Gravity and Grace

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Also previously untranslated is Gustave Thibon's postscript of 1990, which reminds us how privileged we are to be able to read a work which offers each reader such 'light for the spirit and nourishment for the soul'. In a letter to the editor of this book Weil wrote that she is not a person with whom it is advisable to link one's fate. Unfortunately, she died in obscurity before the war’s end as a result of a longstanding struggle with anorexia. She had an intellect capable of unraveling the systems of thought that motivate governing principles or organizations.

Thoughts that after Weil's death at age thirty-four were saved from forgottenness by Weil's close friend, French priest Gustave Thibon, who published them in 1947.Atheistic materialism is necessarily revolutionary, for, if it is to be directed toward an absolute good here on earth, it has to place it in the future. Her asceticism might seem exaggerated in our century of half-measures where, to use the words of Léon Bloy, ‘Christians gallop with due moderation to martyrdom’ (and, indeed, how great a scandal would be caused today by the eccentric practices of certain medieval saints?

G. Thibon raso apie Weil: “Prisimenu viena jauna darbininke, kurioje ji atrado – taip jai atrode – polinki i intelektualuma ir kuria be perstojo vaisino nuostabiais pasakojimais apie upanisadas.She meant that the limits which form our ‘empirical self’ will be done away with in the unity of eternal life. Yet I owe it to myself—were it solely to justify the appearance of my name at the head of these papers—to explain the exceptional circumstances through which I came to know the real Simone Weil and to have the undeserved honour of presenting her thoughts to the world. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Not religious, and certainly not a believer in the blue eyed, bearded dude in the sky version of god, but my fear of 'scientism' overrunning the world makes me drift into theology from time to time.