Initiation into the Philosophy of Plato
PLATO is an exponent in the West of the ancient Tradition  that goes back to Orpheus, and he is regarded as the father of Western  Philosophy.  While over the centuries the concept of philosophy has become  an exercise of the empirical mind which can offer only opinions, not Truth,  Plato's philosophy (love of learning-wisdom-knowledge) is of an initiatory  order.  It is a conversion to Being, an initiation into the supreme Good.