All these are reported by Psellus, and he confesseth that Plato and Pythagoras learned the doctrine of the souls Immortality of the Chaldeans, in so much ⟨p. 12⟩that some think the Chaldeans are those that Plato speaks of,1 when he saith, that the ancient and holy Oracles are to be believed, which affirm mens souls to be immortal, and that in another life, they must come before a Judg that will require an account of all their doings, the result whereof cometh to this, that the soul of man proceedeth immediately from God, that is to say; that the father of the body is one, and the father of the soul is another; that the soul is not a bodily substance, but a spirit and a light, that at the departure thereof from hence, it is to go to a Paradise, & therefore ought to make haste unto death and that it is so far from mortality, that it maketh even the body Immortal: what can we say more at this day, even in the time of light wherein we live of the same opinion was Hordelitus, as is reported by Philolaus.
All these are reported by Psellus, and he confesseth that Plato and Pythagoras learned the doctrine of the souls Immortality of the Caldeans, in so much ⟨p. 12⟩that some thinke the Caldeans are those that Plato speakes of,1 when hee saith, that the ancient and holy Oracles are to be beleeued, which affirme mens souls to be immortall, and that in another life, they must come before a Iudg that wil require an account of all their doings, the result wherof commeth to this, that the soule of man proceedeth immediatly from God, that is to say; that the father of the body is one, and the father of the soule is another; that the soule is not a bodily substance, but a spirit and a light, that at the departure therof from hence, it is to goe to a Paradice, & therfore ought to make haste unto death and that it is so far from mortality, that it maketh even the body Immortall: what can wee say more at this day, even in the time of light wherin we live of the same opoinion was Hordelitus, as is reported by Philolaus.
- 1Lil. Legum 11. ep. 2.
