…all his thoughts and of his intentions. So if he is not correct and he is honorable and dedicated, These things will correct themselves. Plato was a philosopher for most of his 80 years. And he was a great scholar. But in the last years of his life,…

…When Thomas Taylor in the early years of the 18th century, 19th century, pardon me, was working on his translation of the theology of Plato, he was only able to print a handful of copies. He was poor, and one or two people helped him to get a few…

…and one or two people helped him to get a few copies of this magnificent work of Proclus on the theology of Plato. No one was interested in Plato's theology. No one cared anything about Neoplatonism. To many, Buddhism was a heathenism. No one really…

…that we face today we know that Bacon named his new Atlantis after the description found in the Cretaceous of Plato concerning the submergence of the Atlantean islands Bacon doesn't say anything about the possibility of another world catastrophe of this…

…of cosmic egg in which we live. This has been described by many ancient writers. It was known in the times of Pythagoras and Plato. It was understood that the individual lived in a globe of light and that this globe of light was his strength in time…

…equation in health, where it is damaged by attitudes or by negative thinking or by the pressure of problems. Long ago, Plato made the statement that all forms of government are satisfactory, suitable, and proper if they are honestly administered, that if…

…that is in. That is where we have made all the laws of politics. But in the universe, the universal government is part, as Plato has so clearly pointed out, of a divine hierarch of orders. there is a perfect government in space and we haven't had sense…

…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. And when…

…of universal forces, principles, and laws operating in the universe. These principles were known to 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…

…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 exception of a powerful group Of leaders however. It seems that the deeper. Authic significance of religion. Was not…

…Pythagoreans and the other Greeks tell us that the numerical power of the daemon is six. And you will find that in Plato and many other writings, numbers become exceedingly significant. The reason why this daemon is six is because it represents a being or…

…particular subject. Here we have Apuleius writing in his commentary on the God of Socrates and paraphrasing the teachings or words of Plato. And then here is what he tells us concerning the peculiar demon that is allotted to every man who is a witness…

…deeds but also of his thoughts. Then we will skip a little and read on. All you, therefore, who hear this divine opinion of Plato as interpreted by me, don't arm your minds to whatever you may do, or to whatever may be the subject of your meditation,…

…must die. And by so dying, save the whole world, the total self and the total being. Archetypally, this is the Logos of Plato, which impresses itself upon the universe in the beginning, in the form of the cross, and by dying at the time of creation,…

…his consciousness or from his experience by which he cannot go on. And these are removed in many ways. By Socrates and Plato the concept was a joyous removal. And by others it is a painful procedure. For the difference between wisdom and ignorance is…

…mysteries, as far as the first four centuries of the Christian era were able to cope with the subject. We gain help from Plato and from other writers, but they did not unfold the problem systematically. What we learn is good, helpful, that may be a key…

…other peoples, efforts to define the nature of this absolute were considered more or less fruitless. Socrates, Pythagoras, Buddha, Confucius, Plato agreed primarily in the principle that to define the infinite is to defile the infinite These things are simply…

…paralleled in the story of Dante's Inferno. These of course are the illusions, the ghosts, the shadows. By which most men live. Causing Plato to say that men go to this abode not when they die but when they are born. It is life controlled by illusion.…

…the knower becomes identical or identified with illumination intuition, and these other high attributes of consciousness. Pythagoras and Plato both point out that this Buddhic principle, which represents man's spiritual internal power to approach the Noah, is…

…which he carried, the story of the little god and all the things that happened to him, are like the Narcissus legend, for Plato tells us that by Narcissus is to be understood man gazing into matter and seeing the reflection of himself in a material…

…given a brief summary of the creation as it was set forth, at least in the time of Hesiod, and later unfolded by Plato and Proclus. We might add something, however, to the previous account in order to make it as complete as possible. We know that…

…of balancing 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…

…of the 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…

…as children, nor can we assume that they were stupid followers of stupid leaders. We cannot read the statesmen of Republic of Plato without realizing that we are dealing with a statesman, that we are dealing with a person to whom the problems of our…

