The Faust (I) of Goethe asserted he wanted to discover « Was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält » (what maintains the universe in its intimate cohesion)... That was the ambition of Raymond Abellio (1907-1986) which started with the name Georges Soulès: graduate of the "École Polytechnique" and politician. Then in 1943, discovering the works of René Guénon, and movements linked to Primordial Tradition, he abandoned politics, changes his name for Raymond Abellio and dedicated himself to metaphysics. Between 1943 and 1986, he wrote about twenty novels or essays.
As Antoine Faivre recalls: "literature is rich with novels called formation novels. Raymond Abellio, considered writing as the place of self initiation, that is to say his writings can create in yourself a TRANSformation, and that is why his books can considered as initiatory".
Indeed, the thought of Raymond Abellio was meant for the creation of an invisible priestly elite. Both non religious nor institutional, and being placed beyond the usual caesaropapist splitting (that is to say the obligation to choose between the Pope or the Emperor), that elite had to constitute the new Christianism Abellio wished responding to his affirmation "Christianism prospered in the affirmation of the Father against the son... Now, the son turned against the Father".
Do you want to discover the thought of that free thinker who passed through history of the 20th century and all the great figures of philosophy ?
Through his texts, his sensibility and his "absolute structure", do you want to understand the correlation Abellio tried to establish between the ontology of Martin Heidegger and the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl ?
Answer by Bruno Pinchard, Antoine Faivre et Nicolas Roberti in this 58-minutes debate, presented by Michel Cazenave, and filmed at the Forum 104.
