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Title: Great Secret by Maurice Maeterlinck, Bernard Miall ISBN: 0-7661-5522-6 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Company Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Wading thru the cosmos
Comment: This book and author were mentioned numerous times by Henry Miller in his writings. As a Henry Miller devotee, I try to seek out and read the books of his life. Some of them even become books of my life. I found The Great Secret to be a pretty interesting book. I have an ongoing interest in human spirituality and religion. There is a great deal of information in this book which must have been startling in 1922 but has less impact in 1999. It did provide me with some data on the earliest origin of the Hindu faith as well as facts on Egyptian mythology and others. I can not really say I buy it all hook, line and sinker but books of this nature do stimulate a lot of serious thought. It is easy to see why the cosmogonical eye of Henry Miller was so impressed. It did rouse a lot of philosophical musing in my mind as I waded through each chapter.

Rating: 5
Summary: Essential text on the hidden origin of all religion
Comment: The author, Maurice Maeterlinck, is a Nobel laureate inliterature. He set himself the task of wading through all availableliterature on the occult or secret side of religion and spirituality. In "The Hymn to Brahman" of the Vedas, the ancient scriptures of the Hindus, he found a core insight the world was young enough and innocent enough to reveal. This scripture asks in the presence of this sacred and mysterious cosmos in which we live, "Who knows how it could have come about?" (my paraphrase). Then, it boldly asserts that only He who abides in mystery and brought it into being--only HE knows, and "Perhaps even He knows not." (my paraphrase).

The "Great Secret," therefore is that ALL religion is based on guesswork. At its best, it is erected on the pure recognition of the transcendent and SACRED mystery confronting all of us. At its worst, it is based on hearsay, desperate dogmatizing, and yes, even an abundant amount of fraud.

This core revelation is disclosed early in the book. The rest is a history of what arose on that foundation; including, for example, pantheism and the realization that the Mystery (God, if you please) resides in us as much as it does in the heavens.