Lecture Series One:

TWELVE TEACHERS

Series One - Lecture One

MAN'S POWER OF SELF-CONTROL IN LIFE AND DEATH: Socrates, Master of Philosophic Conviction

"The best man is he who must tries to perfect himself, and the happiest man is he who most feels that he is perfecting himself." — SOCRATES

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Series One - Lecture Two

CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY: Paul, the Apostle of Christ

"But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory; which none of the princes of this world knew, for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."

— I CORINTHIANS ii:7,8

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Series One - Lecture Three

THE DOCTRINE OF UNIVERSAL LAW: Buddha, the Light of Asia

"Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise

From outward things, what'er you may believe.

There is an inmost center in us all,

Where truth abides in fullness; and around

Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,

This perfect clear perception which is truth."

— Buddha

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Series One - Lecture Four

CHARACTER AS THE HIGHEST GOOD: Aristotle, Definer of the Ethical Way

"Nor is there any point perhaps so distinctive of the virtuous man as his power of seeing the truth in all cases, because he is, as it were, the standard and measure of all things"

— (Welldon, pp. 72-73)

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Series One - Lecture Five

THE EFFORTLESS ACTION OF TAO:  Lao-Tse, Mystic of the Simple Way

"He who knows others, is clever, but he who knows himself, is enlightened. He who overcomes others, is strong, but he who overcomes himself is mightier still" — LAO-TSE (Giles, p.44)

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Series One - Lecture Six

A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED:  Maimonides, the Moderator of Learning

"God is near to all who call Him, if they call Him in truth, and turn to Him. He is found by every one who seeks Him, if he always goes toward Him, and never goes astray." — MAIMONIDES

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Series One - Lecture Seven

THE CONCEPT OF THE SUPERIOR MAN:  Confucius, Leader of Social Progress

"The Superior Man seeks in himself, whereas ordinary men seek in others for truth. The object of the Superior Man is truth — truth achieved through consistency with the highest standards of the common good and a strict application of the Principle" — CONFUCIUS

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Series One - Lecture Eight

ARGUMENTS FOR THE ETERNALITY OF SOUL:  Plato, Defender of Immortality

"O my friends, if the soul is really immortal, what care should be taken of her, not only in respect of the portion of time which is called life, but of eternity!" — PLATO'S Phaedo

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Series One - Lecture Nine

ON THE NATURE OF THE TEACHER:  Aquinas, the Great Scholastic

"But since the power of God, which is His essence, is nothing else but His wisdom, it can indeed be fittingly said that there is nothing in the divine power which is not in the order conceived by the divine wisdom; for the divine wisdom comprehends the power in its entirety." — ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

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Series One - Lecture Ten

THE MYSTICISM OF DIVINE UNION:  Jalal-Ud-Din, Lover of God

"Earthly forms are only shadows of the Sun of Truth — a cradle for babes, but too small to hold those who have grown to spiritual manhood."

— JALAL-UDDIN RUMI

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Series One - Lecture Eleven

WHY MAN CAN KNOW ONLY HIMSELF:  Leibnitz, the Philosopher of Individualism

"He who sees all might read in each what is happening everywhere, and even what has happened and shall happen, observing in the present that which is far off in time as in place" — LIEBNITZ

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Series One - Lecture Twelve

STRUCTURE AND LAWS OF THE HUMAN PSYCHE:  Jung, Psychologist of Man's Integration

"To remove [the] isolation and confusion of modern man, to make it possible for him to find his place in the great stream of life, to assist him to a wholeness that knowingly and deliberately binds his light, conscious side to the dark one of the unconscious — this is the meaning and aim of Jungian guidance" — JACOBI, The Psychology of C. G. Jung

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Lecture Series Two:

HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

Series Two - Lecture One

THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS:  Eastern Doctrines of the Universal Psyche 

"I have always taught you that all phenomena and their developments are simply manifestations of mind. All causes and effects, from great universes to the fine dust only seen in the sunlight come into apparent existence only by means of the discriminating mind. If we examine the origin of anything in all the universe, we find that it is but a manifestation of some primal essence. "

— BUDDHA (The Surangama Sutra)

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Series Two - Lecture Two

THE ULTIMATE APPROACH TO GOD:  Relativity of Man's Understanding

"Our ancestors and men of high antiquity have left us a tradition, involved in fable, that the first essences are gods, and that the Divinity comprehends the whole of Nature."

