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The Passion for God ↖ Beyond Good and Evil ↖ Gender Relationships : there are churlish, honest-hearted, and importunate kinds of it, like that of Luther ↖ Beyond Good and Evil ↖ People —the whole of Protestantism ↖ Beyond Good and Evil ↖ Religion lacks the southern delicatezza. There is an Oriental exaltation of the mind in it, like that of an undeservedly favoured or elevated slave, as in the case of St. Augustine, for instance, who lacks in an offensive manner, all nobility in bearing and desires. There is a feminine tenderness and sensuality in it, which modestly and unconsciously longs for a unio mystica et physica, as in the case of Madame de Guyon ↖ Beyond Good and Evil . In many cases it appears, curiously enough, as the disguise of a girl’s or youth’s puberty; here and there even as the hysteria of an old maid, also as her last ambition. The Church has frequently canonized the woman in such a case.