AUDIO EXCERPT FROM ANTHONY DAMIANI comments
Philosophy is faced with the problem of educating each individual seeker who aspires to understand it. There is no such thing as mass education in philosophy. The Notebooks 20.2.289
AD: Isn't that a nice one! Everyone that's interested in philosophy gets very special consideration. He goes through a very private course, private experiences. No Ph.D.s are handed out, no ceremonies necessary. 1b
AD: In what way would philosophy see to it that you're getting this very special education that's required?
LR: You're born.
AD: You're born. Very good. That's a beginning, fine.
VM?: You suffer.
AD: Yes, but you suffer in a very peculiar way.
LrD?: It's because your own individual Soul is the teacher, not some collective situation.
AD: Wouldn't you say that the World Idea is the teacher? Isn't the World Idea teaching you all these things?
The World-Idea is what’s teaching the soul; it’s educating the soul. And it does so in a very precise and exact way, by the kinds of experiences that are going to come to you and by the way you’re going to respond to those experiences: whether you’re going to apply what you’ve learned.
… Ultimately I think you'll see that the World Mind is teaching you; you know, the willing, feeling, and knowing is a process that's being superimposed on you. You'll learn to think correctly, whether you like it or not, sooner or later, usually later, you'll learn to feel properly; you'll learn all these things. But it's the World Mind that's always teaching you, imposing. You get the greatest education that can be conceived of, and you're not even grateful for it. 3
The point that has to be grasped is that it is only through the World Idea that the Soul comes to self-recognition.
AD: the individual mind is the burning focus in which the ideas get manifested and reveal the world given to it. Without that individual mind that does it, it just is not available.
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