Summary
Simone Weil: Weight and Grace
The spiritually rich pages and short thoughts gathered by Gustave Thibon after the death of Simone Weil under the title "Weight and Grace" are written in a dense and perfect language that at times causes trembling and exaltation. The work deals with themes that only mean something to Simone Weil: love of God, human misfortune, good use of time, renunciation, charity, practice of supernatural virtues. The thought of Simone Weil, halfway between Christian theology and Jewish mysticism, forms a metaphysics of abandonment that enables the determination of the presence of God in man as renunciation. God is at the same time perfect absence and supreme presence, and accident and attention are two paths that lead to an analogous relationship between the human and the divine. The publication of this book, indispensable for knowing the work of the greatest mystic of the 20th century, caused a great response in Europe at the time.
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