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"Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day. To whom it is that these two things are owing? To Heaven and Earth. If Heaven and Earth cannot make such spasmodic actings last long, how much less can man? ...

He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm; he who stretches his legs does not walk easily. So, he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self-concieted has no superiority allowed to him. Such conditions, viewed from the standpoint of the Tao, are like remnants of food, or a tumor on the body, which all dislike. Hence those who pursue the course of the Tao do not adopt and allow them."

- Lao Tzŭ, The Tao Te Ching

"There is something undefined and complete, coming into existence before Heaven and Earth. How still it was and formless, standing alone, and undergoing no change, reaching everywhere and in no danger of being exhausted! It may be regarded as the Mother of all things.

I do not know its name, and I give it the designation of the Tao (the Way or Course). Making an effort further to give it a hand I call it the Great.

Great, it passes on in constant flow. Passing on, it becomes remote. Having become remote, it returns. Therefore, the Tao is great; Heaven is great; Earth is great; and the sage king is also great. In the universe there are four that are great, and the sage king is one of them.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is."

- Lao Tzŭ, The Tao Te Ching

"It is one of the prime errors of historical and rational analysis to suppose that the 'truth' and 'original form' of a legend can be separated from its miraculous elements. It is in the marvels themselves that the truth inheres."
- Ananda Coomaraswamy

"When has religion ever been one? It has always been two or three, and war has always been raged among coreligionists. How are you going to unify religion? On the Day of Resurrection it will be unified, but here in this world that is impossible because everybody has a different desire and want. Unification is not possible here. At the Resurrection, however, when all will be united, everyone will look to one thing, everyone will hear and speak one thing."

- Jalalludin Rumi, Signs of the Unseen

When Iamblichus taught at the Neoplatonic Academy, he gave his students a reading list of Platonic dialogues that constituted an initiation into philosophy. There are two “cycles” in this curriculum. The first cycle is comprised of ten dialogues and the second cycle has two dialogues, making twelve dialogues altogether. For my own study, I am inserting The Discourses and Enchiridion of Epictetus as a primer.

The Iamblichean Platonic Dialogue reading list is as follows:
First Cycle (10):
⁃ Alcibiades
⁃ Gorgias
⁃ Phaedo
⁃ Cratylus
⁃ Theaetetus
⁃ Sophist
⁃ Politicus
⁃ Phaedrus
⁃ Symposium
⁃ Philebus
Second Cycle (2):
⁃ Timaeus
⁃ Parmenides

"Now arms, however beautiful, are instruments of evil omen, hateful, it may be said, to all creatures. Therefore, they who have the Tao do not like to employ them.

The superior man ordinarily considers the left hand the most honorable place, but in time of war the right hand. Those sharp weapons are instruments of evil omen, and not the instruments of the superior man—he uses them only on the compulsion of necessity. Calm and repose are what he prizes; victory by force of arms is to him undesirable. To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

On occasions of festivity, to be on the left hand is the prized position; on occasions of mourning, the right hand. The second in command of the army has his place on the left; the general commanding in chief has his on the right; his place, that is, is assigned to him as in the rites of mourning. He who has killed multitudes of men should weep for them with the bitterest grief; and the victor in battle has his place rightly according to those rites."

- Lao Tzŭ, The Tao Te Ching

This profoundly connects military leadership and rites of mourning, but also leadership in general with a willingness to use peaceful means. The man who is responsible for many lives must be cautious to protect them from danger, or, as it is said, he will not rule over them for long. When the time comes, the man who is responsible for taking lives must mourn their loss, or he himself will not live long.

The tragedy of the great man then, to extrapolate this proposition, is that his continued greatness depends upon states of anxiety or concern and grief. This would certainly seem a miserable and tragic condition, but clearly the great man, the man of the Tao, is not such at all. What causes man to worry on behalf of others? What causes man to grieve at the loss of life?

Love—of others, of one's self, of Life, of God. The great leader's concern is not crippling anxiety if he walks lightly with love for the lives he rules over, as a father is not burdened by his children but uplifted by them. The great warrior's grief is not a terrible despair if he loves life as the pious man does, who knows that fate always comes for us all, yet also that death is not the end for the soul.

Guénon quotes in the text "Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power" the medieval parable of the blind man and the paralytic: in it the blind man has the paralytic on his shoulders. in fact, the blind man is guided by a paralytic who, resting on his shoulders, directs his action. 

What does this story want to teach us? The blind man is the temporal power, the political action, while the paralytic is the spiritual authority, the contemplation. One cannot exist without the other. 

Contemplation without action, spirituality without politics is impotence, while politics without spirituality is mere brute force. These examples, although referring to the relationship between spiritual Authority and temporal power, a task, a work that is not only mere culture, or mere study, and which is not only mere politics or mere militancy.

~ Paolo Rada

"Philosophy, then, with all its blessed advantages to man, flourished long ages ago among the barbarians, diffusing its light among the gentiles, and eventually penetrated into Greece. Its hierophants were the prophets among the Egyptians, the Chaldeans among the Assyrians, the Druids among the Galatians, the Sramanas of the Bactrians, and the philosophers of the Celts, the Magi among the Persians who announced beforehand the birth of the Saviour, being led by a star till they arrived in the land of Judaea, and among the Indians the Gymnosophists, and other philosophers of barbarous nations."

