Riffing on Eternity
Through exploratory writing and image play, my Riffing on Eternity project combines my current big interests: AI images and Platonism.
The notes I jotted down during the introductory Prometheus Trust zoom classes on Platonism served as the titles of each piece and as writing prompts. Selected in no particular order, I improvised on these selected notes and called it Riffing on Eternity.
It all expanded my study, but sometimes the writing took me away from the first phrase. Not strictly Platonic. And originally written a few years ago. I regret that I didn’t add the original sources from the talks or readings when note-taking - not very scholarly of me.
Still, I thought it would be worth sharing, so I went back to it and based AI images on prompts from the text. You can link to the passages below.
Contents
Examine Real Being
“Examine real being first by exploring reasons, and use them as steps upwards through levels of belief.”
The Gods are Beyond All Beings
All that we sense with our sense perception occurs below the realm of the gods. And what of all that we intuit with our inner light? What of that? Can we then find traces of the gods? Surely, if they are beyond all beings, yet we know of them, and sense their providence in our lives, how does this sense work? Is it the gods themselves in us finding thei…
Enter the Flow of Divine Providential Activity
Splashed by the overflow from the divine fountain, I turn and turn and turn again. A planetary transformation is involved in this turning, and with each turn of the divine spiral, I lose more of the exterior cloak and shine more of the inner light.
The soul is perpetual
The soul is perpetual - not measured in a single physical life. Moving from a consciousness overwhelmed by the material world to a point of view of contemplation of the whole of time. What kind of consciousness is that? It is one that is passing out of the illusion of manifestation.
The first father sowed fiery love..
The Chaldean Oracle said, “The first father sowed fiery love in all creatures.”
The intention of all mystic ceremonies ..
The intention of all mystic ceremonies is to conjoin us with the world and the gods.- Sallust
When you use your gnostic powers you may rise above.
A way to know the gods is by seeing them in the radiant reflections in your being.
Beginnings and endings are joined into a circle...
Beginnings and endings are joined into a circle - not a never-ending straight line.
Intellect is not blinded by time
The finer perception occurs beyond the body of the five senses, when the soul rises to the realm of intellect. Here is a means of precise percept that is not polluted by time. The perception remains, to stand in purity as a watcher, transformer or beacon. There are many many such percepts, and they are all known within by the awakened soul in the return…