…was not a follower of old folklore, but a great scholar in his own right. We also have the tremendous document of Plato and Socrates relating to universal order and the final gathering of all these principles together by the Neoplatonists of Alexandria and…

…to them the psychological doors of their own inner lives it was only after the rise of the Orphics that Pythagoras and Plato could have lived and could have taught as they did teach because the principal contribution of all here was this pressure toward…

…of God. Anyone who assumes that the Greeks were not aware of one deity is mistaken. All you have to do is read your Plato and Socrates to know that this is not so. Well, they were fully aware. of the existence of one deity. The difficulty lay in…

…he is an animal. To the degree that he is satisfied to live an animal existence, he is merely a biped without feathers, as Plato called him. As long as the human being does not excel other creatures around him in the unfolding of character, he is not…

…that heaven was not only their refuge, but their best answer. That this eternal quality, the infinite superior, was simply timeless. Plato fell back upon this concept, and so did most of the Eastern philosophers. There was no use questioning heaven. Heaven…

…mathematics in which the body is cultured but the soul is left untreated. Or else we will have the famous description which Plato refers to when mentioning Alcibiades when he spoke of this rich, powerful, and luxurious young man as a leaden dagger in a…

…therefore of the available emotions of the individual. The capacity to love larger things, larger qualities and values. Or as Plato expressed it, to transmute affection, elevate it from a devotion to forms until it becomes capable of being a devotion…

…beauty, infinite truth. The most perfect forms in the world, like snowflakes, are themselves perfect manifestations of the great law. Plato said God geometrizes. Moral laws are moral geometry. Ethical laws are ethical geometry. And if we could see these laws…

…the trade, falls back upon deceit, falls back upon flamboyance for values which he cannot legitimately supply. Art moving in, as Plato points out, covers not only the vast areas of natural representation, as in architecture, music, the laying out of gardens,…

…even going so far as the writing of poems, the marvelous painting of word pictures, the high language of romance literature. Plato points out that art has as its final purpose its adornment of the human being himself. Beauty becomes, as Pythagoras said,…

…the kindly face of age the beautiful expression of a patient and enlightened soul. He sensed the deep mobility, the face of Plato, and how also wisdom shone through the less attractive features of prophecy. A man not handsome, he thought, but in whose…

…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 this person had…

…and perceiving his true place in an eternal capital. We have every reason to believe that in the advancing years of his life Plato achieved this theurgic purpose. We learn that as he grew older his mind began to take less into the great profundities of…

…gradually came to know the needs of the soul, what was necessary to its growth and happiness, its normalcy and order. Plato gives us a considerable discussion of this particular subject. And like most of the Greek philosophers, he assumed that finally the…

…It became a victim of conspiracies. and the mental powers which it possessed were used for tyranny, despotism, and deceit. Thus Plato describes the most unhappy and miserable state of the soul, in which it is therefore said essentially to enter into a…

…The individual, as Flotinus points out in his essay on the beautiful, requires various types of nutrition to support his life. Plato again in the banquet of Olympiodorus gives us the same general thinking. Man exists only because of nutrition. His entire…

…Reason is not exception, nor is it belief, nor is it faith, nor can it be regarded as a form of superstition. As Plato points out to us, reason is an instrument. Reason is just as certainly a scientific instrument as the telescope or the microscope. But…

…it is the most subtle part of all things. We say that it is substance because it is the only endurance, as Plato points out. That which has the greatest endurance, has the greatest substance and reality, although we cannot perceive it. So ontology,…

…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, therefore, that this being, this essence, is not apart from law, but…

…earth, that the gods are moving downward, that every force that is truly divine, the great creative processes are dropping, as Plato tells us, like tiny seeds from the Milky Way, falling into the mystery of generation, ignorance, and death. These being…

…he did not possess the internal instrument of knowing, he could not even wonder about the reason for himself. But because he possesses, Plato points out that it is a shame indeed, a great pity unto the Son, that possessing this power to know God man…

