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Malcolm de Chazal is looking at the universe, space-time and spirituality and arriving at a unique manner by which to consider existence. Everything is part of the whole and everything exists in a fundamental state which is beyond mere consciousness. In this, the sequel to Magical Sense, de Chazal has…


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de Chazal is known for his aphorisms, but it is his longer essays and insights that struck me.
'The Word', an extended essay on the mystery of being, delves deep into a symbolic way of understanding how being comes to being of Being.
The originality and power of his vision comes through in his language.
The translation, by Jean Bonnin, is good - a few strange constructions but otherwise very readable.

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