…while it was taught by Pythagoras, was carefully veiled and not generally acknowledged to the average person. At the time of Plato, of course, he places into the mouth of Socrates the concepts that motivated this great Athenian as he drank the hemlock…

…those who have been unable to make it better, but must learn in due time. So if we're here, we're observers. That's what Plato said. They asked him what his profession was. He said, I am by profession an observer. I want to know what's happening. I…

…to have brought this doctrine strongly to the attention of the Greeks. Its greatest exponent in Greece, of course, was Plato, and the entire descent of the Platonic and Neoplatonic schools was in harmony with this general belief. reincarnation and karma…

…that if it 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…

…kind of 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…

…based upon the fact that this state itself becomes the power moving into embodiment. The individual is moved into embodiment by what Plato calls the principle of necessity. Therefore, he is born in a time and at a place when that which is necessary is…

…part of the original system. It is not recorded by Iambicus in his Life of Pythagoras. Nor is it reported by Plato, although he makes use of Pythagorean numbers. We do, however, find competitively early evidence of numerical speculation in relation to…

…it, and then the ninth, which is the sphere of the big star. A general circle surrounding the rest. Therefore, according to Plato, souls coming into generations fell from the sphere of the six stars, descended through the orbits of the planets, and finally…

…which he from gender manifested, and by which he was reduced from three to two by the phenomenon of death. Just to quote Plato, the soul is the most ancient of generations and is the leader of all nations in the universe. This is an interesting…

…we must begin by examining this. As the leader of all things that are created, And as the most ancient of things, Plato meant to imply, by things, forms, natures, or bodies, having separate existences. Under this definition, the soul is the superior of…

…motion. When it is applied to understanding or to the higher faculties of the mind, it is called qualitative. Therefore, as Plato points out, motion may be a movement of the psychic nature, for the soul is a self-moving being, capable of moving…

…is a beautiful little pattern, only it doesn't always happen. And there are individuals whose souls, because of the destiny, or Plato says the whole world moves upon the symbol of nemesis, Destiny doesn't always permit or does not by organic quality release…

…on the other hand, when the soul has the same equilibrium within the body and has brought the body to maturity, according to Plato then, the soul becomes the mistress of the body becomes its leader, becomes its goddess, is the one to whom, like the…

…its action. Producing also sleeping and waking, which are equivalent to day and night. And producing also seasons within the soul, as Plato says. For the soul has its winters and its summers, and it has within man a total astronomical existence based also…

…forms must consist of some kind of things, of consciousness and unconsciousness, a thing within itself, a universe, and of things made. So Plato gives us the energy of energies, in which he says that the merit is that which is moot, and that which motion…

…infinite in extent, there can be no externalization of its nature. only direction it can move is in, or move within. Plato and many of the other Greek philosophers assume that all motion of universal consciousness is from circumference to center, and…

…our own nature that we are unable to make so dignified a transition. But it is conceivable that we can have the same experience that Plato had, who at the end of 81 years went to sleep with the books of the point open under his head and just did not…

…associated with persons. To a measure we accept this. But actually we are dealing with something that transcends persons. Plato and Saint Thomas Aquinas were philosophers because of a certain capacity within themselves. They were not philosophers primarily…

…problems, who creates solutions, who leads various processes from confusion to order. Actually, a philosopher, like the philosopher king of Plato, is your ideal statesman. He is your ideal counselor, your ideal legislator. He is the ideal person behind nearly…

…for him. Because every solution has to arise in an unfoldment of character. Unless it is achieved, there can be no solution. Plato, Plotinus, Buddha, all held that what we now call philosophy was the science of character. That by means of philosophy, man…

…know all human beings should be. Therefore, perhaps we think of Jesus or Buddha or Zoroaster or Confucius or Laozi, Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras. These were the people, to our thinking, who were most nearly complete people. We have a different way of…

…the West. we began looking into the 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…

…on a larger scale, the national heroes. the world heroes and we remember in the past we remember not only Pythagoras and Plato but Napoleon and Genghis Khan and we begin to recognize that we inherit from the past memories that are important and memories…

…that we 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,…

…some science or for adding a certain control to various mathematical problems but actually mathematics is part of the platonic wisdom Plato says God geometrizes God also chemicalizes God is the father of astronomy God is the power behind every form of…

…sound, glorious in color, and perfectly mathematical and orderly in design. we will understand that truly this magnificent geometric solid that Plato describes as the human soul, it all depends upon what we do with it. And the whole problem of the so-called…

…to fashion as within the circular globe of an alchemical vessel, the mystery of the solar system. The solar system, as Plato also points out, begins therefore with the circumference and moves gradually toward the center. the wall of the solar system was…

…and two unindividualized essences what is the ultimate power of a solar system to be understood as consisting of in the ancient times Plato many others referred to the solar system as the divine animal the Chinese have a very good idea of this the solar…

