Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Understanding Clement's Secret Teachings In Light of Plato's
'We need not fear any secret teachings: Plato did not consider his thinking on the principles as secret (aporreta), but as not prematurely communicable (aprorretra) (cf. Phaedr. 275de, Laws 968e)." [Thomas Alexander Szlezák, Reading Plato p. 112]
dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."