…provided the material for the famous dialogue, the Critias of Plato, we find the master of philosophy moving in upon the fable. Plato gives us an account far more explicit than that of Solon, in much greater detail and with much more glamour. Where did…

…us an account far more explicit than that of Solon, in much greater detail and with much more glamour. Where did Plato secure the material for this embellishment? No one knows. This embellishment, however, follows in itself a kind of pattern. It follows…

…assigned to the deity Poseidon, and that from him and from his descendants came the mysterious empire of Poseidonius. Thus, Plato, borrowing again from mythology, declares that Atlas, the man who carried the world on his shoulders, was an ancient Atlantean…

…from mythology, declares that Atlas, the man who carried the world on his shoulders, was an ancient Atlantean king. And he further, Plato further, points out the tremendously vital code of laws given by Poseidon to his people and to his children, the laws…

…those set forth in the basic code of the great Babylonian Chaldean system, the code of Hammurabi. Thus we have Plato implying that a great culture, a powerful religion, important mysteries, or secret religious institutions originated in this great Atlantean…

…that a great culture, a powerful religion, important mysteries, or secret religious institutions originated in this great Atlantean nation. Plato then explains to us something that, can it be demonstrated, would be of the greatest importance. He speaks strongly…

…who were a great mercantile people. Their boats and galleys and crafts went throughout the world merchandising, bartering, exchanging, trading. Plato does not specifically state colonizing. But let us move it there for a moment and consider what might be…

…leaves indelible impressions of his vices, his virtues, and his achievements. This brings us to another important situation. Is Plato romancing? Was it possible for an Atlantean merchant fleet to travel any extraordinary distance? Two questions then present…

…of that nature and make a reasonably safe trip from the Western Hemisphere to Asia. These considerations then do not tell us that Plato would have been romancing unduly. He was aware of the strength of the then existing Greek fleet and He also knew of…

…change. Let us assume then for a moment that in the course of their mercantile activity, trading and bartering for some reason, Plato does not tell us what they were seeking to merchandise. Perhaps like many powerful nations, they had built up a great…

…the way for the future independence of these once colonized and dominated groups. We have no reason, therefore, to assume that Plato was mad or completely impractical, if he tells us something which we have seen repeated a hundred times since, and have…

…our premises very largely from the only record that we have in the Near Eastern area, in the Mediterranean area, and that is Plato. He tells us that they had great laws, good laws. He tells us that they built a great temple to the deity Poseidon…

…would be almost inconceivable that the gods of the islands would have written tablets, inscribing them with their instructions, and this Plato simply tosses in, had not the people had a written language. Nor would he be likely to refer to these achievements…

…to the great Atlantic area. Or it may have reached them and fraternized with them. We have no record that it warred with them. Plato would imply from his account that there was no such thing as war as we know it until it was developed by the…

…others. or brought down upon them the resentments of exploited groups or pillaged cultural systems. However we may wish to view this, Plato then moves into a moral ethical consideration in which he points out that the destruction of Atlantis was due to the…

…destroyed. Plato's account ends at this point. No one knows why. It is possible that Solon's account also so ends, or that Plato concerned with other essays, neglected this one. Or perhaps purposely he intended it to go no further. In any event, we have…

…gods part of a strange order of beings. Now let us remind ourselves of one other thing, that even in the times of Plato and Thales and the other great Greek thinkers, there was a hypothesis strongly held that the gods had originally been mortals. Also,…

…core, and may very well have been the religious code of Atlantis. It is very close to the pronouncements given by Plato concerning the nature of this code for the government of the Atlantic Islands. Also, although Atlantis was an empire kingdom, the…

…government of the Atlantic Islands. Also, although Atlantis was an empire kingdom, the laws were such that they consoled Plato tremendously in the development of his concept of democracy. The liberties, privileges, and rights of the Atlantean peoples indicated…

…a new vision, the dignity of man. This whole problem then would rest upon what would happen if this hub area, as Plato has described, was destroyed in 24 hours, carrying with it to death nearly 60 million human beings. If such a catastrophe occurred,…

…history is largely a falling away from the great spiritual foundations and a drifting into material accomplishments, a drifting perhaps which Plato could cover under his concept of another Atlantis in which man is submerged by the sea of his own thoughts,…

