PM Notes on Noetic Circle of Plotinus
And Now Servant, What Will Be Good?
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There are numerous boxes of archival material because Peter was not only a philosopher but also a scholar and a sage. Here we can see just some of the boxes with drafts of The Syntax of Time.
The Syntax of Time was anticipated by Peter’s close associates, such as the founder of the SUNY Religious Studies Program, Professor Ray L. Hart, who inscribed a copy of his book Unfinished Man and the Imagination to Peter.
Circles, spirals, and spheres characterize Peter’s paradigm. It is said that for the Pythagroeans time is the sphere itself (αὐτὴ ἡ σφαῖρα, τὴν σφαῖραν αὐτήν). For Peter, the fall from eternity into time looks somewhat like the diagram above.
“In σφαιρική, ‘spherics’ as it used to be called, we are nearly blind intuitively, a phenomenon which is not unrelated to the fact that few educated moderns actually see the sky in the same space in which they theorize about it.“ (The Syntax of Time, 53)
Amongst Peter’s things I found a flip book that plays an animated interpretation of Husserl’s diagram of inner time-consciousness.
Peter had a unique angle on such important Ancient Greek concepts as measure (metron) and the number of the soul (Iamblichus’ 666). Perhaps this is an instance of marginal marginalia, but maybe it is a much deeper expression of the theurgical superimposition of the measured magnitudes of the body upon the cubic number of the soul (the equal times the equal equal times; Peter’s phenomenological disclosure space; cf. The Syntax of Time, and Iamblichus’ Περὶ τοῦ φυσικῦ ἀριθμοῦ in O’Meara, Pythagoras Revived).
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