- 𝑺𝒕. 𝑪𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒂, 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒂 𝒊.𝒙𝒗.𝒍𝒙𝒙𝒊

"God is God."
~ Meister Eckhart

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This third and final installment of the Immortalized Art Trilogy explains why it is not merely the greatness of the artist himself that makes a painting or sculpture stand tall - it is just as much on the people to have a sense of appreciation for art in the first place.

Why?

Art cannot stand the test of time if it cannot first stand atop the consciousness of the people.

For just as a tree that falls without being heard can be argued as having never fallen, when we as a people begin to fail to revere our highest instincts expressed through art, the argument will go that it was never painted in the first place.

And because of this what is needed is the bridge within us that is able to allow our spirits to cross into the world of ideals. High above the landscape of modernity, there lies in the heavens above us our highest aspirations.

And it is art that shall take us there.

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One day, the Earth will burn as the Sun burns in the sky, and on that day the Golden King will return.

"Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings . . . the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with it the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art . . . So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense . . . madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human."
~ Socrates

The anti-socratics think this is the man responsible for rationalism.

"A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot."
~ Socrates

And liberalism.

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Socrates is right of course—madness can be a divine blessing. Nietzsche blames this man over all others for being the origin of rationalism, meanwhile, Socrates was known to have fought valiantly yet to have spoken always as a common man, always seeking the truth but never stopping to write it down, and in all his mad wisdom most famously said he knew nothing at all. He was not the man responsible for the dry, stiff 'Apollonian' order overtaking Nietzsche's wild and free Dionysian element, which culminated in this era of rationalism.

The damning of Socrates is not a conclusion of Nietzsche's own famous madness—indeed it begins in the first pages of his earliest, soberest work; it is the conclusion of the overactive rational sense of a mere man. What Socrates did not affirm life? The one who risked his life on the battlefield despite having his wife and sons at home? The one who praised wine and arts, who composed poetry in the final moments of his life? The man who taught so selflessly he gave his own life rather than betray a single principle he believed in? I can think of few men who have courageously affirmed Life so much and lived so well their entire lives, as Socrates!

'The same dream came to me ... always saying the same or nearly the same words: Make and cultivate music, said the dream. And ... in obedience to the dream, composed a few verses before I departed [the festival]. And first I made a hymn in honor of the god of the festival, and then ... I took some fables of Aesop, which I had ready at hand and knew, and turned them into verse.'
- Socrates before his death in Phaedo

'"Well, gentlemen," said he, "so far as drinking is concerned, you have my hearty approval; for wine does of a truth have my 'moisten the soul' and lull our griefs to sleep just as the mandragora does with men, at the same time awakening kindly feelings as oil quickens a flame."'
- Socrates in Xenophon's Banquet

'...take Socrates and observe that he had a wife and children, but he did not consider them as his own; that he had a country, so long as it was fit to have one, and in such a manner as was fit; friends and kinsmen also, but he held all in subjection to law and to the obedience due to it. For this reason he was the first to go out as a soldier, when it was necessary, and in war he exposed himself to danger most unsparingly.'
- Epictetus in Discourses

'And in combat, if you want to hear about it – for it is just to credit him with this once when there was a battle for which the generals gave me the prize of excellence, no other human being saved me but he; for he was not willing to leave me wounded, but saved both myself and my weapons. And even then, Socrates, asked the generals to offer me the prize of excellence. And in this too you will not blame me and say that I lie; but as a matter of fact, when the generals looked to my rank and wanted to offer me the prize of excellence, you [Socrates] proved more eager than the generals that I take it rather than yourself.'
- Alcibiades in Plato's Symposium

"How pleasantly accessible did Greek mythology become, as, over time, even in the hymns themselves, it threw off the fetters of mere epithet and instead recited fables of the gods, as in the Homeric songs. In the cosmogonies, too, with the passage of time, the ancient, hard primeval fables were constricted, and human heroes and tribal patriarchs were celebrated, closely tied to the ancient fables and to the figures of the gods. Fortunately, the ancient narrators of the theogonies had brought such fitting and beautiful allegories into the genealogies of the gods and heroes, often by merely injecting one word of their sublime language, that a new and beautiful cloth emerged when later philosophers merely endeavored to spin out their meaning and to link their own finer ideas to them. Thus, in time, even the epic bards laid aside their often-repeated fables of the creation of the gods, the storming of the heavens, the deeds of Hercules, and the like, and sang more human themes for the use of humankind."
~ Johann Gottfried Herder

Whatever you think of Socrates, don't make the mistake of thinking that The Republic is a model for an ideal state. Doing so puts you in the ranks of a Karl Popper.
The Republic acts much like Socrates' most famous saying, "All I know is that I know nothing." It is constructed naively, as a continuous question without a definitive answer. The questions always return to nothing, or to myth. Ironically, this compels all of the participants, readers included, to become invested in the question of justice, to build an idea of it themselves. There is an architecture of ideas behind it all, but this is closer to a rough sketch than a blueprint.
As form, the city unfolds as a dramatic scene, an act of justice: unexpected, and forcing difficult decisions that may cause uprisings or injustices. Without this vital aspect it would not remain the most powerful work of philosophy for over two-thousand years.

Of course, there is a practical side too. And who can say that artists make great works when freed of the martial threat over their heads?

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