Secret Teachings of Plato & Theology of Arithmetic - Pythagorean Origins of Sacred Geometry
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Did Plato have secret, unwritten doctrines (ἄγραφα δόγματα) deeply influenced by the mathematical esotericism of Pythagoras? From his works, comments by Aristotle, the philosophical project of the Old Academy and later Neo-Pythagorean teachings of Nicomachus of Gerasa and Iamblichus, there is substantial, though controversial evidence, that Plato's deepest teachings are not only to be found in the Dialogues as we know them. What might have these "unwritten doctrines" taught? It may be that a small 4th century ce digest of Arithmology, the intersection of ancient Metaphysics and Mathematics, attributed to Iamblichus might give us insight into these esoteric Platonic teachings and their survival into contemporary philosophy and physics. Join me as we explore this fascinating topic, at the heart of the origins of western philosophy!
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Cooper - Plato - Complete Works - 978-0872203495
Waterfield - The Theology of Arithmetic - 978-0933999725
Dillon - The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 BC) - 978-0199279463
Kramer - Plato and the Foundations of Metaphysics: A Work on the Theory of the Principles and Unwritten Doctrines of Plato with a Collection of the Fundamental Documents - 978-0791404348
Nikulin - The Other Plato: The Tübingen Interpretation of Plato's Inner-Academic Teachings - 978-1438444109
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Hello just want to thank you very much for your videos. They're always well done and high quality and very interesting. My question may sound a little weird but would like to hear your thoughts. Does any of this magic work? From all your videos. And if so have you ever practiced any of this magic yourself and how did it work for you? As always enjoy your videos thank you.
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Incredible Mr. E, if any of them work we wouldn't be allowed to tell! Magic is a "fuck around and find out" kinda proposition ;)
Well played, good Doctor. Well played. The tightropes get truly thin in the rather depleted sources we are able to glean. Oh, to have a year or ten in the catacombs, hermetically sealed as well as sealed away from the truly, unadulterated populace of the knowledge seeking.
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First time viewer, new subscriber! You had me laughing with you and totally on the same page. Thank you very much!
As a mathematician at heart I really appreciated the call out to Russell and Whiteheads Principia Mathematica and Kurt Gödels takedown. It's a fun connection that the Pythagorean idea that everything is a natural number or a ratio of them: When somebody found a proof that square root of two can't be one and alegedly the Pythagoreans hunting this mathematician / heretic down and drowning them. Fortunately Russell's followers did not go to such lengths.
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This episode blew me. I have never had the pleasure of STUDYING philosophy and this information was new to me and so informative and incredible.
When I was in medical school I had a Greek classmate who was very Holistically orientated -as was I. He told me that the Ancient Greek method is solving problems could be reduced to geometry and thoughtful questions. He used a triangle to illustrate this to me. He also told me that all geometrical shapes and solids had their own special philosophical interfaces with human consciousness and problem solving. I would be extremely grateful for your kindly teaching us about this
Did he mean geometry per se, or a geometric style method of demonstrative reasoning?
Seconded
Fascinating video, Dr. Sledge! It's really interesting learning how the Greeks thought about mathematics, and especially how "1" and "2" are given such significant meanings. Thank you for this video, and I especially look forward to future discussions of Plato's unwritten doctrines!
@Roco ol Never said the Greeks invented mathematics, just that it's fascinating to learn about how they thought about it. IIRC, a lot of Pythagorus's knowledge was attributed to the Egyptians, and a clay tablet from Babylon was found from long before the Greeks began to develop with several so-called "Pythagorean Triples," that is, triplets of integers satisfying a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
That said, I think the age of the sphinx you cited and the average lifespans are a bit exaggerated. The pyramids and sphinx of Egypt are certainly among the most ancient structures still surviving, but I don't think they're quite 8000 years old. As for the lifespans, given how human bodies deteriorate over time I doubt that the average lifespan anywhere was ever 120 years old.
@Roco ol just a link for all concerned, re the tablet Nathaniel mentions: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plimpton_322
You all have unique perspectives, I value that.
You lot talking about a few thousand years when Earths humanity is billions of years old lol .