…by drawing upon the resources in the part of space which has been allotted to the procedure In that point, then, according to Plato, the logos impinges itself upon the sphere at the north pole, that is, at the upper extremity of the sphere. And here it…

…From this point, it begins the problem of, we should say, conquering the field of its own manifestation. And according to Plato, this is accomplished first by projection from the pole of the now impregnated solar cell. And this consists of these four…

…familiarity with the writings of the classical authors, And his production belongs with two others, one called The Initiation of Plato, and the other, The Krata Rappoa, or The Rituals of Initiation into the Greek and Egyptian Mysteries, all of which…

…for that which descends into the flesh pots of Egypt and wastes its substance and riotous living is said to die. Therefore Plato points out that birth into materialism is death, and death from materialism into enlightenment is birth, and all of the other…

…would be nice to open the day with a great thought from Socrates or a great line from Confucius or a wonderful verse of Plato to stop the young people off right. What happened? All the parents stormed the teacher's room down at the city hall where the…

…space king. And this rhythm meant that space periodically, spontaneously became fruitful and caused to emerge from itself in what Plato calls the great cycles of alternate fertility and sterility. In the periods of fertility, space bore. It caused to come…

…should have condoned such institutions. Are we to marry these thoughts with the ideas and principles and teachings of men like Pythagoras and Plato? Are we to assume that Plato was a charlatan or a stupid fool? when he declared that when he stood in the…

…we to marry these thoughts with the ideas and principles and teachings of men like Pythagoras and Plato? Are we to assume that Plato was a charlatan or a stupid fool? when he declared that when he stood in the presence of the great hierophant of the…

…never disappointed, never discouraged, but recognizing the play of the dots unfolding upon the great stage of human affairs. Someone asked Plato on one occasion what his profession was, and he replied, I am by profession an observer. man, to a great degree,…

…basic concept from a quotation from the Avesta or one of the sacred books of the Persians but from the Phyto of Plato he quotes Socrates where Socrates says Of the great initiatory institutions of the ancients. It well appears. That those who established…

…people pretensions, of ancient peoples to possess this knowledge. And Pike is convinced that men of the caliber of Socrates, and of Plato, and of Pythagoras, and many others in other parts of the world could not have been deceived in this matter. That…

…war on earth both come to an end, and the golden age is restored. What then happened to the ancient body, this mysterious structure? Plato, I think, gives us a clue to this in the story of the lost Atlantis. For in a strange way, the Atlantic Empire…

…the lost Atlantis. For in a strange way, the Atlantic Empire was a symbol of something. The great king of Atlantis, according to Plato, was Atlas, who has later become known as the man who carries the heavens on his shoulders. In other words, the ancient…

…knowledge of being waves leading in to this great central fire core this knowledge existed probably generally known as late as Plato and Socrates perhaps a little later less generally but somewhat widely known as late as the sixth century AD still known…

…most complicated theological systems. Primitive man, Pike tells us, without reservation, as we have said, regarded the world as a lie. Plato refers to it as the holy animal crawling through the sky. ancient people some felt that the world was a great…

…is the self that goes on to peace, to rest, and to hope. Now, Buddha, as many of the other sages, pointed out, as much as Plato did, that this land of the blessed, to which the individual goes if he has led the good life, may or not be a place at…

…to pain and various mysteries. But not unless they are approached by concentration, by the contemplative method, having discovered, as Plato so wisely noted, that God's geometry, that the universe is a magnificent Man can come to experience this formula by…

…complete victims of whatever mood passes through our mental-emotional complex, how can we ever have world peace or individual peace? Plato, the great teacher, the great religious leaders, have all pointed out the need of the individual to achieve a certain…

…or understanding and little value unless they contribute to the individual's direction of his own conduct. This is the point that Plato so clearly makes, that no wisdom, no learning, is valid unless it is proven or demonstrated by its effect upon conduct.…

…of gaining the necessary experience from action is that this experience be justly measured, weighed, and estimated by some faculty in man. Plato regards this faculty as the soul, but the soul, therefore, is the initiator. The soul is the power by means of…

…Unfortunately, there is a sufficient amount of general evidence so that we can proceed safely into our inquiry. Man, according to Plato, possessed two natures. One, an essential nature derived from God, and the other, a material nature derived from the earth…

…in this world, of this world. under the hypnosis of the procedures and processes peculiar to this state of nature. This led Plato to regard nature itself with certain suspicions. He held that nature in some way sought to fasten itself upon the human soul,…

…it is essential to our growth that we experience a new kind of now on a higher level of function and understanding. Yet Plato also pointed out, as did the Egyptians and many other ancient people, that the so-called divine soul, or the higher part of…