…consciousness, the ancient sage called unconscious. What we call waking, he called sleeping. What we call our daily objectivity was his nightmare. Plato pointed out that heaven is not the place, the hell is not the place where you go when you die, but…

…tell us, if we can read between the lines, is that actually His fable or his analogy is based upon the same idea as that of Plato and the race that lived at the bottom of the well. It's supposed to have been the fable that there was a whole race of…

…no longer perverted the public morals of the people living at the bottom of the well. And the story apparently is a clever takeoff by Plato on the trial of Socrates, the man who dared to take a look over the top of the well and see what was going on…

…thought suitable to understand what we have seen, because they have not seen. But this is not where the analogy ends, and Plato very astutely pointed out the next point, namely that when man's own internal energies, by the mystical experience, are able to…

…intellect, the imposer of regulation, rule, and statutes. And the world under its intellect becomes a rational animal moving in space. Plato so defined the world. When the Greeks referred to the world, they referred to what we would call the solar system,…

…persons continue to influence the world and have always influenced, since their own time, at least certain groups. We know, for example, that Plato is read today a million times more than in his own day, whereas many great names of his time are not even…

…very simple. in his repetition of the information received from Solon who in turn had gained it from the Egyptians. According to Plato the great Atlantic catastrophe was a punishment for sin. It was the way in which the gods avenged the abuse and misuse…

…we would term the territory, may be likened to the magnetic field of the human body. The ancients were well aware of this, Plato, Futak, and several others have written about it, and they have also noted that the physical body of man exists within a…

…there are laws governing life when we break these laws we bring upon ourselves inevitable retribution. This was the concept of Plato and the New Atlantis. We cannot misuse without suffering. Now the ignorance of very primitive people caused their abuses and…

…has been sacrificed. Now when we get to a state of this kind something is going to happen. because of this mysterious factor that Plato calls the gods. If we do not wish to assume that they are gods, that is our privilege. But we must at least accept…

…was that of the Neoplatonists of Alexandria. From Neoplatonism, which in turn was a descent from the Platonic philosophy of Plato, from this system has emerged a mysticism that has been distributed throughout the entire world. Alexandria, which was the seat…

…sort of tied in with the Ten Commandments. It is part of the Sermon on the Mount. It is found in the dialogues of Plato and in the mystic writings of Buddha. Laozi, the great Chinese sage, was a mystic. And all mystics are involved in the love…

…as they were called, had great credit and recognition, were respected and admired for their wisdom. All of this was trivia. When Plato thought the matter over, he realized here clearly that the force of wisdom was not to glorify the wise, but to share…

…to him 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…

…to dominate his mental emotional and physical attributes and in that way give him back to the leadership of the best of himself Plato said that a country is best ruled when the best persons rule. The human being is best governed when the best part of…

…go back to the legendary history of the islands of Atlantis, We are reminded that according to the account preserved by Plato, this continent was destroyed because of its corruption. It became a place of iniquities, disloyalties, evils, and excesses, and was…

…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 appeared,…

…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 dedicated to the…

…that there was no doubt that navigation from Greece did reach the actual continent of America at a comparatively early date. Plato, of course, in his discussion of the emergence of Atlantis, points out, as he says, that after that continent was destroyed,…

…of the European powers, but by the fact that he was trying to demonstrate and prove the lost continent theory of Plato. It's now rather well guessed and probably true that Christopher Columbus, of whom no likeness is known to have survived, was…

…navigator by the name of Nipselantes, that he traveled on ships following Greek traditions, according to the records of Plutarch and Plato, that he found a Western world, there can be no doubt, but of course his landfall never reached the actual continent…

…have gradually weakened our own integrity. And if there is an evil world, it's right here, not where we go. We cannot go, as Plato pointed out, for anything much worse than we have here. And the idea that the solution lies in escaping from here is no…

…our own economic conditions this is not good flight magic flight magic is also the development of the love principle actually as Plato pointed out the end of all wisdom is to understand faith It is to understand the real deep relationship between the…

