THE MEADOW

A journal of Philosophy, Religion, Mysticism and allied arts

Blue Iris - said to "grow in stoney places" in Attica.

" Theodorus, my friend, appears not to have badly conjectured concerning your disposition; since to wonder is very much the passion of a philosopher.  For there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.  And he who said that Iris is the daughter of Thaumas, did not genealogize badly."  Socrates, to Theaetetus, The Theaetetus, 155c

Iris is the messenger or Hera, and the daughter of Thaumas, 'wonder'.

   Editor: Guy Wyndham-Jones

   23 Quaperlake Street, Bruton, Somerset, BA10 0HF, UK

    (email addey@prometheustrust.co.uk)

Issue 2 - Winter 2005

This web journal is published by The Prometheus Trust on an ad hoc basis. A paper copy is available from the book sales department, price £3 (post free in Europe, add £1 outside Europe). Copyright is held by the named authors but permission to reproduce the articles will normally be given - please contact the editor for permission. Letters to the editor will be posted in the letters section when appropriate, and contributions for the next issue are invited. The Trust does not necessarily endorse any particular opinion expressed in the following articles.

 Content of issue number 2:

    Editorial

  The Perennial Philosophy, Don  Skilling

    Poem: Our Loss, Guy Wyndham-Jones

    On a Chaldean Fragment, John Bee

    The Divergent uses of Greek Philosophical Terms by
         Platonic Philosophy and Modern Psychology ,  Robert K Clark

    Myth - the Final Phase of  Platonic Education , Tim Addey

Note: Since our last issue, one of our contributors, I W Cleeve, has moved on from these earthly realms.  Although saddened by our own immediate loss, we are sure that he has passed on to the providential care of the Rulers of the next realm, and that his love of wisdom so clearly evident in his 'Scholia on Eros' (Meadow 1) will even now be guiding his choices of life.  "Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death."  - Plato, The Phaedo.