…product of his own awareness processes. This having been attained, the person finds himself receptive to the benediction of the internal. Plato tells us that under such conditions, the inner life of man may come through into his outer awareness. may impose…

…Cicero liked to think that dreams were prophetic except those after heavy meals, which he doubted to have a divine origin. Plato probably can be summarized as taking the position that dreams were a form of communication between the internal life of man…

…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 often as…

…true also 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…

…of anything. Perhaps Platonism was affected by this concept, for while the Greeks never achieved to the subtlety of the Indian thinker, Plato was aware of the fact that in some way this material world in which we live who corresponded not to a normal…

…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 abducted…

…And we are therefore impelled from the very common sense of it to assume, as is indicated by the writings of Plato, and certainly more than sustained by the great Neoclatonic restoration in Alexandria. But the Greeks were perfectly aware that these legends…

…pantheon. How are they to be understood in the Greek mythology? I think we are perfectly safe in assuming, from Plato, from Pythagoras, and from other sources, that by these deities the Greek meant not personal divinity, but symbolic terms, embodiments,…

…admiration for the good doctor, that this position is tenacious. There 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…

…Either an intelligible, that is a self-knowing being, or an intellectual, or not self-knowing being. Thus the Greeks divided, as Plato tells us, all of their deities into orders of which the two most important were the intelligible and the intellectual…

…the tool, the holy sepulcher of this mysterious martyred God. And this martyred God, buried in the sepulcher of the body, as Plato so well points out, the body is the sepulcher of the soul, becomes Tammuz, buried in the seventh layer of the underworld,…

…his own intensities has therefore the tranquility for contemplation, for reflection, for meditation, for natural and detached observation of values. Plato declared that he was born into this world in the profession of an observer. A man gradually has to learn…

…development. The planetary modus, as the Greeks called him, the deity whose body is near, and who is a living creature. Plato called him the eternal animal crawling through space. The Chinese represent him by the ancestral turtle carrying the world upon his…

…and said that knowledge was the only thing by which worlds could be conquered. As a result of this arrogance, as described by Plato, the gods in their great assembly up on the Olympian Mount decided that it was necessary to chastise these people and to…

…in which things fall away and there seems to be a loss or a breaking up a death of something there are what Plato calls sequential eras of sterility and fertility in nature And there will be materialistic ages and there will be idealistic ages. And…

…fine point. But one thing we do feel or believe that is sustained by the deepest knowledge that we have, namely, as Plato says, God geometrizes. The creating power of whatever we wish to designate, manifesting its own nature according to its own will,…

…vocalizing to produce thoughts, but actually extending throughout the entire field. And therefore, perhaps paralleling the idea of Plato, namely that souls, lives, beings, falling into generations, come from the circumference of this great system and not…

…world. The 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…

…doctrine that has flourished for thousands of years, was publicly taught by Gautama Buddha, and stoutly defended by Pythagoras, Socrates, and Plato. Nor is it an old belief long outgrown, for in this time nearly one-half the population of the world accepts…

…such that Confucius then retired from public life into his little school where he continued to teach until the time of his death. Plato had the same experience. He had intended to run for archon of Athens, one of the senators of the city. But after…

…him is merely the fulfillment of his desire for physical freedom from ailments. He is very much like Alcibiades in the dialogues of Plato. Plato once said of Alcibiades, who was more or less an Athenian pop, a person of who thought a great deal of…

…is merely the fulfillment of his desire for physical freedom from ailments. He is very much like Alcibiades in the dialogues of Plato. Plato once said of Alcibiades, who was more or less an Athenian pop, a person of who thought a great deal of himself…

…keeping any 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…

…know this, but it's true. He was not. He was sentenced to pay a small fine because he was found guilty of a minor offense. Plato offered to pay the fine immediately and Socrates said no. He said I am not paying the fine because I am not guilty and I…

…to interfere with the mind becoming a faithful servant. After all, the power of the mind ultimately is to become a kind of Plato or a kind of Socrates or anything that has great solutions to the daily problems. The mind becomes the leader of the life…

…our affection, that makes our love real. And a love that is not real is not love at all. But wisdom leads the way. Plato has said in his older years to have said that all wisdom has but one end, that man shall build strength and sound foundation…

…system, Zavichi is the material world. It is the world of physical things. And in the Platonic dialogues, so-called Hades is the same thing. Plato said, we do not go to Hades when we die. We come to Hades when we are born. This is it. So we must…

…is very anxious, more or less, to bring others into the same miseries that it has itself. We are in a world of shadows, as Plato pointed out. We are in the world of which we must live with the consequences of our own deeds and attitudes. This is the…

…No one was permitted to enter into the sacred sanctuaries of Egypt until they had passed through a period of probation. When Plato went to Egypt in search of the wisdom of the Egyptian temples, they made him go through a long and arduous probation…

