
The place where Plato taught his listeners thrilled in the atmosphere of the Mysteries. Still it will be passed on, if we have the keys to get knowledge.
It must be a feeling, a sentiment, and experience, which is not gained by instantaneous communication, but by making oneself one with it, in heart and soul.
According to Rudolt Steiner the subject on which `Plato´ had not written and would never write.
Must be something about which all writing would be futile, Steiner said, according said.
The reference is to the inner education which Plato was able to give those he selected. For them, fire flashed forth from his words, for others, only thoughts.
Plato subtled inserted keys to the mysteries into his dialogues, along with puzzles and hints which he may have hoped would provoke astute readers into their own revelations.
In Plato’s conception of the Good was the absolute purpose of the world and the final cause of its existence.
We will ponder the good as the first principle of knowledge of eternal beings beyond sensory things, and contemplate the divine origin of the soul and its habitation of the human body, culminating in liberation after death.
There the soul faces the judgment of the dead and the purification necessary for entry into the Kingdom of Immortal Existence.
Persephone marble statue from Ancient Greece, in the Pergamon Museum
School of Athens by Raphael.
The manner of our approach to Plato's Dialogues is not a matter of indifference. They will mean more or less to us, according to our spiritual condition. Much more passed from Plato to his disciples than the literal meaning of his words.
The place where he taught his listeners thrilled in the atmosphere of the Mysteries.
Platon´s words awoke overtones in higher regions, which vibrated with them, but these overtones needed the atmosphere of the Mysteries, or they died away without having been heard, according to Steiner with Christianity as Mystical Fact.
Now overtones is govered by tempered scale, and we do not use voice like ancient people.
Under the circumstances in cypertime we have other way to get a signal of awoke, tools by sense. And searchers go throughout modern philosophy to the gates of esoteric philosophy - that´s the way inside in thinker´s soul; this is the biggest difference between philosophy and philosophy.
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