Course XXVIII ten great religions


Teaching 5: Egyptian Gods



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Teaching 5: Egyptian Gods

The memory of the Divine Atlantean Religion promoted among the Egyptians the worship of Solar gods: Ra (the sun), Atonu (Solar god), and Shour, Anuri and Amon (gods of days).

The memory of great Instructors and Divine Initiates guiding the people inspired gods of the dead: Sokaris, Osiris, Isis, Anubis and Nephtis are their models

But the characteristic worship of Nature in the new Aryan Race creates gods of the elements: Gabu (earth), Nuit (sky), Un (primordial water) and Hapi (Nile).

These gods, transformed from generation to generation, change and live among men, are adored here and abandoned there, almost as if they had human life.

But gods of the dead were more deeply in the heart of the Egyptians since Menes, their Great Initiated King.

Solar gods were not considered supreme in all districts, but every district had its prevailing god.

They worshipped Hathor in Denderah, Nit in Sais, Nekhabit in Kab, and Harmakhis in Elephantine.

Gods of Egypt had wonderful temples in Memphis, Thebes and Elephantine; all of them were built on the shores of the Nile. Even today you can see ruins of Karnac, Denderah, Edfu and Philae.

One can see the magnificent religious memory of Egypt in the sphinx of Gizeh, in millenary pyramids, which are at the same time funereal tombs, temples to revere the ancestors, initiatic chambers and stone books that contain the science of the Universe.

Osiris, lord of death, with his forty-two infernal judges, receives the soul, while the heart of the dead person speaks for or against himself. Isis is his wife, symbol of the Moon, queen of death.

Osiris is Goodness, but constantly he fights against Sit-Typhon, image of Evil. Osiris is defeated and dismembered by Sit-Typhon, and his mutilated members are thrown to the Nile; but Isis, his wife, painfully looks for these mutilated members in the water, re-unites them and weeps by the corpse of this God killed and sacrificed for Good.

The Liberator will emerge from this mutilated body, and Horus, a chaste child, will be born to defeat finally Sit-Typhon.

In ancient Egypt, on the commemoration of Osiris’ Mysteries, there were important festivals, they kept vigil by the corpse and covered the image of Isis with black veils; but everything rejoiced when He resuscitated in Horus.

Hermes Trismegistos, the three-times-sage, is image of the Divine Incarnation on earth.

You find in all Aryan Religions this man that is One among all and that posterity reveres as Divine Incarnation.

The concept of Trinity is present in Egyptian religion, but representing always the aspect of a formal divine family.

Horus is born of Osiris and Isis; both Phtah, male god, and Sokhit, female goddess, give life to Nephertunus.

Upon all tombs of this ancient people, these three interlaced heads can be found.

Great books of this religion, that the priests preserved carefully from century to century, possessed all secrets of Atlantean wisdom, but the priests destroyed them totally in order to impede their access to profane people.

Some oral text existed in Alexandria’s Library, but flames destroyed this treasure forever. Now one can know certain fragment –which was wrongly conveyed– of the Book of the Dead.

The Egyptian knew exactly the existence of an astral body, and called it double of man, or Ka; thence their important worship of the dead and their beautiful art of embalming, which nobody could copy. They tried to preserve the appearance of the physical body and this way that body assumed the same aspect of past life during its rebirth.

They said Ka, or double body, was a subtle image, reproducing physical life, which covered the soul (called Khu by them) and emitted subtle radiation and phosphorescence.


Teaching 6: Arrangement of Religions

In former lessons we have explained the course of two fundamental great religions in the beginning of the Aryan Race. Vedas founded a human religion that later became Human-Divine. The Egyptians preserved a divine religion, that later became Divine-Human.

So we have two fundamental religions, namely, Vedic religion and Egyptian religion.

The one and the other alternately defeated, surpassed, assimilated and degraded one another, but ultimately the purpose was the triumph of Vedic religion and the disappearance of Egyptian religion.

Vedas founded a human religion that became Divine; while the Egyptians disappear along with their people, after delivering to men the treasure of their Divine Religion.

The two great Vedic and Egyptian currents were founders of ten great religions in the ancient world until the advent of Buddhism.

Vedas promoted the religions of Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Gauls and Romans.

The Egyptians fostered religions of Assyrians, Sargonides, Indians, Israelites and Mongolians.

These ten great religions molded the Idea-Mother of the Aryan Race, a fight between spirit and matter, a balance of pairs of opposites, and a hard fight between human reason and divine intuition.

