…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 to die in Athens. Socrates was not executed for a…

…he places into the mouth of Socrates the concepts that motivated this great Athenian as he drank the hemlock to die in Athens. Socrates was not executed for a crime. He was executed because he refused to pay a small fine by admitting that he was guilty…

…here very shortly now. But those who convicted me must suffer with material existence for a number of years to come. In other words, Socrates felt that he was out of a bad bargain. At that time also, he said, there is only two possible answers to life…

…he said, there is only two possible answers to life after death. He said, either I go to sleep forever and there is no more Socrates, not even a dream. not a nightmare, not a shadow. I am no more. Or else, I do not go to sleep forever. And when…

…improprieties. And all this, and he suddenly lies down and departs. What happens to all that is inside of him? What happens to Socrates when the body goes? Is he likely to choose to drift off somewhere among the ghosts or even among the spirits? Why is…

…the primary parts of man, consciousness, intelligence, and force in equality. And these together constitute wisdom. For his wisdom is, as Socrates said, the recognition of the one, the beautiful, and the good. Then it represents a balance in which no part…

…Principle. And the Greek, of course, also had it in his simple statement, Death Before the Sonnet. It was a simple matter. Socrates lived his code. He died without tension, even though he was actually executed. He had no sense of pressure. He lived…

…who have accepted it as a way of life? Well, I think we have a good example of this type of insight in Socrates. Socrates was certainly not a Pacific dreamer. He did not sit around dealing out abstractions to a few chosen patricians. First of all,…

…have accepted it as a way of life? Well, I think we have a good example of this type of insight in Socrates. Socrates was certainly not a Pacific dreamer. He did not sit around dealing out abstractions to a few chosen patricians. First of all, Socrates…

…was certainly not a Pacific dreamer. He did not sit around dealing out abstractions to a few chosen patricians. First of all, Socrates had the reputation of annoying more people than anyone that ever lived in Athens. This was healthy at least. He was out…

…ever lived in Athens. This was healthy at least. He was out making himself felt as a force in the life of his people. Socrates also had a wonderful reputation for being a brave defender of his city. When the time came and the Greeks had to go out…

…for being a brave defender of his city. When the time came and the Greeks had to go out to war to protect their commonwealth, Socrates was in the front row of the army. When the enemy saw him there, they divided and went on each side of him. No one…

…we 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…

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

…have come to grow with us. And that also they were a problem in antiquity. It is said that somebody held up a carrot to Socrates. And Socrates took the carrot. He says, what is it? The man says, this is a carrot. Socrates goes on. And what is a…

…to grow with us. And that also they were a problem in antiquity. It is said that somebody held up a carrot to Socrates. And Socrates took the carrot. He says, what is it? The man says, this is a carrot. Socrates goes on. And what is a carrot? Well,…

…that somebody held up a carrot to Socrates. And Socrates took the carrot. He says, what is it? The man says, this is a carrot. Socrates goes on. And what is a carrot? Well, a carrot is a vegetable. Can you show me a true vegetable? Yes, I have, the…

…on. And what is a carrot? Well, a carrot is a vegetable. Can you show me a true vegetable? Yes, I have, the carrot. Socrates says, now I know everything and nothing. Now, this is the type of way we use these terms, probably a little more effectively,…

…an evil being at all. It simply represented a creature from another dimension who might have some contact with earthy affairs. Socrates had a daemon, according to his own records, and this was a god-like creature who warned him of impending evil and…

…through the elements of another without interference, then we have no way of knowing whether other forms are present or not. And Socrates certainly held it to be a reasonable hypothesis that just as surely as men live in their own dimensions, fulfilling in…

…something of the world that is normally concealed from us. We know that as prosaic and common thought a man as Socrates distinctly described his daemon, a spirit which accompanied him and did not depart until shortly before the death of Socrates. Socrates…

…as Socrates distinctly described his daemon, a spirit which accompanied him and did not depart until shortly before the death of Socrates. Socrates believed that this daemon really existed. and from every part of the dialogue it would appear that he saw him…

…Socrates distinctly described his daemon, a spirit which accompanied him and did not depart until shortly before the death of Socrates. Socrates believed that this daemon really existed. and from every part of the dialogue it would appear that he saw him…

…every part of the dialogue it would appear that he saw him conversed with him and knew him now we can say that Socrates was mistaken that he was deluded and perhaps because of the curious nature that he possessed might well have been neurotic or…

…to find historical foundation for them. Well, they could be an order of life beyond anything we know. Those beings of Socrates that lived along the shores of the air. And finally upon their mysterious eternal thrones in endless meditation are the Buddhas.…

…or as the queen of the night. Then the human soul would be her daughter. Apart from this universal soul. Socrates, the contemplative life, the attainment of the various cathartic disciplines, the relaxation of man's pressures, the overcoming of selfishness…

…religions because of creedal problems. But it was decided that it 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…