…things they don't know what to do with and don't want, simply because they can afford them. In order to really mature, as Plato may have found out in Egypt, the buying power must be disciplined by integrity. We do not buy things because they're for…

…were 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…

…Faith is an ability, in a sense at least, to rationalize realities. Let us take an example of a person such as Plato. Plato was essentially a philosopher. But like most philosophers, he discovered in the course of time that philosophy is a rather dry,…

…is an ability, in a sense at least, to rationalize realities. Let us take an example of a person such as Plato. Plato was essentially a philosopher. But like most philosophers, he discovered in the course of time that philosophy is a rather dry, dusty…

…of occasions on the grounds that I do not properly emphasize other people's faults. In other words, if I'm interested in someone like Plato, I do not bring out all the possible weaknesses of the man, although I assume them. I don't think it is necessary…

…the man, although I assume them. I don't think it is necessary to go into a deep biographical discussion of the weaning of Plato, or that it was necessary for Plato to have summer complaints while he was an infant. These things don't mean anything. What…

…don't think it is necessary to go into a deep biographical discussion of the weaning of Plato, or that it was necessary for Plato to have summer complaints while he was an infant. These things don't mean anything. What we do is to pick out the…

…to us far more limited than its original message might imply. For example, today we pick up an available translation of Plato. Here is a man who lived 2400 years ago. Even with the most brutal mistranslation and inadequate interpretation, we observe traces…

…a depth of penetration, and a largeness of spirit, all of which intrigue us. We must then consider what has happened to Plato. Let us remember also that most of these things which we now preserve of his were originally dialogues, that they were…

…a written, scenographic type of account of things that were said and done long ago. Now we have also the problem of language. Plato spoke one of the most learned languages of the world, what we call classical Greek. It was a magnificent language, but an…

…is not Greek, who did not live in their culture, who does not know their idioms, who has no way of appreciating what Plato really thought. By gradual process of induction and deduction, the translation takes on the appearance of of what a scholar in 18th…

…of induction and deduction, the translation takes on the appearance of of what a scholar in 18th or 19th century England believed Plato to mean when Plato spoke 2400 years ago in Athens. Now this in itself presents a very large mystery, because we cannot…

…eternally wise. is the only power that we know that is fully aware of its own purposes. Under such conditions, it is said by Plato that in a republic or a democracy, the best must govern the rest. In the great universal plan of things, the best must…

…it as fast as we can get it. Now, to our way of thinking, philosophy leads as an integrating power. We think of Plato as an integrated human being. We think of Socrates as one. Socrates was not a conformist, but he was a person whose non-conformity…

…boy, 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…

…as an incident or natural evidence of we realize that every other form of government has failed. And we also realize, as Plato pointed out, that if man is self-governing, it makes very little difference what type of political structure he lives under. The…

…to the conscious personality, this I like, the chances are that value has been found. The internal part of man, according to Plato was, as the Greek theory, a kind of living psychic geometrizer. In other words, this internal part of man was a harmonic…

…of Alexandria. particularly Plotinus and Proclus. These two great scholars, mystics and contemplators, deriving their inspirations from Plato and Pythagoras, evolved a concept of personal relationship between man and the universe that had not previously…

…something there that's very interesting. That the purpose of science is to justify faith. Now this seems to be a direct bearing from Plato. For Plato was the one who said that the end of wisdom is the perfection of faith. The individual who is truly…

…that's very interesting. That the purpose of science is to justify faith. Now this seems to be a direct bearing from Plato. For Plato was the one who said that the end of wisdom is the perfection of faith. The individual who is truly wise believes.…

…to find himself in a very uncomfortable situation. The idea that the old prophet's head is going to hell is not very necessary. Plato says it's right here. In other words, Plato says you don't go there. You're born into it when you're born. In other…

…The idea that the old prophet's head is going to hell is not very necessary. Plato says it's right here. In other words, Plato says you don't go there. You're born into it when you're born. In other words, this world is a world of instruction, of…

…failure, today our problems are multiplying very rapidly. Now, we know, for instance, that in the classical periods, from Plato down to the present time, most philosopher-mystics, were also rather adroit and rather comprehensive in their social and political…

…it for him, then he must provide it for himself. This perhaps is the principle as mentioned or thought of in the works of Plato. Plato sort of comes to the conclusion that man is no longer attended by a series of celestial babysitters. He is no longer…

…him, then he must provide it for himself. This perhaps is the principle as mentioned or thought of in the works of Plato. Plato sort of comes to the conclusion that man is no longer attended by a series of celestial babysitters. He is no longer being…

…had anything to do with the bill or the silver, but because of those evil ones who lay in wait for it. Someone asked Plato once why gold was such a pale metal. He answered, because it fears those who seek to possess it. The paleness is terror.…

