ABSTRACT
For a thousand years before Luther, a line has crossed Europe from the shores of the Atlantic to the Urals. The peoples finding themselves on one side are Catholics and Orthodox in whom an essential part of the Collective Unconscious which unites them from a psycho-cultural viewpoint is shaped by the theological-doctrinal political construction which dates precisely from the Constantinian era.
On the other side of the line are those peoples converted by the followers of Arius, the opponent of the idea of the Trinity as formulated in the Council of Nicaea. It was no coincidence that these same peoples rejected with the Reform the entire structure in favour of the ethical inspiration of the original Hebrew tradition of the Gospels. These are the peoples generally recognized as progressive, open-minded, liberal-democratic, and characterized by their economic dynamism.
Those few years mark the greatest and most dramatic schism within Christianity. One example might suffice: that of the misrepresentation of Marxist philosophy on the part of Lenin, heir of the Constantinian cultural legacy which has its adherents in the part of Europe it most contaminated: France, the Balkan Peninsula, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Latin America. Marx, whose central inspiration was freedom, thus became the symbol of one of the most illiberal regimes history has ever known.
