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The ancients saw in the caves and caverns an image of the world in its universality and the symbol of all the hidden energies. The world is a ‘cave’ – Plato will say – that is made obscure and dark by matter, but it is also a place of initiation from which, within the material sleep of the body, the soul - understanding and remembering its origin - awakes to true life.
Gadal will say: ‘I have included in my research the role of caverns, of depths and stones in the development of the Cathar mentality. I use that word in its literal sense.’
Cave, cavern: an image of a different world where one cannot stay without having left behind what one brings from the outside, a world where the light can only be an inner light. Deprived of any appearances, of all that makes 'the outer man', one is confronted with one’s real Self.
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