During my Neoplatonic Academies in the spring of 2025, I had the joy of welcoming Lise, an 80-year-old Canadian, who gave me the immense gift of sharing her secrets with me. These secrets are a resolution to allow us to accept old age, this path that awaits us all (barring an early accident in life), which we so often fear, which our society does not want to hear about, since it flees the degradation of our body of flesh like a pestilential disease.

Just as the death drive was reaching its highest expression in France, with the so-called "euthanasia" law, passed on May 27, 2025, I had an unexpected encounter, in an unsuspected place, which appeared to me like a powerful beam of light sweeping away this darkness in its path. Fiat lux.

If there is one work that I have been sharing without moderation in my "Knowledge of the Ancients" workshops since 2021, it is Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiæ. I believe that this masterpiece is indeed one of those that most helps us to face life's misfortunes, and it seems urgent to me to rehabilitate it to the rightful notoriety that befits it.

The mark of genius is to enlighten us, even post-mortem, when times become confusing and dark. However, the most powerful stars are not always easily recognizable at first glance. We must learn to put on the right glasses to distinguish their enlightenment. Immense French author of the first half of the twentieth century, normalien, great traveler, pianist, poet, playwright, thinker, philosopher, André Suarès, through his commitments against totalitarian ugliness and in favor