Chaldeans, Persians and Greeks were of white skin, and great promoters of life and civilization by their own efforts. They are a glimpse of what a man can achieve only by his will and discernment.

The Gauls, swarms of forgotten Aryans in lands of central Europe had as their mission to preserve the religion of Nature as pure as possible.

The Romans, formed by Greek refinement and pushed by a way of barbarians from the north, formed between these two currents the strongest religion of our race, because Christendom and our entire current civilization were based on them

In their origin, the Assyrians and Sargonides were of dark skin and conveyed the Divine Religion of the Egyptians by means of their extraordinary development, which was more intuitive than rational.

The Indians preserved the early Egyptian religion through their gods and magical rites.

The Israelites have as their mission to keep in their religion the concept of a Unique and Personal God, by perpetuating themselves in the entire course of the Aryan Race like living symbol of our race itself.

The Mongolians were those who transmitted those high Confucius’ and Lao-tse’s teachings.



Teaching 7: The Chaldeans
Like two immense rivers that meet and come together, the ancient divine religion of the Atlanteans and the new religion of Vedas meet and flourished in the emerging Aryan race.

To the north-west of Africa, there was an inhospitable and almost uninhabited land.

Like an immense bulk of salt, the very thin sand of the desert was the only owner of that territory, but a new race settled on the eastern border of this desert and later was known by the name of the Medes.

Two great rivers, Euphrates and Tigris, crossed this desert, and lightened and promoted the foundational task of the new inhabitants.

Later the historic destruction of Atlantis will be written down on Chaldean annals under the legend of “God Belos”. God decides to destroy men because of their wickedness and instructs Xisustros to build an ark, to keep in it any good being, and to sail toward the land of Nicir, the promised land of salvation.

Titan and Ner, two Chaldean giants, are also glimpses of their knowledge about the Atlanteans, a race of giants.

Because of those fights of the early Chaldeans against the rebellious Nature and roughness of the territory, they deified elements and natural phenomena. But the deepest worship of this people, which would reach a very high level of civilization, is that of life after death, reincarnation and influence of good and evil beings on earth and men.

So, an early Chaldean priest is a magician, who by a perfect vocalization moves away lower spirits and evokes the protection of good spirits.

This deep study of magical arts transform Chaldean priests and Initiates into great chemists and very knowledgeable about the hidden aspect of Nature. They were perfect astronomers since they learnt that any human influence is subject to a stellar and sidereal influence. This is so true that we can see Chaldean temples as great observatories.

Their ancient rectangular temples were called Ziggourats, with three, four or seven superposed floors. They were built on high artificial ridges, and their half-spherical upper storey was a telescopic device of silver and gold. In it was the secret chamber of the Goddess Ishtar, where nobody could enter, except for Great Initiated Priests or those Enlightened beings that were clairvoyants.

Chaldean peoples, early clans constituted for being disciplined and organized, very soon achieved great power and civilization. They did not erect steles of stone or marble like the Egyptians did, but knew how to write down their history on big bricks of clay that survive until our days.

Also they worshipped a Unique God, Zi Ana (God-Creator), Si Kia (humanized God), a redeemer made man, called Great and Sublime Fish.

Enlil is the evil aspect of God, king of shadowy places, of hells and evil.

Chaldeans also knew the religious concept of Trinity, since they dignified Anu, Bel and Ea as one God with three heads.


Teaching 8: The Assyrians
The Assyrians were destined to form a Semitic religion par excellence. They became strong, indomitable and combative, since Assyria’s destiny was to remain detached at al costs from continuous wars, because it was surrounded by hostile powers.

So, of course, Assyrian religion is warlike par excellence and personified power of war, combat and victory.

Asur, King of the Assyrians, is a Semitic Initiate, who guides this people toward the conquest of a new civilization: civilization by power.

Being aware of their power, the Assyrians were not cruel with the defeated in order to learn their teachings, to assimilate their good customs and to intermix constructive values.

Asur, an Initiated King, becomes Holy City, and this Holy City, transformed into living Sanctuary, has a supreme worship –Asur.

The enormous library of Asur proved this progressive virtue. It was there where they kept documents about the ancient Atlantean civilization, the history of the early Assyrians, and the book of prophecy and construction of the great pyramid of Kheops.

Since Assirya is religion of combat, the builder of those pyramids is the Great victorious King; the female aspect is represented by Semiramis, divine daughter of Derketos of Askalon.

