. Mazza, Milano ( - ) [Abb.]: Die Pariser Börse am Tage der Kriegserklärung Photographische Aufnahme (33) [Abb.]: Eine englische Reservistenfamilie oder eine Kriegslaokoongruppe mit den "Putties" (Wickelgamaschen) statt Schlangen Zeichnung von Townsend, "Punch", 1915 (34) [2 Abb.]: "Kopflose Maßnahmen des Publikums. - (1)Masseneinkauf von Mehl. - (2)Ansturm von unnötigerweise beunruhigten Sparern auf die Städtischen Sparkasse in Berlin" Zwei Bilder, die knapp nach Kriegsausbruch mit diesem Text in mehreren Blättern erschienen. Aus "Ill. Zeitung", Leipzig. 1914 (35) [Abb.]: Die Freiwilligen Holzschnitt (36) [Abb.]: Gewissen 1917 Holzschnitt von Franz Masereel, aus "Politische Zeichnungen", Erich Reiß-Verlag, Berlin (37) [Abb.]: Kriegsbegeisterung auch in Moskau? Photographische Aufnahme (38) [Abb.]: "Schwören wir, meine Damen, daß wir keinen Mann heiraten, der lebend aus dem Krieg zurückkommt!" "La Baionnette", 1916 (39) [Abb.]: Englisches Phlegma "Du mußt in den Krieg - und das Kind ist auf dem Wege." "Bis es heiratet, hoffe ich zurück zu sein." Zeichnung von R. C. Ventura, aus der italienischen Kriegsmappe "Gli Unni e gli altri" (41) [Abb.]: Die Gesundbeter oder die K. V.-Maschinen Zeichnung (42) [Abb.]: Die Menschen und der Krieg Holzschnitt von Franz Masereel, aus "Politische Zeichnungen", Erich Reiß-Verlag, Berlin (43) [Abb.]: Kriegsfreundliche Massenkundgebung vor dem Schloß in Berlin Photographische Aufnahme (44) [Abb.]: Die Pariser Schauspielerin Mlle. Delysia singt in London in einer Revue die Marseillaise Photo Wrather and Buy (45) [Abb.]: Einerseits um die Mannschaft bei guter Laune zu erhalten, andererseits um die Frauen mehr in den Dienst des Vaterlands zu stellen, wurde in den französischen Kasernen die Besuchszeit über Nacht ausgedehnt. Aus "Der Faun", Wien, 1916 (46) [Abb.]: Der heilige Krieg Holzschnitt von Franz Masereel, aus "Politische Zeichnungen", Erich Reiß-Verlag, Berlin (47) [Abb.]: Hurra, der Krieg ist da! Photographische Aufnahme (48) [Abb.]: Das Gespenst des Krieges Zeichnung (49) [Abb.]: Erschießung eines russischen Kriegsdienstverweigerers Aus "Geschichte der russischen Revolution", Neuer Deutscher Verlag, Berlin (50) Drittes Kapitel Die Dame in der Loge Geht der Kampf um sie? - Ihr Sadismus und ihre Kraftanbetung - Uniformfetischismus - Die Dame als Mittel der Kriegspropaganda, als Kriegshetzerin und Pflegerin - Die Kriegsmode und ihr erotischer Hintergrund (51) [Abb.]: Der hohe Damenstiefel als Fetisch Zeichnung von G. Zórád im ungarischen Witzblatt "Fidibusz", 1918 (51) [Abb.]: Der Brief des Poilu: "Ich sehe Sie vor mir, wie Sie, jeder Zoll eine Frau, in duftiger Mousseline einherschweben." Zeichnung von Ed. Touraine in "La Baionnette", 1915 (52) [Abb.]: Ein frommer Wunsch deutscher Modeschöpfer: Die militarisierte Damenmode Aus "Elegante Welt", 1915 (53) [Abb.]: Die versuchte Militarisierung der Frauentracht Modebild aus "Elegante Welt", 1915 (54) [Abb.]: Die Kraftanbetung der Frau (Bizepsfetischismus) Photographische Aufnahme (55) [Abb.]: Die Dame im Werbedienst Die englische Schauspielerin Miss Lorraine hält im Dienste der englischen Rekrutierung eine Ansprache Photographische Aufnahme (56) [Abb.]: Von allen beneidet, stolziert die Französin am Arm ihres Helden durch die Pariser Straßen Zum Kapitel: Heldenverehrung der Frau Zeichnung von Fabiano in "La Baionnette", 1915 (57) [Abb.]: Stacheldrahtkrinoline 1916 Die Kriegsmode in der englischen Karikatur Aus "London Mail" (58) [Abb.]: Der Frühling kommt schon als Soldat Zeichnung (59) [Abb.]: Die deutsche Sängerin im Spiegel der französischen Karikatur Zeichnung (60) [Abb.]: Die Kriegskrinoline "Lustige Blätter", 1916 (61) [Abb.]: Die Pariser und die Berliner Mode Französische Karikatur (62) [Abb.]: Am Morgen vor dem Abmarsch Zeichnung (63) [Abb.]: Derby braucht Soldaten "Mister Tomson zum Militär? Ausgeschlossen! Bereits von mir assentiert!" Kriegflugblatt der "Liller Kriegszeitung" (64) [Gedicht]: Auch hier wendet sich der Dichter Harold Begbie an den Drückeberger, den es allerdings im eigentlichen Sinne in England damals nicht gab, da der Eintritt in die Armee freiwillig erfolgte: (64) [Abb.]: Marianne empfängt ihren Sieger Zeichnung ( - ) [Abb.]: Beitrag zur Vermännlichung der Frau im Kriege Pariser Theaterreklame aus dem Jahre 1916 Aus der Sammlung des Archives photographiques d'Art et d'histoire, Paris (65) [Abb.]: "Du bist nicht mehr freiwillige Pflegerin?" - "Nein, warum auch? Mein Bild als Rote-Kreuz-Schwester ist ja in der 'Illustrierten' schon erschienen." Zeichnung von E. A. Lamm in "Muskete", 1915 (66) [Abb.]: In allen Ländern träumen junge Mädchen von Uniformen Zeichnung von Fabiano in "La Baionnette", 1915 (67) [Abb.]: "Warum spazierst du im Evakostüm herum?" "Mein Schneider ist eingerückt" Zeichnung von G. Hantot in "Le Rire rouge" (68) [Abb.]: "So verliert man den Krieg daheim" Englische Propagandazeichnung gegen die Putzsucht und Kaufwut der Dame Aus "Punch", 1917 (69) [2 Abb.]: (1)"Ist mein Rock zu kurz? Ist mein Jupon zu lang?" Englische Modekarikatur aus "London Mail", 1916 (2)Politische Karikatur (70) [Abb.]: Die Frau als Werbemittel auf einem amerikanischen Kriegsanleiheplakat Sammlung Wolff, Leipzig (71) [Abb.]: Titelvignette aus der Zeitschrift "La Baionnette" (72) [Abb.]: Sie schreibt an die Front: "Mein lieber Mann, du kannst dir denken, wie sehr ich alle Leiden und Entbehrungen mit dir teile." Zeichnung (73) [Abb.]: Madelaine ohne Pariser Mode "Eigentlich gar nicht so übel, diese neue deutsche Tracht!" Kriegsflugblatt der "Liller Kriegszeitung" (74) [Abb.]: Wie die Mode des Highlanders die der Pariserin beinflußt und umgekehrt Zeichnung von G. Léonnec in "La Vie Parisienne", 1915 (75) [Abb.]: Inserat, das in zahlreichen deutschen Blättern nach Kriegsausbruch erschien "Leipzig Ill. Zeitung", 1914 (76) [Abb.]: Junge Mädchen führen in London Freiwillige zum Rekrutierungsamt Photographische Aufnahme (77) [2 Abb.]: (1)"Die neuen Zeppelinmodelle sind eingetroffen" Französische Karikatur auf die Kriegsmode Aus "La Baionnette", 1914 (2)Was der Schlitzrock verrät Die Dame meint, man brauche den Stoff für die Soldaten Aus den italienischen Witzblatt "L'Asino", 1915 (78) [Abb.]: "Und wenn der Krieg noch so lange dauert, noch weiter und noch kürzer darfst du die Röcke nicht tragen." Zeichnung (79) [Abb.]: Die deutsche Frau in der französischen Kriegskarikatur Zeichnung von Brunner, aus "La Baionnette", 1914 (80) [Abb.]: Feldpostalisches "Ein Fünfkilopaket möchte ich sein und mich per Feldpost als Liebesgabe versenden lassen!" Zeichnung von E. H. Lamm, "Muskete", 1914 ( - ) [Abb.]: "Bitte, erzählen Sie doch, was war also das Schrecklichste, was Sie draußen erlebt haben?" Zeichnung von Th. Th. Heine, aus "Kleine Bilder aus großer Zeit" (81) [Abb.]: Der Urlauber nach der Ankunft in München: "Da sieht man gleich, daß hier fleischloser Tag ist." "Soldatenzeitung im Schützengraben" das bayr. Ers.-I.-R. Nr. 1, 1916 (82) [Abb.]: Zeichnung von Carlègle in "La Vie Parisienne", 1917 (Text verdeutscht) (83) [Abb.]: "Ich lese die Blätter und kann mir recht gut vorstellen, wie schrecklich es an der Front zugehen muß." Die auf dem Bilde ersichtlichen Blätter sind Modezeitschriften Zeichnung von Maurice Motet in "La Baionnette", 1914 (84) [Abb.]: In England versuchte man, aus patriotischen Sparsamkeitsgründen eine Einheitstracht für Frauen (standard dress) einzuführen. Mit welchem Erfolge, zeigt diese Karikaturreihe aus "Punch", 1915 (85) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der "Schuhliebhaber" auf Urlaub Französische Karikatur auf den durch die Kriegsmode anscheinend sehr begünstigten Stiefelfetischismus (2)Eine Kriegstrauung Zeichnung von Th. Th. Heine, aus "Kleine Bilder aus großer Zeit" (86) Viertes Kapitel Die Kriegerfrau auf dem Leidenswege Mannesarbeit und Vermännlichung - Kriegstrauungen - Die Unsittlichkeit der Kriegerfrau - Ehebruch, Selbstmord und andere Psychosen - Die Gefangenenliebe - Enthaltsamkeit und ihre Folgen (87) [Abb.]: Gretchen, vom Geist der Pariser Mode verlassen Zeichnung von Georges Pavis in "Fantasio", 1914 (87) [2 Abb.]: (1)"Gnädige Frau, ich muß Ihnen dasselbe sagen, was unserer Armee nachgerühmt wird: Sie sind ungeschwächt aus dem Kriege hervorgegangen." Zeichnung von Jean Plumet in "Le Rire", 1918 (2)"Was tätest du, wenn ich meine beiden Beine verlöre?" "Ich würde dir einen hübschen Wagen mit Kautschukrädern kaufen." Zeichnung von Laforge in "Le canard enchaîné", 1916 (88) [Abb.]: Aus dem täglichen Leben der Kriegerfrau Photographische Aufnahme (89) [Abb.]: 1915: Die Pariserin ist noch Hausfrau Französisches Plakat von A. Willette Aus dem Archiv des französischen Kriegsministeriums (90) [Abb.]: Der Urlauberzug Zeichnung von Louis Icart in "Fantasio", 1917 (91) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das Büromädchen im Kriege Der Chef: "Schön, daß Sie endlich doch kommen, wir erwarten Sie schon seit Bürobeginn." "Punch", 1916 (2)Die Damen: "Bitte, wir möchten heute wieder einen Verwundeten spazieren führen, aber einen, dem man auch ansieht, daß er verwundet ist." "Punch", 1915 (92) [Abb.]: Zeichnung von Carlègle in "La Vie Parisienne", 1917 (Text verdeutscht) (93) [Abb.]: Humoristische Feldpostkarte (94) [Abb.]: "Andere Zeiten, Kinder, wer von euch erinnert sich eigentlich noch daran, daß man einmal Tango gelernt hat?" Zeichnung von B. Wennerberg in "Simplicissimus", 1914 (95) [2 Abb.]: (1)Eine Jux-Postkarte aus der Kriegszeit vielleicht zum Beweise der vielgerühmten Verfeinerung des Liebeslebens im Kriege erzeugt Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (2)Der Zivilist Zeichnung von F. Reynolds in "Punch", 1915 (96) [Abb.]: Uniformfetischismus "Zieh dich nicht aus, die Uniform kleidet dich so gut ." Zeichnung ( - ) [2 Abb.]: Der Urlauber (1)Endlich! (2)Schon? Zeichnung von Fabiano in "Fantasio", 1915 (97) [Abb.]: Wiedersehen in Paris Aus "Vie de Garnison" (98) [Abb.]: Arbeiterin in einer französischen Munitionsfabrik Photographische Aufnahme (99) [2 Abb.]: (1)Geteiltes Leid Die Frau des Mannes, der einen Arm verlor, hat sich alle Zähne ziehen lassen Deutschfeindliche Hetzkarikatur aus der französischen Zeitschrift "Fantasio", 1915 (2)"Wohnt hier Fräulein Odette?" "Sie ist nicht mehr hier, aber wenn Sie im zweiten Stock bei Fräulein Clara anläuten, ist es dasselbe." Zeichnung von Forton in "Vie de Garnison", 1915 (100) [Abb.]: Musterung der Fünfzigjährigen Zeichnung (101) [Abb.]: Die "Heldenverehrung" der Französin Titelblatt einer französischen Zeitschrift (102) [Abb.]: Die Beute des Schattens Zeichnung von Zyg. Brunner in "La Vie Parisienne" (103) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der rationierte Kuß Scherzpostkarte der Deutschmeister Witwen- und Waisenstiftung Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (2)Französische "Vorstöße" im Elsaß Zeichnung von Rodiguet in "Le Rire" (104) [Abb.]: Die Briefträgerin Zeichnung von G. Léonnec in "La Vie Parisienne", 1917 (105) [Lied]: Verdeutscht lautet die erste Strophe: (106) [Abb.]: Der neue große Freund aus dem wilden Westen und die kleine Pariserin Zeichnung von G. Léonnec in "La Vie Parisienne", 1917 (106) [Abb.]: Die Witwen Zeichnung (107) [2 Abb.]: (1)"Melanie, also das ist Ihr Mann, der von der Front kommt? Gestern war er doch noch glattrasiert." Zeichnung von Laforge in der französischen Frontzeitung "Le canard enchaîné, 1916 (2)Die Schamhafte "Sie dürfen mich ausziehen, aber ich verbiete Ihnen, mich mit den Augen zu entkleiden." Aus "Vie de Garnison", 1915 (108) [Abb.]: Einzug österreichisch-ungarischer Kavallerie in Lublin Überall Frauenhuld als Siegerlohn Zeichnung (109) [Abb.]: "Armes Kind! Haben Sie wenigstens den Vater verständigt?" "Ja, ich habe an alle beide geschrieben." Zeichnung von A. Guillaume in "Le Rire rouge", 1917 (110) [Abb.]: Milderungsrund: "Es ist wahr, ich habe dieses Jahr drei Männer ruiniert; aber zwei davon waren Heereslieferanten." Zeichnung von K. A. Wilke in "Muskete", Wien 1915 (111) [2 Abb.]: (1)"Der gnädige Herr hatte nur eine Stunde Ausgang und konnte auf Madame nicht warten - so ist es geschehen." Zeichnung von Laforge in der französischen Frontzeitung "La canard enchaîné", 1916 (2)Hektographierte Postkarte aus den Zeiten der Fleischnot Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (112) [Abb.]: Frohes Erwachen Zeichnung von Georges Barbier, "La vie Parisienne", 1918 ( - ) [Abb.]: Stadt und Land Der Künstler und das Dorfmädchen vor und in dem Kriege Englische Karikatur in "Punch", 1917 (113) [Abb.]: Die Geschlechtsnot der Kriegerfrau in der Karikatur "Erinnerung an seinen Fronturlaub" Zeichnung von H. Gerbault in "Fantasion", 1916 (114) [Abb.]: Die Französin im Kriege Munitionserzeugerin, Feldarbeiterin und Hausfrau Plakat von Capon, aus der Sammlung der Archives Photographiques, Paris (115) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Kellnerin Französische Karikatur (2)In Aktion Zeichnung aus "Drahtverhau", Schützengrabenzeitung des bayr. Landwehr-Inf.-Regiments Nr. 1 (2. Jahrg.) (116) [Abb.]: "Na, Kleener, woll'n wa Briedaschaft trinken?" Zeichnung von F. Jüttner in "Lustige Blätter", 1916 (117) [Abb.]: Straßenbahnschaffnerin in Paris Photographische Aufnahme (118) [Abb.]: Der Liebeshunger der Kriegerfrau Wie es einem "Herrn in den besten Jahren", einem kriegsdienstuntauglichen Friedensveteranen, im Hinterland ergeht Aus "Muskete", Wien 1915 (119) [2 Abb.]: (1)Liebe und Kitsch sind unsterblich Ein typisches Erzeugnis der deutschen Kriegspostkartenindustrie Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (2)Mimi Ponson im Kriege "Ich bin eine alte Baronin und bitte Sie, fünf Francs von mir anzunehmen." Zeichnung von Synave, Paris 1916 (120) [Abb.]: Die Schaffnerin in Paris "Ich wollt', mein Mann wär' schon zu Hause!" "Damit er sie ablöst?" "Nein, damit er auf die Kinder aufpaßt." Zeichnung von Armengol, Paris 1916 (121) [2 Abb.]: Die Kriegsliebe als Anlaß zum Jux Zwei Postkarten aus Kriegszeit Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (122) [Abb.]: Ehrenbezeigung mit Hindernissen Zeichnung von E. Morrow in "Punch", 1916 (123) [Abb.]: Die Frau des Eingerückten zum Schwager: "Massier' mir die Beine, Stefan, sie tun mir weh." Zeichnung (124) [Abb.]: Die Frühmassage der Frau k. u. k. Oberstleutnant Zeichnung (125) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der volkstümliche Kriegskitsch Mit solchen und ähnlichen Postkarten wurde Deutschland im Krieg überschwemmt Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (2)Sie schickt den Feldpostbrief an den Mann ab Zeichnung von G. Zórád in "Fidibusz", Budapest 1916 (126) [Abb.]: Berlin im Kriege: Das Urteil des Paris Zeichnung von Hans Baluschek in "Wieland", 1915 (127) [Abb.]: Die vielseitige Französin zur Kriegszeit als Polizistin, Kellnerin, Chauffeuse, Bürochefin, Minister, Inkassantin, Schaffnerin und sogar als Soldatin Zeichnung von Fabiano in "La Baionnette", 1915 (128) [4 Abb.]: Zweierlei Maß (1)"Mit der Taschen können S' net mitfahr'n mei Liabe." (2)"Aber Fräul'n, Platz gnua, dö Herrn rucken scho a wengerl z'samm." (3)"Komplett! hat's g'sagt?" (4)"Nur einsteig'n, Herr Kop'rol, die Damen werd'n scho a bisserl Platz machen." Zeichnungen von Franz Wacik, "Muskete", 1915 ( - ) [Abb.]: Der Notar eines ungarischen Dorfes zur Kriegerfrau: "Sträuben Sie sich nicht, sonst kriegen Sie keine Unterstützung mehr!" Zeichnung (129) [12 Abb.]: (1)1. Die tugendhafte Gisela wird Krankenschwester (2)2. Ihre leichtfertige Cousine fährt an die Riviera (3)3. Gisela widmet ihre bescheidenen Ersparnisse den Armen und Darbenden (4)4. Sidonie aber tanzt mit Neutralen auf heimlichen Bällen (5)5. Gisela war eine sparsame gute Hausfrau (6)6. Sidonie verbrachte die Zeit in Champagnergelagen mit Drückebergern (7)7. Gisela strickt Strümpfe für die braven Soldaten (8)8. Sidonie verbringt die Nachmittage in Absteigequartieren (9)9. Gisela wird belohnt durch die Heirat mit einem tapferen Offizier (10)10. Sidonie wicht der Versuchung des Geldes und heiratet ohne Liebe einen alten Munitionsfabrikanten . (11)11. Gisela, eine mustergültige Französin, erlebte die Freuden des glücklichen Heimes bei ihrem Gatten, dem sie viele Kinder schenkte (12)12. . der erwischte sie dann in flagranti, noch dazu mit einem Zivilisten, und schickte sie zum Teufel Zeichnung von Georges Barbier in "La Vie Parisienne", 1917 (130) [2 Abb.]: (1)Auch die Lebensmittelnot wird verniedlicht Originalpostkarte aus dem Kriegsjahr, 1916 Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (2)Hamstererlebnisse Postkarte aus der großen Zeit Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (132) [Abb.]: Durchhalten auch in Frankreich "Meine Frau kann Ihnen bestätigen, daß ich keinen Augenblick wankend geworden bin." Zeichnung von Hérouard in "La Baionnette", 1915 (133) [Abb.]: Die öffentliche Ruhe in schönen Händen Französische Karikatur aus dem Jahre 1917 (134) [2 Abb.]: (1)Not und Verwahrlosung Kriegspostkarten können mitunter auch die Wahrheit sagen Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (2)Kriegstrauung Farbige Kitschpostkarte aus der Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (135) [Gedicht]: Und so wollen wir dieses Kapitel der Leidensgeschichte der Frau im Kriege mit einer Dichtervision, der "Phantasie für übermorgen" von Erich Kästner, schließen: (136) Fünftes Kapitel Erotik in der Krankenpflege Sexuelle Neugier, Schaulust, Koprolagnie und Sadismus der Pflegerin - der Lazarettdienst als Mittel - Der schlechte Ruf der Pflegerin - Frauenbesuche im Schützengraben (137) [Abb.]: Die Krankenschwester im Offiziersspital Zeichnung (137) [Abb.]: Das Sportgirl als Krankenschwester Zeichnung von Fabiano in "Fantasio", 1915 (138) [6 Abb.]: Pariser Schauspielerinnen als Krankenschwestern (1)Mlle Colibri vom Théátre des Capucines (2)Madame Simone Damanry von der Comédie Française (3)Mlle. Phryne von der Comédie Royale (4)Mlle. Paulette Delbaye von der Olympia (5)Madame Villeroy-Got vom Théâtre de l'Odéon (6)Madame Mars Pearl von der Olympia Die Wohltätigkeit ist überaus kleidsam (139) [Abb.]: Die Sadistin sieht gerne Blut und ist eine ausgezeichnete Operationsschwester Zeichnung (140) [Abb.]: Der schöne Mann ohne Gesicht Karikatur von C. Hérouard in "La Vie Parisienne", 1918 (141) [Abb.]: Französische Pflegerinnen beim Empfang eines Verwundetentransportes Photographische Aufnahme aus "La France Héroique" (142) [Abb.]: Aus dem Lazarett zum Altar Sentimentale Karikatur auf die Heiratslust der Pflegerin Zeichnung von Fournier in "La Baionnette", 1918 (143) [Abb.]: Verwundetenkultus Französische Postkarte, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (144) [Abb.]: 1915 "Mir scheint, ich habe Sie schon irgendwo gesehen." - "Möglich, früher war ich nämlich Tänzerin." Zeichnung ( - ) [Abb.]: Amor im Lazarett Zeichnung von G. Léonnec in "La Vie Parisienne", 1915 (145) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die wohltätige Dame im Lazarett "Also los, erzählen Sie ausführlich alles." "Punch", 1916 (2)Eine österreichische Erzherzogin als Krankenschwester Photographische Aufnahme (146) [Abb.]: Flirt im Etappenlazarett Zeichnung von E. Miarko in "Fantasio", 1915 (147) [Abb.]: Lazarettromantik "Ja, er hat zwei Kugeln in den Kopf bekommen." "Und wie viele Pfeile ins Herz?" Zeichnung von L. Icart in "La Baionnette", 1914 (148) [Abb.]: Der Rekonvaleszent Zeichnung aus der "Ill. Zeitung", Leipzig, 1916 (149) [Abb.]: Das Reservelazarett Karikatur auf die Pflegerinnenspielerei der vornehmen französischen Gesellschaft Zeichnung (150) [Abb.]: "Und da sagt man noch, der Krieg wäre furchtbar." Zeichnung von R. Pallier in "La Baionnette", 1915 (151) [Lied]: In Ungarn war ein im Krieg entstandenes Volkslied über den mehr als zweifelhaften Ruf der Pflegerinnen verbreitet. Es lautet in deutscher Übersetzung etwa: (151) [Abb.]: "Herr Stabsarzt, was machen wir mit der neuen Schwester?" "Geben wir sie zur Wäscheverwaltung, es ist immer besser, ein junges Mädchen hat mit Hemden ohne Männer als mit Männer ohne Hemden zu tun." Aus "Le Rire rouge", 1916 (152) [2 Abb.]: (1)Mode 1914 (2)Mode 1915 Die Pflegerinnentracht für die einzige kleidsame und zeitgemäße zu erklären, lag nahe. Ebenso nahe lag der Mißbrauch, der mit ihr getrieben wurde. Zeichnungen von Charles Rousiel in "Fantasio" 1915 (153) [Abb.]: Die Schwester wird auch angehimmelt, sonst aber gewöhnlich als Heiratsspekulantin oder Dirne hingestellt Englische Postkarte, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (154) [Abb.]: Aufmarsch amerikanischer Pflegerinnen in New York vor dem Präsidenten Wilson Photographische Aufnahme (155) [2 Abb.]: (1)"Du kannst unmöglich zurück an die Front, Sidi - deine Zunge ist ganz weiß" Französische Postkarte, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (2)Wandzeichnung aus einem Wiener Reservespital (156) [Abb.]: Das Leben im Spital. Die einen haben Besuch, an die anderen denkt niemand Zeichnung von A. Miarko in "Fantasio", 1916 (157) [Abb.]: Seine tiefste Wunde Lazarettliebschaften und kein Ende "Fantasio", 1916 (158) [Abb.]: Ruhm, Elend, Eitelkeit, Laus und Uniform werden billig abgegeben Ausverkauf wegen Kriegsschluß Zeichnung von G. Pavis in "Le Rire rouge", 1919 (159) [Abb.]: Englisch-französischer Unterricht in einem Park Zeichnung von Fabiano in "Fantasio", 1915 (160) [2 Abb.]: Der Soldat und das Korsett (1)Einst: eine Festung (2)Jetzt: ein Fähnchen Zeichnung von C. Hérouard, "La vie Parisienne", 1918 ( - ) [Abb.]: Aus einem Plakat für französisches Aspirin (Frankreich hat im Kriege versucht, dieses beliebte Heilmittel deutscher Herkunft durch französische Produkte zu ersetzen) Zeichnung (161) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das russische Kriegslazarett in Paris Originalphoto aus der Sammlung des Archives photographiques d'art et d'histoire, Paris (2)Französische Verwundete auf einem deutschen Verbandplatz Zeichnung von E. Limmer in "Ill. Zeitung", Leipzig 1914 (162) [2 Abb.]: (1)Einst (2)Jetzt Die kleinen Freuden des großen Krieges Zeichnung von A. Guillaume in "Fantasio", 1916 (163) [Abb.]: Französisches Propagandaplakat zur Verherrlichung des amerikanischen Roten Kreuzes (164) [6 Abb.]: Straf- und Lohnsystem beim Frauenregiment (1)Für kleine Verfehlungen: ein Tag Frisurverbot (2)Die Chargen: ein Volant, zwei Volants, drei Volants (3)Bei Insubordination: zwei Tage ohne Spiegel (4)Eine Auszeichnung: Flirtbewilligung (5)Die strengste Strafe: Redeverbot (6)Für besondere Verdienste: einwöchiger Urlaub für den Freund im Feld Zeichnung von Valdès in "La Vie Parisienne", 1916 (165) [Abb.]: Verwundeter (166) [Abb.]: Gratulanten zum Geburtstag des kleinen Leutnants Von wenigen Ausnahmen abgesehen, gefällt sich die Kriegskarikatur in der Verniedlichung der Dinge Zeichnung von A. Aubry in "Fantasio", 1916 (167) [Abb.]: Musterung der allerjüngsten Jahrgänge in Berlin Karikatur von R. Cartier in "Le Rire rouge", 1914 (168) Sechstes Kapitel Schützengrabenerotik Diskussion über die Unschädlichkeit der Abstinenz - Stahlbad der Nerven? - Liebesgaben, Feldpostbriefe und die Sitte der Marrainnen - Die Wege der Ersatzbefriedigung: Onanie, erotische Lieder, obszöne Bilder und Gegenstände, pornographische Lektüre, Träume - Tätowierung - Die Analerotik der Soldaten - Sodomie - Enthaltsamkeitsfolgen: Das Erlöschen des Geschlechtstriebes (169) [Abb.]: Das pornographische Bild im Schützengraben Zeichnung (169) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das dankbare Hinterland Zeichnung von Hérouard in "Fantasio", 1916 (2)Inserat eines Pariser Vergnügungslokales, das sich an das dankbare Publikum der Marrainen und ihrer Patenkinder wendet (170) [Abb.]: Liebe an der Front Phantasie eines französischen Malers. Man beachte die übergroße phallische Darstellung des ganz überflüssig im Bilde stehenden Fesselballons. Ein beliebtes Motiv pornographischer Frontbilder Zeichnung von Louis Icart in "Fantasio" (171) [Abb.]: Urlauber Zeichnung von G. Redon in "Fantasio", 1916 (172) [2 Abb.]: (1)Sexualnot beschmiert die Wände Von Russen verlassene, mit erotischen Bildern bemalte Hausruine in Russisch-Polen Photographische Aufnahme (2)Der Traum des Poilu Erotische Schützengrabenzeichnung eines französischen Soldaten Sammlung Lewandowski, Utrecht (173) [Abb.]: Christnacht im Feld Zeichnung von E. Halonze (174) [Abb.]: "Einst ging ich um diese Zeit auf die Hirschjagd" Zeichnung von G. Pavis aus "Le Rire rouge" (175) [Abb.]: Ehrenwache Zeichnung aus "Vie de Garnison", 1915 (176) [Gedicht]: Aus der "Liller Kriegszeitung" sei hier ein populärer "Stoßseufzer aus dem Schützengraben" und die Antwort darauf wiedergegeben: (176) [Abb.]: Der Traum von Liebe und Vaterland Zeichnung ( - ) [2 Abb.]: (1)Erotische Phantasie Schützengrabenzeichnung eines französischen Soldaten Sammlung Lewandowski, Utrecht (2)"Wenn du von Frauen sprichst, denke an deine Mutter, deine Schwester, deine Braut und du wirst keine Dummheiten reden" Französisch-amerikanisches Plakat gegen die Zoten Archives photographiques d'art et d'histoire, Paris (177) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Menschen und der Krieg Vaterstolz Holzschnitt (178) [Abb.]: Stilleben nach der Marneschlacht Photographische Aufnahme (179) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ankündigung eines Briefstellers für Marrainen und ihre Patenkinder Aus der Zeitschrift "La Baionnette", 1915 (2)Sein erster Abend daheim Zeichnung von Hérouard in "La Vie Parisienne", 1917 (180) [Abb.]: Der galante Maler als Patriot Zeichnung von Carlègle in, "La Vie Parisienne" (Text verdeutscht) (181) [Abb.]: Der Stern, der nachts über dem Graben leuchtet Französische Postkarte (182) [Abb.]: Ankunft des Urlaubers Nach einem Gemälde (183) [Abb.]: (1)"Klar zum Gefecht" Zeichnung von G. Pavis in "Fantasio", 1917 (2)Der vom Maschinengewehr: "Was? Du stehst schon auf?" Sie: "Ja, ich erkläre mich kampfunfähig." Zeichnung von Duluard in "Le Rire rouge", 1916 (184) [Abb.]: Die Blume aus dem Feldpostbrief Zeichnung von A. E. Marty in "La Vie Parisienne", 1917 (185) [2 Abb.]: (1)Côte d'azur und Kote 304 "Die Jungens gehen ins Bad und wir ins Stahlbad" Zeichnung von R. Jouan in "Le Rire rouge", 1918 (2)"Das zerbrochene Bett" oder "Morgenidyll im Heim des Urlaubers" Zeichnung von J. Mirandes in "Le Rire rouge", 1918 (186) [Abb.]: Geschlechtstaufe vor dem Abmarsch Zeichnung von G. Léonnec in "La Vie Parisienne", 1917 (187) [Abb.]: Eine Manikure im Schützengraben Englische photographische Karikatur auf Damen der Gesellschaft, die sich zur Krankenpflege drängen Aus "Puck", 1915 (188) [Lied]: Ein bayrisches Soldatenlied lautet: (188) [2 Lieder]: (1)Ein anderes bekanntes "Schornsteinfegerlied" enthielt folgende zwei Strophen: (2)Im Roman "Infanterist Perhobstler" finden wir einen ebenso beliebten Vierzeiler: (189) [Abb.]: Neuer Schub von "Menschenmaterial" Zeichnung von C. Léandre in "Fantasio" (189) [Abb.]: Liebesgaben Französisches Plakat aus den Archives photographiques d'art et d'histoire, Paris (190) [2 Lieder]: (1)Das Lied bestand aus einer Unmenge Strophen, wie etwa der folgenden: (2)Gleichfalls im Roman von Infanteristen Perhobstler finden wir den Kehrreim einer Lorelei-Parodie: (190) [2 Abb.]: (1)Besuch bei der Marraine "Endlich sind Sie da. Womit könnte ich Ihnen eine Freude machen?" "Hm . mit Ihrem Stubenmädchen, wenn ich Sie bitten dürfte." Zeichnung von Jean Plumet in "Le Rire rouge", 1915 (2)Titelkopf der Speisekarte eines englisch-französischen Restaurants in Paris (191) [2 Abb.]: (1)Anzeige pornographischer und flagellantischer Bücher "für unsere Soldaten" Aus "Le Rire rouge", 1915 (2)"Der Herr muß warten. Sie sind der dreiundsiebzigste Kriegsmündel von Madame." Karikatur auf den Marraineunfug (192) [Abb.]: Freudiges Ereignis, Paris 1915 Zeichnung ( - ) [Abb.]: Der gnädige Herr hat Fronturlaub Zeichnung (193) [Abb.]: Feldpostkarte Sammlung A. Gaspar, Wien (194) [2 Abb.]: (1)"Nur sechs Tage Urlaub, Schatz! Und du möchtest doch Zwillinge haben!" Zeichnung von Djilio in "Le Rire rouge", 1915 (2)Feldpostkarte Sammlung A. Gaspar, Wien (195) [2 Abb.]: (1)Aus der Blütezeit des Preiswuchers "Hast du's gelesen? Jetzt werden auch wir unseren Preistarif sichtbar tragen müssen" Zeichnung von Rodiguet in "Le Rire rouge", 1915 (2)Auch so wird der Poilu gesehen Illustration aus dem Roman "Tout pour ça" von A. Derain (196) [Abb.]: "Sie wagen es, meinen Verwundeten zu berühren? der Marokkaner gehört mir!" Zeichnung aus "La Baionnette", 1914 (197) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das Wiedersehen Zeichnung von Fabiano in "Fantasio", 1915 (2)Im Stinkraum ist Gasmaskenprobe - Die Seewehr fühlt sich wie ein Geck. Dumpf brummelt wildes Tiergeschnobe, Nichts ist dagegen Hagenbeck. Bild und Verse aus der Etappenzeitung "An Flanderns Küste", 1915 (198) [Abb.]: Feldlatrinenordnung von der Westfront Aus J. C. Brunner, Illustrierte Sittengeschichte (199) [Abb.]: Die Latrine Tiefste Erniedrigung als Gegenstand humoristischer Darstellung Postkarte aus der Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (200) [2 Abb.]: (1)"Ruhig Blut, Freund! Krieg ist Krieg - wir werden uns eben ein bißchen die Köpfe einschlagen" Zeichnung von R. Pallier in "Le Rire rouge", 1917 (2)Musette lernt Englisch (201) [Abb.]: Der Marsch auf Paris Erotisch-politische Zeichnung eines deutschen Soldaten, im Schützengraben entstanden (Marne 1915) Sammlung Lewandowski, Utrecht (202) [Abb.]: Sexuelle Symbolik im Militärleben Fesselballon, genannt Feldnülle Photograhische Aufnahme, aus der Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (203) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die ersten Äpfel des Jahres Zeichnung von H. Mirande in "Le Rire rouge", 1917 (2)Titelkopf einer Haarfetischistengeschichte in einer französischen Feldzeitung Sammlung Lewandowski, Utrecht (204) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Infanterist träumt Zeichnung (2)Die pikante Lektüre im Schützengraben Zeichnung (205) [Flugblatt]: Organische Bestimmungen über die Aufstellung, Organisation, den Betrieb und militärische Leitung, Unterstellung und Verwaltung von mobilen Feld- und Reserve-Freuden-häusern (Feldbordellen respektive Feldpuffs). (206) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die taktvolle Köchin Zeichnung aus "La Vie Parisienne", 1917 (2)Nach achtzehn Monaten Eine der zahllosen Darstellungen des Märchens von Geschlechtshunger der Urlauber. (In Wirklichkeit hat die Frontabstinenz meist lähmend auf die Sexualität gewirkt.) Zeichnung von Léonnec in "Fantasio" (208) [Abb.]: Woran Tommy denkt Aquarell ( - ) [Abb.]: Marraine und Filleul Zeichnung von G. Léonnec in "La Vie Parisienne", 1918 (209) [Abb.]: Wie die Reklame den Krieg verwertet (210) [5 Abb.]: Woran sie immer denken Zeichnung von R. Prézelan in "La Vie Parisienne", 1917 (211) [2 Abb.]: (1)Frontpostkarte der Deutschmeister Witwen- und Waisenstiftung Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (2)Zusammenstoß des Luftschiffs "Siegfried" mit dem Vergnügungsluftschiff "Hertha I" Symbolische Illustration einer Schützengrabenzeitung Aus J. C. Brunner, Illustrierte Sittengeschichte (212) [6 Abb.]: Der Urlauber "Sag' mir, wie du deinen Urlaub verbringst, und ich sage dir, wer du bist" (1)Tommy denkt an sein Bad (2)Hermann füllt sich den Magen (3)Pietro spielt Gitarre (4)Ibrahim zeigt seine Trophäen (5)Iwan tanzt (6)Aber der Franzose denkt an Liebe Zeichnung von Zyg. Brunner in "La Vie Parisienne", 1916 (213) [Abb.]: Genrebild aus dem Frontleben Photographische Aufnahme, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (214) [Abb.]: "Eine Sitzung hinter der Front" Krieg veredelt: man sitzt dem Photographen! Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (215) [2 Abb.]: (1)"Da draußen habe ich mir's anders vorgestellt" Zeichnung von H. Baille in "Le Rire rouge", 1917 (2)Poilu auf Urlaub Zeichnung von Carlègle in "La Vie Parisienne" (216) [Abb.]: "Gott, wie dick du an der Front geworden bist!" "Nicht wahr, Schwiegermutter, und man läßt mir nur vier Tage Zeit, um bei dir abzunehmen." Zeichnung von Rodiguet in "La Baionnette", 1915 (217) [Abb.]: Scharmützel zwischen zwei Schlachten "Ja es freut einen zu sehen, daß die Pariserin noch immer lieb und nett ist" Zeichnung von R. Vincent in "La Vie Parisienne", 1918 (218) Siebentes Kapitel Die Geschlechtskrankheiten im Heer Aufklärungsunterricht und Gesundheitsvisite - Bekämpfungsversuch durch Strafen - Die Therapie und das Verschulden übereifriger Ärzte - Ausbreitung in allen Heeren (219) [Abb.]: Zigeunerfamilien in Galizien, die sich durch Kriegsprostitution ernährte Photographische Aufnahme (219) [Tabelle]: Eine kurze Zusammenstellung von Dr. Blaschko gibt uns Aufschluß über die Verbreitung der Geschlechtskrankheiten in den verschiedenen Heeren vor dem Kriege. Die Ziffern stammen zwar aus dem Jahre 1895, doch sind sie bis zum Ausbruch des Weltkrieges nur in absoluter Beziehung zurückgegangen, ihr Verhältnis zueinander ist ziemlich das gleiche geblieben. (220) [Abb.]: Verhältniszahlen über die Ansteckung von Soldaten durch Dirnen, Arbeiterinnen und Bürgerliche (220) [Abb.]: In einem französischen Bordell "Die Sittenpolizei?" - "Nein, der Kommissär möchte ein Glas Wein trinken." Zeichnung von G. Pavis in "Le Rire", 1918 (221) [Gedicht]: A. R. Meyer, der in seinen bekannten "Fünf Mysterien" den Bombenüberfall auf das Krankenhaus in Lousberg dichterisch verwertet, läßt die aus der Haft ausgebrochenen belgischen Dirnen sagen: (221) [Flugblatt]: Aus dem Arsenal des Kampfes gegen Geschlechtskrankheiten im Kriege Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (223) [Gedicht]: Es gab etliche solcher hygienisch-poetischer Produkte, von denen eines hier folgen soll: (224) [Abb.]: Auf Befehl Zeichnung ( - ) [Flugblatt]: Errichtung der Sittenmiliz in Warschau Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (225) [Abb.]: Not kennt kein Gebot Zeichnung aus dem Felde (226) [Abb.]: Scherzpostkarte aus der Kriegszeit Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (227) [Abb.]: Nachtcafé in Konstantinopel "Sag'n Se ma, Herr Kam'rad, haben Se noch mehr solche Angorakätzchen?" Zeichnung (229) [Flugblatt]: Eine vielsagende Bekanntmachung der deutschen Ortskommandantur in Bialystok Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (230) [Flugblatt]: Merkblatt für deutsche Soldaten, herausgegeben von der Sittenpolizei Lodz Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (231) [Abb.]: Die "Gießkannenparade" Zeichnung von L. Gedö, 1916 (233) [Flugblatt]: Die Offensive der Kirche gegen Unsittlichkeit und Hurerei Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (234) [Gedicht]: Wir können es uns nicht versagen, die zwei letzten Strophen des französischen Poems, das den Titel "La saucisse de Strasbourg" (Das Straßburger Würstchen) führt, hier verdeutscht wiederzugeben: (236) [4 Abb.]: Was nach Kriegsrecht verboten ist (1)Auf die weiße Fahne zu schießen (2)Das rote Kreuz nicht zu achten (3)Verträge zu vernichten (4)Die Neutralität zu mißbrauchen Aus "La Vie Parisienne", 1917 (237) [Abb.]: Karikatur von Karl Arnold in "Simplicissimus", 1915 (238) [Lied]: So wurde im besetzten Gebiet ein Gassenhauer gesungen: (239) [Abb.]: Liebeszauber in der Etappe Zeichnung (239) [Abb.]: Schützengrabenphantasie eines französischen Soldaten Unterschrift: "On a tué mon ami" (Mein Freund getötet) (Sammlung Lewandowski, Utrecht) ( - ) [Abb.]: Auch eine Musterung Aus dem Leben in der galizischen Etappe Zeichnung (241) [Flugblatt]: Eine Revanche-Kundmachung der französischen Besatzungsbehörden im Rheinland nach Kriegsende Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (242) [Abb.]: Wo sie sich die Seuche holten Zeichnung aus dem Skizzenbuch des Kriegsteilnehmers J. K. (243) [Abb.]: Soldatenliebchen Zeichnung (244) [Abb.]: "Anale" Feldpostkarte aus dem Krieg Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (245) [2 Abb.]: (1)Im Estaminet Aus der deutschen Etappenzeitung "An Flanderns Küste", 1916 (2)Kirchgang in Flandern Zeichnung von P. Meyer in "Kriegsflugblätter der Liller Kriegszeitung" (247) [Abb.]: Französisches Zeitungsinserat mit der Anpreisung von Heilmitteln gegen Geschlechts- und Harnröhrenkrankheiten für Soldaten (248) [Gedicht]: Der ungarische Lyriker Andreas Ady, in dessen Adern luetisches Blut rann, schrieb beim Ausbruch des Krieges: (248) Achtes Kapitel Die Weiblichen Soldaten des Weltkrieges Russische Kriegerinnen - Die Frauenbataillone Kerenskis - Die Serbin im Kriege - Die Kriegshetze der Engländerin - Verkleidete Französinnen - Versuche deutscher Frauen, sich ins Heer einzuschmuggeln - Irrtümliche Geschlechtsbestimmung - Die ukrainische und polnische Frauenlegion - Das Grab der Unbekannten Soldatin (249) [Abb.]: Die ungarische Frontkämpferin E. K. in feldmäßiger Ausrüstung Nach einer photographischen Aufnahme (249) [Abb.]: Weibliche Hilfstruppen Englands Karikaturistische Zeichnung von Fred Hendrich in "Liller Kriegszeitung", 1916 (251) [Abb.]: Bolschewistische Propagandablätter für die deutsche Front 1917/18 (252) [Abb.]: Ein weiblicher Soldat der russischen Roten Armee, nach ausgiebiger Schändung getötet Aus Ernst Friedrich, Krieg dem Kriege! (253) [Abb.]: Fräulein Jarema Kuz, Kadettaspirant der Ukrainer freiwilligen Ulanenschwadron im österreich-ungarischen Heere Photographische Aufnahme (255) [Abb.]: Schützengrabenzeichnung Sammlung A. Gaspar, Wien (256) [Abb.]: Erotik im Proviantdienst Propagandaplakat der amerikanischen Heilsarmee ( - ) [Abb.]: Eine junge Österreicherin, die als Fähnrich in der polnischen Legion kämpfte, in russische Gefangenschaft fiel und ausgetauscht wurde Photographische Aufnahme (257) [Abb.]: Matrosentänzerinnen in einer französischen Etappenkneipe Zeichnung (258) [Abb.]: Wer ist der Stolz der Kompanie? Wer kennt nicht Künstler-Maxen? Er ist ein Allerwelts-Genie Und macht die tollsten Faxen. Ein Hauptspaß ist es jedesmal Als Bertha in zu sehen; Dem "drallen Meechen" kann im Saal Dann keiner widerstehen. Transvestitische Postkarte, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (259) [Abb.]: Soldatinnen der amerikanischen Heilsarmee an der Front Photographische Aufnahme (261) [Abb.]: Ukrainische Legionarinnen in der österreichisch-ungarischen Armee Photographische Aufnahme (264) [Abb.]: Das Ideal des weiblichen Soldaten Französisches Wohltätigkeitsplakat von A. Willette Aus der Sammlung des Archives photographiques d'art et d'histoire, Paris (265) [Abb.]: Das letzte Aufgebot Englands Schimpfsalven der Fischweiber- und Suffragetten-Regimenter zur Abwehr von Zeppelinüberfällen Zeichnung von Blix in "Kriegsblätter des Simplicissimus" (267) [Abb.]: Etappe Gent Zeichnung (269) [Abb.]: Serbische Bäuerinnen lernen schießen Photographische Aufnahme (270) [Abb.]: "Stillgestanden!" beim Amazonenkorps Aus "Punch", 1916 (271) [Abb.]: Musterung für das russische Frauenbataillon Russische Karikatur, Sammlung Lewandowski, Utrecht (272) [Inschrift]: Jetzt steht auf ihrem Grab ein Stein, der folgende Inschrift trägt: (272) Neuntes Kapitel Die Homosexualität im Kriege Die Kriegslust der Urninge - Kameradschaft, Freundespaare, Offizier und Diener - Feminine Urninge und Transvestiten - Damenimitatoren im Felde (273) [Abb.]: La désenchantée Transvestitisch polit. Karikatur auf Wilhelm II. Zeichnung (273) [Abb.]: Französisches Fronttheater mit Damendarsteller Aus "Fantasio", 1916 (274) [Abb.]: Das Urteil des deutschen Paris Karikatur von A. Guillaume, "Fantasio", 1915 (275) [Abb.]: Der Damenimitator im Mannschaftszimmer Zeichnung (277) [Gedicht]: Über denselben Wunsch und Drang, ins Heer zu kommen, berichtet in poetischer Form auch ein Gedicht "Die Zurückgebliebenen", dem wir folgendes entnehmen: (278) [Abb.]: Deutsche Etappe im Spiegel der französischen Karikatur Nach einem Gemälde von A. Guillaume, "Fantasio", 1915 (279) [Abb.]: Wilhelm II. im Harem Transvestitische Karikatur von Jean Veber. Erstmals erschienen in "Rire", 1898, dann in "Fantasio", 1917 neuerlich reproduziert (281) [Abb.]: Admiral von Hintze, kaiserlicher Kabinettkurator Zeichnung von A. Barrère in "Fantasio", 1916 (282) [Abb.]: Feldgraue Urninge bei einer Fronttheatervorstellung Photographische Aufnahme Aus der Sammlung des Instituts für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin (283) [Abb.]: Szenenbild aus Shakespeares "Was Ihr wollt" in der Aufführung im Deutschen Theater in Lille Kriegsflugblätter der "Liller Kriegszeitung", 1916 (285) [Abb.]: Homosexualität in der Kaserne Zeichnung (287) [Abb.]: Heimkehr des Soldaten Zeichnung ( - ) [Abb.]: Französische Soldaten als Damenimitatoren Nach einem Aquarell Sammlung Lewandowski, Utrecht (289) [Lied]: So finden wir in der "Mitauschen Zeitung" folgendes Totenlied: Mein Leutnant (289) [Abb.]: Theater hinter der Front "Fritz, das hast du großartig gemacht, die ganze Kompagnie hat sich in dich verliebt" Zeichnung von P. Stimmel in "Lustige Blätter", 1916 (291) [Abb.]: Französische Soldaten in Frauenkleidern Die drei Poilus sind in dieser Verkleidung aus der Gefangenschaft entflohen Aus dem Archiv des französischen Kriegsministeriums (293) [Abb.]: Soiree in Berlin Auch eine französische Kriegskarikatur (295) [Abb.]: Hinter den Kulissen des Fronttheaters Der Damendarsteller und seine Garderobière Aus "Fantasio", 1917 (297) [Abb.]: Auch die italienische Karikatur stellt feindliche Offiziere gerne als Homosexuelle dar Zeichnung aus "Gli Unni e gli altri", 1915 (299) [Abb.]: Fräulein Feldwebel Zeichnung (300) [Abb.]: "Hände hoch!" Russisch-polnische Scherzpostkarte Sammlung Lewandowski, Utrecht (301) [Abb.]: Für ein Kommißbrot und einen Franc, Lieben wir stundenlang. Lied aus der flandrischen Etappe Zeichnung (303) [Abb.]: Die hübschen Kameraden Postkarte aus dem Jahre 1915 Sammlung Lewandowski, Utrecht (304) [Abb.]: Amerikanische Gäste in Paris Zeichnung ( - ) Zehntes Kapitel Kriegsbordelle Die bordellierte Prostitution im Felde und in der Etappe - "Schwanzparade" - Das Elend der Mannschaftsdirnen (305) [Abb.]: In einem belgischen Bordell Photographische Aufnahme Aus Friedrich Ernst, Krieg dem Kriege! (305) [Flugblatt]: Angebliche deutsche Verordnung, von den Franzosen nach Kriegsschluß mit zweizeiligem Kommentar als Flugzettel im Rheinland verbreitet Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (306) [Abb.]: Die Bordelle der verbündeten Mittelstaaten waren streng getrennt Photographische Aufnahme ("A.-I.-Z.") (307) [Abb.]: Mobiles Feld-Freudenhaus für Offiziere, in einer Art Zirkuswagen untergebracht Photographische Aufnahme ("A.-I.-Z.") (309) [Abb.]: So stellen sie sich daheim vor dem Lebensmittelgeschäft an . Zeichnung von Th. Th. Heine, aus "Kleine Bilder aus großer Zeit" (310) [Abb.]: . und so in der Etappe vor dem Bordell Holzschnitt (311) [Abb.]: Im polnischen Gouvernementsbordell Photographische Aufnahme (313) [Abb.]: Hochbetrieb im belgischen Etappenbordell Zeichnung von Heinrich Zille Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Neuen Deutschen Verlages, Berlin, aus dem Buche Heinrich Zilles "Für Alle" (314) [Abb.]: Hochbetrieb im belgischen Etappenbordell Zeichnung von Heinrich Zille Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Neuen Deutschen Verlages, Berlin aus dem Buche Heinrich Zilles "Für Alle" (315) [Abb.]: Preisverzeichnis eines Kriegsbordells (316) [Abb.]: Verstümmelter und Dirne Lithographie (317) [Lied]: Lille, wo einst Karl der Kühne bei seinem Einzug vom Spalier der nackten Jungfrauen der Stadt empfangen worden war und von dem im Weltkrieg das Liedchen gesungen wurde: (318) [Abb.]: Kriegsbordell in Mitau Photographische Aufnahme (319) [Abb.]: "Um Gottes willen, jetzt sollen nur nicht alle meine Negerin verlangen!" Zeichnung von Laforge, aus der französischen Frontzeitung "Le canard enchaîné" (320) [Abb.]: Im Etappenpuff Zeichnung ( - ) [Flugblatt]: Auch wies er auf eine gedruckte Verfügung der Kommandantur hin, aus der besonders der Punkt V augenfällig hervorleuchtet: (321) [Abb.]: Hotel Stadt Lemberg Zeichnung (321) [Abb.]: Aus Kriegsbordellen Zeichnung von George Grosz Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Fritz Gurlitt Verlages, Berlin (323) [Flugblatt]: Das Militär im Kampf gegen die Unzucht: Maueranschlag aus Grodno, 1915 Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (324) [Abb.]: Finanzielle Verhandlungen Zeichnung (325) [Abb.]: Abendidyll aus der flandrischen Etappe Schattenriß aus der Etappenzeitung "An Flanderns Küste", 1915 Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (326) [Abb.]: Bei der Feldbraut Frontzeichnung (327) [Abb.]: "Vorwärts, Kinder, alle müssen drankommen!" Zeichnung (329) [Abb.]: "Liebst du mich auch?" - "Ja!" - "Wie?" - "Wie deinen ganzen Jahrgang." Zeichnung von M. Motet in "Le Rire" (330) [Abb.]: "Warum hat sie nicht gewollt? Man hat ja zahlen wollen" Politische Karikatur auf die Vergewaltigung Belgiens (331) [Abb.]: Der siegreiche Ersatzreservist Zeichnung (332) [Abb.]: Sandwich pain noir Französische Etappenkarikatur von Anglay in "Fantasio". 1915 (333) [Abb.]: Der Traum von der Abrüstung Zeichnung (334) Elftes Kapitel Etappenprostitution Feldbräute in Ost und West - Liebe für ein Kommißbrot und einen Franc - Estaminets und Teestuben - Krieg, der große Galeotto (335) [Abb.]: In einer galizischen Teestube Zeichnung (335) [Abb.]: Wie er bei den Französinnen Eroberungen macht Französische Karikatur auf den deutschen Etappenoffizier (Zeichner unbekannt) (336) [Abb.]: Die rationierte Kosmetik Französische Karikatur von G. Léonnec, 1918 ( - ) [Abb.]: "Eine Heldin der Front, die kleine Modewarenhändlerin in X an der Z" Zeichnung von S. Sesboné in "Fantasio", 1916 (337) [Abb.]: Die nordfranzösische Etappe im Spiegel des deutschen Humors (339) [Abb.]: Weiblicher Hilfsdienst in dem von Russen besetzten Ostpreußen, 1914 (340) [Abb.]: Der Held vom amerikanischen Roten Kreuz Karikatur von Charles Michel in "Fantasio", 1916 (341) [Flugblatt]: Im übrigen wurden die deutschen Truppenangehörigen, die in Brüssel ankamen, am Bahnhof von einer Warnungstafel folgenden Inhalts empfangen: (342) [Abb.]: Wein, Liebe und Tabak: der Laden im zerstörten Dorf Front-Zeichnung (343) [Lied]: Henel gibt ein in Brügge entstandenes deutsches Soldatenlied wieder: (343) [Abb.]: Die Zivilarbeiterbataillone in der französischen Karikatur "Himmel, meine Töchter!" - "Bah, sie sind wie alle Französinnen - leicht zu entführen!" Zeichnung von H. Grand-Aigle "La Baionnette", 1916 (344) [Lied]: Immerhin sie hier die erste Strophe eines hübschen Liedchens wiedergegeben, das, von einem deutschen Soldaten gedichtet, in der Kriegszeitung des deutschen Marinekorps in Flandern, "An Flanderns Küste", abgedruckt wurde: (344) [Abb.]: Kriegspatin und Patenkind oder das ungleiche Paar Zeichnung von Reb in "Fantasio", 1917 (345) [Abb.]: Titelblatt einer Justament-Nummer der Geheimzeitung "La libre Belgique", die jahrelang in dem von Deutschen besetzten Belgien erschienen und eine wüste Propaganda gegen die Besetzungsbehörden entfaltete (347) [Abb.]: "Det Gequassel immer! Ick hab' hier nischt Verfiehrerisches gesehen" Aus "Liller Kriegszeitung", 1915 (348) [Abb.]: Etappenhumor Zeichnung von C. Arnold in "Liller Kriegszeitung", 1915 (349) [Abb.]: Das Seepferdchen Zeichnung (351) [Abb.]: Gefängnisstrafe für zwei Einwohner von Noyon (Nordfrankreich), die die Offiziere der Besatzungsarmee nicht grüßten Plakat, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (352) [Abb.]: Die kleine Tänzerin und der große General Bild aus der italienischen Etappe ( - ) [Abb.]: Im Nachtcafé "Hier stelle ich dir meine Milchschwester vor." "Und ich dir meinen Schnapsbruder." Zeichnung von Faye in "Vie de Garnison" (353) [Gedicht]: Nicht ohne Grund klingt im berühmten Vierzeiler der flämischen Dirnen das Lob des deutschen Kommißbrotes mit: (354) [Flugblatt]: Auch ein Beitrag zur Geschichte aller militärischen Besatzungen Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (355) [Abb.]: Im Estaminet Zeichnung eines Kriegsteilnehmers, aus J. C. Brunner, Illustrierte Sittengeschichte (358) [Abb.]: Aus dem Schwarzweißrotblauweißrotbuch: Französinnen flicken die Wäsche der deutschen Krieger Sammlung A. Wolff. Leipzig (359) [Abb.]: "Nu guck mal, also hier darf nichts ruiniert werden!" Aus "Liller Kriegszeitung", 1915 (360) [Abb.]: Der Deutsche zum geknebelten Belgien: "Wir sind die denkbar besten Freunde geworden" Politische Karikatur (361) [Flugblatt]: Dokumentarisches zur Psychologie der militärischen Besetzung Plakat, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (363) [Abb.]: "Mit Gott für Kaiser und Vaterland" Verlag Viva (364) [Abb.]: Auf der Suche nach Quartier "Mein Mann ist nicht zu Hause und ich habe nur ein Bett für mich." "Tut nichts, wir werden Sie nicht inkommodieren - wir werden eben ein wenig zusammenrücken!" Französische Frontzeichnung (365) [Abb.]: Gesicht und Gesichter der Etappe Photographische Aufnahme, Verlag Viva (366) [Abb.]: Etappe Paris Zeichnung von G. Pavis in "La Vie Parisienne", 1917 (367) [Abb.]: Rumänische Familie, deren weibliche Mitglieder vom Verkauf ihrer Körper an die Soldaten der Besatzungsarmee lebten Photographische Aufnahme, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (368) [Abb.]: Das Etappenschwein . und sein Pläsierchen Zeichnung ( - ) Zwölftes Kapitel Etappenhengste und Etappenmädel Die Legende vom Front- und Etappenschwein - Die Frauen der besetzten Gebiete und die Eroberer - Belgien unter deutscher Besatzung - Zivilarbeiterbataillone - Die Hilfsdienstdamen - Frauenkrankenhäuser in der Etappe (369) [Abb.]: Aus "Galizien", ill. Beilage der Ostgalizischen Feldzeitung, 1917 (369) [Abb.]: Die Sexualnot in humoristischer Aufmachung Aus "Kriegsflugblätter der Liller Kriegszeitung" (370) [Lied]: Das Etappenschwein (370) [Flugblatt]: Wie leicht man sein Leben verwirkte Plakat aus dem besetzten Rußland Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (371) [Lied]: Nur ist hier der Gegensatz zwischen dem Wohlleben der Offiziere und dem Hundeleben der gemeinen Soldaten krasser herausgearbeitet. Eines diese Lieder lautet in wörtlicher Übersetzung: (372) [Abb.]: Eroberung hinter der Ostfront Photographische Aufnahme (373) [Abb.]: Das Mitglied der Friedenskonferenz: "Ich soll nicht freigebig sein? Soeben habe ich einem völlig Unbekannten den ganzen Libanon, Estland und die östliche Walachei geschenkt!" Zeichnung von A. Faivre in "Le Rire rouge", 1919 (374) [Abb.]: Mehr Dichtung als Wahrheit über das Leben im besetzten Feindesland Postkarte aus der Kriegszeit, Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (375) [Abb.]: Hotelhall in Brüssel Wie der französische Zeichner das Leben in der von Deutschen besetzten belgischen Hauptstadt darstellt Aus "Fantasio", 1915 (376) [Abb.]: Der Etappen-Photograph "So . bitte . jetzt! ." Aus "Simplicissimus", 1916 (377) [2 Abb.]: (1)"Schau, zehn Francs ist nicht teuer." "Ich will nicht widersprechen, aber ich habe nur 10 Centimes." Aus "Vie de Garnision", 1915 (2)Deutsche Postkarte aus dem dritten Kriegsjahr Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (378) [Brief]: Wir lassen die geheime Anweisung der Kommandantur in Lille für Suchpatrouillen, die die Aushebung in die Zivilarbeiterbataillone durchzuführen hatten, folgen: (379) [Abb.]: Liebe im französischen Unterstand Aus "La Vie Parisienne", 1917 (379) [Abb.]: Kinematographische Aufnahme aus 1001 Nacht in der Lichtstadt Aus "La Vie Parisienne", 1916 (380) [6 Abb.]: Der Krieg im Hinterland (1)Vorbereitung zur Offensive (2)Angriff mit brennbaren Flüssigkeiten (3)Der Kampfwagen (Tank) (4)Kleine Detailoperationen (5)Ein nächtlicher Gegenangriff (6)Die Nacht nach dem Sieg Zeichnung von G. Pavis in "La Vie Parisienne", 1915 (381) [Abb.]: "Was mir an Ihrem Beruf am meisten mißfällt, ist, daß Sie jede Nacht Wache schieben müssen" Zeichnung von H. Gazan in "Le Rire rouge", 1916 (382) [Abb.]: Lille, Hauptstadt der nordfranzösischen Etappe und Hauptsitz der Etappenprostitution, nach Einzug der Deutschen Photographische Aufnahme (383) [Abb.]: Flandrische Etappe in Bild und Schrift . Jedoch des Tages höchster Glanz Naht abends, wenn sie geht zum Tanz. Im "Eldorado" Walzer klingen, Matros' und Meisje Tanzbein schwingen. Aus der Etappenzeitung "An Flanderns Küste", 1916 (384) [Abb.]: Der Leichenzug aus Belgien Eine sehr verbreitete Propagandazeichnung ( - ) [Abb.]: Flandrische Etappe in Bild und Schrift . Und bist du gar ein Kavalier, Bringst du die Maid vor ihre Tür, Gibst einige "Totjes" deiner Braut, Sie ist "beschaamd en stief benouwd." Aus der Etappenzeitung "An Flanderns Küste", 1916 (385) [Abb.]: Italienische Postkarte zur Warnung vor Spionen Sammlung A. Wolf, Leipzig (386) [Abb.]: Aus dem Leben eines Fernsprechers Feldgrauer Humor aus "Scheinwerfer", Beilage zur Zeitung der 10. Armee (Wilna) Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (387) [2 Abb.]: (1)Kaffeehaus hinter der alliierten Front Zeichnung von R. Jouenne in "Fantasio", 1918 (2)"Das tut gut, für die kleine Französin zu kämpfen" Zeichnung von Marcel Bloch in "La Baionnette", 1915 (388) [2 Abb.]: (1)Kaffeehaus hinter der alliierten Front Zeichnung von R. Jouenne in "Fantasio", 1918 (2)"Das tut gut, für die kleine Französin zu kämpfen" Zeichnung von Marcel Bloch in "La Baionnette", 1915 (389) [Abb.]: Kriegscafé in einem ungarischen Grenzstädtchen Zeichnung (390) [Abb.]: Eine zusammenfassende Darstellung aller zu Propagandazwecken von der Entente reichlich ausgeschroteten "deutschen Greueltaten" Zeichnung von Townsend in "Punch", 1915 (391) [Abb.]: Friedliche Eroberungen in Feindesland mit Hilfe des allbeliebten Kommißbrotes Szene aus dem Film der Deutschen Universal Film A.-G. nach Remarques "Im Westen nichts Neues" (392) [Abb.]: Fest deutscher Soldaten in Flandern Das Auftreten der Schuhplattler Photographische Aufnahme (393) [Abb.]: "Mein Mann macht mir fürchterliche Szenen, obwohl ich ihm gedroht habe wegzugehen." "Droh' ihm, daß du bleibst." Zeichnung von Haye in "Vie de Garnison" (394) [Abb.]: Auskundschaftung des Terrains Zeichnung von Martin in "La Vie Parisienne", 1918 (395) [Abb.]: Das Spiel im Frauenherzen "Man nehme mehr als vier!" Französische Postkarte (396) [Abb.]: Deutsche Soldaten an einem dienstfreien Sonntag mit ihren russischen Quartierswirtinnen Photographische Aufnahme (397) [Gedicht]: so wollen wir uns von diesen Kriegsopfern mit den Worten verabschieden, die Karl Kraus ihnen in seinem grandiosen Kriegsdrama in den Mund legt: (397) [Abb.]: Soldat und Dirne Federzeichnung von Alfred Kubin Fritz Gurlitt-Verlag, Berlin (398) [Abb.]: Der Hunger zieht durch die Straßen Zeichnung aus dem besetzten Nordfrankreich (399) [Abb.]: Im Wintergarten in Berlin werden Tänzerinnen engagiert Zeichnung von A. Miarko in "Fantasio", 1915 (400) [Abb.]: Der rote Dämon der Etappe Zeichnung ( - ) [Abb.]: Ut J'hann Stuewen sin Franzosentid "Na, Madam, kokt de Kartuffel ok?" "Merci, Monsieur, je ne suis pas très bien portant." "Kick mol, dat Flesch is ok all moeer?" "Oui, oui, Monsieur, c'est la guerre, c'est un malheur." "Dat is schön, denn könn' wi ja bald wat eten." Aus "Liller Kriegszeitung", 1915 (401) [Abb.]: Die Eroberer und die Bevölkerung von Russisch-Polen Photographische Aufnahme (402) [Flugblatt]: Ein Plakat der Besatzungsbehörden in Russisch-Polen Sammlung A. Wolff, Leipzig (403) [Abb.]: Etappe Gent Zeichnung von George Grosz in "Gesicht der herrschenden Klasse", Malik-Verlag (404) [Abb.]: Englische Hilfstruppe im Nahkampf Aus einem lithographierten Heft "War and Women" (405) [Lied]: Trotzdem spricht man oft von der Flucht und neckisch singen die Frauen ein Lied, das im Krankenhaus entstanden ist: (405) [Abb.]: Kriegsromantik im Estaminet Aus der deutschen Etappenzeitung "An Flanderns Küste", 1916 (406) [Lied]: Eine Strophe einer im Hause entstandenen Chanson sagt unverblümt: (406) [Abb.]: Nachtleben in der flandrischen Etappe Nach einem Aquarell (407) [Abb.]: Gruss von der Leipziger Messe! Die grosse Mode 1919 "8 Monate nach Krieger's Heimkehr" (408) Literaturangaben (409) Einleitung, Erstes Kapitel, Zweites Kapitel (409) Drittes Kapitel (409) Viertes Kapitel (410) Fünftes Kapitel, Sechstes Kapitel (411) Siebentes Kapitel (411) Achtes Kapitel (412) Neuntes Kapitel (413) Zehntes Kapitel (413) Elftes Kapitel, Zwölftes Kapitel (414) Inhalt des ersten Bandes (415) Werbung ( - ) Einband ( - ) Einband ( - )
