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(4) The Republic of Plato: The Ideal State

Plato's authorship of the Republic is disputed for the following reasons:

(a) The attributes of an Ideal State are expressed in the allegory of the charioteer and winged
steeds which is dramatized in the Judgment Drama of the Egyptian Book of the Dead and
therefore proves its Egyptian origin.

(b) The chariot was neither a culture pattern nor war machine of the Greeks at the time of Plato.
The wars of the Greeks with the Persians and the Peloponnesian wars were all maritime.

(c) At this time the Egyptians were specialists in the manufacture of chariots and horse breeding
Gen., c. 45, v. 27; c. 47, v. 17; Deut., c. 17, v. 16; I Kings, c. 10, v. 28.

(d) The historians Diogenes Laertius, Aristoxenus and Favorinus have declared that the subject
matter of the Republic was found in the controversies written by Protagoris (481–411) when
Plato was but a boy. Read Diogenes Laertius, p. 311 and 327; also The Egyptian Book of the
Dead, c. 17; also Republic III 415; V 478; and VI 490 sqq.

(5) The Timaeus of Plato

Plato's authorship of the Timaeus is also disputed for the following reasons:—

(a) The historian Diogenes Laertius in Bk. VIII, p. 399–401 has declared that when Plato visited
Dionysius in Sicily, he paid Philolaus a Pythagorean forty Alexandrian Minae of silver for a
book, from which he copied the whole contents of the Timaeus.

(b) The subject matter of the Timaeus is eclectic. Read the Timaeus.

(6) Magic is the Key to the interpretation of ancient religion and natural philosophy

Through the application of the principle: that the qualities of entities, human or divine, are
distributed throughout their various parts; and that contact with such entities releases those
qualities, many religious phenomena and those of primitive science could be interpreted and
understood.

(a) The cure of the woman who touched the hem of Christ's garment, Mark, c. 5, verses 25–34.
(b) The cure of several people, who held the handkerchiefs of St. Paul. Acts, c. 19, verse 12.

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