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Glad to be on the second part.

So helpful as well because of the mentioning of pre-socratics and neoplatonists. I appreciate the perspective of philosophy being a spiritual path. It certainly feels like that for myself.

17. Philosophy as Divine Mystagogy and Beneficial Madness

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This means the coming forth from the One (though the One is not diminished and remains intact in its transcendent fullness) to the Many and the final return back to the One.

Dubbeltolkningen av Theaet.

According to Thales, “the world is the most beautiful (kalliston kosmos), for it is God‟s making (poiema gar theou). Something intangible that permeates all things is operating within or through the visible cosmos, and this principle cannot be reduced to a simple material substratum. Hence, a plenitude of gods (theoi) is hidden behind the cosmic veils.

In the ancient Near Eastern civilizations, all theologies, cosmogonies and their related divine names were translatable. They were not absolute at the level of myth and polysemantic hermeneutics. Therefore not the question of orthodoxy, but that of orthopraxis, the correct performance of sacred rites, based on the distinction between right and wrong in human action was thought to be important.

In z new established monotheism, God is revealed to z physical eye as z visible sun disk, but hidden from z heart, except z heart of Akhenaten, who becomes z sole intermediary between his Aten & disenchanted reality here below. Contrary to this innovation, z theology of the New Kingdom emphasized the necessity of “taking God into one‟s heart”: the possibility of mystical knowledge is open to every pious man & woman.

In z new established monotheism, God is revealed to z physical eye as z visible sun disk, but hidden from z heart, except z heart of Akhenaten, who becomes z sole intermediary between his Aten & disenchanted reality here below. Contrary to this innovation, z theology of the New Kingdom emphasized the necessity of “taking God into one‟s heart”: the possibility of mystical knowledge is open to every pious man & woman.

The widespread iconographic image of the club-bearer Heracles, who is not only the paradigmatic hero of Pythagoreans, but (along with Socrates) the first teacher and archegete of the Cynic tradition, may be related to the Indian Pasupata teacher Lakulisa, the Lord of the Club. Heracles‟ lion skin recalls Shiva‟s leopard skin and similar skins of the Egyptian sem-priests.