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Such permission will only be considered on written application to the Editor, Review for Religious. for relig i ous Editor Associate Editors Canonical Counsel Editor Editorial S~aff Advisory Board David L. Fleming SJ Philip C. FischEr SJ Regina Siegfried ASC Elizabeth.McDonough OP Mary Ann Foppe Tracy Gramm J~an Read James and Joan Felling Kathryn Richards FSP Joel Rippinger OSB Bis.hop Carlos A. Sevilla SJ David Werthmann CSSR ' Patricia Wittberg SC Christian Heritages and Contemporary Living NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1998 ¯ VOLUME 57 ¯ NUMBER 6 contents 566 578 religious vocations Common Threads: Are We Weaving or Unraveling? Catherine Bertrand SSN~D surveys the terrain of apostolic religious life regarding attitudes and concerns about future membership. The Decline in Religious Vocations: ¯ A Weberian Perspective Shanti P~beyasingha cssR looks at effects of the "routinizing" of a foundational charism and then peers beyond them with a hope that embraces new risks in changed circumstances. 588 595 ,life in the spirit Spirithil Maturity John Blake More reflects on some of the qUalities of a spiritually mature person. A "Spiritual Turn" for Catholic Moral Theology Dennis J. Billy CSSR explores some of the ways in which a deeper understanding of the relationship between spirit and reason has =oncrete implications for the_future of moral theology. consecr.ated life 605 ~ Consecrated Life: Anointed with Joy Regis J. Armstrong OFMCap presents.ways of understanding joy and its intrinsic relationship to consecrated life. Review for Religious 622 The Future of Authority in the Religious Community John Carroll Futrell SJ describes what authority needs today as it exercises its ministry of making an apostolic community of love. spiritual limitations 628 Ground of Grace Marie Beha OSC uses the parable of ~he seed in looking at the limits we bring to the transforming action of grace. 640 Guigo I 'on Avoiding Suffering Kenneth C. Russell offers us some of the homely wisdom of an early Carthusian regarding the ensemble of this world and the ,next. departments 564 Prisms 650 Canonical Counsel: The Evangelical Counsel of Obedience: ConcreteExpression and Practical Consequences 656 Book Reviews 666 Indexes to Volume 57 November-Deconber 1998 prisms T imagery of the Holy Spirit as an iconographer"holds an age-old place in the tradition of the Eastern churches. The Hol~ Spirit is painting us in the image and likeness of Goff~ But, of course, we acknowledge Jesus Christ as THE image of the invisible God (Col 1:15). Consequently, in working with us as a painter does with an icon, the Holy Spirit continues throughout our life to bring out in us another face of Jesus, As we enter the Advent preparation for Christmas, this way of understanding our relationship to the S'pirit seems especially appropriate. The Holy Spirit is always laboring to bring to birth within us a fuller identity with Jesus. Our life can be understood as an Advent season in which we are being prepared over the span of our earthly life for the reality of our life-with-God 'forever in Christ. At the same time, from our meditation upon the Gospels and from our following in Christ's footsLeps, our daily life can be seen as one spent living in imitation of the hidden and public life of Jesus. With every stroke of his painter's brush, the Spirit inspires, encourages, and strengthens us to live "like Jesus," to live as Christ-ians. For the Spirit, according to Jesus' promise, is the one who "remains" with us, the one who will "be within" us (Jn 14:17). From the Gospel of St: John, we learn that the Holy Spirit is a gift to us--Jesus' "gift to us of "another Paraclete" (that is, one who functions just like Jesus him-self, who is our first Paraclete) or, perhaps stated with more theological precision, a gift from the "us" of Father and Son. Fumblingly struggling to say something about Review for Religious the identity and life of our triune God, our theological tradition at times expresses it in this way: The Father gives himself over fully to the Son, and the Son gives himself over fully to the Father, and the fullness of the Love shared between them is a Gift-Person, a Love-Person. As a result, our Trinitarian God is caught up in a life of relationship, of total giving, of total sharing--a God who is Love, a God who is all Gift. The Spirit, whose very relational identity within the Trinity is Gift and Love, plays this same role in God's outreach to cre-ation- for example, the imagery of the brooding of Spirit over the waters of creation and the Spirit's overshadowing of Mary in the' an~aunciation scene. From revelation and from our experi-ence, we know that God relates to us through all of creation as "gifts"--gifts that are meant to help us to know, to love, and to serve God by our proper appreciation and use of these gifts. God relates to us through Jesus as gift of identity with us as human. jesus is called the new Adam because we human beings in the Jesus-Gift have .become truly new and original. God relates to us in baptism, confirmation, and all the sacraments and sacramentals of our Christian life in the gift of the one we~call the Holy Spirit. The process of our growing in grace or~ as the Eastern churches say it more daringly, the process of our divinization continues as God's Spirit-Gift stays with us. We CFiristians, made newly human in Christ, have come to understand God in a new and original way: a triune God, a Gift-God, a God of Love. At Christmas, then, we see again, with eyes of faith, God's gift of identity with us through Jesus. Year after year, all the won-der of this gift seen and remembered as a baby fills the heights and depths of our soul. But, in this year dedicated to the Spirit, we recall anew, especially in this Christmas season, how much the Holy Spirit--God-Gi~---keeps giving us the way to be Christ for our times. We pray to the Spirit to bring forth more fully in us the icon of Jesus each of us is created to be--~.made in the image and likeness of God. David L. Fleming SJ That the Spirit paint his icon more fully across the fabric of your life is the Chris~as wish fro,. all of us on the staff of Review for Religious. .November-Dece~ltber 1998 religious vocations CATHERINE BERTRAND Common Threads: -,Are We Weaving or Unraveling? In the last year, as I have traveled nationally and interna-tionally, tit has become clear that certain "threads" are shared, by a considerable number of congregations of women and men religious, especially those that describe themselves as active or apostolic. This article, examining some of these "threads," asking some questions, and offer-ing some answers, is not the last word. There are no sweeping statements to capture the experience of every religious. Rather, I hope to generate further discussion among congregational members as they together examine their own reality and explore what their own future might look like. Many active or apostolic congregations were founded one or two hundred years ago in .,response to particular ministerial needs in various parts of the world. The found, ing purpose often had'more to do with ministry than with a particular spirituality or rule. These congregations, with some help from Vatican Council II, are struggling with the articulation of their charisms and the interpretation of their founding purpose in light of today's church and world. This has often caused the various congregations to remark more' similarities than differences among them- Catherine Bertrand SSND is executive director of the National Religious Vocation Conference (5420 South Cornell Avenue, Suite 105; Chicago, Illinois 60615). Her article was first pub-lished in its quarterly journal, Horizon. Review for Religious" selves, Given this observation, what are some of the common threads evident in these congregations as they look toward, the future? Deepest Longings , Sociologists have noted that the two unmet desires of our age, the deepest longings expressed to~tay by peopl~ of all ages, are for.spirituality and for a sense of belonging. Vocation ministers in both. women's 'and men's congregations can validate these find-ings in their work with potential candidates. Consistently those considering religious life express their reasons as having to do ,with a longing for God and a desire for community life. Meanwhile, longtime members of these congregations seem to be asking themselves whether this in fact 4s .what religious are about, or what their life has to offer today. A thread common to English-spea.king countries worldwide is discussion of the need to take another look at quality community life. Some religious will contend that it is yet to be discovered what that means for active/apostolic congregations whose very foundation and history were overshadowed and strongly influ-enced by monastic rules and traditions. Be that as it may, not only are new members and potential candidates asking for quality com-mon life, but longtime members as well are saying they need to take another look at this. My guess would be that there are as many ideas of what community life could look like as there are people discussing it. There is no going back to what was, although some members ~ would desire that: Others, who have experienced community life in the past as uniformity and sameness, fear that this could become the case again. Some feel that"the struggle to be in a ministry that Is satisfying and in a living situation that does not take every ounce of energy has been long in coming: "Leave it alone!" Others, especially those who entered after Vatican 11,,came because of the common life and shared ministry, and continue to seek ways to have that happen. Some believe community can happen only under one roof. Others believe that such a configuration of community has nothing to do with the direction for the future. Some question~the value of vowed membership, while the expe-rience of others tells them that only when there is clarity about vowed membership does any other way of associating make sense. November-Decentber 1998 Bertrand ¯ Common Threads Although some oflthese concerns differ.in various communities, and may take on different nuances in men's and women's con-gregations, the common threads, the similar questions, are there. Fundamental Changes and Different Realities Over recent years, some definite realities in religious life have given community.life a whole new look. The following paragraphs attempt to describe some of those changes. Space, or how space is regarded, has changed how ~relikious live in community. Many local communities ofwomen'~ congre-gations suffer from limited living space. For a variety of reasons, including some very healthy ones, there.has been a move to smaller living spaces, with fewer people. Unfortunately, religious often end: 'up--mostly for economic reasons--in crowded places with little common space beyond their own bedrooms. There is no room for guest, s, potential new members, or even one's own community members. There is no space, for common prayer, and no room to welc0m~e groups of guests. Religious congregations are not family; they al:e communities of adults; for whom the family model is not helpful. To live simply does not necessarily mean that there can be .no space. Although men's communities may have more space, rJaey seem to be challenged to look at how eas-ily the members can become independent, developing a board-ing- house mentality. Governance, too, has changed how religious live together. Many local commtinities have been trying a more circular model of leadership wherein various responsibilities of leadership are shared. Men's communities seem to 'be less dialogic, to function more expeditiously. No form of governance, however, seems to go without challenge, and no one model is ideal. , Age has also made a difference in how religious live together and ~relate to each other. There are more older members, and fewer new ones. The tendency to settle in bectmes stronger unless deliberate efforts fire made to retain vitality, ' which has little to do with.,age. New members help a community to keep growing and changing. Difference in community size calls for different skills. The abil-ity to b~ self-discl6sing is critical. Where it may once have been considered the. greatest of virtues to be silent, now it is crucial in community to be able to articulate one's thoughts and feelings in Review for Religious an appropriate manner. The smaller the group, the more essen-tial to have healthy members who are able to enter into this kind of sharing. Professionalism and ministry demands certainly affect community life today. Because urgent needs demand responses and because mission is the ov~rriding concern for many religious congrega-tions, this is where most time and energy are spent. The nature of ministry, especially with many women religious now in parish settings, places new demands on quality time in community. Self-Definition Countless efforts among religious focus on the identity and image of religious today: who religious are and what they are about. It appears that often religious define themselves by the work(s) they do. They seem to fall sho~rt when it comes to know-ing how to share some of the other elements of their lives that grow out of the communal dimension: Is' there clarity about those essential elements? Are the spiritual and communal elements of their lives seen as having the power to attract others, not just to new vowed membership, :but also to the varibus ways people can be in part-nership with religious 4ongregations? To religious who are concerned that potential candidates seem to focus only on God and com-munity and have little Or no sense of mission, I offer this thread. From interviewing and assessing candidates for priesthood and religious life, I have found, that among them service is a given. They deeply desire to be of service~ They may not always understand how to direct that generosity within a particular congregation, but what draws them to religious life is a unique context in which to offer service. Most candidates come assuming that Jesus, the Eucharist, and a link to the universal church are foundational to religious lif~. The community they seek is not a warm nest or surrogate family, but a group that will help them serve in a way that they could'not do alone. New members ,help a community to keep growing and changing, What Attracts Young Adults When two hundred young' adults from all over the United November-December 1998 Bertrand ¯ Common Threads States joined more than five hundred vocation directors at the 1996 National Convocation of religious vocation ministers, they spoke to the questions of what was attractive and unattractive . about religious life today. On their application forms they were asked to describe any of their .current involvements in volunteer work, paid ministry, civic activities, and so~forth.Their responses were both amazing and impressive. The candidates that religious congregations would hope to attract are already engaged in ser-vice. They told us that ministry alone will not draw people to religious life. They come because of the community context in which the ministry is situated. They also see community life as happening under one roof. Many times they have no clear idea of w~hat they are asking for When they speaLof their desire for com, munity, but they clearly do not envision it as a "let's get together now and then" experience. Another thread I see in numerous congregations is the sincere desire of many religious to respond to that desire expressed by young people. Most congregations want to have a future and therefore are serious about attracting new members. A thread that is becoming more common in many congregations is being spun in conversations about being local communities of hospi-tality. Much as congregations would like it, this phrase does not describe every local community. Newer members are~well aware of struggles to find suitable, community situations to live in, Longtime members, too, know all too well thee feeling of panic when it comes to finding a local community upon Changing min-istry locations. Some congregations are creatively encouraging some of~their most "life-giving" members to consider housing situations that would allow for an extra room so that communities of hospitality become realities. These delibera~te efforts by some are invitations to all congregational members to take seriously the responsibil- -ity for hospitality. Community as Ministry Religious take seriously their commitment to ministry. Who can argue with that? But is mission understood as being synony-mous with the work they do? I 15elieve that one of the strongest sections of Vita consecrata deals with this very question. It states that community life plays a fundamental role in the spiritual jour- Review for Religious ney of religious, both for their constant renewal and for the full accomplishment of their mission In the world: [The church] wishes to hold up before the world the exam-ple of communities in which solitude is overcome through concern for one another, in which communication inspires in everyone a sense of shared responsibility, and in which wounds are healed throu~gh forgiveness and each person's commitment'to communion is strengthened. The life of communion in fact "becomes a sign for all the world and a compelling force that leads people to faith in Christ . in this way communion leads to mission and itself becomes mission"; indeed, "communion begets communion: In' essen~.~e it is a communion that is missionary." (§§45-46) Do religious believe that community life itself is key to the mission and their ministries? For active/apostolic congregations it seems to be an ongoing struggle. How do congregations arid individuals integrate or balance that healthy or not-so-healthy tension between ministry and community life? Have religious come to define active/apostolic religious life only by works, and often very individualized ministries at that? In many ministry situations there may b~ only one person of a particular congregation on the scene. A developing scenario seems to be that it is in ministry that one receives the greatest affirmation and.the deepest satisfaction, that one's affective needs are met, and that the most creative energy arises. This poses a sharp contrast to the less than life,giving local community situa-tion that religious often describe. Another dimension in this sce-nario is that today religious~ have less knowledge about or understanding of each other's ministries and therefore have fewer opportunities, to be supportive and affirming, ~ ~" : Another thread deserving further consideration is the amount of time and energy given to ministry. I have heard younger, newly professed religious comment that they came from homes where they were aware that everything, including family, always came second to their parents' dareers. They are often surprised to find that in religious life they have that same sense. They seem to respond in one of two ways. Either they quickly fal.1 into the work mode, or they choose to leave. On one occasion a speaker address-ing an audience of religious suggested that, if a congregation is serious about new membership, it may need to reevaluate its min-isterial commitments. Even to think about it brought an audible gasp from the audience. November-December 1998 Bertrand ~ Common Threads Often religious try to accomplish with fewer people what was once done by many more people. No doubt women and men reli-gious are responding to urgent needs in our church and world in creative and heroic ways. Many times, it seems, the very people who top the list as wonderful community members are also the most overextended in ministry. Where is the balance in all of this? What choices are congregations making in addressing these challenges, not just f~or the sake of new members, but for the sake of present membership? . . Some congregations are responding by honestly saying to each other and to others that they prefer to go onliving and working just as they are. Other congregations see a need for some changes. I have attempted to name some of the common reali-ties in religious life that have had an impact on community life. These include models of governance, ways of praying,' living space, aging members, and ministry demands. I would contend that, to the extent that realities in religious life have changed, religious are. invited to develop new skills for living contemporary religious life, giving new shape to religious community life. Skills Needed What are some of the skills to be considered?~ The following list is neither definitive nor exhaustive, but I offer it as a help toward further consideration and dialogue: ' ¯ The need for self-disclosure heads the list, in part because this element of religious life has changed radically in recent years. The change affects not only how one,share~ in dialogue, but also how one participates in prayer with one or more persons. There is an increased need both for sharing and for keeping a healthy sense of boundaries. . ¯ Skills for other-centeredness are key. It is no small challenge to be able to enter into the reality of another, to be generous, to listen. It means taking time for people and situations in commu-nity that may not always be one's first choice of how to use time and energy. It may mean not allowing ministry demands to always come first. ¯ Hospitality As an "in" word these days, but in some situa~- tions it may be as basic as developing social and conversational skills that make life better as occasions arise for religious to invite others into their homes and into their lives. This is particularly key Review for Religious in attracting new members. People cannot choose or ~upport what they do not know, unders(and, or experience. ¯ Skills for healthy sexuality and intimacy are critical elements in the life of any person, and these impact,community life. They affect the way individual religious express who they are, how "at home" they might be as loving, intimate, sexual human beings. They assist religious in having .a sense of self that can support o~hers in their celibate choice and can help still others under-stand celibacy as a viable option. A healthy sexuality includes developing friendsl~ips within and outside community life. It also involves doing whatever is necessary to be a physically and psy-chologically healthy person, someone with whom others would like to share community. ¯ A healthy spirituality is another key element in quality com-munity life, having both a communal and individual dimension. It means looking for ways to be supportive of the spiritual life of others in community, participating in the liturgical life of the church, and expressing the shared spirituality of a particular con-gregation. It also means finding ways to participate in the ongo-ing revelation of God through individuals and in community. ¯ Skills for shared living involve negotiating living space, being attentive to the little .things that can make or break community liv-ing, These skills make it possible for religious to choose to live with one or more fellow religious when it would be easier to live alone, or they may suggest ways of creatively sharing life with others if particular circumstances' demand living alone for a time. They help one to be open to sharing life with a variety of people, in a variety of ways, ways that are life-giving, not death-dealing. ¯ To be attentive to ongoing learning and enrichment demands that one strive to be updated about religious life, spirituality, the, ology, and so forth, in: addition to fulfilling~"professional" demands for ongoing education. It also means being attentive to one's development as an "interesting" person who can contribute.to community discussions and learning. It means taking time for enrichment, alone and with others. ¯ Friendship in community also involves skills, though no one can make friendship happen. One must look for ways to come to know the people .with whom one shares life, and must do whatever one can to create a community to.which people want to come home. Friendship skills include being able ~nd willing to cele-brate people .and events 4n the company of others. November-December 1998 Bertrand ¯ Common Threads ¯ Leadership ski'lls need to be nurtured in every community member even though such skills will be expressed in many dif-ferent ways on a variety of levels. These skills include taking indi-vidual responsibility within a community of adults, having a voice and being honest and up-front in using that voice for the good of the whole, getting involved in the workings of the congregation ~3n the local level and beyond, and keeping actively in touch with congregational leaders. ¯ Conflict-management skills invite the convictitn that each person is worth the time it~takes to live together well. They involve being honest as well as kind with feedback, being account-able for any effort or lack of effort at being a positive presence in a community. Conflict management calls for a healthy sense of self that allows one to deal with issues, not destroy persons. These are some skills that seem key to living contemporary community life. Some Other Threads .There continue to be questions. Are religious setting them-selves up for failure,and disappointment in taking another look at quality community life, another look at that particular thread? Is this a challenge beyond them? No one can make 'a significant responge alone, not the. congregational leader or any individual member, not a new member or potential candidate, not the voca-tion director. A significant response requires the efforts of as man, y as possible--many interwoven threads. There are people among us who lack either the desire, the aptitude, or both for living community life in this day and age. There are ministerial situations that demand different ways of being community. But in many congregations a substantial group of peo-ple have both the desire and the aptitude to make co.mmunity life work, even under one roof. Community life takes time and energy. There 'is no way around that, even in the best-case scenarios. If congregations want the future to be different, some radical decisions must be made in the present-'if not always big deci-sions, then some smaller ones that are no less radical: These are the ones that touch the day-to-day living of the entire community. How willing am I to be "inconvenienced" for the sake of our future, ~for the sake of not just new members, but also present members? This question is screaming for anoanswer.from indi=' Review for Religious vidual religious and from congregations. The answer may mean reclaiming community as ministry, community as mission. The final thread I will touch upon is perhaps stating the obvi-ous. Vocation ministers, who are some of the most hopeful peo-ple around, indidate time and again that in their work the greatest challenge 4s their own congregational members' lack of aware-ness and response. They do not assume ill will, for they see that people are very busy, involved in many things. How, then, are communitymembers to be made more alert to ways of promot-ing vocations? Congregational leaders are critical players 'in these efforts, b~t congregational members are no less important. Do we pas-sionately desire another generation of religious for the sake of God's people? Are we willing to invite new generations to consider religious life as a viable option, or by our silence have we made the decision for them? The responses to these questions cannot be postponed, to be considered at some other time, Our only time is ,' Questions for Individuals and Communities Something to do now is raise some of the ,following questions in the privacy of your o~n mind and heart--but also to raise them in discussion with other religious in your own congregation, in your own local community, or in any number of other settings.,~ Skills for Self-disclosure What in your life indicates that you have a sense of legitimate boundaries, your own and those of others? What enables .you to express your thoughts and feelings in dialogue and in faith shar-ing? How do you nurture mental and emotional health that allows you to be self-disclosing? How do yob develop healthy self-esteem, self-confidence that allows you to share yourself with others? What gives you the sense that others enjoy being with you? Skills for Other-cehteredness How do you balance self-maintenance with generous pres-ence and service? What gets most attention and energy in your local community? How do you foster local' community life that reaches beyond itself?. What enables you to enter into the re~ility of another? How do you present religious life as a viable option Noventber-Decentber 1998 Bertrand ¯ Common Threads for someone else? How do you share ministry with each other, even if you are in different settings? What sharpens your ability to be a good listener? Skills four Hospitality What do you do to develop social and conversational skills? How are you willing to be inconvenienced for the sake of wel-coming others? What do you do to encourage, potential new mem-bers and to invite them, and others as well, into yo~ur life and into your home? How do you cope with diversit'v? What prevents you at times from being hospitable and welcoming? Skills/:or Healthy Sexuality and lntimaey How would someone, describe your outlook on life? What helps you .to be happy and hopeful? How do you express that sense? How do. you express your celibate choice? How do you describe it? How are you generative in your celibate choice?. What steps do you take to develop and sustain healthy friendships? How does the way you live speak to health and wholeness? Skills for a Healthy Spirituality How :are you faithful to personal and communal'prayer? What other elements of your life indicate a seritusness about your rela-tionship with God? How do you participate in the liturgical life of the church? How does your prayer life reflect the .spirituality of your congregation? How does your spiritual life reflect and support a concern for others? ~ Skills for Shared Living How does the shared living space where you live facilitate quality community life? When are you~generous or territorial in your useof common space and, goods? How are you attentive to the "litde things" that can cause friction or tranquillity in a shared living space? How willing, are you to negotiate, and sometimes settle for conditions that are not to your liking? The persons you live with--what keeps your expectations of them realistic? Skills fo, r Ongoing Learning and Enrichment ~ What steps do you take to keep updated regarding religious-life trends, spirituality, theology? How do you make time for cur-rent reading, awareness of world issues, which can be shared in Review for Religious community? What do you do for enrichment and leisure, indi-vidually and as a local community? What are some of the best ways to "waste time" together? Skills for Friendship in Community What helps you to come to know and appreciate the people with whom you share community life? How do you reflect an openness to potential friendship in community without demand-ing it? What about you would give other people a desire to live in community with you? What about local community makes it a situation to which you want to come home? How do you make choices for quality community time in the face of ministerial demands? How do you celebrate people and events in your local community? How do you share your family and friends with your congregation? How do you give yourself and others a sense of freedom in community relationships? Skills for Leadership What is the role and understanding of leadership in your local community? How do you participate in those responsibilities? What is your expectation of those in congregational leadership in relating to local communities? In what ways do you take ini-tiative in your local community? Sk(lls for Conflict Management , What helps you to be honest and up-front in dealing with conflict in community? How do you give helpful feedback to peers, and how, do you receive it from them? To whom do you hold yourself accountable for trying to live quality community life? For you, what elements of local community can become sources of conflict? What are the most effective ways for you to resolve conflict in your local community? Are you, are we, weaving or unraveling? November-December 1998 SHANTI ABEYASINGHA The Decline in Religious Vocations: : ,A Weberian Perspective y-783 _ religious life, that many who join religious congregations give up halfway, and that some leave even after final profession are things that merit inquiry. For many a religious congregation, vocation questions and vocation promotion are top priorities. A superior of a women's religious congregation told me that she and the sis-ters were trying desperately to get young girls to join because comphter statistics had shown that the congregation would die out if a hundred or more new persons did not come in every year. Deaths each year were outnumbering the entrants, and, accord= ingly, aging.itself had become a more serious~problem too. There are instances where some congregations in the West have come to Asia, Africa, and Latin America (places with more .vocations) in search of candidates. The phenomenon of men;'and women religious coming from the West to work as missionaries also seems to be a thing of the past. In fact, the reverse process seems to be taking place. Religious congregations with branches in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are asking them to come up with volunteers for missionary work in other lands. These instances and others would seem to indicate that religious life is in disarray. Shanti Abeyasingha CSSR has held administrative positions in his order, has done socioeconomic development work in Sri Lanka, and has con-ducted retreats and missions in Sri Lanka, India, and Malaysia. His address is: Redemptorists, Santa Maria; George E. de Silva Mawatha; Kandy, 20000; Sri Lanka. Review for Religious The interesting thing, however, is that the problem of a lack of vocations, which many modern-day religious congregations are facing, was seldom an issue for the founders and foundresses ofireligious congregations~ They do not stem to have had diffi-culty getting people to join their ranks. As their histories often tell us, .people were attracted to the particular work they started and to their commitment and deilication. Many a °person was ready to give up everything and join them. God's Fidelity and Religious Congregations' Continued Existence The Bible speaks again and again about the faithfulness of God. Evenothough we humans are unfaithful, God is shown as the one who is ever faithful to his pr~mises. Along with his faith-fulness, his caring love is always there, ever ready to come to our aid. This' love is brought out clearly in the Exodus experience. The words "I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry 'because of their taskmasters; I know their suffering, and I have comedown to deliver them" (Ex 3:7- 8) expresses it all. vWhen God makes his covenant with the Israelites at Mount Sinai, the people experience and~ understand their God precisely as one who always intervenes on their behalf to alleviate suffering and oppressiom All through human history we encounter human suffering and misery. These are vestiges df sin and .are manifest in the self-ishness of persons who do not care 'for their brothers and sisters. God continues to care for these unfortunate persons all through history. He continues to prove his faithfulness .and concern by raising up women and men who dedicate their lives in the ser-vice of people whom others oppress or ignore and even history forgets. These charismatic personalities emerge especially in moments of, crisis and,decadeffce in society. They, like Moses, are inspired to do God's bidding on behalf of his people. They are in line'with ~the prophets, who denounced oppression while at the same time announcing to the people the good news of liberation and deliverance. In the line of the prophets, these founders of congregations interpreted the signs of the times and responded vigorously. They highlighted something ~hat answered a need in society. They manifested through their actions the faith~lness andthe ¯ November-DecembD" 1998 L -79 Abeyasingba * The Decline in Religious Vocations caring presence of God as he continues to come down and deliver his people from their bondage. Here we have the actual reason for the beginning and the continued exi~stence of religious congre-gations, namely, t~o be extensions of God's presence in the world. The "Routinization" of a charism Max Weber has something to say about such charismatic lead-ers. He says that charismatic leaders are creative and do things that are not in line with the normal run of things in society. He is quick to add, however, that such charismatic leaders do not last. They are a passing phenomenon in society. They appear at cer-tain times in history to answer particular needs of the time. In the course of time, especially after the death of the charismatic leader, his or her original insight becomes traditi~nalized or ratio-nalized or both.~ Weber adds: "It is only in the initial stages, and so long as the charismatic leader acts in a way which is completely outside every day social organization, that it is possible for his followers to live communistically in a community of faith and enthusiasm.''2 Thus, according to Weber, it is only a question of time before the initial charism of the leader becomes "routinized.''3 Usually this takes place after his or her death. In this transformation into a permanent routine structure, one of the first things altered is the anti-economic character of the original charisma.4The followers pursue security and economic stability (as part of security) to. make up for the absence of the founder. Everyday needs and the ordi-nary details of administration necessitate such an adaptation. This process took place even in the church after the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. With routinization comes an attempt to preserve the leader's thought and way of life. Normally this takes the form of pre-serving his or her letters, instructions,- documents, and sayings, along with eyewitness reports, accounts from the~first companions, and so on. Guidelines are set for the training of future followers. These are usually spelled out in documents such as rules, consti-tutions, and statutes, which are updated from time to time by general chapters and by special commissions appointed by them. The result is a system of organization different from that which existed during the time of the charismatic leader. During the leader's lifetime, the way of making decisions, the way of act- Review for Religious ing, and in short the whole way the group functioned could be said to have been somewhat arbitrary and unpredictable. There was no formal or well-defined way of doing a particular thing. The leader's personality was the key factor, and it overshadowed what-ever structures and procedures were already in place, regarding the community and its mission. Max Weber says that "the routinization of charisma also takes the form of the appropriation of powers of control and of eco-nomic advantages by the followers,or disciples and of regulation of the recruitment of these groups.''5 In other words, the rou-tinization process in a congregation includes the manner and the basis of choosing leaders, the training or tests of eligibility of the new recruits, the way of governing the members, their rights and duties, and so on.6 Also, it is very much akin to the adaptation that constantly takes place in economic life--for the economy is on~ of the principal and continually operating forces in everyday life. In the whole question of routinization, the economic condi-tions play a leading role'and do not constitute merely a dependent variable.7 Bureaucratic Org.anization and Religious Life From the foregoing it will be clear that accompanying the whole process of the routinization of a charism is the attempt to coordinate activities. Weber calls this the process of rationaliza-tion or the process of bureaucratic organizatipn. He goes on to say that this is a distinctive mark of the modern era. Bureaucracy has shaped modern politics, the modern economy, modern technol'- ogy, and modern church life and religious life too. Max Weber considered the bureaucratic organization to be technically supe-rior to all other forms of administration. He says' also that only through this device, namely bureaucracy, has large-scale planning of the modern state and the modern economy become possible,s The main characteristics of a bureaucratic organization are: ¯ It is organized according to rational principles: rules, con-stitutions, and statutes. (This is something that developed in religious congregations.) ¯ The offices are ranked in a hierarchical order. (Religious congregations, too, have a hierarchical order, that is, gen-eral, his or her consulto~rs, the different secretariats, provin-cials, vice-provincials, and so on.) Novetttber-December 1998 Abeyasingba * The Decline in Religious Vocations Efficiency has hhd the effect of making religious congregations inefficient in answering the changed needs of the times. ¯ The operations (of offices) are characterized by imper-sonal rules. (The various offices in religi~ous congregations, too, have clearly defiiaed procedures.) ¯ The members are governed by methodical allocation of areas of jurisdiction.(Today the members of religious con-gregations fire allocdted 'into provinces, vice-provinces, regions, and so on.) ¯ Appointments to offices are generally made according to specialized qualifications. Those who can fit into the bureaucratic administrative set-up are the ones who are normally considered for s~h offices. Just as bureaucracy has its advantages, it also has its draw-backs. Its very strengths are also its weaknesses. Because of its rationalized organization, bureaucracy sometimes becomes unwieldy and even stultifying in dealing with individual cases. Modern rationalized and bureaucratized systems find themselves incapable of dealing with particularities. In other words, the individual's initiative and creativity are submerged under a deluge of reasons that are derived mechanically from the 0 code of behavior.~° Depersonalization is another result of bureaucratization. The organization seems to take precedence over the personhood of the individual." In the last analysis, although bureaucratization and rationalization may have increased the efficiency of the o.r, ga: nization, this very efficiency threatefis to dehumanize its ere-ators. 12 In such a setup, 0there is little room for charismatic personalities to emerge. , From what has been said, one sees the implications of bureau-cratization for the functioning~of religious life. While on the one hand it has organized and systematized administration, on the other hand it has stifled some new initiatives and new thinking. Persons who propose changes in hitherto :accepted ways of doing things could very well find themselves isolated or labeled rebel-lious or considered excrescences that need to be removed because they are a hindrance to the smooth running of the ihstitute. Worse still would be the sad refility of some finding themselves outside the institute because their ideas do not find acceptance with the Review for Religious administration. To put it in another way,. this very efficiency has had the effect of making religious congregations inefficient in answering the changed conditions and changed needs of the times. Understanding Vatican II's Renewal Guidelines Something that should not be forgotten is that the intention of these charismatic leaders was to answer particular needs in society. They were answering a local need. What took priority was the need of the people, not the organization of a group with rules and. regulations. Only much later, as numbers increased and in some cases lived far from the original local area, did the group give ,special attention to its own formation. This fact should be kept in mind when we speak of the inspiration of the founder or foundress. As has been explained, with the death of the charismatic ,leader, the routinization process took. over,' bringing .to the now more organized institute a corresponding sense of securityoand stability ,among the members. This in turn created a certain insen-sitivity to the actual needs of the people, espec!ally the poor. It is in this context that one has to understand the appeal made by the Second Vatican Council: The appropriate renewal of religious life involves two simul-taneous pr%cesses: (I) a continuous return to the sources ~ 9f all Christian life and to the original inspiration b~hind a given community and (2) an adjustment of the community to the changed conditions of the times. Clearly, the council envisaged two simultaneous processes for the renewal of religious life. It went on to enumerat.e certain princi-ples in accord with which such renewal was to proceed: to follow Christ, to participate in the life of the church, to seek to identify the institute's,particular character and purpose, and to be aware of contemporary human conditions and of the needs of the church. Renewal in the Context of Max Weber's Routinization With such an impetus given by the council, one could have noticed certain initiatives taken by various communities. Many congregations set up commissions to study their roots, going into the history of their founding inspirations. General chapters made it their chief objective to redraft their respective rules and con- Novonber-Dece~nber 1998 Abeyasingba * The Decline in Religious Vocations stitutions according to the mind and spirit of the documents of the Second Vatican Council. That the various congregations made a sincere effort to adjust themselves to the changed conditions of the times cannot be denied. In the renewed constitutions one could notice that provision was made for individual initiatives. Furthermore, units of the congregation in various countries were given the freedom to adapt and change according to their par-ticular situation. These were praiseworthy changes indeed, which by and large were done after a general consultation of all the members. One could not help noticing, however, that the final outcome was worked out within a bureaucratic setup.which was hierarchical in its composition. Any new efforts were to be tried out within a certain organizational framework of the congregation. Furthermore, the starting point of such ventures was a position of economic security. This meant that the inSecurity, the uncertainty. the risk--very much a part of the life and experience of the fouflders when they first set out to answer the need of the hour!