Wednesday, March 5th, 1980

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

MARCH 5, 1980

PB BOOKS; WISDOM OF THE OVERSELF

TOPIC: PB Books

SUBJECT: Wisdom of the Overself

SUBSUBJECTS: Time, World-Mind, World-Soul

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Paul Brunton, The Wisdom of the Overself

• M.P. Pandit, Aditi and Other Deities in the Veda

• John Francis Callahan, Four Views of Time in Ancient Philosophy

• 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 03/05 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

PB Books; Wisdom of the Overself

[Classnotes AB 1980 0305 Begin]

3/5/80 Wisdom of the Overself [Note: Paul Brunton (PB), The Wisdom of the Overself.]

Chapter 3 ("Birth of the Universe") and 11 ("The World-Mind") as two aspects of soul.

M.P. Pandit, Aditi and Other Deities in the Veda -- Gayatri prayer, chapter on Surya.

Body of God (World-Mind or One) is entire fourth quadrant.

Body of Sun (cosmic soul) is our sensible universe.

Four Views of Time, pp. 118-119 [Note: John Francis Callahan, Four Views of Time in Ancient Philosophy.]

For Plotinus, time is not a subjective phenomena, it is a real substantial or ontic principle of soul which precedes and gives rise to manifestation.

For Aristotle, time is the measure of motion (time is within the produced universe).

For Plotinus, time is the author of motion (time in itself).

[Classnotes AB 1980 0305 End]