…representing the secret power ruling materialism, will conspire always to bring about the death of the hero as materialism gave Socrates the cup of hemlock, Christ the cross, and Muhammad the poison of kebab. In every case, the great materialism closing…

…can be accomplished. Realizing that all of the arts and sciences flowed from this source We perhaps can think of the words of Socrates to the effect that a man may outgrow his teacher but he can never outgrow his natural respect and regard for one who…

…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 the mysteries. Or…

…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 the mysteries. Or secret assemblies…

…admitted to the dwelling place of the deity the initiated are certain to attain to the company of the gods this is from Socrates and Now this is basically the premise upon which a very large part of his investment researches are based. First of all…

…or to some 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…

…basis, that the first thing that each of these groups did was to restore or recreate or perpetuate what is referred to by Socrates in this quotation which I read, mysteries now the state mysteries lie not at the decadence of people but at their roots…

…of letters that conceals the truth. And the individual who is content to accept the name will never possess the fact. Socrates gives us this same priceless bit of information in another way in which he discourses with his disciples concerning the difference…

…it is the vegetable what kind of a vegetable is this and the disciple says master this is a carrot and by that time Socrates smiling he says yes and now my ignorance is complete yet how many of us have been accustomed to name substitution for idea…

…and most important good deities of the Babylonians. Each one of these terms has thus gotten into trouble. The demon of Socrates became the demon of medieval theology, quite a different meaning in times. But the attendant guides and guardians of one became…

…Those things which we take with us must be the richness of our inner life, and as Buddha says, our experience, and as Socrates said, that which we have learned. These are the things which we take with us. Now when we enter into meditation or…

…means that we must find on the inside what we need, and we can only find there what we have put there. And as Socrates pointed out, life is a kind of preparation for something beyond life. So also experience all of the constructive values which we have…

…more progress, more development on a physical level than had previously been conceivable. It also taught us the importance that Socrates also emphasized so definitely. He was asked once where the best place to study was, and he answered immediately, the…

…performing incredible and mysterious tasks. And the ghost world described by Homer and by other Greek poets, Hesiod, and in the plays of Socrates and people of this time, this ghost world is very close to the idea of a dream world, for it is inhabited…

…help them if the exercises do not. Actually, man's problem of exercise is not also at all well handled. Socrates pointed out once that exercise was meaningless unless the individual who was exercising was accomplishing something. Socrates absolutely refused…

…well handled. Socrates pointed out once that exercise was meaningless unless the individual who was exercising was accomplishing something. Socrates absolutely refused to take a walk unless he was going somewhere. But he strongly recommended that everybody be…

…their less fortunate revelations also proved to be true, and warnings which they gave were seldom ignored without disaster. Even Socrates seems to have admired the oracles, and to have acknowledged that they represented perhaps one of the deepest sources of…

…his own fulfillment. He must do the things he believes. He must find the rewards he expects. And a heaven suitable to Socrates would be very, very unsuitable to the moneylender. And vice versa. Those who have sought great and wonderful truths would not be…

…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 Europa. Nor do…

…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 primordial, eternal, and…

…and restored but over the power of law therefore came the power of love and beauty in the power of Dionysus and therefore Socrates declares the great powers of the universe to be the one the beautiful and the good and the beautiful is in each case…

…mysteries and the great rituals of the Greek philosophies contemplating in such a manner our pompadours we can see why minds like Socrates and Plato would have regarded them as indispensable and also why each in his turn might have invented others or give…

…one shall excel us. The purpose of the entire school is that the individual shall always excel the teacher, a point which Socrates so clearly reveals to us. So we have a group of disciples ascending. We have the great structure of the school unfolding.…

…to escape from the vicious swings of this pendulum is led toward moderation of conduct, which was the great Socratic virtue. Socrates says, in all things, not too much. And the golden mean, the concept that moderation releases the mind and the heart…

…should attempt to attain rhythm. The ancient Greeks were much given to a very literal interpretation of symbolism, and our old friend Socrates, who was not perhaps our idea of the figure of the Apollo, was addicted to the Persephone muse and always danced…

…in the early morning. It might not have been an aesthetic sight for others, but it was of great aesthetic satisfaction to Socrates, which, after all, was the important point. And so, seeking to move with life, to dance the dance of life, we must…

…life wave just as much as we are. that this light wave is invisible to us perhaps equivalent to the description given by Socrates when he said that with his inner perception or vision he perceived that there were races living along the shores of the air…

…theological concept of eternal punishment or eternal reward This being left out of the pattern we come to the point made by Socrates in connection with wisdom. When he finally took the hemlock for refusing to pay a small fine which his own disciples…

…will know the wise and the good, and I will come to the answer of all the questions that I have ever asked. And Socrates then took the poison and died peacefully, convinced of the fact that he was going forth to the answering of questions and not…

