Wednesday, February 20th, 1980

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

FEBRUARY 20, 27, 1980

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

TOPIC: PB Books

SUBJECT: Wisdom of the Overself

SUBSUBJECTS: "The Unveiling of Reality," Plotinus, One, Three Hypostases

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Paul Brunton, The Wisdom of the Overself

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

• Rene Guenon, The Multiple States of Being

PLOTINUS QUOTES READ OR REFERENCED: V.1.8, V.1.10, VI.8.16, VI.8.18

DIAGRAM embedded in these notes from 1980 0220:

• FIGURE 1980 0220-1-AB. Three Hypostases, Primals, Secondaries, Tertiaries, and System of Nature mapped onto the Four Quadrants.

TYPED AND REFORMATTED by IT 2023

NOTES:

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

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

• All capitalization and punctuation corrected, abbreviations spelled out.

1980 02/20, 27 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

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

[Classnotes AB 1980 0220 Begin]

2/20/80 Wisdom of the Overself, "The Unveiling of Reality" [Note: Paul Brunton (PB), The Wisdom of the Overself.]

PB from the viewpoint of Plotinus (using Plotinus quotes)

Paragraph 58 --

V.1.10 -- the One, Intellectual-Principle, Soul

V.1.8

[FIGURE 1980 0220-1-AB. Three Hypostases, Primals, Secondaries, Tertiaries, and System of Nature mapped onto the Four Quadrants. IP = Intellectual-Principle. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

#4 embodies 1, 2, and 3.

1, 2, and 3 do not exist, only 4.

How Plotinus derives everything from the One but leaves it intact and beyond what comes from it.

VI.8.16, VI.8.18

The One = metaphysical infinity in which all possibilities are actual -- active and passive perfection (Act and Repose).

All possible universes conceived in their totality prior to being:

Passive = essence

Active = their embodiment of the universe

[Classnotes AB 1980 0220 End]

[Classnotes AB 1980 0227 Begin]

2/27/80 PB/Plotinus

V.1.10 -- System of Nature is more than cosmos, and includes it.

VI.8.16

Guenon, Multiple States, Chapter 1 -- One is infinite, beyond limit -- metaphysical infinity. [Note: Rene Guenon, The Multiple States of Being.]

[Classnotes AB 1980 0227 End]