…dangerous so let's see what would happen if we try to find out a little more about ourselves. I think perhaps Plato, quoted by Philo-Judeus, made an interesting statement, namely, that that which goes into the mouth of the individual is material sustenance.…

…bridge was probably the lost continent of Atlantis now the Atlanteans seemingly had certain concepts that were important but as Plato points out they rose against the truth they destroyed themselves by the corruption of knowledge they created a scientific…

…Sais. There was the story of the land that destroyed itself by losing its own virtues, by corrupting its own ways. But also Plato told us that there was a great navigation, a great mercantile between Atlantis and the other parts of the then known world.…

…silence. where all the powers of knowledge, all the questings and searchings of existence, must lead in the end to complete peace. Plato had the same concept exactly, except that to him this silence we call faith. And faith is silence, because it is the…

…keeping of comparatively simple people. This is another amazing thing that we find. It is quite possible to imagine a man like Plato attaining to a great wisdom. But it is difficult to reconcile great wisdom with a Tibetan black herder who has never had…

…that fell fell into body, fell into a kind of sleep. And the Greeks have the same concept of souls falling into generation. Plato tells the same story. The Hindus have it. The Chinese have it. The Buddhists have it. All these accounts then lead to the…

…form blocked the living transmutation of knowledge. It blocks the individual from having this knowledge forever contemporarily. If we had Plato today descending through a hundred generations of teaching, teaching only art, we might not know quite so much about…

…we had Plato today descending through a hundred generations of teaching, teaching only art, we might not know quite so much about what Plato said. That would probably get a little out of order in the course of time. But we would have a more living power…

…said. That would probably get a little out of order in the course of time. But we would have a more living power of Plato moving into our lives to others living in our time. We would have the opportunity to add to the original 2,500 years of…

…moment of it and pass on immediately to matters of greater concern. It is the same of individuals. We are quite certain that Plato was weaned at one time, but no one cares. No one is at all concerned with the fact that Plato probably passed through…

…quite certain that Plato was weaned at one time, but no one cares. No one is at all concerned with the fact that Plato probably passed through the childhood diseases and may have been a slight problem to his relatives in his infancy. These things mean…

…done merely by molding its external development. Thus in the case of a planet, It is also conceivable, and was so held by Plato and some other Greeks, that the life principle, the God, whose body was to become the planet, operated from a series of…

…into the medieval Jewish Kabbalah where we find the various rings or circles from which life falls or descends into generation. Plato declared in one occasion that souls coming into generation fell through the circles of creation from their home in the…

…of a perfect cross. This is true of man, it is true apparently of the universe, and we are reminded of the words of Plato, at the beginning of creation the logos impresses itself upon the universe in the form of a cross in other words even under the…

…their whole thinking on it by any means. It would not be easy to quickly exhaust the thinking of Hesiod or the thinking of Plato on such problems as this. The Greeks in many regions had their legends and their myths. One of the most common of these,…

…sure of it. We are more inclined to suspect that the same meanings that were later developed into great philosophical beauty by Plato are to be found in their simplest statements in these myths. Actually then, the ancient people told us that what we call…

…stasis of the body. That the fall of man symbolically is the descent of the man into the body. To be captured, as Plato says, like the oyster within its shell. Therefore that what we call evolution is divisible into two great parts that which is called…

…we didn't 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…

…perish doing it, it's all worthwhile. This is a little kind of sad to think about, but it is definitely there. At one time, Plato also wanted... reform the Athenian state he had the background as family that he could be an archon or an elder of Athens…

…we have a man who devoutly and honestly became a Christian. Then turned from this faith and returned to the doctrines of Plato and Neoplatonism. Yet he had received his Christian education at a very early and tender period of his life. And during those…

…in to the ceremony, and there he is a witness. He is a beholder. What he was is perhaps borrowed from a line of Plato, because Plato at Aeneas was one to ask his profession, and he replied, I am a spectator. This means, of course, that he accepted…