Semiramis, abandoned when she was born, was picked up by a shepherd called Simas, who lovingly reared and instructed her in the art of war. Married to Oanes, she went with him to fight; but Nino fell in love with her, and abducted and associated her with the empire. Since then, riding a radiant white horse, from victory to victory, she defeated enemies, founded temples and hoarded up art treasures in the great Ninive. Later, Ninias, her son, conspired against her and, as she heard about it, grief-stricken, became a white dove and disappeared on the sky.

The early worship of the Assyrians was like that of the Chaldeans. They worshipped the God Belos and offered him sacrifices, but later they formed their own worship by deifying their kings or transforming those foreign gods into national gods.

Nothing remains today of this ancient religion in the world, but its history of religious grandeur, of a One and Trine God, of punishment and reward after death, is written down on any subsequent religion.

When the Assyrian people declined and its decadence began, those early, pure and strong worships, which implored before a combat or celebrated a triumph after a battle by means of simple and original rites, were substituted for luxurious ceremonies and human sacrifices.
Teaching 9: The Persians
As Aryan civilizations succeeded one another, religions experienced changes, modifications and transformations.

On the basin of the Tigris, in Central Asia, the strong and indomitable Assyrians stayed, and soon they grew up, developed a powerful civilization.

Populous and lost cities of Asur, Ninive and Gale are memorials of this people.

Like the Egyptian people, their great enemy –defeated and victorious at a time– they divinized Nature, the Goddess Dove, that is, their great queen Semiramis, while the worship of the male aspect of God was symbolized by the holy fire constantly burning in temples.

They had to follow a new religion, which really would deify and exalt the divine concept, by depriving it of a lot of idols, statues and several worships.

The Divine Atlantean Religion had been crushed under monstrous statues of numerous gods, and that pure and natural religion of the early Aryans had been substituted for gross forms.

Asur, the winged god emerged from the Solar disc, had lost any harmonious meaning of mankind linked with the Divinity.

On a vast plateau of Asia, surrounded by rivers Indus, Tigris and Caspian Sea, a new was taking form, which was a mixture of Persians, Medes and Assyrians –the Iranian or Persian race.

In the beginning of civilization, Zoroaster, a Great Initiate, descended to them. This Great Being destroyed idolatry and raised the standard of the Great God, the Unique God, the Solar Word: Ahuramazda.

Since then, the Solar worship, symbol of the Divine Religion of the Atlanteans, will shine again on any standard, on any throne and altar.

In his youth, Zoroaster is taken by Vohumano, tutelary god of the race, to a high mountain and there Ahuramazda gives him the Avesta, holy code of the new religion.

He established the Iranian religion, the two fundamental tenets about good and evil. Goodness has to be rewarded in this lifetime and in the hereafter; evil has to be punished in this lifetime by the law, and in the hereafter by divine pain and punishment.

Even in death, this new religion deprives itself of many forms, because the corpses of their dead people are exposed on high towers to be devoured by prey birds, and their bones reduced to ashes by the sun.

Iranian religion opens an interlude among Aryan religions that have lost their early harmony based on a monotheistic and polytheistic worship at a time, even though later, and as any religion, the Iranian religion became material y worshipped several gods. All successive religions never lost the true concept of racial religion, which is a divine memory contained in human form.

From Oxus’ and Laxartes’ shores, close to the mystic plateau of Pamir, the Iranians came down toward Bactriana and Nizaya. Empires of Medes and Persians emerged from these numerous nomadic tribes.

Until our days and like a dream, stories about important cities of these nations (Ecbatana and Persepolis) come to us.

Their early language was like Zenzar and Sanskrit, and related to the Avesta, a book entirely lost, because the Zend-Avesta was just a commentary about the early text (Zen = commentary).

The religious concept of the Persians is natural and divine. Everything emanated from the Eternal One –from Zervani Akerena. The Non-Manifested One expressed Himself in a manifested god: Ormuzd or Ahuramazda. Also there was a god of evil: Ahriman.

Their concept about life was not of an absolute good or an absolute evil because they had in very high esteem the tenet of pairs of opposites. Ormuzd does not overcome always, but periodically there is an age of good and an age of evil. The one balances the other. But the great god of the Persians is Mitra, image of cosmic energy.

Ormuzd, Ahriman and Mitra form the Holy Trinity. Good and evil fade away, but Divine Energy remains eternally.

This adoration of the Son makes Solar image shine over palaces and standards of the Persians. Iran is totally the city of the god Sun.

