Re: Papa Benedetto XVI and the West
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Originally Posted by Marulus
I understood that he was thinking of the present era: these statements were mad in 2004, so I inferred that he was probably referring to the current state of affairs in Europe.
That is at least how I understood it.
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In that case I have no clue as to what it could mean to him.
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While the rest of mankind seeks for the sake of finding and of knowing, the Westerner of today seeks for the sake of seeking; the Gospel saying, 'Seek and ye shall find,' is a dead letter for him, in the full force of this phrase, since he calls 'death' anything and everything that constitutes a definite finality, just as he gives the name 'life' to what is no more than fruitless agitation.
René Guénon, East and West
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