Wednesday, February 13th, 1980

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

FEBRUARY 13, 1980

PB BOOKS; WISDOM OF THE OVERSELF; "THE UNVEILING OF REALITY"

TOPIC: PB Books

SUBJECT: Wisdom of the Overself

SUBSUBJECTS: "The Unveiling of Reality," World-Soul, Time, Karmic Impressions

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Paul Brunton, The Wisdom of the Overself

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

TYPED AND REFORMATTED by IT 2023

NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (V13). From Classnotes AB 1980 0211 to 1980 0309.PDF.

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

• All capitalization and punctuation corrected, abbreviations spelled out.

1980 02/13 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

PB Books; Wisdom of the Overself; "The Unveiling of Reality"

[Classnotes AB 1980 0213 Begin]

2/13/80 Wisdom of the Overself, "The Unveiling of Reality" [Note: Paul Brunton (PB), The Wisdom of the Overself.]

"Unveiling of Reality" = unveiling of the cosmic soul in its abidingness.

Life of the soul = time -- Time and Eternity -- time is the life of soul (Plotinus).

Time hovers between soul and universe.

Soul projects universe but is also independent of that projection.

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Incessant movement of ideas = movement of essences within the Sun.

The traces retained by your mind are much closer to the essence than the thing itself. So also cosmic soul retains the traces of the universe. The traces in cosmic soul are the essences of things which is equal to the function it performs. Therefore, karmic impressions ≠ the entity or its soul, but the traces of its functioning. Essence is not used here as second quadrant essence.

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World as idea = paradigm for cosmic soul's functioning.

Inner nature of cosmic soul is World-Mind.

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Existential distinction, not essential one.

Distinction is between essences, for example essence of universe and essence of cosmic soul.

You can only distinguish two essences in terms of their existence, in terms of themselves they are essentially undistinguishable.

Functioning is not the cause of the appearance, it is part of the appearance.

[Classnotes AB 1980 0213 End]