Worship of fire emerges as a result of this fervent veneration.

Fire is the only symbol and the only image in this radiant temple of gold.

Priests foretell the future by means of flames on the altar, and the voice of the gods comes from fire.

Zarathustra was the Great Prophet of Iran, Divine Incarnation appeared to renew a declined Persian people; one should not mistake this Prophet for Zoroaster, who was the Initiate that guided to the early Iranians from Bactriana to the plateau of Iran.

Persian religion is totally cosmogonic and astrological in relation to its symbol and form. The Sun is abode of the blessed souls; but to go up to him, the souls have to pass through seven doors, which are images of the planets, but also image of initiatic stages to climb in order to achieve their liberation or the state of Solar Initiate.

No evidence remains of Persian civilization and of its enormous progress, since history only knows something from the Sasanides’ dynasty on.

The Persians also have in Persepolis an important library and a museum with texts of the remotest times of the Syrians, which the Greek destroyed under Alexander.

Now Persian religions disappeared totally, but in India there is Mazdeism, which is an image of that ancient religion, the second religion after Hinduism that survives until our days. Even today, a Mazdeistic or Parsi priest kindles the holy fire but does not touch it, put embers on the top of two sticks of sandal to kindle it and, in certain temples, he does not kindle the fire; for years, devotees expect that a lightning from the sky may kindle that fire.

In the antiquity, Persians priests, who had perfectly the elemental entities under control, attracted a lightning from the sky to kindle the fire on the altar.


Teaching 10: Sargonides
Usually, the second great era Assyrian Semite, of this Iranian people, is called Assyrian; but there is a significant difference between these two eras, and between these two peoples.

We have seen that the Assyrians were descendants of the Aryan-Semites, who had assimilated early black peoples that they had subdued.

They grew up and became powerful and wise, but later they had their time of decadence.

Then they did not worship the Unique God and were not messengers between the Most High and men; those powerful temples, reservoirs of warlike energy were only galleries with statues of gods, of any form and dimension; and kings stopped being righteous descendants of the mythological king Nino, and were dissolute and lazy.

Meanwhile, Semitic provinces, under the Assyrians, became strong, abhorred pagan customs and wished to come back to the worship of the unique and true God.

God created a warlike and indomitable man, very courageous and strong, of Semitic origin, whose name was Sargon.

He made rebel his brothers of race against the kings, declared war, gradually defeated those who were in control, and was lord and king of the entire Assyrian territory.

That is why he is called “Sargon the Usurper”; the era of the Assyrian Sargonides, of Semitic origin, begins with him.

This man renewed people and cities, founded new towns, crushed rebellious provinces, destroyed idols and re-established the worship of God, revered in spirit and truth.

Until his assassination, his entire lifetime was of war and reformation. He destroyed the barrier of Egypt and Elman against Assyria, and made his kingdom thrive immensely.

After conquering Chaldea and after plundering Babylon for the second time, he built temples with seven stairs where the holy tree was revered, which was image of the seven eternal manifestations, and that has been copied from mysteries of the goddess Ishtar and of the Babylonian god Belos.

Ancient pieces of clay represented the king Sargon standing before the holy tree, his head inclined, as if he were sleeping.

This holy tree was image of the manifested God, according to Sargon’s priests.

Its first part, composed of three branches, represented the lower or animal manifestation; the second part, with red branches, represented the life of man; and other light blue branches represented the existence of intermediate worlds, where precedent warriors stayed.

Other higher branches, of yellow color, represented the abode of angels or superior spirits. Fifth, sixth and seventh branches were image of the Trine and Invisible God.

Later this strong race would hand on its teachings, symbols and writings to Moabites and Hebrews.



Teaching 11: The Greeks
In the Egean islands, a barbaric people grew up, which would become origin of the Celts and founder of Greece.

Seemingly, destiny will leave in the deepest darkness and abandonment those peoples that had to be founders of great races and glorious dynasties.

These half-savage peoples that were unaware of writing, arts or social system, lived totally in contact with Nature and practiced a purely human and external religion, which was a residue of the early Aryan religion.

They transformed any power of Nature and any manifestation of life into a divinity. They were unaware of a Unique God or an Initiated King to rule over earth like that of the Egyptians of Pharaohs.

They established clans, and Greece never was as great as when it was ruled as a republic.

Greece was formed with these Egean, Ionian and Dorian tribes.

Its oldest memories are told in two national epics: the Iliad, which describes the destruction of Troy, and the Odyssey, which sings Ulysses’ adventures.

