Le désert intérieur

In The internal desert, Marie-Madeleine Davy addresses the vocation of the new men who will be "beings devoted to the sanctuary of the interior man": these beings will no longer be solitary hermits, but live among the crowds, while maintaining their internal desert. He who aspires to journey inwardly most know solitude before he finds communion. He must progress alone before he encounters his brothers, he must free himself from false ideas and thus become a new man. This newness of life follows the ultimate detachment from all which encumbers and which he had previously thought necessary. Marie-Madeleine Davy also reflects on the place where there is a marriage of love and knowledge. It has a name: it is called the desert. The desert is a sanctuary which any man may enter: this is the symbolism of the internal desert, the symbolism of a laboratory where spiritual mutations are effected.

Le sacré et la désacralisation - Les deux déserts - Les déserts dans la tradition - L'école du désert intérieur - Initié au-dedans - Noces