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 cause to believe that Christ was an Uranian?—the highest type of Uranian that the world could see. There is nothing ignoble, nothing at all lowering in this theory. The ideal Christ in omniscient sympathy must be profoundly acquainted with all human love, the Uranian's emotions included. We cannot separate from Christ such intimacy with mortal nature, with the innermost soul? Again, no negative trait in Christ is so clearly indicated as his reserved interest in women. Christ is unmoved by warmer sentiment for women than friendship. He is affectionate and interested toward them as only their brother, Mend, teacher. On the contrary, his sentiment for Lazarus is openly passional; he loves, he laments in tears, he restores the dead young man to life, Christ's love for John is spoken of as jealously observed; explicit with even the physical demonstrativeness of the picture of so young a Disciple leaning on his Master's heart; as nearest and dearest, even at Golgotha. The type presented by painters from the first has always depicted a young, fair, femininely boyish John. In fact, references to "love" in connection with Christ's life occur only when young men, not when women, are spoken of; notably the "young man" whom Jesus "loved"—again an intentional phrase. Christ's personality and career; his vivid attraction to total strangers; the immediate spell that, right and left, he exercised on all men, so that they left everything for his sake; his magnetic charm over each human Creature, young or old, who came within personal contact with him, are all traits of the mysterious powers of a noble and beautiful Uranian. Such a type casts its spell inevitably over woman also, though unmoved sexually by womanly beauty. One may even ask whether the treason of Judas was the madness of a jealous homosexual passion, on the part of the betrayer; in a hatred of John, or of whomsoever else. We may also remember that Christ was a Jew, and that his apostles were of an