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conference on Eastern Metaphysics, remarkably relevant at the same time and clear, that it gave has the Sorbonne in 1925, and of which here the thesis: Metaphysics is knowledge par excellence. It is a natural knowledge, neither as for its object nor as for faculties by which it is obtained. In particular, it has nothing to do with the scientific and rational field. It is not a question to operate abstractions, but to take note direct of the eternal and immutable principles. Metaphysics is not a human knowledge. It is thus not as a man that the man can reach that point; it is by the effective awakening of the supra-individual states. Identification by knowledge - according to the axiom of Aristote: A being is all that he knows - is the principle even of the metaphysical realization. The most significant means is the concentration. The realization consists initially in the indefinite development of all the possibilities virtually contained in the individual; then in the final going beyond of the world of the forms until the degree of universality which is that of the pure being. The last goal of the metaphysical realization is the state absolutely inconditionné, freed from any limitation. The delivered being is then really in possession of the plenitude of its possibilities. It is the union with the supreme Principle. True metaphysics cannot be given in time: it is eternal. It is a command of knowledge reserved for an elite *** One sees, by this too short summary, with which ease R. Guénon guides us on the disconcerting path for us, Occidentaux, of the Far-Eastern meditation. The student will also read with interest the many passages where, in his other writings, the author indicates very suggestive analogies between the doctrines of Sankaratcharya for example, and other esoteric traditions: taoism, Sufism, hermetism, the Cabal, catholic theology, the Gospel. I will add however some reflexions. In one of his works more connus (1) R. Guénon warns, with reason, against the mania of the system. Indeed, any system is a particularization, therefore a cause of error. In knowledge, in " gnose ", all is possible, and all contains a certain share of truth. But nothing contains the sum of all the truths. Let us add that this abstract sum does not constitute itself the total Truth, which will always exceed it. This absence of systematization is, for R. Guénon, the character even of metaphysics, especially of Hindu metaphysics. I will say that it is still much more deeply the character even of intuitive and direct Knowledge that the Holy Spirit grants to the perfect disciple of Christ. Moreover, it is understood that intuitive Knowledge, the only universal one, exceeds discursive knowledge, rational, mental, the latter being consisted by the totalization of the greatest possible number of particular knowledge and their synthesis. II is heard, in addition, that language, which qu other Eastern languages, it is understood that the language especially described the experiments of the ordinary conscience, and that, as soon as one passes in these areas supramentales that Europeans name the unconscious one, but who, actually, are more subtle consciences, the human languages lose of their precision, especially when one asks them to express unknown state of consciousnesses of the reader. How thus somebody can it affirm, for example, that Wang taoist is Hebraic Adam Qadmon; that Rouach Elohim is comparable to Hamsa - useless to multiply these analogies -; how, say I can one affirm such equalities if one did not try out personally the state of life named Wang, Adam Qadmon, Hamsa or Rouach? Because the theoretical idea that one is made of a thing is not always exact; the daily experiment teaches it to us. Such boldnesses, for sincere that they are and conscientious, are generated, in my opinion, by a preliminary faith in the superiority of the intellectual speculations. Admittedly, true metaphysics, that to which R. Guénon dedicates his work, are most beautiful, purest of the glances which the thought can throw on the universe of the Abstract. But its exclusive worship necessarily leads to the weariness of the life and the action. Here precisely, will exclaim Mr. Guénon, where Europeans show that they are only turbulent children, and it will smile of us of the same smile as wise Lao-Tseu, worthy Rishis, and all Mounis, and all Jivanmuktis drop with indulgence on the noisy barbarians from Occident. If the goal of the life is to only know, if it is enough to think to fill our human labour, if nothing exists that state of consciousnesses, nothing does not have greatter importance and the only work worthy of us, it is to drop any creature, any desire, any work, to take refuge in an increasingly abstract conscience of ourselves, increasingly general, increasingly motionless. It is an austere and beautiful program, undoubtedly; but it is realizable only for these beings which are only

