Author: win r

"The spirits of creatures, the Pythagoreans hold, who are emanations of the most sublimated portions of ether, emanations, BREATHS, but not forms. Ether is incorruptible, all philosophers agree in that; and what is incorruptible is so far from being annihilated when it gets rid of the form, that it lays a good claim to IMMORTALITY. [...]

"It is upon this Buddhist doctrine that the Pythagoreans grounded the principle tenets of their philosophy. "Can that spirit, which gives life and motion, and partakes of the nature of light, be reduced to non-entity?", they ask. "Can that sensitive spirit in brutes which exercises memory, one of the rational faculties, die, and become nothing?" [...]

""Whoever is unacquainted with my law", says Buddha, "and dies in that state, must return to the earth till he becomes a perfect Samanean. To achieve this object, he must destroy within himself the trinity of Maya. He must extinguish his passions, unite and identify himself with the law (the teaching of the secret doctrine), [...]

"Irenaeus took it into his head to establish a new doctrine from the ruins of Plato's older Academy. his doctrine of God being the universal mind diffused through all things, underlies all ancient philosophies. The Buddhistic tenets which can never be better comprehended than when studying the Pythagorean philosophy - its faithful reflection - are [...]