- was not there. Also~ the Vatican Council's guidelines for adjusting the com-munity to the changed conditions of the times were not followed fully. There was a general move towards a more simple lifestyle. Institutes made changes in their religious garb, in food customs, in their cloister regulations, and so forth. There was, however, no sign of a change of structures in keeping with what the founders had had during their lifetime. Changes took place only within confines that ensured that the boat would not be rocked too much. It had to be so, inasmuch as the process of roudnization was firmly entrenched. Adjusting to the changed co.n.ditions of the times (at the coun-cil's direction) was, then, not an easy task. In practical terms, con-gregations, in spite of all their goodwill and efforts to be relevant in the present day, found themselves up against a bureaucratic system incapable of providing room for the charismatic figures who might have renewed them by making the necessary paradigm shifts. By and large this could be attributed to the routinization of the charism that religious congregations underwent after the death of their founders. As a result, the religious-life renewal that the council proposed could not be realistically achieved. If the needs of people in the various areas had been met, there would have been no dearth of vocations in the religious congregation. In Review.for Religious other words, there is no need for advertising a product that is selling and is in demand in the market. Efficiency or Effectiveness ~Max Weber's sociological observations, when applied to a reli-gious institute, do indeed seem to throw some light on the reasons for the'almost universal decline in religious vocations. As long as a bureaucratic way of life governs religious congregations, they will almost always manifest a certain efficiency in whatever work they do. The work, however, ma3i not be effective, for such a system of administration does not always respond in a vigorously prophetic manner to the urgent and crying needs of the people. ' The history of the church shows that ~hange has often come from areas off the beaten track, where some indi-viduals had found a way for themselves. In modern religious cong.regations, organized in the way they are, it is almost impossible to accommodate such trailblazing elements. It can be noted historically that only the dark eras of history witness the emergence of new religious congregations. Critical times almost always bring about a breakdown of existing systems, but it is .in these chaotic and confusing situations that charismatic per-sonalities seem to apEear out of nowhere. The late Mother Teresa's Missionaries of:Charity were such a response to a chaotic situation in one of the most populated and crowded' cities in the-world, Calcutta. Her prophetic voice of compassion and kindness to the poorest of the poor cut through such barriers as caste, religion, and class. Her living witness and work proclaimed to all people the dignity of each and every per-son, which a world had lost sight of in its quest for power and wealth. Her response had a universal and global character. Her message is clear, something that religious congregations could ponder as they rethink their charisms while they and the world step into the 21 st century. The decline in religious vocations is not an entirely negative thing. A search through the crisis will make us see the reasons It is in chaotic and confusing situations that charismatic personalities seem to appear out of nowhere. L5"_S.5"__ Noventber-December 1998 Abeyasingba ¯ The Decline in Religious Vocations why such a situation has come to pass. Instead of looking at pres-ent- day confusion with tunnel vision, one should see it in.a global perspective and as a precursor of growth. Mother Teresa's e~tam-pie could help towards such a rethinking. So also could the obser-vations made by Max Weber. They can facilitate taking stock and analyzing the present situation of religious congregations. From thls starting point religious congregations could proceed to make the drawbacks and weaknesses that are found in current struc-tures irrelevant. They could make themselves ready to face the challenges of tomorrow. Weber's.Ansights, by helping us learn the truth about ourselves, can ready us to proceed to generatiye and creative actions. They can challenge us to do some honest and humble soul searching about our present situation, In St. Paul's words (2 Co 12:10), "When I am weak, then Iam strong." Notes l Max Weber, The Theory of Social and Economic Organizqtion, trans. A.R. Henderson and Talcott Parsons (U.K.: William Hodge~ and Company, 1947), p. 334. :2 Weber, Theory, p. 337. 3 "Routinization" is Max Weber's term for the phenomenon of an original idea (here, that of the charismatic leader) becoming organized a~d conceptualized in the course of time. This is the result~of the interpret-ing, analyzing,, rationalizing, and so forth that take place when congre-gations study the writings of their founders, the accounts, of' their immediate companions and a.ssociates, the recollections of others Eho knew them, and so forth. 4 In their initial insight, almost all charismatic leaders are anti-eco~ nomic; they set t~p almost no economic system for collecting or raising funds. It is the personali.ty of the leaders that attracts others~' td them and also brings in donations and gifts. The aim of charism~itic le'aders is to achieve a special goal (filling a need of the society at that time, usually serving the poor), not to meet their own day-to-day needs. SWeber, Theory, p. 337. 6 The original basis of recruitment was the founders' personal charism. A .charism is something that can only be ;'awakened" and ".tested," not something that can be taught and learned. Novitiates arid houses of for° marion, however, tend to assume a teaching stance. See W~eber, Theory, pp. 337-338. 7 Weber, Theory, p. 342. s When religious congregations spread beyond their original geo-~ graphical area and the routinization process had been set in motion, there was no preventing a bureaucratic organization. Review for Religious o Lewis A. Coser, Masters of Sociological Thought: Ideas in Historical and Social Context (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971), pp. 230- 231. 10 Reinhard Bendix, Max Weber, An Intellectual Portrait (Garden City, N Y.: Doubleday, 1960), p. 421. ~ Bendix, pp. 421-422. 12 Coser, Masters, pp. 231-232. ,3 Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of the Religious Life (Perfectae caritatis), §2. the departed say we are not dead see ohr faces hear ohr voices when you leadt expect like neighbors visitihg unhnnounced we are'some~lace ~ withih view within earshot like others in your house but we are, at liberty to come and go without weight.or circumscription like winds in harp strings like real answers to your real questions Avis Kunca Kubick Novetttber-Decetttber 1998 JOHN BLAKE MORE Spiritual Maturity ife.in the spirit Reading my first Thomas Merton book back in my early twenties, I came across the phrase "spiritual maturity," an expression that delighted and fascinated me even though I had no clue of what it was designed to express. I won-dered about it for several months and even reflected on its possible meaning, but then it receded into the less acces-sible regions of my consciousness and enjoyed untroubled slumber for some time. But not forever. Over the years, as I have become more life-mature and more di'scernibly chronologically mature, the phrase "spiritual matur!ty" has--through reading, conversation, and simple observa-tion- returned to my sight and consciousness many times, to haunt me but also to stimulate me to explore further its possible meanings and its probable connections to every-day life. What would.a spiritually mature person look like or act like? Am I a spiritually mature person? Is it possi-ble for me to become one? Do I know any spiritually mature persons? All this questioning and thinking over the years has led me to formulate tentatively some answers, some ideas that I think have helped me and that I want to share with others. Some of these ideas are derivative: I got them from other folks. Others are either original or synthetic, fash-ioned from items found in reading and conversation and from observing the behavior and attitudes of people I meet. John Blake More, new to our pages, writes from Tejtn 34 - Sm. 20; Cancfin Quintana Roo; 77500 Mexico. Review for Religious A spiritually mature person is probably creative. At least one religious tradition holds that we are made in the image and like-ness of God, and, if we ask ourselves in what this image and like-ness really consist, we naturally come up with the notion that we are like God because we are creative as he is creative. We are ere- ~tive because God made us that way. He made us free and there-fore creative. As humans we show our creativity in at least three 'important spheres (and here I follow Paul Ricoeur): having, power, and valuing. Having. In the exercise of creativity all people, even the spir-itually mature, need to have some material.goods for their own use. Maybe a little, maybe a lot. But the major religious tradi-tions and the spiritual values they represent do not seem to place much importance on the acquisition of wealth, do they? In fact, they see great riches as a disvalue. So spiritually mature persons are not much concerned with acquiring wealth and possessions beyond what they need to get along decently in life. On the other hand, people who have lots of possessions have greater opportu-nities to be creative. They can create new jobs for others, build libraries ~nd museums, or Simply give some of their excess money to .people who need it to survive. In itself; possessing wealth really seems to be spiritually neutral. If one sees possession as steward-ship, it can be something positive. If, however, people believe they are the outright owners without considering that God has entrusted them with these possessions and that they must appor-tion them responsibly, then they are probably not much con-cerned with growth in the Spirit. ~ 0 Power. Spiritually mature persons are probably aware of their own need for power, but are also conscious that everyone else has the same need. We need, in the first place, power over ourselves: self-determination to decide where to live or work, who our friends and associates will be, what kind of lifestyle we will adopt or develop for ourselves. We also need to be able to exercise power over others, but this must be legitimate power, the kind of power society assigns to us and expects us to exercise intelli-gently for the cbmmon good. We have to make choices for, our children. We have to determine the ~activities of our employees if we have any. But, in these activities and others like them, if we allow strength and power to become force and coercion, we can be pretty sure we are not much interested in becoming spiritually mature. We are dismayed when we read of dictatorial aggression, November-December 1998 More ¯ Spiritual Maturity ruthless kidnappings, tribal wars, but force and coercion can occur in little things of daily life and they can have the appearance of being extremely civilized and in the best of taste. :Valuing. In the sphere of valuing, we show our creativity by making determinations about the relative worth of things and activities. Nowadays it is out of fashion to be what people call "judgmental" "because, if you tell p6ople they are doing some-thing wrong, like putting a round peg into a square hole, the~ may feel threatened or embarrassed, feelings which may be owing to a kind of paranoia rather than to comments one may offer con-structively. Spiritually mature persons seldom if ever "condemn," but th.ey must in certain situations be judgmental.Th'at is why ¯ we':haSte crii:ical faculties: to make decisions about what is worthy and what is not, to be ab!e.to distinguish between the junk and the good stuff. And that is what prophecy is all about: shouting from the housetops when you see injustice and abuse.The spiritually mature person, then, distinguishes between healthy and modest criticism done in a spirit of love, and foolish or malicious remarks made in some other spirit. We must evaluate or criticize our cul-ture, our government, our friendships, and of course ourselves. While smiling permissiveness is no virtue, it is also true that unwavering tolerance and spiritual maturity have .always been on the closest terms. One good sign of spiritual growth is a weakening of our most cherished prejudices. When we hate, fear, or feel threatened by another person simply because he is different from us, then we are failing to appreciate the image and likeness of God in that person. These are three general areas that merit consideration as we ponder the nature of spiritual maturity, but other things, too, should be looked at. Frie.ndship is of great importance in the spir-itual life. All the grea( figures of the .important religious tradi-tions, those who had the ,primal mystical experience that gave .rise to those traditions, had friendships with other people. They loved their friends dearly and openly. We, too, are right to treat, our friends lovingly, with tenderness. We look forward to seeing them and spending time with them. We talk with them about'our desires and aspirations, and we confide to them our fears and failures. We inspire them and corisole them.Sometimes we revive ~them when their spirits droop. ,Some people who are mature in the spirit experience some' difficulty in maintaining, friendships for reasons of transport, distance, or schedule, but such difficulties are ! Review for Relig4ous not insurmountable. People can ha-be a firm and meaningful frien'dghip by correspondence. Sure, by mail. Why not? If you know someone whose values and outlook are compatible with yours, you can have an ongoing correspondence with him or her that will be significant for both your live~, and also enriching. You do not have to write anything world-shaking or mind-bog-gling. Writing takes a little more time and effort than a face-to-face chat, and it does not offer the same consolations and pleasures as real face-to-face togetherness, but it is still something of great worth. Growth in the spirit is closely connected to skill in the ~ine art of listening. When I told a friend that some-one had said I was a good conversationalist, he answered that what she really meant was that I am a good listener. I wonder how right he was.'The plain fact, though, i~ that people do like to be listened to, and the spiritually mature person is a master at listening lovingly, corn-" passionately, but also selectively. By this I do not mean the kind of selective listening that'~ filters all I hear through my own ego supports in order to register only those things that satisfy or interest me. Although an interchange between friends may involve a recounting of events or a descrip-tion of facts, when I listen to a friend I am not trying to acquire factual information. I am trying to get a sense of his or her state of mind and soul. This is not always easy, in view of personality differences and of people's varying ability to articulate their inner dispositions. But~ When we listen, we need to care mostly about the person we are listening to. Spiritually mature persons have a delightful sense of child-like wonder that makes everything new. Sophisticated people who have seen it all and done it all, or just do not want to get involved, area lov less fun to be with than men and women who have a deep spiritual sense of wonder. Wonder leads to openness and surprise, contentment and faithfulness, curiosity and enthusiasm. It also brings an appreciation of the uniqueness of each person along with a sense of brotherhood and equality. " Surprising as it may seem, spiritually mature people are hardly ever highly disciplined people. This is because they are loving persons. They do everything that has to be done, they do it at the appointed time, and they 'do it right--not because they have discipline, but because they have love. They are.motivated to read Friendship is of great importance in the spiritual life. November-December 1998 More ¯ SpiritualMaturity Surprising as it may seem, spiritually mature people are hardly ever highly disciplined people. books and wash floors and get to work on time because they live out Augustine's dictum "Love and do as you please." A sullen-faced p4rson probably has too much discipline and too little love. When the persons I am talking about look out at the world, they-see a lot of ambiguity and they embrace it heartily as a major component of human life. If the Creator is good, why does he allow us to suffer so much? Why should I help the poor if poverty is not eradicable? This kind of ambiguity is embraced and accepted by mature .persons of all spiritual tradi-tions, and in the case of Christian spir-ituality there is the model of the ambiguity of the cross. Why should I forgive these people if they are killing me? Why should I ask my Father for help if he has abandoned me? And, putting the two questions together, why should I ask my Father to forgive these people who are killing me if my Father has already abandoned me? For the spiritually mature these are actually non.questions, even as they represent realities that have to be faced. Not because maturity pro-duces historical or social blindness, but because serious consider-ation of such issues leads to acceptance of reality. Such questions, when formulated as questions, are not answerable. And even here ~here is a further ambiguity: how can I accept the reality of drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, rampant poverty and ignorance, and on and on, and still work to change all these social ills, to provide some alleviation to all the suffering they cause? Does "That's the way the world is" mean "why try to change it!"? Language use, too, has to be considered in connection,with spiritual maturity. As little children we learn to use language as an instrument to further our own designs and to get others to behave in ways that promote our own interests. If we learn this skill well as children and then refine it as adults, we become wonderful manipulators or even politicians, and this is why. spiritually mature people hardly ever go into politics. They lack skill in using lan-guage instrumentally. They say what they mean and they mean what they say. They use language to inform or to persuade, but never to.manipulate. Modern societies view independence as a positive andhighly desirable virtue. Mos't parents say they want their children to Review for Religious become independent. We admire the "independent spirit." Actually, such independence is a fiction and a most undesirable one. In reality, each of us is highly dependent on at least a few other humans, and we should be. Living in human society means being interdependent: I depend on you and you depend on me. This is an important ingredient in the cement that holds human society together and promotes the development of culture. Instead of~insisting on their independence, spiritually mature persons consider themselves autonomous--which suggests the ability to live and act in freedom from outside control, coercion, or manip-ulation. That is different from independence because in my free-dom I acknowledge that I depend--sometimes radically--on others, and they on me. In our day most of us are aware (sometimes painfully aware) that the subject matter of life (the real business of human exis-tence) is change and that, in the best case, change takes the form of transformation of the person into an ever more human creature. Being human is a good thing and does not mean, as the cynic 'believes, unremitting egotism and venality. Before he started feel-ing hi.s oats, Adam was so perfect that he had conversations with God as they walked "in the cool. of the day." Being human should mean changing arid becoming perfect, as our Father is perfect. Since most of us consider such perfection an unrealizable ideal, persons who think about becoming spiritually mature prob-ably have a set of unattainable goals that they take quite seriously and adhere to assiduously. They have probably formulated a set of precepts which relate to these goals and which articulate their creatureliness and humanness during their inner conversations with themselves and with' the Spirit of God. In my own thinking about becoming mature in the Spirit, I have come up tentatively with three precepts that reflect my own human creatureliness, but are also ordered toward my capacity to become a "partaker of the divine naturE." I use them to talk to myself. Let me offer them here. Deepen your understanding of reality. Try to get a good grasp of reality by asking the ~right questions. The right questions always have three distinguishing characteristics: they.are unanswerable, they always lead to other and better questions, and they almost always begin with why. Acquiring knowledge requires study and learning from good teachers and good books, along with the will-ingness to undergo the suffering involved in replacing stale beliefs November-December 1998 More ¯ Spiritual Maturity with new data. It also dem'ands increasing connectedness to the culture in which I live and awareness of how life is lived in other cultures. What I should be looking for are meaning and connec-tion: the ultimate unity of all being and its essential oneness with the Absolute. ' Refine your tastes. Begin by distinguishing the merely attractive or pretty from the truly beautiful. If you were brought up on rock music, Mozart probably leaves you cold. Praxiteles probably has little to say to you if you think Schwarzenegger and Stallone are beautiful, Biat we should perhaps not consider ourselves less wor~ thy humans if we are drawn.to the merely attractive or pretty. ' This happens in the best of families, doesn't it? As young peo-ple, when we are most curious about the world and our place in it, we are bombarded with sounds and images and esthetic val-ues from the popular culture. Butwe eventually grow out of that; we ~"put away the things of a child," as St. Paul says. Evil is, of course, the ultimate ugliness, and our involvement in it dimin-ishes our humanity and tarnishes the image of God in us. ~ Formalize your ethics. Here we make a distinction between for-mal and material moral norms. Material norms deal with specific actions and decisions such as killing, steal!ng, and lying (not rec-ommended); and with praying, respecting authority, and being faithful (highly approved and even urged). There is only one norm for those who follow the way of formal ethics: Always seek the good and avoid what is evil. This norm is assimilated and interi-orized by spiritually mature persons to the ext~nt that it becomes part of their nature. In all their decisions and actions, attitudes and dispositions, they keep both eyes on the truly good: good for themselves, their family, their society, their nation, their 151anet: The more this single norm gets imprinted on their souls, the less they have to run through a mental checklist of material norms (do's and don'ts) to see what is prohibited and what is approved. "Seek what is good and avoid what is evil." 'Finally, spiritually mature persons are surely happy persons who radiate to o~hers their joy at living in this world with other people and at spending periods of time in prayerful silence com-muning with the Absolute. Their joy is increased by the knowl-edge that whatever spiritual maturity they may have attained is in fact a free gift from a loving and gracious God. Review for Religious DENNIS J. BILLY A "Spiritdal Turn" for Catholic Moral Theology MGY first encounter with Bernard H~iring,'ithe renowned erman Redemptorist who wrote such significant w. orks as The Law of Christ (1954)~and Free and Faithful in Christ (1978- 1981) and whom many have hailed as the father of contemporary Catholic moral theology, came during a' congress of Redemptorist moral theblogians held at Aylmer; Quebec~ 26-30June 1989. Or/ the second day of the congress,, after he had given an insightful presentation to the general assembly on the state of moral theol-ogy since Vatican Council II, I found myself sitting next to him at lunch as hemused out loud in his weak, barely audible voice (from his long and difficult battle with throat cancer) on the future of moral,theological reflection within the Catholic tradition. Then, as now, a single thought stood out from all the rest: "We have lost sight of the Holy Spirit. In the future, moral theology must give more emphasis to the role of the Spirit. Otherwise, all is lost." Hiiring was so insistent on ~his point that he stated it out-right .at a later session in a rare personal intervention from the floor, For more than eight years, I hav~ been p~ndering the mean-ing of these quiet, unassuming words perhaps in ways which he himself might not have accepted. Retrieving the Spirit Given the vast varieties of pseudo-mysticism in the history of Christianity and the great facility with which the name of the Dennis J. Billy CSSR, a frequent contributor, writes again from Rome, where his address is Accademia Alfonsiana; C.P. 2458; 00100 Roma, Italy. November-December 1998 Billy * A "Spiritual Turn" for Catholic Moral Theology Spirit can be and has been invoked as a way of avoiding critical moral reflection, it is easy to understand how, quite early on, within orthodox circles a latent (and sometimes overt) suspicion grew of anything that even vaguely resembled a charismatic ren-dering of truth by a small "Spirit-filled" elite. To a large extent the church's magisterial structure (that is, its emphasis on apostolic succession and the role of tradition) took shape as a result of its struggle against the esoteric (and sometimes laxist) tendencies of Gnostic mysticism, on theone hand, and the rigorist tenets of Montanist spiritualism, on the other (to name two of the more prominent examples). Historians point to the church's institu-tionalization of the Spirit in the office of the episcopacy and its subsequent control of the sacramental life of the Christian faith-ful as the predominant means by which, down through the cen-turies, it has safeguarded itself from similar threats. One of the unfortunate by-products of this process of insti-tutionalization was the gradual marginalization of the Spirit from the inner workings of Catholic theological reflection. As the mag-isterium became more and more centralized, it consolidated its hold over what it considered the "authentic" utterings of the Spirit and helped to create an atmosphere in which theologians were constrained to pursue their goals within increasingly limited notions of rationality. The gradual shift in Western hermeneuti-cal thought from allegory to syllogism to induction gives evi-dence to this effect, as does the roughly parallel movement in rational theory from analogy to univocity to equivocation. By most counts, this momentous restructuring of the rational pro-cesses of Western thought was as much a function of rising mag-isterial control of the sacred as of an ever changing philosophical terrain (as witnessed in the successive preeminence of Neoplatonic, Aristotelian, and Nominalist thought patterns). Localizing spiritual authority in ecclesiastical institutions, in other words, had the unforeseen .effect of gradually .disassociating ratio-nal discourse from its roots in the intuitive dimension of human existence, that side of human nature most likely to sustain a close experiential rapport with the Spirit. To speak in broad historical terms, the "despiritualization" of human reason had barely begun in the patristic and monastic traditions of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (when the centralization of ecclesiastical power was hardly underway in Rome), had made recognizable progress during the early Scholastic period (near the time of the Gregorian Review for Religious Reform and the Investiture crisis), was in full swing with the rise of Nominalism in the early 14th century (not long after Boniface VIII's proclamation of Unam sanctam in 1302), and had reached its highest stage of development during the Age of the Enlightenment (just before Vatican Council I's proclamation of papal infallibility). Putting aside the more difficult task of discerning which histor-ical progression was influenced by which, and recognizing the probability of a circular relationship between the two (as well as the likely involvement of other discernible historical factors), one cannot help wondering if the present-day postmodern disillu-sionment with human reason--itself a reaction against the failed hopes of Reason's .coming of age--will herald an attempt to retrieve reason's lost association with the spiritual. If so, one would also have to wonder if the present tendency in the governing structures of Roman Catholicism toward increased centralization is nothing more than a momentary stay in a larger process of decentralization, the forces of which were at work long before the opening of Vatican II and will probably continue. An Anthropological Turn t Such a retrieval or "reinvestment" of reason's ties with "things spiritual" must proceed from the ins'~ghts of a sound Christian anthropology. In the present circumstances, the Pauline body/soul/spirit arrangement as formulated in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 proves especially helpful: "May the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your ~spirit and soul and' body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." Here Paul provides an anthropology that construes the human person as a union of three distinct (albeit intimately related) ele-ments: body (soma), soul (psyche), and spirit (pneuma). These ele-ments exist together in the human person and cannot be isolated one from another (as if a human body can be separated from the soul and spirit and still be examined intact). So closely are they related, in fact, that one cannot speak of spirit outside the context of soul and body, and vice versa. Since Paul proposes these anthro-pological terms while addressing the community of believers in the church at Thessalonica, care must be taken not to isolate his understanding of human existence from either its inherent social context or the life of faith. Account must also be taken of the fact that, although he insists on their intimate union in the human m Noventber-Decentber 1998 Billy * A "Spiritual Turn" for Catholic Moral Theology person, he actually says precious little about how body, soul, and spirit relate to one another in the concrete circumstances of daily living. Given these significant contextual details (or lack thereof), the following claims appear generally continuous with the main lines of Paul's anthropological vision and offer correctives to pres-ent- day exaggerated emphasis on the rational. (1) In addition to body and soul, a person can also experience his or her spirit. ,(2) A retrieval or "'reinvestment " of reason's ties with "things spiritual" must proceed from the insights of a sound Christian anthropo!ogy. The mutual relationship between body. and soul suggests a similar rapport between soul and spirit. (3) The spirit touches ~he body through the medidtion of the soul.~(4) Generally speak-. ing, the Holy Spirit touches an individual by communicating its grace first to a person's spirit and then through the .spirit to the person.'s soul and body. (5) God and the human person can enjoy a close interpersonal rapport by.virtue of their communing spirits. (6)People relate to one another on the level of body. soul, and spirit. (7) The Spirit unites the Body of Christ, the church, not only theologically (that is, to God), but also anthropologically (that is, among its members). (8) It does so primarily on the .level of human spirit and only secondarily on the other dimensions of human existence. Elicited from the Paulin4 anthropology of 1 Thessaloni~ns 5:23, these anthropological claims provide the parameters by which a discussion abo,ut reason's "spiritual renewal" may pro-deed. Key to this discussion is the need for all theologians (and moral theologians in particular) to recognize the competence (and the limits) of reason's rule. Just as reason extends to the body through its ordering of the passions (and is thereby "enfleshed"), so the spirit extends to the soul (the seat of the rational faculty) by means of its quiet in.tuiting presence. Clearly, both movements have moral significance that must be taken into account for the future of moral theology. The Criteria of Reason's Spiritual Rebirth What,might such limits be? Without exhausting the possi-bilities, the following list provides some guidelines for discerning Review for Religious the genuine ways in which reason and spirit mutually influence one another. 1. An anthropological relationship of circularity exists between spirit and reason; that is, the insights of one complement the scope and competence of the other in such a way that, when taken together, their interaction generates a field of understanding unique to themselves and which neither would be fully capable of penetrating on its own. Spirit .brings intuition and moments of keen insight to the movement of discursive thought; reason artic-ulates through language something of the inexpressible utterings of the human spirit. Authentic theological reflection taps into this relationship of circularity and allows it to open up for each succeeding generation the meaning of the symbols of the Christian faith, ~. 2. The spirit influences the mind through prayer, and vice versa. When a person.'s spirit communes with God's Spirit, there is a natural reverberation (however slight) in the other, anthro-pological dimensions of human existence. This subtle influence, which will become a veritable overflowing (redundantia) in the beatific vision, strengthens the transcendent orientation of an individual's rational operation. A "spiritua!" person tends to Con-centrate on holy things and seeks to view all things with th'e mind of God. The person?s prayer (contemplative prayer in particular) plays a transforming rather than merely ancillary role in reason's spiritual homecoming, 3. The human spirit is not "irrational," but "supranational." It does not ask reason to go against its own internal principles, but seeks continually to broaden reason's, scope by providing intu-itions that challenge previously unquestioned (and possibly falla-cious) arguments. When reason is in tune with wholesome human spirit (and even more so whefiit is in touch with God's Spirit), it is. constantly prompted to reach beyond itself and to stretch the boundaries within which it normally functions. This extended x~ange is a welcome corrective to that narrowing univocity which nowadays often masquerades as the sole legitimate face of ratio-nal inquiry. ~ 4. Theologians who reintegrate spirit and reason demonstrate a guarded yet profound respect for church authority. The gradual marginalization of spirit from the center of theological reflec-tion, which came at least in part as a result of magisterial cen-tralization and control of the sacred, does not mean that a November-December 1998 Billy ¯ A~'Spiritual Turn"for Catholic Moral TheoloKF .--7- 600 "respiritualized" reason will ignore or, worse, openly disdain the valuable hermeneutical role the magisterium has played in the history of the Catholic tradition. On the contrary, a reintegra-tion of spirit and reason should bring about an even closer work-ing relationship between theologians (in. their concern for reasoned clarity and the e.xploration of' the faith) and the magis-terium (in its concern for the preservation and purity of the faith). While neither will always agree with the other, a close working relationship between them will provide helpful correctives against the extremes of overrationalization and pseudo-mysticism that can all too often get in the way of and even obscure sound theo-logical reflection. 5. A closer working rapport between spirit anal reason will require a reintegrated understanding of the various theological disciplines, especially dogmatic, moral, and spiritual theology. The unfortunate breakup of theology in recent centuries into sep-arate and highly specialized disciplines can itself be understood as a symptom of reason's ongoing despir, itualization. A renewed or "respiritualized" understanding of reason will operate success-fully only in a context ~at seeks to preserve the unity of theology in the midst of its highly specialized and sometimes .seemingly disconnected parts. 6. Renewing reason's link with the spirit will also move a per-son's sense of vocation to the center of theological reflection. No longer will theology, be construed as something existing "in the abstract," as if proceeding outside the theologian's own personal and communal faith experience. Any presentation and consequent systematization of the symbols~of the faith will be valid only to the extent that it remains faithful to and. authentically expresses the deepest sense of a,person's call in life before God through the church and in the world. One's reflection on God, in other words. must tak~ place in the context of one's sense of self in the presence of God and the community of believers. 7. The reason/spirit relationship sheds greater ligh~ on the importance of there being a continuity between theologians' pro-fessional work and their moral behavior. Sound theological reflec-tion stems from a stable interplay between spirit and reason. It reflects the contours of individuals' calls from God in this life and reaches its fullest expression when it is enfleshed in the con-crete circumstance~ of their daily existence. This cannot happen, however, if reason is deprived of all access to the nourishing roots Review for Religious of the spirit, where the human person communes with the Spirit of God through a grace that is freely given and freely received. Sound theological reflection challenges the theologian to int~- grate reason and spirit, theological discourse and personal sanc-tity. The church needs theologians who want to be saints, who admit this desire without false humility, and who bring this desire to the forefront of their theological inquiry. 8. Finally, a reintegration of spirit and reason would sustain within theological reflection a healthy tension between "theol-ogy as science" and "theology as art." Reason's desire to ver-ify corfipl~ments the spirit's yearning for m3?stery, and vice versa. Together they provide useful correctives to the ten-dencies of overrationalization and exaggerated rhetoric, which lessen theology's scope by seekings to turn it into something it is not and should not be, Theology is more than science and mole than art, It Future moral,theological discussion will have to develop a greater sensitivity to the ethical content of humanity's symbolic xpressions. is science and.art, a rare "field-encompassing" discipline which touches all areas of human knowl-edge in its attempt to convey the meaning of the Christian faith to each successive generation.1 By preserving this tension, theo-logical reflection retains a ~.ay of expressing the faith ever anew yet always ina~cord with th~ church's theological tradition. New and creative insights emerge from the tradition precisely in this way, .thereby allowing it to expand its theologic.al horizons and to move 'forward. Implications for Moral Theology The above criteria represent just some of the ways in which a deeper understanding of the relationship between spirit and reason would change ~he way in which theology itself is conceived and carried out. As one might expect, they have very concrete implications for the future of moral theology. 1. Moral theology would be challenged to break out of its hylomorphic rendering of the human (that is, moral) act that has "get the parameters for serious discussion within the Catholic tra- Noventber-December 1998 Billy ¯ A "Spiritual Turn" for Catholic Moral TbeoloKF ~dition since the time of Aquinas. A human action is more than just an expre~ssion of body (as the object of the external action) and mind (as the internal movement of deliberated will). Greater sen-sitivity mu~t be given in futur, e moral-theological reflection to the influence which a person's spirit brings to moral action. A good place to begin would be to apply the insights of Aquir~as's teaching on grace (which, intere~stingly, he considers under the New Law at the end of his treatment of the fundamental princi-ples of morality, that is, Summa tbeologiae, I-lI, qq. 109-114, to the Pauline rendering of 'human anthropology as body (soma), soul (psyche), and spirit (pneuma). 2. Eor ~this to occur, a shift must take place in the under-standing of the nature and role of rationality in current moral-the-ologiEal reflection. In its attempt in recent years to model itself after the empirical and social sciences, theology in general (and moral theology in particular) has adopted a univocal understand-ing of rational inquiry that prevents a balanced interplay of rea-son and spirit from entering into the legitimate bounds of serious theological refledtion. The result has been an unfortunate nar-rowing (some would say "impoverishment") of theology's rightful scope. The current deadlock in the deontologist/proportionalist discussion is but one symptom of this reductive theological under-taking. 3. Since the spirit expresses itself more .through images than in the "clear and distinct" ideas of rational discoul:se, future moral~ theological discussion will have to .develop a greater, sensitivity to the ethical content of humanity's symbolic expressions. To modify Aristotle's definition: Man is not just a rational but also:a symbolic animal. In developing this sensitivity, moral theology will draw closer to the arts than ever before (at least within recent memory) and begin to effect a transformation of the genres and literary style in which it expresses itself. It will also spark a renewed interest in the ethical Content of the images and sym-bols found in the Scriptures and the church's liturgy. 4. Future moral-theological discussion will develop close ties with the three levels of Christian spirituality: (1) the experien-tial, (2) the sapiential, and (3) the analytical.2 Ethical kngwledge will be understood as something to be-garnered from the whole of human experience (that is, throughout the body/soul/spirit continuum) with special emphasis given to the social .aspects of human moral-spiritu.a! discourse and to the role of prayer and~ Review for Relig4ous discernment in moral decision making. This heightened awareness Of the spiritual aspects of its theological heritage will give moral theology a deeper awareness of its own most distinctive traits and enable it to make serious contributions in discussions with other ethical traditions. 5. Given its decision to approach moral knowledge through a reintegrated understanding of the rapport between spirit and rea-son, Catholic moral theology would do best to enter into future dialogue with other ethical traditions--be they philosophical or theological--not by seeking a least common methodological denominator (usually fully acceptable to neither side), but by maintaining without compromise its position on the close anthro-pological (and hence ethical) connection between human reason and human spirit. It is precisely on this level that an answer to the question of the existence of an autonomous Christian ethics will be found. An I~tegral U, nity, a Spiritual Turn" No longer can the Christian life be artificially divided into the way of the law and the way of ~erfection. Precept and coun-sel, .commandment and beatitude, virtue and gift are,all bound together in an integral, inseparable unity. If moral theology is to give more emphasis to the role of the Holy Spirit (as H~iring sug-gests), it must first retrieve' its lost ti~ with the inner movements of the human spirit--the place within the person where the divine and human meet. Only by including th~s neglected anthropolog-ical dimension in moral-theo!ogical reflection will the human perspective of those concerned be broad enough to allow foFa proper discerfiment of the divine. The future orientation of Catholic moral theology will depend to a large degree on how its spokesmen, both magisterial and pro-fessorial, construe (or perhaps "reconstrue") the relationship between rationality and spirituality. Reintegrating these key aspects of the tradition would have two important theological and institutional effects. On the one hand, moral decision making would evidence a notable swing toward prayer and spiritual dis-cernment in helping to solve the dilemmas of conscience that arise among the faithful. This marked "spiritual turn" would move Catholic moral theology away from its present fascination with the problem-solving machinations of quandary ethics to a relational November~December 1998 Billy ¯ A "Spiritual'Turn"for Catholic Moral Theology paradigm rooted in the divine-human encounter. Bishops and theologians, on the other hand. would move away from their all too often adversarial positions to a more collaborative, mutually supportive stance. The changed dynamics would show the impor-tance of rooting moral-theological reflection in the fullness of human experience (that is, body, soul, and spirit) while at the same time highlighting the complementary ways in which the magis-terium and church theologians elucidate the tradition. What is the future of moral theology? The answer to this question is as elusive as time itself. For the moment, let it simply be said that, while the moral theology of the~future will invariably include many things, it cannot afford to exclude or marginalize "the life of the Spirit." In the present context the latter phrase refers to rational theological reflection rooted in a profound awareness of the human spirit as it opens itself up to God's Spirit and allows the word of God to take shape and utter itself, however softly, within the cor~fines of the limited words and deeds by which ¯ we construct our human exp, erience. Such a word, however spo-ken, would resonate with authority and not return in vain. Notes t The notion of a "field-encompassing" discipline comes from Van A. Harvey, The Historian and the Believer: The Morality° of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief(Philadelphia: Westminister Press, 1966), pp. 81-82. A similar application to spirituality appears in Sandra M. Schneiders, "Spirituality in the Academy," Theological Studies 50 (1989): 692. 2 These levels of spirituality are developed under a slightly different nomenclature in Walter H. Principe, "Toward Defining Spirituality," Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses 12 (1983): 135-136. See also The New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality, ed. Michael Downey (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1993), s.v. "Spirituality, Christian,", by Walter H. Principe. Review for Religious REGIS J. ARMSTRONG Consecrated Life: Anointed with Joy A passage once "noted with pleasure" by the New York Times Book Review was one by Albert Camus, whose writings express a strong current ofthe, pessimism in EuroPe in the wake of.World War II. It contains these words: "One of the temptations of the artist is to believe himself solitary. But this is not true. He stands in the midst of all, in the same rank,' neither highe~ nor lower, with all those who are working and struggling. His very vocation is. to give a voice to the sorrows and the joys of all."