stage 4
Level 4. Plato and the Old Academy: Eros, Cosmos, and Myth
Special attention is given to Platonic myth-making (the Myth of Er, the Allegory of the Cave) as a tool for transmitting esoteric knowledge.
📖 8 cards reading✦ 4 question◷ ~20 min
Stage tree
Reading
The Allegory of the Cave as a Process of Initiation
Reading
The Theory of Ideas (Eide) and Anamnesis
Question
Test: Eidola and Anamnesis
Reading
Eros as the Great Daemon
Reading
The Four Kinds of Divine Madness (Mania)
Question
Knowledge Check: Eros and Mania
Reading
The Cosmology of the Timaeus: The Demiurge and the World Soul
Reading
Astral Theology and Star Souls
Question
Test: Timaeus Cosmology
Reading
The Myth of Er: Posthumous Destiny and the Spindle of Ananke
Reading
Plato's Unwritten Doctrine
Question
Final Test: Plato