Jacob Rowland

“Does the anonymous, secular individual have to be content with the concealment of the invisible, which has now become the precondition of communal life? This is a watershed. If the essential factor is not belief, but knowledge — as every gnosis presupposes — it will be a matter of opening a way into obscurity, using any means, in a sort of continual bricolage of knowledge, without any certainty about where to start, any concern about the ultimate destination. This is the condition, both wretched and exalting, faced today by those who belong to no religious denomination, but who, at the same time, refuse to accept the religion, or, more precisely, the superstition of society. It is a difficult path, which has no name, no points of reference apart from those that are coded and strictly personal, but it is also a path along which one encounters the unexpected assistance of kindred voices, as in a clandestine constellation. I don't believe we can expect any more in the fraction of time in which we live. And yet, if we look closely, that is an enormous amount. And it is a great game, which not so few have practiced over the centuries, without declaring it, and which now should have the audacity to show itself in full light.”
― Roberto Calasso