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The paper examines the opening verse of the Bible, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth", and unlocks this by using a Platonist understanding combined with the symbolism of Hebrew letters.
Thus the true reading appears to be "Great House wisdom created Elohim, the alphabet, the heavens and the earth".

Most commentators ignore the short rendition, (532a) but this gives us a firm and sound base from which to start. It goes like this: -
"Glaucon," I said, "isn't this at last the song itself that dialectic performs? It is in the realm of the intelligible, but it is imitated by the power of sight. We said that sight at last tries to look at the animals themselves and at stars themselves and then finally at the sun itself. So, also, when a man tries by discussion-by means of argument without the use of any of the senses-to attain to each thing itself that is and doesn't give up before he grasps by intellection itself that which is good itself, he comes to the very end of the intelligible realm just as that other man was then at the end of the visible."
"That's entirely certain," he said. Republic 532a
• The image maker his journey takes him to the end of the visible realm.
• The other man without the aid of the senses reaches the end of the intelligible realm.

Platonism: discovering the art of Judaism. A Journey discussing I the Theology of Paul and the Theurgy of John. •  Although I used several books and videos the main book for which I gained the greatest appreciation for the art of Judaism is titled The Hebrew Letters Channels of Creative Consciousness by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh. Inspired with wisdom throughout the book gives you a mathematical understanding of the language of the 22 Hebrew letters of light,-highly recommend.

I have carefully followed the works of Dionysius the Areopagite who says, “Father of Sophists if you trust me, you will do as follows: you will cease from condemning others and you will speak in defence of the truth in such a way that the things you say will be completely irrefutable”.  I'm looking throughout at what he says comparing this with Platonism, Hebraic philosophy, and the Gospel of John. You will soon realise I find John facinating and grossly misunderstood.

The conventional reading of the Allegory of the Cave is Aristotle tragedy, but this is Plato there is much a more profound understanding which is triumph over tragedy.
Once you get this understanding it opens up a path way even greater understanding.

Hebraic philosophy teaches the goal of every Jewish person is to do treshuvah meaning "return the soul to the true source", this is precisely the purpose of the philosophical teaching of Plato and John's Gospel, this united understanding provides us with unanimous common ground to begin. The simple aim of this paper is to recollect these philosophies together to make a whole through the analogy of three farming terms-Sowing, Gathering and finally Storing the harvest.

Including an amazing insight to John's Gospel. This is a slightly extended version of the paper titled Plato and the Torah. The aim is to show you that the first five books of the Bible known as the Torah are unequivocally pure Platonism. (Platonism is the Hellenic philosophy that embraces the Orphic, Chaldean, and Egyptian traditions). Undeniably the Torah comes from this same tradition indeed the favoured son of Israel was Pharaohs most successful Egyptian charioteer, Joseph.

The role of Socrates with Adeimantus in Plato's Republic along with a short analysis of the story of the Cave. The sixth century Platonist Dionysius the Areopagite uses a method of affirmation and denial which is the same method Plato uses in the Parmenides however he brings to this method his own stamp of interesting originality. From reading his works I realised that this method helps understand the whole of Plato's philosophy in two simple terms. The method is called cataphatic theology and apophatic philosophy which can be compared with each section of the divided line. Cataphatic theology is the affirmation of speech-which is classed as progression. The opinion and belief side of the divided line. Apophatic philosophy is the subsequent denial of speech-classed as reformation. The noumenal side of the divided line. The etymology of the two words, in both cases φάναι phanai means to speak, the "Apo" comes from apophēmi, meaning "to deny" and the "cata" coming from κατά kata to intensify which is to increase multiply and generate hence progression. This is the first theme we are going to examine; the second theme is the allegory of the cave. All of us even the cave dwellers are looking for the good, so when I first became seriously interest in philosophy, I thought the study of Plato was for University intellectuals and thus I spent my spare time learning the theories of the Eastern spiritual philosophies. Eventually I risked reading a copy of the Lobe translation of the Timaeus, which I confess proved my initial thoughts correct, I did not understand a single line and I could not even attempt to read the pages on the left-hand side.

The Nostell Thomas More family portrait, a copy of the original Holbein which is no longer extant. True to the traits of Holbein there are diagonal lines focusing our attention to the book Margret Roper is reading. Margret is reading Senecas Oedipus, notice her finger pressed on the word "demens"-dementia a serious mental illness that causes a person to lose the ability to think and behave rationally. Senecas play warns the tragedy of madness is a contagious disease that infects the lives of everyone caught under the tyrant's spell.

