Initiation of Plato

Plato drinks of the Oimellas before the last phase of his initiation in the play Initiation of Plato... 

The play Initiation of Plato also explains the veiled nature of the Wisdom of Liberality. Plato argues that Science can remove the veil of Isis. The Priest or Patriarch counters it cannot ... 

Hall [1937], ppl40 150 refers to The Initiation of Plato from a play called The Freemason, printed in Paris in 1867 and reproduced in a magazine entitled The Kneph BoM 19 refers to Ecclesiastes 2 8. See also Mathers, plOl Herodotus, Book 2, 111 and 132 Josephus, Antiquities, Book 8, Chapter 10... 

Hall, [1937], Initiation of Plato, Third Tableau, Second Scene, pl59... 

I return to these connections in IV.2, from a different perspective. There, 1 argue that emotional life may be a succession of episodes, each of which has an internal structure, rather than a simple succession of experiences. The disturbance of an initial equilibrium generates a negative emotion, which in turn induces an action tendency, a desire to reestablish the equilibrium, the fulfillment of which generates a positive emotion. Plato and Aristotle took the further step of assuming that the last step can be foreseen and thus generate pleasures of anticipation simultaneously with the occuirent pains. But as indicated in the parenthetic observations in the previous paragraph, the restoration of equilibrium may be impossible or prohibitively costly. In such cases, and perhaps also when restoration is possible but unlikely, there may not be any pleasures of anticipation. Conversely - a more controversial point - when the future satisfaction is certain there... 

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