Tag: Plato
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Biopolitics, Eugenics, and State Racism in Ancient Philosophy | Mika Ojakangas
Main Grahn-Wilder of the ORT-project interviews Prof. Mika Ojakangas of the University of Jyväskylä in Finland in a talk about the origins of State Racism. It serves the same purpose as Slavery and the Limits of Democracy in the Early Republic, Leslie Alexander. “In episode 3, Professor Mika Ojakangas (University of Jyväskylä) discusses his book On…
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Thomas Moore Johnson on Platonism in American Life, and the Limits of Politicians
Thomas Moore Johnson, a key player in early developments of American esotericism on political quarrels, speaking the truth and the necessity for the Platonic Philosophy from introduction to The Platonist: An Exponent of the Philosophic Truth, Vol. I, No. I, St. Louis, Feb. 1881, pp 1-3: One of the gentlemen to whom was sent a…
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Getting Technical about “The First Cause”
The word God is generic for a collective, or plethora of beings, a multitude under a unity, and not a singular entity. The “First Cause” is a philosophical conception, that is in-fact, not the same as what is termed, e.g., the “ever Unknowable Eternal Cause.” There’s for example a historical distinction drawn between El’ and…
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“Your History is Entirely at Sea”: The Legend and Classical Reference to Atlantis
ATLANTIS THE CLASSICAL REFERENCE TO THE MYTH OF ATLANTIS One vital classical source for the Atlantis legendand its remembrance, is from two dialogues writtenby Plato, in Timaeus and Critias.It is described as an island in the Atlantic Ocean.In Timaeus and Critias, Solon, an Athenian andprominent statesman c. 6th c. BCE, described theisland as a country bigger…
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Theosophy and Platonism: The Seven Principles of the Human Constitution
The concept of the Septenary Constitution describes two distinct beings in man: (1) The spiritual (or monadic); and (2) the physical (or somatic), i.e.— “The man who thinks and the man who records as much of these thoughts as it is able to assimilate.” †In Theosophy, the spiritual constitution is termed the “imperishable triad.” It…
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Jean-Louis Siemons: “Theosophy” in Neo-Platonic and Christian Literature
Dr. Jean-Louis Siémons article Theosofia in Neo-Platonic and Christian Literature (2nd to 6th Century A.D.), Theosophical History Centre, London, 1988, pp. 24-26. Dr. Siémons was an Associate of the United Lodge of Theosophists for over fifty years. This is to give us perspective on the 19th century Theosophical Movement’s place within the broader scope of theosophical…
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The God of Plato
It is not that Deity geometrizes with numbers, but in relation to numbers—and the numerical phases of cosmogenesis. “Thus, on the very showing of the defenders of this system the Jewish Deity is proved to be, at best, only the manifested duad, never the One absolute ALL. Geometrically demonstrated, he is a number; symbolically, an…
The American Minervan 