MCMXC a.D. was a worldwide commercial success. According to The New York Times, the album had sold 12 million copies worldwide as of February 1994. [20] In Germany, MCMXC a.D. entered the German Albums chart at number 60 for the week of 10 December 1990. [28] It peaked at number three for the week of 24 December 1990 and left after appearing at number 72 for the week of 8 July 1991. [28] The album re-entered the chart at number 68 for the week of 21 February 1994 and left after appearing at number 69 for the week of 21 March 1991. MCMXC a.D. re-entered the German Albums chart at number 80 for the week of 9 December 1996 and left after appearing at number 73 for the week of 13 January 1997. [28] The album spent 46 weeks on the German chart, [28] and has been certified double platinum by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI), indicating shipments in excess of one million copies in Germany. [44] MCMXC a.D. The Limited Edition (Liner notes). Enigma. Virgin Records. 1990 . Retrieved 30 January 2020. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Caulfield, Keith (12 November 2015). "Most Weeks on Billboard 200 By Title". Billboard. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020 . Retrieved 25 October 2020. In lust there is reliance upon the object of sense and consequent spiritual subordination of the soul to it, but love puts the soul into direct and co-ordinate relation with the reality which is behind the form. Therefore, lust is experienced as being heavy and love is experienced as being light. In lust there is a narrowing down of life and in love there is an expansion in being...If you love the whole world you vicariously live in the whole world, but in lust there is an ebbing down of life and a general sense of hopeless dependence upon a form which is regarded as another. Thus, in lust there is the accentuation of separateness and suffering, but in love there is the feeling of unity and joy... Paganism [ edit ] That was the only part about the film that seemed to be making a point really. The rest was just smut for the sake of it. I would have turned it off at numerous times, mostly when Marc Warren was on screen, but I wanted to see what point it was trying to make. Sadly it really didn't.

The most famous example of a widespread religious movement practicing lechery as a ritual is the Bacchanalia of the Ancient Roman Bacchantes. However, this activity was soon outlawed by the Roman Senate in 186 BC in the decree Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus. The practice of sacred prostitution, however, continued to be an activity practiced often by the Dionysians.a b c Taylor, Timothy D. (2001). Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture. Taylor & Francis. p.232. ISBN 9781135206529. a b Christgau, Robert (3 December 1991). "Consumer Guide: Turkey Shoot". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 31 December 2020 . Retrieved 29 December 2020– via robertchristgau.com.

a b "Germancharts.de – Enigma". Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 9 May 2017 . Retrieved 28 October 2020.a b Shirley, David (1994). "Enigma, MCMXC a.D. Charisma Records, 1990". Journal of Religion and Health. Springer. 33 (1): 98. doi: 10.1007/BF02354504. JSTOR 27510784. PMID 24263789. Archived from the original on 21 November 2020 . Retrieved 9 November 2020. Swedishcharts.com – Enigma – The Rivers of Belief". Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020 . Retrieved 28 October 2020. The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Enigma; 'MCMXC a. D. ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien.

a b c d Fox, Marisa (15 March 1995). " MCMXC a.D. Review". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012 . Retrieved 22 August 2012.

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MCMXC a.D." The Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020 . Retrieved 25 October 2020. a b c d e f Hochman, Stephen (23 March 1993). "Mysterious Enigma Speaks About 'Sadeness': Romanian native Michael Cretu mixes Gregorian chants and Euro-dance beats for an international hit". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 16 September 2020 . Retrieved 27 September 2020. There is a slight sense of anachronism - the would-be dole-queue bohemian feels very much like an 1980s image (although the point is that state benefits are no longer a reliable resource for arty types) - and aspects of the male psychological powerplay echo Martis Amis novels of the period. A more contemporary parallel might be with Fight Club, not so much because of the fight scenes as for the Billy/Paul relationship echoing the alter ego characters in David Fincher's feature.

Larking, Colin (27 March 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5ed.). Omnibus Press. p.965. ISBN 9780857125958. Archived from the original on 21 November 2020 . Retrieved 27 September 2020. Pope John Paul II, Mutual Attraction Differs from Lust. L'Osservatore Romano, weekly edition in English, 22 September 1980, p. 11. Available at http://www.ewtn.com/library/papaldoc/jp2tb39.htm . The film then follows Paul as his life veers between a relationship with Juliette ( Sienna Guillory) and her son, and the debauched excesses of wild nights out with Billy and Hole and their mates. In Islam, lust is considered one of the primitive states of the self, called the nafs. In sufi psychology, according to Robert Frager, nafs is an aspect of psyche that begins as our worst adversary but can develop into an invaluable tool. [16]

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Swiss Year-End Charts 1991". swisscharts.com. Archived from the original on 31 December 2020 . Retrieved 22 November 2020. Lust is the attachment to, identification with, and passionate desire for certain things in existence, all of which relate to the form, sensation, perception, mentality, and consciousness that certain combinations of these things engender within us. Lust is thus the ultimate cause of general imperfection and the most immediate root cause of a certain suffering. Schopenhauer notes the misery which results from sexual relationships. According to him, this directly explains the sentiments of shame and sadness which tend to follow the act of sexual intercourse; for, he states, the only power that reigns is the inextinguishable desire to face, at any price, the blind love present in human existence without any consideration of the outcome. He estimates that a genius of his species is an industrial being who wants only to produce, and wants only to think. The theme of lust for Schopenhauer is thus to consider the horrors which will almost certainly follow the culmination of lust. Mark D. Jordan, The Invention of Sodomy (1994) pp. 39–40; Julien Théry, "Luxure cléricale, gouvernement de l’Église et royauté capétienne au temps de la 'Bible de saint Louis'", Revue Mabillon, 25, 2014, pp. 165–194 In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna, an Avatar of Vishnu, declared in chapter 16, verse 21 that lust is one of the gates to Naraka or hell.