The Way Without Masters
This collection of nondualist texts by Rémi Boyer forms an anthology that is both classic and singular, traditional and avant-garde, in response to a suggestion made to the author in 1998 by Lima de Freitas: “The avant-gardes widen the breach in opacity so that the traditions can slip in.”
The philosophical, metaphysical, alchemical, and poetic texts gathered and expanded in this volume were published in France, Spain, and Portugal, in a dispersed manner, over the last three decades. They relate to the philosophies of awakening, the traditions of internal alchemy, and nondual metaphysics, but above all they convey a method and a discipline of the arcane implemented on a daily basis.
The author is bilingual in his own tongue. Alongside a common, consensual, profane manner of speaking, he proposes another relationship to language, non-Aristotelian, crepuscular, and poetic, seeking the original meaning in the sounds themselves, prior to the words, in order to allow the free circulation of mythemes and to find the primary power of the word, renewing a tradition of which Portugal and India have become the guardians.
Whether with vigor or elegance, the words disorganize and disturb the conditioned to leave free space for Being and to open the doors of luminous infinities leading to the Recognition and Reintegration of our Original Nature.
In reality, it is only a matter, sound after sound, word after word, of Freedom.
It is a long litany, a splendid fresco, an outpouring. There are truths, long and slow, that take and overwhelm us. Long, tasty words of wind, sprinkled with lofty vertebrae from beyond, that I savor.
Jean-Pierre Lassalle, author of Le Grand Patagon and Alfred de Vigny
About the Author
Rémi Boyer has explored at length the world of the avant-garde, initiatory traditions, and philosophies of enlightenment.
Notably, he works within the setting of the House of Surrealists in Cordes-sur-Ciel, for a new alliance between traditions, philosophies of awakening, and the artistic avant-garde. Considering literature as a form of metaphysics, he became actively involved in the journal movement of the 1980s and has since collaborated on various traditional journals in Europe. He is the author of some twenty specialized works, particularly on Western initiatory movements, works translated into several languages. Since 1992, he has edited the review L’Esprit des Choses, founded with Robert Amadou, specializing in the philosophy of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, Martinism, and Freemasonry. He is regularly invited to give lectures and lead seminars on initiation related topics in most European countries.
