…for which to look for. Everything depends upon the way we approach it. 600 years before the beginning of the Christian era, Thales of Miletus was raised to great honor. And naturally, Desiring to be a good citizen of Greece, he went to study in…

…Some held that fire was the eternal element and the root of all things, and that everything came from fire. Others, like Thales, held water to be the sovereignty, and that everything came originally from water. There were some who claimed air to be the…

…suns on luminaries, that this entire area is filled with a mysterious druidic substance. This perhaps is the famous ocean of Thales upon which he believed the earth floated. And according to him, earthquakes were caused by someone rocking the boat. Now this…

…to each other to form chains. We know that the lodestone, a natural magnet, was given a great deal of thought by Thales of Miletus, later by Plato and Aristotle, and the area called Magnesia where this lodestone abounded has contributed at least part of…

…also by Plato. We know that it was held by the schools of Greeks back at least to the time of Solon and Thales. Yet with the rise of the popular acceptance of the doctrine of immortality, there was no diminution of interest in the mystery. Consequently,…

…of Pythagoras and Plato spoke most eulogistically of the spiritual attainments of Egypt. And in government and law, Solon and Thales bear witness to the common practice that men of learning and ability, faced with responsibility or high office, nearly always…

…of really understanding it. But we got a very cute little notion about it about 2,600 years ago by a Greek by the name of Thales. Thales was quite a character, a wise man, one of the seven sophists. He studied partly in Egypt. He was a member of the…

…understanding it. But we got a very cute little notion about it about 2,600 years ago by a Greek by the name of Thales. Thales was quite a character, a wise man, one of the seven sophists. He studied partly in Egypt. He was a member of the…

…aristocracy, one of the magistrates of the city of Athens. And he also was asked the question, which... someone said to him, Thales, what causes earthquakes? Thales thought for a couple of minutes and said, well, the earth is a ship and it is floating…

…the magistrates of the city of Athens. And he also was asked the question, which... someone said to him, Thales, what causes earthquakes? Thales thought for a couple of minutes and said, well, the earth is a ship and it is floating in an ocean of…

…seems to be particularly fitting at this time, when it were to look as though everybody is rocking the boat. So, according to Thales, or extending his thought at least, if all the people riding on the boat are told that there's a whale off the starboard…

…itself floated in water, and we have the theories of Anaxagoras and Anaximenes concerning these elements. and the old doctrine of Thales, who said that the earth itself was like a ship floating in water, and earthquakes were caused by someone rocking the…

…cycle of approximately 600 years. For our purposes, we may begin with Pythagoras and the original Greek sophists. men of the caliber of Thales and so on. And we bring the cycle to the close with the corruption of Greek civilization as a result of the…

…but we do nothing with them we have also found from antiquity the principles of government like Curtis knew the rules of government Thales knew the rules of government and they applied them in their own time and they succeeded as long as they were able…

…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, among the…

…a remote and unknown antiquity. There is almost always an association between Oropos and the Greek scholar, statesman, and philosopher Thales. Thales went to Egypt. about the 6th century BC, and perhaps from the Egyptians, learned the mysteries of the…

…remote and unknown antiquity. There is almost always an association between Oropos and the Greek scholar, statesman, and philosopher Thales. Thales went to Egypt. about the 6th century BC, and perhaps from the Egyptians, learned the mysteries of the heavens.…

…close to the final involvement. For the material world, which we call the earth, is surrounded by a kind of humid atmosphere. Thales was one who developed quite a philosophy of this humid atmosphere. But having reached downwards now to the orbit of the…