…was simply physical it would remain so. But somewhere in this newborn babe was locked the mystery of a Plato, or an Aristotle, or a Leonardo da Vinci, or a Raphael, or a Michelangelo. Something within this being, although the creature itself was small and…

…wish they could have been born perhaps in the golden age of Greece, where they could have studied with Pythagoras or Plato and Aristotle. Others would like to be born a thousand years from now when they hope we will have more common sense than we have…

…principle. So we're not going to make it this evening. But we can suggest certain lines of speculation. we have, for instance, Aristotle, who would walk into the city and try to understand it by counting the streets and the houses. And he would gradually…

…are both wrong. This is the reason for the concept of the golden means, represented in symbolism by the golden cut of Aristotle. and also by the famous Socratic axiom, in all things not too much. Thus equilibrium comes as a balance between the aggression…

…in such a rapid transition that the whole structure of learning has lost nearly all of its authoritarianism. We can no longer quote Aristotle with finality on any subject. We can no longer quote Darwin with finality. In fact, you cannot get up today in a…

…strong story to support the idea that what we term progress is dependent upon the security of the individual economically. Aristotle had already suggested this, but Marx carried it much further, so far indeed that with him, again, history became distorted…

…there's absolutely no way in which he can go down to the grocery store and get a cut of meat cheaper because he quotes Aristotle. In fact, if he suspected of so much learning, they would probably double the price on him. or feel that he is so…

…various contributions of unusual people, ranging over perhaps 2500 years of western culture. Plato broke into the daily newspaper. Aristotle became a subject for Rotarian discussion, and things that had not happened for a long time suddenly started happening…

…Perhaps by immortality we mean the survival of our own consciousness in universal consciousness. Perhaps we are forced to admit with Aristotle that this is not absolute. Perhaps we can say that this solar system, this cosmic system to which we belong, has…

…God can die. Because God is consciousness. And if consciousness can cease, then anytime, anywhere, deity is vulnerable. Aristotle wouldn't believe that. He therefore liked to assume a universal, eternal, enduring consciousness. If consciousness endures, Anywhere.…

…find it rising in the great Greek systems of philosophy where there were solutions to the great problems of life. Plato and Aristotle and Socrates gave us answers to moral problems, began to understand and help us to understand good and evil, right and…

…Here we have man divided into three groups. worlds. This division we can trace all the way right back to the writings of Aristotle, who was one of the first to notice that the human body is divisible into three great areas or openings, which are called…

…on up. And finally it terminates in the pons of the medulla in the brain. And here we have another very wonderful building. Aristotle says, divided from the rest of the body by an isthmus called the neck. I like that statement, an isthmus called the…

…and gradually disintegrating, that in sleep man had some participation in this chaotic sphere which was a sort of psychic graveyard. Aristotle, always a more conservative man, in fact he came to be regarded as the very embodiment of a conservative mental…

…have too much additional material contributed during the medieval period. where the churchmen who dominated were inclined either to follow Aristotle or Plato. But within the last three or four hundred years, many philosophers took an interest in dreams, very…

…of Greece, in which is perhaps a more immediate and more pressing example, for we know that Pythagoras and Plato and Aristotle and Euclid were not foolish, superstitious men. and that the philosophies and theologies which they venerated could not have been…

…alphabet of symbols. And I think we are perfectly justified in assuming that men, scholars, mystics, sages, of such caliber as Aristotle, Plato, Pythagoras, Euclid, Socrates, that these men did not believe that Zeus took upon himself the form of a bull and…

…is every evidence in the Orphic rituals, in the writings of Plato and of Socrates, and even in the metaphysics of Aristotle, that the Greeks were perfectly aware of the existence of a primordial, eternal, and unconditioned being, a root, an eternal and…

…ghosts of the dead continued forever. This did not meet with the approval of minds such as Pythagoras and Plato and Aristotle and modification began at a comparatively early date. Among the Egyptians and Phoenicians the invisible world was so visible and so…

…ethical rules or accepting any responsibility for our own mistakes? this is why we go back to people like Plato and Aristotle Pythagoras to understand something about these principles and they say there are two ways of being governed one from the inside…

…uneducated, mitigatedly out of line but the parent took the children to the teacher Socrates was such a teacher Diogenes Plato Aristotle they were all teachers Socrates all of these teachers had small groups of people that they tutored the price of tutoring…

…same is true of all teaching. We can criticize and condemn and turn away from something for some small mistake. It is said Aristotle never knew how many teeth there were in the human head, but that isn't very much important. An important thing is his…