Riveting! It rings so true that these esoteric teachings existed. I love the emphasis on experience in addition to book learning - being a musician, I feel music gives us to a chance to wheel through the cosmos in straight up arithmetic and geometry. Very interesting point about many present day spiritual paths not tapping into numbers much beyond a bit of numerology here and there. Also loved the notion of raising group energy and experiencing a new reality as a result. You’re making this space for us right here!
Yep as a musician, especially a harpist these Pythagorean elements must just be obvious you you ! I'm glad you found the episode interesting!
As a musician also I have to agree. Music is geometry in sound
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@@timflatus "geometry in sound" - love that!
I just had an “experience” through music and “paranormal” entities… i need to talk to someone who understands this stuff. Something took over my life and altered it completely.
You're tapping into a potent current, I think. This particular issue seems to be at the heart of why computer scientists have become so interested in occult philosophy over the years. These teachings really seem to center around what numbers actually ARE and what they can potentially do when that identity is understood. A computer scientist's job consists almost entirely of understanding and expanding the potential of what numbers can do in the real world.
Absolutely one of the greatest UA-cam channels in the history of the platform. I feel blown away after each and every video. And Goonies never say die! Praise Bob, yall!
You rock! I absolutely love this topic. I have been fixated on understanding the esoteric aspects of Plato for 35 years. When I finish work today, I'll become a Patron. I'm happy to support this kind of content. Can't wait to rewatch this lecture after work tonight. ❤️ I'm particularly interested if the subject will offer any insight into the Eleusinian Mysteries and any connections or parallels with the Theurgy of the Chaldean Oracles. We have lost so much through the ages, and this missing information feels like a hole inside me.
Do you talk about or share the research you made on that topic?
Interesting and illuminating indeed! You could spend a chunk of time lecturing on the Quadrivium, and hear no complaints from this guy:) Well done.
I also suspect we can draw a line from Neo-Pythagoreanism to the Sepher Yetzirah, which is funny because it's just how they thought the history of thought developed back during the Renaissance, but backwards.
I think Tzahi Weiss does as good a job as any tracing the connection through the late-classical Syriac fog and I think he's correct both in connection and dating.
That was really wonderful (that sounds overblown, but I really enjoyed it). I wonder about the extent to which our understanding of Plato is hampered by philosophers owning him so much? Like, when I studied classical Greek history at undergrad level, I was told that Plato was essentially under the ownership of the Philosophy Department. I bring it up, because your description of Plato as having quasi-Pythagorean esoteric teachings seem very... obvious. I feel you'd only really dispute that if you really care about Platonic Philosophy.
I just think these categories are often pretty clumsy. Teaching intro level stuff if always going to oversimplify but it's pretty complex and owning that complexity is just the task of doing right by these amazing thinkers
@@TheEsotericaChannel My point is that philosophers tend to treat Plato as a live text that they can interact with and use to generate new ideas, (which is perfectly reasonable), however it seems like that process loses track of what the historical Plato actually thought (and it's to an extent not relevant). Like, I can see why a modern philosophy professor wouldn't be interested in these esoteric readings of Plato; from a modern perspective it's very odd. There's teaching students the Allegory of the Cave, and then there's precisely pinning down what those forms are.
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And more on topic, I'm fascinated by some of the ancient Greek philosophers' more esoteric ideas. One of the best classes I took at college was History of Western Thought 1. It took a pretty in-depth look at a lot of those ideas. And now I want to go read up on Empedocles again...
And his golden shoes!
Great video! Your one of the few creator’s on this platform who consistently posts amazing and interesting content. Please keep up the good work, your videos never cease to indulge me.
Amazing video Dr. Sledge, thank you! Never would have drawn the line between Sefer Yetzirah and the Platonic numerology.. Makes more sense if we think that ancient greek numbers were alphabetic. Really interesting you mentioned string theory, waiting for the day you make a video linking that with some esoteric text!
I would have to know a lot more mathematical physics before I even thought to do that
@@TheEsotericaChannel Sabine Hossenfelder is the best place to start.
I haven’t read some of the Platonic dialogues you mention in 19 years since I studied them in college. Feeling inspired to go back to them now watching this
Absolutely stellar video! Very much appreciated as a mathematician, and your dig at string "theory" was unexpected but welcome.
