Class

Friday, March 3rd, 1978

Student notes of a class/seminar

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

MARCH 3, 1978

PLOTINUS: SOUL

TOPIC: Plotinus

SUBJECT: Soul

SUBSUBJECTS: Astral Realm, Sentient Soul

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

  • Plotinus, The Enneads (MacKenna translation, 4th ed.)

  • Plutarch, Plutarch on the Face Which Appears on the Orb of the Moon

PLOTINUS QUOTES READ OR REFERENCED: I.10, IV.3.27, VI.4.16, VI.7

DIAGRAM embedded in these notes:

  • FIGURE 1978 0303-1-AB. Levels of Individual Soul.

TYPED AND REFORMATTED by IT 2022

NOTES:

  • RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (hence V08). From Alan Notes 02 1977 to 06 1979.PDF.

  • All capitalization and punctuation corrected, abbreviations spelled out.



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1978 03/03 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Plotinus: Soul

[Alan Notes 0303 1978 Begin]

3/3/78 Levels of the Individual Soul

6.4.16 [Plotinus, Enneads]

Entry into world of shades = release of the soul from its image (sentient soul) = second death in kama loka where you are distinguished from your image of yourself. (Cf. Plutarch, On the Face of the Moon) = doppelganger. [Note: Plutarch, Plutarch on the Face Which Appears on the Orb of the Moon.]

Image is a psychic corpse in astral realm picked up in séances.

4.3.27

[FIGURE 1978 0303-1-AB. Levels of Individual Soul. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Next, 6.7, 1.10

[Alan Notes 0303 1978 End]



1978 03/03 V08: NOTES: Plotinus: Soul. Copyright 2022 Wisdom's Goldenrod p. ii