Nicholas
Bodhicitta
Five little gems that inspire and guide toward the good, true and beautiful:
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Meditations on the Platonic Path
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Nicholas
Bodhicitta
It is necessary to investigate The Good neither gnostically, nor imperfectly, but giving ourselves up to the divine light and closing the eyes of the soul, after this manner to become established in the unknown and occult unity of beings.
For such a kind of faith as this is more ancient than the gnostic energy, not in us only, but with the Gods themselves, and according to this all the Gods are united, and about one centre uniformly collect the whole of their powers and progressions.
Proclus, Theology of Plato
For such a kind of faith as this is more ancient than the gnostic energy, not in us only, but with the Gods themselves, and according to this all the Gods are united, and about one centre uniformly collect the whole of their powers and progressions.
Proclus, Theology of Plato
Nicholas
Bodhicitta
The Cause of Union
Soul first sees the intellect which she contains,
But the vision proceeds into her,
And the two become one.
The Good, however,
Extending itself to these,
And adapting itself to the condition of both,
Runs above them,
And uniting the two,
Imparts to them a blessed sensation
And vision.
From The Chant of Plotinus
Soul first sees the intellect which she contains,
But the vision proceeds into her,
And the two become one.
The Good, however,
Extending itself to these,
And adapting itself to the condition of both,
Runs above them,
And uniting the two,
Imparts to them a blessed sensation
And vision.
From The Chant of Plotinus
Nicholas
Bodhicitta
Proclus, from his Commentary on The Timaeus of Plato:
“All who in the least degree participate of temperance always invoke divinity in the impulse to every undertaking, whether it be small or great.”
All beings are the progeny of the Gods, by whom they are produced without a medium, and in whom they are firmly established. For the progression of things which perpetually subsist, and cohere from permanent causes, is not alone perfected by a certain continuation, but immediately subsists from the Gods, from whence all things are generated, however distant they may be from the divinities. And this is no less true, even though asserted of matter itself. For a divine nature is not absent from any thing, but is equally present to all things. Hence though you should assume the last of beings, in these also you will find divinity. For The One is every where; and in consequence of its absolute dominion, every thing receives its nature and coherence from the Gods.
“All who in the least degree participate of temperance always invoke divinity in the impulse to every undertaking, whether it be small or great.”
All beings are the progeny of the Gods, by whom they are produced without a medium, and in whom they are firmly established. For the progression of things which perpetually subsist, and cohere from permanent causes, is not alone perfected by a certain continuation, but immediately subsists from the Gods, from whence all things are generated, however distant they may be from the divinities. And this is no less true, even though asserted of matter itself. For a divine nature is not absent from any thing, but is equally present to all things. Hence though you should assume the last of beings, in these also you will find divinity. For The One is every where; and in consequence of its absolute dominion, every thing receives its nature and coherence from the Gods.
Nicholas
Bodhicitta
Mother and Nurse
That great mundane divinity, the Earth,
Is the common Vesta of Gods and men;
And on whose fertile surface reclining,
As on the soft bosom
Of a mother or a nurse,
We ought to celebrate her divinity
With hymns, and incline to her
With filial affection,
As to the source of our existence.
Theophrastus
That great mundane divinity, the Earth,
Is the common Vesta of Gods and men;
And on whose fertile surface reclining,
As on the soft bosom
Of a mother or a nurse,
We ought to celebrate her divinity
With hymns, and incline to her
With filial affection,
As to the source of our existence.
Theophrastus
Buddha Dharma
Dharma Practitioner
Thank you for these nice quotes brother