…of things. The greatest experience is the reading of a highly systematized work of a great thinker, like Plato or even Aristotle, or one of the basic philosophers of the world, Immanuel Kant, or perhaps one of the greater oriental philosophers like…

…but upon one of the simplest and most natural and easy of all processes, and that is the devotional. Man is naturally, as Aristotle said, a religious animal. Man wishes to believe. Man wishes to have faith. And the greatest sorrow that comes to the life…

…there's no use trying to be what you ain't because you is what you am. and never was greater word spoken by Plato, Aristotle, or Buddha. And our entire life in terms of personal growth depends upon the solid recognition of this fact. We are what we…

…with the great, big, beautiful term progress. The progress is here. And incidentally, if we want to follow it deeply enough into Aristotle or some of the Egyptian mystics, what we are in now is progress. Real progress. Because it's so bad we can't keep…

…which in themselves are merely means by which we seek to govern our own mistakes. But reality, as Pythagoras and Plato and Aristotle, all these great philosophers realized, a reality is the thing we are seeking. And the reality is best established by the…

…it was in this same period, between 600 B.C. and A.D. 1, we had the great school of Athens. We had Plato and Aristotle and Socrates. We had all that glorious group. I remember here in Los Angeles some years ago, extracts from Plato's Republic were…

…it were still deeply moved and inspired by the words. Also, we have a more deliberate, and more cynical type of mind in Aristotle, who starts, however, his great essay on the metaphysics with the simple words, all human beings want to know. They want to…

…to understand. They want to have some securities of rich beliefs that cannot be overturned by the follies and fancies of the day. Aristotle himself had came to an unhappy end because he couldn't prove some of his own ideas. he was a great producer of…

…the law-givers, the educators, the religionists, the mystics of Christianity fled to escape persecution. The intellect of Plato and Aristotle first came into Latin through translations from the Arabic. It was a return to a stranger. The more liberal…

…soul is, gaining certain strength from within themselves, but still dependent upon the light of the sun, which they reflect. Just as Aristotle says, the human soul reflects the light of the spirit. And because it is a reflector of light, those who are not…

…over the government of himself, he becomes a sun. He becomes a luminous self-center instead of being a reflector of light. Aristotle has worked out all of these and countless other analogies through his study of the human body. So, recognizing that the…

…boundaries, and to become ever more avaricious in itself in relation to its effect upon the person who is dominated by it. Aristotle suggests this analogy between the incubus and the parasite on a plant. Just as a beautiful orchid lives partly at least…

…his alchemical traditional writings and alchemical formulas and recipes, which were published as the alchimedic and hermetic writings of Aristotle, translated into English with an introduction, a note, by Arthur Edward Waite. And the most handy available work…

…that are located there, and many other phases of development reveal the true mystery of the mind itself. Well, the mind is, as Aristotle says, is united to the body by an isthmus, this isthmus being the neck, which is the bridge between the mind and the…

…We know that the lodestone, a natural magnet, was given a great deal of thought by Thales of Miletus, later by Plato and Aristotle, and the area called Magnesia where this lodestone abounded has contributed at least part of the name by which we now know…

…is therefore both positive and negative. The oldest records that we have on some of these subjects come from the Greeks. And Aristotle has made much of these suggestion power of oratory. Here we are heading right into politics. The glib talk can not only…

…because modern science is still faced with the same problems that are said to have contributed to the suicide of Aristotle. Namely, that all of the research that is being accomplished deals with secondary processes in nature, essential processes. The…

…and inevitable. So the Kabbalah asks a very simple, direct question that many others have asked. Question with which Plato and Aristotle both struggled. A question which has disturbed St. Thomas Aquinas just as much as it perturbed Socrates. The question is…

…infinity. That never this power was born. That this power shall never die. but very much like the effort made by Aristotle to establish the causelessness of first cause, simply represents the fact that causation is itself eternal. That causation is both a…

…of man himself. But this dignity was built upon classical foundations. The humanists derived their primary inspiration from Plato and Aristotle and the great classical thinkers of Southern Europe and North Africa. It had not occurred to these first humanists…

…by which we try to explain something not generally understood or cognized. But remembering one of the really wise statements of Aristotle, where he says that when physics is properly understood, there will be no further need for metaphysics. In other words,…

…Oh, they lived long ago when everything was superstitious. You can't depend upon them any longer. You can't depend upon what Aristotle said or Confucius or Laozi. In fact, you can't even understand what some of them said. Well, the fact remains that…

