25/11/2025
Howdeee folks,
Comparing notes with philosphers idea on cleanlinss, on human nature, and olive trees cleanliness.
* Discourses of Epictetus, chapter XI, on Cleanliness
* Some men raise the question whether the social faculty is a necessary element in man's nature: nevertheless even they, I think, would not question that cleanliness at any rate is essential to it, and that this, if anything, divides him from the lower animals.
The Olive trees health and cleanliness is just important as it provides natures own health properties to a soal, and from the body essence of nature.
* The primary and fundamental purity is that of the soul, and so with impurity. You cannot find the same impurity in a soul as a body........
As caretakers of Olive Trees, we have been selected to provide, "to the best abilities", to maintain their health, cleanliness, ensuring that the fruits, following the milling, so that the purity of that drop is filled with flavor, character.
* Epictetus speaks on human presentation, cleanliness, self respect. He adds, we have water, olive-oil, hands, towel, strigils soap, and on occasion every other sort of apparatus to make the body clean.
Conclusion, Olive trees and their fruit need attention for care, as caretakers are bound by nature to their needs, as our bodies needs are cared for.
Olive Oil is the purest of Pleasures. (Charle Q-R)
