Wednesday, May 17th, 1978

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

MAY 17, 1978

BUDDHISM

TOPIC: Buddhism

SUBSUBJECTS: Manas, Five Cosmic Skandhas, Jupiter in Sagittarius, Determinate and Indeterminate Perception, Gnostic Faculties (Platonist, Buddhist), Seven Levels of Vesica, Sun, Perception and Pure Sensation, Reflective Consciousness, Vijnanas and Quadrants, Jung's Four Functions

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• F. Th. Stcherbatsky, Buddhist Logic, Vol. 1

• Aniela Jaffe, The Myth of Meaning in the Work of C.G. Jung

PLOTINUS QUOTES READ OR REFERENCED: IV.3.30

DIAGRAMS embedded in these notes:

• FIGURE 1978 0517-1-AB. Manas as Twofold.

• FIGURE 1978 0517-2-AB. Indeterminate Thought (Willing) becomes (Feeling) Determinate Image (Knowing).

• FIGURE 1978 0517-3-AB. Buddhist and Platonist Fourfolds of Gnostic Faculties.

• FIGURE 1978 0517-4-AB. Five Cosmic Skandhas and Vesica.

• FIGURE 1978 0517-5-AB. Seven Levels of Vesica.

• FIGURE 1978 0517-6-AB. Four Koshas involved in Perception.

• FIGURE 1978 0517-7-AB. Gnostic Dignities and Four Levels of Perception.

• FIGURE 1978 0517-8-AB. Alaya, Vijnana, and Mano-Vijnana correlated with Second, Third, and Fourth Quadrants.

• FIGURE 1978 0517-9-AB. Determinate Cognition and Ascendant.

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NOTES:

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

• All capitalization and punctuation corrected, all abbreviations and some numbers spelled out.

1978 05/17 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Buddhism

[Alan Notes 0517 1978 Begin]

5/17/78

See Myra's notes for complete diagram. [Note: Myra Berkowitz, a student.]

Whole diagram takes place within prithivi consciousness.

[FIGURE 1978 0517-1-AB. Manas as Twofold. Princ. = Principle; Indiv = Individual; Ψal = Psychical. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

5 cosmic skandhas (Leo to Sagittarius) are taken by Jupiter in Sagittarius (maker of wholes) and made into the psychical essence of your being.

Jupiter fabricates the vehicles of your soul which persist for an entire aeon.

Vedana = sensation, not feeling

[FIGURE 1978 0517-2-AB. Indeterminate Thought (Willing) becomes (Feeling) Determinate Image (Knowing). K F W = Knowing Feeling Willing. See Plotinus, IV.3.30. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

death = sensible world is constantly disappearing, bhutas = have beens

[FIGURE 1978 0517-3-AB. Buddhist and Platonist Fourfolds of Gnostic Faculties. Direct per = Direct perception; Percept = Perception; RC = Rational Cogitation; Intuit = Intuition. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

4-fold scheme symbolizes Platonic gnostic faculties

3-fold scheme symbolizes Buddhist Logic gnostic faculties

Buddhist Logic, Part 2, "The Sensible World," p. 79ff.

p. 141ff -- nidanas

[Note: F. Th. Stcherbatsky, Buddhist Logic, Vol. 1.]

[FIGURE 1978 0517-5-AB. Seven Levels of Vesica. 1 B L I S N B = One Being Life Intellect Soul Nature Body. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Sun = principle of individuality or Logos principles of chart -- brings 7 planets and functions into proper alignment.

Manas = the universal particular -- individualizes or particularizes One-Being-Life.

Perception automatically includes and involves the four lower koshas.

[FIGURE 1978 0517-6-AB. Four Koshas involved in Perception. F W K = Feeling Willing Knowing; Anna = Annamaya Kosha; Prana = Pranamaya Kosha; Mano = Manomaya Kosha; Vij. = Vijnanamaya Kosha; lm = lower mind. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Perception (4 sheaths) is mediated through sign on ascendant and planets in dignity in that sign.

Jaffe -- last chapter -- reflective consciousness. [Note: Aniela Jaffe, The Myth of Meaning in the Work of C.G. Jung.]

Example: Leo -- Saturn restricts and limits the unbounded Sun.

Perception is immediate and novel.

What Plotinus calls perception Buddhism calls pure sensation.

[FIGURE 1978 0517-9-AB. Determinate Cognition and Ascendant. W/o = Without. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Jung's 4 functions deal with and are within the determinate cognition.

[Alan Notes 0517 1978 End]