…the contemplations of Plato and the extraordinary investigations of Pythagoras. We find a careful estimation of the great semantics of Aristotle, Euclid, and all the other groups. We also are given an insight into the points where these documents have been,…

…about the universe in which he lived. Its immensities were unfolding to him through the rational philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. And man began to realize that this universe was suspended from some principle of principles, some universal mystery. And that…

…of man himself. But this dignity was built upon classical foundations. The humanists derived their primary inspiration from Plato and Aristotle and the great classical thinkers of Southern Europe and North Africa. It had not occurred to these first humanists…

…assimilation differ according to equalities and attributes of the person. Obviously also a mind like Plato, or perhaps even Socrates, even Aristotle, though to a somewhat lesser degree, because his mind was very much more on the fourth level of pure English.…

…of individuality. Here he remained for a number of years, and here, of course, during this period, he came in contact with Aristotle, and the two were friends for many years, but finally separated when Plato went into the third cycle of his life. when…

…and moved from philosophy to theology. He became concerned primarily with the aspects of higher mysticism, and it was here that Aristotle could not follow him. For Plato discovered, as he himself tells us in his writings, that the contemplations of pure…

…for which they were intended? If they are not, then something is essentially wrong. Bacon occasionally fell into a debate with Aristotle about but he used them on some occasions when needs were in that direction because he believed definitely that there…

…considered fairly great, although he on one occasion said he would give up all his greatness if he had the vision of Aristotle. But anyway, Alexander went out to conquer the world and died under the walls of Babylon in his thirties. Died of dissipation…

…to really amount to something in Greece, you didn't go to just the school. You found yourself a teacher, like Socrates, or Aristotle, or Plato, And you became his disciple for 10, 20 years as Alcibiades did. And you become a philosopher like your master.…

…some. They were known to Plato. They were known to Pythagoras, and probably to Socrates. They were at least intuitively sensed by Aristotle, although his type of mind was not given as much to abstract speculation as was the mind of Plato. With the…

…and integrating the forces of these patterns... constituted the great secret of Greek religion and philosophy. Pythagoras and Plato and Aristotle were well aware of the fact that man having twelve dynamic factors must bring them in order. He must not…

…great philosophical systems, which have become in their turn the foundations of modern science. When we read the writings of Plato or Aristotle, Socrates or Euclid, we know that we are not reading the writings of a novice. We are reading the writings of a…

…on the basis of his own competitive estimations of things. He thinks in terms of polarities. he thinks very largely in terms of Aristotle. He says to himself, if this is good, that which is the opposite of it must be bad. If a certain thing seems…

…the eyes say, this is a tree, we have a right to assume that the tree is there. Although, of course, we must agree with Aristotle that the word tree gives us no clue as to the real nature of the thing we see. It only represents its shape and the…

…in Buddhism. It is very important to consider it in connection with karma. In order that we may not fall into the pit that Aristotle was so quick to design in certain Plato's doctrines, maybe we might be called the doctor who had to be there in other…

…the day after that the result of the preceding day and so on and on and we never come to an ultimate conclusion Aristotle pointed that out, as leading inevitably to a vicious circle. In other words, these causes and effects go on and on, and man…

…be continuously applied to the problem of your own day. It would seem very strange that an individual would spend many years studying Aristotle or Plato But then in any difficulty that arose, it had to go to someone else for help. It simply meant that…

…liberation from all desire for disputation and profound arguments and for deep analysis and for vast interpretation finally separated Aristotle from Plato. Aristotle wanted to go on systematizing knowledge. He wanted to know more and more. Plato was gradually…

…desire for disputation and profound arguments and for deep analysis and for vast interpretation finally separated Aristotle from Plato. Aristotle wanted to go on systematizing knowledge. He wanted to know more and more. Plato was gradually discovering that…

…kind under the word soul. It is simply completely ignored. Turning to the older form, anima, by which the soul was recorded by Aristotle, you find no entry under that. Hopefully we turn to psyche to see if this will be more profitable. There is a brief…

…at the stream of younger people who come to me who have made illogical marriages, not because they were not students of Aristotle, but because they lacked ordinary common sense. A person under the grammar of romance, for example, will come and tell me,…

…perhaps more fully than in any other of his writings, the extraordinary genius of the man. We come to know clearly that Aristotle did not deny the existence of a trans-physical universe. He did not for a moment question the secret fountains from which all…

…attempting to rationalize those parts of the creative processes which do not directly come within the area of the sense perception. Aristotle would have taken the position that if man was able suddenly to open new eyes within himself and was able,…

