Buddy, you know in Chapter 8 of A&E The Impudent Brat Hussain, Dares to Call Men "Slugs". How could he do such a thing? He was lucky that men couldn't get their hands on him.
Plato in the cave analogy writes:
Socrates] And if there were a contest, and he had to compete in measuring the shadows with the prisoners who had never moved out of the cave, while his sight was still weak, and before his eyes had become steady (and the time which would be needed to acquire this new habit of sight might be very considerable) would he not be ridiculous? Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of ascending; and if any one tried to loose another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the offender, and they would put him to death.
Again, the same situation. This poor guy gets a glimpse of reality and is crushed by the "experts." Simone adds:
"Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoriing nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive."
- Simone Weil, Prelude to Politics, completed shortly before her death in 1943
the Simone Weil Reader, edited by George A. Panichas (David McKay Co. NY 1977) p 393
This would go over like a lead balloon at an Interfaith group meeting. Slugs, the Great Beast, How insulting! They should be boiled in oil. Yet for the minority who can move beyond personal insult, perhaps they can profit by becoming aware of the human condition as described above. Those like me can never belong in a situation that mentions the Work where this observation is scorned. It is natural for it to happen in the outside world but without this foundation there is even a danger. Research how Helen Shucman, the founder of A Course in Miracles died in a state of possession
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071202013258AA3qNjJ
Is it true? I don't know but it can be true. If is true it is only because the premise of Man's nothingness is denied and a thought form is built upon a false foundation. I feel safe in introducing Simone and the questions she raises because she denies self importance produced by sleep. That is why the World will hate her and yet a minority will be moved by her. Since I've become aware of the human condition by experiencing the conscious vertical direction and the potential it offers Man, I speak honestly of it regardless of the normal reactive condemnation.
Did Simone acquire anything from her non-conformism. Who knows. Gustav Thibon believes she did as he experienced her shortly before her death.
"I had the impression of being in the presence of an absolutely transparent soul which was ready to be reabsorbed into original light. I can still hear Simone Weil’s voice in the deserted streets of Marseilles as she took me back to my hotel in the early hours of the morning; she was speaking of the Gospel; her mouth uttered thoughts as a tree gives its fruit, her words did not express reality, they poured it into me in its naked totality; I felt myself to be transported beyond space and time and literally fed with light."
Gustav Thibon
Plato in the cave analogy writes:
Socrates] And if there were a contest, and he had to compete in measuring the shadows with the prisoners who had never moved out of the cave, while his sight was still weak, and before his eyes had become steady (and the time which would be needed to acquire this new habit of sight might be very considerable) would he not be ridiculous? Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of ascending; and if any one tried to loose another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the offender, and they would put him to death.
Again, the same situation. This poor guy gets a glimpse of reality and is crushed by the "experts." Simone adds:
"Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoriing nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive."
- Simone Weil, Prelude to Politics, completed shortly before her death in 1943
the Simone Weil Reader, edited by George A. Panichas (David McKay Co. NY 1977) p 393
This would go over like a lead balloon at an Interfaith group meeting. Slugs, the Great Beast, How insulting! They should be boiled in oil. Yet for the minority who can move beyond personal insult, perhaps they can profit by becoming aware of the human condition as described above. Those like me can never belong in a situation that mentions the Work where this observation is scorned. It is natural for it to happen in the outside world but without this foundation there is even a danger. Research how Helen Shucman, the founder of A Course in Miracles died in a state of possession
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071202013258AA3qNjJ
Is it true? I don't know but it can be true. If is true it is only because the premise of Man's nothingness is denied and a thought form is built upon a false foundation. I feel safe in introducing Simone and the questions she raises because she denies self importance produced by sleep. That is why the World will hate her and yet a minority will be moved by her. Since I've become aware of the human condition by experiencing the conscious vertical direction and the potential it offers Man, I speak honestly of it regardless of the normal reactive condemnation.
Did Simone acquire anything from her non-conformism. Who knows. Gustav Thibon believes she did as he experienced her shortly before her death.
"I had the impression of being in the presence of an absolutely transparent soul which was ready to be reabsorbed into original light. I can still hear Simone Weil’s voice in the deserted streets of Marseilles as she took me back to my hotel in the early hours of the morning; she was speaking of the Gospel; her mouth uttered thoughts as a tree gives its fruit, her words did not express reality, they poured it into me in its naked totality; I felt myself to be transported beyond space and time and literally fed with light."
Gustav Thibon
