Zenophan said Pythagoras stopped
the whipping of a puppy because he
recognised the soul of a friend in
metempsychosis
is not a self-proclaimed wise man
but one who pursued wisdom
through friendship. A philosopher
with knowledge of
Egyptian - Chaldean - Magi
and their spiritual secrets.
My constitution in
the Italian city of Sybaris taught
immortal mystery - understood in
souls returning til harmonious peace
is all they construct. That art won
number is the universe's law and
unity the law of God.
~
Plato's three component psyche of
appetite, emotion and mind
trace to Pythagoras's wisdom
through friendship
(philia means freindship - sophia
wisdom)
and a spectator seeking truth
has the best role in life's game
~
Diogenes Laertius when put up for
sale as a slave - cried for someone
wanting to purchase a master for
themselves and Socrates addressing
Pythagoras
said
"Don't stir the fire with a knife
the passions and swelling pride of the
great or step over the beam of a balance."
~
Philo heard
"If the soul is diverted from its course
it enslaves itself and makes whose soul
it is a slave to a host of masters."
~
Did Diogenes love of goodness
transcend his fear of death or think
Euclides colic - Plato a bore, Dionysian
performance a peep show for fools and
that the bad - even if prosperous - still
live badly?
~
Zeno - godfather stoic - taught while
pacing back and forth in a collanade
stoa is porch and
"A friend is another I" he said.
~
Senneca was a Quaestor in the reign
of Tiberius and Caligula - jealous of
his oratory - tried to kill him, but
Claudius banned him instead until he
was recalled from Corsica by Empress
Agrippina - tutored Nero, appointed
Paetor - got rich and counselled
"No matter how many you slay, you can't
kill your successor."
Senneca commited suicide at 65 -
believed love and fear do not mix
"live for the other person if we wish to
live for ourselves and no-one can strike
terror into others and still enjoy peace
of mind."
~
Climb the hill of understandinbg
walk easy with learning - study forward
and back - for friendship between the gods
and the good exist and the primal source
of all mind is spirit.
"Vanquish ignorance with good sense,
gain freedom from slavery and the gift of
ruling well."
Diogenes said
~
Dio Chrysostum the sophist was loved by
Emperor Trajan
"..as himself though I do not understand
what he says."
~
"All sound a tune unique to them
and the whistle player within
has a gift of hearing how to play it."
SANDERSON BECK 
cheers,
d.i.
A cut and past job, but I think the last stanza is mine. What happened was this - I cycled along the coast from Sutton to Dublin. It was dark, around 1am and very windy, but I heard a tune out to sea, but it was so soft and the wind so raw, that I could not sense where it was coming from. I thought maybe it was coming from Howth, 1500 or so meteres to my left over the sea. Maybe the wind was blowing it over from there from a session on the hillside. After a short while I began to suspect it was not originating from an outside reality, but the otherworld. Sirens out at sea communing a first glimpse of the blueprint delineating what score beyond human consciousness my soul is tuned to and plays in this world.
I was hearing my inner watermark whistling - no doubt about it - and whilst the two first notes where always the same, after they sounded the tune played a few more - very swift notes - and then trailed off beyond the edge of hearing, but kept returning, never playing the same snip of tune twice.
The wind was definately the defining force of this lightly heard phonomena.
Once I passed Bull Island I sensed the buffer of force dispell and it came again once more, twenty minutes after dissolving - later as I wheeled out of a wind swept Dublin bay and into urban shelter - a sort of final pip of luck and au revior from my daemon just after I thought the episode had ceased and so dismiss attaching any significance to what had occured in pitch dark along the storm swept bay.
A sigil for me to engage in the act of composing with the words of others.
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