…in a 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…

…a quandary we're going somewhere we're all going there but where how and what are we going to go into oblivion a question of Socrates asked are we going to some mysterious realm like the Elysian fields of the Greeks? Or are we going to another world of…

…growing creatures in an evolving structure we are living out day by day the plan of nature And we are also facing, as Socrates also pointed out, we are facing the payment of sin every day. Now sin does not mean evil. The word itself means shortcoming.…

…other hand, we are aware only of what is wrong and neglect all else, we are much in the condition that was described by Socrates in his allegory or parable of the glass of water. Socrates had a glass half filled with water and he explained to his…

…all else, we are much in the condition that was described by Socrates in his allegory or parable of the glass of water. Socrates had a glass half filled with water and he explained to his disciples that an optimist looking at the half glass of water…

…we have frustrated the natural right of the individual to be happy. In order to be happy, it is necessary to be disciplined. Socrates pointed out very clearly that the great rule of life is in nothing too much, in all things only enough. To possess too…

…is not that we do not have what we need, but that we do not have all that we want. And it, I believe, was Socrates who observed on one occasion that there are two ways of becoming wealthy. One is by having more, and the other is by needing less.…

…of penetration that if we are thoughtful, we can change an attitude without necessarily changing the facts involved at all. I think Socrates was probably one of the great exponents of this concept when he showed his disciples a glass half full of water.…

…capable of growing, building, knowing more, solving more. But in order to solve anything, the mind must gradually come into what Socrates calls a state of moderation The moment the mind is used merely for the gratification of ambition, the individual is…

…not satisfied to grow. They've got to rush the growth. They've got to get themselves constantly into dangerous situations by overdoing Something. Socrates says, in all things, not too much. And this is true of religion as it is true of any other activity.…

…who thought a great deal of himself and did very little that was good in life so one someone once said what about Alcibiades and Socrates said he is a young man with a lead dagger in a diamond sheath he has a wonderful body and nothing in it now…

…We know how the great music came to be. The great statues were carved. Actually, one of the greatest of all sculptors was Socrates. Socrates made the statue of the three graces that stood in the Acropolis in Athens. And someone said to him, how did you…

…know how the great music came to be. The great statues were carved. Actually, one of the greatest of all sculptors was Socrates. Socrates made the statue of the three graces that stood in the Acropolis in Athens. And someone said to him, how did you do…

…of the environment in which he lives. So with this type of thing, we also have other problems. We can go to Socrates, for instance, for a little consolation. When the time came for... outcomes of Athens to sentence Socrates to death his friends disciples…

…problems. We can go to Socrates, for instance, for a little consolation. When the time came for... outcomes of Athens to sentence Socrates to death his friends disciples and even Xanthippe wept for him but Socrates said don't do it don't weep for me weep…

…When the time came for... outcomes of Athens to sentence Socrates to death his friends disciples and even Xanthippe wept for him but Socrates said don't do it don't weep for me weep for the men who condemned me because I'm leaving but they're going to…

…make the effort and the consequences continue to help all through the years ahead. So assuming that we do have a life afterwards. Socrates brings this up very beautifully in the few moments before his own death where he says that he is either going to…

…to live with their own conscience for the rest of their lives. with their own conscience for the rest of their lives. So Socrates sort of summed it up. And to the very end of life, he's learned, studied, taught, and served according to his principles.…

…of summed it up. And to the very end of life, he's learned, studied, taught, and served according to his principles. It's actually Socrates was not sentenced to death. People don't mostly know this, but it's true. He was not. He was sentenced to pay a…

…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 am not going to buy freedom by…

…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 of the individual by proving…

…pain the moment the individual does not adjust gently and quietly to normalcy until he finds the ultimate wisdom of the words of Socrates in all things not too much unless he realizes these and knows it and lives according to it he's in trouble this is…

…a little severe to those who 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…

…line but the parent took the children to the teacher Socrates was such a teacher Diogenes Plato Aristotle they were all teachers Socrates all of these teachers had small groups of people that they tutored the price of tutoring was very small but nothing…

…was recognized as a major department of the instructed. Among the most important, of course, of the illumines was Socrates, who was self-initiated. That is, that he became aware through inward contemplation of the teachings and doctrines normally communicated…

…not going with them. But they are not sure just exactly what's going to happen. Well, one thing seems to be inevitable, as Socrates pointed out. He said only one of two things can happen. One, that you're not going to be anything. There's going to be…

…heaviest burden that they must bear. Now in order to get rid of the burden of it we have to realize the wisdom of Socrates who on all matters said in things not too much the great problem of economic distribution is moderation. If there were no misuses…

…their principles. And some of them went to martyrdom rather than to forbear from the things that they knew to be right. Socrates died for that. Christ was crucified for that. But actually the individual is capable at all times of living a constructive…

…waiting for. This is the only thing that is left necessary to me to prove the eternity of the plan. Whatever we go to, as Socrates said, we go to silence or we go to instruction. Whichever it is, we are content. But we have to earn the right to live…

