Platonic Meditation Sources

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This field of sources is vast, yet these six little books compile enough quality thoughts for one to ponder many a lifetime on:

 

http://prometheustrust.co.uk/html/the_music_of_philosophy_series.html#fosouls

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Proclus on Truth, Love and Faith:

 

http://www.prometheustrust.co.uk/Faith__Truth_and_Love.pdf

Edited February 27, 2016 by Bodhicitta

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Proclus, Iamblichus & Hierocles on Prayer:

 

http://www.prometheustrust.co.uk/Concerning_Prayer.pdf

[rex]

Proclus, Iamblichus & Hierocles on Prayer:

 

http://www.prometheustrust.co.uk/Concerning_Prayer.pdf

 

A number of Thomas Taylor's platonic translations can be found in this book:

Thomas Taylor The Platonist, Selected Writings

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Yes Rex, the editor of the Thomas Taylor anthology, Kathleen Raine, was a theosophist at heart, whether or not she was a member of any theosophical organization.

 

http://www.temenosacademy.org/temenos_raine-message.html

[Bodhicitta]

“Philosophy may be compared to a luminous pyramid, terminating in Deity, and having for its basis the rational soul of man and its spontaneous unperverted conceptions,—of this philosophy, August, magnificent, and divine, Plato may be justly called the primary leader and hierophant, through whom, like the mystic light in the inmost recesses of some sacred temple, it first shone forth with occult and venerable splendour.”

 

Excerpt From: Thomas Taylor. “Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato.” iBooks

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For if we are temperate, we shall still continue to be so, though these calamities may befall us, and if we are contemplators of true beings, neither shall we be plundered of this habit; but all these dreadful events taking place, we shall still persevere in celebrating the rulers of all things, and in investigating the causes of effects.

- Proclus, On Providence, Fate, and that which is in our Power, 22, 20

[Apech]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyFT2Q_WpicA7BZfiTSzjtg

[Bodhicitta]

An innate knowledge of the Gods is coexistent with our very essence; and this knowledge is superior to all judgment and deliberate choice, and subsists prior to reason and demonstration. It is also co-united from the beginning with its proper cause, and is consubsistent with the essential tendency of the soul to The Good. If, indeed, it be requisite to speak the truth, the contact with divinity is not knowledge. For knowledge is in a certain respect separated [from its object] by otherness. But prior to the knowledge, which as one thing knows another, is the uniform connexion with divinity, and which is suspended from the Gods, is spontaneous and inseparable from them.

Iamblichus, On the Mysteries, I, iii.

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A recent title by an American Platonist T.M. Johnson.  His translation of Iamblichus' Exhortation to Philosophy is still (I think) the only one in English:

 

http://openingmind.net/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=206&zenid=dc4cb9d64df71b5481fef9ef03eb2993

Edited September 17, 2016 by Bodhicitta

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A new collection of the Platonic writings of Dr Alexander Wilder - not expensive.

 

http://www.lulu.com/shop/alexander-wilder/the-perfective-rites-and-other-writings-of-alexander-wilder/paperback/product-23157312.html