…that science has not the courage to assail. Science therefore assumes that reasonable procedures have no foundation in scientific procedure. Aristotle denies this when he affirms that the reason is a scientific instrument, the most complete and perfect of all…

…good as any other. He probably derived it at least in part from the older fragments of the Pythagorean lore. Now Aristotle takes the ground. The being, because it is totality, contains inevitably within itself what might be termed an archetypal nature.…

…ultimate of substance. It is the ultimate of essence. It is the ultimate of process. And it is conceivable, at least Aristotle so held the concept, perhaps following Plato's definition of the divine animal. Plato and Aristotle are in rather close agreement,…

…from Greece, along with the wisdom that he was later to save for Europe. He became learned in the wisdom of Plato and Aristotle. He read Homer when they were unknown, or when these writings were unknown in Europe. He advanced many lines of science, and…

…back to Europe through the moors or universities of Spain that this dark veil upon the minds of men was finally lifted again. Aristotle and Plato reached medieval Europe by way of Arabia, not by a direct descent to Greece and Rome. When this new learning…

…magical arts, of mystical teachings and beliefs. Here, disciples seated in the marble pavement of the Moslem Mosque were reading Aristotle and Plato and studying the abstract musical theories of Pythagoras. all under the broad banner of Islam and all…

…the past one is the grimoire of Saint Augustine another is the grimoire of Saint Thomas Aquinas there is a grimoire of Aristotle all different names of famous people have been put on books made up of funny magical characters they don't spell anything in…

…to our attention, namely the soul in terms of anthropology. It is quite different in many distinct details from other concepts. Aristotle anciently opined that the soul was in some way directly associated with motion, that in a sense things move because of…

…associated with motion, that in a sense things move because of the psychic life within them. Now this motion principle, however, Aristotle refined in many ways, but at the same time, although he distinguished various types of motion, he still held to the…

…gain this from the basic concept of education as it was known in ancient times we did not get these thoughts from Plato or Aristotle We did not get them from Buddha or Christ. We did not get them from any of the real patrons of progress that we…

…beginning of that great age of Greek learning, led by Pythagoras and followed by the great Pythagorean successors Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists. Thus we have largely our knowledge or opinion of Greek religion from the writings of Homer and…

…and freedom and his right to think. Thus, the philosophical systems of Greece whether they be the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle, or the more rationalistic concepts of the Stoic, all of these emphasize a reasonable, rational, natural world. Even when the…

…the long and active life of Plato. And perhaps the outstanding episode in the development of this school was the contact with Aristotle, who was brought to him as a young man and placed under his care. Aristotle became his most critical, at the same…

…of this school was the contact with Aristotle, who was brought to him as a young man and placed under his care. Aristotle became his most critical, at the same time, most brilliant disciple. And the Athenian school is recognized as having produced these…

…or given to modern scholarship. We know, however, that it was this change in Plato which caused the division between Plato and Aristotle. and finally resolved it in Plato bringing his nephews to become the head of his school and Aristotle departed to the…

…between Plato and Aristotle. and finally resolved it in Plato bringing his nephews to become the head of his school and Aristotle departed to the cinder track to create the school which has since carried the name the peripatetic or walking philosophers…

…find this all through various works. For instance, as late as the 18th century, a whole group of works were attributed to Aristotle, in which he had no part at all, particularly an essay on midwifey that certainly would never have been Aristotelian. But…

…one of the great fashions and fads of the time. And Hermes grew in stature to such extent that he eclipsed even Aristotle for a while. And that was a considerable problem in eclipsing. Actually, however, in the interval, in its slow meandering from Egypt…

…we find in the Hermetic writings is this important approach to the concept of mind. Now we know that Plato, Pythagoras, and Aristotle seemingly rather well exhausted our concept of the human mind. Yet in the Hermetic writings and in the Hermetic corpus, we…

…were Plato and Hermes and the third who became popular a little later but retained his popularity beyond either of the others was Aristotle And by the rise of medieval Christianity, Aristotle was held in just about as high a regard as any of the prophets…

…a little later but retained his popularity beyond either of the others was Aristotle And by the rise of medieval Christianity, Aristotle was held in just about as high a regard as any of the prophets or patriarchs. Christianity became Aristotelian, whereas…

…studied science, measured the stars, developed great positions, scholars, mystics, that they were the ones who could quote Plato and Aristotle into a Christian ear that had never heard either. It was a great surprise. And finally, when arbitration was…

