Wednesday, October 24th, 1979

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

OCTOBER 24, 1979

PB BOOKS; WISDOM OF THE OVERSELF; "BIRTH OF THE UNIVERSE"

TOPIC: PB Books

SUBJECT: Wisdom of the Overself

SUBSUBJECTS: "Birth of the Universe," Mentalism, Cosmology, Epistemology

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Paul Brunton, The Wisdom of the Overself

DIAGRAMS embedded in these notes:

• FIGURE 1979 1024-1-AB. Overself, World-Mind's Thinking, and Physical Consciousness.

• FIGURE 1979 1024-2-AB. Vesica of Houses 10-12.

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NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (V13). From Alan Notes 6 Procl Plotin Bud 1979 0630 to 1979 1230.PDF.

• Wednesday night class, part of Wisdom series 1979-1980.

• All capitalization and punctuation corrected, abbreviations spelled out.

1979 10/24 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

PB Books; Wisdom of the Overself; "Birth of the Universe"

[Alan Notes 1979 1024 Begin]

10/24/79 "Birth of Individuals" [Note: Paul Brunton, The Wisdom of the Overself.]

Buddhist Nirvana = consciousness in the Intellectual Realm.

Paragraph 56, pp. 64-65 -- substantial ground for series of thoughts is World-Soul or Mind: beneath two successive thought moments is (World) Mind.

[FIGURE 1979 1024-1-AB. Overself, World-Mind's Thinking, and Physical Consciousness. Bottom left reads: Overself, source of consciousness. Bottom middle reads: World-Mind is substrate of individual thought. Bottom right reads: Each thought is individually conscious. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Paragraph 65, p. 68.

[FIGURE 1979 1024-2-AB. Vesica of Houses 10-12. LS = Linga Sarira; KR = Kama Rupa; Sthula = Sthula Sarira. Bottom left reads: World or cosmos and individual in it. Bottom right reads: Activity of World-Soul. Planetary spheres thinks its ideas into our mind (manas). Thinking of World-Mind. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

We share the ideas -- principles in Pisces are derived from ideas in Capricorn.

Our body is from World-Soul's body (earth).

World is fabricated by cosmic soul (vast thought), is reflected in individual mind (mind goes out, grasps it, etc.) and revealed to you.

Paragraph 73, p. 71 -- self-actuating system of World-Ideas can be interpreted as ideas of World-Mind (Nous) in second quadrant.

The material these ideas work with is supplied by the cosmic soul -- traces or memory of the previous activity of these ideas resides in World-Soul.

Ideas reside in World-Mind.

Forces reside in World-Soul.

Paragraph 76 -- Mind (Nous) is its own seer and seen…

[Alan Notes 1979 1024 End]