Christ as Archetype
The horizontal beam of the specifically Christian cross, by the way, is
fixed, not at the middle of the vertical beam, but higher, at the level of the
Savior’s head. At the middle it would have crossed at the
genitals and have thereby represented a phallic centering – like that of
Yahweh’s Old Testament law for those circumcised in the Covenant, where the
religion is of race; whereas the Christian is of faith, belief, the mind and
heart, to which members of any race whatsoever may be joined.
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