Christianity breaks with materiality and self-sufficient semblance. Man is disfigured for the sake of transcendency. The body is regarded as a prison, an impediment, a mere contingency, a transitional medium. The sacral standard discordantly disfigures the aesthetics of the proportional. Number and measure are disengaged from the expanse of nature.
Nature becomes object, the subject becomes the decisive point of reference of transcendency.
Self-procreation of the mind and hostility against the body constitute the poles of transcending the earthly. It degenerates into working power. Its desires and longings are driven out. Dionysian excess is replaced by the self-assertion of the tamed transcendent as a large machinery. All things become vehicles of mystifications.