This series covers events from 11/12/1980 - 12/10/1980

This series of classes explores how the soul can ascend from ordinary perception to divine knowledge and beauty. Why is an ascent necessary to behold divine beauty? Because, Plotinus explains, intellectual beauty is identical with real being, the true object of the Intellectual-Principle. True cognition occurs when knower and known become identical, which requires ascending from conjecture to reason to direct intellectual vision. Anthony Damiani uses Plato's account of the four inspirations as a systematic method for spiritual ascent, and these are correlated with four levels of the soul and the Divided Line. True inspiration is participation in divine knowledge, not mere human creativity. When Beethoven composes a musical work or Archimedes discovers a scientific law, they are accessing the Gods' providential knowledge through properly prepared soul faculties.

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