…result in defects of health. The body should be left very quietly to the fulfillment of its own needs. And on one occasion Plato referred to a young dude in the Athenian column, Solony, Alcibiades. He said, here we have a red dagger in a jeweled sheet.…

…to be winning? How can I have faith when it looks as though the future is clouded with a darkness beyond my comprehension? So Plato came to the answer to that particular question very simply. He said in order to have faith, you have to use the mind.…

…thought, of the great rules, laws, and principles that sustain life. This is philosophy. Philosophy is the handmaiden of faith. And as Plato himself said, the only end of learning is that it shall sustain and justify faith. But faith has to be justified…

…family truisms. They're available to everyone. And so are the teachings of Christ, the teachings of Buddha, the teachings of Pythagoras, of Plato, of Lao Tzu. All of these teachings are basic. There is not one of them that came from an academic source.…

…We have several rather nice items. The subject of this morning, I think, can best be summarized in the thought given by Plato in the fact that the purpose of philosophy is to build a solid foundation under faith. There is no substance to philosophy…

…more apt to be increasingly aware of the human need. But the human need is only one aspect of the divine purpose. Therefore, Plato was very right in attributing to all forms of learning that they were all servants of truth and truth itself is a term…

…every such form of knowledge strengthens faith now the ancient used philosophy as the instrument and made philosophy the handmaiden of faith Plato so often so correctly stated that all knowledge must lead to faith or it is false philosophy is not an end…

…laws. 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…

…have lived and died under that precedent. All of these things we have to study. And out of it all comes finally what Plato had, a very gentle quietude, a recognition that it is perfectly possible for the individual and for vast groups of human beings to…

…down very quietly to study Platonic mysticism something that was perhaps best expressed through Proclus and Plotinus the mysticism of Plato was a strange and rather intriguing subject about which very little is known and very much less is discussed. It…

…intriguing subject about which very little is known and very much less is discussed. It is a part of a doctrine that Plato developed himself in which he pointed out that all forms of knowledge must lead back to the source of knowledge, whether this…

…or in the universe. All knowledge must ascend to its source or cause and its source or cause is a mystical divinity. Plato was completely convinced that all intellection is futile unless it enlists the soul to communion with the mystery of its own inner…

…is a very peculiar thing to think of. But perhaps it is interesting to realize that according to Julian's interpretation of Plato, night was the beginning of everything. In the beginning was darkness. And darkness was not emptiness. Darkness was not despair.…

…others For 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…

…that the physicians, 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…

…but you can leave them behind to ruin the lives of your descendants but as the Lord of the underworld we must remember that Plato pointed out very clearly that the underworld is not a place where you go when you die it's the place you came to when…

…all religions are merely names for one spiritual necessity, that we are absolutely dependent upon faith when all else fails. Actually, Plato observed on one occasion that the end of all philosophy and wisdom is the building of faith. All wisdom leads to…

…by trying to follow political structures or any of the traditional values. The world is more inhabited now. In the time of Plato or Socrates or Pythagoras, there probably were less than half a billion people on earth. Today we are pressing six billion. We…

…to the sphere of the six stars, or what we call constellations. Here, of course, the Neoplatonists had borrowed from their master Plato, for it was the belief of Plato that souls coming into generation descended from the Milky Way. the birthplace of soul.…

…what we call constellations. Here, of course, the Neoplatonists had borrowed from their master Plato, for it was the belief of Plato that souls coming into generation descended from the Milky Way. the birthplace of soul. Paracelsus was not so literal in his…

…are both seasonal changes as we measure them by astronomy, there are psychic changes. which we measure by psychic content and which Plato refers to in his discussion of the Great Platonic Year as the seasons of fertility and sterility in nature. In this…

…level. Namely, he became a devout student of Neoplatonism. He followed largely in the footsteps of Pythagoras, Samus, and of Plato of Athens. He was also deeply interested in the neoplatonic philosophy of Plotinus, and the so-called legitimate descendant of…

…all is lost. the third great pole in the human body is the generator system this is what has been placed here as what Plato calls the eighth power of the soul this is the perpetuation of life this is the means by means of which there is continuity…

…an empire or a republic or a commonwealth and can even become a communistic state. All of these things are possible and Plato reminds us All of them are equally meritorious if they are administered with intelligent justice. There is no bad form of…

…only subject to the law of nature, but is subject to the polarized activity of solar magnetism. Perhaps this is what Plato implied when he declared that the earth and its people pass through alternating periods of fertility and sterility, and that these…

…various degrees of spiritual fertility with which the ancient Brahmins measured the duration of the world. In periods of sterility, as Plato points out, Not only does vegetation and all of the natural qualities of the earth languish to some degree, but…

…chains. 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…

…of the meal in which the unseen guest was the honored presence in the midst of the mysterious banquet of the wise. Plato describes the banquet of Olympodorus, which was a philosophic banquet in which it was not food, but understanding and the graces of…