…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 we respect, because we know that it arose…

…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 we respect, because we know that it arose from great…

…the applause of the masses. He has to do it. He's got to make a decision. Consequently, his decision is the same decision that Socrates had to make. the decision that it is more important to do that which is right than to be popular. The reward lies…

…himself, we have a being with a certain subconscious I think it is necessary always to agree with the basic premise of Socrates, namely that there is something inside of man, something at the source of himself, which is better than his common knowledge of…

…have been willing to sacrifice the body for the soul because they have recognized where the true value in living actually exists. So Socrates would more or less take the ground that what we would call acceptance or to like a thing greatly even perhaps to…

…that is not right we do not fight for a certain attitude we relax away from that which interferes with that attitude it is like Socrates and his statue He told his friends that he got a block of marble and that he cut away that part of the marble…

…our children and their children. Therefore, we are told that there is nothing here but now and no life beyond that. And I think Socrates probably had the best answer to that one. When he was taking the hemlock, took him out of life, he was executed by…

…fact he was corrupting young minds. Today we consider him as one of the most incorruptible minds that ever lived. But anyway, Socrates told his disciples who were gathered sorrowing with him, He built sorry for me. When I leave here, one of two things…

…one of two things will happen. One thing will be that I will cease utterly and completely. And there will be no more Socrates. And there will be no one to remember Socrates. And Socrates will not remember Socrates. All will be over. Or, as an…

…be that I will cease utterly and completely. And there will be no more Socrates. And there will be no one to remember Socrates. And Socrates will not remember Socrates. All will be over. Or, as an alternative, I may discover there is a world beyond this…

…I will cease utterly and completely. And there will be no more Socrates. And there will be no one to remember Socrates. And Socrates will not remember Socrates. All will be over. Or, as an alternative, I may discover there is a world beyond this one…

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

…things were not very much good. antiquity was nice while you were in antiquity but now we've outgrown it we've outgrown Socrates we've outgrown Buddha we've outgrown all of these we have even outgrown our own Christianity these things were for little people…

…the world there are trinities of one kind or another. The one, the beautiful and the good, was the great trinity of Socrates. There is always this three-foldness of things, these three levels of thinking, of feeling, of being, which must be brought into…

…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 have a…

…can succeed in being a comfortable and secure person poverty is insecure great wealth is insecure between these two is moderation and Socrates said in all things not too much we have too much poverty and too much wealth and they're not properly balanced…

…material, and yet only physical earth itself is immediately and inevitably associated with the stasis of body. Water is also material. Socrates, in his vision nearly 400 years before the Christian era, declared that water was composed of tiny units of solid…

…not have accepted these stories had they been pure fabrications. And we remember, of course, in one of the Socratic dialogues, when Socrates, having chosen a pleasant place besides a grove of trees in the country, had declared that it would be a fine…

…precipitation of rain. This humidity carried by water was, however, separate from and superior to the fluid in which it was carried. Socrates described water as consisting of a mass of minute solid dry units, and that the flowing of water was the falling…

…range of sensory perception. The existence of magnetism was known to ancient people. We find quite a discussion of it in Socrates, where he describes pieces of metal attaching themselves to each other to form chains. We know that the lodestone, a natural…

…be no justification for 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…

…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 Eleusinia.…

…was needed. This, 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…

…these mysteries flourish, that some could have attempted to expose them. and probably did, yet these exposes came to nothing. Even Socrates was accused of exposing the mystery. And Aristophanes in his play The Frog was accused also of taking something from…

…could not have been the true substance of these rites. And the Greeks themselves, undoubtedly by the time of Plato and Socrates, had a fair knowledge of any common subject that might have been considered within these mystery rituals. In fact, a large…

…with which Plato and Aristotle both struggled. A question which has disturbed St. Thomas Aquinas just as much as it perturbed Socrates. The question is this. How can that which is of itself perfect, in no way deficient in anything, all-knowing and…

…of space we do not know. Perhaps the very cells and atoms and electrons of our own bodies have their Plato's and their Socrates. We don't know. It is beyond us. We cannot even estimate. That which we cannot estimate because it is smaller, we look down…

…may not actually die physically, but they are certainly opposed by tradition. Pythagoras was a martyr to it. Later, so was Socrates. Confucius regarded himself as a heartbroken failure because he was never able to break the tradition in which his life was…

…because it has found that it can no longer function adequately it can no longer be itself so it must depart as Socrates himself predicted so it goes up through the vagus finally enters the great central hall of the brain where incidentally the judgment…

…was not an evil spirit. It was a guardian. It was a helper. Probably the most famous of all the daemons was the daemon of Socrates. This was the spirit that came to protect him. It felt that he was going to have a rough time anyway. So the gods in…

…a great herd of animals go by at top speed. If he hadn't been warned, he would have been trampled to death. Also, Socrates always liked to have a little communion with his demons. He would sit quietly under a tree somewhere and the spirits would talk…