IDK if you plan on doing a video on this, but it should be noted that the Monad - Dyad of the unwritten doctrines of Plato had an important (religious) legacy. Neopythagoreans and Middle Platonists interpreted it as ontological /cosmological /theistic dualism where the Monad is God, who is mind /reason, and is good, and Dyad is matter, which is ensouled (so a conscious being), and evil, and the cosmos is a product of interaction of those two forces /beings. Both groups thought that this is a doctrine which went back to Plato and Pythagoras. Tho if that is true it was obviously an esoteric doctrine back then, bar a tiny mention in the dialogue Laws (at 896e) and the views of Xenocrates, the second scholarch of the Academy. Plutarch, a prominent Middle Platonist (and a priest at the Delphi temple), explicitly compared this dualism to Zoroastrian dualism. Then came Neoplatonists and rejected that dualism in favor of monism.
Yep, I will and I mention that direction in the episode. Just beyond the scope of this episode.
I'm a complete laymen when it comes to all this stuff most of it just comes from little bits and pieces I pick up here and there. And a couple of books of read.... erm secret teaching of all ages, a practical guide to kaballistic symbolism, the golden bough and signs and symbols of primordial man - the evolution of religious doctrines from the eschatology of the ancient Egyptians. That's basically all I've read. But from what little I've gathered that is pretty much what all the ancient cults believed and preached, even some mainstream relatively modern religious sects of christianity believed... The cathars spring to mind. Modern western mystery schools... Guess I'll read this theology of arithmetic next, which reminds me... I've got that periphyseon to read nall
@@1invag I am too, I relax and enjoy the adventure. Its like caviar to my brain. ☺
What a prestigious presentation of Plato’s secret teaching, I deeply appreciate your efforts, older people in Iran would say about a good person who passed away, he had a big soul or large soul, part of Plato’s teaching on this video reminded me of that expression
Thank you Justin. As a druid, early Greek philosophy feels like home to me, so I'm loving the excursions into Pythagoreanism and Platonism. I also find your videos very soothing, the past couple of days have been mercurially frazzling and your excursions into ancient philosophy give me a positive mental focus, even when the subject matter doesn't seem so familiar. Have a good week!
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Wow, thank you for going there! One of your best episodes hands down! I wonder myself whether today's mathematical description of reality is simply a continuation of the Pythagorean notion that numbers are the language of God. Is contemporary obsession with scientific materialism and the mathematical abstraction of the observable world just riding the intellectual wave set in motion by Pythagoras? "A body (or an idea) set in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon" - as another gentleman from the same tradition put it very eloquently while looking to transcribe the hidden divine language that governs realty.
I was waiting for an Elipheas Levi reference but I'm glad you linked the tradition to the Sefer Yetzira and Agrippa. Please keep making follow up investigations into Western esoteric numerology, there's very little else out there on the topic and it really gives Esoterica an edge.
found it really hard to listen to in the beginning, but then just played it at 1.5 speed and now I'm subscribed :D
THANK YOU FOR THIS! Please sir continue the highly indepth topic of arithmology. This was priceless. I am gonna have to make a donation to your patreon this work must continue and I don't have the time or know how to get to the bottom of all this like you. Again I plead return to this topic.
Ps that last part was too funny "apparently mathematics" 🤣
I'm very much looking forward to seeing more videos of yours on Platonism!
Great episode! As a mathematician, I'm keenly interested in this and what's been promised to come!
Great topic Doc! Had to listen to I a couple of times, but once I got it, it was a “RUSH” Man!
Your dry sense of humor is THE BEST! Keep doin You, my Brother!
@Esoterica There's quite a bit of reference to this stuff in Byrthferth's Enchiridion if folks are interested in Old English work ;)
Outstanding lecture. In the tradition Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle, you have presented more than can be assimilated in one session. Therefore, I share mark this for several return visits.
One of my favorite topics and videos so far! Loved the hold my beer portion too. Haha😁
Keep up the wonderfully insightful work Dr. Sledge⚡️
What an excellent video. The One limiting the indefinite line to produce number is an especially interesting thought, I'll be mulling over this for a while.
Plato was teaching the slave to calculate the square root of two. The slave was just following an algorithm and not actually learning. Just when it was getting interesting, he cut it off to talk memory and learning.