…so that beyond reason there were certain basic acceptances, And on these acceptances the good life had to be built. As Plato has told us, all learning, therefore, led finally to an enlightened believing. And the individual, having carried his quest as far…

…the peculiar secrecy in regard to these doctrines. We know that the doctrine of immortality was clearly enunciated by Socrates and also by Plato. We know that it was held by the schools of Greeks back at least to the time of Solon and Thales. Yet with…

…of other nations if they traveled in distant countries it is apparent that such occurred in the case of both Pythagoras and Plato For by some means generally assumed to have been their initiation, they were welcomed into the temple sanctuaries of many far…

…and we find this change also in the doctrinal setup The older doctrine is very obscure But by the time of Pythagoras, Plato, and Socrates, the new doctrine of the mysteries was certainly taking shape within the structure of both the Orphic Rites and the…

…however, I think is rather a modern way of looking at this type of thing, and probably not the way that Socrates or Plato would have chosen to look at it. The second attitude was that the followers of these rites, because they were in the presence…

…in time of trouble. This could be the answer to the Greeks, and could be the answer even to the perplexed mind of Plato, who might regard himself as by far too involved a thinker to experience the direct participation in a simple faith which brought…

…during the classical period, Greek scholars never ceased their praise of Egyptian wisdom. Men of the caliber of Pythagoras and Plato spoke most eulogistically of the spiritual attainments of Egypt. And in government and law, Solon and Thales bear witness to…

…his God, where these things were rarely and deeply and concisely believed, that some type of profound psychological experience took place. Plato describes it, others have described it. Aquila tells all that he dares to tell us. But according to the reports…

…them all with strange doctrines. They were parts of the wisdom of Persia and of Greece. They were known to Pythagoras and Plato. They have been always part of the wisdom of Islam in Arabia. And they have always been present in the mystical speculations…

…unrestricted, 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…

…not regarded in this concept as being merely an ultimate abstract absolute. Deity was considered to be a great being, as Plato called it, an animal existing in space. This supreme being, so-called, was certainly the leader of the creations which came from…

…us. I think then we must assume and will ultimately prove to scientific satisfaction that planets are beings. that they are, as Plato might have called them, huge animals crawling in space. Perhaps he was not as flattering as he should have been, because…

…Alexandria through Plotinus, Iamblichus, and other great Neoplatonists. These teachers took a theology that had descended to them from Plato principally, and they gradually adapted it to a complete dedication to the highest possible concepts of human life. They…

…only indestructible part of ourselves, we come in the end to a stalemate. The Neoplatonists of Alexandria discovered in the works of Plato the idea of a great religious system. We are told by Proclus of Athens, who was the last of the Platonic successors,…

…Platonic successors, that Plato's philosophy was the outer cover for a religion. And therefore, Proclus in his books on the theology of Plato lets us know that in the closing years of his life, Plato transformed his whole philosophy into a way of life, a…

…religion. And therefore, Proclus in his books on the theology of Plato lets us know that in the closing years of his life, Plato transformed his whole philosophy into a way of life, a very simple way, that the end of philosophy is that the individual…

…to fashion as within the circular globe of an alchemical vessel, the mystery of the solar system. The solar system, as Plato also points out, begins therefore with the circumference and moves gradually toward the center. The wall of the solar system was…

…two unindividualized essences. What is the ultimate power of a solar system to be understood? as consisting of in the ancient times Plato many others referred to the solar system as the divine animal the Chinese have a very good idea of this the solar…

…the dignity 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…

…certainly there is possibility in this direction. But there is also possibility that Bacon used his Atlantis fable almost precisely as Plato had before him. Plato, of course, in his preparation of the Atlantis account, also ends in the middle of a sentence.…

…in this direction. But there is also possibility that Bacon used his Atlantis fable almost precisely as Plato had before him. Plato, of course, in his preparation of the Atlantis account, also ends in the middle of a sentence. His concept of the…

…out of its own subjective darkness. and has a distinct and definite bearing upon our present way of life. Some have held that Plato, under the fable of the lost Atlantis, described the fall of man, or the fall or destruction of the golden age, which…

…Messiah king. Now, the Messiah king of the prophets, the Jewish prophets, is not essentially different from the philosopher king of Plato. In fact, there is some indication of borrowing by the Greeks from the Semitic tradition of that period of time. The…

…a very important time pattern, and the complete precession of the equinox requiring 25,920 years is referred to as the Great Platonic Year. Plato was aware of it 300 years or more before the beginning of the Christian era. We know it today. No one has…

…Hebrew also, we have Adam of the Red Earth. We know that this Adam Codman is the archetypal man, the protagonist of Plato. But Adam represents the collection, that is, the numerical power that is identical with that of the Temple of Jerusalem. We know,…

