Sublime

Many of the great philosophers of the Mystery tradition were also 'just men' who suffered an unjust death at the hands of tyrannical authorities. One such is Socrates who, like Jesus, was accused of heresy.

we have of the belief in a spherical Earth.

Considered in this light, the process delineated by Thales is nothing else than the process of scientific thinking.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than a century later by Bacon and Galileo. His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the

A wandering charismatic sage dressed in white robes and crowned with a gold coronet, Pythagoras was part scientist, part priest and part magician.[

When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its corner-stone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob a coward—in a word, a man.

The building in which the Ionian League met, its parliament, was one of the first parliaments in the history of the world—perhaps the very first one.

He thinks that certain explorers found the way out and show us the way. Those explorers are Plato, Buddha, Meister Eckhart, Teresa of Ávila, and Patanjali—of whom I’ll soon have more to say.