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Mount Analogue - René Daumal (Book Review)

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The Paradox of a Visible Door to the Invisible

Demal is dealing with the problems of language in relation to what cannot be described. How can such a thing be the great paradox of writing about that which cannot be written of? The Carmelites are closest to this as an allegorical way of spiritual seeking and they attend to it through a blunt honesty Saint Teresa of Avar, especially and then Saint John of the Cross in his simplicity.

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