Esoterism and Symbol by R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz

Esoterism And Symbol initiates the reader into the tone, structure, and mentality of ancient Egpyt, the wellspring of all Western theology and science.Schwaller de Lubicz makes the distinction between two kinds of human intelligence, one cerebral, the other innate. The symbol is a conventional representation of cerebral intelligence. The hieroglyph on the other hand, is a direct, non-conventional form of writing with the unique ability to transcribe the innate "intelligence-of-the-heart". This intelligence is independent of the senses and belongs to the vast totality called life. To the ancient Egyptians it is the intelligence-of-the-heart which allows man to move toward the divine.All esoteric teaching is addressed to this intelligence. "Spirit is found only with spirit", and esoterism is the spiritual aspect of the world, inaccessible to cerebral intelligence. It can be neither written nor spoken, nor consequently betrayed. It has nothing in common with deliberate concealment of trut