~ . Artists whose vocation is "to give a voice to the sor-rows and joys of all"--this could well be a description of consecrated persons standing with "all those who are working and struggling." It is a description of people called to identify deeply with the mission of Jesus, who came among us and stood in. the midst of all,,.giving voice to their sorrows and joys. How does one assume the stance of "artist" of some-thing so elusive, inexpressible, paradoxical, and fragile? To become such an artist demands entering into the pathos of life and experiencing compassion deeply, that is, as com-passio, suffering or feeling deeply with another. How does one give voice to joy at all? "Silence is the perfectest her-ald of joy," Shakespeare's Claudio says wisely in Much Ado Regis J. Armstrong OFMCap presented this paper (here some-what revised) at the annual conference of vicars of religious held in San Antonio in March 1998. His address is St. Fidelis Friary; 7790 Country Road 153; Interlake6, New York 14847. consecrated life November-Decentber 1998 Armstrong * Consecrated Life About Nothing.2 Joy, thenl is perhaps best ex~pressed transparently, whether one's focus on so paradoxically universal and personal a subject be psychological, sociological, cultural, philosophical, the- 916gical, spiritual, or liturgical. Perspectives From a biblical perspective'~ joy is an incredibly rich theme. In the Old Testament, profound joy is the chosen people's response to Yahweh's redemptive presence or, in the lager tradition, to Yahweh's ever present hesed or lovi'ng mercy. Various forms of the word joy appear in the Old Testament well over a hundred times, giving an inkling or anticipation of the New Testament, of Mary's proclamation of joy in "God my Savior'; and Paul's dramatic exhortation to the Philippians "Rejoice in the Lord always." Over and over agaifi Luke colors his Gospel and Acts with joy:'"To the poor he proclaimed the good news of salvation . and to those in sorrow, joy." If Yahweh is the supreme joy and the greatest delight for the pegple of the Old Testament, the self-giving of God in Christ provides those of the New Testament an essential quality of life, joy. The Holy One of Israel is now incarnate in the person of Jesus: the unfathomable, ineffable joy at the heart of God is now tangible. The Dictionnaire de Spiritualit~ Asc~tique et Mystique offers a variety of perspectives from which to reflect on joy. In its entry on joie, the reader can find, in addition to biblical considerations, summaries of the different theologies.3 There are considerations ' of people such as the early theological giants Origen .and Augustine, the. medieval mystics Bernard of Clairvaux and Francis of Assisi, and the much later doctors of the church Francis' de Sales and Thdr~se Of the Child' Jesus. Each of these writers, the author maintains, offers a different interpretation of the same reality. For Origen, knowledge of the gospel was a source of joy, a joy epitomized in the reaction of the aged Simeon when hd had the Infant in his arms.4 Augustine found joy in the Lord's ever-for-giving mercy, but saw its fullness in the eternal bliss of heaven;5 while Bernard repeatedly disEovered it in God's love.6 Francis of Assisi sang its praises in' hiE descrip.tioia of True Joy,7 and Francis de Sales urged his audienc~ to find joy by putting aside the plea-sures of this world and focusing on those of heaven,s Thdr~se wallowed in the joy of faith when her Beloved seemed most Review for Religious absent,9 From that vantage point alone, Franqois Bussini, author of the Dictionnaire's study, offers a variety of rich ways of study-ing joy, that is, through, the different traditions of,spirituality that provide insights into the meaning and gift of joy. ~' Gaudete in Domino Bussini might easily have added one significant name to his list of "theologians of joy": Paul VI, the author of the first papal doc-ument on the mystery of Christian joy, Gaudete in Domino, 9 May 1975., From his days as cardinal archbishop of Milan to the address of hi~ very last audience on 2 August 1967; four days before his death, joy was a leitmotif of his, a theme to which he continually returried. He offered an insight into the reason for this when he rhetorically asked the people of Milan:: "Have you ever met a saint? And, if you have, tell me: What is the characteristic you found in that soul?" His response to those questions suggests how closely he associated joy with~ the pursuit of happiness: "It will be joy [that you have found], a happiness so tranquil, so pro-found, so simple, but so true. And it is this transparency of joy that makes us declare: That is truly a good soul, because he has joy in his heart.''1° It is not surprising that as pope he took the opportunity to write a major statement on the Christian pursuit of joy. In addition to being an exhortation to pr~y for tile gift of joy, Gaudete in Domino expre~ssed in the mid- 1970s the pope's firm belief that peoples throughout the world desperately desired this "fragile and threatened" gift. ¯ Paul VI introduced his apostolic exhortatiori with a simple description of the need for joy in the contemporary ~orld (GD §1) and con'cluded with three others describing the cry of humanity, especially of the young, for the gift of joy. "We should be atten-tive to the appeal tliat rises from the hearts of humanity," Paul exhorts, "from the age of wondering childhood to serene old age, as a presentiment of the divine mystery" (GD §1). From this atten-tiveness or focusing on the joys of our hearts, Paul discovers an While never losing sight of the fact that joy is a ~timension of human life, Paul Vl found that the mystery of the Incarnate Word transformed its meaning. November-December 1998 Armstrong ¯ Consecrated Life energy and enthusiasm to share the reason for our joy with oth-ers. "In no way," he says, "can [joy] encourage the person ~vho enjoys it to have an attitudd of p.reoccupoation with self. [It] is the result of a human-divine communion, one that aspires to a com-munion ever more universal." In retrospect, Gaudete in Domino provided an insight into the call of Evangelii nuntiandi issued seven months later, which many. consider the Magna Carta of Paul VI'S papacy. There he dramatically exhorted all Christians, and espe-cially religious: "The privileged means of effective, evangeliza-tion" is to proclaim with joy "the joyful news of the fulfillment of the promises of the covenant offered by God" (EN §§69 and 6)~ At the core of the seven brief chapters of Gaudete in Domino, written in his elegant poetic style, Paul sketched the biblical foun. dations of both the Old and New Testaments and the enduring heritage bf Christian joy found in the lives of the saints. The pope may well have had Bussini's article before him,.-especially as he reflected on those saints who expressed joy in their lives and writ-ings. But it is striking how, in addition to Francis of Assisi and Th&~se of L!sieux, Paul draws special attention to the joy of the Conventual Franciscan Maximilian K01be, whom he had canon-ized a few years earlier: "His interior peace, serenity, and joy somehow transformed the place of suffering [Auschwitz]--which was usually like an image of hell--into the antechamber of eter-nal life, both for his unfortunate companions and for himself" (GD §4). While never losing sight of the fact that joy is a dimension of human life, Paul vI found that the,mystery of the,Incarnate Word transformed its meaning: Jesus himself knew, appreciated, and celebrated a whole range of human joys. More wonderfully, how-ever, Jesus revealed the s'ecret.of the unfathomable joy of.the "secret life of the Trinity," that is, the joy of living in God's l~ve (GD §3). "The ~ather is seen here," Paul teaches, "as the one who gives himself to the. Son, without reserve and without ceas-ing, in a burst of joyful generosity, and the Son is seen as he who gives himself in the same way to the Father, in a burst of joyful gratitude, in the Holy Spirit" (GD §3). The joy revealed by Jesus of Nazareth, then, "is the reverberation in human consciousness of the love that he has always known as God in the bosom of the Father" (GD §3). As the Incarnate Son of God, Jesus revealed a new, infinite dimension of joy, one that makes the human soul restless and ever eager to partake of its fullness. "In essence," Review for Religious t Paul e~iplains, "Christian joy is the spiritual sharing in the unfath-omable joy, both divine and human, which is in the heart of Jesus Christ glorified" (GD §2). But, more ~than reflecting on the rev-elatory dimension of Jesus' joy, the pope accentuates its paschal dimension as he underscores that by his death and resurrection Jesus poured the Spirit into the hearts of believers. "The Spirit, who proceeds from the Father and the Son and is their mutual love, is henceforth communicated to the people of the New Covenant and to each soul ready for his secret action. Together with him the human heart is inhabited by the Father and the Son" (GD §3). This, then, is experience of a joy that is truly spiritual, the fruit of the Spirit's presence and a characteristic of fill Christian virtue (see GD §3). Shortly before his death Paul VI shared with John Magee, his secretary, "the secret of my spirituality": .I have to recognize God the Father's action in his Son in my regard. Once I acknowledge that God can work in me through his Son, he gives me grace, the grace of baptism. After the grace of being reborn to God's life, my life becomes a tension of love with God drawing me to him-self. Always, in all of us, there is this tension betwe.en my mise-ria and God's misericordia. The whole spiritual life of every one of us lies between these two poles. If I open myself to the action of God and the Holy Spirit and4et them do with me what they will, then my tension becomes ioyous and feel within myself a great desire to come to him and receive his mercy; more than ever I recognize the need to be for-given, to receive the gift of rnercy,l~ This passage offers a m~arvelous insight~in,to'Paul's preoccupa-tion with the gift of Christian joy. That "tension of love" that stretched or expanded his entire life and made him continually aware of his sinfulness and the overwhelming love of God became joyous and made him ever more desirous to possess the joy of God's presence. Evangelica testificatio, Paul VI's apostolic exhortation on the renewal of the religious life, was significant in this regard. It expresses his conviction that the joy radiating from religious com-munities would be proof of the validity Of religious life. Joy, he maintained, would be "proof to everyone that the state of life which [religious] have chosen is h~lping [them] to realize the greatest possible expansion of [their] life in Christ." Moreover, November-Decentber 1998 Armstrong ¯ Consecrated Life it would be a magnet attracting the young to understand the appeal of Jesus, and be "the most effective invitation to embrace ttie religious life" (ET §55). Vita Consecrata Twen~ty-one years later John Paul II published his postsyn-odal apostolic exhortation Vita consecrata. Curiously, Vita conse-crata contains only scattered references to joy, fourteen in all. There are certainly echoes of Paul VI's Evangelica testificatio in phrases such as "the joyful witness [of consecrated life] to [God's] loving concern for every human being" (VC §16). Unlike Paul vI, however, John Paul II seems more concerned with the dwelling on the foundations of consecrated life. He only touches on the joy that the consecrated life brings through monasticism (VC §§6, 2.7), virginity (VC §7), and common life (VC §51), rather than off the dynamics of a spirituality of joy. Does .this mean that Vita con-secrata does not assist us in understanding consecrated life as being anointed with joy? No, but Michael Novak's observatior~ into the thought of John Paul II is apropos. The pope, Novak claims, is an artist at home in the world of the intellectual as well as in.that of the poet. To understand these dimensions of his thought, it is important to remember that he is a phenomenologist. "Simply put," Novak maintains, phenomenology is a sustained effort to bring back into phi-losophy everyday things, concrete wholes, the basic expe-riences of life as they come to us. It wishes to recapture ~those quotidian realities from the empiricists, on the one hand, who analyze them into sense data, impressions, chem-ical compositions, neural reactions, etc., and from the ide-alists, on the other hand, who break them 6p into ideal types, categories,and forms.12 -.To understand his thought, then, demands being attentive to both his language and the underpinnings of his thought. In addressing religious communities and consecrated persons "in the introduction to Vita consecrata, the pope writes of the "dif-ficult and trying period" .and of the "time of tension and struggle" in which they live. By referring to,Acts 15:31, he expresses his hope that consecrated women and men will receive the document as 'the Christians of Antioch did; by being joyful at the hope and encouragemen't which it gives. Immediate!y, however, he turns Review for Religious his attention to the entire people of'God and expresses his hope that the document will increase their joy as they become more aware of the consecrated life and, as a result, "thank almighty God for this great gift [of consecrated life]" (VC §13). Does this mention of consecrated life as a "great gift" provide a hint at the underpinnings of John Paul's understanding of what it means to be "anointed with joy"? Even a superficial reading of ¼"ta consecrata reveals John Paul's view of the consecrated life and the evangelical counsels as gifts. This perspective undoubtedly flows from his per-ception of Vatican II's emphasis on the profound reality of ecclesial communion, "in which all gifts ¯ converge for the building up of the Body of Christ and for the church's mission in the world" (VC §4). Seventy-three times he writes in Vita conse-crata of the gifts of consecrated life, of the evan-gelical counsels, of the radical gift of self for love, of the gifts of consecrated communities that com-plement one another, and so on. From John Paul's perspective, then, an awareness of the great gift of consecrated life, an awareness of being gifted; is a source of joy as well as a reason for thanksgiving". Thus Vita consecrata clearly offers an under-standing of conse, crated life that clearly supports seeing it as "anointed with j6y," for consecrated women and men have been gifted, have been sin-gled out as recipients of a special love tha~ brings joy. Fourteen times these gifts are specifically attributed to the Holy Spirit, a reminder that adds an extra note of joy~ Joy'flows from a conscious-ness of being loved--and thereby gifted. The joy of consecrated life flows from a consciousness of being '.'plunged into the fir~ of love which burns in them and which is none other than the Holy Spirit" (VC §26). It implies being gifted with an energy that pushes them beyond any joy this world offers. Like all joy, it leads to two things: a fuller.dove or union and a more profound eagerness or restlessness tha't this love be expressed and known. The joy of consecrated life demands, in the pope's words, that consecrated life "become one of the tangible seals which the Trinity impresses upon history, so that people can sense with longing the attrac-tion of divine beauty" (VC §20). From J~ohn Paul's perspective, then, an awareness of the great gift of consecrated life,. an awareness of being gifted, is a source of joy as well as a .reason for thanksgiving. Novetnber-Decen*ber 1998 Armstron~ ¯ Consecrated Life Were we to attempt a summary of John Paul's understanding of the consecrated life, we might choose this one sentence of Vita consecrata: "This special way of 'following Christ' expresses in a particularly vivid way the Trinitarian nature,of the Christian life and anticipates in a certain way that eschatological fulfillment toward which the whole church is tending" (VC § 14). Expressing those two dimensions of consecrated life--the Trinitarian and the eschatological--seems to form for John Paul lI the challenges of consecrated life and the foundations for joy. To live that conse-crated life as anointed with joy implies doing the same: reflecting in a joyful way the inner life of God in which we are caught up and, at the same time, expressing our restless pursuit 'of the full-ness of joy that will be achieved only in heaven. Our contempo- "rary struggles in rethinking the role of consecrated life in the mystery of-the church suggest two fundamental questions. First, have we plumbed the depth of the gift of the Holy Spirit that ¯ consecrated life is? And, second, have we developed a passion for the ~onsecrated life that makes it "a daring adventure of love" driving us to "that eschatological fulfillment toward which the whole church is .tending.''13 Answering those two difficult ques-tions has not been an easy enterprise. The answers seem to be as elusive as the full meaning of "anointed with joy." The Trinitarian Nature of Consecrated Life The contemporary sensitivity to inclusive language has under-scored a fundamental problem of contemporary Christian spiri-. ,tuality, namely, the failure to pay adequate attention to its Trinitarian underpinnings.14 If this is the case, focusing on the joy inherent in consecrated life through the prism of the gift of the Holy Spirit, which demands reflecting on the Trinity, might bor-dernot on being risky, but on being reckless. Language becomes a mjnefield not only because of images, for example, masculine and feminine, but also because of the elusive, transparent, incon-spicuous nature of the Spirit itself. Wind, power, light--these are some of the poetic images used to express its presence. Never pointing to itself, the Spirit cries,out "Abba!" and "Jesus is Lord!" While it is our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit pos-sesses us and catches up our unique spirits as its own. Following the teaching of Augustine, medieval theologians remark that within the mystery of.the triune God there is an Review for Religqous energy or quality expressed in two words: esse ad, "to be to" or "to be for" the other.~5 The phrase is undoubtedly another way of expressing that God is love, but it implies that that love means being present to or for another. Richard 6f St. Victor and the relation-oriented theology of the 12th century paved the way for Bonaventure, who identifies the Holy Spirit as the nexus or the bond joining the Father and the Son, the power of mutually being to or for the other. The Spirit is the love with which the Father loves the Son and the Son loves the Father. Therefore, the Spirit brings to both Father and Son the fruit of its presence, joy. It makes them esse adl present, to and for one another. Bonaventure goes a step further. The Spirit, he maintains, is the love with which the Father and Son love us: It is that power of love or, as Paul vI describes it, that "tension of love" which draws us into the infinite love of the triune God. It is that which enables us to respond to that divine love with the same love. Being overwhelmed by and responding to love--that is the meaning of a graced or gifted life; It makes us restless for the perfectioh of love. It is that which lifts us above ourselves, challenges us to let go of everything and be filled with love. Of necessity it calls all J Christians to a mystical embrace'of God', one that flows from the knowledge that the gift of the Spirit sweeps those who are gifted into the very heart of God. As Thomas Merton writes in Life and Holiness, "To be a Christian is to be committed to a largely mys-tical life,., to live within the dimensions of a completely mys-tical revelation and communication of the divine being." 16 What this means, of course, is dependent on the mystery of the ~ncarnate Word, for he is the revelation of the triune God. What it means to be loved by God is dependent on our knowledge of h~ow Christ reveals he is loved. As John Paul II tells us, "In the countenance of Jesus, the 'image of the invisible God' (Col 1:15) and the reflection of the Father's glory (see Heb 1:3), we glimpse the depth of an eternal and infinite love which is at the root of OUl~ being" (VC ~ 18). What it means to respondto that"love depends on our awareness of the kenosis, the self-emptying of Jesus. It makes our struggle as Christians--and, more to the point, as con-seerated women and men--to be essentially this: being Christ-centered. Understandably, then, Vita consecrata speaks of those called to consecrated life as persons called to "let themselves be seized by this love [to the point of] abandoning everything" (VC §18). He speaks of them devoting themselves "with undivided 1-6-1"November-December 1998 Armstrong ¯ Consecrated Life heart" (VC §1), making a "choice of total ~elf-giving to God in Christ" (VC §2), and expressing themselves "in a radical gift of self for love of~the Lord Jesus Christ" (VC §§.3,.12). This becomes a never ending recognition of philokalia, or the love of the divine beauty revealed in Jesus, and a progressive following of the Spirit's lead,to conformity with Christ (see VC §19). E~chat~logical Dimensidn of the Consecr~ated Life This ~focus onthe revelation of God's love in.the person of Jesus, however, leads John Paul to the secon~d dimension of con7 secrated life: its eschatological charhcter. "It is the duty of,the consecrated life," he maintains, "to show that the incarnate Son of God is the eschatological goal toward which all things tend, the splendor before which every other light pales, :and the infinite beauty which ~alone can fully satisfy the human heart" (VC §16). Here. too the gift of the Spirit is of quintessential importance. It enables "new men and women;to recognize the appeal of such a demanding choice, . . . awakens .the desire to respond, fully, . . . and guides the growth of this desire" (VC §19). "By allowing them-selves to be guided by the Spirit on an endless journey of purifi-cation," the pope maint~ains, "they become, day by day, conformed to Christ, the prolongation in history of a special presence of the risen Lord" (VC §19). In Vita consecrata John Paul II speaks of the Holy Spirit ninety-five times. The Spirit of Vita consecrata is power unlimited (VC §25), ,works without ceasing (VC 921), continually animates (VC §25) and gives strength (VC §30), and shapes and molds the hearts of those who are called (VC §19). The work of the Spirit as it guides us on its purifying journey is clearly one of calling, us beyond ourselv~es and beyond our limited experience of God's love~ Although ¼"ta consecrata clearly expresses this traditional, oth-erworldly spirituality, the pope also sees that the ardent expecta-tions of those consecrated persons demand an expression in the world in which~they live. Since "here we have no lasting city" (Heb 13:14), their longing "expresses itself in work and mission through a spirit capable of giving rise in human society to effec-tive aspirations for justice, peace, sglidarity, and forgiveness" (VC~ §27). These are the ones who "bring.hope to their brothers and sisters who are often discouraged and pessimistic about the future, . . . ~ hope founde~ on God's promise con~tained in the revealed Review for Religious word: the history of humanity is moving toward 'a new heaven and a new earth'" (VC §27). The hope they have discovered in the mystery of God's love, in other words, makes them eager to encourage others. And so their eschatological spirituality calls for active and renewed involvement in programs of systemic social change that are sensitive to the signs of the times, to the prefer-ential option for the poor, and to the promotion of,justice (see VC, §§81, 82). "Eschatological expectation becomes mission," John Paul teaches, "so that the kingdom may become ever more fully established here and now" (VC §27). Above all, however, this eschatolog- ~ ical thrust is oriented toward the future, a theme the pope introduces fourteen times in his exhortation. "By their charisms," he states, "consecrated per- ,~ sons become signs of the Spirit point-ing to a new future enlightened by.faith and.by Christian hope" (.VC §27), Thus the gift of the Spirit:is always prompting (VC §§1, 19, 22, 25), guiding (VC §§19, 63), awakening desire (VC §19), and teaching the hearts of those who are ca!l.ed, ~for it is the "educator par excel-lence of those who are consecrated" (VC §60). The Spirit's role in shaping the~future of consecrated life is perhaps best captured in the phrase "the creative guidance," in a section that speaks of the future (V.C §63). The phrase is similar to another, "creative fidelity," found earlier in the. document where the pope invites consecrated women and men to propose anew and with courage the enterprising initiative, creativity, and holi-ness of their founders and foundresses in response to the signs of the times,emerging in today's world" (VC §37). The Spirit's creative energy, then, flows throughout ¼"taxonsecrata, as the pope sees it, fashioning new expressions of consecrated life (VC §§ 10, 12), pointing to a new future (VC §27), and rejuvenating the Bride of Christ by the consecrated life (VC §64). "You haveonot only a glorious history to remember and recount," he declares, "but also a great history still to be accomplished" (VC §110). There is a built-in dynamic here. Rahner called it "The Dynamic Element in the Church" and suggested that it could very easily be a point of tension between the hierarchy and consecrated religious. Recent The Spirit's role in shaping the future of consecrated life is perhaps best captured in the phrase "the creative guidance.'" November-Decentber 1998 Armstrong * Consecrated Life history has shown us that it can easily be a point of tension among consecrated religious themselves, especially between the more traditional and the more creative brothers and sisters or between those without grounding .in the tradition, frequently older mem-bers, and those willing to "try anything" new without the tradi-tion's guidance. "Proposing anew the initiatives, creativity, and holiness of founders or foundresses" or developing "a dynamic fidelity to their mission" is easie'r said than done. Nevertheless, it is this very energy of the Spirit that John Paul II understands as revitalizing consecrated life and enabling new men and women to recognize its appeal. In this context, too, itis striking that John Paul writes of "the perennial youth of the church" and sees it integrally tied to "the new spiritual and apostolic impulses" of "new or renewed forms of the consecrated life" (VC §12). VChere is joy in all this? Perhaps it is found best in John Paul's image of "the perennial you. th of the church." No one could ques-tion the pope's concern for the young; his repeated meetings with and addresses to young people throughout the world are proof of that concern. The prerogative of the young, he frequently reit-erates, is to be concerned about the future, to dream about its unfolding, and to be excited about its shape. Is it not precisely in their dreaming and excitement that they find joy, a joy that is contagious and that enlivens even the more depressed? An echo of"ad Deum qui laetificat iuventutem meam" may be heard here, "to God who gives joy to my youth." As G.K. Chesterton observed, "The ~arpe diem religion is not the religign of happy people, but of very unhappy people. Great joy does not gather the rosebuds while it may; its eyes are fixed on the immortal rose which Dante saw. Great joy has in it the sense of immortality; the very splendor of youth is the sense that it has all space to stretch its legs in." 17 The pope's eschatological vision wisely notes the perennial youth that flows from the energy of the Spirit and keeps it ever young. With that alone comes joy! Tucked away among the more mystica! passages of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets is one that is appropriate here: "The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation." 18 Eliot reminds his readers that the incarnation, is the only prism through which "to apprehend the point of intersection of the timeless with time ¯. something given and taken." A marvelous description of Con-secrated life! The Johannine tradition undoubtedly offers' the strongest Review for Religious :hints about the mystery of joy. The term chara, joy, occurs nine times in the Gospel of John and once each in the three Letters. Of all the references to joy in the Gospel, all but one are in the Last ~Supper discourse (15:17; 16:20-24; 17:13), where it is a future possibility opened up for Jesus' followers by his victorious death and th
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Draft Translation: Not for CitationWhat follows is another attempt at a translation of an important text by André Tosel on the Marx/Spinoza relation. It is not a finished, or polished translation, but a rough sketch put forward to help people get a sense of this overlooked articulation of the relation between Marx and Spinoza.For a Systematic Study of the Relation of Marx to Spinoza: Remarks and Hypotheses
André Tosel Published in 2008 in the book Spinoza au XIXe Siècle The question of relation of the thought of Marx to that of Spinoza has up until now been the subject of more of a hermeneutic investigation than a philology. It is easier to construct a history of the different interpretations of Spinoza at the center of different Marxisms then to have determined the precise function of the reference to Spinoza in the work of Marx and to define the use Marx made of the spinozist problematic and the elaboration of his thought. More or less the Marxists that were first developed a relation to Spinoza were an important milestone on the way to developing what could be called a historical and materialist dialectic. The relation begins in the midst of the Second International. The singularity of Spinoza's thought has often been reduced to a stepping stone on the way to "monist" immanentism, which is supposed to be its philosophical structure at least in the reception of two thinkers, as Plekhanov has asserted in some preliminary texts working from some notes of Engels in manuscripts published in the USSR under the title of the Dialectic of Nature. In the dogmatic frame of the struggle between idealism and materialism, Spinoza anticipates materialism by his thesis of the unity of nature and by his doctrine of the equal dignity of the attribute of extension in relation to the attribute of thought. The doctrine of mode and substance causality, coupled with the critique of final causality and the illusions of superstition, signifies at the same time an overcoming of mechanistic thinking and the first form of the dialectic. Rare were those who, like Antonio Labriola, were careful not to oppose two conceptions of the world head-on and maintained a certain distance with polemical opposition, preferring instead to indicate that Marx did for mode of production what Spinoza had done for the world of the passions—a geometry of their production. In the Soviet Union before the Stalinist freeze, this interpretive tension is reproduced: Spinoza becomes the terrain through which the clarification of the dialectic takes place opposing mechanists and anti-mechanists, and original articulation of the thesis of liberty as the comprehension of necessity. These problems have been clarified somewhat. (Zapata, 1983; Seidel, 1984; Tosel, 1995)One would have to wait for the deconstructive enterprise of Louis Althusser for this movement to be reversed. Spinoza is no longer a moment in the teleology which is integrated and surpassed on the way to Marxism-Leninism. His work is the means of theoretical production for reformulating the philosophical and scientific revolution of Marx without recourse to only the Hegelian dialectic. Spinoza is the first to have elaborated a model of structural causality that makes it possible to think the efficacy of the structure as an absent cause over its effects. The theory of knowledge is not one that authorizes absolute knowledge, but it announces this infinite exigency of a break with ideology without the hope of arriving at transparent knowledge. It obliges one to renounce any idea of communism as a state of a final reconciliation in social relations which would be deprived of any contradictions. "We have always been spinozists,' Althusser announces in the Elements of Self-Criticism, and then proceed to the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect from the Hegelian dialectic. It is then only an epistemological obstacle which prevents Marx from realizing the full power of his critique of political economy and to explore the continent of history that he discovered. Spinoza for clarifying Marx himself. Everything has been clarified. (Cotten 1992; Raymond, Moreau, 1997). In terms of historical research, the spinozist studies that have been made after the end of the nineteen sixties in France and Italy have often been made by researchers who have rubbed shoulders with Marxism. We find the same oscillation between a tendency to read Spinoza according to a pre-marxist perspective, in the sense of a dialectic of emancipation, or liberation from a theological political complex and disalienation, even constituent power, and another tendency insisting on the infinity of the struggle against all illusions, even those of total liberation, affirming the unsurpassable dimension of the imagination in the constitution of the conatus and in the production of the power of the multitude. This oscillation is manifest often in the same commentators, often itself a function of the change of the historical conjuncture. However, up until now, there has never been an attempt to study from Marx's works themselves the structural function of the spinozist reference in the constitution of Marxist theory, one which would permit us to better understand the understanding that Marx made of Spinozist work. The interpretations have anyway have developed from a certain exteriority to the letter of Marxists texts. Several years ago, a German researcher, Fred E. Schrader, in a short text dedicated to the thematic of "substance and concept" chez Marx (Substanz und Funktion: zur Marxsrezeption Spinoza's) drew attention to this situation (1984). He rightly noted that it was necessary to distinguish two moments in the research to avoid any merely external confrontation: a) first, obviously, document the explicit and implicit mentions of Spinoza in Marx's text; 1) then, reconstruct the position of the reference to Spinoza in the process of the constitution of the critique of political economy which is the central Marxist work, alongside of the references to "Hegel" which one knows were constitutive in the years of 1857-1858. Only this philological and philosophical work can permit us to renew the state of the question. Schrader's study must be considered. We propose to develop it and comment on it because up until now it has not received the attention that it merits. Before everything else, it is necessary to be precise. The work envisioned must be considerable, it includes taking into account the texts published by Marx, those published posthumously by Engels and by Kautsky, and all of those—collections of notes and thematic notebooks—which make up the incomplete nature of Capital, including Marx's correspondence. The MEGA 2, Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, still incomplete, has not finished being scrutinized. This work could begin from the hypothesis that we can conceptualize two periods in Marx's work from which it is possible to reassemble occurrences that conceptualize the reference to Spinoza in order to determine their structural function. The first period corresponds to the years of his formation and the interlinking of the critique of politics and the early critique of political economy, it begins with the concept of history underlying the German Ideology and culminates in the Poverty of Philosophy and the Communist Manifesto. The second period begins with the research operating under the title of the critique of political economy beginning in 1857, interrupted provisionally in January of 1859 and beginning again in 1861. The reference to Spinoza is more explicit in the first period where it is a matter of an specifically political practice, articulating a materialism of practice. It is less explicit in the second period, it functions nonetheless as a fundamental operator in the essential theory of the substance of value in capital. The Philosophical Intensifier of Spinoza of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. Destruction of the Theologico-Political Complex and Democratic Radicalism. Marx encounters Spinoza in the beginning of his theoretical and political journey. In 1841 we know from the preface by Alexandre Matheron (Cahiers Spinoza), Marx, after his doctorate, reproduced the extracts he copied from the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (MEGA 2 VI/I Berlin, 1977). He is curiously presented as the author of these texts and moreover they are reorganized in their own order which is not that of the Tractatus itself. The chapters containing the critique of the supernatural, of the miracle, and all of all forms of superstition are brought forward as essential and open on the properly political chapters dedicated to the freedom of thought (XX) and the foundation of the republic (XVI). The Ethics is not ignored but it is not reproduced, Letter XII takes the place of a speculative text and is accompanied with Letter LXXVI to Burgh. Everything takes place as if Marx considered as the most important question to be that of theological politics and is concentrated on the question of human freedom in its radical ethico-political dimension. What is important is that the revolutionary democratic state is realized according to this concept. One could also consider that Spinoza is utilized here as one of the figures that a Doctorate of Philosophy considers along with Aristotle, Kant, Fichte, and Hegel as provocations, of that which puts knowledge in the service of a life liberated from the fear of authorities, which reappropriates humanity's power of thinking and acting confiscated in the service of gods and fetishes. In a certain manner Epicurus is the paradoxically the first of the thinkers who claims that "it is a misfortune to live in necessity, but it is not necessary to live under necessity." This truth finds a new application, after the French Revolution, in the age of a new ethics, where free individuals recognize themselves in a free state. 2. The explicit reference to Spinoza is displaced in the texts of the years 1841-1843—the Kreuznach manuscript dedicated to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, followed by the introduction and the Jewish Question. These constitute the Feuerbachian moment of Marx, at the heart of his theory of the alienation of the human essence. One must not make this critique of politics a simple transition towards the discovery of the alienation of social powers, nor understand it as an end of a politics understood as primarily statist. It is the ethico-political liberation which requires a transformation of social relations and which is a transvaluation or emancipation of social powers. Spinoza is not named, but certain passages from the TTP are repeated almost to the letter: Spinoza figures as the index of a new task , that is lacking in Hegel which is that of thinking beyond the dualism of civil society and the state. The name of this passage is democracy or true democracy. Marx returns to the letter of the Spinozist thesis according to which democracy is not only the name of a constituted political regime, but the essence of politics, the most natural regime, constituting the power of the people. The intensive force of Spinoza is that of democracy not as a mystical act or utopian ecstasy, but as a process of constitution that replaces actual void of the Hegelian state where the people lack themselves, in which the state becomes something separate, still theologico-political. Democracy is the active process by which the people is refigured as the negative instance of any separate political form and gives a political form to its social power. "Democracy is the truth of monarchy, monarchy is not the truth of democracy. Monarchy is necessarily democracy in contradiction with itself, whereas the monarchial moment is no contradiction within democracy. Monarchy cannot, while democracy can be understood in terms of itself In democracy none of the moments obtains a significance other than what befits it. Each is really only a moment of the whole Demos. In monarchy one part determines the character of the whole; the entire constitution must be modified according to the immutable head. Democracy is the generic constitution; monarchy is a species, and indeed a poor one. Democracy is content and form; monarchy should be only form, but it adulterates the content. In monarchy the whole, the people, is subsumed under one of its modes of existence,. the political constitution; in democracy the constitution itself appears only as one determination, and indeed as the self-determination of the people. In monarchy we have the people of the constitution, in democracy the constitution of the people. Democracy is the resolved mystery of all constitutions. Here the constitution not only in itself, according to essence, but according to existence and actuality is returned to its real ground, actual man, the actual people, and established as its own work. The constitution appears as what it is, the free product of men." It is possible to remark that this constituent power of the demos tends to be presented as a sort of causa sui in the order of world of social relations. The naturalist dimension thematized in the Ethics is not posited here with the insistence of humanity as part of nature, with the thematization of the relations between internal and external causality. Necessity seems to have disappeared for an instant. It is notable that this in the same moment that Feuerbach defends Spinoza's naturalism against Hegelian idealism and makes the author of the Ethics the Moses of modern thought who has destroyed theology by his pantheism, while reproaching him, for not having arrived at a radical humanist affirmation, since he maintained an equivocal equivalence between the naturalization of god and the divinization of nature. The Marxist reference is primarily to the ethico-political Spinoza, one of the "intellectual heroes of morality" as he says in a text contemporary with it, "Comments on the Latest Russian Censorship—" along with Kant and Fichte he is one of the heroes that found and defend the principal of moral autonomy. Spinoza makes it possible to undertake a philosophical political of Hegel, the people would be the only ontological instance that constitutes the political constitution, which is to say democracy, of civil society. Spinoza makes it possible to introduce a new dialectic within the incomplete dialectic of The Principles of the Philosophy of Right. This dialectic is simultaneously a critique. The object of this critical dialectic is the self-constitution of political activity in the struggle to overcome the domination of abstract entities erected into speculative abstractions defining the latest avatars of the theological-political complex. Schrader does not say more in the exposition of the reference to Spinoza in this first period. We could take a step beyond his analysis. A unpublished path seems to be presented. We could in fact explore it as Yovel has done (Spinoza and Other Heretics); also the first book of Matheron, Individu et communauté chez Spinoza (1968) examines the double relation of the human conatus to other conatuses and objects that suit them or do not suit them the rudiments of a theory of objectification of the human essence that Marx elaborates in the texts of 1844 where he analyzes the people under the figure of the proletariat subject and object of alienated labor. The reading can shed light on Spinoza, but Marx has for his interlocuters Hegel, Adam Smith, and Feuerbach. Spinoza does not intervene here explicitly. It is preferable to follow the letter of his texts. 3. The text which follows, The Holy Family of 1845, indicates an unexamined reversal of perspective. Far from finding in Spinoza a radical thinker of liberty through the radicalization of the democratic process and developing Feuerbach's theses of the virtues of Spinoza's naturalization, far from continuing the anti-idealist elements of Spinoza, Marx for the first time distances himself from Spinoza placing him on the side of Descartes, of Malebranche, of Leibniz, of abstract rationalist metaphysics, in a paragraph before celebrating the materialists in which he inscribes himself. These are the materialists of the French Enlightenment, La Mettrie, Holbach, Helvétius, which are lauded for having operated outside of metaphysics. These are the authors that Plekhanov reinscribes as a defenders of monistic materialism in the thought of nature and in the theory of history. Certainly as Olivier Bloch in an important contribution has demonstrated ("Materialism, genesis of Marxism, 1981, reprinted in Matières à penser, Vrin, 1997), this chapter of the history of philosophy is a plagiarism by Marx who literally takes it from the Manuel d'histoire de la philosophie moderne by Charles Renouvier (1844). The soviet Diamat has been founded by a French critic… But the fact remains that Marx endorses this reconstruction which prefers Bacon, Hobbes and Locke to Spinoza, lauding them for the empiricism and nominalism: the English thinkers critique metaphysic speculation and open directly the way to materialism. Pierre Bayler in France can be considered the only fellow traveler of British empiricism by his scepticism he dissolves the metaphysics of Spinoza and Leibniz (The Holy Family, 171). The Spinoza criticized here is that of the Ethics understood as a dogmatic treatise of metaphysics which has a "profane content" but it has lost its historical condition. This is no longer the antitheological political Spinoza but the speculative philosopher. Is it necessary to conclude that this is a contradiction on the part of Marx and to forget his previous theses? It is a surprising oversight because that which Marx and Renouvier give credit to Bacon, Hobbes, and Locke can be imputed to Spinoza as well. Everything takes place as if Marx, put off by the metaphysics of the Ethics forgets what he had found in the TTP—and this seems to be a permanent transformation. In fact the contradiction is not only apparent, or, more to the point, it concerns Spinoza himself. Marx does not have as his object an analysis of Spinozism. He uses the latter by breaking it down according to the needs of his task which is at this moment is to study the activity of real man and the possibility of his transformation by bringing together the theoretical humanism of Feuerbach, the French communism and socialism, and the English thinkers who represent this humanism in the domain of practice. "[Metaphysics] will be defeated for forever by materialism which has now been perfected by the work of speculation itself and coincides with humanism. As Feuerbach represented materialism in the theoretical domain, French and English socialism and communism represent materialism in the practical field which now coincides with humanism." (The Holy Family, pg. 168) One can detect in this passage the presence of a schematic of the history of modern philosophy which has echoes of Moses Hess and Ludwig Feuerbach, the two have confronted the problem of the critical comprehension of Hegel and have begun to present a reinterpretation of the grand moments of the history of philosophy after their master. Marx deviates from the interpretation of Hess given in a text which had a particular impact: The Sacred History of Mankind by a Young Disciple of Spinoza (1838). Hess appropriates Spinoza's theory of knowledge and exploits his theory of the imagination to develop a positive sense of social utopia, and overall makes Spinoza the true alternative to Hegel's Christian philosophy. Far from being an acosmism, the theory of substance is the perfect incarnation of the Hebraic idea of the unconditional unity of all. It is paradoxical, the other part, of the interpretation by Renouvier followed by Marx recovers and conceals that of Feuerbach that one can find in the same period in Preliminary Theses for the Reform of Philosophy (1842) and Principles of the Philosophy of the Future (1843). Marx brushes up against these theses of Feuerbach on Spinoza without reproducing them in their entirety. They make Spinoza an important moment in modern philosophy: at the heart of this movement they make this philosophy an important realization of the humanization of God, Spinoza remains still a speculative philosopher who is at once produces the realization and negation of God. Speculative metaphysics realizes with him its ultimate phase which is determined contradictorily as theism and atheism in the form of pantheism. "Spinoza is the originator of speculative philosophy, Schelling its restorer, Hegel its perfecter."(Thesis 102) Pantheism becomes the only consequential theology in that it anticipates the end of theology in atheism. The Spinozist substance transforms all independent beings into predicates, into attributes of a unique and independent being. God is no longer only a thing thought, it is equally an extended thing (Thesis 3). Spinoza does not make the self-activity of self-consciousness the attribute that unifies and transforms substance into subject. This was Hegel's tour de force but he paid for it with an absolute idealism of spirit since once again spirit prevails over extension and concrete man is subject to abstraction separated from reality of self-consciousness. This inscription of Spinoza in metaphysics is all the more paradoxical because Marx finds in empiricism and British materialism the theses that Feuerbach attributes to Spinoza, and Marx accepts a definition in which materialism coincides with communism. As can be seen in this passage from Principles of the Philosophy of the Future Pantheism is theological atheism or theological materialism; it is the negation of theology while itself confined to the standpoint of theology, for it turns matter, the negation of God, into a predicate or an attribute of the Divine Being. But he who turns matter into an attribute of God, declares matter to be a divine being. The realisation of God must in principle presuppose godliness, that is, the truth and essentiality of the real. The deification of the real, of that which exists materially – materialism, empiricism, realism, and humanism – or the negation of theology, is the essence of the modern era. Pantheism is therefore nothing more than the essence of the modern era elevated into the divine essence, into a religio-philosophical principle. Empiricism or realism – meaning thereby the so-called sciences of the real, but in particular the natural science – negates theology, albeit not theoretically but only practically, namely, through the actual deed in so far as the realist makes the negation of God, or at least that which is not God, into the essential business of his life and the essential object of his activity. However, he who devotes his mind and heart exclusively to that which is material and sensuous actually denies the trans-sensuous its reality; for only that which constitutes an object of the real and concrete activity is real, at least for man. "What I don't know doesn't affect me." To say that it is not possible to know anything of the supersensuous is only an excuse. One ceases to know anything about God and divine things only when one does not want to know anything about them. How much did one know about God, about the devils or angels as long as these supersensuous beings were still objects of a real faith? To be interested in something is to have the talent for it. The medieval mystics and scholastics had no talent and aptitude for natural science only because they had no interest in nature. Where the sense for something is not lacking, there also the senses and organs do not lack. If the heart is open to something, the mind will not be closed to it. Thus, the reason why mankind in the modern era lost the organs for the supersensuous world and its secrets is because it also lost the sense for them together with the belief in them; because its essential tendency was anti-Christian and anti-theological; that is, anthropological, cosmic, realistic, and materialistic. [In the context of the present work, the differences between materialism, empiricism, realism, and humanism are, of course, irrelevant.] Spinoza hit the nail on the head with his paradoxical proposition: God is an extended, that is, material being. He found, at least for his time, the true philosophical expression for the materialistic tendency of the modern era; he legitimated and sanctioned it: God himself is a materialist. Spinoza's philosophy was religion; he himself was an amazing man. Unlike so many others, Spinoza's materialism did not stand in contradiction to the notion of a non-material and anti-materialistic God who also quite consistently imposes on man the duty to give himself up only to anti-materialistic, heavenly tendencies and concerns, for God is nothing other than the archetypal and ideal image of man; what God is and how he is, is what man ought to be or wants to be, or at least hopes to be in the future. But only where theory does not belie practice, and practice theory, is there character, truth, and religion. Spinoza is the Moses of modern free-thinkers and materialists. 