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AN OUTLINE OF
THE INDIAN CRUCIFIXION (1)
MAURICE ROWDON


GENERAL
THE INDIAN CRUCIFIXION deals with those aspects of modern
life which clearly denote a barbarian origin, or are typical of
a 'barbarian reversion'. In this way it is 'a handbook by
which to recognise the barbarian in oneself'.
It is drawn from notes accumulated over the last three
years during research on other books, most of them historical.
Chapter subjects include the essential function of war in
Christian society, the role of the media, the role of money,
'Christian' medicine, death- and decay-preoccupation arising
from the doctrine of original sin, moralism and terrorism
(linked together), education and crime (linked together),
the various forms of 'blueprint thinking', the status of
old age during a period of 'darkened kundalini', the idea of
progress as it has developed in the last four centuries,
the modern view of time as a production-belt.
War is described as the key to the survival of Christian
society, and its means of self-development. The Turkish
threat was the only thing that held the turbulent society of
sixteenth-century Europe together, while today war is the
acknowledged "technological reservoir' required by society
in its role as production- or power-machine. War plays
this role because 'terror is the child of rationalism'. The
one feeds the other.
The chapter on 'Christian' medicine argues that it is
grounded in necroplilia and the stiudy of corpses and not the
living tissue because this was the barbarian mode of seeing
the body. Ancient medical thought was entirely misinterpreted
in the so-called middle ages. For instance, ancient medicine
maintained that the penis erected because it became filled
with 'vital spirit' or pneuma. By Leonardo da Vinci's time
the general medical belief was that it erected by air-pressure
from inside. Only the crudest barbarian society could have
interpreted the ancient conecpt of pneuma, which was close
to the Indian prana, as physical 'air'. The modern picture
of universal diseases which assail the passive, corpse-like
body. 'from outside' derives from the first necrophiliac
researches. Anaesthesia reduced the body to a corpse-like
state in order to achieve the original condition, while the
eastern system of acupuncture found methods of curtailing
sensation in the patient while awake.
THE INDIAN CHUCIFIXION emphasises the importance of
barbarian invasion as a catalyst working on ancient Civilis-
ation. The Indian richis:or first seers (thousands of years
before Christ) taught their disciplines or the Vedas by mouth,
and the written documents (the Upanishads) only emerged much
later when contact with dasas or barbarians made self-definition
necessary. The same effect worked on the Roman empire under
the impact of the Lombards and Goths and Franks and Huns,
by forcing it to a new self-definition as a Christian empire.
One of the most important catalystic barbarian invasions of
recent times was the British occupation of India, which pro-
voked Indian mysticism into a revival, and was responsible
for the introduction to the West of Hinu thought during the


nineteenth century, culminating in the lecture-tours of
Vivekenanda in the United States, and that absorption by the
West of Indian thought which Schopenhauer predicted over a
century ago. The reverse-action of the ancient civilisation
on the barbarian intruder takes the form of interpreting and
instructing the barbarian on the nature and meaning of his
turmoil. THE INDIAN CRUCIFIXION describes itself as an ex-
ample of this.
Length: 100,000 words.
A few illustrations.


THETHEME
1. A 'dark' age
A Christian civilisation was never attained, and we are
living today in one of the climaxes of a prolonged dark age.
From the time of the first Christian monasteries in the desert
behind Alexandria two or three centuries after Christ there
was conflict, with the hope and the plan for a civilisation
which never took place. In the so-called middle ages this
conflict was accompanied by relative social stability (based
on imperial organisation) but little refinement in manners
compared with the ancient world. From the fifteenth century
onwards manners became refined, the social stability coll-
apsed. 'Civilisation' came to mean a mode of behaviour,
following on the Spanish Church's need to define a Christian
behaviour distinct from a Jewish and Arab one. With this
we enter (from the sixteenth century on) the present era of
constant financial crisis and war. The conversion to
Christianity of the barbarian races pressing on the Roman
empire (and ultimately taking it over) was (and is) a slow
process, and today we have a society which is still in the
throes of the barbarian preliminaries of civilisation.
These 'barbarian preliminaries' involve a time-span of
many thousands of years, and a new civilisation in which
anything like the composure of the ancient eastern civilis-
ations may take many more centuries to transpire, given the
spectacular barbarian reversions of the last few centuries.
2. The 'barbarian reversion'
The barbarian reversions which characterise Christian
history are periods of violent upheaval in which fragile
social forms collapse under naked barbarian appetites.
The sixteenth century in Europe, and the present epoch, are
examples.
The deeper the barbarian reversion the deeper the plunge
into sex-activity, precisely as the poison-sprayed fly will
copulate in the death-throes, and precisely as the hanging
man ejaculates. The marriage of brutality and sex in the


