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So there is a preparation for the wisdom which is higher than philosophy , which doesnot concern the reason, but the soul and spirit , and we can call it inner preparation , and it seems it had been the highest levels of the school of Pythagoras . It has extended its influence through the school of Plato to the neo -Platonism of the Alexandrian school , where it appears clearly again . If for this inner preparation words are still used , these could no longer be taken only as symbols for fixing the inner contemplation.By this preparation , man is led to some states that allow him to exceed the rational knowledge that he previously achieved , and as all this is above the level of reason , its was also above philosophy since the name of philosophy is always used in fact to describe something that belongs only to the reason . However, it is surprising that modern consider philosophy as if it were complete in itself , and so they forget what is higher . .

The first philosophers, especially Pythagoras , had consider their education , as being a new expression of the old ideas . There were several kinds of mysteries with diverse origins. Those that inspired Pythagoras and Plato were related to the cult of Apollo . “Mysteries” always had a reserved and secret character , the word “mystery” itself means etymologically the total silence , since things which are related to could not be expressed by words , but only taught by a silent way . But modern who ignore any other method which doesnt involve the use of words, falsely believed , that there was no teaching . We can say that this silent teaching was using figures , symbols, and other means designed to bring man to the inner states allowing him to gradually achieve the real knowledge or wisdom . This was the essential and ultimate goal of all the “mysteries” .

As for the “mysteries” that were specifically related to the cult of Apollo and Apollo himself , it must be remembered that he was the God of sun and light ,in the spiritual sense it s the source from where all knowledge , arts and sciences derive.

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Si l’homme moderne est hanté par l’idée de fin du monde, c’est parce qu’il pressent la fin de son monde. Et il a raison , expliquent les traditionalistes parce que le mythe du progrès infini est sur le point s’achever

Tous les authentiques traditionalistes ramènent donc cette crise que le monde est entrain de vivre et cette angoisse à la quatrième phase du cycle cosmique, le” Kali Yuga ” selon la terminologie hindo, ou l’age sombre . Dans toutes les anciennes traditions, en effet, la descente des principes dans la manifestation n’est pas un progrès (au sens occidental), mais une chute. Et il ne s’agit pas ici de disserter sur une opposition classique entre spiritualisme et matérialisme, mais bien d’adopter un autre point de vue. L’occidental moderne est d’abord l’homme inscrit dans le temps, alors que le traditionaliste pense le monde d’un point de vue extérieur au temps.

De ce point de vue, l’Histoire obéit à une structure cyclique et hélicoïdale. Le Kali Yuga, ou age sombre de l’humanité qui commence à peu près en même temps que ce que nous appelons l’Histoire, c’est-à-dire avec l’invention supposée de l’écriture, ou à peu près, a été marqué par une succession de « petites crises » qui, dans leur architecture, anticipaient la crise terminale qui vient maintenant vers nous. Parmi ces crises, en premier lieu : l’effondrement de la civilisation classique – un effondrement qui, pour les traditionalistes, commence dès le VI° siècle av. J.C., c’est-à-dire au moment où, avec l’irruption de la philosophie, la croyance antique perd son sens, et tombe dans le domaine de l’intellect, avant de dégénérer en superstition et en spectacle. C’est, pour eux, la préfiguration de ce qui arrive à la Chrétienté, à partir du XVI° siècle, avec la Renaissance

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