Including an amazing insight to John's Gospel. This is a slightly extended version of the paper titled Plato and the Torah. The aim is to show you that the first five books of the Bible known as the Torah are unequivocally pure Platonism. (Platonism is the Hellenic philosophy that embraces the Orphic, Chaldean, and Egyptian traditions). Undeniably the Torah comes from this same tradition indeed the favoured son of Israel was Pharaohs most successful Egyptian charioteer, Joseph.

Plato and the Torah (The first five books of the Bible). Including an amazing insight to John's Gospel. The aim is to show you that the first five books of the Bible known as the Torah are unequivocally pure Platonism. (Platonism is the Hellenic philosophy that embraces the Orphic, Chaldean, and Egyptian traditions). Undeniably the Torah comes from this same tradition indeed the favoured son of Israel was Pharaohs most successful Egyptian charioteer, Joseph.

The scholarly world contends the Mystical Theology was written to affirm that when Moses ascended Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments from YHWH (Exodus 19) he also made a mystical union known as the ecstatis.
We are going to examine the meaning of the ecstatis.

The standard for interpretation of the Allegory of the Cave is usually taken from Heidegger's lecture notes. This conventional reading of the Allegory is Aristotle tragedy, but this is Plato there is much more profound understanding which is triumph over tragedy. Which is as relavant today as it was then.

The role of Socrates with Adeimantus in Plato's Republic along with a short analysis of the story of the Cave. The sixth century Platonist Dionysius the Areopagite uses a method of affirmation and denial which is the same method Plato uses in the Parmenides however he brings to this method his own stamp of interesting originality. From reading his works I realised that this method helps understand the whole of Plato's philosophy in two simple terms. The method is called cataphatic theology and apophatic philosophy which can be compared with each section of the divided line. Cataphatic theology is the affirmation of speech-which is classed as progression. The opinion and belief side of the divided line. Apophatic philosophy is the subsequent denial of speech-classed as reformation. The noumenal side of the divided line. The etymology of the two words, in both cases φάναι phanai means to speak, the "Apo" comes from apophēmi, meaning "to deny" and the "cata" coming from κατά kata to intensify which is to increase multiply and generate hence progression. This is the first theme we are going to examine; the second theme is the allegory of the cave. All of us even the cave dwellers are looking for the good, so when I first became seriously interest in philosophy, I thought the study of Plato was for University intellectuals and thus I spent my spare time learning the theories of the Eastern spiritual philosophies. Eventually I risked reading a copy of the Lobe translation of the Timaeus, which I confess proved my initial thoughts correct, I did not understand a single line and I could not even attempt to read the pages on the left-hand side.

Understanding the nature of our soul is important because philosophy is the study of how to remove the soul from the body, (Phaedo 65a). The practice which maintains this is wisdom, therefore the philosopher is a lover of wisdom.

Firstly, allow me to introduce you to the pranic body. Prana is life force; without prana we would be dead. Around the body there are five types of pranas. They are all parts of the Great Prana the cosmic Prana. (Capital P). These pranas look after our daily bodily functions, very briefly: -

The Jewish religion is amazingly beautiful, but in fact it is not a religion it is a philosophy. By philosophy I mean the art of removing the soul from the body, and this practice we shall see is also true of Judaism, it is called teshuvah, and an aspirant who can maintain this heightened state of consciousness is called Ba’al Teshuvah.
What makes Judaism art beautiful is that the Hebrew letters of the alphabet have mathematical structure and well thought out coordinated theories that create a wholeness that is not found in other philosophies.

Heidegger appears to have become the de-facto interpreter of the Allegory of the Cave but I think it could be improved. His reading is the conventional reading of the Allegory which is Aristotle tragedy, but this is Plato there is a much more profound understanding which is triumph over tragedy.

The works of the Areopagites are complex and difficult to follow which inevitably leads to different interpretations.
Scholars broadly fall into two camps of interpretation, one suggests he is a Christian presenting a Christian theology for the purpose of converting heathens, the other school argues that he was a pagan Platonist who infiltrated Christianity with Platonist philosophy.
As maybe I think there is a clear purpose to his work.