The Qualities of Time (Vol. III) (eBook)

The Qualities of Time: Law of Hermes. Heart of Biography

This volume illustrates the Law of Hermes: the correspondence between 3.9 days during conception to one year of life after birth, as it is expressed through nine significant historical personalities: Jung, Emerson, Gandhi, Yogananda, Madame Curie, Albert Schweitzer, Rudolf Steiner, Thoreau and Henry Adams. It also points to a practical method of approaching one’s own biography with keen insight and living interpretive ability. Rather than drawing from sources of mythology or other imaginal traditions to stimulate a deeper experience of the Zodiac, this book “draws” its pictures from the life itself.

About the Author

Paul Platt was born and raised on the outskirts of New York City about the middle of last century. As a child of his time, he was both a good athlete (particularly tennis) and good student. He first attended Williams College and then Reed College, studying philosophy and religion. He graduated from Reed in 1970 with a degree in religion. Paul wrote his undergraduate thesis on the theme of Good and Evil as explored by the Jewish theologian, Martin Buber. Later, years after graduation (1970), while engaged in writing a novel about a young man coming of age in New York City, Paul had an ‘awakening’ to a larger part of his Self. This inaugurated the central motif which has guided his life during the previous thirty years. Simply put, it has been a self-exploration and self-development. Though conversant with a wide range of teachings and teachers, most fully perhaps, that of Rudolf Steiner, to whom Paul owes an inestimable debt of gratitude, Paul has largely charted his own course. See Paul’s full biography here: https://www.paulplatt.org/bio.html