Great cities emerge around temples of different divinities, and they are at the same time religious and legislative heads of these peoples, among them, Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes, Samos and Mileto.

Greece progressed and extended until the southern part of Italy, called Magna Graecia.

Zeus, son of Rhea, inspire a feeling of strength that has to win at all costs.

Aphrodite, the goddess of love, born of sea foam, grants to them their right to pleasure and life.

Demeter, the goddess of earth and fertility, assures them the fruit of a work properly done.

And the Olympus, mount of Macedonia, becomes a paradise where many gods stay and where youth and happiness become perennial.

The Greeks defeated the Persians and later they became more and more strong and great, and in times of Alexander, son of the King Philip of Macedonia, their splendor reached the acme.

Alexander founded a city in Egypt, which would be seat of the new Ptolomaic Empire and established there the greatest and riches museum and library that contained learned and historic documents never seen before by Humanity.

As Greece grew greater, it acquired knowledge about the unity of God.

The greatest philosophers will come from Greece: first, Socrates, later sentenced to death for believing in a Unique God; and later, Plato, his disciple, who in such a wonderful way declared the existence of a supreme being and explained the hidden meaning of different Greek divinities.

Aristotle, Xenophon and many others came later.

The Greek wisdom is prophetically synthesized by Pythagoras. He explains the Vedic sense of eternity and the creational aspect of the universe with mathematical accurateness.

No religion explains, like the Greek religion, the purity and simplicity of the early worship of the Aryans. Natural forces that gradually are incorporated and transformed into living persons and divinities, are so beautiful that thousands and thousands of years after the disappearance of the Greeks and of their religion, continue to live in treatises by philosophers that are studied until our days, and in art testimonies immortalized by those legends.

In the ancient Greece, the true worship of gods, images and ceremonies began on the period called Mycenian. But Greek idols reached their acme just in the Hellenic era.

The Hellenic era is composed of Eolian, Ionian and Dorian dynasties. The union of these three forces makes the ancient Greece thrive in religion, poetry, sculpture and music, since the Hellenic worship is a result of fine arts, and fine arts are not a consequence of the worship like in other religions.

Any force, impulse and courageous action come along with arts and create a god.

You can see this in the birth of popular mythology. Chronos and the ancient Titans are civilization in its infancy and culture in its beginning, since Zeus, the Great God, emerges from this uneducated and strong people.

Now he is a God, symbol of strength, order, victory and law established for the progress and grandeur of the Greek.

In the Olympus, which is his kingdom, he assembles divinities of all kinds –of air, sea, earth, heaven and hell.

He is the Absolute One that contains in his invulnerable fist, in his unbreakable will, any human and divine power, according to the Hellenic dream of a unique people that subdued all others and controlled them by persuasion, strength and arts of any kind.

Zeus shares his celestial kingdom with his siblings Poseidon and Hera. The latter, wife and sister of the God, is symbol of potential and manifested power; numerous sons help these severe gods in their reign.

Pallas Athena is the goddess of power and war, and patron of Athens and of studious people, since she is born of an inspired thought of Zeus.

Phoebe, the god of the Solar light, symbol of vital energy of this luminary, adorned with beauty and grace, and holding an arrow and a lyre, hurts all those that desire to learn and captivates them by means of inspired poetry, music and fine arts.

Artemis is sister of the son, symbol of clear night, of the Moon, of the countryside and of hunters; she protects and regulates the female physiology.

Hermes, symbol of the son of God, is revered as messenger of the gods; he protects youth, the future promise of the people, and finally saves the souls and guides them toward the mansion of peace.

Hephaistos is the God of fire, none like him is able to work metals; he is symbol of mystical fire and of vital current generating beings. Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, love and generation, would be unable to give life to men without Hephaistos’ intervention and power. Hephaistos is the only legitimate consort despite her other lovers, because generation power is one in its fundamental aspect.

Aries is the god of violent war, which is abhorred by the rest of the gods.

Hestia is patron of home and guardian angel.

Poseidon, image of the instinctive matter, is king of waters and sea, and of storms and earthquakes; he holds a trident, symbol of power over the elements or over the lower triangle, namely, mind, energy and matter.

Demeter, sister of Zeus, is the mother earth that gives life to Nature, makes trees flower, fertilizes crops and makes grapes thrive.

But Dionysos or Bacchus is the god of wine, like symbol of bacchanalia, oblivion and astral pleasure.

