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Ep. 111: There Are Four Lights

Young Heretics

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Plato's Timaeus - A Platoic Dialogue

She quotes plato's timaeus, which describes how the gods equipped mankind with sensory apparatus. She says that if you understand these as kind of symbols and maps of of deeper spiritual realities, then you'll do better. So here's plato'sTimaeus, right? Just to kind of reinforce this. This another platonic dialogue, sequal to the republic, in many s, takes place the day after the republic. And heis describing how the godsequipped mankind with sensory equipment. He said, he says, and so in the vessel of the head, they first of all put a face in which they inserted organs to minister in all things to the providence of the soul.

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