…and willingness to accept the negative faith that came to him in the end. And it is said in the last dialogues of Socrates that shortly before he took the hemlock, rather shy than disprove what he or discourage what he attempted to do this daemon said…

…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 discovered not only…

…like Moses on the hill of Moab, for it cannot enter into the promised land. So wisdom dies. But the great sage, like Socrates, voluntarily chose death before dishonor. And in complete wisdom, man chooses the death of the mind in order that he may fulfill…

…that was supposed to be on the gates of an ancient temple namely, man, know thyself. This term is also attributed to Socrates. Therefore, essentially, the nature of mind per se is the self-knower. By the self-knower, we mean the mind's ability to examine…

…as we think we are and never will be. It is the mind which at the end of knowledge finally discovers that it knows nothing. Socrates on one occasion was reported to have said that he was the wisest man in Athens because he was the only man in Athens…

…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 the fourth level of…

…soul, the symbol of the sacred Eucharist. But actually, the Kamarupa is not only symbolically the cup of poison that was given to Socrates, but it is the Holy Grail and the symbol of the ever-flowing blood, the Sangre Real, the blood of the king. These…

…people around them. We can look down through history and we can say, could this not have been true in the case of Socrates? mankind? Did he ever for a moment swerve from his holden duty? Did he not finally die rather than compromise his principles when…

…undoubtedly arose the belief in the saint. The saint was only the very good man. Because he was good, he was beyond temptation. Socrates did not hesitate to die for his principles. All over the world, good persons have given their lives to the service of…

…asking for his totem the creature that is to become his spiritual protection throughout life as in that much like the Daemon of Socrates a spirit guide which was believed in by the Egyptians by the Greeks by the Hindus and the Chinese that there is…

…to keep our own material interests alive so out of all of this we can start right on back and decide more or less as Socrates did and also Diogenes that we just got off on the wrong foot We got off somewhere when the caveman began to throw rocks at…

…in the Shakespearean line is surrounded by a sleep. We all go to some rest we know not where. We go to a mysterious future. Socrates refers to it also. He said that when he left here, he would either go to a better life than he had ever known, or…

…get away with it. But that actually, as the Greek success assumes, this world we live in is a threshold of eternity. And Socrates, a few moments before his death, told them that were gathered around, he said this is a situation which i must face either…

…to the classic Greeks. And in the classic case, of course, the most outstanding example of something is the spirit guide of Socrates. The Socrates had a spirit that was born with him, according to his own statements. and this spirit was called a daemon…

…classic Greeks. And in the classic case, of course, the most outstanding example of something is the spirit guide of Socrates. The Socrates had a spirit that was born with him, according to his own statements. and this spirit was called a daemon our demon…

…these pagan deities were devils actually the daemon was not an evil spirit but a friend a guide and a counselor and wherever Socrates was in danger or difficulty his spirit came to him the daemon or guardian appeared And he writes about it, discusses it,…

…guardian appeared And he writes about it, discusses it, and tells of the examples of its presence. When, however, the time came for Socrates to die, when it was ordered that he take the hemlock and die of poisoning, he says that his spirit left him…

…for calisthenics they regarded a proper exercise as something that should be cultivated from the cradle now exercise or normal kind as Socrates pointed out must not be a technical boredom Socrates said he was never able to exercise merely for the sake of…

…should be cultivated from the cradle now exercise or normal kind as Socrates pointed out must not be a technical boredom Socrates said he was never able to exercise merely for the sake of exercising he couldn't imagine anyone becoming interested in jogging…

…so that these imperfections would not develop. And where there were imperfections, they allowed them to be there. It is reported that Socrates was pigeon-chested. He may have been. But at the same time, he faced it and his friends knew it. there was no…

…irritation whenever these two persons came together. And it was inevitable that these subtle reactions should be communicated. Pythagoras and Socrates and many others in the ancient classical world made a great deal of the dance as a medium of communication…

…to his own individuality and to the relation that he had between his own personal life and his veneration for the deities Socrates who was not exactly a graceful man he is reported to have been bow-legged and pigeon-chested actually however danced with his…

…pigeon-chested actually however danced with his disciples and according to a stranger who came to Athens he asked how he would know Socrates And he was told that Socrates was a person of very poor appearance, rather deformed. But later, when the man met…

…his disciples and according to a stranger who came to Athens he asked how he would know Socrates And he was told that Socrates was a person of very poor appearance, rather deformed. But later, when the man met Socrates, he reported that he found him to…

…And he was told that Socrates was a person of very poor appearance, rather deformed. But later, when the man met Socrates, he reported that he found him to be handsome, beautiful, and wonderful. The spirit behind, the life behind was so magnificent…

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

…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 of mind was not given as much to abstract speculation…