…Christianity was completely established as far as a world religion is concerned, the Church maintained a most favorable attitude toward Plato, and also took a most generous attitude toward Hermes and the Hermetic writings of the first second or third…

…and would be perfectly willing to see a compatibility and even an identity between the Christos of Paul and the Logos of Plato. And because they were an educated and school group, And because this group had to increase within the body of the church,…

…spiritual revelations were identical, that only the names were changed, and that there was only one great world doctrine of salvation. Plato sensed this, Paul acknowledged him, and it certainly could be interpreted as being a large part of the burden of the…

…an island somewhere in the ocean. So we have to think of Atlantis in relationship to a complete pattern of the planet. As Plato clearly points out, the island of Phocidonis, which we now think of as Atlantis, was the last fragment of a great empire. It…

…15,000 years ago. Now in connection with the problem of Atlantis, I think the next thing we have to study is the name. Plato refers to the mysterious empire as Atlantis. He probably received this name, or secured it, from Solon, who in turn had received…

…carry on the work, passed the legend on to one of his descendants who was a student of Plato's, and this student in turn told Plato, who took the story, to use it as a great symbolic account of the descent of man. Now, Plato does not deny that the…

…and this student in turn told Plato, who took the story, to use it as a great symbolic account of the descent of man. Now, Plato does not deny that the story is literally true. But he does point out so many very subtle and unusual details that we are…

…are forced to realize that he embellished it to represent the entire story of the planet Earth and its development. According to Plato, at a remote time the gods of High Olympus distributed the world to their various sub-deities, and to Poseidon was given…

…an island somewhere in the ocean. So, we have to think of Atlantis in relationship to a complete pattern of the planet. As Plato clearly points out, the island of Poseidon, which we now think of as Atlantis, was the last fragment of a great empire. It…

…15,000 years ago. Now, in connection with the problem of Atlantis, I think the next thing we have to study is the name. Plato refers to the mysterious empire as Atlantis. He probably received this name from Solon, who in turn had received it from the…

…carry on the work, passed the legend on to one of his descendants who was a student of Plato's, and this student in turn told Plato, who took the story to use it as a great symbolic account of the descent of man. Now, Plato does not deny that the…

…and this student in turn told Plato, who took the story to use it as a great symbolic account of the descent of man. Now, Plato does not deny that the story is literally true. But he does point out so many very subtle and unusual details that we are…

…are forced to realize that he embellished it to represent the entire story of the planet earth and its development. According to Plato, at a remote time the gods of High Olympus distributed the world to their various sub-deities, and to Poseidon was given…

…impossible. to estimate the effects of the teachings of Gautama Buddha. These effects continue. It is not likely that during his lifetime Plato ever had more than 200 or 250 followers, probably less. It is doubtful if the dialogues of Plato existed in more…

…likely that during his lifetime Plato ever had more than 200 or 250 followers, probably less. It is doubtful if the dialogues of Plato existed in more than 20 copies at the time of his death. And yet there is no political structure or social institution…

…dies, grows and decays. Just as the annual story of the tree, which in winter drops its leaves and appears dead. So as Plato has pointed out, The great motions of energy are tidal. And these tidal motions mean that the flow of energy through the…

…the ultimate disintegration of the physical structure. And this they point out through the long descent of historical record. If, as Plato has told us, the great year consists then of these periods of fertility and sterility, we have the factor that is…

…very closely related. I do not think this was the original intent, Alex. I think the glands represent another group of factors. Plato was of the opinion that the entity or the power in man, controlled by means of eight powers, or eight extensions, And…

…of the internal self. Now, we have to be a little careful because the word soul does not mean quite the same in Plato as it does in Christianity, for example. By soul, I think Plato probably meant what we call consciousness. because Plato does not use…

…the word soul does not mean quite the same in Plato as it does in Christianity, for example. By soul, I think Plato probably meant what we call consciousness. because Plato does not use the word consciousness. Therefore, I think to the Greek, this concept…

…in Plato as it does in Christianity, for example. By soul, I think Plato probably meant what we call consciousness. because Plato does not use the word consciousness. Therefore, I think to the Greek, this concept of consciousness or the ensouling power…

…of the tidal motion of energy, which they called the out breathing and the in breathing of God. They recognized, as Plato pointed out, that the continual development of energy was according to certain laws or principles inherent in itself. What we therefore…

…living. Therefore, this energy is not merely a Freudian generating energy. This energy has generation as one of its powers. Plato and Pythagoras assumed that this energy had eight powers. Actually, in all probability, this would only be a classification of…

in the fifth century of the Christian era a philosopher arose who has been remembered as the last one whom Plato might have welcomed into his school Boetius a magnificent person came in a time in the history of Europe in the dark ages was a tragic…