…the ceremony, and there he is a witness. He is a beholder. What he was is perhaps borrowed from a line of Plato, because Plato at Aeneas was one to ask his profession, and he replied, I am a spectator. This means, of course, that he accepted the…

…to cause the one who passes through them to come to the greatest devotion and to the most utter and complete humility Plato is said to have referred to the rites of Elisa in such terms of approbation that the importance of these ceremonies cannot…

…the individual can have this experience occur within himself, he must have attained to a certain level of merit. Plato and Pythagoras required certain prerequisites to admission into their sacred schools. Perhaps these prerequisites were to a degree symbolical,…

…before the 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…

…early fragments. There is a popular story that Homer was blind. This apparently was doubted, however, as early as the time of Plato, for already an effort had been made to understand the inner meaning of this account. And the philosophers of the Platonic…

…earliest to attempt a revelation of these mysteries through a highly allegorical and symbolical point. Olympiodorus, in his Stolia on Plato, already points out that the fables of Homer should be considered as having a secret and mystical meaning. Here again…

…Amplicus on the Mysteries, and a considerable amount from the legitimate disciples of the Platonic school and the original group, including Plato and his nephew, Spusippus. All these together give us some general picture. I do not think it practical in the…

…their heroism contribute to the preservation, redemption, and illumination of others. This was the highest order of the heroes. and Plato and his commentators describing this allots such persons as Hercules to the higher order of heroes also Pythagoras and…

…profoundly mystical of all the great pagan thinkers. He has greater depth than Marcus Aurelius, a more obvious mysticism than Plato, and a greater strange internal humility than nearly any the other neoplatonists born in egypt he flourished principally in…

…some painful but all rich like the involved tapestry of some ancient loom so we find beauty also in these things and as Plato pointed out if you find the beauty of infancy in a bodily proportion which we reject in maturity and we find the beauty…

…a little aside into other works of Plotinus to decide why something cannot be beautiful or is not beautiful Plotinus following Plato and the other Greeks declares that man like Narcissus gazing downward from a state of spiritual security. Behold form, body,…

…our mood and become affected by the subtle symmetry of things he says because in each human being there is a soul and following Plato and Pythagoras he declares the soul although he only mentions it in this essay he goes much more in detail in many of…

…much of it centered in the great rise of Neoplatonism. Neoplatonism, let us remember, was separated from the historical school of Plato by over 400 years. It also was deeply concerned with the Pythagorean problem, of which it was separated by better than…

…was an interpretation, based certainly upon Platonic principles, but adapted to the needs of a different type of world from the one that Plato ever knew. A world which had a great deal of sadness in it. A world that fondled with the weight of its own…

…publicly attacked or defamed by the church, but were regarded as legitimate predecessors of the church philosophy, were Plato, Hermes, and the small original group of neopagans. These individuals were given particular consideration perhaps because St. Augustine…

…by Pythagoras when he was in Egypt. and that this knowledge which was upon these pillars was known to both Pythagoras and Plato and that it was through them that it descended into the Greek side of Neoplatonism and it was through the Egyptian branch…

…that they might, or the mind itself, might then abide in perfect childlike faith in the realities of eternity. Like Socrates and Plato, therefore, the mind prepared the individual for the perfect space, hope, and love, because it proved to him the kind of…

…the psychology of that time. Neoplatonism, or the New Platonism, claims its original inspiration and descent from the writings of Plato and his legitimate successors and disciples. Let us then pause for a moment and consider the relationship of philosophy to…

…liberty 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…

…mysticism. It is true that the Orthodox were mystics, but by the time Orthodox doctrine had passed through Pythagoras and Plato, very largely its mystical contents have been redirected into fields of philosophy. The Greeks considered the human being and his…

…psychological doctrine. We see the gradual rise of ideas concerning the essential nature of the universe itself. During his long career, Plato passed through three distinct periods. The first of these might be termed his political career. And this led to the…

…teacher of men than a leader of men. This school continued for a number of years through 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…