…in its own world. Actually, the Medici and the Borgias were not very close in their resemblance to Plato and Aristotle. They were a different breed entirely. They had different motives. They were not the simple, homely, underpaid and undernourished…

…desert, where intellectuals observing from a distance, themselves educated perhaps in Greek and Roman schools, students of Plato and Aristotle, mathematicians deep in Euclid, these men observed with great misgivings this battle for the control of Europe by the…

…fearing that he was going to fall into religious heresy. The Muslim never had this. The Muslim could study Plato or study Aristotle or anything of that kind without any qualm of conscience at all, because he was not under the strange orthodoxy. that held…

…to demonstrate their immediate utility. Socrates was a good and wise man, and he was poisoned by the Athenians as a reward. Aristotle was a great unlearned man. He was banished. One by one, those who were devoted to truth found themselves confronted with…

…or the annals, or such phases of history as did exist. Mysticism could not disprove Plato, It could not disprove Aristotle. Buddhistic mysticism could not disprove Buddha. Nor Taoistic mysticism disproved Lao Tzu. Nor could these mysticisms rise in violent…

…in their own way. Zoroaster, who died with the assassin's spear in his back because he taught the brotherhood of man. Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, all these great teachers have given us a heritage. In the Middle Ages, many of them died martyrs to the…

…78, 79, he became mentally tired. He had taught all his life. He had many strong disciples. But he was having trouble with Aristotle, who finally walked out and left him. And he was also constantly criticized and condemned. And he was too tired to answer…

…it sounds bad in the losing. And this is what happens all the time. All the way back to the time of Plato and Aristotle, the Greeks and the Egyptians and the Hindus, the wise people realized that an abuse of privilege is the source of most downfalls…

…have been indefinitely postponed. the Arabs, the great romanticists of knowledge, did a comparatively good job. They translated Plato and Aristotle and Euclid, and the court of Baghdad became a constellation of scholars. Yet the temperament of the Arab was…

…Far Asia and with the schools of atomism in India, but more directly, probably, his thinking was dominated by the concepts of Aristotle. And it was at this time, more or less, that Aristotle began to take over the management of the philosophical universe…

…directly, probably, his thinking was dominated by the concepts of Aristotle. And it was at this time, more or less, that Aristotle began to take over the management of the philosophical universe which had previously rested largely in the keeping of Plato.…

…a long time it did not make any general gains beyond the boundaries established by the traditional authorities, Plato and Aristotle. It is interesting and remarkable that at a time when religion as theology was practically dominating the entire thinking of…

…remarkable that at a time when religion as theology was practically dominating the entire thinking of the world, Plato and Aristotle were still encouraged and taught in the great university systems of Europe. So the European mind, awaking from the darkness…

…division. The Pythagorean concept was taken over by Leucippus, a philosopher following Pythagoras and preceding the period of Plato and Aristotle. Lucifer had one or two further contributions to make. He was the first to point out that the universe itself…

…they were confronted with what to call this agitating agent by means of which something forever the same suddenly became different. Aristotle struggled with this and finally more or less concluded that this agent by which all things are moved was co-eternal…

…tides of this kind. These were the types of tides which in the Mediterranean era resulted finally, as they said, in Aristotle committing suicide because he could not explain them. In any event, searchers for Atlantean vestiges have gone out at these low…

…of a mystery story. A story which must be examined in the weight of such evidence as is available recognizing with Aristotle that rational evidence is acceptable in any learned group. In other words, the workings of the reasoning faculties can as truly…

…through porphyry, a little something of the Pythagorean concept of poetry, and we gain a trifle more from the studies of Aristotle, who apparently did have access, through Plato, to some of the fragments of the original Pythagorean learning. Out of Porphyry,…

…ability to bring the young into the presence of the wise of any age or whatever age it was. Plato had his school. Aristotle had his school in Ascender Track. Pythagoras had his school in Cotona. And Socrates had his school in the nearest forest. where…

…way. It is not reasonable to hope that we can probe inside of ourselves and bring out immediately a Plato or an Aristotle. We have to work with this internal allotment, bringing it into manifestation and exercising it gradually until it is strong enough…

…It is revealed through the internal structure of human consciousness. If we go back, for instance, to the period of Plato and Aristotle, we realize that when Plato died, there probably were not 20 copies of his dialogues in existence. And they were all…

…alchemical writings attributed to ancient authors are genuine. For example, there are books, presumably, alchemical writings of Aristotle, which are certainly comparatively modern fabrications. Also, a number of fictitious characters were invented during the 16th…