Approach

This page explains how the philosophical comparisons and the Existential Compass (BE) are produced, and what they do — or do not — allow one to claim. It also presents the two contemplation methods that the path teaches, the Summary menu and the Quoted, Interpretation and Author’s hypothesis badges. Touch a heading to expand its content.

To learn how your progress is counted and how the site keeps track of your reading, see Understanding the Acmé path ›

Under certain questions and paragraphs, a table compares what philosophers, sages and traditional texts say with the idea being discussed. Each row shows a position: “Convergence” (the view points the same way), “Mixed” (partial or nuanced agreement) or “Divergence” (the view opposes it).

These comparisons are drawn up with the help of artificial intelligence tools, then reviewed by the author. Adjustments are made in collaboration with the philosophers cited, taking into account the research carried out by artificial intelligence.

Limits: these are comparisons of ideas, which reflect an interpretation and may contain errors. They do not replace reading the works themselves, and they do not demonstrate the invariant law P = E∞. Readers are invited to consult the sources.

The Existential Compass is a multiple-choice questionnaire, presented one question at a time. The answer is marked immediately and a comment appears. It is free.

The Existential Compass is not the only questionnaire concerned with spirituality, but it aims to be one of the closest to existential questions: consciousness, the soul, birth, resurrection, transcendence.

The score is the share of scored questions that were answered correctly. The passing threshold is 70%, but the score counts in the Acmé formula even below it. A question answered correctly is not asked again in later attempts, so the score is cumulative. An attempt ends after three mistakes. Some questions may be shown without being scored.

After an answer, the site may show the share of accounts that passed the question. These figures are aggregated and anonymous.

What the Existential Compass is not: it is not a psychological test, a diagnosis or a clinical tool. It has not been psychometrically validated (reliability, validity). Until it is, its result should be read as a personal landmark on the ACAV path, not as a scientific measurement.

The Existential Compass has no value other than determining a person’s aptitude to reach the method of auditory and visual contemplation: reaching the 70% threshold opens access to the key to this method.

Shabda and Téjas are the two contemplation methods taught in the chapters of the book La formule: Shabda is auditory contemplation, Téjas is visual contemplation. They are taught after the stage of interrelation, in order to draw near to the Immutable.

Shabda, a Sanskrit word meaning sound or speech, is the cosmic vibration, the sound of the universe, also called the “suc” or the “word.” Téjas, a Sanskrit word meaning radiance, inner fire or splendour, is the luminous oscillation, the light that vibrates, also perceived as a divine phosphorescence.

Practised together, they aim at divine bliss, and the upkeep and purification of the ego. The methods themselves are only disclosed after passing the Existential Compass.

Each chapter of the book La formule P = E∞ begins with its cover page, below which appear a short summary of a few lines and its keywords.

The Summary menu opens fuller syntheses: one page per chapter for Welcome, the Teaching Foundation, the Treatise on Immutability and The Two Creations. A synthesis gives the main lines of the chapter and points to its paragraphs. A chapter’s short summary links to its synthesis when one exists.

Mythology, The Laws and Appendices do not have a synthesis yet: their short summary, at the top of the chapter, stands in for now.

In the chapters, a tag next to a paragraph number shows its nature:

Quoted
words taken from a work or a tradition. When the source is known, the badge is clickable: a click opens a window that presents the quoted author, with a link to a reference page (Wikipedia, for example).
Interpretation
the author’s reading of a specific passage.
Author’s hypothesis
an idea put forward by the author that is not established.

A paragraph without a tag is the author’s own text, that is, his reading and exposition. The tags therefore flag the exceptions: what is quoted, what is a hypothesis, or an explicit interpretation of a passage.

The author assigns these tags paragraph by paragraph; the work is in progress.

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Last updated: November 3, 2026.

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