4. The anti-metaphysical fury of Marx, the blind submission to Renouvier, limits him in developing an interpretation of the Ethics more nuanced and sensitive to the historical contradictions. This situation is even more strange because it is in The Holy Family that Marx interprets materialist philosophers such that they are a Feuerbachian Spinoza. On can find then three theses that Marx distributes to different representatives of materialism and that can also be imputed to Spinoza. --Thesis 1. Nature is a primary reality, it can be explained by itself without recourse to the principle of a creator. Nothing comes from nothing. One can then have recourse to Bacon for who "the primitive forms of matter are essentially living forms, individuals, and it is they that produce specific differences." He follows, as does Hobbes, in adding that "one cannot separate thought from the matter which thinks." Thought cannot be separated from matter capable of thought. --Thesis 2. The human order is inscribed in a specific manner in nature. This specificity does not specify anything extra-worldly of human activity. Hobbes has demonstrated the sensible nature of activity. "Man is subordinate to the same laws that nature. Power and liberty are identical." The Holy Family) This order is known to promote the art of forming ideas, the human species is fundamentally educatable. ---Thesis 3. What is important is to think the constitution of this human order according to radical possibilities of the ways of transforming these necessary conditions of experience of liberty-power. "If man is unfree in the materialist sense, i.e., is free not through the negative power to avoid this or that, but through the positive power to assert his true individuality, crime must not be punished in the individual, but the anti-social source of crime must be destroyed, and each man must be given social scope for the vital manifestation of his being. If man is shaped by his surroundings, his surroundings must be made human. If man is social by nature, he will develop his true nature only in society, and the power of his nature must be measured not by the power of separate individuals but by the power of society." (The Holy Family 176). It is not necessary to give the history of philosophy presented in The Holy Family a structural importance. It acts as a provisionally constructed polemical text where Marx has given the means for his own philosophical conception in broad strokes in order to better understand the intersection of humanism, materialism, and communism. The incongruence of the treatment of Spinoza, reinterpreted to be behind Feuerbach's position, was not overlooked by Marx's comrades in combat since H. Krieg (himself denounces by Marx in a virulent circular as a confused partisan of religious socialism), he wrote in a letter of June 6, 1845 in order to restore Spinoza's battle against metaphysics overlooked by Marx, "you're probably right about what it says in the English Hobbes and Locke [i.e. that they vacillate contradictorily between materialism and theism], the same for Voltaire and his direct partisans; but Holbach is practically Spinozist, and it is with and Diderot that the Enlightenment reaches its summit and becomes revolutionary." (cited by Maximilien Rubel and his edition of the philosophical texts of Marx titled Philosophie) 5. The instrumental and fluctuating character of the reference to Spinoza as a metaphysician is confirmed precisely by The German Ideology. Marx returns in passing to the place of Spinoza in modern philosophy. Spinoza has developed the principle of substantial immanence but he has not integrated the principle with self-consciousness. Hegel would be the unity of Spinoza and Fichte (The German Ideology, 107). But for Marx this representation consigns him to a partial aspect of the Hegelian synthesis. Self-consciousness is at once a hypostasis of the real activity of human beings in the process of their self-production and the "the real consciousness of the social relations in which they appear to exists and to which they appear to be autonomous." In a similar manner substance is "an ideal hypostatized expression of the world as it exists" that is take as the foundation of the world "existing for itself." Marx returns to Feuerbach for clarification of substance and it anthropological resolution. We do not know much more, but the text seems to distinguish the Hegelian critique of substance and its possible materialist significance as "the existing world." We would have expected considerations on the immanence of modes in natura naturans and of their dynamic interdetermination. In any case, Marx refuses the young Hegelain opposition between self-consciousness and substance, and proposes to maintain the category of substance as an inseparable unity of the existing mode and the beings which constitute the world in the play of their relations. Marx's criticism has as its target the mystification of self-consciousness and its anti-substantial phobia. Everything takes place as if the ontological categories of Spinoza up until now rejected as conservative metaphysics have an intensive force irreducible to the critique of the young Hegelians. However, it remains that in this complex itinerary the use value of the reference to Spinoza is concentrated in the theological political constellation and the political constitution of the political force of social force. This reference becomes the presupposition of the materialist conception of history, but it does not intervene in the texture of these concepts. The Spinoza Reference in the Critique of Political Economy, Substance and Concept Returning to Schrader and his propositions for the study of the second moment of the reference to Spinoza, that of the Marxist use of Spinozist concepts from the Ethics in the development of the critique of political economy in the development of Capital. Schrader pays particular attention to the reappearance in the margins of the reference to Spinoza in the period of the creation and exposition of the critique of political economy which is developed from 1851 to 1863. An important letter from Marx to Lassale from May 31, 1858 which was published in an obscure book on Heraclitus, gives to Spinoza's metaphysics the same status that he gave to Hegel in a famous letter to Engels a few months before. Even among philosophers who give a systematic form to the works, as for example Spinoza, the true inner structure of the system is quite unlike the form in which it was consciously presented. The true system is only present in itself. (Marx MEW, 29, Berlin, 1963, 561).
What was of great use to me as regards method of treatment was Hegel's Logic at which I had taken another look by mere accident... If ever the time comes when such work is again possible, I should very much like to write 2 or 3 sheets making accessible to the common reader the rational aspect of the method which Hegel not only discovered but also mystified. (Correspondence Marx-Engels) Marx makes it clear that the elaboration of the critique passes through the utilization of elements of philosophical works which others appear to have completely bypassed. The presence of Hegel is the center of the interpretation of Capital. It would appear certain to this period that Marx no longer takes inspiration from the Feuerbachian critique of abstract speculation. In this case, the Idea separated from its contents generates the latter in a mystified way by legitimizing the crudest aspects, losing the benefit of seizing the real as a contradictory process, as is explained in The Holy Family or The Poverty of Philosophy. Hegel is from now on solicited for his dialectical discoveries: he elaborates the dialectic as an immanent process of thought and his discoveries serve Marx in developing his proper critique. The presence of Hegel in the period up to the publication of the first volume of Capital in 1867, in passing through diverse manuscripts of 1857-1858 (The Grundrisse) and the manuscripts from 1861-1863, has been attested to and demonstrated by works, either to reaffirm the heretical Hegelianism of Marx, (Rosdolsky, Reichelt, Zelenyi, all dedicated to research the logic of Capital, all following one of the most famous injunctions of all times, Lenin in the Notes on Dialectics) or to combat it in order to argue that Marx was Hegelian or anti-Hegelian (Althusser, and Bidet in his famous study, The Making of Marx's Capital). This usage of Hegel consists essentially in using the categories of logic to expose the theoretical structure of the passages which operate from the commodity to value, from money as the measure of value to money as the means of exchange and as the universal means of payment, from money to capital. Schrader proposes the following recovery of the Marxist exposition of Hegelian categories: --Exchange value and the form of value correspond to the pure quantity of Hegel: this value and its measure is realized as money. The Marxist measure of value adopts the Hegelian determinations of the quantitative relations and their measure. --The circulation of commodities and money is described by the concepts of an infinite qualitative and quantitative process. --Finally the passage from money to capital transposes the passage from being to essence. Marx has thus read and reused these conceptual determinations for the diverse functions of commodity, value, money and circulation. And what about Spinoza? According to Schrader, he intervenes to resolve a logical problem that is at this point unresolved, that of the determination of the concept of capital supposed to integrate the logically preceding determinations. In good Hegelianism, Marx has made the movement of capital that of the essence of the concept. When Marx maintains that exchange value is realized in the circulation of other substances, in an indefinite totality, without losing the determination of its form, always remaining money and commodities, he makes capital the totality of substances. However, it thus impossible to maintain the internal connection between capital and labor, and more precisely abstract labor. Spinoza intervenes to make possible another use of the category of substance: that would not have its function to subsume the plurality of all substances, but to determine the quality of the fluent quantity that defines abstract labor. One can see this in the text of Volume One of Capital, revised by Marx in 1873 for the French translation of J. Roy. The category of substance is introduce in the passage from the commodity to its determination as the contradictory unity of use value and exchange value. The exchange of commodities is only possible if the their values are "expressed in terms of something common to them all, of which thing they represent a greater or less quantities." This something is a substance specific to all commodities. "This common "something" cannot be either a geometrical, a chemical, or any other natural property of commodities…[] it is evident that one makes an abstraction from use value when one exchanges, and that the relation of exchange is characterized by this abstraction (Capital). Exchange and the production process which supports it operate this real abstraction from the useful qualities of the objects to be exchanged. This utility, although necessary, does not render possible the exchange of objects of value insofar as they products of labor. Exchange concerns the objects considered as products of labor. If then we leave out of consideration the use value of commodities, they have only one common property left, that of being products of labour. But even the product of labour itself has undergone a change in our hands. If we make abstraction from its use value, we make abstraction at the same time from the material elements and shapes that make the product a use value; we see in it no longer a table, a house, yarn, or any other useful thing. Its existence as a material thing is put out of sight. Neither can it any longer be regarded as the product of the labour of the joiner, the mason, the spinner, or of any other definite kind of productive labour. Along with the useful qualities of the products themselves, we put out of sight both the useful character of the various kinds of labour embodied in them, and the concrete forms of that labour; there is nothing left but what is common to them all; all are reduced to one and the same sort of labour, human labour in the abstract. Capitalism cannot be grasped as a subject enveloping the totality of the process of the development. It is no longer a simple quantity in indefinite expansion. It is thought as the "social substance of as exchange values." This substance can be determined as capital, but it goes beyond this process of determination by constituting a remainder, a "residue" that constantly reappears. "Let us now consider the residue of each of these products; it consists of the same unsubstantial reality in each, a mere congelation of homogeneous human labour, of labour power expended without regard to the mode of its expenditure. All that these things now tell us is, that human labour power has been expended in their production, that human labour is embodied in them. When looked at as crystals of this social substance, common to them all, they are – Values." The concept of Capital is not that of the concept of substance becoming subject., it returns to the concept of social substance defined as abstract labor creator of value, substance of value, and substance which increases value: purely progressive quantity reduced to its infinity which is a true infinity irreducible to the logic of bad infinity, that of capital which nonetheless subsumes it. However it is said that this reconstruction does not rest on an explicit reference to Spinoza. The objection is well founded. Schrader responds that it is Marx who reread Hegel and saw that the formal system of Spinoza could be used against Hegel critique of the concept of substance in the Logic. It is a matter of the problem of determination. Omnis determination negatio, Marx keeps reminding everyone of this. If it is Hegel who validates Spinoza's judgement by demonstrating its insufficiency which for Marx transforms into a sufficient truth to permit him to avoid identifying capital with the Hegelian concept. Capital can increase its reality only by determining this social substance of abstract labor, by negating it. The tendency of capital, its ideal, is the absolute negation of this substance. Marx makes the insufficiency of Spinoza's substance according to Hegel into a virtue. In the Logic the principle according to which determination is negation is recognized as essential. But Spinoza, according to Hegel, remains with determination as limit which is founded on an other being. The mode is in another from which it derives its being but this other is in itself. It is the integral concept of all realities. But its immanence is only apparent. Each mode negates each other, determination of each is the result of the determined negation of all of the others. Far from determining itself in these negations, substance is negated in its absolute indifference. It does not reflect itself in these negations no more than they reflect it. The Spinozist principle does not arrive at absolute negation that it anticipates contradictorily. The substance is posed by an external reflection which compromises the otherwise affirmed subsistence of the determinations which become an effervescent moment (attributes and modes). This can be read in the texts from The Science of Logic dedicated to Spinoza. "Of this proposition that determinateness is negation, the unity of Spinoza's substance — or that there is only one substance — is the necessary consequence. Thought and being or extension, the two attributes, namely, which Spinoza had before him, he had of necessity to posit as one in this unity; for as determinate realities they are negations whose infinity is their unity. According to Spinoza's definition, of which we say more more subsequently, the infinity of anything is its affirmation. He grasped them therefore as attributes, that is, as not having a separate existence, a self-subsistent being of their own, but only as sublated, as moments; or rather, since substance in its own self lacks any determination whatever, they are for him not even moments, and the attributes like the modes are distinctions made by an external intellect. Similarly, the substantiality of individuals cannot persist in the face of that proposition."Hegel, Science of Logic "Since absolute indifference may seem to be the fundamental determination of Spinoza's substance, we may add that this is indeed the case in so far as in both every determination of being, like every further concrete differentiation of thought and extension and so forth, is posited as vanished. If we stop short at the abstraction [of substance] then it is a matter of complete indifference what something looked like in reality before it was swallowed up in this abyss. But when substance is conceived as indifference, it is tied up with the need for determining it and for taking this determination into consideration; it is not to remain Spinoza's substance, the sole determination of which is the negative one that everything is absorbed in it. With Spinoza, the moment of difference — attributes, thought and extension, then the modes too, the affections, and every other determination — is introduced empirically; it is intellect, itself a mode, which is the source of the differentiation." Hegel, Science of Logic 3. It is capital which fails to realize its ideal determinations of essence and which falls back into the residue of the social substance, of the abstract labor which it masks. Capital as a mode of production is ruled by the real abstractions of exchange value which are not comprehended by social agents. Value is a social abstraction that is produced from the base of multiple dispersed evaluations, that the understanding of the economist produces only after the fact, but can be known as a real abstraction operated by society and which is determined as a social substance of abstract time. The determination of the common substance as abstract labor makes it possible to dissipate the mystification produced by the appearance of capital as the self moving essence of value. All of the people, who are modes of this substance, cannot immediately represent to themselves the internal determinations of this substance in which they appear other than as representation of theological-political complex, the same as the agents of capital who cannot represent to themselves the determinations of capital (commodity-value-money-forms of capital) without fetishizing them as autonomous movements of the value form. Theoretical knowledge, the Wissenschaft, does not dissolve this fetishism because the mechanisms of its social reproduction are founded on the constitution of these forms of representation and their real efficacy. Capital cannot arrive at self-identity in terms of an absolute reflection. The determination that Hegel imputes to Spinoza negatively of substance as exterior reflection can better convey the determinations of moments of its critique. This places within the development of initial economic forms this sort of equivalent of the attribute of extension that is human labor, this common social substance comprising the forms of modal representations which capture it, that is to say that the forms of consciousness and their functional relations in the material process of reproduction. It is therefore the relationship between the substances of abstract human labor and mystified or adequate forms of social representations of this substance that Marx finds in in the hidden Spinozian system and that he utilizes in order to escape the limits of Hegel's categories, which tend to sublimate substance into the concept and therefore annul the contradictions of capital in the passage from substance to the essence and the concept. From this point of view, Hegel and Spinoza would both be utilized without reservations by Marx as the complimentary and constitutive means of production of the critique of political economy. Spinoza would thus be primarily critical to the extent that the process of the development of the determination of capital cannot be ruled by the teleological order of being-essence-concept. The theory of the substance of abstract labor interrupts the movement of the idealization of capital from the mimesis of the Hegelian order that has been opposed. Spinoza is a moment of the emendation of the intellect internal to the Marxist critique, not an external instance that would be opposed in the confrontation with exteriority. On an Incomplete Analysis 1. Schrader goes no further. The outline of his work remains open. In particular this analysis Postulates as evidence a substantial theory of abstract labor, one that has come under criticism from multiple non-marxist thinkers (Croce, Pareto, Menger) and also, more recently, by Marxists (Althusser and Bidet). In this case the relation to Spinoza would lose its fecundity. But if one leaves to the side the labor theory of value and its supposed foundational role, on the internal level the analysis still remains allusive, because it would have been necessary to exceed the level of Volume One of Capital in order to demonstrate the decisive character of Spinoza's conceptuality in the Marxist conception. Despite these uncertainties, the perspective opened by Schrader is stimulating in that can necessitate a more rigorous study, tempering the contradictory interpretations by the rigors of philology. 2. Schrader's final remarks seem to us be more provocative. Starting from the idea that Spinoza and Marx begin from two different historical moments—that of manufacturing capital limited by the desire of hoarding and that of capitalism fully developed—the logical and ethico-political thesis of the submission of needs to absolute monetary enrichment, and that therefore the refusal of money as an end in itself, he begins to construct a shocking analogy between the third type of knowledge in Spinoza and the knowledge of the capitalist which exposes its money to circulation in order to multiply it. The determination of particular things sub specie aeternitas, as deepening the knowledge of their essence would symbolize with the effort of capitalists to insert money to measure things in their circulation sub specie capitalis. The reference to Marx attests to the irony of Marx: if the movement of true knowledge is infinite, this infinity cannot be confused with that of monetary accumulation which becomes a bad infinity because the means of accumulation are reversed and perverted to be posited as an end in itself. 3. It is more correct, as Schrader makes apparent, to find a space more effective for the forma mentis common to Marx and Spinoza: the two both diagnosis the pathology of the understanding and that of a form of life proper to a given historical world. Both understand the irreversible character of modern passions and set to understand and eventually cure these pathologies. Spinoza, son of a merchant enriched by international trade and a merchant himself in his youth, does not have contempt for money and the new wealth of nations promoted by capitalist economy. He does not dream of a return to oikos of finite needs in a household setting, he is not an aristoltean who condemns bad infinity of the circulation of merchandise which has as its object money and not the use value of merchandise. He registers the emergence of exchange value, he sees, as Aristotle did, that it is the subordination of true value. Remember the famous text from Ethics IV Appendix, consecrated to the function of money. XXVIII. Now to achieve these things the powers of each man would hardly be sufficient if men did not help one another. But money has provided a convenient instrument for acquiring all these aids. That is why its image usually occupies the mind of the multitude more than anything else. For they can imagine hardly any species of joy without the accompanying idea of money as its cause. XXlX. But this is a vice only in those who seek money neither from need nor on account of necessities, but because they have learned the art of making money and pride themselves on it very much. As for the body, they feed it according to custom, but sparingly, because they believe they lose as much of their goods as they devote to the preservation of their body. Those, however, who know the true use of money, and set bounds to their wealth according to need, live contentedly with little. The realization of money as a concept, the accumulation of money for accumulation, is unrealized. Marx adds that this goal is inaccessible because the character of use value of commodities contradicts the universal sociality of value. The common social substance in so far as it is measured in abstract labor time is measured according to quantitatively determined portions. Money is supposed to represent value in its infinite becoming of an end in itself, but it can only effectively represent a determined part. This contradiction is resolved in the deplacement that money makes in becoming capital, exchange value multiplied in profit. Spinoza's therapeutic of desire also concern the intellect of calculation: the latter is not condemned, it is superior to the intellect of avarice which theorizes by avarita and does not develop the capacity to act and think. This understanding, however, is called upon to better understand the monetary economy by subordinating it to immanent true utility, that which is inscribed in the republic of free citizens. It is only in this sense that the accumulation of wealth under the monetary form can enter into the correct perspective of knowledge of the third kind. Marx in his own way wants to understand the action of human beings without deploring or flattering them. Capital cannot be understood going from substance to the essence of the concept, but it has its basis in substance, the social substance of abstract labor, and can be rethought and regrouped in the forms of economic understanding. Capital also has as its goal a particular therapeutic manner, the health and well-being of a social body that cannot be subsumed under capital but must encompass the increase of the capacities of acting and thinking that capital subordinates to itself. 4. This anti-teleological function of the concept of substance/abstract labor is not maintained by Marx for long in his dialectic. Certainly the function of the subject cannot be attributed to capital, but it is displaced and given a different support, not that of abstract labor with its internal multiplicity and impersonality, but its bearer, that of the working class, the proletariat, the people of the people. The substance of abstract labor becomes subject in the determination that Marx always uses with the English term general intellect. One could thus see a final return of Hegel which interrupts Marx's return to Spinoza. The communism developed by the general intellect is the practical substitute of the Hegelian concept and imposes an anthropological version and anthropocentric teleology that Spinoza would not accept. What does the general intellect represent? It represents the capacity of the proletariat to organize the ensemble of forces defining the collective worker and the cooperation associated with it, under the direction of formation of the factory in the constitution of the unqualified worker, all representing the advance front of the progressive socialization of the social productive forces. Communism is not something that is imposed as a simple moral ideal, it is a product of the real historical process. However, Marx does not escape here the teleologism that he shares with majority of German idealism. The socialization of productive forces—that for Marx leads the process of the self-production of humanity realizing its immanent end and to which he attributes the function of the concept—is not realized at the level of society. It cannot in any way constitute itself as a causa sui. The human world remains a world of world of modal relations and interactions: if the effects of liberation can realize themselves at the level of the individual (by the knowledge of singular things) or at the level of collectivity ( by the democratic constitution of the multitude), these effects would not be made from a mode as a complete cause of itself under all points of view. The capacity of a mode to act and think, human individual or society, can be more or less adequate, but this adequation does not annul the difference that separates the mode which is produced by and in another which it requires to subsist and which is produced in and by itself and becomes a cause of itself. The identity of natura naturata and natura naturans cannot grant a mode the capacity to be cause of itself under all points of view: it permits it to do so under certain points of view and certain conditions which are sufficient for an ethical realization. Communism to the extent that Marx thinks in terms of the becoming concept of the collective worker exceeds the conditions and possibilities of action predicated on modes. To this structural impossibility we can add the consideration of an analytical one: modern society is not immense and singular enterprise under the order of the collective worker, it is, to say the least, a network of antagonistic enterprises in which on the contrary the process of work is fragmented to the point where it loses all material and ideal unity, a fragmentation that has been imposed by the imperative of capitalist society. Exploitation is not only maintained but it is generalized, it is only in compensation that the recomposition of labor process itself as something collective, cooperative, and associated that Marx believes leads the dialectic of the process of capitalist production. Spinozist realism is here irreducible. It does not limited us in taking the measure of the problem posed generally by Marx, it excludes, however, the solution envisioned from speculative teleology and it compels us to attempt to comprehend the modal form in which exploitation is reproduced. How can we form a new theory of the capacity for insurrection of the multitude subordinated to capital while they also resist it. What effects of liberation can still be manifested by producing new subjectivities which are embedded in real productive activities, not prisoners of unproductive ghettos ravaged by self-destructive violence, nor recluse themselves in the powerless rumination of a moral salvation? How can we escape forms of historical impotence? How can we avoid being reduced to the status of spectators of this impotence? Such are the questions posed by Marx and which are posed again today along with Spinoza and his critique of the teleological illusions of the general intellect, questions which have not arrived at the end of their road. But it is historically vain to ask Marx these questions: they are ours and it is up to us to answer them.
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I believe that England would claim the moon, if there were a way to rcn-n that celestial body, and if diamonds and gold were discovered on it And if she had no other rea-sons for her claims, she would say, "we have looked on it for so Jong." But Shoedanviia. the king of Zulaland, was not willing that the British should have their own way for he knew that this would end his rule and bring ruin to his people, and so he ■went to war with Engi-.nd. ' England was worsted in this war. Their army, after having received several defeat , was finally surrounded by the Zulus and would have been annihilated, had not the Boers interfered. Gen-eral Lewis Mover wa; sent from Pretoria with 5,000 Boers to aid the English. He siu.eeded in breaking through the lines, of IO THE MERCURY the Zulu- and relieved the English army. As soon as the Eng-lish gem al realized that he was no longer m danger, lie took matters into his own. hards and invited the Zulu king to visit the British camp under a flag of truce and make tei as soon as lie arrived lie was arrested and e> :>f peace; but on a small island off the western ooast of Africa. England thought that this would end the triibe with the Zulus, but the son of the exiled ruler proclaimed himself king and made preparations to continue the war, but England had enough, and secretly with-drew her arm}' into. Natal. The English Government was chagrined by this defeat at the hands of a savage nation, and the loss of men and money, with-out any corresponding gain of territory, consequently she de-cided to steal the Orange Free State and part of Transvaal. But the Boer Government watched them closely and made pre-parations to meet the invasion. In 18S1 the English army marched into Boer territory, but they were entrapped by an army of Boers numbering 600 men, who defeated the British army of 7,000 men. They killed about half of them and cap-tured the others. When Gladstone, the premier of England, received news of the battle, he said: "I can,not send soldiers to South Africa as fast as the Boers kill them. We ought to make peace with those people who know how to fight for their rights and liberty." A term of trust was agreed upon during which time hostilities should cease, and President Krueger was invit-ed to come to London to make definite terms of peace. Accord-ingly, in 1883, President Krueger, .Taubert, Dr. Reitz and mv-self, went to London where we were treated witli the greatest re-spect by the English. Oom Paul was regarded as a hero With the help of Mr Gladstone, a man of honor, who was friendly toward the Boers, a treaty was signed which favored the Boers. The Tinted States had already recognized the South African Republics as independent governments. In this treaty, Eng-land did likewise, and soon many other powers followed. We went on our way'rejoicing. First to Holland and from there to Germany, where Bismarck gave a dinner in honor of Krueger and hi;-, party. It was on this occasion that Bismarck said: "Krueger is the greatest statesman living, for he got the best of that political fox, Gladstone, and England will dig the grave of her wprld's power in South Africa."- THE MERCURY II The treatj' made in London in 1884 would probably never bave been broken, had not gold been discovered in Jobannsburg, Transvaal during the same year; and if Gladstone., Bismarck and James Blam had lived in 1899, the war would not have broken out. When it became known in England that plenty of gold could be found at Johannsburg. the English people at once began to flock thcTe. Cecil Rhodes, a heartless man without conscience, was one of the first arrivals, who at once made prep-arations to mine the gold. He realized that it would not do to bluff Krueger as he had done before, therefore, he began to treat with Krueger and .he Government in Pretoria. He offered to organize a company to dig the gold and give a certain percent-age to the Boer Government. This company was organized, and it was agreed that the Boer Government should receive 25 per cent, of all the gold mined. All went well for a time; but in the year 1891 the English capitalists began to complain about this percentage, claiming that it was too high. Cecil Rhodes, Barno Banato and Alfred Beit, as the heads of the company, forced the working people to strik.v This strike broke out in 1894 and was at once put down by the Government. In order to lower the wages of the working-men, the company brought in prisoners to work in the mines, but the Government would not allow them to remain. After this failure, the. company imported coolies from Japan, China and India, but these the Government also sent away. Then the company bought control of many Eng-lish newspapers and the newspapers of other countries and these papers slandered the Boers as being opposed to prosperity and progress. Joe Chamberlain, Secretary of the Colonies in Lon-don, now took up the matter and commanded the Boers to per-mit the importation of foreign laborers, and, furthermore, to give all British subjects the right to vote and to hold office. The Government was willing to grant this privilege providing these subjects should swear allegiance to the Transvaal Republic. This the British refused to do. Cecil Rhodes and his friends hired Dr. Jamison and a civil engineer from the United States to organize a mob, invade Jo-hannsburg and take the mines from the Boers; and if possible, to overthrow the Government in Pretoria. The two men organ-ized a mob of 3,000 men who marched up from Capetown and openly boasted that they would soon have the Boers under con- 12 THE MERCURY trol. But the Boers made preparations to meet the mob and were ready to interfere when the time came. Jamison and his men came on toward Johannsburg and expected to arrive there in the evening; hut 'he Boers intercepted them and made an at-tack about nine miles from Johannsburi;. Jamison and his men after a short fight, were captured and taken to Johannsburg. Dr. Jamison and nineteen other leaders were taken to Pretoria and there imprisoned, -while the remainder were condemned to be shot for high treason. The British Government claimed to have no knowledge of the matter, but declared that they would punish these men, if the Boers would turn them over to them. President Krueger obeyed their request and handed over the captives. They were taken to London, given a mock trial, sen-tenced to six months imprisonment, but were soon afterwards pardoned by the Queen. Chamberlain and Rhodes determined to bring on a war be-tween the two nations and, therefore, troops were constantly being brought into cur country. When we inquired as to the meaning of this, we were put off or received no answer at all. It was a kind of "cat and mouse" philosophy wdiich England wished to practice on the Boers; England being the cat and the Boers the mouse. England said, "I am a cat and am satisfied, while you ought to be willing to become a part of a cat." "Come," she said, "let me devour you that you may become a part of a cat as so many other mice have done before." But the Boers failed to see the wisdom of this kind of philosophy and refused the invitation to be eaten. m THE MERCURY , 13 WHAT THE TURKEY DID. ■ A Christmas Story. H. A. CHAMBERLIU, '08. KTHUK CLARKS01SF ceased his labors and, buried in thought, rested for a moment leaning upon his axe. Truly his life was a hard one. .Why should he be compelled to remain here on this farm to cut wood while his companions were enjoying themselves with their friends and relatives at their respective homes? When his chums had all left college he had turned sorrow-fully away and had gone slowly out to the nearby farm where he was to work during the Christmas vacation to pay his college expenses for the ensuing term. It is true he had found a pleas-ant place. Mr. Northwood, the farmer, and his wife had been very kind to him. He had also found Gladys, their only daugh-ter, a girl of seventeen, very interesting and friendly during the long evenings when he had rested before the open fire-place in the comfortable sitting room. But with all this—it was not his home. Often he had felt lonesome. But with that determination which had characterized his col-lege course and had won for him the latin prize in his Freshman year, he went to work again with renewed vigor. Higher and higher grew his pile of kindling wood—fewer and fewer became the number of pine blocks. Suddenly his attention was at-tracted to a figure coming slowly clown the walk which lead to the woodshed. It was Gladys. "I thought I'd come to watch you work a little," she said. "We have been so busy in the kitchen getting ready for Christmas." He would much rather have stopped his work and talked to her but he kept on plying the axe. She continued to chatter and he endeavored to listen as best he could, but it was hard to work and talk at the same time. All at once without the slightest warning the axe slipped, cut-ting a long gash in Irs hand. He felt a sharp pain but did-not cry out. He looked at the girl who had become deathly white. With a little cry she Ihrew up her hands and fell senseless upon the carpet of chips which covered the ground. He carried her tenderly to the house almost forgetting the ac- H THE MERCURY ciclent, which had caused her insensibility, in his efforts to bring her back to consciousness. Mrs. Northwood, at first, in her excitement did not know what to do. After a little work, however, Gladys opened her eyes, and the flow of biood from his hand had been stopped. That evening as they sat before the fire discussing the events of the day, Mrs. Northwood said: "Gladys, why don't you ever wear-that ring which your uncle sent you from Mexico ? The stone alone must be worth fifty dol-lars. I am afraid yon do not appreciate the gift." A bewildered look came over the girl's fa-^e and she exclaimed : "1 was wearing that ring this afternoon when I fainted." Mrs. ISTorthwood shot a sudden glance at Arthur which he did not fail to notice, but said nothing. They then separated for the night. The next morning as Arthur was about to begin his usual work in the shed, the old farmer came out to him with a stern expression on his face. "You need not woi-k any more for me," ho said slowly. "Gladys could hardly have lost the ring for we have all searched every-where for it, and you were the only one with her at the time she was unconscious. I will keep the affair quiet but you must go today. Go back to your college and try to learn that a college education consists of more than that which we get from the books." "Why"— Clarkson began but was checked by the farmer:— "No explanations are necessary, sir—go." Clarkson climbed the stairs to the little room they had given him and gathered together the few articles of clothing which he had brought with him. If he had ever been sad before he was doubly so now. A shadow fell across the floor. He looked up and saw Gladys standing in the doorway— her eyes red with crying. •'•'Oh, Mr. Clarkson,"' she began, "I am so sorry. I know that you would not take the ring but my mother—" With this she threw her apron over her head, and, in a flood of tears, left the room. As he went back to college where he must now spend a miser-able Christmas alone, h? bemoaned his fate. His good name bad been ruined. His tuition could not be paid. He was a vie- THE MERCURY 15 tim of circumstances. And yet she had said that he was inno-cent— that was one consolation. The next day he sauntered up to the postoffiee to see if he would receive a letter from home. Sure enough, the postmas-ter handed it through the bars, hut as he looked at it he noticed that the address was m a strange hand. He opened it and read: "My dear Mr. Clarkson:— Come out to the farm at once. I was too hasty You are innocent. Yours • very sincerely, Jacob Northwood." The note was very brief, but how it thrilled the heart of the youth. He lost no lime in getting to the farm where Gladys met him at the gate and said: "Oh. Mr. Clarkson, we have found the ring. When we killed the Christmas turkey we found it in its craw. The selfish old gobbler- had picked it up from the place where I must have lost it. Come into the house." It is not necessary to' relate all the pleasant things which fol-lowed. There was no more wood cutting and—such a Christ-inas! The Xorthwoods tried in every way to make amends for the wrong they had done him. AVhen he returned to college a week later he was the happiest boy to arrive, for he had not only had a delightful time, and found new friends, but best of all in his coat pocket was a cheque on Mr. aSTorthwood's account which would more than pay the expenses of the term. 16 THE MERCURY THREE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS. Plato—Part I. CHARLES W. HEATHCOTE, '05. LATO was born in Athens about 42' B C. He was the son of Aristo and Perictione, a noble family. His mother traced kinship to Solon, the great legislate-of Athens, and Solon was a desce. dant of Noleus the i?on of Poseidon. Aristo, his father, was a descendant of Codrns the last great Athenian king, and he traced kinship to the god Poseidon Tradition claims that the god Apollo especially foless-id fti.p marriage of Aristo and Perictione and endowed Plato with special divine qualities. At an early age he received instruction • rom alle teacher Dionysius taught him literature; Ariston, the Argiane,.,gym-nastics and Megillus of Arigentamj music. With the other youths he took part in the Pythian and Is hmian games. He also, probably, took part in the military expeditions to Tanagra, Corinth and Del him. ♦ In his youth he was actively engaged in writing poems. He look part in many literary contests and reveaied much power and ability. He was about to enter a contest with a poem upon which he had worked faithfully and careful'y, when he became acquainted with Socrates. He destroyed hi' poem and most of his other poetical writings. However, some fragments have come down to us and they reveal beauty, thought and simplicity in style. From the time he met Socrates, he began to devote ail of his time to philosophy Plato was a student. He was acquainted with the past history of Greece and the sy terns of the earlier philosophers. His poetic nature and temperament revolted against the course and flippant reasonings of many of the phi-losophers of his day. They sounded as it were the minor chord entirely in their reasonings and to this the nature of Plato re-fused to respond. Thu.-:, when he understood the teachings of Socrates and the truths he taught, it seemed as if he had touch-ed the inajoi chord, tha: beautiful melodious bell-like tone, in his heart, for at once his whole nature became attuned to the THK MERCURY 17 1 ruths of Socrates and Plato bee;■1 me his enthusiastic and power-ful disciple. Plato was.about twenty years of age w'jen ne came under 1 he influence of Socrates. He was yet in hie creative process of life. His master's power over him was absolute. Since Socrates' work was noble, inspiring and uplifting, he was able to make Plato a mighty power for good in the world. Plato remained faithful and true to his old teacher and mas-ter, lie was a true disciple. He followed his teacher through his varied caieer and after his death which had been inflicted by '.he Athenian people he became the leader oC the Socratic school •md taught and promulgated anew the immcital Socratic truth. His truth was ideal. Sometime after Socrates' death Plato went to Egypt and made himself acquainted with the religious thought of that land.Trad-i tion says that he also went to Persia, and the^e he was taught the Zorathushtrian doctrines. But this cannot oe definitely deter-mined. He also visited Italy and studied the organization of the Pythagorean schools. Plato very likely visited Euclid at Megara, as Megara was not very far from Athens. How much influence Euclid had over P'ato in the formation and the deeper '.evelopment of his philosophic system can not be definitely 1 nown On his return to Athens he was threatened with punishment and even death. He stood firm in his determination to carry nit his master's work and would not be swerved from his course. Plato look 1-0 active part in governmental affairs. He was not ?n orator. ' He had returned to Athens to open a philosophic school. He opened his academy in the grove of Aeschemus. Over the great philosophic sehoo! he presided until his death. There with his pupils he analyzed and developed the germs of ethics, psychology and logic as found in the Socratij teachings. It is said that Plato made several voyages to Sicily in the in-terests of his academy. ■ At the invitation of Dionysius, the Svracusan ruler, Plato discussed with him on the subjects of happiness, virtue, government and justice. Plutarch (610) rays, "Justice was the next topic; and when Plato asserted the happiness of the just, and the wretched condition of the unjust, 'he tyrant was stung: and being unable to answer his arguments, i8 THE MERCURY he expressed his resentment against those>uo seemed to listen -o him with pleasure. At last he was extremely exasperated, r.nd asked the philosopher what business he hsd rrr Sicily. Plato answered, 'that he came to seek an honest man.' 