title: Timaeus
author:  Plato 
description: <DIV><P>Donald Zeyl's fresh and faithful translation and his lucid, comprehensive commentary will bring the sublime <I>Timaeus</I> to life for contemporary students of cosmology, metaphysics, history of science, and philosophy. --Sarah Broadie, Princeton University</P></DIV>
zlib_text:  
  Blavatsky on Plato’s Timaeus v. 11.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 7 May 2018 
  Page 1 of 13 
  Madame Blavatsky 
  on Plato’s Timaeus 
  
  BLAVATSKY SPEAKS SERIES 
  ON PLATO’S TIMAEUS 
  Blavatsky on Plato’s Timaeus v. 11.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 7 May 2018 
  Page 2 of 13 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  Blavatsky on Timaeus and the Master of Balliol College 
  who found Timaeus obscure and repulsive 
  First come I. My name is J-W-TT. 
  There’s no knowledge but I know it. 
  I am Master of this College, 
  What I don’t know isn’t knowledge.
  1 
   
  From Blavatsky Collected Writings, (INTRODUCTORY) XIV pp. 1-16.
  2 
  Possibly an Introduction to a third volume of The Secret Doctrine. 
  Frontispiece: [Plato’s olive grove dedicated to Athena] by Joanne Osband. 
  OWER BELONGS TO HIM WHO KNOWS; this is a very old axiom. Knowledge — 
  the first step to which is the power of comprehending the truth, of discerning 
  the real from the false — is for those only who, having freed themselves from 
  every prejudice and conquered their human