Thanks for helping me with my studies on idealist philosophy!!
Ah Plato! The first dude to look at reality and think "Nah - it's just not REAL enough for me, man."
I recommend checking out videos showcasing the OLV Basilica in Lackawanna NY. Built from visions had by Father Nelson Baker on his pilgrimage in the late 1800's. As you walk through the HOLY DOORS you are greater with a tribute to Pythagoras. Through Geometry and Mathematics one can come to divinity. Sadly the priests now residing there do not understand or even know about the structure they work inside.
"Onto" mathematics are perfectly enjoyable as long as they're "one-to-one." 💙I think it may have been just this morning that I read about some neoplatonists who believed much of the Jewish mysticism we know from the Sephir Yetzirah either predated and influenced, or was contemporaneous and in free discourse with, the Pythagorean mystery schools. I can't at the moment seem to find a reference-could I be imagining it? At any rate, this has been one of my favorite so far of your videos; thank you. (By the way, I only just now realized that, although I don't think I've ever had call to use the word "apeiron" in a sentence, I've still been mispronouncing it, in my head, when I see it on the page, to sound like "ape iron," an item that surely holds great appeal for wrinkled apes.)
Hello! I would be very interested if you made series about western esotericism through various movements that became popular in 19th century, the Golden Dawn, etc. Either way, I just wanted to say I really enjoy your videos, especially because I started my anthropology studies primarly interested in religion, and my interest faded a bit, so you made me come back to it, and I wanted to thank you because of it!
6 seconds. it took 6 seconds into the video before i subscribed. been looking for this channel for a hot minute.
Dr. Sledge: Hold my beer, imma make *so many scholars* so mad!
Me: If this isn't the best reason to hold a beer, than I don't know what is
Have you made a video yet on the neoplatonists of the 3rd to 5th centuries and the overall impact it had on those in the 13th to 15th centuries - leading to christian cabala and hermeticism? Ramon Lull , Mirandola, etc..
Your channel hits a voluminous amount of topics (I love it!) - so, it is possible that this has been extensively covered already but I have not found any yet
No, not yet but that's a great topic.
THANK YOU - CAN YOU PLEASE DO A FOLLOW UP SEQUENCE ON THIS GREAT TOPIC - EXCELLENT
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18:00 This really sounds like the Amplituhedron proposed by Nima Arkani-Hamed, a geometric structure that underlies perceived reality and negates the need for spacetime in a model of particle interactions, allowing the prediction of perturbative scattering amplitudes - something that I believe isn't possible using the Standard Model.
This is very interesting. I think in understanding the numbers/letters/vibrations are key to understanding self and reality. Can't wait to hear more.
Dr. Sledge, could you look at the Chinese "Doctrine of the Mean" sometime? It's an incredibly dense, enigmatic text, mainly philosophical, but reading it you can't help sense that there is something else there, a deep spirituality.
What do you get when you mix Dr Sledge, Dr Peterson (maps of meaning) & Randall Carlson in a room? An extremely psychedelic conversation :P
Seriously you rock Doc, please keep bringing the gnosis
Fantastic video!!
Yeah, i'd like to see more on the philosophy of mathematics. Thanks for the content.
This is the first video on Esoterica I am watching a 4th time. I will surely be buying a copy of 'The Theology of Arithmetic'. Thank you!
If you watch them backwards, they are actually cupcake recipes ;)
@@TheEsotericaChannel I have watched so many cycles of this it is now a personal increment of time I use to get through my work day (32.16). I will stop watching this episode today before it becomes some strange ASMR background vibration :)
Hey, that early 20th century project got us computing (involved in the proving it impossible, but still)
Thanks for a most helpful introduction. Are the mysteries of Eleusis relevant to this topic?
ואוו באמת הסבר יפה בכללות ההסברים שלך מאד יפים
ואתה נותן הסברים נכונים ואמיתיים
ממקורות אמינים כמו שחזל לימדו
וכך אין טעות בתרגום שמגיע לכל אומות העולם
כי היוטיוב מלא בטעיות כאלה של פרשנים
שלא יודעים את המקור ומדברים מעמק הדימיון ולא ממקומות מתועדים עם הסבר נכון,ישר כח
Thank you so much. Subscribed...
