Apocalypse Of Being: The Esoteric Gnosis Of Martin Heidegger; Author: Sacchi, Mario Enrique; Author: Translator Mcinerny, Ralph; Hardback; Book

Author: Sacchi, Mario Enrique; Author: Translator Mcinerny, Ralph
Hardback; Book; Notes, Index
192 pages
Published: June 2002
St Augustine's Press
ISBN: 1890318043

Heidegger intended to replace metaphysics by a new kind of thought about that which he called Sein, but in his works this noun is very far from meaning the act of being such as it has been traditionally conceived by Western philosophy. His explanations as to what he does mean by Sein underline his departure from traditional metaphysics. Sein is no longer to be understood as the act of the things that exist in the eternal world, but as something revealed to the human mind in an esoteric way. The association of this esoteric revelation of Sein with Holderlin's theosophy led Heidegger to put forward a new gnosis organized as a substitute of metaphysics and of Christian theology as well.