With respect to Plato, what is most of interest to me is the meditative process he used in order to access "ultimate" ideas as, say, the Agathon; and the "field" in which the meditative mind "ascends" and "descends" in the "in-between reality" of the metaxy, the psyche stretched in-between, as it were, the "poles" of the Apeiron (the ground of being) and the Epikeina (the "beyond" of the Cosmos). It is this "area" (I hate to use the word, for it implies spatial extension which the metaxy does not have: it is a "psychic space," which may be a contradiction in terms, but it's hard to match words to this experience of reality) that the mind is free to be drawn to the truth of the Cosmos "from within," as it were.
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I think men and women are made for both time and eternity. But the places between-- the riptides, vortices, what have you -- can be wicked. I've heard it said that bad mixes of time and eternity were symbolized for the ancients by the offspring of gods and men as in the centaur below the house of the Minos in greek mythology and the elephant men in indian mythology. Remember the great scientist Daedulus and his son Icarus?
The only one who pulled off successfully the mingling of time and eternity is Jesus as he combines both time and eternity in his person.
For this reason Jesus to this day is embedded in the clock of any computer or the calendar on any cubicle wall-- whether CE or AD. Jesus marks the dates on anyone's tombstone.
Speaking of the terrors in the maze below house of Minos, people today have lost appreciation for that other great accomplishment of Jesus. Jesus ended the practice of human sacrifice.
Jesus gives all men and women who believe in him the confidence to enter without fear into the presence of the living God. I think that has made all the difference.
(For myself, I would like to hear someone give a good account of the differences between the written language, mathmatical language, and computer language.)