Houque, Eve, éros, élohim.

Alchemy, tarot, myths, legends and sacred texts, initiatory rites and secret societies, studied and interrogated by Patrick Houque reveal to us, not just as an obvious fact that we now take for granted, but throughout the memory of humanity, the essentially complementary role of the two principles, masculine and feminine. Man has always sought to realise this complementarity of the two principles in order to achieve a third, more perfect one: this is evoked, for example, by the third column of the Masonic temple, or the triangle, the symbol of the Freemasons, and the ternary aspect of so many religions and philosophies. For the author, eroticism is one of the privileged means offered to the human being to transgress his incompleteness, to operate a fusion which makes him penetrate another world: it is, as such, a sacred act, an initiatory act. And we can understand, therefore, why Eros has been surrounded by so many taboos. A remarkable and exciting study that goes far beyond the framework of a simple rehabilitation of women in history and religions.