…these archetypal dominations. Thus archetypal deities cannot be dissimilar to the people whom they support and from whom they receive worship. Plato perhaps gives us the same idea when he causes the world to be divided among the mundane gods, each having a…

…Their deeper and more mystical schools. nearly always recognized symbolical meaning rather than literal meaning. To Hermes, as to Plato, hell or perdition or punishment represented the condition of a soul in bondage. It represented the individual who had…

…Greek scholars visited Egypt. We know that Pythagoras received a large part of his education from the Egyptians. We know that Plato visited Egypt, receiving the mysteries at Sais. We are perfectly well aware that Solon, in the sixth century, went to Egypt.…

…Yet in Greek philosophy, we do not find the elements of the Egyptian religion, which flourished at the time of Pythagoras or Plato, We do not find Pythagoras returning with a hierarchy of Egyptian deities to impose upon the Greek mind. We do not find…

…the time of the rise of the Hermetic literature was more than a coincidence? Is it at all conceivable that Pythagoras and Plato and Sola and others who made the same at that time difficult journey actually received a teaching different from that of…

…introductions which 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…

…this mystery, Gnosticism assumed or expounded what is called emanationism. This emanationism is of platonic origin but its relation to Plato gradually vanished as a factor in thinking. This emanationism is to the effect that as this resplendent and magnificent…

…is the inertia, which is at the extreme circumference of action. It is not a central inertia, but a circumference inertia. in which, as Plato points out, if you stand close to the light of the candle you can read the book, but if you are 20 feet from…

…be released. Thus all growth was a release of the divine light from within things. This concept was also derived from Plato. But the Gnostics developed it into their very complicated enology in which they conceived of man gradually by various disciplines…

…part of philosophy. Neoplatonism was Platonic philosophy plus the experience of man for 500 years or 600 years after the death of Plato. As we have noted in the previous discussion, the world of the first and second centuries A.D. was a very confused…

…and all things necessary, represented largely the Neoclatonic position. Neoplatonism arose then as an effort to link the philosophy of Plato with the need for a spiritual, emotional experience of truth. This experience of truth could not be merely the…

…persons, and that through long periods of veneration and infallibility, a kind of deification was given to them by popular esteem. Plato declared that there were at least five persons by the name of Hermes in the Greek system. Therefore that somewhere along…

…two so-called pagan teachers with almost universal respect a little later they added a third the first two that they accepted were Plato and Hermes and the third who became popular a little later but retained his popularity beyond either of the others was…

…was essentially Platonic. But that these church fathers in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd centuries should not have resented either Plato or Hermes is itself an interesting point. means that they recognized in these systems certain truths or certain realities which…

…it has been called a pantheistic monotheism. not a polytheistic, but a pantheistic. In other words, the one deity of Hermes and of Plato was a deity within creation, not a deity outside of or brooding over creation. The attitude of Hermes is the same as…

…and have our being. Thus the deity of Hermes was an all-enclosing spiritual principle. And this essentially is also the logos of Plato. Thus the belief in one God seems to have endeared these two schools to the early rising Christianity, and to have…

…wrote poetry, 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…

…was no longer 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…

…the Arabian 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…

…European was constantly 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…

…immediately transformed into mystical movements. The restoration of Platonism in Alexandria was Neoplatonism. a mystical interpretation of Plato. Everywhere mysticism, a contemplative solution to the emergency. Mysticism was also a defense mechanism, because it was…

…could not attack the chronicle 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…

…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…

…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 consisting of these periods of fertility and sterility We have the factor that is also…

…or hell is not particularly acceptable anymore it doesn't seem to solve a problem why should we go to hell when we ran it here Plato said men does not go to hell where they die they come to hell when they're born this is purgatory This is the place…

…path. We have ignored the words and thoughts of the great world teachers. We quote them, but we do not live them. We quote Plato when he tells us that any form of government is good if the governor is good, and no form of government is good if…

