I would like to understand more about the concept of Eros as Sophia's longing. I'm not familiar with it being synonymous with the "Good" as proposed by Plato. Is 'Eros' used to describe an ideal (platonic) form of the Good?
Thank you Barbara @be11277, for the comment and question. I do believe in will as alignment with the universe or Nature as how Stoic physics hints at a immanent pantheism.
Unfortunately due to our poor interpretation of philosophy in antiquity, words like "Eros", as like many others, have multiple meanings and get loss in translation in the modern day.
I would like to clarify that in my previous article on the Soul, it was stated that Reason cannot command, but rather, must serve the Will. Likewise, our appetites (one interpretation of Eros) must also serve our Will, and not rule over it.
I love your work on the soul’s architecture. And I’d also love to offer a spark beyond discipline and separation. What if there is a subtler call — Eros, as Sophia’s longing, mediating what reason cannot command?
Thelema speaks not of will as effort, but as alignment—entrusting oneself to the "erotic" unfolding of the cosmos, to Eros as the anonymous process Plato hinted at, where "the Good" draws us, silently, back home.
True Will, then, is not forged, but remembered. Not imposed, but revealed through lived experience — "in Good and in Bad"...
I would like to understand more about the concept of Eros as Sophia's longing. I'm not familiar with it being synonymous with the "Good" as proposed by Plato. Is 'Eros' used to describe an ideal (platonic) form of the Good?
Thank you Barbara @be11277, for the comment and question. I do believe in will as alignment with the universe or Nature as how Stoic physics hints at a immanent pantheism.
Unfortunately due to our poor interpretation of philosophy in antiquity, words like "Eros", as like many others, have multiple meanings and get loss in translation in the modern day.
I would like to clarify that in my previous article on the Soul, it was stated that Reason cannot command, but rather, must serve the Will. Likewise, our appetites (one interpretation of Eros) must also serve our Will, and not rule over it.
I love your work on the soul’s architecture. And I’d also love to offer a spark beyond discipline and separation. What if there is a subtler call — Eros, as Sophia’s longing, mediating what reason cannot command?
Thelema speaks not of will as effort, but as alignment—entrusting oneself to the "erotic" unfolding of the cosmos, to Eros as the anonymous process Plato hinted at, where "the Good" draws us, silently, back home.
True Will, then, is not forged, but remembered. Not imposed, but revealed through lived experience — "in Good and in Bad"...
By the way, I just came across this, and believe this wholeheartedly...
"Without Eros, Logos becomes sterile. Without Logos, Eros becomes chaotic."