doctrine of transmigration of souls
Pythagoras
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 refuted 1 citation · 2 passages
Clement distances Christian reasoning from Pythagorean metempsychosis.
But they say that the most ancient altar in Delos was held to be pure, and that to it alone Pythagoras drew near, not defiled by slaughter and death—and will they disbelieve us when we call the just soul the truly holy altar, and the holy prayer that rises from it the incense?
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Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages
Seneca explicitly suspends judgment on Pythagoras's doctrine rather than endorsing or refuting it
But Pythagoras said that there was a kinship of all things with all, and a commerce of souls passing into one shape and another.
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