XV

There are in every man, at every moment, two simultaneous postulations,

one toward God, the other toward Satan.

The invocation of God, or spirituality, is a desire to rise; that of

Satan, or bestiality, is a joy in descent. To the latter should be

attributed love for women.

The joys which spring from these two loves conform to their two natures.

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