'And so, then/ replied the tyrant, 'it seems that you have lost your labor/' Dionysius had resolved to slay Plato but through the plead-ing of Piato's friends his life was spared and he was sold into flavery to the Aeginetans. He was finally ransomed and re-turned to his academy. When D-'onysius the younger ascended the throne Plato again visited Sicily, but he was unable to accomplish anything. Of Plato's family less is known then of Socrates' Ye: y likely ne was married although it is not known to whom. Neither ran he be called an ascetic as some writers of recent times have been accustomed to call him. A man of hi, social, intellectual and moral position could not live an ascetic life and do the work he did. Thus it has been mentioned that his power as a writer was revealed in his early youth. It was evidently in the prime of ' ife that he established his academy at Athms. It was there ".hat he was busily engaged in teaching philosophy and writing •:nd rewriting his lectures and "there at the ripe age of eighty-pne he died." Marshall rays, "Prom the scene of his labors bis philosophy las ever since been known as the Academic philosophy. Unlike .'Socrates, he was not content to leave only -i memory of himself and his conversations. Re was unwearied in bis reduction and correction of his written dialogues, altering them here and there both iu c;.; ression and in structure. It is impossible, there-fore, to be absolutely certain as to the historical order of compo-sition 01 publication among his numerous dialogues, but a cer-tain np proximate order may be fixed." A very large number of works have been attributed to Plato. Some ha -c ' een proved spurious Most historians of philosophy accept thi ivy-six compositions as written by Plato'. Most au-thors aeocy the works of P.'ato as follows: Charmides; Lvsis• Laches; Ion; Meno; Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo; Pro-tagoras, ihithydemus; Cral.lus; Gorgias; Hippias Alcibiades: TIUC MKKCUKY 19 Meneseus; Symposinus; Phaedrus; The Republic; Timaeus; Philebus; Parinenides; Theoetetus and The Laws. Acccrdirg to TJeberueg (104), "Schleiermacher divides the-works into three groups. Elementary, mediatory or prepara-tory and constructive dialogues. As Plato's first composition he names the Phaderus; as his latest writings, the Republic. Li-malus, and the Laws." In all bis waitings the poetic nature and style predominates. Although he is a waiter of urose, he is a poet at heart. Some-one ha-5 called him, "the Shakespeare of Gre k philosophy on ac-count of hif fertility, variety, humor, imagination and poetic grace. The philosophy of Plato is the philosophy of Socrates. This philosophical reasoning is prevalent throughout Plato's works. His thoughts and principles are built upon a Socratic basis. As Plato analyzes the deep thoughts of Socrates, he, here and there, adds a finishing touch and makes it more complete. It must not bo thought that Plato was a mere imitator, he was to) great a genius for that. Plato had been trained in the true Soc aric school of hard reasoning ana logical thinking. His kn Avlcdge of philosophy in the largest sense was marvelous. His knocedge of the various systems of the wo-ld gave him power to produce a careful and logical system, of reasoning with the Socratic truths as basic philosophical principles. Zeller says, "In Plato's scientific method also, we recognize the deepeinng, the purification and the progress of the Socratic philosophy. Prom the principles of conceptual knowledge arises, as its inunediate consequence, that dialectic of which Socrates must bi considered the author. While Socrates in forming con-cepts, stiV.es from the contingencies of the given case, and never ■ goes b3.T!id the particular, Plato requires by continued analysis from the phenomenon to the idea, from particular ideas to the highest and most universal.' The Socratic form of discussion 111 the character and manner of the dialogue is prominent in Plato's writings. If there is an idea that Plato desires to have understood and- made clear, it is brought out in his writings by the manner if speech. Though in some places his logic may be distributed, yet taken on the whole it is not the case. He sets forth his philosophy with 20 THE MERCURY (.learner and in a scientific way. The dialogue enabled his readers to grasp his ideas more readily. There is another striking characteristic in his dialogues; that is, Sociites is the central figure. He not on;y xeads in the con-versation, , 'le best listener, but he is also the most acute reasoner and thinker. Though Plato in some instanc s may represent an idealized Socrates, nevertheless be remembers how great a debt of gratitude he owes his master. From Socrates he received his spiritual and tbeistic beliefs. In th'i Banquet by Plato (M. Ed. T. 81) we quote the follow-ing pan; of a dialogue in which Socrates is discussing with Agathon Jhe philosophical conception of Love. "Come," said SocratT-., 'let us review your concessions. Is Love anything else th:n die love first of something; and secondly, of those things of which it has need?"—"Nothing."—"Now, remember x-f these things jrou said in your discourse, thai Love was the love —if you wish I will remind \ou. I think you said something of this kin.i, 'hat all the affairs of the gods were admirably disposed through the love of the things which are beautiful for there was no love of ^hings deformed, did you not say so?"—"I confess that I did."—'You said th.pt what was most likely to be true, my frLnd: and if the matter be so, the lovs of beauty must be one thing, and the love of deformity another. '■—"Certainly." So eo'n],rehensive is Plalo's philosophical system that much is emh-ived in it. To divide it into distinct divisions is diffi-cult. KIP philosophical system may be divided into three parts: logic, physics and ethics. Whe., the dialogues are examined carefully it is found though the though! may seem to relaps too much in the following state-ments, nevertheless, every thought looks up to the idea that Plato wishes to unfold. There is no confusion. One idea explains another idea, one thought leads up to another thought and so on in true progressive and logical order. THE MERCURY THE BELLS. JOSEPH ARNOLD, '09. 21 "How soft the music of those village b'-Jie Falling at intervals upon the ear., In cadence tweet, now dying all away. Now pealing loud again and louder Btill Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on." —C'owper. Soft and SAveet, indeed, are the'tones as they set the calm quiet air on a Sunday morning vibrating. What a charm the strains of a familiar hymn have, as they reach the ear from some distant church! ' And yet the chimes and bells with all their pleasant memories of childhood days lingeringly attached to them, with all their melodious sweetness, have an interesting history. Almost at the very beginning of things, a certain Tubal Cain, sixth descendant from Adam, an artificer in all kinds of metals, probably discovered the sonorous qualities of metals. He may have manufactured some crude instrument, which, when struck gave forth a ringing sound These crude beginnings gradually were improved upon; for, in Exodus, we learn that bells of gold were attached to the robe of Aaron in order that his going in and coming out of the place of worship might "be made known to the people. Zechariah introduces us to another improvement; namely, the inscription, "HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD," upon the bells of the horses. Not only did, in those early times, the Children of Israel make use of the bells, hut also the Egyp-tians, Assyrians and Chaldeans. Those used by the Egyptians were as a means of announcing the feast of Osiris. In offering sacrifices the priests of Cyble of Assyria made use of the bells. So on down through the ages we come across the development of bells, some of gold and others of bronze. About bells were associated many superstitions, as records show us. Pliny and Juvenal, it is said, tell us of bells being rung during eclipses, which were, as it was believed, attended by evil spirits. The ringing of the bells would, according to their beliefs, drive these away. The belief can easily be evidenced 21 THE MERCURY by inscriptions upon the bells as follows: "Pesiem fugo" and "Dissipo veutos." During the early Christian era a number of such brief inscriptions were put into poetical form and became the common inscription upon bells. Laudo Deum verum, plebum voco, conjugu clerum Defunclus ploro, pesiem fugo, festa decoro. Funero pilango, fulgura frango, Sabaia pango Excito lentoSj dissipo ventos, paco crucntos." Bells, even at a very early period, were put to a practical pur-, pose, as may be gathered from the following records left by Aes-chylus and Euripedes: Greek warriors were accustomed to wear small bells-upon their shields so that they might when on guard duty inform the passing captain that they were awake. Even Plutarch is said to have mentioned in his record of the seige of Xanthus the fact that bells were attached to nets stretched acre-the river so that natives could not escape by way of the river without coming into contact with the bells thus attached. Thus far small bells only were referred to, since the large ones were not. in use for worship or alarm or to strike the hour, till some 400 A. D. The use of bells for churches doubtless gave rise to that feature of architecture, the bell tower. In the Middle Ages, bells played a prominent part. During that period whenever a bell was cast, before it was used in a church, it went through a form of consecration; for it was wash-ed with water, annoiuted with oil, and marked with the sign of the cross in the name of the Trinity, and, from what we can gather, archbishops officiated and persons of high rank, with great pomp, attended the ceremony of christening. As time went on nearly every form of worship had its bell. There was the Sanctus bell, tho Angelus or Ave Marie bell, the Vesper bell, the Complin bell, and the Passing bell. The Sanctus bell of today is a small bell and it is rung before the elevating of the Host by the priest. During the Middle Ages, this was a large bell and rung just when the "Sancte, sancte, sanete Deum Sab-baoth" was sung or chanted. All who heard bowed their heads in reverence and adoration. The Angelus was rung at fixed hours and called the mind from worldly duties toward a mo-ment's meditation and the blessed Virgin. It further marked THE MEKCURY 23 the time of beginning and cessation of labor. There still lingers with ns a sweet echo, as it were, of that beautiful 'custom in the famous painting, "The Angelus." The artist seems to have caught the charm and in the moment of God-given inspiration placed upon canvas the halo of bygone days. The Yesper bell was the call to evening prayer and the Complin bell closed the clay. Finally the most impressive was the solemn tolling of the Passing bell; it called for the prayers of the faithful in behalf of the passing of a soul from life. A little of the spirit of the Middle Ages still clings to us; for we still adhere to some of the customs of those times. The toll-ing of the bell during the passing of a funeral in a "God's acre" comes directly from the custom of the Passing bell. One rite or ceremony peculiar to the Dark Ages was t. pe tolling of a bell to summon an audience in order that a priest might read in their hearing an anathema; to blow out in their presence the candle and in that manner excommunicate a poor unfortunate from "bell, book and candle." The use of the curfew is familiar to all. It was probably in-troduced into. England from France by William the Conqueror. Alarm bells were a,so used at an early date. Is it not Shakes-peare who makes Macbeth say when Birnam wood was moving on the castle in which he had shut himself, "Eing the alarm bell!" ? Of course, in modern times, since the discovery of electricity, the use of bells for alarm has become more or less systematized. The composition of material which enters into bell making can readily be gathered from various sources. There are in the world some very large bells, marvelous and unique, arousing much wonder and creating great interest. It may be that the longing for display was accountable for sucli huge sizes. May we not likewise infer that their immensity in the eyes of the ignorant and semi-civilized made them more meritorious? Thus Russia, mostly in a state of semi-civiliza-tion, is noted for the largest bells. The large bell which espe-cially attracts universal attention is the "King of Bells," the hell of Moscow. Hs history may be read at a glance from one of the inscr (ions upon it. namelv ip- 24 THE MERCURY . This Bell :, was cast in 1733 by order of the Imperial Empress Anne, Daughter of John It was in the earth 103 years and by the will of the ■ r .: Imperial Emperor ^ Nicholas "' "'-■: :. was raised upon this pedestal in 1835, August 4th. It is not necessary here to enter into details concerning its history; the number of times it was recast, its enormous weight or colossal size or the stir it created among the nobility of Eu-rope. Sufficient to say, that it excells and stands alone. There is another very large bell of which mention should be made namely, the Assumption bell of Moscow, next in weight to the "King of Bells." Although it weighs one hundred and ten tons and its diameter is eighteen feet, it is hung and tolled once a year. A writer says, "When it sounds, a deep hollow murmur vibrates all over Moscow, like the fullest tones of a vast organ or the rolling of distant thunder/' One bell, though not a large one, is nevertheless dear to the heart of every loyal American. That bell announced to the peo-ple that the Declaration of Independence was signed; that free-dom was theirs. It bears the name of "Liberty Bell;" a name •deserved and a name *hat will last as long as time itself. Though iits life as a bell is but a brief one, there arfc gathered about it miemories saored to us. It still, as its inscription reads, "Pro-claims liberty throughout the land." Thus ends the stoiy of the bell imperfectly and briefly told ,ind yet let us not forget to mention the important part it plays in poetry. First upon the bells as we find them may be found couplets which run ns follows:— ■ »k and, also. "Jesus fulfil with thy good grace All that we beckon to this place." "I to the church the living call And to the grave do summon all." THE MERCURY "Be mec and loly To heare the word of God." 25 There are possibly as many quaint inscriptions on bells, as upon tombstones but space does not permit mentioning them. Most of the poets make mention of bells in connection with services. Longfellow says the Angelus called the Arcadian fanner from his work. Shiller in his remarkable "Lay of the Bell," portrays the life of a mortal. How clearly he associates the storms and calms of life in the tale of a belFs making. And who can, in such melodious rythmical splendor compare with Edgar Allen Poe, as he depicts the functions of the bells in that masterpiece of his? How it thrills one to hear that poem re-cited! One can almost hear the merry jingling of the sleigh bells o'er the icy fields, or the mellow wedding bell foretelling a world of happiness, or the banging and clanging of the loud alarm bells, or e'en the solemn tolling from the lips of the sombre iron bells of luckless destiny. What a world of thought is cre-ated in the reading of a poem such as that! How it carries us back, yea back to the days gone by! How we hear faintly the bells, sweetly echoing in our hearts some happy occurrence, or like a voice from heaven bringing us in close touch with a dear one gone before. Thus bells have played an important part in life from times immemorable to the present day. 26 THE MERCURY DO WE NEED POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS IN THIS COUNTRY? BY 1908. AST summer wtu'le spending some time in a rural dis-trict of a neighboring state, an instance of particular interest came to my notice. One day a resident of the small I village came into the postoffice and had a money order for a certain amount made out in his own name. The postmaster, being of an inquisitive nature, asked the man why it should be in his own name. The man said he didn't want to have the money in the house; that lie didn't have time to take it to the bank (for the nearest one was fifteen miles away); that it would cost him just as much to send it to the bank as to get a money order for it, besides the trouble of sending it: and that it would he safer in the hands of the Government than if it were in the bank. An instance of this nature to a person of ordinary intelligence would he very striking. Thoughts of the advantages of some people and the disadvantages of others naturally arise. This man evidently was'not in a position to enjoy the great privilege of. men in other districts of having a hank in which to deposit his money. Xext we would likely wonder how many men were in a similar circumstance hut who did not invest their money in money orders, having it hoarded up somewhere as cold cash. There are, no doubt, so great a number of them, even though their amounts of possession being small, that a vast sum of money is being held, hound up and kept from circulation. The man's last remark as to thfe safety of his money in the form of a money order, brings the fact to our notice that banks do not have the confidence of the people in general that the Government evidently has, for this man was willing to pay the Government to keep his money instead of receiving interest for the use of if from a bank. few people will deny that our present system of banks is a success considered in all its phases. But is it the best system that can be had? Does it efficiently meet all that is demanded of it? We think not. The present financial condition of our country leads us to this conclusion. The fact that banks in their present condition are subject to failure thereby causing the THE MERCURY .27 loss of the wealth of their depositors oftentimes inspires, more especially the small depositor, with fear and shatters all confi-dence in them. As a consequence great amounts are hoarded up in strong chests and other places and are practically a drag to the progress of our country where free circulation of money is such a necessary function in prosperity. The money strin-gency which necessitated the recent issue of Government bonds was largely due to the inadequacy of our banking institutions to supply the need. Ours is a country of gre"at natural wealth, so vast, indeed, in extent, that we can hardly get a definite conception of it. Though we are making rapid strides in developing these re-sources, we have not reached the greatest degree of efficiency. There are vast tracts of land that could be more efficiently cul-tivated; mines to be developed; products to be transported; and many other directions for progress, but no means of bettering this state of affairs. Why have we not reached the highest, de-gree of efficiency? This question is easily• answered by saying that the circulation of money is too small. Thus we see the great need of getting all money possible into circulation. Since there is such a great need for the circulation of all the money in the United States, we need to consider reasons why this circulation is hindered. Probably the most striking of these reasons is the lack of confidence that some people have in our banks. Circulation is not hindered by the lack of confi-dence of our people alone. There are vast numbers of foreigners in our country who. doubting the stability of our banks, and having explicit confidence in their own government banks, send their earnings home and deposit them there. In this way great sums of money are kept from circulating in our land and for this reason some industries must suffer because of being unable to secure sufficient funds for their-further development. The issue of bonds recently made shows the great need of money for circulation and, above all things, shows that the money will most likely he obtained from the-people who are afraid of investing money in other enterprises, but, because of their confidence in the Government, are willing to take her bonds at a lower rate of interest than could be gotten otherwise. We have been considering the fact that there are conditions in our country which are not as they should be for its better de- 28 THE ME.RCURY velopment and prosperity. To set forth these deficiencies with-out suggesting a means of correction would be foolish exertion. Anything that will right these conditions we may regard as the very thing needed by our country. Our suggestion for the cure of these conditions is a system of postal savings banks. Such a system would reach all conditions of people as the banking places would be the postoffices and postoffices are found scattered everywhere in the states. Then the great amount of money that is hoarded up, because there is no bank near enough, would be put.into circulation. Then tun, very many of our citi-zens who now hide their earnings and the foreign element who send their money abroad for deposit in their own government banks, because of their confidence in an institution with govern-ment backing, and not in our banks as they now are, would de-posit in the postal banks and thus by increasing the circulation of currency, help to remedy existing conditions. One with a different idea might wonder what would become oi our present banking institutions which are run by individuals who necessarily reap the benefits not only of their own money, hut also that of the Government which they get at a low rate of interest. He might ask, Shall we harm a fairly well working system for one that we only imagine Avould work? That a sys-tem of postal savings banks would harm our other banks is not likely, for it would obtain greater amounts of money for distri-bution to these banks at a lower rate of interest. With this view of the matter, the private banks would themselves be benefitted as Avell as the country at large. Then as to the working of the proposed banks we have no serious doubts. They are working-well in other countries and could easily be successful here. But someone may object; think of the great expense ami trouble the Government would have to undergo. It is true there would be some expense and labor connected with the en-terprise but the benefits derived would be so much'greater in proportion to the money formerly expended as most clearly to justify such a course. If our manufacturers today would re-fuse to increase their business because of more cost to them, we would have a pitiable state of affairs existing. Industries would be at a standstill. But they do not conduct business on this principle. They make a great sacrifice of monev and labor to THE MERCURY 29 a certain degree and in return make a greater proportional amount of gain. It is therefore an easy matter to see that the system would pay for itself and that is all we demand of it, since it is a gen-eral public undertaking and is not supposed to be run in order to make money. It would be for the welfare of the individual citizens of our nation. The idea of labor is no argument against it. We may rather consider it as a point in its favor. The extra labor would furnish excellent, well salaried positions for a great number of people. That there is need of some way of keeping the currency of our Government in circulation is very evident. The present pros-perity and welfare of our country demand it. If the present demands it, the same will be true of the future, only then the demand will be more intense. To meet this increasing demand necessitates, some system that will reach the portions of the country in which money is hoarded; that will have the confi-dence of the public in its favor. Our present system of banks has been, and is doing a great deal towards a free circulation of money yet they are proving insufficient. A system of postal savings banks, as we have shown, would meet the above named requirements; would furnish greater circulation of money; and would therefore add very materially to our progress as a nation. T H E ERCQRV Entered at the Postoffice at Gettysburg as second-class Matter. VOL. XV GETTYSBURG, PA., DECEMBER 1907 No. 7 Editor-in-Chief EDMUND L. MANGES, .'08 Exchange. Editor ROBERT W. MICHAEL, '08 Business Manager HENRY M. BOWER, '08 Ass't Bus. Managers LESLIE L. TAYLOR, '09 CHARLES L. KOPP, '09 Assistant Editor MARKLEY C. ALBRIGHT, '08 Associate Editors PAUL F. BLOOMHARDT, '09 E. E. SNYDER, '09 Advisory Board PROF. J. A. HIMES, LITT.D PROP. G. D. STAHLEY, M.D. PROP. J. W. RICHARD, D.D. Published each month, from October to June inclusive, by the joint literary societies of Pennsylvania (Gettysburg) College. Subscription price, one dollar a year in advance : single copies 15 cents. Notice to discontinue sending THE MERCURY to any address must be accompanied by all arrearages. Students, Professors and Alumni are cordially invited to contri-bute. All subscriptions and business matter should be addressed to the Business Manager. Articles for publication should be addressed to the Editor. Address THE MERCURY, GETTYSBURG, PA. EDITORIALS. GEN. DE WALI_'S It is with a great ARTICLE deal of pleasure that we present this number of the MHUCURY to its readers par-ticularly because of its article on the Boers. Some few years ago, when war broke out between these people and the English, we all read of the movements and ac-tions that took place in the Tran-svaal and Orange Free State with great interest. The war from beginning to end is doubt- THE MERCURY 31 less familiar to 11s, but we know very little of the Boer history prim- to this time. This article' gives us a very distinct and clear cut epitome of that earlier period. A thing that lends a peculiar interest'to this article is the fact that it was written by one of the most prominent men of the people with whom it deals, so that we get the facts first hand, it is needless to waste time or space in telling those of our read-ers who met General Dc Wall about his personal experience or service, but it may be of some interest to those who did not have the extreme pleasure of seeing or hearing him. Fifteen years in German schools and universities, a period before the war as pres-ident of the Volksraat or Congress of the Transvaal Eepublic, and during the war as a general in the Boer army, are three major items of his life. We have been rather fortunate this fall in having the privilege of coming in contact with a number of distinguished men, but most striking, most unique among them all stands Gen. l)e Wall. .He is a very extraordinary type of man. a type that is very sel-dom 'found. In this man we see one who has had the great privilege of a liberal education; one who has been successful in life, having at one time been a wealthy man and holding a posi-tion in South Africa second only to that of the distinguished and well known Oom Paul Krueger; one who experienced war in all its phases; one who has suffered as few men have and sur-vived, having lost wealth, position and family, and is now even an exile because he lefused to swear allegiance to the country that deprived him of wealth and family, all that was dear to him. He did not come to us'in state, but as a very common, man, yet the impression that he made upon us is one that will last longer for that very reason. Is it any wonder that a man of such a' varied experience both in quantity and quality is interesting? Although he has been a child of fortune and has known the extremes of joy and sorrow, he has come through them safely, with principles and faith in his God unshaken. We again say that we consider ourselves fortunate in having this interesting and instructive article to give to our readers, not because of the worth of the article alone, but because of its distinguished author. 32 THE MERCURY LITERARY It is with a feeling of pleasure that we write CONTEST. concerning the coming Inter-society Contest. We are pleased to announce that, after a lapse of two years, the two Literary Societies have settled their petty disagreements and have agreed to meet in a general literary contest and de-bate. The contest and debate were formerly leading features of the winter term; but in -recent years, as before stated, have not been held for various reasons. And now, inasmuch as all preliminary arrangements have been made and the contest is practically as-sured, it is our earnest wish that the.members of the societies realize the importance of the coming conflict. 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We Christians come to know our calling to a certain kind of minis-try in the Church through our fidelity to prayer--a continuing dialogue in our relationship with God. By way of analogy, those in the vocation of married life know that the sacramental celebration of matrimony rep-resents only the start of a new relationship together with God. It will take a married lifetime of dialogue with each other and with God and of so living to make the reality of the sacrament come true. Similarly, those in the vocation of religious life signify in some way (commonly through some kind of vow-taking) that they are professing and aiming at a spe-cial relationship with God with the wholeness of their lives. Again re-ligious are well aware that vow or profession day is only the beginning of the dialoguing and of the living out of this "aimed-at" relationship. In these vocations of married and religious life, the Christian prayer of both the individual and the community (marital or religious) is a neces-sary part of the continuing dialogue which keeps alive and nourishes the particular vocation undertaken by our first responding to God's initia-tive. The call to minister in the name of Christ and officially authorized in the service of the Church also remains grounded in the prayer-dialogue. Ministry, not rooted in prayer, is no ministry at all. Good deeds done may represent admirable humanitarianism which we honor and appreciate, but we do not grace it with the identity of ministry. Min-istry flows from a consciousness of God and God's ways of acting and from a sense of responsibility in acting in the name of Christ's Body, the Church. The pervading consciousness of God and the connatural way of acting as God acts are the fruit of a prayer life, which is consistently fostered "for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health." This dialogue pei'meates and empowers our Christian life as well as our ministry whatever it may be. In this issue, we highlight two aspects of this continuing dialogue so necessary for our vocation and for ourmin!stry. The passion or fire in our Christian way of praying is reflected in the articles "The God of the Scriptures: An Invitation to Passionate Prayer" .by Anthony Wieczorek, O. Praem., "Romantic Relations with the Sacred" by Richard J. De- Maria, C.F.C., and "A Joyful Supp!ication for Justice" by A. Paul 641 642 Review for Religious, September-October 1989 Dominic, S.J. The passion--meaning self-emptying and often a sense of dying--is also a part of our Christian experience of growth in prayer; the articles "Negative Floating" by Barbara Dent and "Spiritual Dryness: Some Practical Guidelines" by Eamon Tobin give some insight into these always difficult moments. Three articles, viewing various aspects of our religious life vocation, are written within the specific prayer context of our lives. "Religious Formation: A Contemplative Realignment" by Jane Ferdon, O.P., con-siders the formation task. "Discernment and Elections in Religious In-stitutes" by Marcello De Carvalho Azevedo, S.J., focuses the very spe-cial moments of leadership choice and policy-making in religious in-stitutes. Finally, "Rituals of Death, Denial, and Refounding" by Ger-ald A. Arbuckle, S.M., reflects on the importance of religious celebrat-ing in a truly Christian manner the dying and death moments in their con-gregational life if revitalization or refounding is to occur today. In the northern hemisphere, the summer months are coming, to an end, with the traditional vacation time behind us for another year. We move on to another "work" year and whatever our ministry may be. With the help of God's grace, .we find ourselves at an opportune time to assess again how our lives, our ministries, and our prayer truly form one healthy and supportive ecological system. May our various authors in this issue contribute to our insight and give us perspective in our quest. David L. Fleming, S.J. The God of the Scriptures: An Invitation to Passionate Prayer Anthony Wieczorek, O.Praem. Father Anthony Wieczorek, O.Praem., is currently chaplain of the Sign of God Deaf Ministry office which serves the Deaf and Hearing Impaired community of the Green Bay diocese. He also directs the Theological Institute, a summer program at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. He continues to write a weekly article for the local diocesan newspaper. His address is St. Norbert Abbey; De Pere, Wiscon-sin 54115-2697. We all have them. Most of us have learned to control, even ignore them. But for some, they appear unasked for and when they do they are toler-ated with all the patience we have for a head cold. They are our emo-tions, our deep seated emotions, the dark and passionate side of our hu-man nature. We enjoy them when, at sports activities, we give ourselves permis-sion to act outraged or triumphant and they suit our moods. We like it when they sneak out quietly in the form of tears at the end of a touching movie. They may also try to make their presence known during prayer, but here they are often considered most distracting and least desired. And yet, if there is a time for emotion, if there is a time for passion at all, it is during prayer. Prayer is a naturally revealing activity. Ii is natural that passionate emotions should arise within us during.prayer. They are conduits to the parts of ourselves God wishes most to go. It is little wonder we should find them straining to emerge. Could it be that they are even called forth by a God eager to touch this part of ourselves so seldom shared? Unfortunately, they are the parts of ourselves we least of all like. Most often, they are corridors to the side of ourgelves we fear. They lead 643 60,4 / Review for Religious, September-October 1989 into the cauldron of emotion we have not yet learned to control. We may not be really sure what lurks there but we are fairly confident that God has no part of it, that it is best shielded from God,-that what surges there is best atoned for in secret, not something to be proud of and shared openly with God. But are passionate emotions like anger and jealousy and lust called forth during times of prayer so that we can "confess" to them? Or are they summoned at God's own invitation? Can it be, might it be, that God can desire a passionate prayer as well and as much as a prayer that is con-templative, tranquil, and serene? Might it be that the God who appears ¯ throughout the pages of the Bible speaks to us best and can identify with us most through the part of ourselves we keep most hidden? The God of the Scriptures is indeed a passionate God. This article is an exploration of that theme and of the constructive relationship that exists between passion and prayer. The Passionate Nature of God Pascal was right when he said that there seemed to be two Gods: the God discussed by philosophers and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of the Scriptures. Most people prefer the philosophers' God. That Being is reasonable, controlled, logical. The God of the phi-losophers thinks, plans, orders, foresees. There is, of course, a "feel-ing" side to this God too. God does, after all, feel compassion and love for creation. But those "feelings" are held well in check and are dis-pensed cooly and properly. This God seems to resemble a fine Victorian gentleman/scholar. And, very often, especially here in the Western world, that is the image we would like to have of ourselves. That is the standard and goal we set for ourselves. The point is not that this image of God is false. But is it all there is? Is it only one side of a much more complex personality? Do we, with a too exclusively philosophical model of God, lose some of God's mys-tery because we fail to pay proper attention to God's emotion and pas-sionate nature? Perhaps such a theology is no more complete than an anthropology that deliberately ignores the emotional and passionate side of human be-ing? The point of human growth is to integrate and harmonize the parts of our nature i'nto one. To ignore our emotions is to ignore half of our selves. In addition to being rational, thinking creatures, human beings also love, feel anger, jealousy, crave revenge, desire, and feel pity. We are indeed complex beings. Can we dare imagine a God who is any less? Moreover, if we are so thoroughly emotional and if we were made in The God of the Scriptures / 6t15 God's own image and likeness, what can we conclude about God? Scripture tells us that "God is love." Love is, to be sure, more than an intellectual attitude or disposition toward life. Love is an emotion. Peo-ple in love are known sometimes to do strange things, spontaneous things, unpredictable things. Or so they seem to us. But to them, fol-lowing the "logic of love," their actions have a rationality, a purpose, an order. Finding it, though, and seeing the reasoning behind such ac-tions can be almost as hard as finding the sense and reason behind some of God's actions in our lives. God is not illogical nor is God emotion-ally unstable. God is simply love. God is simply in love with us "and with ¯ all of creation. God is a Being of great and passionate emotion. That, at least, is what the Scriptures tell us. Perhaps, to beg the question a bit, that is why God chose the Jews in the first place as recorders of divine revelation. The Jews, and all Near Eastern people for that matter, were extremely emotional and passionate people. Check the papers--they still are. But if you were God, would you have chosen them to write the record of your revelation? Many people would probably have preferred the Greeks. Their philo-sophical bent would more likely have appealed to us. And indeed, they would probably have done an admirable job at revealing God's mind. But could they have matched the Jewish brilliance for revealing God's heart? The Jewish passion for life was a most fitting medium for the man-ner of God's message. For the Scriptures reveal in emotional and pas-sionate imagery and terms the heart as well as the mind of God. Maybe, we argue, the Jewish people were simply transferring their own emotional nature onto God and that God no more has passionate feel-ings than God has legs withwhich to walk around in the garden of Eden. Yet, even though they were not meant to be read literally, all the images and words do reveal and communicate something about God. To glean this, though, the Scriptures must be read with an open mind and heart. God's Emotional Involvement in Life What do the Scriptures tell us about God? The Bible reveals a God who is very much alive and near. The biblical God does not observe the glories and follies of creation from afar. This is not a God who aloofly administri~tes creation and human history. Rather, this is a God who min-isters, to it and within it. The God of the Bible is pastorally involved in human life. We know that because the Scriptures reveal a God who is emotionally involved in human life. There are levels and degrees of involvement in community, in fam-ily, in politics, in everything regarding life. One criterion for measuring 646 / Review for Religious, September-October 1989 or determining the depth of involvement is the amount of emotional in-vestment shown. In community living, for example, it is easy enough to state one's involvement in community affairs. One may even show up at community meetings and functions. But does that person's words and presence communicate an active involvement or a benign disinterest? Does body language alone, for instance, tell the others present that, "I am here to observe. Really, I couldn't care less what happens. It is some-what interesting, even humorous though. Just continue and pretend I'm not here." No words may communicate that. But the message is made, communicated through posture, through sleepy eyes and flacid facial e~- pression. On the other hand is the person very much involved in the pro-ceedings. Like the other, thi~ person says not a word. Yet through all the same means the message communicated is much different. This per-son exhibits interest through a tense body, through a face that while si-lent is red with anger or aglow with satisfaction. The eyes hold an inter-est, the palms sweat, a leg fidgets nervously. This person is truly and pastorally present and alive. Why? Because the person is visibly emo-tionally involved. And that is what we want from each other and from God. Similarly, why do we become upset with the "professional" pastor who runs the office well and administrates the parish efficiently but who cannot feel his people's pain, who cannot rejoice at someone's birth or mourn at another's death? Why do we feel cheated? Why does the per-son seem pastorally out of touch and somehow less a priest than the pas-tor who is able and willing to be emotionally present to the people? Why does the emotionally uninvested pastor seem to communicate less God's presence? Why do we feel disappointed? For what reason do we feel we should be able to expect and receive more? All of this speaks to an image or a set of expectations we have about God. Because God cares, God's ministers should also care. Because God is able to and does feel with the people, so should God's priests and pas-toral workers. We want and need to feel God present in our lives and feel cheated by those who serve in God's name if somehow we cannot sense from them a deeper presence of God than the merely physical. We want and feel a right to expect an emotional presence and involvement. We want our pastoral workers to be passionately present and active. We want and expect that because we feel God is passionately present and ac-tive. But why? Does that expectation and feeling originate within us alone? Or is that the image Of God that is mysteriously and boldly com- The God of the Scriptures /647 municated through almost every page of the Bible? Indeed, God is most emotionally present and involved in the lives of the Jewish people. That is true from exodus to exile, from restoration through resurrection. God communicates through the Scriptures a presence and involvement that is intensely passionate. The Passionate God of the Prophets Nowhere is this more evident than in the writings of the prophets. Within the prophetic books we see a picture of a God at wits' end. The people had rebelled from God's love and were running headlong toward destruction. We hear a response from God that is the emotional equal of what is politically, socially, and spiritually at stake. Read with the emotion befitting the texts Amos 8:4-8 or 4:!-3 or Hosea'l !:1-11 or Jeremiah 7:i-20 or Isaiah 54:78 or any of the other prophets, and you find the words of a person on the edge, the words of a person who is not at all detached or even mildly interested. In those words and so many others we receive a message of a God filled with pas-sion for the welfare of his people, a God who is truly emotionally in-volved in the life, past and future, of his people. If there is anger in God's words, it is the anger of a parent or lover, the passion of someone who cares tremendously about another. It is an anger born of frustration and love. Who has been in love without feel-ing anger? Love is a powerful emotion that opens us up to other equally powerful feelings. And what of the energy invested in both love and an-ger? Passion has a high price in emotional energy that is paid only by those truly sincere about what they feel. The quality and quantity of God's emotion so naked and strong throughout the prophets is testimony to the sincerity of God's passionate love. Moreover, it is a passion and sincerity that God expects in return. Love that is deep and intense expects a return in kind. One of our ways of showing love is through our prayer, both private and liturgical. Note, then, in Isaiah I:11-16 and Amos 5:21-25 and Jeremiah 7:21-28, the re-action of God to worship that is liturgically correct but void of sincerity and feeling. God expects a worship from the heart, a worship that is a reflection of our love. To be proper and true to the rubrics is not enough, not even the most important thing. What God seeks is what God gives, a prayer that is emotionally sincere. What God "hates" and "detests," what is "loathsome" to God is prayer empty of affect. That does not mean that worship must be a wild and ecstatic affair. However, it must be sincere; it must reveal an authentic human warmth. Worship, prayer, is more than so many words or lack of them. We can 648 / Review for Religious, September-October 1989 meditate quite correctly and all without opening our hearts in love. A prayer that is emotionally fl~t.and cold is the sacrifice displeasing to God. Perhaps that is why Paul tells.us that because "we-do, not know how to pray as we ought, the Spirit makes intercession f~or us with groanings that cannot be-expressed in speech" (Rm 8:26). That is an invitation to pray our feelings, to pray from and with our emotions. That is what God asks for and longs to share, for it is that which is most truly in our hearts. The Spirit helps us to raise what we are feeling in prayer, even if it can be expressed in no other way than by a groan. Since we are to live as we pray, God expects from us a life that is emotionally honest and open. How often we repress our feelings and hold in check our passion. We refuse to allow ourselves to feel and that pre-vents us from being as effective and compassionate as Jesus was and calls us to be. The "cry of the poor" is too painful to hear so we learn to close to the poor not only our ears but also our hearts. We dull our abil-ity and willingness to feel and so lose a major motivating force behind Christian action. Pity is not the issue here, rather compassion and jus-tice. Perhaps it was because Jesus was a man of such strong emotions that he was as compassionate and sensitive as the Scriptures say. Yet not only did Jesus have strong feelings, he was willing to live with them and feel them. Because he did not repress what he felt but lived what he felt he could be moved enough to touch and heal the leper (Mk 1:41) and raise the widow's son (Lk 7:11-17). If Jesus was the troublemaker and law-breaker the Pharisees claimed, it was because he allowed his emotions to so move his charity and inspire his faith that he saw not simply the law but the people the law did not and could not serve. God's Call for a Passionate Faith Jesus' emotion is most manifest in his faith. Many people were raised to believe that faith is something we do with our minds, that faith is an intellectual act of agreement or obedience to a tradition or set of beliefs. While it may be that, it is not only that. This is clear from the way Jesus lived and how he believed. For Jesus, faith was an emotion that gripped not only his mind, but his heart and body as well. Oftentimes one emotion is held in check by another. A boy, for in-stance, may want to introduce himself to a girl. The "love" he feels for her is held in check, though, by his "fear" of being rejected. He de-cides to say nothing. Fear has overruled his young love. Similarly, a per-son may feel inclined to speak out on a justice issue. That person too feels fear. But this time the person's convictions on the matter, the per- The God of the Scriptures / 649 son's belief, is the stronger of the two and bids the person to speak out. Here faith overruled fear. All of us know what fear is, all of us have felt it. Reflect for a mo-ment what happens when you feel fear. The mind freezes, it becomes difficult or even impossible to think. The entire body is also affected. Knees shake, palms sweat, the mouth runs dry. If the fear is sharp enough we may even close our eyes and prefer to block out the cause of our fear. Fear, to be sure, is a powerful emotion. It would require, then, an equally powerful emotion to counter it. Only two emotions give us the courage to overcome fear: love and faith--although the two are intimately related. A mother stands terrified at the sight of her burning home when she hears the cry of her child from within. Her fear of the flames and smoke cause her to stand for a mo-ment paralyzed until love for her child overpowers the fear and forces her in to rescue him. Jeremiah the prophet stands equally terrified be-fore the people gathered at the Temple. He too, however, hears--or rather feels--an inner voice, the call of God bidding him to speak in God's name. For a moment his fear prevails before the faith within his heart overwhelms it and causes him to cry out. . How many of us have had our faith compromised by fear? By clos-ing ourselves to our feelings, by repressing our emotions, we have been eliminating a source of strength that could well empower our faith to ri-val that of tl~e prophets. If our faith is solely intellectual it is but half, at best, of what it could be. Faith is authentic when it flows from our hearts, when it flows from our love for God. Jeremiah, for example, and Jesus after him, may have seemed like people without faith because they spoke against the traditions and cus-toms of the people. They could rightly be asked, "Have you no faith, Jeremiah, in the Temple and the promise God made to dwell in it always? Why is it so hard for you to have faith in what our traditions teach.? Why can't you agree with them?" Faith in this sense is an act of the intellect. But for Jeremiah, for the other prophets, and for Jesus, faith was an act of love; its motive force was an intuition of God's abiding presence within. They felt God's love and returned it as they could (that is, they believed) and it was that faith in God's love that enabled them to stand up and say what their hearts could not deny. The love they felt empowered them, gave their faith the spirit of cour-age. All of us are given the gift of that love. All of us have within our-selves the courage to truly use our faith. But so often in closing ourselves to our emotions, in denying them, we deny ourselves the grace, the love, Review for Religious, September-October 1989 that gives us the courage to truly believe. Jesus and the prophets before him were not ashamed of their emotions. Indeed, they prayed with them (Jeremiah's lamentations, for example) by bringing them before God in-stead of hiding them in the dark recesses of their spirits. By so doing, they provide an example for all us of authentic living and prayer. Praying with our Emotions Oddly enough, it is the emotion of fear that most inhibits us from bringing