Plato, Heidegger, Iordanescu
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To some, the title of this post may seem strange. Lucian Iordanescu is a
Romanian occultist who believes that God is Total, Fundamental and Absolute,
and that God is defined by the principle of dual ubicuity, i.e. everywhere
there are two states of existence, potential and dynamics, the unmanifest
and the actual.
Plato affirmed that numbers really exist in the world of Ideas.
Later, an article called something like “What numbers aren’t” was published.
It made some valid points. What it matters here are not the valid points it
has made, but the answer it received from a Platonist, who understood such
points to be valid. The Platonist argued that every imaginable intellectual
construct already exists in the world of Ideas.
To take this idea one step further, we would say that every entity which
could be imagined as actual, it already exists, in potential.
My essay “On Potential” shows that Heidegger was already aware of this idea,
i.e. that the unmanifest is an ontic state, which we may call potential.
Only, he kept this idea sotto voce, so that it won’t be noticed so soon –
it was veiled behind very abstract wording.
Lucian Iordanescu dared to utter this idea loud and clear. This should not
surprise us, since as Allan Bloom says, philosophy has been always done with
a hammer.
Also, references to the unmanifest as an ontological state are present in
Arthur Edward Waite’s “Encyclopedia of Freemasonry”, but Waite keeps the
details about such ontic state behind veils of symbolic allegory.
Greetings,
Tudor Georgescu
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their
wickedness, saith the LORD.
April 1st, 2007 at 1:54 pm
IMHO the unmanifest as the possibile (Lat.) has never been but an ontic state in metaphysics. I don’t understand how it can be anything else.