intelligence. And then, all the existing demonstrations of the Absolute are not so that one is diverted some; to give up because they embarrass us, like makes the yogi or the arhat, it is not generous, nor Christian. It is true that the sentimental character of Christianity calls the smile on the disillusioned lips of these wise. With my opinion, the progressive realization of the commands of the Gospel operates in our being a slow spiritualization, during which our unconscious perceives the Light more clearly, and our intellect, our brain, our body even becomes increasingly permeable with this Light, the knowledge growing thus spontaneously in us, progressively with our improvements in the action, by triumphs renewed on selfishness. The Eastern ones seek the delivery; the Christians seek safety, the delivery, it is the conquest of the independence of the laws, of the forms and of the appetites, safety, it is, for crowd, the prolongation in the happiness of terrestrial individuality, It should be, if all the Christians included/understood their Maitre well, the transmigration of the total individual in the Kingdom eternal. The Eastern ones want to conquer the delivery while taking refuge in the abstracted point, origin of all the space forms. The Christians endeavour to make themselves able to receive Freedom by the baptism of the Spirit. Two independences are with the antipodes one of the other. R. Guénon stigmatizes " ignorance with thespiritualistic ones, which locates the extra-body methods of the individual and which locate the posthumous states some share in space ". That means, in simple language, which the hell, the purgatory, the paradise is not places, as believe it the puerile Westerners, but of the states. However, simplistic Christians and metaphysicians have all reason. Just as any creature is at the same time an individual, a community and a medium ", how to reconcile this conclusion with the preceding one? Because, if Delivered lives beyond any form, any measurement and very lasted, all not delivered live in forms, measurements and durations. However these are the latter which try out the purgatories, the paradises of the asceticism, or the hells of the degradation. Delivered " is freed from the conditions of the human individual existence, as well as very other particular and restrictive conditions... It is an omnipresent conscience... expressing transcendent faculties ". Should it be heard that this Delivered does not feel any more the hunger, thirst, nor the sleep, that it reads the thoughts, in short, that the veils of the matter do not exist any more for him and that it controls by sowing the miracles? Us here well far from metaphysics. Our author takes care to inform us, with good reason, that such results are " partial, secondary and contingent;... they are means ". The Union, the true Delivery, is beyond it, in being not conditioned, and is acquired by the constant fixing of the thought on this Inconditionné. Rites, esoteric practices being only nonessential auxiliaries. But it follows from there that the Christian who serves the Verb by a constant obedience and a love without failure cannot go up higher than the Verb: the existing Being by itself. While the metaphysician, for whom above the Verb still sits the Suprème Principle, not expressed, holds his asceticism for more sublime; for him, the action cannot lead to Not expressed, only Knowledge carries out to it. All things considered, knowledge leads us, of coarse forms in subtle forms, with the metaphysical abstract. The action leads us, of covetous existences in radiant existences, with the eternal life, I prefer this second path. And then, one will excuse me to still repeat it, the disadvantage of the theoretical conclusions remains to be able to some extent to consider the things remote only by induction. Undoubtedly, a Vat will reconstitute on a bone all the aspect of some animal antédiluvien; but can the images of the Natural history museum give the same sharp concept that the sight of this animal formerly gave to our ancestors caves? Thus, I claim that it is bold of saying that Ananda Hindu, the Vacuum taoist, Buddhist Nirvâna, Sekinah Moslem woman, Shekinah Jewish, Pax profunda rosicrucian, the Light of Christian Glory are the same thing. To promulgate this assertion, it would be necessary to have successively followed until the end each above mentioned school and of to have then compared the fruits. All things considered, let us await each method only what it can give. The meditation, the action, the devotion offer to the various types of researchers their own resources; but they are not equivalent, nor do not lead to the same node. And, with the surplus, nothing replaces the love of nearest *** Ainsi humanity, since the day, distance in time, when God sent in the world, goes of gropings in gropings

intelligence. And then, all the existing demonstrations of the Absolute are not so that one is<br />

diverted some; to give up because they embarrass us, like makes the yogi or the arhat, it is<br />

not generous, nor Christian. It is true that the sentimental character of Christianity calls the<br />

smile on the disillusioned lips of these wise. With my opinion, the progressive realization of<br />

the commands of the Gospel operates in our being a slow spiritualization, during which our<br />

unconscious perceives the Light more clearly, and our intellect, our brain, our body even<br />

becomes increasingly permeable with this Light, the knowledge growing thus<br />

spontaneously in us, progressively with our improvements in the action, by triumphs<br />

renewed on selfishness. <strong>The</strong> Eastern ones seek the delivery; the Christians seek safety,<br />

the delivery, it is the conquest of the independence of the laws, of the forms and of the<br />

appetites, safety, it is, for crowd, the prolongation in the happiness of terrestrial individuality,<br />

