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Ren\u00e9 Daumal was born in Boulzicourt, Ardennes, France, on March 16, 1908. The question that comes to my mind, which I leave unanswered, is: how was Daumal carved out? A generous and visionary poet, an essentialist, brave, generous in his giving, willing to tear the veil of reality to touch the essence of being and share his emotion with us\u2014how was he created? What life circumstances, landscapes, influences from ancestors, father, mother, friends, poets, artistic and mystical movements, education, childhood and adolescence, lived history, and sufferings shaped this poet of truth? What experiences gave him that inner strength to be? <\/p>\n\n

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Biographical details undoubtedly draw our attention to his outward appearance and paint a picture of him, offering us a profile, a valuable portrait. However, that life\u2014rich both inwardly and outwardly\u2014also moves me, and especially so, through those inner stirrings expressed from the depths of genuine feeling. How can we confront Daumal\u2019s very questions and allow ourselves to be touched by his inquiry and his sense of emptiness? <\/p>\n\n

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There are numerous scholarly works that provide a thorough and in-depth account of Daumal\u2019s life and work. One of them is Carlos Rocha\u2019s La Vida y Obra de Ren\u00e9 Daumal<\/em>1<\/a><\/sup>, a meticulous and wonderful study: <\/p>\n\n

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\u201cIndeed, the young Daumal would discover in other authors the traces of his own path, which would lead him toward an intimate poetics centered on the self, ultimately highlighting the quest for inner liberation and the wisdom of Eastern traditions, on whose sacred literature, art, music, dance, and poetry he wrote pioneering reviews and notes\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

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In his search, Daumal discovered in 1931 the contact and the gateway to an unknown teaching: George Ivanovich Gurdjieff\u2019s Fourth Way.<\/p>\n\n

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\u201cOn November 6, 1931, Daumal and his wife Vera spent the entire night talking with Alexandre de Salzmann, the \u2018saving guardian\u2019 he mentions in his poem \u2018Memorables.\u2019 The couple, along with other friends, would follow Gurdjieff\u2019s teachings in Paris with Madame Salzmann, the widow of Alexandre de Salzmann. The poet was so happy and comforted by that encounter that he shared the following with Roland de Ren\u00e9ville: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSalzmann (with whom Vera and I just spent an entire night\u2014let\u2019s call it an esoteric, amusing story)\u2014is worried about you\u2026 He talks about your \u2018occultism,\u2019 and that filled me with satisfaction. But you have only a dim reflection, a vague sense of the person he is. I\u2019m eager for the moment when you\u2019ll be able to understand him. Certainly, you\u2019ll find him on your path\u2014as if by chance\u2014the day you need him. Did I tell you he\u2019d come to live near us, in the Convention? He comes to the same caf\u00e9 in the square almost every day. If you like, try this: \u2018I\u2019ll die soon,\u2019 he says, \u2018and I won\u2019t receive anything I\u2019ve ever wanted. And that nothing will be enough for me to live. If that nothing is enough for me to live, what then is the thing itself?\u201d But I add that, in passing on these words, I betray everything, distort it, tear it down, mix it all up. It\u2019s something quite different.\u201d2<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

The door that was opened for Daumal and Vera\u2014to which they responded with equal openness, with a dedication to the quest and an inner intensity to know \u201cthe thing itself\u201d\u2014immediately began to reveal to them the existence of two realities that are always present simultaneously, yet not always visible or perceptible to us: that of the ordinary, rational world, and that of the mystery for which no words exist to describe it. Yet in his poetry, Daumal will always try. <\/p>\n\n

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Michel Random, historian of \u201cLe Grand Jeu,\u201d wrote about Daumal\u2019s work:<\/p>\n\n

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\u201cI do not believe there is any writer in the history of French literature who, in his search for truth, has maintained such rigor in what it means to be. (\u2026) For him, knowledge was no different from being, from the essence of being. In this sense, his case is unique in the history of contemporary literature. There is nothing excessive in his writing, ever, neither in his intellectual rigor nor in any other trait of his personality.\u201d3<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Perhaps these qualities in Daumal stem from his own life of seeking, even as he was a poet of truth, and in his writings he honestly reveals his awakening to consciousness, his awakening to himself, to his inner reality, and to being a bridge between worlds.<\/p>\n\n

