#neopythagoreanism

[porphurios]

The Neopythagorean Middle-Platonist theology of Eudorus of Alexandria (1st century B.C.E.) from Simplicius of Cilicia's Commentary on Aristotle's Physics 181,10

[strixa]

Alex: This was the second time we’d come across the teaching of Pythagoras.

Me, who paid attention in school, actually does occult research instead of just freaking out about it,  and also knows how to use Google:

[strixa]

Sooooo...it took three seasons and nearly 13 minutes for you guys to actually do some actually decent research on the teaching of Pythagoras of Samos and the magical ideas and legends that surround him?

Okay.  I’ll take it.  I’ll take anything, at this point.

[porphurios]

“‘Tis best to make no sacrifice to God at all, no lighting of a fire, no calling Him by any name that men employ for things to sense. For God is over all, the First; and only after Him do come the other Gods. For He doth stand in need of naught e’en from the Gods, much less from us small men—naught that the earth brings forth, nor any life she nurseth, or even any thing the stainless air contains. The only fitting sacrifice to God is man’s best reason, and not the word that comes from out his mouth.”

—Apollonius of Tyana, The Mystic Rites or Concerning Sacrifices