| Author Quoted | Clement of Alexandria |
| Title Quoted | Stromata. French & Greek. Selections. Stromate II / Clement d'Alexandrie ; introd. et notes de Th. Camelot ; texte grec et trad. de Cl. Mondesert |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1961/11/19 |
| Imprint | Paris : Editions du Cerf. 1954 |
| Quotation | Reading Clement, the Stromateis, with comfort and consolation. I see no problem at all in his "esotericism." Obviously one cannot tell everybody everything, and there are certain truths for which the vast majority are not and never will be prepared. I cannot talk to the novices about the things which are central in my own spiritual life - or not about many of them, and about none of them directly. |
| Quotation Source | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 181 |
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