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I’m always a little hesitant to post anything about her because her Catholic roots are problematical and she is more of a mystic than anything else. Although “attracted” to Catholicism, she was never baptized.
A summary of her thought notes: “T. S. Eliot’s preface to her book, The Need for Roots, suggests that she might be regarded as a modern-day Marcionite, due to her virtually wholesale rejection of the Old Testament and her overall distaste for the Judaism which was technically hers by birth; others have identified her as a gnostic for similar reasons, as well as for her mystical theologization of geometry and Platonist philosophy.
It is difficult to speak conclusively of Weil’s theology, since it exists only in the form of scattered aphorisms in her notebooks, and in a handful of letters. Neither of these formats provides a very direct path to understanding or evaluating her beliefs, nevertheless, it is possible to make certain generalizations.” Gustave Thibon published a collection of her thoughts Gravity and Grace from her notebooks. The intro to it is here, if you are interested.
What she does, as you will see in the following link and in other posts at the site, is PROVOKE and for that many Catholics, I feel, are deeply grateful to her. I instantly saw in Vladimir Volkoff’s comments here the kind of effect she has had on me.
The rest here: payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/06/07/what-simone-weil-has-meant-to-me-by-vladimir-volkoff/
Hope you enjoy
dj
I’m always a little hesitant to post anything about her because her Catholic roots are problematical and she is more of a mystic than anything else. Although “attracted” to Catholicism, she was never baptized.
A summary of her thought notes: “T. S. Eliot’s preface to her book, The Need for Roots, suggests that she might be regarded as a modern-day Marcionite, due to her virtually wholesale rejection of the Old Testament and her overall distaste for the Judaism which was technically hers by birth; others have identified her as a gnostic for similar reasons, as well as for her mystical theologization of geometry and Platonist philosophy.
It is difficult to speak conclusively of Weil’s theology, since it exists only in the form of scattered aphorisms in her notebooks, and in a handful of letters. Neither of these formats provides a very direct path to understanding or evaluating her beliefs, nevertheless, it is possible to make certain generalizations.” Gustave Thibon published a collection of her thoughts Gravity and Grace from her notebooks. The intro to it is here, if you are interested.
What she does, as you will see in the following link and in other posts at the site, is PROVOKE and for that many Catholics, I feel, are deeply grateful to her. I instantly saw in Vladimir Volkoff’s comments here the kind of effect she has had on me.
The rest here: payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/06/07/what-simone-weil-has-meant-to-me-by-vladimir-volkoff/
Hope you enjoy
dj