The Song of a Library (Calligrammi)

by Maciej Bielawski

I also save some items of “Revue thomiste” published beginning in 1893 by the Dominicans of Toulouse. Among others, noted neo-Thomists such as Jacques Maritain and Étienne Gilson, wrote in them and Raimon read them. I see that in volume no. 70 of 1963, on pages 181-202, while reading on 25th August, 1962 Gilson’s article entitled L’Être et Dieu, Panikkar underlined several phrases such as: «l’ontique n’a pas d’âge... l’ontique n’a pas d’histoire» (ontics is ageless... ontics has no history), «la jonction de l’être et de Dieu n’est pas encore effectuée dans la philosophie de Platon» (the connection between being and God had not yet been made in Plato’s philosophy), «l’histoire de l’être n’a jamais été écrite» (the history of being has never been written).