Plato. An Initiate into the Mysteries and the greatest Greek philosopher, whose writings are known the world over. He was the pupil of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle. He flourished over 400 years before our era.
Alogon (Greek) Used by Pythagoras and Plato for the irrational soul in man, divided into the thymichon and epithymichon; the rational soul was called logos. (BCW 7:229)
Aistheton (Greek) Sensible, perceived by the senses; used by Plato in contrast with noeton (intelligible) to indicate the visible aspect of the primeval cause of the manifested world. (FSO 194)
Energeia (Greek) Act, actual existence; used by Aristotle in contrast to dynamis (potency, power); these correspond to Plato's aistheton (sensible) and noeton (intelligible) (BCW 12:553; FSO 194).
Dunamis (Greek) Potency; used by Aristotle in contrast to energeia (act), for the invisible aspect of the universe as opposed to the visible or manifest; equivalent to Plato's noeton (intelligible) and aistheton (sensible) {FSO 194}.
Poseidonis (Ancient Greek). The last remnant of the great Atlantean Continent. Plato’s island Atlantis is referred to as an equivalent term in Esoteric Philosophy.
Dodecahedron (Ancient Greek). According to Plato, the Universe is built by "the first begotten" on the geometrical figure of the Dodecahedron. (See Timaeus).
That which is, the reality as opposed to the seeming; the essence or real nature of a thing, used by Plato for the ineffable All of the universe, equivalent to the First Logos.
Sankha-dvipa (Sanskrit) Spoken of in the Puranas as one of the nine divisions of Bharata-varsha or India.
Blavatsky identifies it with the Poseidonis of Plato's Atlantis, which Solon declared to have reached its end some 9,000 years before his time. All the history given in the Puranas about Sankha-dvipa and Sankhasura is geographically and ethnologically Plato's Atlantis in Hindu dress. The Puranic account speaks of the island as still existing.
Huperouranioi (Greek) Hyperuranii (Latin) Above the heavens, or in highest heaven; the name given by Plato, Proclus, and other Greek philosophers to the highest orders of celestial beings, those above the enkosmioi (intercosmic gods).
Knowledge; used by Plato and the Neoplatonists to signify the divine knowledge (gupta-vidya) attained through initiation; and means for the student the active penetration into and going beyond the veils of mind, by which process a true vision of reality is to be obtained.