…demon therefore simply means a certain kind of God. Perhaps the most famous historical example of this is the demon of Socrates. This was an invisible spirit who counseled the philosophers throughout his life, who formed a source of oracular revelation, and…

…oracular revelation, and who was his consoler, friend, confidant, and guardian through the many long years of his troubled earthly ministry. that Socrates would have chosen an evil spirit to be his guardian is utterly out of key with the nature of the man…

…should we assume that this spirit was regarded as some Mephistopheles to an ancient Grecian poet such is not the intent what Socrates is talking about is the natal demon and this therefore will be the first thing that we will attempt to understand. The…

…constitution of man, searching for this natal demon that might have been lurking in the background of the constitution of Socrates, we realize that there is only one structure in man that precisely fulfills both the physical and metaphysical implications of…

…into a state of conflict with even the aggregate which we call ourselves. This means to a degree that what Socrates knew as his magneto-thema represents the structure of experienced consciousness arising out of man's sensory contact with externals and his…

…Naturally, as with 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…

…rather unprepossessing appearance And in the Greek philosophy, it was accustomed in the time of the great Pericletian age for Socrates to be called Silenus because they had the same rather disproportioned appearance. And he was often called Silenus. And it…

…disproportioned appearance. And he was often called Silenus. And it is quite probable that in the development of the personality of Socrates in the Platonic dialogue, an effort was made to perpetuate the mystery of Silenus. and what he represented in the…

…effort was made to perpetuate the mystery of Silenus. and what he represented in the cosmic picture through the form of Socrates. Serenus was the nurse of Dionysus. His name, into a certain way, means meditation. He means internal life or internal…

…which is a sovereign beauty. But man attempting to serve truth, attempts to do so by conducting himself according to the good. Socrates describes the great triad of the one, the beautiful, and the good. The one by which all things are created. The good…

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

…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 Athens.…

…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 the fact…

…considered under several different types of thinking. If the word good is capitalized, it generally is a synonym for God. And Socrates divided the basic triad of primary nature or primary being into the one, the beautiful, and the good. Good, therefore,…

…situation to understand it, that person was not injured. That person had the insight to know or see or sense the reality. And as Socrates said, the only man who can insult me is a good man. And good men don't insult anyone. So that there was a certain…

…not certain as to its nature. But by wisdom we gain a strange confidence over death as expressed by Jesus and Socrates and expressed perhaps by little people more than we know. The individual who labors quietly, giving his life, spending it in…

…What are we going to ask of this coordinator? What are we going to demand? Are we going to demand that every man be a Socrates? Are we going to insist that every one of our children will be a genius? Are we going to stand by and over-educate young…

…based upon the approval of other foolish people for the foolish things that we do. On one occasion in the forum, Socrates was discoursing when the audience broke into violent applause. He turned quickly to one of his disciples and said, What foolish…

…may never be able to intuit or gain from within himself as clear a concept of knowledge as he can read from Socrates not because he couldn't but because he lacked the integration which made possible the communication of this knowledge. He even lacks the…

…It is not true of the average person because he lacks a trained instrument. Now we may say that when someone like Socrates puts his thoughts into words, and these words are translated into another language, and we finally read them, that there have been…

…and we finally read them, that there have been many opportunities for errors to creep in, that we are far removed from even Socrates as a basic source of knowledge. This is true. But it also remains true that human experience has shown us that even with…

…the average kind of life and with the average degree of internal development cannot equal of his own thinking the wisdom of Socrates. He simply is not able to do it. He lacks the internal development which makes this possible. Therefore it is sometimes…

…provided. And if the personality with its three major parts is not so sustained by a balanced nutrition, it becomes sick. And Socrates points out that the first sickness that the soul exhibits is the deterioration of its morality and ethics. Just as surely…

…racist, freaky, and have always been used, but about which we have no conscious realization. This was the burden of the thinking of Socrates at the time of his last system, when he declared that he foresees people living along the shores of the air as…

…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 in the larger universe. The…

…or the total experience of sameness. Whereas our type of consciousness, our analytical consciousness, is constant awareness of difference. Socrates and many of the Greek philosophers worked very hard on this problem of consciousness, although the term was not…

…before the ultimates of consciousness were of any particular importance to him. This left the situation almost untouched, except that Socrates and most of the Greeks, including Pythagoras, pointed out clearly that the road to consciousness was a road to…

…all times. And our ancient forebears were really almost able to see these things. I remember these in one of the dialogues of Socrates. that he and his disciples gathered in a grove by the side of the road to have scholarly discourse. And Socrates asked…

…dialogues of Socrates. that he and his disciples gathered in a grove by the side of the road to have scholarly discourse. And Socrates asked the disciples to join him in prayer to the Muses and the Nymphs and the Hamadryads in that woods that they would…

…make him realize a higher level of personal integrity? Is the individual after death better than he was while he was alive? Well, Socrates argues that point a little and comes to a sort of general conclusion which has some merit in it. One thing that…

