Partisan Wisdom (ongoing series)
3/19/2026
‘‘Greek and Roman religions around the Mediterranean Basin and the weakening of the northern European religions created a vacuum that only a new revelation could fill. Therefore Christianity was revealed by God. Although originally a Semitic religion, providentially it soon became…Hellenized, and Christ was transformed…into an Aryan solar hero for the Europeans, who were destined to find the path of Salvation through this new dispensation from Heaven.
It certainly was no accident that in Europe Christianity remained strong and unified, while in the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa, destined to become part of the future “Abode of Islam,” it splintered into numerous small denominations fighting among themselves as well as against Byzantium.’’ - SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR
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The West is a strange nexus of Semitic religion, Greco-Roman art and philosophy, Gothic blood with a remnant of North European paganism. All of these elements seem at once foreign to ourselves and yet connected to us intimately. I think that is why Europeans, uniquely it seems, were so intent on understanding other cultures at a deep level, translating the Popol Vuh into Spanish (done by a Dominican Friar) and uncovering Troy, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the hieratic script of ancient Egypt. We look outward in order to look inward. Perhaps because our core identity is this tangle of conflicting and complementary visions of the past.