Au cœur de la rose

We tend to grant spirituality such elevated status that it can become difficult to experience in our day-to-day lives. However, before attaining “knowledge of the universe and its gods”, we must start by “tilling and sowing” the lands within ourselves, here and now. The symbol, the visible face of the invisible, often enables the individual undertaking a spiritual quest to open their eyes, heart and mind. As Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant put it: “It is not enough to say that we live in a world of symbols, a world of symbols lives within us!” This essay provides us with a number of areas for reflection and meditation regarding alchemical symbolism, the tarot and numbers but also art, spirituality, the religious spirit, initiation, desire, doubt... it comes decorated with 15 author illustrations.

Prolegomena - Caminando… Caminando! - Ora-Labora - Magician Meditation - Reflections on an alchemical text - Art and symbolism - Spirituality: another way of Seeing - When 3 form only ONE - Religion - Religious thought – Spirituality - From the secret fire: Desire - A certain approach to Time - Noumenon and Phenomenon – Initiation – Presence - Doubt: wounding the Soul or inspiring the Mind...