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Alfaji: Is this what u meant?

True wisdom, Socrates said, consists in the knowledge of the essence of things. This form of knowledge cannot be acquired from without, but must be sought within the soul itself. His first aim, therefore, was to train men to think, and by thinking to reach the source of knowledge within themselves.

He demanded an aristocracy based not upon wealth or birth but upon knowledge and virtue. Instead of the ordinary citizen-rulers, he insisted upon statesmen who were morally without reproach and who had developed the power to think for themselves. He had openly declared that the power of state should not be awarded by lot or election, but should be decided by the moral and intellectual qualifications of the candidates for office. The politicians of his day believed in doing good to friends and harm to enemies.

Unless it happen either that philosophers acquire the kingly power in states, or that those who are now called kings and potentates be imbued with a sufficient measure of genuine philosophy, that is to say, unless political power and philosophy be united in the same person ... there will be no deliverance ... for cities, nor yet, I believe, for the human race.

 

Emperor, Theodosius, had killed or exiled all the pagan philosophers, made churches of the temples and destroyed the last of the Mystery Schools. Hypatia, the girl-philosopher of Alexandria, was murdered by Cyril's horde of fanatical monks in 414. A little later Proclus brought new life to the Platonic Academy in Athens, but not for long. In 529 Justinian closed the School and drove the last of the Neoplatonists from Europe.

 

After these accusations had been read to the Court of the Inquisition, Giordano Bruno arose and unfolded his philosophical and scientific doctrines in detail, neither concealing nor omitting any essential feature, but speaking as simply as if he were sitting in his professor's chair talking to his pupils. He admitted his belief in an infinite universe which is the direct effect of infinite, divine power. He defined this power as Spirit, by virtue of which everything lives, moves and has its being.

This Divine Presence, he continued, is Spirit, the All-Life, and from It life and soul flow into everything and everybeing.

After listening unmoved to his sentence, Bruno rose to his full height, looked his executioners in the eye, and spoke his last sentence on earth:

"It is with far greater fear that you pronounce, than I receive, this sentence."

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Why do we think so differently?

Because we are separate by thousands of years in evolution.

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SP: "Vedik Culture was everywhere. Europeans come from Xatriya stock."

Merlin + Druid Culture was covered over by external Christianity & watered-down Judaism, both extremely recent issues.

All so-called Greek, Roman, Nordic Myths actually occurred on this planet or others.

U want Myths? Judaism is first One-God religion.

U want more Myths? Christianity is first Trinity religion.

 

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