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The periodic onset of corruption is in the nature of human frailty, the price of preventing it being an unsleeping vigilance of the Saints. Failing this protection, some need for readaptation (a reform in the strict sense of the word) may well arise.
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The tiny system of images (the ego) must become, when its terrestrial contingency is left behind, a star immortalized in the halo of Divinity. Beyond the stars burns the Sun of the Self in its blazing transcendence and in its infinite peace.
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Every man rules something which is placed in dependence on him, even if it is only his own soul, and every man is governed by something which surpasses him, even if it is only his own intellect.
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Theory is not an end in itself, it is only a key with a view to a cognition on the part of the Heart.
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The uniqueness of God excludes the uniqueness of the world. The infinity of God demands the repetition of the world.
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Beauty is a crystallization of some aspect of universal joy; it is something limitless expressed by means of a limit.
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Fallen man is poisoned by the passional element, from this results an obscuring of the Intellect and the necessity of a Revelation coming from the outside.
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The remembrance of God is not only an inwardness free from images and flavours, but also a perception of the Divine in the symbols of the world.
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We are everywhere in touch with the Absolute, from which we cannot emerge but which at the same time is infinitely distant, no thought ever circumscribing it.
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What constitutes the miracle of man is not subject to change, for, in the image of God, there can be neither decrease nor increase. And that man is this image follows from the simple fact that he possesses the concept of the Absolute.
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Whatever is not here is nowhere, and whatever is not now will never be. As is this moment in which I am free to choose God, so will be death, Judgement and Eternity.
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If Heaven were not present in earth, existence would vanish into nothingness, it would be impossible a priori.
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On the one hand the Principle has a tendency to destroy manifestation because the latter as contingency is not the Principle. On the other hand, the Principle loves manifestation and remembers that it is Its own.
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On the one hand the Principle alone is, manifestation (the world) is not. On the other hand manifestation is real by the fact that it manifests the Principle.
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In God there is a harmonic Unity of perfect, but antinomic realities: Freedom & Necessity, Mercy & Justice, the Infinite & the Absolute.
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It is always a case of the same incapacity to conceive of antinomic realities, and to understand that if freedom, the absence of constraint, is a perfection, necessity, the absence of arbitrariness, is another.
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Historical reality is less real than the profound truth it expresses and a mythological symbolism is infinitely more true than a fact deprived of symbolism.
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The mitigation of moral laws can represent an intrinsic superiority only on two conditions: firstly that it confers a concrete advantage on society, and secondly that it be not obtained at the cost of that which gives meaning to life.
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Metaphysical knowledge is sacred. It is the right of sacred things to require of man all that he is.
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Metaphysical knowledge orders all things by reducing to ashes all that is not God.
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As soon as man is detached from his reason for existence, rooted in God, he can only slide downwards, in conformity with the law of gravity.
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Whether we like it or not we live surrounded by mysteries, which logically and existentially lead us towards transcendence.
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In the beginning the celestial Law was of an adamantine severity while at the same time life still retained something of the celestial. The celestial Law becomes less demanding as the end of our cycle approaches; Clemency grows as man becomes weaker.
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In the Middle Ages the whole civilization was structured in such a way as to give a person at least some sense of his cosmic situation; today we live in a kind of misleading “extraterritoriality,” in opaque back rooms that hide reality.
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Sacred art is Heaven descended to earth, rather than earth reaching towards Heaven.
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Knowledge only saves us on condition that it enlists all that we are, only when it is a way and when it works and transforms and wounds our nature even as the plough wounds the soil.
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No evil can take anything away from the Sovereign Good or ought to disturb our relationship with God; we must never lose sight of absolute values when in contact with the absurd.
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Man's reason for being is to be situated above the plane of existence upon which he has been projected, and this while adapting himself to the nature of that plane.
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We are everywhere in touch with the Absolute, from which we cannot emerge but which at the same time is infinitely distant, no thought ever circumscribing it.
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The sage or the saint has an inward access to concrete Truth; the simplest formulation (doubtless the most “naive” for some tastes) can be the threshold of a Knowledge as complete and profound as possible.
