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Imperatore-dio a quattordici anni, ucciso e gettato nelle fogne a diciotto, sacerdote e depravato, amministratore consapevole della disgregazione e dell’anarchia in seno all’ordine politico più grandioso che il mondo classico abbia creato, tutto ciò che sappiamo della vita di Eliogabalo si presenta già di per sé sotto il segno della esasperazione di tutti i contrasti, come se soltanto Antonin Artaud potesse essere eletto a scrivere la sua biografia, fatta solo di eccessi. Eliogabalo apparve nel 1934.
205 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1934
A thing named is a dead thing, and it’s dead because it is set apart.
Principles are only of value to the mind, and to the thinking mind; but outside the mind that thinks, a principle is reduced to nothing.



Voice Claudia also describes the history of a potential, and probable, active-trait male in her territory. He declared himself a living god-emperor, and through marriage to Bene Gesserat Livia produced several generations of active-trait males. One appears to have been the first known Abomination, a man who heard “voices” and claimed to be both male and female, but whose actions were so perverse that Voice Claudia refuses to describe them. (“Bene Gesserit History,” Dune Encyclopedia Tr, p. 121)*
All the same, Heliogabalus the pederast king who wanted to be a woman, was a priest of the Masculine. He achieved in himself the identity of opposites, but did not achieve it without harm, and his devout pederasty had no origin other than an obstinate and abstract conflict between Masculine and Feminine. (p. 72)