A thought:
PERHAPS.... The meaning of something can be interpreted an infinite amount of ways, and therefore can never be written, because if it were written then it would still be in the process of being written forever, because it is infinite, which each word building on itself and thus every conceivable meaning stemming from one another (i.e. the more that is written, the more that needs to be written about it and without it, forever).
So then, "the only thing that I know is that I know nothing" can be interpreted as "I have the ability to know anything, and therefore cannot take a stance on any one thing without rendering all of it's opposites null, and who are we to deny anything when all knowledge is simply the choosing of knowing".
So perhaps what was meant when Plato said "the unwritten dogmas", was actually "the dogmas that can never be written", because to undertake writing them would be to bind oneself to the writing of them indefinitely, because it would never end. Hence the interest in finding patterns in reality, because to find such definite patterns could release us from the void of wonder. But maybe not, because there is always the choice to know or not to know, whether it be proven or not... And proven under what circumstances? Seems to come back to "I do not know", or rather "I cannot know".
Another clue maybe: that there are an infinite number of numbers between every number... Maybe
Phenomenal work.
Funny as was watching this mind was flooded by previous ideas and books I've read (mostly sepher yetzirah and Jewish traditions about the Tree of Life)...now have to find a couple copies of those books on Plato you mentioned. And pull out and re read everything from Jewish traditions and Israel Regardie books on the Golden Dawn etc. There was something that very much clicked with the Triangle 4 points per line.....Never really delved into Ancient Greek Geometry and maths....But Thank You for the insight!...lol late nights and black coffee in my future methinks for a bit now.
Higher mind thinking.... so needed in our deliberate dumbed down education.
This subject matter is titillating, haha! Thank you for unearthing these fascinating histories.
This is the stuff that keeps me on UA-cam. Subbed! I would love to hear your thoughts on Rudolph Steiner .
While writing my senior paper a couple months ago on Pythagorean religious practices I came across mention of lectures by Plato concerning Pythagoras that his students preserved in the Academic tradition, so it’s not just Aristotle who says he taught things that weren’t preserved in what remains.
I also found that there’s no way to isolate a Pythagorean set of practices or beliefs on top of plenty of things attributed to him/them which are known to not be, and the most honestly you can characterize “knowledge of Pythagoreanism” is as “knowledge of how Platonists thought about Pythagoreanism.”
Edit: the only teaching of any kind with contemporary evidence is religious, and is that Pythagoras taught of the immortal soul. The next era of evidence is Plato which is over 100 years later.
Justin,
Nothing like developing a thirst by discussing ancient wisdom with arithmologia.
"The prime barrier to humanity's discovery and comprehension of nature is the obscurity of the mathematical language of science."
R.B. Fuller
Congrats on operating a fascinating channel! I would be interested in your thoughts (if any) on Ernest McClain's music theoretical take on Plato's Pythagoreanisms?
This makes me think of "1.2.3.4. I declare thumb-war" Invisible numbers set it up and then hands in the 3d realm engage in a war of morphing geometry.
Pitch forking whoop 🙌
Up to the deca the ten but maybe they are more single digit units before the ten. Like ten should be thirteen or 9,A,B,C.
Also if your cold move to heat and vise versa. So the experience is much harder to give. Find comfort and you have journeyed closer to god so to speak.
The circle of inversion is an excellent model. The exterior is universe. circle is event horizon/perception. inside of circle is antimatter universe, which maps 1:1 onto matter. The shadow. Planck particle is the monad. Possessing all states and some point on it's surface. The universe is the infinite reflection/eversion of this. We and our opposite both form a unity and yet cancel out to nothing at all. The surface of an infinitesimal, with a vacuum in middle.
Been going through Numerology and the Divine Triangle myself.
This all makes sense.
/puts away his pitchfork/
I believe Gurdjieff's 4th way was mainly influenced by Pythagoras & Plato, his theory of the 4 states of consciousness, including the 3rd, self-remembering matches Plato's analogy of the cave, his model of man as a 3 storied factory relates to Plato's harmonious beehive, the end view of Noah's ark, the Sefer Yetzirah, Robert Fludd's work, whilst his enneagram may relate to the 3 examples of pure forms being a triangle, cup (circle) & table (square, with some morphing), also reflected in the Tarot's magician card.