…but in all things in patience and acceptance. Keep the rules and learn the lessons of the day. Now each embodiment we have, according to Plato, is a day. It is a day in our own growth. It is the day we go to school to learn something. Now we look…

…can we declare the ambitions are false when we can't stop using narcotics for our own pleasure All these things come back, as Plato tells us, and as the whole philosophy tells us, all of these great changes can only come when the human being arises to…

…knowledge cooperate, we will have peace in the world. These things are part of our destiny. These things were well known to Plato and Pythagoras. They were well known to the foreign and eastern nations. And everyone has realized that it is impossible to…

…people who have made that adjustment. The Greeks made it. Probably the greatest of them all was Pythagoras. He paid with his life. Plato, he made it. and we have given him some credit, but that we suffer from a bad translation of him by Dr. Jowett.…

…people and if there is the people gradually lose all respect for those who govern them the main point of government as Plato points out and apparently Plato and his philosophy played a considerable part in the story of the governor Plato said the best…

…is the people gradually lose all respect for those who govern them the main point of government as Plato points out and apparently Plato and his philosophy played a considerable part in the story of the governor Plato said the best must lead and the best…

…point of government as Plato points out and apparently Plato and his philosophy played a considerable part in the story of the governor Plato said the best must lead and the best must be best to those whom they lead in other words the leader must have…

…the future, but some of the best thoughts that we really have come from the past. And I think the remarks and thoughts of Plato on the problems of government very well taken. He said, any system of government that is intended to be of value will work…

…speculations of the Greek astronomy and cosmologists. We find everything from history to astronomy. We find the contemplations of Plato and the extraordinary investigations of Pythagoras. We find a careful estimation of the great semantics of Aristotle, Euclid,…

…by means of which man has been drawn into a state of materiality. As he is drawn into matter by a certain motion, as Plato says, he is by the reversal of this motion able to extricate himself from matter. This discussion and the problems involved in it…

…little more 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…

…the dignity 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…

…certainly there is possibility in this direction. But there is also possibility that Bacon used his Atlantis fable almost precisely as Plato had before him. Plato, of course, in his preparation of the Atlantis account, also ends in the middle of a sentence.…

…in this direction. But there is also possibility that Bacon used his Atlantis fable almost precisely as Plato had before him. Plato, of course, in his preparation of the Atlantis account, also ends in the middle of a sentence. His concept of the…

…out of its own subjective darkness and has a distinct and definite bearing upon our present way of life. Some have held that Plato, under the fable of the lost Atlantis, described the fall of man or the fall or destruction of the golden age which…

…And this power is the mysterious Nida, the sage, the ancient Merlin, the archetypal principle of the wise man, the universal Plato, the universal Socrates. Thus mind, in its highest aspect, becomes the true philosopher, the true master of reason, who has…

…integration of things seen in daily living about which only the most rudimentary reflection existed. In the case of a man like Plato, this exhaustion of the mental world might require in the normal course of time 10,000 years. This is due to the…

…we would face. These periods of 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…

…look at it and how much we want to trust the ancient writers, especially Xenophon, it would seem that that the life of Plato was created to express this ascent because, as you will remember, he began life with an about-desire to be a politician. He was…

…the Kamarupa, here the concept of good government, or the emotional desire to improve men in spite of themselves, and have Plato now moving to the middle zone of individuality, for the purpose of teaching them how to govern and understand themselves, which…

…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 in the last 10 or 15 years of his physical existence, he turned away…

…the process of the struggle through Kamaloka, there is a kind of awakening. Some people have it in this life. They, according to Plato, it is quite possible to go through a good deal of Kamaloka while you are alive. Because the moment you begin to…

…is his own body. This does not necessarily mean that he must spend the rest of his life catering to it. Because as Plato once said about the handsome Alcibiades, there is very little use of being a golden dagger, rather a leaden dagger in a golden…

…man's earthly needs, out of his earthy experience, striving to know. And had it not been for matter, there could have been no Plato, no Buddha, and no Jesus. These things have to be part of man's plan. We could not recognize solution unless we had the…

…things to which souls might return again to suffer all the mysterious and horrible penalties described in Dante's Inferno. But as Plato pointed out, all these symbols of the horrors of tradition were simply caricatures of material life. It was merely aspects…

…Did he not finally die rather than compromise his principles when it would have been very easy to save his life? Was no Plato such a man? How shall we say also great scientists, if they be persons of noble dedication, are not actually the mysterious…

…growing up. the ones in whose hearts the good peace has been granted. Buddhists would not hesitate to say that Pythagoras or Plato or Michelangelo or Leonardo were all the ones in whose we're ready to sacrifice more easily brought He is worthy only of…

…is it that great wealthy people feed the hungry and the poor and the sick but never do anything to help the wise? And Plato replied, it's very simple. They are all afraid they may be sick and hungry someday themselves, but they are not afraid that they…