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The messengers of the Absolute
I look outside and it is in me that the tree grows.
– RAINER MARIA RILKE
For the English poet William Blake (1757 - 1827), our true humanity is something infinitely greater than the sensible world. The history of man and of civilizations is only the result of fortuitous circumstances while our high-tech "monuments" are only the droppings of "deadly worm" because the materialistic system which made such achievements possible has, at the same time, deprived man of his spiritual, that is to say, eternal life. In a flash of genius, Blake discovers that it is power, political or religious, which seeks to destroy freedom of access to the spiritual world and which limits human existence to the external, material order. Indeed, those who control this power need willing slaves, while the inner worlds are realms of freedom and expression safe from tyrants.
T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) nicknamed these broken-hearted beings "hollow men" because they were empty at their core. They suffer from spiritual barrenness, a complete collapse of the spirit. Only the access to the numinous can still save them.
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The human body is a living temple.
« It's by a superhuman love that we go beyond our's nature. »
– Jacques Ferron
Due to its dazzling character, the numinous does not allow itself to be apprehended by reason and escapes any description or analysis worthy of the name. Regardless of era or culture, poets have attempted to express the inconceivable in order to make the call of the intangible resonate in our hearts. Like whistleblowers from the inner world, they draw our gaze beyond the visible world and invite us to return to the lost Eden.
Joining their voices to those of poets, philosophers, such as Jacques Derrida, denounced school and university authorities for not having the courage to take an interest in the human spirit. "Nobody, he said, wants to have anything to do with him."
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