Thanks!
If Plato had no esoteric teachings he would be the exception to the rule. As with all mystery religions and great schools of thought, the "inner circle" of adept initiates would always be provided more complex revelations. You can't jump from grade-school math to complex geometry without a lot of training.
Yep I mentioned that exact point
Thank you for such a high quality video and online lecture.
While reading "Platonic Mysticism" by Arthur Versluis, I found the distinction
between the etic and emic approaches to this subject matter beneficial.
One can read John Dillon's recommendation for his book on the back cover.
The present debate seems to be about what can be considered a proper scholarly
approach to mysticism. The object-subject distinction made between the observer
or researcher assumes a separation making the One "apart", from one perspective.
However it could be pointed out that there is an element in Platonic mysticism that
could be stated like the tetralemma and it is a known mystery without qauntity. Might
your agree ?
I like the "Hold my beer" portion of the program. I laughed out loud.
I happen to have a rather long pitch fork but for some reason can't remember at which gathering I last used it .... oh well maybe a regular table fork will do for now. Tata 😄
The prometheus trust print the entire thomas Taylor catalogue and also other texts like the theology of arithmetic. Nice guys and a good charity. Didn't know it wasn't iamblichus though....
It's not clear who compiled it, probably in the iamblichus circle though
@@TheEsotericaChannel great trivia. I love these nuggets!
+1 for the Orval
Just Superb !
If you write it down you kill it!
This works good with Zevi's current stuff on mysticism. When the one become two, what will we do?
I bet it was a lot about ratio.
This is an incredible video. Great job!
I encourage EVERYONE to consider the writings of Dr. Peter Kingsley. He has dealt with this in a very sobering and scholarly manner, while also being so influenced by his penetration of the material that he addresses Plato in a manner I think almost everyone seems to miss. A bold claim, I fully realize. The master key is the practice of incubation and the pre-socratics Empedocles and Parmenides. This tradition was probablu absorbed in the christian tradition of hesychasm.
What would they have done with the much later concepts of zero and integers?
If you understand the limits of words, you will realise that the set of words is much smaller than the set of all possible experiences. Describing colour to the blind or classical music to the deaf, and that is still in the material world without venturing into the vast universe of the mind. That means there naturally exists a great corpus of non-word experiences and insights already. That, to me, is the real esoteric or occult. Hidden, not by design,(although that happens too),but because we are incapable of experiencing it, at the moment. Thanks.
at 10:02-10;13 ish there was a diagram of "The Five Platonic Solids as depicted in Kepler" - I realised I play too much D&D. I saw a D4, D8, D6, d20 and D12.... I may need help.
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There is a theory suggesting Pythagoras' esoteric goal was to persuade the non initiated to adopt a model of reality based on mathematical equations rather than to trust their senses.
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You sir are a legend! Thank you!
I've watched most of this video, but it's a little difficult to understand it. Is there any other video of yours that serves as an introduction to some of the concepts referenced in this video?
Is it reasonable to suggest that the tetrakys could have been derived because Plato had ten digits on his hands?
🤙Aloha Dr Sledge
Ah, but what was Plato's stance on beans?
Did Plato wear rings ? I hope not
Lately, I've been bothered by how much of the religious teachings I was raised with are from ancient Greece, and Roman myth. Far more paganism than Christian leaders would admit. As a Christian, I don't think Jesus fits into historical cannon anymore than he does with modern politics. I thank you Dr. Sledge and others like the Modern Hermeticst and Zevi for giving me so much to think about.
I would love to hear more about how in the Republic, we see both number and mathematic music theory showing up again and again. The most interesting place is when Plato claims that the aristocratic souled man is 729 times happier than the tyrant and how he comes to this number.
he taught was is today referred as the ancient wisdom teachings.
Absolutely fabulous!
Who do you mean. Proclus wrote 'Elements Of Theology'. How is that not on par with at least some of the inner Esoteric teachings of Plato.
“And apparently Mathematics…” 😂😂😂
Wonder if the onmyojo will get covered, considering their importance in heian politics?
Thank you
Great video!!!!