…great 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…

…no way of breaking these laws. There's no way of evading the responsibility. And remember in the Platonic Dialogues that we have Plato in his older years, after he had more or less retired from public life, teaching a few of his better disciples,…

…his life. The Socratic school was one. The Aristotelian school was another. Another in the Platonic Academy. These were all schools. Plato had intended to become a political figure in the life of Greece But after a little experiment, he realized that the…

…of the most famous schools, of course, was the school of Socrates. In this school, Socrates was, in a sense, the mentor of Plato. He had a number of very close disciples and a very wise and remarkable person. He had his own peculiarities, however, and…

…to the idea that a good teacher could do more for a child than a bad parent. This is what cost him his life Plato said he would gladly pay the fine that was exacted for this break with the Athenians policy. But Socrates refused to accept the payment…

…gain stature or to advance socially, the individual denied the real reason for his own existence. So, on one occasion... someone said to Plato, why is gold such a pale metal? And Plato replied, it is because it is frightened to death of the people who…

…denied the real reason for his own existence. So, on one occasion... someone said to Plato, why is gold such a pale metal? And Plato replied, it is because it is frightened to death of the people who are going to own it. And this was more or less…

…in those days the world produced some of its most important and powerful minds. Pythagoras who gave us essentially ancient science. Plato, the philosopher of his age and of his time. Orpheus, the great inspirer of religion among the Greeks. These persons…

…helmed. now Bacon points out that he doubts very much of Socrates believed that in its outer form he is quite sure that Plato could not have he was quite sure that the archons of Athens did not therefore why did they participate in this believing and…

…as purgatory or perdition is really the inevitable facing of self the inevitable continuance of an unfinished business until we finish it Plato pointed out that there could never be a perdition worse than here that right here in this world is hell and…

…the actual teachings of Christ and not theology. Philosophical principles based upon the great scholars of the past like Solon and Plato. Scientific discoveries in which we find As Lord Bacon pointed out, that we are not only searching for the world's…

…must imitate the way of the soul. This is the mystical imitation. How do we objectively imitate the power of the soul? Plato says that the peculiar keynote of the soul is beauty, and that as man exteriorly is sensible to the material things of…

…through Plotinus and 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…

…indestructible part of ourselves that 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 full 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 full philosophy into a way of life, a very simple way, that the end of philosophy is that the individual…

…they communicated knowledge. The school of Pythagoras at Crotona was one of the most famous of the ancient world. The school of Plato at Athens was another. And in the far distances of Asia, we find the old gurus with their disciples studying the…

…of the mystics that comes along, mystics like Bami, or any of the ancient mystics, mystics of Egypt, Greece, great philosophers, Plato, Pythagoras, Socrates, all these had gone a little way and had become acolytes, so to say, in this sacred assembly. And…

…getting, but 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…

…led away into various byways in which our moral conduct is not what it should be It was for this reason that Plato took the ground. The punishment and the after-death purgatory recognized in some religions, that this is actually a compensation here in…

…his noblest efforts in that direction, he never will. If we can begin to get this philosophical concept so magnificently expounded by Plato and Socrates, and also so clearly enunciated by Buddha, we are in a much better condition to face the simple fact…

…might 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…

…Aristotle began to take over the management of the philosophical universe which had previously rested largely in the keeping of Plato. Muslim declared that the universal procedure consisted of two factors. One, the intention of deity, and the second, the…

…But for 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…

…interesting and 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…

…of further 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…

…concept. Namely, they called motion necessity. This is a rather interesting and startling point of view. You remember that Plato describes how the universe moves upon the spindle of necessity. Now the word necessity simply implies that certain things…

…perhaps the code was kept more completely, more intensely, than it is to be found in other nations. If we did have, as Plato assures us there was, a great legislative or judiciary system in Atlantis, a rule by good laws, it is very possible that these…

…an instinctive hypersensitivity, if you wish to call it. Their religions and their rites have always been associated with magic. Plato tells us And other ancient records affirm the same. That the secrets of transcendental magic were first disseminated from…