our.other emotions to prayer. As mentioned earlier, prayer is a naturally revealing activity. In prayer, the love and union we share with God is revealed and made known to us. We may receive the revelation of truths and intuitions about questions and problems we may have, as well as insights into God and ourselves. It is this that often scares us into emotional and spiritual repression. In the quiet, centering communion of prayer with God, we forget to maintain many of the blocks and barriers we place between our conscious selves and our more disquieting emotions. Suddenly and quite unexpect-edly we can find the composure of our prayer compromised by unwel-comed feelings. The person whose thoughts continue to center upon feel-ings of passion for a lover, the religious whose heart is suddenly filled with anger and resentment toward a superior, the person who becomes aware of his or her jealousy and envy--all of these people find the re-warding calm of prayer ruined by the onslaught of emotions. In each of these cases, whether or not prayer has been ruined de-pends upon whose agenda is being followed. Prayer is a dialogue. How-ever, especially with meditation, prayer can become a monologue of si-lence. Our meditation can be but another way of saying, "Listen God, there are just some things I'd sooner not think about. Why don't we just sit here quietly and ignore them together." Our prayer agenda calls for some peace and quiet, a bit of reprieve, a break in the action of confron-tation. Yet we find ourselves continually pestered by thoughts and feel-ings we've decided not to share. Might it be, however, that their contin-ual interruption is an effort on God's part to make it part of our prayer? Might God have an agenda too? And might that agenda include the very feelings we are so desperate to ignore? It might do well, then, since prayer is a dialogue, to "ask" God about what should be shared. One way of doing so is by beginning our prayer with a bit of soul searching journaling. We might record what and how we are feeling, any significant encounters we have had with peo-ple, good and bad. The point is not to dwell on any of them. Rather we acknowledge what is already inside of us. We acknowledge it to God and The God of the Scriptures / 651 to ourselves. Then, having done that, we set it aside and open ourselves to God. Yet, the very action of having been honest with ourselves about what we arefeeling has already opened the doors to our deepest selves to God. We have laid everything bare and have effectively told God, "Well, now that you know, what do you say?" Then if our prayer is quiet, perhaps God is saying, "Let it rest for now," and so we should. If, however, we find the emotions returning, perhaps we should pay them some prayerful attention. It is one matter to continually harp on a feeling and another tO at-tend to one that finds its way to the surface. Yet it is here that fear can overcome all else and totally inhibit our communion with God, not to mention any communion with ourselves. We are afraid of what may come if we allow our emotions to flow. We are afraid of what God may think if we stood before God with emotions bare. Perhaps most of all, we are afraid of what we would have to admit about ourselves if we al-lowed our spiritual vision to focus upon our feelings. Especially in times of stress, when we need prayer most, we are most reluctant, most afraid to pray because the emotions we so fear are so close to surface, so hard to dispel. In such cases the fear and shame we so strongly feel should be the opening movement of our prayer. But here is the test. Have we the faith to share what we fear? Here we become the shy person struggling to talk to a friend. Here we become the mother rooted in fear or stirred by love into action. Here we find the revelation, not of God but of ourselves, that prayer so powerfully conveys. Here we find a truth about ourselves. Prayer is a dialogue. Has God been speaking, shouting through hands pressed tight against our ears, trying to get through? Summary We can repress our prayer and weaken our faith because we are un-willing to face the passion of our own emotions. Why? Is it God's rejec-tion or wrath that we fear or is it facing the truth about ourselves? Some people are simply ashamed that they are emotional people at all. Some-where many of us have learned that we should be rational at the expense of being emotional. Emotions are something to master, signs of weak-ness, occasions for sin. To be holy is to be emotionally controlled. Pei-haps. To be sure, some emotions need to be held in check. Some need to be confessed. But not all. Our emotions are occasions for grace, provided we let our God work through them. They can be conduits leading to deeper prayer. They can be the means for facing and overcoming our fear of living. For indeed, 652 / Review for Religious, September-October 1989 without emotions we are less than human. We were made in the image and likeness of a living, feeling God who is revealed in the pages of Scrip-ture as a truly passionate lover, a God who, for example, is quite honest about being "jealous." We were made to have feelings and to use our emotions to feel and act alive. If Jesus was not ashamed of the force of his emotions, why should we? As Christians we are called to become fully alive. That means learn-ing to live with and harness our emotions. Truly, our emotions are gifts from God, gifts to be enjoyed, gifts for which we can be grateful. But before any of that can happen, our emotions must first be accepted. The Dancer Is falling in love with you autumn leaves swirling in the wind, fish swimming in the flooded ,,;hallows after a heavy rainfall? Is this love a meditative symphony, where the listener is impelled to pause, be attentive to the secret voice talking with his heart? Is this love a walk without fear into the forest of Solitude, where I go to plant my tree of hope? Is this love an ancient la Jota, sometimes graceful and slow, at other moments fast and exciting? How do I overcome my reluctance? Become like David, who danced before the Lord because it was pleasing to him? Brother Richard Heatley, F.S.C. De La Salle Centre 45 Oaklands Avenue Toronoto, Ontario M4V 2E4, Canada Romantic Relations with the Sacred Richard J. DeMaria, C.F.C. Brother Richard DeMaria, C.F.C., currently serves as Executive Vice President and the Vice President for Academic Affairs at lona College. His address is lona Col-lege; New Rochelle, New York 10801. In the recent, surprisingly successful film, Th~rOse, based on the life of St. Th6r~se of Lisieux, there is a scene that has remained with me for months. Th6r~se's sister visits her during what was to be a terminal ill-ness, and noticing that Th6r~se has pinned a small crucifix to her pil-low, observes: "So you two are back together again." To which, as I recall it, Th6r~se blushes and nods in agreement. The audience--a New York City audience--to my amazement did not laugh here or at any time during a movie which portrayed Th6r~se as a woman engaged in a ro-mantic relationship with Jesus, a relationship characterized by falling outs, jealousies, reunions, disagreements, and coquetry. And by love. And by passion. The film places Th6r~se in a very old tradition of spirituality, a tra-dition which uses the language and ways of romantic love to describe a person's interaction with the sacred. The romantic poem "The Song of Songs" comes immediately to mind: the longing of a bride for her bride-groom is used as an image of the human experience with the sacred. Ap-parently that image was found sufficiently apt among the Hebrew peo-ple for the poem to be included and preserved in its canon of sacred litera-ture. We find in other religions similar spiritualities linking sexual im-agery and prayer, the link sometimes explicitly recognized and cele-brated, at other times, we assume, camouflaged and unrecognized but fairly apparent to those who read between lines. As R. Zaehner, the Oxford authority on mysticism, observes: 653 654 / Review for Religious, September-October 1989 There is no point at all blinking at the fact that the raptures of the theis-tic mystic are closely akin to the transports of sexual union, the soul play-ing the part of the female and (~od appearing as the male. ~ In the history of religion, one finds many spiritualities that approach life as if there were two lovers involved. In Hinduism, one finds among the different paths by which one can yoke himself or herself to God, the path of bhakti in which one takes on the Lord as lover. Kabir, the fif-teenth- century Indian mystic, as translated by Bly, uses the term "the Guest" to name the inner lover: My body and my mind are in depression because you are not with me. How much I love you and want you in. my house! When 1 hear people describe me as your bride I look sideways ashamed, Because I know that far inside us we have never met. Then what is this love of mine? I don't really care about food, I don't really care about sleep, I am restless indoors and outdoors. The bride wants her lover as much as a thirsty man wants water. And how will I find someone who will take a message to the Guest from me? How restless Kabir is all the time! How much he wants to see the Guest!z The existence of a relationship between mysticism and sexuality is clear and widespread in the historical record. The question is: how shall we interpret and understand the presence of romaritic and sexual lan-guage in religious writing? More to the point are the following questions: Is it possible to carry on a love relationship with an invisible, non-human lover? Does this spirituality find any basis in the way things are? Is there someone there to love? Is this use of romantic language healthy? Unless we at least advert to these questions from the outset, they stand as obstacles to our ability to approach this tradition with openness. There are many analysts who interpret experiences of romantic spiri-tuality as situations in which sexual energy, having been denied its usual outlet, finds a (distorted) outlet in the religious arena. Accordingly, mys-ticism is in reality sexual energy that is misdirected. Although this sub-limation is usually unrecognized by the person involved, its true nature can be readily recognized by the perceptive observer. In sum, people in-volved in religious romanticism are victims of misplaced energy; their lives are based upon an unreal perception of the way things are. Other analysts suggest that the situation is quite the opposite: a ba-sic drive, a basic need within humans, is for union with the transcendent. Romantic Relations with the Sacred / 655 According to this theory, the mystic is a person who is responding quite directly to this basic drive. Other humans respond to this drive by en-gaging themselves in sexual, romantic relationships with other humans. This is a valid way of fulfilling this need. The power of human, inter-personal sexuality, and the way that relationship is experienced and de-scribed, derive from the more basic desire of the human to interact with the sacred. Because the inter-human sexual experience is one form of the more general mystical experience, it should not surprise us that the lan-guage of human love and the language of mystical 10ve are quite simi-lar. Alan W. Watts, in Myth and Ritual in Christianity makes the fol-lowing observation: But a sexually self-conscious culture such as our own must beware of its natural tendency to see religion as a symbolizing of sex, for to sexu-ally uncomplicated people it has always been obvious that sex is a sym-bol of religion. That is to say, the ecstatic self-abandonment of nuptial love is the average man's nearest approach to the selfless state of mys-tical and metaphysical experience. For this reason the act of love is the easiest and most readily intelligible illustration of what it is like to be in "union with God," to live the eternal life, free from self and time.3 Perhaps it will never be possible to prove convincingly which of these two theories is true. Some look to an epistemology which concen-trates its attention not on questions about the way things are but rather on questions about what ways work. Such an approach considers a the-ory to be true, or a path to be true, when it works. Pragmatic approaches to understanding our lives can reflect a careless and shallow attitude about truth, but not necessarily so. The form of pragmatism discussed here, recognizing the complexity of the human psyche and the mystery of the sacred, and recognizing the inability of the human mind to under-stand these with any clarity, reasons that if a particular construct or the-ory works, it works because it approximates the way things are. This is an epistemology often used in the physical sciences. Consider, for ex-ample, the solar system model of the atom. No one has seen an atom. Serious scientists do not think that the atom is composed of electrons, circling a nucleus of neutrons and protons, like a solar system. Scien-tists, however, have used the construct of a solar system when thinking about the atom, because when they have followed out the implications of that model, they have been able to explain many past experiences (ex-periments). And, even more importantly, when they devised new experi-ments and applications suggested by the model, these led to important new discoveries. Science has done well, then, to think of the atom as if 656 / Review for Religious, September-October 1989 it were a solar system. Even if the atom is not a solar system, the solar system picture predicts how the atom will work. And it is not unreason-able to conclude from this that in many ways the solar system model ap-proximates the reality of the atom. In sum, while recognizing that a con-struct is an imagined picture, a person follows it because she believes that it will lead her close to the way things are. Against the background of this epistemology, we can now turn our attention to those paths in which a person is involved in a relationship with a person who is not physically present but who is perceived to be real, important, and worthy of ~ittention; a relationship which according to the person herself and according to observers, gives direction and strength. Whether the other is perceived as guru, teacher, patron, guide, angel, patron saint, or--as in the particular spirituality we are discuss-ing-- as the romantically loved one, the relationship has a real effect upon the growth and behavior of the participant. In his play Big Shot, Jack Gelber portrays the positive, powerful influence which two "imagi-nary" persons--a wise, aged prophetic man, and a seductive woman-- have upon a young man's ability to make decisions about his life and to move toward maturity. (Interestingly, these two visitors never appear to-gether in the boy's thoughts; the appearance of one signals the exit of the other. At the play's end, however, they interact with one another and exit together, perhaps symbolizing something of an integration of the re-ligious and the sexual in his consciousness.) According to what was said above, one should evaluate the tradition of romantic spirituality by asking: What happens to persons when they act as if there were an inner sacred person there? Does it lead to desir-able ends? In this approach one judges a religious path worth consider-ing if it has "worked" for many people, in many religions, in many dif-ferent ages. What is meant by "worked"? The validity of this or any path is established by its ability to lead practitioners into that special con-sciousness which is called "religious." In the Christian faith, people in that consciousness are said to be in the state of sanctifying grace and ex-hibit characteristics such as love, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Ga 5:22). History attests that the path of devotion, of romantic love, is a path that has led many to that consciousness; the way works. The seeker of God who utilizes the con-struct of romantic love does not need to know for certain whether there is a real person with whom she can interact in love. She does know that when she acts as if there were such a person, wonderful things do hap-pen. In Bhakti Yoga, the author writes: Romantic Relations with the Sacred / 657 All our attitudes, moral or emotional, as well as religious are due to the objects of our consciousness: the things which we believe to exist whether really or ideally along with ourselves. Such objects may be pre-sent to our senses or they may be present to our thought; in either case they elicit from us a reaction and the reaction due to things of thought is notoriously in many cases as strong as that due to sensible presences. It may even be stronger . 4 How does one follow this path? By undertaking the same practices which a man or woman utilizes in establishing a love relationship with a human being. By conversing. By sharing feelings. By trying to please. By actions of union. By admiration. By efforts to merge into one an-other. By writing poems of love. By singing songs of love. By making sacrifices. By exchanging gifts. By establishing rituals, special places, and special times. By secrets shared. By anger expressed. And by hurts told. By arguing. By compromising. How does one advise or counsel a person on this path? As one would advise or counsel a person struggling with any experience of love. The spiritual director will help him to recognize the stages of love. The di-rector will lead her to expect periods of doubt, of loneliness, of seeming neglect, of loss of attraction--the dark nights of the soul. He must be assisted in learning the art of conversation, and especially the art of lis-tening. (For let there be no doubt about it: the person does experience conversation, responses and answers that surprise by their unexpected-ness. Where do these answers come from? Suffice it to say that when questions are asked of this inner lover, this inner guest,' one "hears" answers.) The director will need to counsel the practitioner about the im-portance of fidelity, to help recall the good times in moments of dark-ness, and to point her to better times ahead. The person engaged in this path does experience another actor in his life. Outside observers may wish to interpret this experience as the ef-fects of the "alter ego," or the "subconscious," or the "repressed self." These interpretations should not be allowed to discourage the lover, if forhim the experience of this other is real, and if the effects of carrying out a relationship of love with that "person" are beneficial and if they are leading her into grace. This path does not work for everyone. In New Wineskins,5 Sandra Schneiders observes that in earlier times it was assumed that all women entering into the religious life would find in this romantic spirituality a comfortable and effective path. Women religious, on their day of pro-fession, came to the altar dressed as brides, as the choir sang "Veni Review for Religious, September-October 1989 Sponsa Christi," in a ceremony that was designed to imitate in many ways that of a marriage. Schneiders suggests that in fact many Sisters did not find this path to be effective for them. For many, it was a kind of play.acting, which in later years---especially if they were influenced by Freudian thinking--they came to regard as a childish effort to subli-mate energies better redirected in other ways. Today, almost all traces of this bridal spirituality have been removed from the rituals and from the language of contemporary religious women. Women who have en-tered religious life in recent years may not even be aware of this spiritu-ality. By way of conclusion, two questions about this path of spirituality suggest themselves. First, in this relationship, does the soul always take the role of the feminine to the masculine God, a role in which the hu-man seeks to be filled, empowered, or taken over by the other? The male poet, Kabir, cited before, who wrote in a culture which knew of both male and female gods, always--at least in translation--describes him-self as feminine in relationship to the sacred. Listen to the following poem: I played for ten years with the girls of my own age, but now I am sud-denly in fehr. I am on the way up some stairs--they are high. Yet I have to give up my fears if I want to take part in this love. I have to let go of the protective clothes and meet him with the whole length of my body. My eyes will have to be the love candles this time. Kabir says: Men and women in love will understand this poem. If what you feel for the holy one is not desire, then what's the use of dressing with such care, and spending so much time making your eyelids dark.6 Can one approach the sacred as masculine? Or must one utilize the feminine side (the anima) in one's relationship with the sacred (assum-ing of course that every person, regardless of gender, is both animus and anima)? And if this is true, will this path of spirituality come more natu-rally to women than to men? Or, again if it is true, would the fact that a person has a gay or lesbian orientation affect the attractiveness and ef-fectiveness of this spirituality? A second questign.: what (if any) is the connection between this spousal spirituality and celibacy? Clearly, spousal spirituality does ap-peal and does work for non-celibates as well as celibates. Does celibacy enable one to pursue this path more quickly or more deeply? Does the fact that one is not pursuing the path of romantic human love dispose one Romantic Relations with the Sacred / 659 toward this path more urgently? Or, to take the quite opposite position, would familiarity and experience with human romantic love give one the lexicon and the understandings that enable one to move more quickly into this more interior love? To conclude: the spiritual path of romantic relationships with the sa-cred has been neglected in recent years, perhaps because twentieth-century psychology has called into question so many of the foundations upon which it was based. There is, however, a way of understanding our ways of knowing, consonant with contemporary science, which gives 'permission' to those so attracted to follow this path, to see whether it leads them into grace. While the path will not attract, nor work for, eve-ryone, a knowledge of its history and dynamics should be made avail-able to those who are searching for ways into the world of the sacred. NOTES ~ R.C. Zaehner, Mysticism, Sacred and Profane, (New York, 1961), p. 151. 2 Robert Bly, trans., The Kabir Book, (Boston, 1977), p. 20. 3 Alan W. Watts, Myth and Ritual in Christianity, (Boston, 1968), p. 104. 4 "Bhikshu," Bhakti Yoga, (Chicago, 1930), p. 19. 5 Sandra Schneiders, New Wineskins, Re-imagining Religious Life Today, (New York, !986), p. 116. 6 Bly, p. 42. Negative Floating Barbara Dent Barbara Dent, mother and grandmother, has been for eigthteen years a Secular Carme-lite. She published "The Floating Prayer" in our issue of March/April 1988. The current article is a part of a book-in-process called Floating in Endless Love. She may be addressed at Poustinia; 7A Cromwell Place; Pukekohe, New Zealand. In this article I use the word "floating" to indicate the kind of detach-ment and freedom that is attained once we have ascended a certain dis-tance up the nada path. When I write of "floating in endless love," 1 mean the traditional self-abandonment to divine providence as exemplified by holy people of any age, and written about by such recognized saints as Teresa, John of the Cross, Francis de Sales, Jane Frances de Chantal, Caussade, Th~r~se. Our Lady is, of course, the supreme exemplar, and her "Be it done unto me according to your word," a succinct summary of the doc-trine. Divine providence is God's endless love. It had no beginning and will never have an end. It is conterminous with his Being and expresses itself throughout his creation. When he made us in his own image, he gave us the ability to be ef-fortlessly immersed in this love, borne along in the currents and eddies of its movement in time and space, as it ordained and controlled the cir-cumstances of our lives, and we rejoiced in its faultless wisdom and ten-derness. At that beginning-time we had our Creator's discerning Spirit within us, and joyfully cooperated with the process of floating in the divine will, for through it the perfection of his love for us expressed itself, and we were fully open and receptive to it. We were in the state of innocence, which means single-mindedness and wholeness of heart. 660 Negative Floating / 66"1 Then came the "aboriginal catastrophe"--in one, or many, of a num-ber of possible forms. Its basic effect was to confuse, divide, and mis-lead us about the nature of our relationship with our Master. We were, and are, no longer in that original state of love-union's positive, effort-less floating. Instead, we are too often thrashing about in protest at being in the water at all. We persist in struggling to reach some imaginary shore, strik-ing out against the current, gulping water, feeling terrified that we are drowning, pushing away Love's hand held out to draw us to safety, and generally being at odds with our spiritual environment. Our innocence lost, we have become acquainted with sin--actual or potential, deliberate or involuntary. Floating in endless love does not any longer seem to be the obvious, healthy, joyous thing for us to do. We have lost the art, and have to be taught all over again by grace. And because we no longer learn the mys-teries of God effortlessly through direct infusion, the Spirit's modes of teaching us often register on us as nay-saying, destructive, painful, and incomprehensible. This is because God's endless love flowing into us is constantly encountering obstacles of self-love and self-will within us. These cause the flow to be interrupted, dammed up, diverted, and im-peded in numberless ways. We now have to re-learn what we were fashioned to know without even thinking about it. This learning is painful and arduous, and regis-ters on us as a state of negative floating. It entails erasure of all those obstacles against floating--whether personally manufactured, handed on to us by our families and social milieu, or inherited and buried so deeply in our mysterious inner being that we shall never even catch sight of them, let alone drag them up and free ourselves from them, unless the Spirit helps us in a very special way. We are weighted down so that we are more likely to sink to the ocean bed than to float in delight in the surface currents of God's purpose, rev-elling in their effortless, exact progress towards our ultimate fulfillment in him. Positive and negative floating are part of the normal cycle of conso-lation and desolation in the spiritual life. If we persevere in floating in God's loving purpose for us, there comes a time when, just as his crea- ¯ tive energy evolved birds out of fish, he somehow dispenses altogether with the metaphorical liquid element in order to lift us up so high in the Spirit that we are suspended in midair. We usually think of such suspension as bodily levitation and miracu- 662 / Review for Religious, September-October 1989 IOUS. But the essence of free-floating in the atmosphere, metaphorically speaking, is entirely spiritual and interior, a flight of the spirit that usu-ally has no physical, exterior signs at all. It is the result of an opening up to God's love that on our part includes the complete abandonment of our whole selves to his usage, and on his part such lavish infusion of his grace that its energy elevates us temporarily into his own Being. This is the ultimate in positive floating. It mysteriously and paradoxi-cally also includes the ultimate in negative floating, for in order to give ourselves up to it, we need to have renounced all the not-God elements so that there is now nothing at all in us or our lives opposing his desire to take full possession of us. God is non-corporeal. When this moment of total possession takes place, he draws up our non-corporeal spirit to merge with his own. This merging, can be accomplished in both, or either, of the positive and nega-tive floating states. After about six months of intensely positive floating immediately af-ter my reception into the Church in 1956, I was gradually translated into the negative floating state and remained there without any remission for nearly twelve years. During my conversion year, 1955, I had already learnt to enter Christ's passion with him by uniting my personal suffering with his in Gethsemane and throughout the various aspects of his passion, especially his cross-carrying and crucifixion. At one particular time in 1958 when I vividly experienced what I came to call the crucifixion of my heart, something extra happened within me that I could at the time define only as "entombment." Yet the crucifixion did not cease. I was somehow still on the cross with Christ even while I was lying dead with him in the cave tomb's cold darkness. I cannot explain how this was. I only know it happened, and was spiritually and interiorily real in an agonizing way. I think I was able to endure these years of intensely negative float-ing only because, during most of them, I was fully occupied being a daily Mass-goer, solo mother, housekeeper, teacher, breadwinner, writer, and student. There was not much opportunity for what my mother disparag-ingly used to call "navel-gazing"--adding, in exasperation, "Why don't you go out and have a good game of tennis!" In spite of immersion in an undoubtedly and unavoidably active life (my form of a good game of tennis!), I yet received insights from time to time that infused some sense into the non-sense of my relationship Negative Floating / 663 with God. For this was where the nonsense, the absurdity, occurred. My rela-tionship with Jesus in his incarnational work of suffering redeemer and crucified Lord made very good sense to me, and gave me the courage to go on enduring. It was from God and his ways that the conundrum originated. Once more he had become for me the "cruel, sadistic mon-ster" who, during the early war years, had caused my rejection of my personal and inadequate version of the Christian religion. One of the key insights I received in the earlier of these negative float-ing years of the 1960s came about as follows. I can visualize clearly where it happened, just as I can vividly recall .where other significant, instant comprehensions occurred, for example, those about "the abyss of corruption" and the self-love involved in my mechanism of setting out to "fascinate" certain people. Such instant dis-cernments come to me like a crystal globe enclosing the truth, and put whole and clear in my mind all at once. The experience is completely different from arriving at a similar conclusion by the laborious process - of ratiocination. It is a matier of immediate comprehension received as a whole and in passivity. In fact, in a floating state, as it were. On this particular occasion I was sitting one morning at the desk in the home of my eldest daughter and her husband, alone in the house ex-cept for a sleeping child. Then in one instant the insight came whole-- just like a very bright light being turned on in my mind, then extin-guished almost immediately, yet leaving behind it the vivid impression of a particular mystery made plain in its illumination. In this case, I "understood" what caused Jesus to cry out, "My God, my God, why have you rejected me?" Just as I had become one with him in other aspects of his passion at various times, now I had become one with him in his cry of derelic-tion. His cry was one with the cry of my own heart to an alien, absentee God, whose face was turned away from me in contempt. Jesus' despair-ing question was to do with his having consented to be "made sin" for us. This was the central point-of the illumination given me. I had bought my Knox bible in 1956 and used it until I obtained the Jerusalem version in 1969. The texts I have marked in the Knox were the ones that had very special meaning for me personally during these darkest years of the cry of dereliction. I have underlined, "Christ never knew sin, and God made him into sin for us, so that in him we might be turned into the holiness of God" (2 Co 5:21). I "saw" that sin was absolutely abhorrent to and automatically re- 664 / Review for Religious, September-October 1989 pudiated by God because it was the antithesis of his own unblemished holiness and purity. "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to him-self, establishing in our hearts his message of reconciliation, instead of holding men to account for their sins" (2 Co 5: 19), and "In Christ the whole plenitude of Deity is embodied." Hanging on the cross, dying for us, "made sin," Jesus, though God himself, consented to be relegated in his manhood to the furthest possi-ble distance from God--as f~ir as pure sin must be, of its nature, dis-tanced from pure holiness. It must have been the most elemental, cata-clysmic, schizoid split of all time. In and through this alienation Jesus endured, "the world"--all of us sinners of all time--could be "reconciled" to God instead of being eternally severed from him in self-induced banishment. In effect, Jesus willed to go through the experience of damnation as our proxy, as vic-tim instead of us. This meant knowing God only through the aching void of his ab-sence; submitting to the punitive action of the total recoil of pure holi-ness from pure unholiness; being invaded by a sense of rejection so ab-solute as to know what the hell-state meant, and to be engulfed in it. There is impenetrable mystery here, a paradox so extreme that the human mind cannot encompass it. How could Christ, in whom "the whole plenitude of Deity" remained unimpaired, yet experience himself as "the totality of sin" rejected by that Deity? The how, the mystery, is beyond our human comprehension. The paradox is mind-blowing. I cannot explain fully what I "saw" in the illumination. At the time, I knew it without intellectual explication. This came later, as I meditated upon what I had received, and thought more about what Paul said, out of what was obviously his own personal experience and given insight. Enli/~htenments about this mystery hidden within Christ's dereliction cry have continued to come spasmodically to me up to this present time. "All alike have sinned, all alike are unworthy of God's praise. And justification comes to us as a free gift from his grace, through our re-demption in Christ Jesus. God has offered him to us as a means of rec-onciliation, in virtue of faith, ransoming us with his blood" (Rm 3:23- 25). I had already understood how the solidarity of the human race was such that the salvation or damnation of any one of us must involve and concern all of us. In pouring out in his shed blood his "free gift of grace" for us, Jesus excluded no one, for none of us is sinless. We are all inevitably born programmed for possible disaster by the racial accu- Negative Floating mulation of wrong turnings made while trying to reach a destination whose nature and location we are confused about. Our tendency to get lost is in our genes. ~ "In sin my mother conceived me," is not a reference to the sexual act as such, but to the fact that the whole of humanity is in a state of at least partial alienation from God and can be reconciled only through Christ. Jesus entered the furthest reaches of this alienation when, as the vic-tim for our sins, he uttered his cry of dereliction on the cross. I saw in my moment of illumination that, once I had in 1957 told God he could have me as a victim for the salvation of souls (if he wanted me), I had implicitly consented to enter in some way into this dereliction of Jesus, and keep him company. At the same time, I was not certain God had accepted my offer, for no one had yet confirmed that I was indeed a victim, and I was not to have that assurance for several years yet. It was only then that everything fitted together coherently. But I did see in that moment of revelation that here was the meaning and purpose of the annihilating experience of my-self as spurned and rejected by God, even while at the same time, in my will, I refused to let go of him, and clung on with all my strength. Much later, I realized that even while God "rejected" me, he gave me that very grace I needed to cling tenaciously to him. At the same time, the illumination did not bring me any comforting reassurance, for I could not really believe it applied to me. This may seem a contradiction, but the grace of comfort is an extra grace, and for those years of torment God chose to withhold it from me, no matter what insights he gave my intellect. That I already had a well-established, deep-seated rejection syn-drome as part of my emotional makeup made it simpler and easier for all of this to happen. Grace had only to activate and utilize what was al-ready there, so deeply rooted in my inner being. I believe that God did this in order to use me for others as I had pleaded with him to do. In the terms I have since evolved for myself, I was "floating". in the negative way with Jesus on the cross, as part of "the Dali image." I was there tb help my neighbor, any neighbor--it was for God to choose whom, I never asked to be shown who, how, or where. "Enemies of God, we were reconciled to him through his Son's death; reconciled to him, we are surer than ever of finding salvation in his Son's life. And, what is more, we can boast of God's protection; al-ways through our Lord Jesus Christ, since it is through him that we have 666 / Review for Religious, September-October 1989 attained our reconciliation"(Rm 5:10-1 I). "We who were taken up into Christ by baptism have been taken up, all of us, into his death . We have to be closely fitted into the pat-tern of his resurrection, as we have been into the pattern of his death" (Rm 6:3, 5). Sin and salvation, death and life, crucifixion and resurrection, Jesus and all of us--inseparable. It is all mingled together like the confluence of two mighty rivers flowing as one towards the ocean of eternity and infinity. We have to "share his sufferings if we are to share his glory" (Rm 8:17). Some refuse the suffering and do not believe in the glory. Proxies must, in their stead, agree to be immersed in the passion with Jesus, so that the glory will permeate them, too. He came to save all. His will to redeem the whole of humanity can-not and will not be thwarted, but we are all one with him, and so those who are willing must help him save those who are unwilling. He expects and requires this of his lovers, though not necessarily as explicit victims, for this must be a given vocation. "For thy sake, we face death at every moment, reckoned no better than sheep marked down for slaughter. Yet in all this we are conquer-ors, through him who has granted us his love" (Rm 8:36-37). In the "inscrutable judgments" and "undiscoverable ways" of God is hidden the mystery of the redemption of the human race, in which all participate, consciously or unconsciously. The willing "offer up their bodies as a living sacrifice" because "though we are many in number" (trillions and trillions of us back to the beginning and on to the end of time), we yet "form one body in Christ and each acts as the counter-part of the other" (see Rm 12). Paul insists we are "Christ's body, organs of it depending upon each other" (1 Co 12:27), and therefore "the sufferings of Christ overflow into our lives"--together with divine comfort (2 Co 1:5). For Paul, shar-ing in the sufferings of Christ in order to bring forth spiritual children for him, is a fundamental Christian vocation. He writes, "It makes me happy to suffer for you, as I am sufferi.ng now, and in my own body to do what I can to make up all that has still to be undergone by Christ for the sake of his body, the Church. I became the servant of the Church" (Col 1:24-25). All these teachings of St. Paul, marked in my Knox bible, had had dynamic personal meaning for me ever since 1956, the year of my re-ception into the Church. They had been fortified and elucidated by stud-ies of such theological works as The Whole Christ by E. Mersch, S.J. Negative Floating / 66"/ (Dobson, London, 1956). They were in the very fiber of my interior life, yet, though I knew, believed, and lived what Jesus exemplified and Paul taught and lived, no felt comfort and consolation resulted. I was given strength to endure (while experiencing myself as weak and destitute) and that was all. But to endure and to persevere is at the very basis of the nada path journey, and the grace given me to do this was among the supreme ones of my life. Father Basil had now become my director, though, as he had been transferred, we seldom had the chance to meet. What he wrote to me in a letter of July, 1963, is relevant to the above. I quote: God does love you very dearly. Think of the tremendous graces that you have received from him. Your desire to give him everything in return is all that matters. You give, generously, only to the One whom you love . I am not so much concerned about the aridity and difficulty that you are experiencing at your prayers and the seeming loss of God. What I am concerned about is your loss of peace and near panic, because of the difficulties. The temptation to discouragement is one of the most insidious and dangerous for an interior soul. If you are patient and do not allow this temptation to dictate any change in your program of the day, you have nothing to fear. In his own good time he will give you the light and the warmth that seem to have disappeared. There is noth-ing in your day that is not worthy of being offered to him. This means that you are every hour united more intimately with him. You are grow-ing in charity and all the virtues, without being conscious of the growth. The increase in charity is all that matters. His reassurance was a blessing, calming me until the next spasm of self-doubt and apparent rejection by God afflicted me. Then I would re-read what he said, and be comforted again. In a queer way it was as if God himself was telling me, "Don't worry. Everything's all right-- even though it seems to be all wrong." Again he was loving me through "a soul in which he had established himself," just as he had promised as I lay so ill and weak in the hospital. One or two entries in my journals record various aspects of my nega-tive floating at this time. In the following, I think my way through to a grace-enlightened conclusion in faith, hope, and trust. It was not given to me in~stantaneously as a crystal globe. I quote from a 1963 rare entry: It is the risen Lord who permeates the whole of creation. 1 have been experiencing the suffering Christ. The climax came in the crucifixion of my heart. Then entombment and silence. Only the dead Christ there, un- 668 / Review for Religious, September-October 1989 stirring~ and myself numb and seemingly dead with him year after year, waiting and praying and longing for the resurrection. Now I see the the Lord is risen. He fills my soul and the whole of his Mystical Body. He has risen as he said he would, even while I mourned him dead in me, and I dead with him. He is risen. How can this become more real to me, so that I too rise with him? Let me think . It is the risen Lord who permeates the whole of creation. Therefore he is not dead in me~ for his resurrection truly hap-pened. But something did die in me and was entombed. What was it? The overwhelming sense of entombment. Christ dead and in the tomb. And it was a significant turning point. What died? My attachment to and need of natural love? But the process of purgation through hu-man relationships still continues. Yet it is different. How? What died and was buried? "You have undergone death, and your life is buried and hidden away with Christ." I made a heartbreaking renunciation of my own free will, and I gave up--what? What died? My heart died. Yet I found other loves. "Christ, having undergone death, cannot die any more . He is not here; he has risen as he told you . We have to be closely fitted into the pattern of his resurrection, as we have been into the pattern of his death . We'know that Christ, now he has risen from the dead, cannot die any more. Death has no more power over him . " It was not Christ who died in me, for he cannot die any more. It was something in myself that died. And all the while I have been entombed, he has been living in my soul the life of the risen Lord. His resurrection is continuous just as much as his passion is. Somehow I have to become united with this.risen Christ. Like La-zarus called forth from the tomb, I have to shed my grave clothes and answer the call of the Lord, but "how? How? I don't know how. He has to say, "Come forth," and then I shall be able to move. Yet he eternally says, "Come forth," inviting me to share his life of glory in the Trinity, the life he is already living in my soul all the time I am in a state of grace. Only somehow I cannot unite myself with it, because the tomb wall seems in the way. What is the tomb wall? My compulsion to suffer psychologically in a certain way? Perhaps. Lord, give me light. Holy Spirit, whom he sends, lead me forth. Pray in and for me. I have been in a state of inertia, feeling I could do nothing till Christ rose in me--but he has never been dead in me. It was a part of myself that died, not he. All the time he has been waiting for me to come to him. Perhaps he has already said, "Come forth," only I have been so busy with my self-inflicted mourning, that l haven't heard him. My anguish was the death of some form of self-love, the crucifix- Negative Floating / 669 ion of some kind of seif-will, some aspect of the "world" that I clung to. "The people that lived in darkness have seen a great light . And he shall reign forever and ever . Come and bring forth from the dungeon the prisoner sitting in darkness and the shadow of death . " The shadow of my death. Just one of the excruciatihg deaths one must die before one can mount to a higher level on the nada path. Death and renewal. Part of his passion, but the passion is always inseparable from the resurrection, and the resurrection is. I don't have to wait for it--it is. 1 am already in it by the power of g~:ace and the presence of God in my soul. How then do I.realize and live consciously this risen life? That is the question. The "how" was to remain unrealized by me for some years yet. In the meantime I had to live in pure faith the reality of the crucified, en-tombed, but already risen Lord in me and in the whole of creation. 1 had to stay on the cross and in the tomb till God himself chose the time and way for my personal resurrection. I could not raise up myself. It had to be a work of pure grace. The words I use in another brief entry near the end of 1964 all re-veal a state of unalleviated negative floating. They are: Emptiness. Noth-ing. Waiting. Search. No finding. Grief. No.comfort. Dryness. Frigid-i'ty. Impotence. Waiting. Alone. Loneliness. Wa, iting--on and on. Dead-ness. ~umbness. Insensibility. No tears . . . too dry . . . But I believe. I hope. I suffer. I love. I wait. He loves. 