It is absolutely necessary here to mention the doctrines of the so called Greek philosophers in order to convince my readers of their EGYPTIAN origin. It is also necessary to mention them so as to serve the purpose of REFRENCE and to meet the convenience of READERS I. The Earlier Ionian School. This Group consisted of: (i) Thales (ii) Anaximander (iii) Anaximenes. (i) Thales, supposed to have lived 620–546 B.C. and a native of Miletus, is credited by Aristotle, with teaching that— (a) water is the source of all living things. (b) all things are full of God. (ii) Anaximander, supposed to have been born 610 B.C. at Miletus, is credited with the teaching that, the origin of all things is the Infinite, or the Unlimited (i.e.,apeiron), or the Boundless. The Apeiron is regarded as equivalent to the modern notion of space, and the mythological notion of chaos. (iii) Anaximenes, also a native of Miletus, and supposed to have died in 528 B.C., is credited with the teaching that all things originated from air. 2. Pythagoras. Born in the Aegean Island of Samos, supposedly in 530 B.C.; the following doctrines have been attributed to Pythagoras:— (i) Transmigration, the immortality of the soul and salvation. This salvation is based upon certain beliefs concerning the soul. True life is not to be found here on earth, and what men call life is really death, and the body is the tomb of the soul. Owing to the contamination caused by the souls imprisonment in the body, it is forced to pass through an indefinite series of re-incarnations: from the body, to that of another, until it is purged from such contamination. Salvation, in this sense, consists of the freedom of the soul from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, which is common to every soul, and which condition must remain until purification or purgation is completed Being liberated from the ten fetters of the flesh, and also from successive re-incarnations, the soul now acquires her pristine perfection, and the eligibility to join the company of the Gods, with whom she dwells for ever. This was the reward which the Pythagorean System offered its initiates. (ii) The doctrines of (a) Opposites, (b) the Summum Bonum, or Supreme Good, and (c) the process of purification.
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