…was almost completely a matter of association. It was a matter of the individual being with others of his own kind, When Socrates gave one of his discourses, he first prayed to the spirits of the place and then told his disciples what he thought…

…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 of Homer…

…but it does not have the same meaning. A daemon is actually a spirit. We remember, of course, the daemon of Socrates, the mysterious being that accompanied him and gave him warnings and saved him on numerous occasions. Socrates referred to this daemon…

…of course, the daemon of Socrates, the mysterious being that accompanied him and gave him warnings and saved him on numerous occasions. Socrates referred to this daemon as his god. And it was only in the common practice of the early church which took…

…formed that dogs seeing him on the street howled and fled with their tails between their legs yet the disciples of Socrates called him beautiful therefore beauty must have some other existence and those who are satisfied only with proportions and dimensions…

…And he examines beauty on the level, we might say, of order. Of that golden mean, which is summarized in the Statement of Socrates, in all things, not too much. And Plotinus comes to the conclusion that somewhere in the mystery of beauty is the factor…

…unknowable. Thus man, reaching toward his creator, builds convictions, patterns, dreams within himself, some mental and some surpassing mind. Socrates, shortly before his death, thinking of the condition of the state into which he was to pass, declared that…

…in his world as he knew it. And so at the end, not with great thought, But with the faith of a small child, Socrates went forth with a great adventure. Completely at peace. And his disciples knew that this peace was also a kind of beauty. For there…

…beauty or release it through his own psychic life, Through the truing of the stone, an allegory incidentally, derived from Socrates, so the human being discovers the beauty in himself by releasing it from the deformities of imperfection. Each individual…

…their motions. In our world, however, we are inclined to prevent motions, and it was not so different in the days of Socrates, because the individual, in order to not prevent or prevent motions, has to have a certain attitude towards the problem of…

…universe, 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…

…a little time to consider the wandering of Odysseus, and other phases of this subject, and Porphyry's Cave of the Nymphs, and Socrates, rather than Apuleius on the God of Socrates. Then we will mention them in connection with other things. But I think…

…Odysseus, and other phases of this subject, and Porphyry's Cave of the Nymphs, and Socrates, rather than Apuleius on the God of Socrates. Then we will mention them in connection with other things. But I think perhaps this will give us a little picture of…

…philosophy than by the importance of the state religion. Part of this was due to such magnificent as those attributed to Socrates, part was due to the natural instinct of philosophy in comparison to the elaborate pageantry of theology. The philosophers were…

…of the realities about which he had reasoned and thought. He intimates something of this in the Socratic dialogue where he causes Socrates to point out that man is drawn inevitably towards the grave or towards the transition to another life in which either…

…as life and energy were based, of course, upon the atomism of Democritus and Recibus and the atomic speculations of Socrates. All these things move together. Neoplatonism carried them across, spread them, and diffused them. And our modern world, in those…

…rather frivolous lot as a whole. They had some other strange and inconsistent practices and were not entirely admirable, as even Socrates pointed out. There were some scandals among the immortals that were better not mentioned even by the Greeks. Some of…

…motives. They were not the simple, homely, underpaid and undernourished philosopher of the Greek schools. They were not another barefoot Socrates. They were princes who became dilettantes of learning. Learning was a jewel in their crown. It was not something…

…which he had concerning the operations of natural law. given opportunity of application, were not able to demonstrate their immediate utility. Socrates was a good and wise man, and he was poisoned by the Athenians as a reward. Aristotle was a great…

…and 6th centuries B.C. This whole period fits together and results in the emergence of a group led almost immediately by Socrates and continuing on with pressure and force throughout the civilized world. We have no proof that these men met, although they…

…may not actually die physically, but they are certainly opposed by tradition. Pythagoras was a martyr to it. Later, so was Socrates. Confucius regarded himself as a heartbroken failure because he was never able to break the tradition in which his life was…

…air in which other lives will grow which seems to be a rather pitiful end to the struggle for existence to which we pass Socrates faced this in his last days when he chose to be executed by the people of Athens rather than to compromise his principles…

…rather than to compromise his principles so with his disciples grieving about him they all of course were very unhappy very miserable but Socrates said don't worry about me nothing is going to go wrong that all my life I want to know the answers I…

…one of two things is going to happen when I leave here the first thing that could happen is that there is the end of Socrates there is nothing more if that is so it's going to be a very peaceful oblivion I'm not going to worry about anything I have…

…betrayed we should be right because Jesus gave us the dream of a universal brotherhood we should remember the wisdom of Socrates the deep understanding of Confucius when he said the strength of the Empire depends upon the strength of the home civilization…

…and teachers changed their own points of view as they went along. One 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…

…own points of view as they went along. One 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.…

…of very close disciples and a very wise and remarkable person. He had his own peculiarities, however, and he was quite an individualist. Socrates would have been able to live out probably his full life if he had not objected to the idea that a good…