mass media is not accidental. In the barbarian, during his
earliest and tribal stage, sex-desire made rape a component
of victory, and seminal ejaculation was both a reward and a
revenge, a contemptuous liquid bombardment of the enemy's
innermost temple.
The barbarian's sex activity in peaceful or refined'
circumstances is not so different from what it was in the
earlier or tribal setting. It receives stimulants from
death- and danger-contexts, and from cruelty, as the mass
media demonstrate every day. However, 'barbarian reversion'
does not refer to a tribal relapse, supposing such a thing
possible. For the sex-cruelty identification goes on in the
least healthy man, the least tribal of urban populations.
On the contrary, here we meet the paradox of acute intellect-
uality as a barbarian manifestation.
3. Rationalism and the barbarian
Rationalism and empiriçal science, far from being a
climax of civilised thoughtas the history books describe
them, are of barbarian origin, and their application has in
modern times been the cause of barbarian reversion. Print-
ing and logarithms, anatomy and steam, the banking system
and Copernicus, new techniques of war and exploration based
on mathematical calculation-they turned sixteenth-century
society upside-down in the most spectacular way. In 'New
Spain', as the newly discovered Americas were first called,
the Christian showed a barbaric ferocity towards the Aztecs
and Incas which proved how little the vast social operation
of converting the barbarian races to Christianity had devel-
oped along its necessar y time-span.
The barbarian needed the intellect to master his body,
to gain a first primi tive detachment from his hot impulses.
It was the only way he could make a society out of the ruins
of the Roman empire, and he learned how to think, regulate
his daily life and plan the future in the monasteries. St
Benedict, setting the tone for all Christe.indom in his third
and most successful monastery at Cassino (from AD 529),
wisely substituted for his uncouth followers ruminatio or
reading aloud for the traditional Greek haesychia or medit-
ation.
Rationalism means the belief that the mind is the sole
information-giver. Modern rationalism fails to penetrate
Eastern thought-for example in the matter of acupuncture-
because it assumes that this must be intellectually rendered.
Ancient Greek rationalism was quite different from Christian
rationalism, in being more deeply - embodied' amd not intell-
ectual.
Because of its intellectuality Christian society has
always planned and dreamed and looked forward to a world it
has never realised. This can work backwards too, and back-


ward dreaming is one of the chief reasons why we get SO
little real history in history books, as opposed to 'blue-
print thinking' which divides the Christian past into quite
imaginary epochs called the 'dark' and the 'middle' ages,
with a Renaissance or 'rebirth' which actually followed the
worst plagues in Christian history and preceded the worst
massacres and persecutions.
4. 'Blueprint thinking'
'Blueprint thinking', being an attempt to apply mathe-
matics to life, leads to a society aimed at 'optimmum product-
ion' which simultaneously destroys the earth, just as it can
quite sincerely describe soil erosion, bad teeth, atmospheric
and oceanic pollution as 'the effects of civilisation'.
Traditionally, since the twelfth century, the universities
have been the great blueprint-manufacturing centres, and were
often (for this reason) hotbeds of criminality and drunkenness.
Masturbation and prostitution in the modern mass-school are
simply reflex actions from the artificiality of the whole
barbarian definition of 'education' as intellectuality.
For centuries now shocked surprise has followed financial
crashes, sudden wars, massacres, sex-murders, and the assass-
ination of kings, dukes and presidents. It is because the
artificial history in which we all live has not prepared us
for the fact that barbarian society survives by the skin of
its teeth, that its order is bogus and always has been.
5. Why 'Indian crucifixion'?
The crucifixion of Christwas an 'Indian crucifixion' in
the sense that he brought the/Indian experience to the Jewish
world. There is evidence of Indian influence in the Middle
East at the time. There were large numbers of Indians in
the Persian army in Greece in 480 BC. Modelled heads of
Indians found at Memphis from the same period could indicate
a settled community of Indian traders. Indians were preach-
ing in many parts of the Mediterranean by 259 BC.
The 'Indian experience' was carried by Jews after the
crucufixion to Alexandria, to Greece and Rome and Byzantium,
or rather they stimulated it back to life through preaching
about Christ. The deepest influence of all radiated from
the desert fathers, in their retreats in the lonely country
behind Alexandria, and here kundalini techniques, inherited
from the Indians, came into play.


