R.A. SCHWALLER DE LUBICZ

We lack direct consciousness of Space and Time. We can know of them only indirectly by mass, force, and energy, and by the intermediary of phenomena such as may be tested by our five senses. Without direct awareness of Space or Time, human beings lack two senses necessary for the knowledge of all causes. From this imperfection, of which we are always being made aware, is born our need to simplify. Thus we reduce everything to fundamental properties, without paying any attention to the underlying universal organization, the effects of which are all around us. The result is that the science of numbers, the most wonderful guide to the constant creation of the universe, remains an enormous hypothesis so long as its use has not awakened in us the higher consciousness of a universal order. By deepened knowledge of things and their process of becoming, we must come to recognize Numbers as a truth, and to experience with our senses the living relation of a cause to an effect, this relation being truer and more real than the effect could ever be. Published in 1917 under the authors given name of Rene Schwaller, A Study of Numbers is the first expression of the teachings we have come to associate with his later and better known name, R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz. It is a masterly account of the living, universal, qualitative, and casual reality of numbers. Starting from the irreducible one, Schwaller deals with the unfolding of creation through the cycles of polarization, ideation, and formation. Topics covered include: numbers, values, and relations; the disengagement of numbers; the harmonic basis of numbers; the development of values; and the establishment of harmony.

Este libro tiene como objeto el estudio del singular templo de Luxor, uno de los monumentos más hermosos de la antigua Tebas debido a su fascinante arquitectura, y a el Schwaller de Lubicz dedicó su obra mas conocida. Efectivamente, El templo en el hombre, libro que aqui presentamos, es la obra cumbre de este hermetista y estudioso alsaciano. Verdadero Fulcanelli de la egiptologia, Schwaller de Lubicz cuenta con una trayectoria tan extraña como fascinante dentro del mundo de la investigacion de la cultura faraonica. Este libro es el resultado de casi quince años de investigacion a pie de campo en el templo de Luxor. Publicado en el año 1949 de forma independiente, en poco tiempo se convirtio en un libro de culto, obligando su difusion a gran escala. El libro de Schwaller de Lubicz llama la atencion sobre la lectura simbolica que debemos hacer en los monumentos egipcios. Lejos de ser simples edificios de piedra con una finalidad meramente practica, el investigador alsaciano señala que los templos son entes vivos, y que como tales cuentan con una serie de estructuras "organicas". A pesar de su trasfondo hermetico y simbolico, no es extraño encontrar las obras de Schwaller de Lubicz citadas en publicaciones de corte mas academico, lo que lo ha convertido en un referente obligado