…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 of the fine because he said if they want to work this sentence on me I will not break…

…completely in the hands of God. Pythagoras and his disciples always danced and sang together at dawn. And we are told that Socrates, in spite of the fact he was not exactly a beautiful person physically, having a tendency to be a hunchback, and also…

…and Zeus was born Pallas Athena, from the head of Zeus, armed and 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…

…this, He would point out another factor that comes into our thinking, which doesn't necessarily represent general public thinking. If we are, as Socrates said, if we are to live beyond the grave, if some part of us goes on, then we may have to face the…

…be heard of or seen or thought of again? Is he a mortal creature with nothing beyond the grave? With either perspective, I think Socrates is more or less correct. If you do not believe have any life beyond this one. Live this one as well and fully as…

…face it so out of this facing of reality comes a simplification of life the number of the Greek philosophers including Diogenes and Socrates were also the exponents of the simple life that the way to escape from problems is to have no ulterior motive in…

…through excess of attitudes. Therefore it is not wise for the individual to physically over-exercise because he is using too much energy. Socrates was approached on this problem once and he said he would never take a walk unless he was going somewhere. The…

…another point that he carries with considerable emphasis in his sermon at the Orpheus which by the way is the place where Socrates was condemned to death but to Paul there was this further consideration that has to be brought in mind always 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 yet they…

…of this nature in our acceptance of things that happen to us I think it's very nice to remember maybe a little word from Socrates on this particular point and Socrates one day was talking to one of his disciples and he put his hand into the stack of…

…of things that happen to us I think it's very nice to remember maybe a little word from Socrates on this particular point and Socrates one day was talking to one of his disciples and he put his hand into the stack of vegetables in a cart and he…

…in a cart and he pulled out a carrot and he said to his disciple what is this why he says it's a carrot so Socrates said and what is a carrot why a carrot's a vegetable yes and what is a vegetable well it's anything that looks like a carrot…

…what is a carrot why a carrot's a vegetable yes and what is a vegetable well it's anything that looks like a carrot Socrates said that's fine now my ignorance is complete and this is the problem in the outer world we name everything and understand…

…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 of life. and…

…are to the person himself. The individual who has attained insight, who is firm in his convictions, enlightened in his principles, like Socrates, faces death as the least important of all circumstances it is not important to him it is not important to him…

…circumstances it is not important to him it is not important to him because he first of all has experienced beyond it and to Socrates it was more important to maintain the truth of a matter than it was to compromise that truth and walk free by the…

…maintain the truth of a matter than it was to compromise that truth and walk free by the payment of a small sum of money Socrates did not need to have died. But death was so unimportant to him that the fear of it, which controlled most of the men of…

…was so unimportant to him that the fear of it, which controlled most of the men of Athens, did not touch him at all. Socrates could not have been injured by an atomic bomb. He could have been killed, but he could not have been injured. nor could this…

…and returning to each other But whichever form, as Pythagoras says, is the more subtle must permeate that which is less subtle. Socrates uses a rather common concept of this and has since been very popular. Namely that you can fill a glass with sand…

…original condition, namely, that it exists in vacuum. That it is atom, vacuum, emotion. This also means that this soul, as Socrates tells us, quantitatively begins to move. And according to its nature, it moves into proximity with other atoms compounded like…

…dimension, or another factor. And this factor was the total psychic energy of the universe. And out of this factor arose what Socrates called the good. The power by means of which the infinite repetition of atomic experience resulted in the shift from the…

…that we must leave this world make no preparation for the journey So before he passed, I said, maybe the last words of Socrates would be of some consolation to you. Socrates, after he drank the hemlock, turned for his last words with his disciples. And…

…preparation for the journey So before he passed, I said, maybe the last words of Socrates would be of some consolation to you. Socrates, after he drank the hemlock, turned for his last words with his disciples. And he said, don't weep for me. Don't mourn…

…And there's only one of two things that can happen. Either I will go to sleep and never wake again. And there will be no Socrates. and no vestige of him, or no end product of him, he will cease completely and entirely. If that is the case, I have no…

…ashes were cooled and men began to search for the remnants and remains of their own vandalism, the church historian Socrates, not the Greek philosopher, the church historian, says that under the pedestal of Serapis, when they excavated after the destruction…

…desperately to escape but cannot find any way out of bodies. This was the beginning and end, essentially, of the doctrine of Socrates, was that man must discover a need of rescuing his own being from the strange humidity which we call ignorance. Ignorance…

…whatever age it was. Plato had his school. Aristotle had his school in Ascender Track. Pythagoras had his school in Cotona. And Socrates had his school in the nearest forest. where he could sit and discuss with his disciples the great things of life so…

…obedience given to the parent is given not to a person, but to the principle for which that parent may stand. And Socrates probably paid with his life for telling his disciples that a wise son should instruct his father that the mere physical relationship…