It is a mistake to presuppose _unconscious_ and _innocent_ development in this quarter--a sort of self-deception. Fanatics are not the discoverers of such exhaustive systems of oppression.... Cold-blooded reflection must have been at work here; the same sort of reflection which Plato showed when he worked out his "State"--"One must desire the means when one desires the end." Concerning this political maxim, all legislators have always been quite clear. We possess the classical model, and it is specifically Arian: we can therefore hold the most gifted and most reflective type of man responsible for the most systematic lie that has ever been told.... Everywhere almost the lie was copied, and thus _Avian influence_ corrupted the world.... 143. Much is said to-day about the _Semitic_ spirit of the _New Testament_: but the thing referred to is merely priestcraft,--and in the purest example of an Arian law-book, in Manu, this kind of "Semitic spirit"--that is to say, _Sacerdotalism,_ is worse than anywhere else. The development of the Jewish hierarchy is _not_ original: they learnt the scheme in Babylon--it is Arian. When, later on, the same thing became dominant in Europe, under the preponderance of Germanic blood, this was in conformity to the spirit of the _ruling race_: a striking case of atavism. The Germanic middle ages aimed at a revival of the _Arian order of castes_. Mohammedanism in its turn learned from Christianity the use of a "Beyond" as an instrument of punishment. The scheme of a _permanent community,_ with priests at its head--this oldest product of Asia's great culture in the domain of organisation--_naturally_ provoked reflection and imitation in every way.--Plato is an example of this, but above all, the Egyptians. 144. _Moralities_ and _religions_ are the principal means by which one can modify men into whatever one likes; provided one is possessed of an overflow of creative power, and can cause one's will to prevail over long periods of time. 145. If one wish to see an _affirmative_ Arian religion which is the product of a _ruling_ class, one should read the law-book of Manu. (The deification of the feeling of power in the Brahmin: it is interesting to note that it originated in the warrior-caste, and was later transferred to the priests.) If one wish to see an _affirmative_ religion of the Semitic order, which is the product of the _ruling_ class, one should read the Koran or the earlier portions of the Old Testament. (_Mohammedanism,_ as a religion for men, has profound contempt for the sentimentality and prevarication of Christianity, ... which, according to Mohammedans, is a woman's religion.) If one wish to see a _negative_ religion of the Semitic order, which is the product of the _oppressed_ class, one should read the New Testament (which, according to Indian and Arian points of view, is a religion for the Chandala).