Bela Hamvas
Béla Hamvas’s work titled *Magia-szutra* (Magia Sutra) stands as one of the most singular pieces within his entire body of work. In it, he unfolds the path of human existence toward freedom along the lines of three so-called “laws” or “axioms”—existence, cognition, and realization. As he notes in an early reflection on the text: “Complete freedom is nothing other than to love everything (the entirety of existence); to know, recognize, comprehend, and behold everything (the law of cognition); and to realize everything—which is to say, to perfectly mobilize love within all things as the absolute activity present in the world.” Through this writing, Hamvas sought to do nothing less than—drawing primarily upon Jakob Böhme and Franz von Baader—evoke a forgotten, alternative lineage in the intellectual history of the European, presenting it in all its living vitality. His aim was to restore its most vital questions to the very center of human praxis—a sphere left abandoned by modern thought.