1 know he loves. I believe he loves. Amen. In her Life Teresa of Avila tells of a spiritual state that reminds me of what I call "negative floating." First she mentions how St. Paul wrote about "being crucified to the world." Then she comments on how this reminds her of the soul that is receiving comfort from neither heaven nor earth, nor from any other source either. She says that in such a/ state of suspension and denial the soul is "crucified between heaven and earth; and it suffers greatly, for no help comes to it either from the one or from the other." It is "sus-pended by (its) distress, just as in union and rapture (it is) suspended by joy . It is a martyrdom." She records that when she is not physically occupied so that her mind is on something else, she is "plunged into these death-like yearnings." The "pain is so excessive that (she) can scarcely bear it"; she feels as though she has "a rope around (her) neck, is being strangled, is trying 670 / Review for Religious, September-October 1989 to breathe . . . and crying out for help to breathe." She longs and longs to be able to talk to someone "who has passed through the same torment, for she finds that, despite her complaints of it, no one seems to believe her." (See Life, Ch. XX.) It was not till my own darkest years were past that I came across the above and was forcibly struck by its similarity to what I myself had ex-perienced. When actually immersed in that suffering, I remember having read that one of the worst sufferings of Jesus on the cross must have been be-ing stifled by his inability to breathe. This was caused by the constric-tion of lungs, heart, and ribs in his hanging posture. To ease it he must have had to heave himself up repeatedly on his nailed feet--an extra ag-ony. I think Teresa is describing the spiritual equivalent of this condition for those in the negative floating state of union with Jesus hanging on the cross. John of the Cross, using different metaphors, writes of what I take to be a similar state. He says it is caused by "purgative contemplation" during which the inflowing of God's presence into the soul "in order to renew it" reaches down into its depths, into its very "spiritual substance." The soul seems to itself to be "drowned in darkness," to be "melting away" and to be enveloped by "a cruel spiritual death." Metaphorically it is like Jonah in the whale's belly. (In relation to this present article, it is worth recalling that Jonah's ordeal has been accepted as a scriptural symbol for Jesus' entombment.) John writes that "in this sepulcher of dark death (the soul) must needs abide until the spiritual resurrection which it hopes for." It is consumed by "the lamentations of death., the pains of hell ¯ . . the clear perception that God has abandoned it, in his abhorrence of it, and has flung it into darkness." It feels "itself to be without God, and chastised and cast out, and unworthy of him; and it feels he is wrathful With it." John also speaks of spiritual stifling and "afflictive suffering" that consists of the soul's feeling as though it "were suspended or held in the air so that it could not breathe." The state is intensified by the fact that the sufferer cannot find help or understanding from any human be-ing. He concludes by writing, "Of such are they that in truth go down alive into hell" (purgatory). (See Dark Night H, Ch. VI.) Negative Floating / 671 I do not know whether what I experienced during these years was the same as what is described by Teresa and John. I only know that when I read them now, as in the above passages, I feel I understand exactly what is being reported, because I myself have been through it. Shall it be N or N plus I lamN. I accepted that. I buried deep in my mind My mathematical knowledge Of what N could really be. Not satisfied with status quo But dreading the pain That moving might mean, I embraced N-fixed, safe and therefore undemanding. Memory would not be stifled. Knowledge that N can be expanded Would twist and turn and peek out Coming to the surface unexpectedly And at times unwanted. There is more. Why not N plus one? Expanding toward potential Could hurt, could be dearly bought. Surely, only here is progress, Expansion toward great goals. Why else do I exist? Except to know N is not complete Without Him as plus One. Sister Marjorie Sweeney, S.S.J. St. Joseph Convent 734 Willow Street Lebanon, PA 17042 Spiritual Dryness: Some Practical Guidelines Eamon Tobin Father Eamon Tobin, having completed the Master's degree in Formative Spiritual-ity at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, is currently pastor of a parish in Cocoa Beach, Florida. His address is Church of Our Savior; 5301 North Atlantic Avenue; Cocoa Beach, Florida 32931. The Lord, your God, will circumcise your hearts., that you may love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and all your soul, and so may live (Dt 30:6). Blessed. is the person who can call the darkness holy, who can desire its purification, who can rest in its presence. Such a person will grow rapidly because the process of purification is facilitated by generosity (Source Unknown). [~'very praying person sooner or later experiences what is called dryness in prayer. In spiritual dryness we have no felt sense of God's presence. We may,even think we have lost our Beloved or feel abandoned by him. In the sch~)ol, of prayer, few things are more important to understand than the nature and role of spiritual dryness, I intend to deal with this impor-tant dimension of the spiritual life by responding to five important ques-tions that one can ask about prayer in the desert. Question 1: What is it that praying people experience during the desert periods of the spiritual"jou~rney? The actual desert experience of praying persons will vary depending on the level of faith and spiritual maturity. For example, for the beginner in prayer spiritual dryness fre-quently means not just the absence of a felt sense of the presence of God 672 Spiritual Dryness / 67'3 but also feelings of what Saint Ignatius calls desolation--that is, feel-ings of anxiousness, sadness, or lo.ss of peace flowing from the thought, "I have lost God," or "God has abandoned me." On the other hand, for the person who is more mature in faith and advanced in the ways of prayer, spiritual dryness may not be an experience of desolation. The ex-perience will be one which lacks a felt sense of God's presence but may be accompanied by the conviction: "Even though I can't feel his pres-ence (at least on the external level), I do believe he is close and active in my life. Even though I cannot feel his presence (that is, spiritual dry-ness), I don't feel anxious, sad, or abandoned (that is, desolation). In fact, I feel peaceful." ~ To believe that God is present and active despite his apparent absence can be considered one of the greatest blessings of the spiritual life. For most of us, particularly in the early years of prayer, spiritual dryness usually includes the experience of desolation ("I have lost God; God has abandoned me"). Usually it is a time of spiritual suf-fering. We think we are getting the "silent treatment" from God. We "call out to him all day long, but he never answers" (Ps 22:3).2 Spiri-tual dryness is like journeying in the desert with no water in sight. Prayer is no longer exciting; rather, it is a weary struggle. Spiritual exercises that once nourished us now are empty, and we have little or no desire .to do them. Another dimension of the desert experience may be a feeling of dis-couragement as we become keenly aware of our own sinfulness. (We may not yet know that one of the surest signs of growth in the interior life is a growing awareness of our own sinfulness.) We may begin to think we are regressing rather than progressing. We may begin to expe-rience one of the great paradoxes of the spiritual life: the closer we come to God the further it seems to us that we are away from him. As we get closer to the all-piercing Light of God, the more our own darkness will show itself. Our lives will appear to be hollow and mediocre. The Scot-tish priest, the late Father John Dalrymple, writes: "It is as if I were to bring the sleeve of my coat toward the window of the room, and as I move into the light, the dust and dandruff on the sleeve become more obvious. It is not that as I moved the coat got dirtier, but that the light got brighter.''3 All in all, the thing that scares us most and even hurts us is the thought, "I have lost my Beloved; he has abandoned me" (See Song of Songs, Chapter 3). This thought or feeling is the experience of desolation described above. To sum up, we can say that while the actual experience of the desert will be different for different people, for all of us it will mean a felt sense 6"/4 / Review for Religious, September-October 1989 of the absence of God. And for those of us whose faith in God is still fragile, it will frequently involve the experience of desolation (the "I have lost God" feeling). In reading the above description of spiritual dryness, one may think that it is something only experienced by monks, religious, and the ex-ceptional lay person~ Yet spiritual directors tell us that this experience is quite .common in the lives of many average, prayerful people who dis-cover somewhere in the midst of their spiritual journeys that spiritual ex-ercises that once nourished them spiritually now do nothing for them. Question 2: Why is an understanding of this dimension of prayer so important? There are at least three reasons why some understanding of spiritual dryness is important. First, if we do not know the role of the times of dryness, we may think that we have "lost God" and that our prior, positive feelings in prayer were not a gift from God but the crea-tion of our own imaginations. This frequently happens. Many people who have a genuine conversion and get all excited about prayer quit when the well runs dry. This is sad because it is now that God wants to do his real work in such persons. Second, lack of knowledge about the purpose of spiritual dryness may cause us to continue praying in a way that, at this particular stage in our spiritual journey, may be more of an obstacle than a help to our spiritual growth. Many people are unaware that at some stage in the spiritual journey God calls us to become less active in prayer so that he can be more active in our spiritual transfor-mation. Third, the experience of spiritual dryness may be something caused by ourselves or something permitted by God. When it is permit-ted by God, it is meant to purify us and bring us closer to him. Such dry-ness is a gift to be accepted and embraced. When spiritual dryness is our doing, we need to work at removing the causes of such dryness. Lack of knowledge about the nature and role of spiritual dryness may lead us to believe that a particular experience of dryness in prayer is authentic and God-given when in fact it is something brought on by our own infi-delities. So the time of spiritual dryness is a critical time in the spiritual jour-ney. How we respond to it will determine whether we move forward spiri-tually or stagnate. Question 3: Why does God permit us to experience desert peri-ods in the spiritual journey? So I will allure her 1 will lead her into the desert and speak to her heart (Ho 2:16). Spiritual Dryness / 675 God permits us to experience spiritual desert periods in order to pu-rify us of those things that hinder our spiritual transformation and to teach us some important lessons about the spiritual life and how it works. In our answer to this question we will look at some specific purifications that God works in us and lessons that he teaches us in the desert. Purifications of the Desert In the desert God will want to purify us of any excessive attachment we may have to consolation in prayer. If in prayer God blesses us with a lot of consolations (or "spiritual highs" as we often say today), there is a danger that we may seek and love "the consolations of our God more than the God of our consolations" (Saint Teresa of Avila). In time of spiritual consolation it is easy to pray. The challenge is to remain faith-ful to prayer when we experience little or no felt sense of God's pres-ence or action in our lives. During such dry periods God is asking us to love him for himself and not just for the spiritual highs or consolations he offers us in prayer. He is asking us to show that we are not just fair-weather friends but all-weather friends. And he is teaching us the im-portant lesson that he is to be found more deeply in the desert than in the garden of superficial delights. Secondly, in the desert God purifies us of spiritual vanity. John Dal-rymple explains sp!ritual vanity in this way: Someone taking to religion in all zeal, becoming caught upI in a cam-paign of prayer, fasting, spiritual reading, liturgical practice, and retreat weekends might be indulging unawares in one big ego-trip. Conversion of the soul from a worldly life to a spiritual life is at first s, uperficial only. The convert has been given new, spiritual goals; but the conver~- sion is only external. In itself the sofil is as full as it ever was of unre-generate tendencies to vanity, arrogance, acquisitiveness, the only dif-ference being that after conversion these tendencies are now attached to spiritual instead of worldly objects . The zeal of such a person is infectious, but it is, as yet, chiefly the expression of the person's vanity or self-centeredness, dressed up in Christian clothes.4 For God to do his work of spiritual transformation in us, he must pu-rify us of such spiritual vanity. God often brings about this purification in us by bringing to naught our best efforts to change ourselves and eve-rything and everyone around us. As we sit on the ruins of our self-made temples and projects, we are purified of spiritual vanity and arrogance, and we learn the meaning of spiritual poverty, which is realizing our com-plete dependence and need for God to bring about any spiritual growth 676 / Review for Religious, September-October 1989 in others or in ourselves. In the desert, God's intention is not to punish us but to purify us. In the journey of life we consciously or unconsciously become overly-attached to persons or things--so much so that they become idols (that is, more important to us than God). This happened to Israel after she lived in the Promised Land for some time. She became so enamored with the blessings of the land that she forgot the One who gave her the land. To purify her of this idolatry God led Israel into the desert for a second time where she would be free of all her attachments and free to listen anew to the Word of God (See Hosea, Chapter 2). Lessons to Be Learned in the Desert Now let us briefly look at some of the lessons that God wishes to teach us in the desert. When God takes away consolation in prayer (that is, the felt sense of his presence), he wants to teach us the important lesson that he can be encountered at a deeper level than our emotions. He wants to teach us that we are no longer dependent on emotional returns to know we have encountered him. As we grow in our relationship with God, the more we will "learn to be at home in the dark because we are sure, in faith, that the potter is truly shaping the clay, even though the clay sees nothing of what is happening."5 An example about eating food might help to illustrate this point more clearly. Sometimes we may immensely enjoy eating a delicious meal. We may savor every morsel of the food. All in all, it is a delightful ex-perience. On another occasion we may not enjoy at all another type of delicious meal. We may not be feeling well, or the food may not appeal to us. Yet from a nutritious point of view, both meals are equally good. Our lack of enjoyment of the second meal in no way diminishes its nu-tritious value. The same principle is at work when it comes to prayer. Sometimes when we pray we really feel and savor God's presence and love. At other times the prayer is empty and dull. Who are we, though, to say that the latter time is of no benefit to our spiritual growth or is less pleasing in God's sight? A second lesson God teaches us in the desert is that spiritual conso-lation is his p.ure gift to us and not something we can earn by being good or by praying :in a particular way. In prayer God teaches us this impor-tant lesson by "dropping in" on us when we least expect him and by "failing to show" when we very much want to experience his presence. A third lesson that God wishes to teach us in the desert is that spiri- Spiritual Dryness / 677 tual growth is totally dependent on his work in us and not on anything we do. Our task is simply to be flexible and cooperative with the move-ment of his Spirit. In the spiritual life, "working at it" often means "be-ing still," "just being there" and exercising discipline over our doing and achieving self which so often wants to run the show. This is a diffi-cult lesson for us because so much of our training for the outer journey of life has told us to be "take-charge" and self-sufficient persons. It is not easy for us to switch gears in the inner journey. In the spiritual life God is the Chief Actor; we are the acted-upon. Mary, at the Annunciation (Lk 1:26-38), is our perfect model. When God mysteriously breaks into Mary's life and invites her to become the mother of Jesus, she doesn't respond, "Sure, Lord, I'll do it!" Rather, she says, "I am your maidservant; work in and through me as you want." Mary's response was, "Fiat, be it done unto me," not, "I'11 do it." This attitude is one of active receptivity, and it is the secret of Christian spirituality and spiritual growth. Active receptivity is charac-terized by the effort to place our energy, will, and freedom at the dis-posal of God so that he can do with us and in us what he wills, Finally, when God our Father allows our prayer to run dry, he is in-viting us to participate in the cross of Jesus. In times of dryness we are experiencing the thirst of Jesus on the cross. If the cross was Jesus' way to the Father, then surely we, the disciples of Jesus, cannot expect to travel the scenic route free of all pain and hardship. When we experi-ence darkness in prayer or in the marketplace, we are being invited to identify with Jesus in his suffering, in his experience of feeling aban-doned by the Father. Also in the desert we are being invited and chal-lenged to trust that our God will not abandon us but will come to rescue us and redeem us (See Exodus, Chapter 16). Question 4: How can I tell when a particular desert experience is caused by my own infidelity or is something permitted by God to help me to grow in my relationship with him? When dryness occurs in prayer, particularly in the early stages when God is giving alternating periods of dryness and consolation, wemay tend to blame ourselves for dryness. We may wonder what latest infidelity we committed to bring about this dryness. The fact may be that we have done nothing wrong . to occasion the dryness. God may be allowing us to experience the dry-ness bechuse he wants to teach us some lesson and/or purify some as-pect of our relationship with him. On the other hand, we may think the dryness is from God when in fact it is caused by our own laxity and sin-fulness. Therefore, it is important that we be able to discern the true 6711 / Review for Religious, September-October 1989 cause of the dryness because our response to it will differ, depending on whether the dryness is permitted by God or is something brought on by ourselves. Let us now identify several ways that we can bring about our own spiritual desert. ( 1 ) Indifference to a Sinful Pattern of Behavior: If we are indifferent to some sinful pattern of behavior in our lives, then we can expect diffi-culty in prayer. In a human friendship a negative pattern of behavior (for example, a critical or lying spirit), which we make no effort to ,change, will have a destructive effect on the whole relationship. Likewise, if in our relationship with God, we are deliberately ignoring a sinful pattern of behavior (for example, involvement in an illicit relationship, unfor-giveness, unethical business practices), then we can rightfully expect ten-sion in our relationship with God. When we do the above, we are delib-erately excluding the Lord and his influence from some area of our lives. In such a situation we should not be surprised that we do not feel God's presence very much in prayer. Here it is important to note that I am not referring to a sinful pattern of behavior that we are trying to change and that we are bringing before the Lord in prayer. In this case we are rec-ognizing sin and struggling with it. Instead of keeping us from God, our struggle with a particular sin or weakness may be the very means that God will use to allow us to experience his love, mercy and power. (See 2 Co 12:7-10 for Paul's famous example of how his thorn in the flesh became the very means of God's power.) In the former case, we are not even confronting our sin or seeking God's help with it. Instead we are deliberately ignoring its existence or trying to rationalize its O.K. 'hess. In the latter case, our sin grieves us and we are doing what we can to remove it from our lives. (2) Repressed Anger at God: Two highly-respected spiritual direc-tors, Fathers William Connoily and William Barry, write in a co-authored book: "When prayer flattens out, or appears tO be facing an iron wall, the director must always suspect the presence of unexpressed anger."6 To add to this problem, many of us were raised in a culture where appropriate expression of anger was socially unacceptable. "Hence resentments, holding a grudge or subdued rage, when they are present, are all likely to be given other names like indifference and ra-tional analysis."7 When someone hurts us, our relationship with that per-son will diminish, even if we decide to present an affable, friendly front; but in reality we will distance Ourselves emotionally from the person. In a similar way, if we become angry with God about something, we may Spiritual Dryness / 679 continue to be faithful to our prayer time, but on an emotional level we can be fairly sure we have distanced ourselves from him. (It is impor-tant for us to be aware that if life is handing us a raw deal, we may well be unconsciously blaming God, the Source of all things, for our lousy situation.) (3) Separation of Prayer and Life: The spiritual life is all of life and not just one segment of it. The Lord refuses to be a compartmentalized God; he wants to be a part and parcel of our whole life. When we try to keep God in church or in our prayer closet and not allow him to guide all the activities of our day, we can be sure that we are setting ourselves up for dryness in prayer. If we exclude God from the activities of our day, then we should not be surprised if he is missing from our prayer time. Even on a human level, no one likes to be a "tag-along" in some-one else's life. (4) Overwork: When our prayer life dries up, it is good for us to ask if we are pushing ourselves too much on the vital and functional dimen-sions of life. "Am I overworked? Am I over-tired? Am I coming down with the flu? Am I neglecting physical exercise? Do I have a tendency to make leisure time work? Or do I have leisure time--period?" These are important questions to ask. These things affect our prayer life. If we fail to care properly for our bodies, then we are neglecting a dimension of ourselves that we depend on to help us to pray. When we are very tired and overworked, prayer may well be seen as just another duty or thing to do. (5) Lack of Honesty in Prayer: Just as shallow or dishonest sharing dulls human relationships, it also dulls the Divine-human relationship. If our prayer is no more than "sweet talk" to "sweet Jesus," we should not expect Jesu~ to be too interested in our conversation. We must learn to talk to the Lord about the real stuff in our lives. (6) Halfhearted Efforts at Prayer: On a human level two friends may fail to really connect with each other because their conversations are "just words," words that fail to express what they are truly thinking and feeling. The problem may be that deep down they don't want to or are scared to encounter each other in a deep way. When a relationship is char-acterized by this type of communication, then we should expect it to be empty and unfulfiiling. In a similar vein, when our prayer time mainly consists of the rote recitation of certain prayers or of inattentive spiritual reading--if beneath the "saying of prayers" and the acts of piety there is no real desire to encounter God and grow in relationship with him-- then we should expect little or no satisfaction in prayer. In fact, our spiri- Review for Religious, September-October 1989 tual exercises may become a substitute for a real relationship with God. If we discern that we are the cause of our spiritual dryness, we should do all we can to remove the particular obstacle. For example, if the problem or obstacle is that we are holding onto a grudge and doing nothingto let it go, then we may need to pray for forgiveness for that person and/or we may need to have an open chat with the person with whom we are having a problem. If we discern that our experience of spiri-tual dryness is due to our tendency to separate prayer and life (see ob-stacle number three above), then our solution will be to work at allow-ing the Lord to walk with us in all the activities of our day. In short, when we discern that we are the cause of the spiritual dryness, then we ought to do something to remove the obstacle. It is the experience of most, if not all, disciples of the Lord that once they begin to struggle with an obstacle, prayer again becomes alive and they experience a new closeness to God. Finally, it should be noted that in trying to discern the cause of our spiritual dryness we would be well advised to seek the coun- ¯ sel of a good spiritual director. When we experience spiritual dryness most of us have a tendency to think that it is due to some infidelity on our part. The truth may be that God is permitting us to experience the desert so that he can continue his purifying work in us. This brings us to the second part of our response to Question 4: "How might we know that it is God and not us who is calling us into a spiritual desert?" While we can never be absolutely sure--since we live by faith and not by clear vision--when spiritual dryness is being per-mitted by God, we can say that the following are good indicators that the dryness is the purifying work of God: --If during the time of dryness we remain faithful to prayer. --If our prayer is honest and flowing from the real stuff of our lives. --If we are trying to integrate prayer and life. --If we are trying to live a life of charity; if our prayer is helping us to be more loving. --If we are genuinely trying to avoid sin and live our lives accord-ing to God's Word. --If we thirst for God as we walk in the desert. (It is crucial that we, remember that our desire for God is in itself a tangible sign of his pres-ence in our lives. We couldn't even desire God if he didn't place that desire in our hearts.) You will notice that the above signs are pretty much the opposite of the ways that we ourselves bring about our own spiritual desert. Prayer, like so many other things in life, is a series of "arrivals" Spiritual Dryness and "starting points." We arrive at a point where we feel good. We ex-perience the grace of consolation. But that only lasts a little while and then a certain discontent (a kind of desert) sets in--a discontent that may be caused by ourselves or permitted by God. Then we are faced with the challenge of discerning who is causing the discontent: "Is it God or me?" The purpose of the discontent caused by him is to create in us a longing for more, to create in us a desire to move closer to God. In the spiritual journey God brings us to a particular point or state; he lets us rest there and enjoy that plateau for a little while, and then he says, "O.K. Let's move ahead and seek for more" (see Ex 40:36-37). Of course, it is not easy to move when we are not sure where he is leading us. All he says is, "Move and trust that I'll take you to a new and bet-ter place." Finally, if we are in doubt about the cause ofour discontent or dry-ness, then we should talk to a spiritual guide or, if that is not possible, simply say a prayer like this: "Lord, if this dryness I am experiencing is due to some failing of mine, please reveal it to me. Until you do I am going to assume that I am not the cause of the dryness." Question 5: What are some resources available to us to sustain us in the desert? Four resources that will sustain us in the desert are: --a wise spiritual director; --a strong faith; --fidelity to prayer; --the support of fellow pilgrims. Our first help is a wise spiritual director. By wise I mean one who understands the role of the desert in the spiritual life and hopefully one who has experienced and grown through the desert in his or her own spiri-tual journey. Many people whom God led into the desert for purifica-tion have suffered much at the hands of well-intentioned but misinformed spiritual guides. Saint John of the Cross reserves some of his harshest words for such misinformed guides.8 For example, a misinformed guide may insist that a directee continue to meditate and do a lot of spiritual reading when God is calling her to the prayer of contemplation. In the desert a good spiritual director will be a source of guidance, encourage-ment and inspiration. When we are in a spiritual desert, it is important that we learn to place our trust in a good spiritual director. But, as most of us know, wise spiritual directors are nearly as scarce as palm trees in the northern states of America. The truth is that the road to authenticity is dangerous, hard, and narrow, and few decide to travel it. In the ab-sence of a wise spiritual director (and there is really no substitute for such Review for Religious, .September-October 1989 a person), one may receive some guidance from books that are written or recommended by people who are recognized guides of the inner jour-ney. A second important resource is a strong faith--a faith that enables US" --to believe that God knows what he is doing when he allows us to ex-perience the desert (Rm 11:33-36); --to believe that in the desert God is not punishing us but is purifying us (Dt 30:6); --to believe that God grows his best flowers (virtues) in the desert (Ho 2); --to believe that God works in us while we rest in him (Mk 4:26-29); --to believe that in the struggles of life God is on our side fighting our battles (Ex 14:13-14 and Dt 1:30-33); --to believe that in the desert God's seeming absence is just a different type of presence, one that we may not as yet have recognized (Ex 16); --to be secure with insecurity (Rm 8:28); --above all, to generously abandon ourselves to the purifying work of God (Lk 23:46). A third important resource as we struggle in the desert is fidelity to prayer. In the desert, prayer is usually dry and therefore all the more dif-ficult to remain faithful to. When it comes to praying in the desert, spiri-tual guides counsel us to avoid two extremes or temptations. The first temptation is to quit prayer, thinking that our best efforts are leading us nowhere. The second temptation is to "junk up" our prayer time with extra prayers, rosaries, Scripture reading, and so forth, thinking that if we only try harder maybe we will feel the presence of God. This second temptation needs to be resisted not only because it blocks what God is about in the desert but also because it is (usually unconsciously) our at-tempt to stay in or get back into the driver's seat. In general, prayer in the desert will become much less active, more passive--less us, more God. The challenge will be to learn to sit quietly in the presence of God, trusting that he is at work in us while we rest in him. Le~.rning to "waste time doi.ng nothing" in prayer is, without a doubt, one of the most difficult lessons we have to learn in the school of prayer. Unfortunately, most of us never learn to waste time gracefully in the presence of God. Such a practice goes completely against our west-ern, work-ethic nature that is usually driven to do, to achieve, and to pro-duce-- that likes to see tangible results for its efforts. Because of this need in us, most of us fill the vacuum that we feel in the desert with read- Spiritual Dryness ing or prayers of some sort. For those of us who are willing to try and do less (that is, to be less active) in prayer so that God may do more in us, the following suggestions might be helpful. -Spend some time just "being there" with the Lord, aware that as "we rest in him he is at work in us." We put aside all effort to achieve because now we are learning that achievement (growth) is God's work. By periodically spending some time "doing nothing" in the presence of the Lord, we are expressing our faith in an important spiritual dictum: "God's activity in prayer is more important than my activity." -Spend some time slowly repeating prayers like: "Incline my heart to your will, O Lord." "Make me want you, O Lord, more than anyone/ thing in my life." -Take a phrase of Scripture like "You are my beloved Son" and dwell on it. -Simply take one word like "Jesus" or "love" and repeat it gent-ly and slowly, letting God work in us, leading us beyond conceptual thoughts, images, or feelings to wordless depths. -Image and be present to Mary in the Temple after she lost Jesus (Lk 2:41-50) and at the foot of the cross (Jn 19:25-27) which must have been a real dark night of the spirit for her. Ask Mary to intercede for you so that you may have something of the faith which she had when she thought she had lost Jesus. -Finally, you may want to read something on spiritual dryness. By simply reading and rereading portions of a book like When the Well Runs Dry, I am encouraged to persevere in the desert. Personally, I need to hear over and over again the teaching and encouragement that a book like Father Green's offers. In prayer our role is to be faithful in coming aside, to be at God's disposal. What actually happens in prayer is God's business. For me this piece of wisdom has always been very consoling. It helped to free me from thinking that it was up to me to make things happen in prayer. Now I am more relaxed, knowing that my role is to be faithful in coming aside, to do what I can to eliminate distractions from within and with-out, and to pray as I feel led. ("Pray as you can, not as you can't.") The rest is in God's hands. If he chooses to bless me with a deep sense of his presence, I am indeed very grateful. If he chooses to bless me with his seeming absence (God is always only seemingly absent), then I try to be grateful for that, also believing that God knows what will best help me to grow. "Our prayer is good when our hearts are fixed on God, even if it is filled with boring aridity or passionate turmoil.' ,9 Review for Religious, September-October 1989 A fourth resource in the desert is the prayer and personal support of fellow pilgrims. While each person's inner journey is very personal and unique, still we can learn much from the journeys of co-pilgrims. Only the foolish try to travel the inner jou~rney alone. In the desert we are all beggars sharing morsels of bread with each other. Also, if we are blessed enough to be a part of a small, faith---sharing group, then we have avail-able to us an excellent resourc_~e for the dry times. In the dry times the prayers of'fellow pilgrims are usually a big help. I wbuld like to conclude our discussion on spiritual dryness with a prayer that I have found to be a source of great encouragement during times of spiritual desolation. Dear Lord, in the midst of much inner turmoil and restlessness, there is a consoling thought: maybe you are working in me in a way I cannot yet feel, experience, or understand. My mind is not able to concentrate on you, my heart is not able to remain centered, and it seems as if you are absent and have left me alone. But in faith I cling to you. I believe that your Spirit reaches deeper and further than my mind or heart, and that profound movements are not the first to be noticed. Therefore, Lord, I promise I will not run away, not give up, not stop praying, even when it all seems useless, pointless, and a waste of time and effort. I want to let you know that I love you even though | do not feel loved by you, and that I hope in you even though I often experi-ence despair. Let this be a little dying I can do with you and for you as a way of experiencing some solidarity with the millions in this world who suffer far more than I do. Amen.~° NOTES ~ See Thomas H. Green, S. J., Weeds Among the Wheat (Notre Dame, Indiana, 1984), Chapters 6 and 7. Also see Thomas H. Green, S.J., When the Well Runs Dry (Notre Dame, Indiana, 1979), p. 92. 2 Some other Psalms that reflect darkness in the prayer of the psalmist are Psalms 60, 69, 74, and 88. 3 Father John Dalrymple, Simple Prayer (Wilmington, Delaware, 1984), p. 69. '~ lbid, p. 93. 5 Thomas H. Green, S.J., When the Well Runs Dry (Notre Dame, Indiana, 1979), p. 119. 6 Fathers William Barry. and William Connolly, The Practice of Spiritual Direction (New York, 1982), p. 73. 7 Ibid. 8 Saint John of the Cross, The Collected Works of John of the Cross, translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. and Otilio Rodriguez, O.C.D. (Washington, D.C., 1979), pp. 620-634. 9 Father John Dalrymple, Simple Prayer, (Wilmington, Delaware, 1984), p. 66. ~0 Henri J. M. Nouwen, A Cry for Mercy: Prayers from the Genesee (Garden City, New York, 1983), p. 102. That God Might Be Father .Laurel M. O'Neal Sister Laurel O'Neal, a solitary (hermit), is familiar to our readers. Her address is Stillsong Hermitage; 80 Lafayette Circle; Lafayette, California 94549. Perhaps the only question more problematic than that of the possibility of prayer is the question of its, genuine significance and necessity. Sur-prisingly, however, this is also a question we generally fail to consider explicitly or face squarely. More typically, the meaningfulness and re-quisiteness of our prayer are matters we tend to take for granted, even though the notion of prayer may lie at the heart of important or even fun-damental expressi6ns of self-understanding and definition. But the ques-tion is an important one, and one we cannot easily afford to avoid or care-lessly dismiss, if we intend to take prayer seriously or maintain a proper sense of its place and role in our daily lives. After all, why really are we called to pray? What, if anything, is truly and uniquely at stake in our prayer? Is there any reason to regard our own personal prayer as a matter of compelling urgency and real ne-cessity, or is the matter really more nugatory? Clearly, as Christians we are called to believe that our prayer is a meaningful, even indispensable activity, vital to the transformation and healing of all we know, and the realization of all we are made and hope for. But how do we justify such a belief? What is it about prayer that makes such claims credible? The answers to all of these questions are based in our recognition that in prayer something deeper and even more fundamental is at stake, some-thing in which all healing and human growth in wisdom and sanctity are rooted, and upon which all our hope depends. Like Christianity in general, and like God himself, prayer is pro-foundly paradoxical, and this is particularly true of the question at hand. 685 Review for Religious, September-October 1989 Although we must acknowledge that prayer is the gift and activity of God attended to by sinners (that is, by persons whose lives are fundamentally marked and marred by fragmentation and alienation), we must also af-firm that the deeper truth is the paradox that prayer is primarily some-thing we undertake on God's own behalf, insofar as prayer is the experi-ence of God as the One he wishes to be for us. Quite simply, what is truly and uniquely at stake in our prayer, at each and every moment we pray, is nothing less than the life and destiny of God himself. As Chris-tians, as persons who pray--that is, as persons who share as heirs of God in the obedient Sonship of Jesus Christ, we do so primarily that God might truly be the Father he has willed to be from the beginning. This insight is easy to lose sight of, something that occurs particu-larly whenever God's paradoxical nature is obscured or forgotten, and an immutable or even (as commonly misunderstood) "triune" God is substituted for a Living One. Most of us are well aware that on the one hand, our God is the "High and Holy One," the one who reveals him-self in sovereignty and self-sufficiency. Indeed he is Yahweh, "the one who will be who (he) will be," ~ in absolute authority and awesome auton-omy. But this dominant Old Testament image is just one side of the para-dox whom we Christians know as God; and if on the one hand he is the High and Holy One who is absolutely self-sufficient, he is also the one who has determined not to remain so, but rather has resolved to make his own destiny subject to the responsiveness of his creation. Our God is on the one hand without beginning or end, absolutely self-sufficient, in need of no one and no thing. Yet on the other hand he has willed from all eternity not to remain alone but to turn to another--a person who will be his counterpart. He is the eternal decision to speak to this other and to hearken to the word which this other speaks. He is the eternal deci-sion to love this other and to accept this other's love. [The God of the New Testament] who is eternally self-sufficient wills not to be; God who is eternally of and for himself wills to be for another.2 This means quite simply that God has determined to be for us as well as dependent upon us. We must allow this determination to be realized, and let God be who he wills to be for us. This is indeed the most human thing we can do, just as it is the most loving. Those who truly appreci-ate that our own destiny is dependent upon the proper exercise of human freedom should not be surprised that God too is dependent upon it. In fact, we should be aware that the Christ event reveals that it is human freedom which is the true counterpart to divine omnipotence. For many, this will be an astounding assertion. However, if we reflect on precisely That God Might Be Father / 687 what occurred in the Christ event, perhaps this critical point will become more acceptable to most people. Certainly such reflection is necessary if we are to truly appreciate the importance and urgency of our prayer. It is true that in the Christ event--in the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus--God drew near to every moment and mood of his creation. This is truth but the truth cuts far more deeply than even this awesome reality. In the Christ event something absolutely s'ingular and unsurpassable occurred. For the first time in human history someone, in this case Jesus of Nazareth, in living a life wholly responsive to the God who would be Father, accomplished two things. In the first place, he lived the first genuinely human existence ever known in the history of humankind, and secondly, in his proper exercise of true human freedom he allowed God to become the Father he had willed to be from the be-ginhing. In the dialogue which existed between Father and Son, both hu-man and divine life reached a fullness for which they had yearned and groaned through time and eternity, the realization of human and divine destinies were forever linked, and divine omnipotence and human free-dom were inextricably wed as counterparts of one another. Nor is this all. In Jesus' resurrection from the dead, this abundant life was made a continuing and unconquerable reality in our world. It is in prayer that we enter most deeply into participation into this abundant life, and in prayer that Jesus' Sonship becomes our own and the Fatherhood of God is further realize~t. Through our participation in the Sonship of Jesus, we come to know genuine human life, and we become aware that it is a life characterized and constituted by an ongoing and all-consuming dialogue with the Fa-ther, who is in turn constituted as Father in this dialogue. In the Christ event Jesus responded to God as Son. He allowed God to be the author of his life, and he allowed God to be authored as Father in the process. Truly human existence is nothing less and nothing other than daughter-ship or sonship to the Living God whose own inner truth and dynamism is realized in Fatherhood. Prayer is simply and always the mutual out-working of these inextricably linked divine and human destinies. God is Father neither before, nor apart from, the response of Jesus as Son; neither is he our Father apart from our participation in that de-finitive Sonship which we call prayer. (Note well, in all of this it is im-portant that, according to the prologue to John's gospel, we are very clear that it is not the Logos that is Son; rather it is Jesus as Son in whom the Logos is incarnate. The two realities are quite different, and are often tragically confused. As the term is commonly but perhaps naively used, Review for Religious, September-October 1989 the Logos is "preexistent"; the Son is not, and whenever this confu-sion occurs, it becomes impossible to appreciate the true significance of the obedient Sonship of Jesus or of our own prayer.) Although he is the one "who will be who (he) will be," the God of the New Testament turns to the world as the one who would be Father, that is, as one who would find his counterpart and true completion in those who would turn in response as daughters and sons (that is, as those who are of him and from him) and, as one whose deepest identity would remain unrealized and unrealizable apart from this response. What are the implications of all this for our prayer? In the first place, we must concede that our prayer has real meaning and urgency, not only and not even primarily because we are saved through God's activity in our lives, but because in our prayer we concern ourselves with the very life of God. Whether or not prayer is a profound experience for Is, it is a significant experience for God since it is in prayer that he is allowed to achieve Fatherhood and truly realize himself. Whatever we perceive happening or not happening in our prayer, we must not lose sight of the fact of what does occur there. In prayer God is given the chance to love fully, and thus to fully be. It is not simply the'case that God is love; it is also true that in loving, God is (and it is this fact which allows us to speak of prayer in terms of the glorification or magnification of God). Prayer is possible only to the extent that our God has willed not to remain remote, that is, only to the extent that he has drawn near. But prayer is meaningful and necessary for the most part because the God who has refused to remain remote has also willed not to remain self-sufficient and has, in a very real way put his own destinyinto the hand of those to whom he would be Father, and whom he has thus willed re-spond to him as daughters and sons. Without our prayer, God remains the High and Holy One who has drawn near to us in all of life's moments and moods, but who remains deprived of real presence, and thus whose deepest will and identity remains unrealized and frustrated in our regard. It is particularly telling that the first word and entire Lord's Prayer is contained in the invocation "Father." Jesus' whole life and prayer, which were essentially synonymous, were devoted to allowing God's will to Fatherhood to be accomplished. Claiming this realization of the Fatherhood of God is the heart of all prayer. Allowing him to love us in the way he wills is the heart of all truly human activity. It is impor-tant that our prayer remain the God-centered activity it is meant to be. This is the reason Jesus gave his life and his way of praying as a "para-digm of perspective," and in fact, in what is most essentially and pro- That God Might Be Father 689 foundly the lesson of the New Testament, taught his followers to pray. We lose proper perspective if we forget that God has drawn near, but it is at least as tragic to forget that prayer is the way nearness is transformed into real presence. We said in an earlier essay3 that prayer begins, ends, and is sustained by our concern for and commitment to the life of God. Let us remember why we are present to him and what our appreciation of his nearness means for him, and may this knowledge sustain us in even the driest of moments. NOTES t The usual translation of "Yahweh" in Exodus 3:14 as "I am who am," or even the more cryptic "'I am" is inadequate insofar as it disregards the dynamic element, and promise of active and effective presence also contained in the Hebrew (see Ex 3:12). A better translation is "I will be who I will be". 2 Dwyer, John C., Son of Man attd Son of God, A New Language For Faith, (New York: Paulist Press, 1983). 3 O'Neal, Laurel M., "Prayer, Maintaining a Human Experience": R~.vl~.w R~.~.~¢~ous; Nov/Dec 1987, p. 883. Musing Fragile as a crisp autumn leaf, Hard as flint on flint, Soft as nestling down, Resilient as blue tempered steel-- You and I--this planet ours-- Cradled in God's tender arms Of Grace. Walter Bunofsky, S.V.D. 1446 E. Warne Avenue St. Louis, Missouri 63107 Mary of Bethany-- The Silent Contemplative Carlos M. de Melo, S.J. Father Carlos de Melo, S.J. is professor emeritus of Canon Law and Spiritual The-ology at the Pontfical Athenaeum of Pune, India. His address is Papal Seminary; Nagar Road; Ramwadi; Pune 411 014 India. Teresa of Avila, that incomparable mistress of the spiritual life--"Mater spiritualium" as she is called in the inscription at the foot of her statue at St. Peter's, Rome--was never tired of repeating to her daughters of the Reformed Carmel that prayer is not so much a matter of much think-ing as of loving much.~ The soul of prayer is faith and love. Going through the gospels ! found this basic truth or principle beautifully illus-trated in the attitudes of Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, vis-~t-vis our Lord. Bethany is a small hamlet about three kilometers southeast of Jerusa-lem, separated from the capital by the Mount of Olives. Mary of Bethany appears in five places in the gospel narratives: I) Luke 10:38-42; 2) John 11 : 1-53; 3) John ! 2: i - l l ; 4) Mark 14:3-9; and 5) Matthew 26:6-13. The last three references cover one and the same episode, that of the supper at Bethany, in the house of Simon, the "leper." True, the material is not over abundant, yet it is sufficient enough to give us a fair idea of the personality, the mind and heart, the ways and attitudes, the character of this well-known biblical figure. However, I wish to bring out in this es-say one particular trait that distinguishes her, and that is her contempla-tive attitude of life, as it comes across to us in a striking manner in two of those passages--Luke i0 and Matthew 26 (see Jn 12; Mk 14). Symbol of Contemplative . Indeed, in these passages, Mary stands out before us as a symbol and 690 Mary of Bethany / 69"1 teacher of the contemplative life particularly inspiring and helpful to per-sons "consecrated to God," whether they live in convents and monas-teries or elsewhere in the world. She thus becomes our guide, silent yet sure, to a simple, intimate relationship with our divine Master, such as will not only bring us true fulfillment but can even radically transform our life. For, as the saying goes, tell me with whom you walk and I shall tell you what sort of a person you are. When did Mary first meet Jesus? In Luke 10 the new Rabbi figures as an already familiar guest in the house of Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, one whom they all highly esteemed, loved and revered, a dear friend whose visits were eagerly looked forward to and whom they welcomed with undisguised joy and profound satisfaction, as though they could never have enough of him. From him they held no secrets; they could share with him their every thought or sentiment, every joy or sorrow, and in him they were always sure to meet, in any life situation, under-standing, sympathy, guidance. First Meeting Decisive True, the gospels do not tell us when it was that Mary first met Je-sus. One thing, however, seems to be certain. Whatever might have been the time, place or occasion, that first meeiing was decisive in Mary's life; it made a lasting and ineffaceable impression on her youthful, sensitive nature. It reminds us of another such decisive encounter narrated in an-other gospel--that of the Master with the beloved disciple (Jn 1:35-39)-- one of those unforgettable events that make an impact for good and give a new turn to life. Like that of John, Mary's life, too, was deeply touched by her meeting with Jesus, for, from then on, that mysterious guest became as it were everything for her, the center of her thoughts, sentiments, deeds. It was as though interiorly taught from on high, Mary sensed in Jesus of Nazareth not only a new rabbi, or a great religious leader who taught as one having authority (Mt 7:29), who spoke as no man ever did (Jn 7:4-6), or even a worthy prophet like Moses, Isaias or Jeremias of old, but--in a way she herself was not able fully to under-stand or explain--the very incarnation of the Father of Israel, of Yah-weh himself, and at the same time, her own personal friend and guide-- her 'guruji' we might say, with all this term, and the reality it represents, means in Indian life and tradition. This explains Mary's unconditional surrender to him, her loving contemplation of him, her total openness and docility to his word, her silent "adoration"--attitudes proper to a creature before its God, its divine Lover. 692 / Review for Religious, September-October 1989 Lovable Character Mary is a lovable character--lovable because she is so
