The Fourth Way and Esoteric Traditions
Plato’s ideal state
What Plato achieved in the imaginative and conceptual worlds of poetry and philosophy far outshone his achievements in politics. The social ideas outlined in the Republic and his other works referencing the state were largely impracticable, and often seem to verge on fiction.
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If there is ever to be an ideal state, it requires not only a Sage King but also citizens who strive for internal justice. Though there will always be people striving for justice in the external world, if one doesn’t strive for justice in one’s own internal world, nobody else will.
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In Hugh James’ book, The Story of Man, the ideal state would transmit higher values to citizens to enable them to fulfill their possibilities.
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Presence is the illumination of our soul’s efforts to re-member itself. It is the revelation of the divine nature of a human being. It can be the lighting up of an individual’s life with the eternal matrix of being from which the soul springs. This is the uncreated light from which it was born.
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We need a community where practical external good householder is developed. How can this be done? Through the creation of beauty that leads to internal good householder. And this produces an inner sun of harmonious action in the present.
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Do we allow the reality of what is happening to force us into in a state of fear and instinctive desperation? Or do we use these difficult times to better understand that we are, in essence, spiritual beings?
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A Question of Presence is a practical text on work in a Fourth Way school. The author dedicates it to those looking for real change, noting the content comes from his four-year-old Facebook group for Italians on the Fourth Way. The book reworks the themes, debates, and comments that arose among the group’s participants.
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Plato’s principles of the ideal state apply to our inner world as well. Are we able to form a deputy steward to govern the city? To recognize the true ruler, to enable higher states to visit us?
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