In a decadent age of excess, Swedenborg argued the importance of moderation in order to maintain the male's general health, which will sustain sexual vigor: "His fibres, nerves, muscles, and cremasters do not become torpid, relaxed, or feeble, ...
(4) through a decadent school already existing in Arabia, which school in spite of its lapse into idolatry still retained the secrets of the Ancient Wisdom cult.
In the present decadent, degenerate times we need a Dialetic Revolution, an Auto-Dialetics and a new education.
The houses may be variously grouped according to the influence they exer- cise in our lives; there are "angular," "succeedent" and "cadent" houses, also personal, spiritual, material, social and mystical houses.
A French novelist of Dutch ancestry, who wrote several decadent novels, including A Rebours and La Bas, which included a description of the Black Mass. He was fascinated with the satanic crimes of Gilles de Rais.
Linea AB iacens lineam CD perpendiculariter cadentem & duos rectos angulos constituentem excipit. Iam si linea cadens inclinetur versus B: reddet angulum acutum ex vna parte, ex altera vero obtusum.
This was a clever ruse used to ensure that they would happily fight in the emperor's battles, under the mistaken belief that eventually they would return to the decadent 'pleasure dome' forever. Coleridge and his poem helped to immortalise this.
And all the earlier religions (decadent as some of them may be amid the decay of nations), down even to those of primitive tribes of men, show as outstanding features the existence of Supermen, ...
 See also: Spirit, Spiritual, Ritual, Mater, World
  
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