Derrida¬MasonicWord¬Heidegger

"The sentence "Man in his essense is the memory (memorial) or Being" avoids ascribing an agent to the unaskable question of Being. Heidegger is working with the resources of the old language, the language we already posses, and which posses us. To make a new word is to run the risk of forgetting the problem or believing it solved: "The transformation of the language which contemplates the essence of Being is subject to other demands than the exchanging of an old terminology for a new one, seems to be clear"..."
{pp. xv. J. Derrida [trans.G. C. Spivak], 1998, Of Grammatology: Yale University Press. Emphasis mine}



"It is therefore a situation where the signified commands, and is yet free of, all signifiers- a recognizably theological situation. The end of philosophy, according to Heidegger, is to restore the memory of that free and sommanding signified, to discover Urworter (originary word) in the languages of the world by learning to waylay the limiting logic of signification..."
{pp. xvi. ibid. Emphasis mine}

"The mythical history of Freemasonry informs us that there once existed a WORD of surpassing value, and claiming a profound generation; that this Word was known to but few; that it was at length lost; and that a temporary substitute for it was adopted. But as the very philosophy of Masonry teaches us that there can be no death without a resurrection,--no decay without a subsequent restoration,--on the same principle it follows that the loss of the Word must suppose its eventual recovery." Mackey, A “The Symbolism of Freemasonry” Chapter XXXI

{Extracted from; http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/masonic-lost-word.html} {emphasis mine}

"...his word "trace" (the French word carries strong implications of track, footprint, imprint), a word that cannot be a master-word, that presents itself as the mark of an anterior presence, origin, master."

{pp. xv. ibid.}

"In the section "The Signifier and Truth" of the Grammatology, Derrida discusses one curious characteristic of the general usgae of the metaphor of writing: even as it is used, it is contrasted to writing in the literal sense. "Writing in the common sense is the dead letter, it is the carrier of death [because it signifies the absense of the speaker]... From another point of view, on the other face of the same proposition, writing in the metaphoric sense, natural divine, and living writing, is venerated; it is equal in dignity to the origin of value, to the voice of conscience as divine law, to the heart, to sentiment and so forth" {pp. xi. p. 29, 17, ibid. Emphasis mine}

"...that certain peoples write and others do not. The first group can accumulate a body of knowledge [earlier aquisitions - acquisitions anciennes] that helps it to move ever faster toward the goal that it has assigned to itself; the second is confined within limits the prisoner of a history worked out from day to day, with neither an origin nor the lasting conciousness of a plan. Yet nothing of what we know of writing, or of its role in evolution, can be said to justify this conception." [p. 291] {pp.128, emphasis mine}

"A toothless humanity that would exist in a prone position using what limbs it had left to push buttons with, is not completely inconcievable." {pp.85, ibid.}