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Book 2: The Mystical Bridge — The GIDEE Achievement and La Iniciación Legacy
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Belle-Époque occult revival (Papus, L'Initiation, 1888)Fin-de-siècle French esotericism · late 19th c. CEparallel to · medium confidence
Martinez de PasquallyMartinism / Élus Coëns · c. 1727–1774 CEgrounded in · high confidence
Read in full — our archive →from the Internet ArchivePlotinusNeoplatonism · 204–270 CEgrounded in · high confidence
“This is the life of the gods and of godlike and blessed men, a liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth, a flight of the alone to the Alone.”Read in full — our archive →from the Internet Archive— Enneads VI.9.11, trans. Stephen MacKenna
Pseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteChristian apophatic theology · late 5th–early 6th c. CEderives-motif-from · asserted
“Guide us to that topmost height of mystic lore which exceedeth light and more than exceedeth knowledge, where the simple, absolute, and unchangeable mysteries of heavenly Truth lie hidden in the dazzling obscurity of the secret Silence.”Read in full — our archive →from the Internet Archive— The Mystical Theology, ch. 1, trans. C. E. Rolt (1920)
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinModern process/evolutionary theology · 1881–1955 CEderives-motif-from · asserted
“L'homme n'est rien d'autre que l'évolution devenue consciente d'elle-même.”The catalogue record →not held in full here · cited from the Internet Archive ↗— Le Phénomène humain (1955), conclusion — 'Man is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.'