NOVEMBER 2023

Ted Lechman will be hosting the First Friday at the Study Center Tonight. I won’t be able to attend out of an abundance of caution. Likewise for Saturday at Quiet Eye. Then, health permitting, we are off to Virginia. I expect to be back in time for Philosophy Day at the Quiet Eye                

03 First Friday

04 SIX SERMONS 1           Missions                   

04 Plotinus, Enneads          I.5  “Whether Happiness Increases with Time”   .noon BYQE

08 Tenants’ Association      Wednesday, 8 pm at the Study Center

11 SIX SERMONS 4            Schools                     

11 Plotinus, Enneads          I.6 – “On Beauty”          Sat      .noon BYQE

15 Tenants’ Association      Wednesday, 8 pm at the Study Center

16 World Philosophy Day 2023  texts:

(1) Bishop Butler, in a celebrated passage [Analogy 1.5], has pointed out “that practical habits are formed and strengthened by repeated acts, and that passive impressions grow weaker by being repeated upon us. Passive impressions made upon our minds by admonition, experience, example, though they may have a remote efficacy, and a very great one, towards forming active habits, yet can have this efficacy no otherwise than by inducing us to such a course of action; and it is not being affected so and so, but  acting, which forms those habits; only it must be always remembered, that real endeavors to enforce good impressions upon ourselves are a species of virtuous action.”

(2) And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.  And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?  And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.  And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.  And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do.  And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus. (Acts 22 (KJV)

(3) Plato’s Phaedrus and Alfred Geier’s Commentary. (Exploration of the Phaethon myth brings new insights into the characters and events of both Plato’s Phaedrus dialogue and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It addresses how things work in our world and who bears responsibility for ensuring that they are maintained and enabled to work to our benefit. It also addresses what happens when power and responsibility is handed to people who aren’t competent to handle it.)

18 SIX SERMONS 5           George II                   

18 Plotinus, Enneads          I.7 – “On the Primal Good”   Sat     noon BYQE

22 Tenants’ Association       Wednesday, 8 pm at the Study Center

25 SIX SERMONS 6           London Infirmary    Sat     noon BYQE

25 Plotinus, Enneads          1.8       “On What are Evils”   Sat noon BYQE