These are not the only gods in the Hellenic Olympus because after them there are many minor gods and goddesses, such as the Parcae, symbol of the goddesses of destiny, the nine Muses; and the three Charites, symbol of grace and beauty-

The Greeks deified also their heroes, but the true worship strove for finding the Unique God behind all aspects of every divinity.

Xenophanes, a great philosopher, deplored the concept of ordinary people that worshipped the external symbol of the gods and forgot the Only God, bodiless and formless, but that is pure essence.

Poetry helped worship in a significant way by means of nuptial, funereal and epic songs.

Long ago, before Homer’s Odyssey, Linus, Hymeneus and Orpheus are remembered as great poets.

All arts created and co-operated with the worship.

No people achieved so much in arts and philosophy as the Greeks, to such extent that will be difficult to surpass them.

This civilization, born amid the pillars of the seven sciences, touched and deepened all knowledge, discovered and synthesized all beauty and gave a new sense to life by means of poetry, literature and philosophy.

It is impossible to enumerate all artists of the archaic period, because they are very numerous. Of them we can remember Solon, who besides poet, gave laws of Athens and was one of the seven sages in those heroic times. Even we should not forget Sapho, that wonderful poetess, who chanted so sweetly to pleasures of living like very few could ever do after her.

But the greatest poet of Greece was Pindar, but only fragments of his poems came to our days.

Like them, many others, namely, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Epicharmus and Aristophanes.

We should not forget Aesop, author of satiric prose, or Herodotus, the historian.

The Greek knowledge grows richer by a legion of studious men that loved the truth, namely, the philosophers.

That row of wonderful sages begins with Xenophanes. In those days he wrote in an excellent way about the origin of the Universe and the concept of divinity.

But it is in the Attic period when philosophers flourished.

The oldest philosopher is Thales of Mileto, who based his philosophy on the study of physics, geometry and astronomy; in his view, water was the original principle of all natural things.

Anaximander and Anaximenes belong to his school; the two were from Mileto and in their view the Universe, besides its physical conception, resulted from a subtler unknown element, which they called “Infinite concrete mass”.

Also Heraclitus of Ephesus belonged to the physical school and attributed a divine spirit to the elements.

In those days, Xenophanes, a monotheistic philosopher, abhorred images and apparently preceded the iconoclasts.

But the most outstanding philosophical school was the Italic school under Pytaghoras. Over all, he was a great mathematician that applied mathematical and algebraic foundations to the Universe and metaphysical laws. He is one of the first that expressed the idea of metempsychosis or reincarnation.

Leucipus of Elea founded an atomic philosophy; in his view, the soul of man causally and energetically results from atomic cell agglutination.

Empedocles wanted to synthesize spirit and matter. So he images the Universe like two intermixed significant currents that create manifested life.

For the first time, Anaxagoras distributed and arranged the elements in groups, and Hippocrates, a physician and philosopher, did the same.

Greek philosophies had declined and became more and more materialistic, and finally Sophists and their school arrived.

It is then when Socrates, great philosopher of the spirit, emerges.

His work is completed by his disciple Plato, founder of the Academic school, who left very numerous writings; in his works one can clearly see his deep spiritual and esoteric sense.

Since then, the philosopher starts flying through spaces of the mind and to look for subtle questions about imponderable things.

Aristotle is the philosopher of ideas, mind, spiritual conceptions and static sense of living, and founder of the Peripatetic school.

As this schools expanded, other two schools came into being in Athens, namely, the Epicurean school and the Stoic school.

Epicurus, founder of former, taught his disciples that the gods do not deal with human matters, and that man is born to enjoy wisely pleasures of living, meeting his desires with righteous desires, disposing of pain and unrest, and that one should not fear death because death becomes only dissolution of our body.

In the Stoic school’s view, founded by Zeno of Cippus, human virtue consists only of virtue and total control of passions.

The Christian moral is based on this school, which considered the human soul like a part, not like an emanation of the divinity, and that the supreme good consists of being able to help our neighbors.

The last Greek philosophers, called of the Roman period, very influenced by the grandeur of Rome, were Iamblichus, Heliodorus, Dionysius and many others. Among them, there are certain Christians belonging to the Neoplatonic school, namely, Justinus, Plotinus, Origen, Basilius and Eusebius.

Also we should mention Ammonius Saccas, the great philosopher of Alexandria, founder of the Neoplatonic esoteric school.

Also Basilides belonged to this school, and we can say that stupendous legion of Greek philosophers perished with those men that founded all schools in force until our days.



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