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The old man lived on the edge of a desert where stones seemed to be waiting for someone. Every morning, he drew a circle in the sand. Then he would place a point there. A child, who often came to observe him, asked him: \u2014 Why do you always start with a point? The old man smiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\u2014Because every figure starts with something that still doesn\u2019t look like anything, he said.
\nThe next day, he scored two points.
\n\u2014And now?
\n\u2014Now, he says, there is a distance.
\nOn the third day, he set down three.
\n\u2014And now?
\n\u2014Now, there is a relationship.<\/p>\n

\nThe child is thinking.
\n\u2014 So the world starts when things start answering each other?
\nThe old man looked at the horizon.
\n\u2014Maybe. Or maybe the world was already an answer before we knew how to ask the question.<\/p>\n

Then the old man wrote in the sand:
\nCoincidence is an encounter. Concordance is a conversation.
\nThe child did not understand.<\/p>\n

\nThen the old man showed him a star.
\n\u2014Do you see this light?
\n\u2014Yes.
\n\u2014She could be alone.
\nHe showed another one.
\n\u2014And that one?
\n\u2014Her too.
\nHe showed a third one.
\n\u2014Yet, when they draw a shape in your gaze, you give them a name.
\n\u2014A constellation.
\n\u2014There. The stars didn\u2019t necessarily gather to talk to you. But your gaze has discovered a dwelling between them.<\/p>\n

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\nThe child asked:
\n\u2014So do forms only exist in our eyes?
\nThe old man replied:
\n\u2014Here is one of the great doors of mystery.
\nHe took a handful of sand.
\n\u2014Men have discovered numbers that do not allow themselves to be broken down like the others. They have called them first.
\n\u2014Why first?
\n\u2014Because they seem to keep something irreducible within them. The other numbers can be composed from them.<\/p>\n

\nThe child gazed at the sand.
\n\u2014So prime numbers are the stones of the number world?
\n\u2014Maybe. But don\u2019t turn a metaphor into a prison.
\nHe wrote:
\nThe first one is not always the one who comes before. He can be the one from whom others proceed.
\nThe child remained for a long time before this sentence.<\/p>\n

\n\u2014What if the first was older than the beginning?
\nThe old man did not answer.
\nHe looked at the sky.
\n\u2014A very ancient book begins with a strange phrase: “In the beginning was the Word.”
\n\u2014The Verb?
\n\u2014The Logos. The Word. The reason. The meaning. Or perhaps something that goes beyond all these words.
\n\u2014Is it God?<\/p>\n

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\nThe old man smiles.
\n\u2014Some say so. Others are still looking. I prefer to keep the window open through which the question enters.
\nThey resumed their march.
\n\u2014What does this sentence mean then?
\n\u2014Perhaps this: before the world was a collection of things, it was already possible for it to become intelligible.
\nThe child frowned.
\n\u2014Intelligible?
\n\u2014Readable.<\/p>\n

\nHe picked up a stone.
\n\u2014Look. To you, it\u2019s a stone.
\n\u2014Yes.
\n\u2014For the geologist, it\u2019s a story.
\n\u2014Yes.
\n\u2014For the surveyor, a form.
\n\u2014Yes.
\n\u2014For the poet, a memory.
\n\u2014Yes.
\n\u2014And for the one who prays, maybe a question.<\/p>\n

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The child took the stone in turn.
\nThe old man continued:
\nThe world does not become more mysterious when we understand its forms. It becomes mysterious otherwise.
\nThey arrived at an old building. Its immense stones seemed to be placed on a scale that time had not erased.
\nThe child went around it.
\n\u2014If several proportions are found here, he says, is it a proof?
\n\u2014Proof of what?
\n\u2014That those who built knew.
\n\u2014Maybe.
\n\u2014That the world has a structure?
\n\u2014Maybe.
\n\u2014That an Intelligence drew it?<\/p>\n

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\nThe old man sat down.
\n\u2014Maybe. But be wary of the maybe who want to become certainties.
\nHe took a stick and traced several lines.
\n\u2014 A coincidence can arise from chance. Another too. A third again. But when forms, proportions, orientations and rhythms begin to respond to each other, our mind experiences something special.
\n\u2014What?
\n\u2014A concordance.
\nHe erased a line.
\n\u2014This is not yet proof.
\nHe erased another one.
\n\u2014This is not necessarily a message.
\nThen he placed the stick.
\n\u2014But this is no longer quite an isolated encounter.<\/p>\n

\nThe child asked:
\n\u2014So what is it?
\nThe old man replied softly:
\n\u2014It\u2019s an invitation to look longer.
\nThe child remained silent, then asked:
\n\u2014And intuition, where does it start?
\nThe old man replied:
\n\u2014Perhaps in the very place where the concordance precedes us.
\n\u2014How so?
\n\u2014 The researcher sometimes feels a formula before he can demonstrate it. The poet sometimes hears a line before knowing its words. The sage sometimes recognizes a truth without knowing yet how to name it. Even the curious jaded person, who believes he has seen everything, can be stopped by a correspondence that he was not looking for.<\/p>\n

\nHe added:
\nIntuition is perhaps the concordance before it becomes knowledge.
\n\u2014Is this a revelation?
\n\u2014No. It\u2019s a door. And any door must remain open both ways.
\nFor we do not know whether the world speaks, or whether we are simply learning to listen.
\nThey remained in front of the stones until sunset.
\nThen the child says:
\n\u2014I think I understand.
\n\u2014Tell me.
\n\u2014 Chance can produce a form. But when several forms respond to each other, they may perhaps teach us something about our way of seeing.
\n\u2014Yes.
\n\u2014And maybe also something about the world.
\n\u2014Yes.
\n\u2014 And maybe something about what connects the world to our gaze.<\/p>\n

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The old man closed his eyes.
\n\u2014You have just found the beginning of wisdom.
\nThe child smiled.
\n\u2014Primosophy?
\nThe old man opened his eyes.
\n\u2014If you want.
\n\u2014The wisdom of the first?
\n\u2014Yes.
\n\u2014The wisdom of prime numbers?
\n\u2014Yes.
\n\u2014And the wisdom of the First?<\/p>\n

\nThe old man did not answer right away.
\nThen he said:
\n\u2014Perhaps the First is not the one who dominates all others. Perhaps it is the one who makes them possible.
\nThe night was coming down.
\nA first star appeared.
\nThen a second.
\nThen a third.
\nThe child looked for a figure between them.
\n\u2014Look, he said.
\nThe old man looked.
\n\u2014I can\u2019t see anything.
\n\u2014Yes. There.<\/p>\n

\nThe child connected the stars with his finger.
\nThe old man smiles.
\n\u2014Now I see.
\nAnd he understood that wisdom was perhaps not to know if the figure had been drawn in the sky before their birth.
\nShe was to know that they could recognize her together.<\/p>\n

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Then he said a last word:
\nThe world does not owe us its meaning. We do not owe our certainty to it. But when form meets gaze, when number meets spirit, when stone meets memory, something opens between the two.
\nBehind them, the circle drawn in the morning was already disappearing into the sand.
\nBut the point remained.
\nAnd, in the darkness, it looked like a star.
\nOr perhaps to an origin.
\nOr maybe just at one point.
\nBecause sometimes, thought the child, the first wisdom consists in leaving to the first this mystery: being first without ever pretending to be explained.<\/p>\n

Then the silence answered.<\/p>\n

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Alain Aillet Sayings<\/h2>\n