Pythagoras Used To Say That He Had Received As A Gift From Mercury The Perpetual Transmigration Of His Soul, So That It Was Constantly Transmigrating And Passing Into All Sorts Of Plants Or Animals.

Pythagoras Used To Say That He Had Received As A Gift From Mercury The Perpetual Transmigration Of His Soul, So That It Was Constantly Transmigrating And Passing Into All Sorts Of Plants Or Animals.

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Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury
the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly
transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD)
-- Pythagoras, iv

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