This article is the ninth installment of my translation of Plato’s Phaedo. Please read the previous installment before continuing. If you are just jumping in, please begin with my introduction. This section represents the generation of a doctrine, based on the logos as clarified in the last section of the dialogue. As you read thisContinue reading “Plato’s Phaedo: The Master of the Tao (66b-67b)”
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Plato’s Phaedo: The Religion of Body/Soul dichotomy (64c- 66b)
“It is near supernatural,” said Simmias, “how true this is, Socrates!” – [66β] This article is the ninth installment of my translation of Plato’s Phaedo. Please read the previous installment before continuing. If you are just jumping in, please begin with my introduction.The body/soul dichotomy is endemic to western philosophical thought and permeates all aspectsContinue reading “Plato’s Phaedo: The Religion of Body/Soul dichotomy (64c- 66b)”
Plato’s Phaedo: The Sacred Mysteries and the Something that is Death(63e-64d)
This article is the eighth installment of my translation of Plato’s Phaedo. Please read the previous installment before continuing. If you are just jumping in, please begin with my introduction. The next section of this dialogue is designed to show us the nature of truth and its relationship to the initiates of the mysteries. TheContinue reading “Plato’s Phaedo: The Sacred Mysteries and the Something that is Death(63e-64d)”
Twin Flames: The One, the Two, and the Trinity
This article discusses the law of duality (TWO), its relation to the ONE (UNITY), and how this Sacred Trinity relates to twin flames. Twin Flames are of one source. Some call this the oversoul, some call it the higher self. I don’t like the word “higher self” because it implies “better than” or “bigger than”.Continue reading “Twin Flames: The One, the Two, and the Trinity”
Plato’s Phaedo: The Legal Ego (63a- 63e)
This article is the seventh installment of my translation of Plato’s Phaedo. Please read the previous installment before continuing. If you are just jumping in, please begin with my introduction. In this section, Plato wants us to see something, specifically, he wants us to see how society is a function of the legal system, andContinue reading “Plato’s Phaedo: The Legal Ego (63a- 63e)”
Plato’s Phaedo: The mystery of dying, the lies of the living (61c-63a)
This article is the sixth installment of my translation of Plato’s Phaedo. Please read the previous installment before continuing. If you are just jumping in, please begin with my introduction. it’s very easy to get lost in the superficial conversation of the dialogue. Phaedo is still telling us the story, but the dialogue is startingContinue reading “Plato’s Phaedo: The mystery of dying, the lies of the living (61c-63a)”
Plato’s Phaedo: Ego drama is the spice of life (60e – 61c)
This article is the fifth installment of my translation of Plato’s Phaedo. Please read the previous installment before continuing. If you are just jumping in, please begin with my introduction. This section shows us the descent from philosophical awareness into dramatic ego self-absorption. It begins right after Socrates describes his beautiful Aesopian-style poem. The poemContinue reading “Plato’s Phaedo: Ego drama is the spice of life (60e – 61c)”
Plato’s Phaedo: In the Beginning, there were two… (59c-60e)
This article is the fourth installment of my translation of Plato’s Phaedo. Please read the previous installment before continuing. If you are just jumping in, please begin with my introduction. The next section of the Phaedo is incredibly dense and confusing. For those of you who are continuing and will continue to read this dialogue,Continue reading “Plato’s Phaedo: In the Beginning, there were two… (59c-60e)”
Plato’s Phaedo: Freedom from Fear (58e – 59c)
This article is the third installment of my translation of Plato’s Phaedo. Please read the previous installment before continuing. If you are just jumping in, please begin with my introduction. This section of the dialogue seems simple and uneventful enough, but that is only if we don’t understand the context that is the Elysian Mysteries,Continue reading “Plato’s Phaedo: Freedom from Fear (58e – 59c)”
Plato’s Phaedo: An original translation
Plato’s work can simply be defined by one goal: to preserve the truth of the Sacred Mysteries, the Great Mysteries of the initiates of this world. This world, as Plato so aptly and popularly taught, is not what it seems and most of humanity is suffering or experiencing (which is the same, for Plato, asContinue reading “Plato’s Phaedo: An original translation”
Soul in the machine 