Sublime

him? He had heard a voice, a voice in his own heart, which had commanded him to seek rest under this tree, and he had neither preferred self-castigation, offerings, ablutions, nor prayer, neither food nor drink, neither sleep nor dream, he had obeyed the voice.

He was a seeker, but retrogressive, he was a romantic. And suddenly I realized that it was just what he had been to me and had given me that he could not be and give to himself. He had guided me to a point on the road beyond which he, the guide, could not go.

Mason teaches a religious tending of one’s own self. “Self-knowledge,” he says, “is that acquaintance with ourselves, which shows us what we are, and do, and ought to be, and do, in order to live comfortably and usefully here, and happily hereafter.” The means urged is self-examination, the purpose self-government and “self-fruition.” These books s

ON THE WISDOM OF LIFE: APHORISMS.

entame une psychanalyse avec le Dr Carl Gustav Jung dont il découvre les archétypes. Ses thèmes de prédilection sont aussi ceux qui nourrissent son œuvre : l’initiation, l’inconscient, la spiritualité, le masculin-féminin… Hermann suit soixante-dix séances de mai 1916 à novembre 1917, il prend conscience que le chemin vers lui-même est encore long.

This is another teaching that you will laugh about: love, oh Govinda, seems to me to be the most important thing of all. Great thinkers may try to thoroughly understand the world, explain it, and despise it. But I’m only interested in being able to love the world, not despise it. I don’t want to hate it and have it hate me; I want to be able to loo