Sublime

We’ve just seen that reality is a ‘dream’ of a disembodied universal consciousness, which we called mind-at-large. We, as individuals, are collapsed segments of mind-at-large that ‘wake up’—become lucid—inside the dream.

All that we passed through on the ‘Moon-planet’ and earlier planets is in our inmost being.

Above it there is no light, Below it there is no darkness. Endlessness beyond description. It returns to non-existence.

because when those thought forms operate, no possession, place, person, or condition will ever satisfy you.

Plato hews closely to Pythagoras and sees the structured world as written with the language of mathematics, which for the Greeks meant geometry.

absolutamente infinito, tudo aquilo que exprime uma essência e não envolve negação alguma pertence à sua essência.

Et surtout il précise que, pour les platoniciens et les stoïciens, le « soi-même », c'est l'âme ou l'esprit.

The Stoics held that there are certain principles which are luminously obvious, and are admitted by all men; these could be made, as in Euclid’s Elements, the basis of deduction. Innate ideas, similarly, could be used as the starting-point of definitions. This point of view was accepted throughout the Middle Ages, and even by Descartes.

Héraclite était certainement un personnage peu banal, et pourtant sa réponse à la grande question du sens de la vie est partagée par l’ensemble des philosophes de l’Antiquité grecque. Les stoïciens, par exemple, ont adopté son idée selon laquelle la raison humaine est un fragment de l’intelligence divine, faite de feu, qui mène l’univers. Comme