The Lurker by H.P. Lovecraft. The direct, although involuntary, cause of this catastrophe which affects us to this day, was Moses, according to Hermetic Records . If Jesus had returned, in Europe, anywhere from A.D. 300 to perhaps A.D. 1800 he would have been very likely burned at the stake. Perhaps he did and was. A dying culture destroys everything it touches.
Language is one of the first things to go.
Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts. It should be emphasized that this is not a discovery but a re-discovery . Thus a concerted attack on the use of sacred inebriants was mounted, and the supreme heresy was to presume to have any direct experience of the divine, not mediated by an increasingly corrupt and politicized priesthood. The Pharmacratic Inquisition was the answer of the Catholic Church to the embarrassing fact that it had taken all the religion out of religion, leaving an empty and hollow shell with no intrinsic value or attraction to humankind, which could only be maintained by hectoring, guilt-mongering and plain brute force. A sane person believes firmly in the uselessness of thinking about what he does not understand, and is pathologically interested in other people.