— ARISTOTLE, Metaphysics, 12, viii

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Series Two - Lecture Three

THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND OF BEING:  Conscious Levels of Reality and Illusion

"It is clear that no one can know the nature of the highest certainty, unless he possesses an adequate idea, or the subjective essence of a thing: for certainty is identical with such subjective essence"

— Elwes' translation, Philosophy of Benedict de Spinoza, p. 11

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Series Two - Lecture Four

THE ASPECTS OF INDIVIDUAL SOUL:  Psychology as Viewed by Philosophers

"The science of the soul, therefore, is a medium between metaphysics and physics; just as the essence of the soul is a medium between supernatural and natural forms, and has something which communicates with the former, and something which inclines to the latter."

— The Works of Aristotle, p. xl

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Series Two - Lecture Five

THE EMOTIONAL ASCENT OF SOUL:  True Meaning of Love and Beauty

"For even as Love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to y our height and caresses you tenderest branches tha quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth."

— GIBRAN, The Prophet

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Series Two - Lecture Six

THE PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF REINCARNATION:  Movement of Psyche in Time

Buddha replied: "It is because the ignorant cling to names, signs and ideas; as their minds move along these channels they feed on multiplicities of objects and fall into the notion of an ego-soul and what belongs to it; they make discriminations of good and bad among appearances and cling to the agreeable. As they thus cling there is a reversion to ignorance, and karma born of greed, anger and folly; is accumulated. As the accumulation of karma goes on they become imprisoned in a cocoon of discrimination and are thenceforth unable to free themselves from the round of birth and death."

— GODDARD, A Buddhist Bible

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Series Two - Lecture Seven

THE RATIONAL QUALITY OF THE SOUL:  Purpose and Limitations of the Human Mind

"When reason [the highest part of the soul] is concerned with the rational, and the circle of the same, moving smoothly, directs it, then intelligence and knowledge are necessarily perfected"

— PLATO, Timaeus

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Series Two - Lecture Eight

THE SHADOW AND GUARDIAN ASPECTS OF INTEGRATION:  Opposites Between Which Consciousness Evolves

"Being of the Voidness, and thus not to be conceived as having beginning or ending, Self-Born Wisdom has in reality been shining forever, like the Sun's essentiality, itself unborn. To know whether this be so or not, look within thine own mind."

— attributed to PADMA-SAMBHAVA, The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation

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Series Two - Lecture Nine

THE REWARDS OF CONTEMPLATION:  Self-Awareness as the Mystical Goal

"God does not raise to perfect contemplation every one that is tried in the way of the spirit...and he alone knows why."

— ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS, Dark Night of the Soul, bk. i; ch. XVII

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Series Two - Lecture Ten

THE PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHIC PSYCHOLOGY:  Man's Purpose and Future Direction

"The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed, and to him who has a hold on the vaster and more permanent realities, the hourly vicissitudes of his personal destiny seem relatively insignificant thing."

— WM. JAMES, On Vital Reserves

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Series Two - Lecture Eleven

THE LEVELS OF KNOWLEDGE:  Movement of Consciousness From Ignorance to Wisdom

"To sum up: the Platonic theory is that education should be primarily moral and spiritual—not mechanical or utilitarian—having for its ultimate end the ascent of the soul to the Supreme Good; that the specific object of education should be the development of moral and intellectual character; that a purely mental education, severed from a moral, and having no reference to true spiritual culture, is not only worthless but positively deleterious."

— THOMAS M. JOHNSON, "Platonic Theory of Education" in Bibliotheca Platonica, Vol. I

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Series Two - Lecture Twelve

THE ADJUSTMENT OF RELATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS TO REALITY:  Man's Relation to the Ultimate Good

"Nirvana consists not in escape from the world, but in the unlocking of the hidden nature, the development of the sleeping Buddha, the unfolding of potentialities. It is the fruition of life rather than its denial."

— "An Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism"

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