It should be, if all the Christians included/understood their Maitre well, the transmigration of<br />

the total individual in the Kingdom eternal. <strong>The</strong> Eastern ones want to conquer the delivery<br />

while taking refuge in the abstracted point, origin of all the space forms. <strong>The</strong> Christians<br />

endeavour to make themselves able to receive Freedom by the baptism of the Spirit.<br />

Two independences are with the antipodes one of the other. R. Guénon stigmatizes "<br />

ignorance with thespiritualistic ones, which locates the extra-body methods of the individual<br />

and which locate the posthumous states some share in space ". That means, in simple<br />

language, which the hell, the purgatory, the paradise is not places, as believe it the puerile<br />

Westerners, but of the states. However, simplistic Christians and metaphysicians have all<br />

reason. Just as any creature is at the same time an individual, a community and a medium ",<br />

how to reconcile this conclusion with the preceding one? Because, if Delivered lives<br />

beyond any form, any measurement and very lasted, all not delivered live in forms,<br />

measurements and durations. However these are the latter which try out the purgatories, the<br />

paradises of the asceticism, or the hells of the degradation. Delivered " is freed from the<br />

conditions of the human individual existence, as well as very other particular and restrictive<br />

conditions... It is an omnipresent conscience... expressing transcendent faculties ". Should it<br />

be heard that this Delivered does not feel any more the hunger, thirst, nor the sleep, that it<br />

reads the thoughts, in short, that the veils of the matter do not exist any more for him and<br />

that it controls by sowing the miracles? Us here well far from metaphysics. Our author takes<br />

care to inform us, with good reason, that such results are " partial, secondary and<br />

contingent;... they are means ". <strong>The</strong> Union, the true Delivery, is beyond it, in being not<br />

conditioned, and is acquired by the constant fixing of the thought on this Inconditionné. Rites,<br />

esoteric practices being only nonessential auxiliaries. But it follows from there that the<br />

Christian who serves the Verb by a constant obedience and a love without failure cannot<br />

go up higher than the Verb: the existing Being by itself. While the metaphysician, for whom<br />

above the Verb still sits the Suprème Principle, not expressed, holds his asceticism for<br />

more sublime; for him, the action cannot lead to Not expressed, only Knowledge carries out<br />

to it. All things considered, knowledge leads us, of coarse forms in subtle forms, with the<br />

metaphysical abstract. <strong>The</strong> action leads us, of covetous existences in radiant existences,<br />

with the eternal life, I prefer this second path. And then, one will excuse me to still repeat it,<br />

the disadvantage of the theoretical conclusions remains to be able to some extent to<br />

consider the things remote only by induction. Undoubtedly, a Vat will reconstitute on a bone<br />

all the aspect of some animal antédiluvien; but can the images of the Natural history<br />

museum give the same sharp concept that the sight of this animal formerly gave to our<br />

ancestors caves? Thus, I claim that it is bold of saying that Ananda Hindu, the Vacuum<br />

taoist, Buddhist Nirvâna, Sekinah Moslem woman, Shekinah Jewish, Pax profunda<br />

rosicrucian, the Light of Christian Glory are the same thing. To promulgate this assertion, it<br />

would be necessary to have successively followed until the end each above mentioned<br />

school and of to have then compared the fruits. All things considered, let us await each<br />

method only what it can give. <strong>The</strong> meditation, the action, the devotion offer to the various<br />

types of researchers their own resources; but they are not equivalent, nor do not lead to the<br />

same node. And, with the surplus, nothing replaces the love of nearest *** Ainsi humanity,<br />

since the day, distance in time, when God sent in the world, goes of gropings in gropings

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