6. The kundalini
The kundalini, the 'serpent coiled at the base of the
spine', is in Indian thought the seat of the human conscious-
mess. The sex-area is part of it. The sex-energy is part
(and a tiny part) of its total energy. The sex-ecstasy is
part (and a tiny part) of its total ecstasy. According to
Indian thought enormous untapped dynamic energies lie coiled
in this area, which can be blocked or dormant as it can be
'awakened'.
Hence sex-disturbance causes disturbance in the balance
of consciousness. The ancient Greeks held that sex distress
was at the basis of all sickness. It is the failure of the
barbarian to relate his sex energies with the rest of his con-
sciousness that always confounds his efforts at civilisation,
which means essentially inner order.
For barbarism springs from blocked or darkerfed kundalini.
This leads to acute and even obsessive sex activity, and to
crime, because the potent energies locked up in the area urge
their release in the only avenue open to them, namely the sex
avenue. The mass interest in sex-crime today is due to the
stirring of the kundalini in masses of people.
Those in whom the kundalini has been awoken (not all of
them mystics) argue that kundalini-knowledge represents the
next step in human evolution. THE INDIAN CRUCIFIXION argues
that the great ancient civilisations (India, China, Egypt,
Mycenae, Knossos) were founded on this hard-won knowledge,
and that for this reason their frescoes and reliefs show
the identical smiling face.
Knolwage of kundalini-exercises has been mostly lost
even in India. Research is going on at the moment in
ancient writings on the subject, but not with an intellectual
objective: the idea is to prevent physical distress and even
madness in the stimulation of this highly dangerous area.
Certain "kundalini-yoga' teachers are notorious for the harm
they cause.
Still, such exercises entered Christian life to a remark-
able extent, though quite haphazardly. Even the so-called
'left-handed Tantra' (the practice of the sex-act as a mystical
exercise) survived as late as the sixteenth century-in a
Florentine monastery. Canon Pandolfi Ricasoli and Abbess
Faustina Mainardi practised what the Inquisition described as
'an old heresy', by which 'no sin was possible in the perfect'.
Ricasoli made love to the nuns freely, and invit ted them to
make love to one another. 'He called such exercises an exer-
cise in purity'. He called the sex organs 'holy and sacred
parts'. The hair round them was 'like the veils around holy
and precious images'.
7. Conclusion
'Barbarian preliminaries' imply minimal energy in the
human being, civilisation optimum energy. For this reason
all forms of barbarism, from the tribal to the highly soph-
isticated or intellectual, rely on clamour and much movement,
because physical action is the barbarian's definition of
energy-release. Yet in 'deep' meditation the body throws
out more powerful currents than during the most active wak-
ing state.


In the present epoch of barbarian reversion 'pageant
science', with its manifold explosions and spectacular
flights, provides part of the clamour. The round-the-clock
media supply part of it too, bombarding the atmosphere with
visual and oral signs of activity, and rendering millions
upon millions of people more passive than the human being has
ever been. The body, cut off from its early tribal releases,
now becomes a virtually inert organ eligible for medical
care and hospitalisation, passively reacting to drugs, barely
aware even of its own needs.
"Waterialism' is an aspect of this view of the body,
and the passivity too. It is a reversion to the barbarian
sense of the body as the only reality, yet a body enslaved
by the conditions round it. The tribal man was, while
strikingly courageous, also very frightened: his conversion
to Christianity was to a great extent an operation of exorcis-
ing this fear of the universe with its devils and its unpredict-
able revenges. 'Dialectical' materialism is a blueprint of
passivity, describing matter as inertly reacting to immutable
laws, and the body--the human creature- -as the helpless
victim of these laws even in his apparently free choices.
The 'unlocking' of the kundalini means opening the human
system to powerful cosmic forces, and releasing a dynamism
which renders mere physical activity, and even mental activity,
the least vital expressions of the human genius. 'The genius'
is a rarity only for the primitive stages of society. When
civilisation is achieved whole groups (whole 'masses as the
passive barbarian mind says) are marked by it. It is this
that we recognise when we stroll round the ruins of Knossos,
Ostia, Herculaneum, or the Indian temple--finding a hint of
it here, a strong assertion of it there.