Faustian Christianity:

Spengler identifies the Early or Primitive Church with the Magian Culture, not Faustian.   He sees the Magian & Faustian churches as being quite distinct.  He claims the Faustian Christian Church emerged in 1215 in the 4th Lateran Council (see below), and which had as its central & sublime practise, the Eucharist.

 

Eucharist:

a sacrament celebrated as "the source and summit" of the Christian life,  celebrated daily (except on Good Friday). The term is also used for the bread & wine when transubstantiated (their substance having been changed), according to Catholic teaching, into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.  The earliest known use (1079) of "transubstantiation" to describe the change from bread & wine to body & blood of Christ was by Hildebert de Savardin (Archbishop of Tours, died 1133).  He was responding to Berengar of Tours who stated that the Eucharist was only symbolic.  In 1215 the 4th Lateran Council used the word transubstantiated in its profession of faith, when speaking of the change in the Eucharist.

 

climatic:

of or relating to climate.

 

Lateran council (1215):

Church Council held in Rome at the Lateran Palace; aka called the "Great Council" or "General Council of Lateran"; attended by a great many princes of the Church as well as representatives from secular powers; the council established the doctrine of transubstantiation.

 

Council of Trent:

See Chapter IV page 148

 

loquacious:

talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous; characterized by excessive talk; wordy

 

disproof:

the act of disproving, proof to the contrary; refutation.

 

unit-bodies:

a characteristic Spengler uses to describe Apollonian Culture, refers to singularity, corporality

 

circumscribed:

to enclose within bounds; limit or confine, especially narrowly; to mark off; define; delimit

 

circumambient:

surrounding; encompassing:

 

Rhenish:

of the Rhine and the regions adjoining it.

 

Lombardo-Byzantine: * see EndNote <A>

Spengler uses this as a description of Italy following the fall of Rome (476 AD), when 2 competing forces, the Byzantines & Lombards, sought domination of the peninsula. 

 

Gothic book-illustrations:

One of the commonest types of early Christian art produced during the Middle Ages was the illustrated religious text.  These illuminated manuscripts, created inside Irish, British & Continental monastery scriptoria, were hand-written in Latin on animal skins, then ornamented with Biblical art, including pictures of the Holy Family and Apostles.  They were influenced by texts from Eastern Christendom, notably the Byzantine and Coptic (North African) churches.  Charlemagne (742-814) was an avid patron of religious manuscripts.  The books form this era were illustrated with images of Christian art created by scribes and artist-monks at the Carolingian court at Aachen, were sometimes written in gold or silver ink on purple-dyed leaves to emphasize Charlemagne's links with imperial antiquity.  Otto the Great (912-973) emerged to continue the tradition of book painting and illustration.  It was Otto III (980-1002), who showed particular enthusiasm for illuminated manuscripts.  He ordered manuscripts from the great monasteries such as Trier.  Ottonian book illustration takes us into Medieval manuscript illumination, which consists of three main movements: Romanesque, Gothic and the courtly International Gothic style

 

archetypes :

the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.

 

Byzantine purple codices:

purple parchment, purple vellum or Codex Purpureus refers to manuscripts written on parchment dyed purple. The lettering may be in gold or silver.  It was at one point restricted for the use of Roman or Byzantine Emperors.  Later the practice was revived for some especially grand illuminated manuscripts produced for the Carolingian and Ottonian Emperors & in Anglo-Saxon England.