…question of doubt that sometime in the past that a structural system, a cultural system such as that referred to by Plato most certainly could have existed. probably did exist, and that from it has descended the scattered remnants of isolated cultures that…

…wonderful heavenly city, perpetuated and remembered in most myths. But it was not necessarily the divine city, because ancient people, certainly Plato, was well aware that the Olympian gods were not the creators of the universe. He tells us so. He shows why…

…people from some unknown homeland of still earlier vintage. Here again, then, if we posit our Atlantean as we find him in Plato, assuming him to have existed some 12,000 years before the beginning of the Christian era, and in this period coming to the…

…culture, what is behind him? We must assume that behind him was a long history. And this is also implied, but not analyzed, by Plato. These people had to rise. They had to come to authority and power. Again, they had to be taught by gods and heroes of…

…refinement of certain organs, certain structures, which for thousands of years have inhibited the expression of this internal totality. Plato intimates as much, so does Hesiod in his Theogony. These possible explanations might also explain how and why the…

…explain how and why the Atlantean mystery was possible in Atlantis. How, at a remote time, a culture which, according to Plato, once lived at peace and according to law, suddenly became lawless. As a result of its lawlessness, certain things happened. Two,…

…be divine. But it could well have been this same mysterious city of Atlantis with its walls of oracalphrum as described by Plato. From this mysterious land came the memory of great things. and the knowledge of arts and crafts which were slowly perpetuated.…

…of which their knowledge was transmitted. This is quite conceivable, also in the fact that there is a well-established report that Plato was initiated in the Great Pyramid. Yet at the term of Plato, there was no visible entrance. Therefore, such entrance…

…the fact that there is a well-established report that Plato was initiated in the Great Pyramid. Yet at the term of Plato, there was no visible entrance. Therefore, such entrance had to have been through some subterranean connection between the pyramid and…

…vanish before him, because he had broken faith with the principles and powers by which he had the right to know this world. So Plato could well have drawn upon this concept also, and this could have its part in the story of the golden age. But the…

…phase of our subject, and that was the basic account as preserved by Solon and transmitted by him through his descendants to Plato. Here we have a fragment, an isolated account of the submergence of a vast island continent, a submergence which has, of…

…inevitable. regardless of the nature of the destroying or destructive forces. We also have, however, in the story as given by Plato, only a fragment of something. This story, in order to be meaningful and intelligent, must be supplemented by such material…

…or emergencies from the sea or areas of land, islands, peaks, and so forth. Naturally, vast disturbances require vast periods of time. Plato makes no point of this, nor does he go any further than to tell us of a condition which existed some 10…

…all of the story. We are further strengthened in this conviction by another logical and reasonable fact. The Atlantis described by Plato was a highly civilized, highly cultivated empire. An empire which had brought many arts and sciences to a peak of…

…a prodigious degree of unfoldment. This tells us beyond any question of doubt that we do not have all of the story in Plato. We are dealing with an incident. perhaps the final submergence of the last part of a great distribution of land and water area…

…and have found it convenient to accept the general term Atlantean, to suggest that culture the light of the celebrated account left by Plato. So let us think for a moment about Plato's record, as we are to deal first, in our first evening, with the…

…of the Atlantic Fable. We have every reason to believe that the discussion of the Atlantic island contained in the writings of Plato arose from the maturity of his years, and has been preserved for us in the collected works of one of the greatest…

…been fictionalizing, or have been himself easily deceived by some legend or lore. The actual story of Atlantis, as recorded by Plato, came to him from one of his disciples, a young man descendant from the old Athenian lawgiver Solon. Solon, who flourished…

…it, in record only, passing it on to his descendants. And one of these descendants finally brought it to the attention of Plato. The record has also some dating. Solon, as we say, flourished about 600 BC. And according to the ancient story, The Atlantic…

…two hundred years, with little memory by descent of the original area, and that memory already highly dramatized and romanticized Plato and the Egyptians both failed to tell us what happened to the migrant armies of the Atlantean expeditionary forces.…