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Symbolism, Eminationism, Color Magick, Etheric Tides & Universal Planes

Relevant chapter: Origins of “Genius” & Daimon Concept

roles of the golden dawn which were written when the inner order because the inner order didn't exist when they first started the golden dawn. Couple years later there was an inner order but the first documents were all about the getting in touch with this higher divine genius. the rest of it as it descends down. I would say you get to the archonic level when you start getting into the lower astral and the cosmic physical. Above that, you're not in the you're not in the archonic level yet. Um because

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The Seven Sages, Socrates, Plato, and the Hermetic Current

Relevant chapter: Genius, Daimon & Divine Guidance

And genius, we get that term from from uh Thomas Taylor's uh um translation of of the diamond. He doesn't call it demon the way that it gets translated later. He calls it the genius. Um, and there's something there as well about, you know, the Arabic genie and and things like that. It's kind of a sim similar concept, but he very carefully chooses that word genius. And that's what ultimately, right? Socrates says Socrates's whole thing is that he follows the prompings of what he calls

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The Seven Sages, Socrates, Plato, and the Hermetic Current

Relevant chapter: Genius, Daimon & Divine Guidance

his diamond. Like, I don't do anything that did the diamond tells me not to do. And it'll whisper and it'll just tell me no. and it'll tell me when to do things. >> He talks about that um you know uh constantly uh and and that's a huge part that that just gets not he doesn't I I wouldn't I wouldn't say that he he he talks about it constantly. What I would say is that you can find many examples of that hidden in Plato's work. He does explicitly say, "I follow

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The Seven Sages, Socrates, Plato, and the Hermetic Current

Relevant chapter: Genius, Daimon & Divine Guidance

the prompting of my diamond, my guiding star. You know, this thing guides me. Everything that you think you know about Socrates is just me listening to this thing." I will tell you right now, that is what it means to get in touch with your higher divine genius according to the good. That's that's what it is. That's what I do. I don't do anything unless his [ __ ] thing tells me yes or no. You know, that's just that's what it is. Big surprise, big reveal, guys. You know, but that's that's what it is. The

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The Seven Sages, Socrates, Plato, and the Hermetic Current

Relevant chapter: Genius, Daimon & Divine Guidance

difference is I this it's not me. >> You know what I'm saying? It's that you so it's not conscience. >> That's not what it is. It's not conscience. Conscience is a reflection of that thing. >> Yeah. >> But anyway, you know, this is what the whole thing is. How do you go from agrarian farming, fishing to to the city of Athens? How does that happen? Certain people are instrumental, right? And you have to possess a species of wisdom that is tantamount to like an

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The Seven Sages, Socrates, Plato, and the Hermetic Current

Relevant chapter: Socrates’ Daimon vs Conscience

>> that might that is probably correct how you pronounce it. >> It probably there's just that's like the root of the name. There's probably that prefix. I just don't I can't hear it. I don't know what it means. >> That would make sense though. Yeah. So, he was a believer in the immortality of the soul as causal nature of living motion. He was a big promote proponent of justice. It was said that he never did anything without advising first with the gods. He was a man not of country

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The Seven Sages, Socrates, Plato, and the Hermetic Current

Relevant chapter: Socrates’ Daimon vs Conscience

but of the world. There's a story about him being demanded what countryman he was and he answered not Athens nor Greece but of the world. >> Yeah. Cos cosmopolit. That's where the that's where the term cosmopolitan comes from. >> Oh, that's cool. Okay. He talked about uh good people not being good because of some high birthright, but those who are noble in their qualities. He never did anything without advising first the gods like I was saying. Um maybe you can elaborate on on that. Do you view that

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The Seven Sages, Socrates, Plato, and the Hermetic Current

Relevant chapter: Socrates’ Daimon vs Conscience

as him having connection with the gods in the sense of like the planetary influences? And is there anything additional that you would like add in with that notion? >> I would say that um he never did anything without consulting his diamond. >> That makes sense to me. not the not the gods, his diamond because he says that now he he he swears to um to the gods. He he said well here's the thing also, right? He's given a charge by the god Apollo to go out and and speak, you know, um that's the way that he he kind

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