…and principles which we know to be true. Bless all of you. Some time ago who is one of the principal translators of Plato, commenting on the writings of Homer, said that he believed that Homer wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad before the establishment of…

…by means of which the cultures of humanity are so profoundly affected. These observations remain true. the various phenomena which Plato described actually occur. But how shall we understand it? Not having a better explanation, is it conceivable that he could…

…of the seven goes on to relate it to the seven powers of universal generation. And in explaining this he tells us, and Plato later corroborates him, that the soul was a numerical mystery patterned in the geometry of seven. That the soul of man actually…

…or ruled the underworld. The underworld, of course, now, for our thinking, is our eighth sphere, or the earth. is the underworld of Plato to which men go not when they die but come when they are born for this is the purgatorial the underworld right here…

…to disprove them with all that we claim to know? And that step by step, as we move forward, we go back to Plato, back to Pythagoras, and back to these ancient calculations. We have our choices. We can psychologically say that these ancient ones, the…

…into receptivities or ends, called material or substantial. Thus we find also, in these ancient mythological concepts, all life, as Plato points out, falls into generation through the Milky Way, and from this, descending by the ladder of the planets, comes…

…very important time pattern, and the complete precession of the equinoxes, 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…

…Pythagorean concept of poetry, and we gain a trifle more from the studies of Aristotle, who apparently did have access, through Plato, to some of the fragments of the original Pythagorean learning. Out of Porphyry, for example, we find a fragment such as…

…had no real understanding of it or appreciation for it. The same attitude has been present in a number of intellectuals. Even Plato, while he did not disparage the use of aesthetic art, did not encourage them nearly as much as Pythagoras did. But Plato…

…Plato, while he did not disparage the use of aesthetic art, did not encourage them nearly as much as Pythagoras did. But Plato had a different type of mind, and in these different types of minds we have explanations for different types of basic…

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

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

…refrain from some involvement in politics, especially if he is an informed and conscientious person. It cannot be said that Plato was a politician, nor can it be said that the Platonic dialogues are completely non-political. To the philosopher, politics…

…man. And it has been normal to assume that this power is composed of an organization, a government archetypal government such as Plato expressed in his doctrine of the philosophic elect. That this being conceivable to man means that it is, that it exists.…

…in the records of the British Museum, although no proof is available of it. It is interesting, at least. Namely, that Plato was initiated in the Great Pyramid. It was there that he received his own final enlightenment. But this presents another problem.…

…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 Posidonis, 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…

…They were primitive people, but they existed, and the Atlantean merchants went to them, traded with them, and bartered with them. Plato states definitely that Atlantis had a great mercantile, that it traveled to all parts of the world, that it even visited…

…at the present time. And this challenge is more or less documented in terms of Atlantis, and I think this is the way Plato originally used it. You know, the story of Plato's Atlantis ends in the middle of a sentence. It was never completed. Bacon's new…

…impossible for us to go contrary to the will of heaven. Anything that goes contrary comes, in the end, to destruction. Plato, and several others of the earlier writers, also seems to that they have fabulized this particular situation. Atlantis maybe is a…

…is never broken, but there can never be an enduring culture until it keeps the rules. And these are the same rules that Plato tells us about, that Thoron found, namely that we are surrounded by a tremendous field of energy. We are surrounded by the…

…We have to release this inner superiority, and give the best of ourselves immediately the rulership over the rest of ourselves. Plato said that in the philosophic empire the wisest lead and those not so wise are still wise enough to follow honorably.…

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

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

…in matter, rushes forth, and in that way descends into the midst of his generation, and becomes possessed and obsessed by bodies. Plato gives us a very good description of this experience. On the other hand, man is capable, by a positive extension of…

…only interested in regeneration of man, but in the restoration of the philosophic empire as established in the concept of Plato. This restoration of the philosophic empire was to be undertaken by a broad political program. So alchemy penetrated and permeated…

…And the further we go into that diamond and the study of it, the closer we get to the great geometric solid, the Plato of the universe. The diamond is a symbol of a symmetrical geometric solid, designed for the perfect form of nature. The diamond's soul…