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Ren\u00e9 Daumal died on May 21, 1944\u2014in Paris\u2014of tuberculosis, a disease that was incurable at the time. His entire life and his fascinating, profound body of work offer rich nourishment for any spiritual seeker and stand as a jewel of non-monastic Western sacred poetry. <\/p>\n\n

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Luc Dietrich, a French writer born on March 17, 1913, who was also a seeker within Gurdjieff\u2019s teachings, became a fellow searcher. Luc Dietrich and Daumal were introduced in Paris by Philippe Lavastine in September 1939: \u201cIn response to Dietrich\u2019s request that he say something about the nature of their friendship and spiritual bonds, Daumal offered a detailed reply: \u2018All our encounters must become sacred moments.\u2019\u201d<\/em>4<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n\n

The poem Memorables is Daumal\u2019s profound response to his friend, his brother in the inner quest.<\/p>\n\n

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For you, Luc, for our childhood, for our shared hope. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Ren\u00e9. Assy, Paques, 1942. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Memorables<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n
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Remember: your mother and your father, and your first lie, theindiscrete odor of which crawls in your memory.Remember your first insult to those who made you, theseed of pride was sown, the crack glistened, breaking thenight one.<\/p>\n\n

Remember the evenings of terror when the thought of thevoid scratched your stomach, and always returned like a vulture,to nibble you and remember the morning of sun in the room.Remember the night of deliverance, when, your untied bodyfalling like a veil, you breathed a little from the incorruptibleair; and remember the clammy animals that took you back again.<\/p>\n\n

Remember magics, fish and tenacious dreams – you wanted tosee, you stopped up your two eyes in order to see, without knowinghow to open the other.Remember your accomplices and your deceits, and that greatdesire to leave the cage.<\/p>\n\n

Remember the day when you split open the web and weretaken\u2019 alive’, fixed in place, in the uproar of uproars the wheel of wheelsturning without turning, you inside, always snatched up by the sameimmobile moment, repeated, repeated, and time was making one turnonly, everything turned in those innumerable directions, the timecurled up backwards – and the eyes of flesh saw only a dream,there only existed the devouring silence, words were dried skinsand the noise, the yes, the noise, the no, the visible howl anddarkness of the machine denied you – the silent cry, ‘I am’ thatthe bone hears, form which the stone dies, form which that whichnever was believes to die, – and you were reborn in each instantonly to be denied by the great circle without boundaries, all pureall center, pure , except you.And remember the days that followed, when you walked like abewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by theinfinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd. <\/p>\n\n

And above all, remember the day when you wanted to throwout everything, no matter how, – but a guardian kept watch inyour night, he kept watch while you dreamed, he made you touchyour flesh, he made you remember your own, he made you gatheryour rags, – remember your guardian. <\/p>\n\n

Remember the beautiful mirage of concepts, and moving words,palaces of mirrors built in a cave, and remember the man who came,who broke everything, who took you with his rough hand, pulled youfrom your dreams, and made you sit in the thorns of the full dayand remember that you do not know how to remember yourself.<\/p>\n\n

Remember that you have to pay for everything, remember yourhappiness but when your heart was run over, it was too late topay in advance.Remember the friend who spread out his reason to gatheryour tears, spurting from the frozen source, violating the sunof spring.Remember that love triumphed when she and you knew how tosubmit to its jealous fire, praying to die in the same flame.But remember that love is of no one, that in your heart offlesh is no one, that the sun is of no one, blush seeing theswamp of your heart.<\/p>\n\n

Remember the mornings when grace was like a raised clubthat led you,submissive through yours days, – happy, the cattlebeneath the yoke.And remember that your poor memory let the golden fish flowbetween its numbed fingers.<\/p>\n\n

Remember those who say to you: Remember – remember thevoice that said to you: don’t fall – and remember the dubiouspleasure of the fall. <\/p>\n\n

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Translated from French to English by Louise Landes Levi.5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n

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Image: \u201cIce bergs, Long Point\u201d, a stereograph by G. H. Nickerson (George Hathaway), featuring unknown figures, latter 19th century.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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  5. Daumal, Landes-Levi, Landes-Levi, Louise, and Longhouse. Memorables \/ Rene\u0301 Daumal\u202f; Translated by Louise Landes Levi. Green River, Vt.: Longhouse, 2009. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n
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