…shamanism in Greece and even in the Isle of Crete where Epimenides came from and there is no doubt at all that the Pythagoras was profoundly influenced by these Orphic holy men and took on from them many features of his system and in turn the Pythagoras…

…influenced by these Orphic holy men and took on from them many features of his system and in turn the Pythagoras influenced the later philosophers In the Pythagorean system A very interesting fact arises that instead of regarding reincarnation as the…

…becomes a kind of misery and horror from which the one desire is to escape. So that We find ourselves from the time of Pythagoras on with this new notion of a man with a substantial unitary soul who is actually imprisoned in a body for the offenses…

…and Buddhism. It is seen in the Near East with the rise of the Hebrew prophets. It's seen in Greece with the rise of Pythagoras and the Orphic religion. And the whole conception then, it changes to an idea that man is in some sense apart from nature,…