Ihad heard about a superior type of man,possessing the keys to everything which is a mystery to us.
This idea of a higher and unknown strain within the human race was not something I could take simply as an allegory.
Experience has prooved,I told myself, that a man cannotreach truth directly, not all by himself.Anintermediary has to be present,a force
still human in certain respects,yet transcending humanity in others.Somewhere on our earth this superior form of humanity must exist,
and not utterly out of our reach. In that case shouldn't all my efforts be directed toward discovering it?Evefn if, inspite of my certainty
,I were the victim of a monstrous illusion,Ishould lose nothing in the attempt.For,apart from this hope,all life lacked meaning for me.
-Rene Daumal(mount analogue)