His theory of the beginning, thought Emmanuel Mounier washed well before the decisive catastrophe of the Second World War. The movement "Spirit" had sketched the premises in 1931, which would expose himself further in the eponymous magazine. They use two distinct elements that may seem contradictory but rather complementary: the spiritual primacy and action. This raises an existential question: how to live as Christians in a world that is no longer Christian. Mounier then puts his personal mystical serving its project review and puts the political question in its proper place: subject in mind, as lexplique in a 1933 article in Spirit. He did not want his project recommencement become a political project, nor that his movement feeds a mass party. For him, it is impossible to reduce spiritual life to a party membership. We must therefore dissociate political compromises from where they may come and sorienter rather to a spiritual revolution because it alone can allow a total revision of values. This is this the "new beginning" according Mounier. His goal is underpinned by a Christian imperative and that is what makes the originality in the context of the times.
