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“You will see one according law and assertion in all the earth, that there is one God, the king and father of all things, and many gods, sons of God, Ruling together with him”
- Maximus Tyrius, Dissertation I
Monotheism and polytheism are generally lousy terms especially when trying to describe something like Platonism.
We believe that there is one first principle and one craftsmen of the cosmos and we also believe that cosmos is filled with divine beings called gods.
Bothterms can be applied to Platonism with the proper qualifications but really neither fit a strict meaning of "only one god" or "only many gods".
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Some people think Platonists in general and @PlatonicPath in particular are somehow hostile to Heathenry.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
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"We ought to the best of our ability avoid, and even with fire and sword eradicate from the body, sickness; from our soul, ignorance; from the belly, luxury; from the city, sedition; from the family, discord; and from all things, excess"
-Pythagoras
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Homer's Iliad is the eternal drama of the rational soul encountering the generated world, and the moral reading that contents itself with outrage at the sack or pity for the fallen city stops short of the real teaching. Paris violates the law of Zeus when he carries off Menelaus' wife, for in that act he draws the shining efflux of intelligible beauty down into the heavy realm of matter and thereby opens the gates of sedition within the material order itself. Priam, choosing the bond of blood above the safety of his city, sacrifices an entire civilisation so that his own humanity may remain untouched; Agamemnon lays his humanity upon the altar of necessity so that the Greek expedition may reach its appointed end. These are not symmetrical moral failings but complementary movements in the great circuit of descent and return.
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Had a great talk with the guys at @OccultFriends about Plato and Platonism.
This was a fantastic conversation w/ @EClaussen and Nick of the great @OccultFriends on Platonism, Plato and Philosophy. Definitely Check it out!
youtube.com/live/iCRPabtHcYs…
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"Our World is not separated from the spiritual world... We deny that God is in one place but not in another." -Plotinus (II-9-16)
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“Rather, let us lay it down that the universe resembles more closely than anything else that Living Being of which all other living beings are parts, both individually and by kinds. For this Living Being comprehends within itself all intelligible living beings, just as our world is made up of us and all the other visible creatures. Since the god wanted nothing more than to make the world like the best of the intelligible things, complete in every way, he made it a single visible living being, which contains within itself all the living things whose nature is to share its kind.”
(Plato, Timaeus 30c5-31a1, transl. D.J. Zeyl modified)
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Today is the Feast Day of the Divine Julian the Philosopher. Check out the article I just published for the Platonic Path (platonicpath.org).
"Many cities have placed him [portraits and idols of the Divine Julian] by the side of the statues of the gods and do honour to him with the gods, and already many a one has asked in prayer for some blessing from him, and has not been disappointed: so evidently hath he ascended up unto them, and received a share in the powers of those above."
-Libanius, Funeral Oration for Julian
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A Prayer for the Birth of the Unconquered Sun
Oh, radiant and unconquered Sun,
In the tapestry of the cosmos, you are the chosen one.
Sol Invictus, born anew in celestial embrace,
A beacon of light, a symbol of eternal grace.
In the quiet of the winter's night,
When shadows dance and stars ignite,
You emerge, a promise of warmth and might,
A celestial symphony, a guiding light.
As we witness the dawn of your rebirth,
Grant us strength and courage on this Earth.
May your golden rays illuminate our way,
Dispelling darkness, bringing forth the day.
Sol Invictus, in your radiant glow,
Let love and compassion abundantly flow.
A symbol of hope in the darkest night,
Guiding us toward goodness and endless light.
On this sacred day, we celebrate your birth,
A cosmic miracle, a wondrous mirth.
As we bask in your celestial glow,
May our spirits with gratitude overflow.
Sol Invictus, bless us with your grace,
As we journey through time and space.
In your eternal light, we find solace and peace,
May your presence in our hearts never cease.
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"For us God would be most the measure of all things, far more than, as they say, any man"
Plato - Laws 716c4-6
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"Plato also says, that the soul is tripartite; and that the first part of it is reason; the second anger, or irritability; and the third appetite, which we may likewise call cupidity. But health, strength, and beauty, are then present with the animal, when reason governs the whole soul; when the two inferior parts are obedient to it, and anger and cupidity, being concordant with each other, desire nothing, and excite nothing, which reason judges to be useless."
-Apuleius
Doctrines of Plato Book I
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Great discussion on Platonism and TAG
open.spotify.com/episode/3UQ…
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A lot of pagans worship daimons and don't know the gods.
If your faith or experience leads you to believe that the gods don't care about humans, are capricious and capable of evil, or are simply nature spirits, then you're worshipping daimons and mistaking them for gods.
The problem isn't worship; we should honor the "earth-dwelling spirits," as Pythagoras says. But it is impious to mistake them for gods.
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"I, who have met with many of these [atheists] people, would declare this to you, that not a single man who from his youth has adopted this opinion, that the Gods have no existence, has ever yet continued till old age constant in the same view"
- Plato, Laws X
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In this podcast episode, I talk with the founder of the Classical Wisdom Tradition to discuss the significance of Platonism, focusing on the new book 'Flower of the Mind.'
