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Pythagorean
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Pythagorean
A lacto-ovo vegetarian of the 19th century, whose abstinence from meat was based on the belief that animals had a right to a complete and natural life
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Traces of Pythagoreanism are apparent even in Beveridge's Arithmetices: a multiplication table treating single-digit numbers is labelled "Tabula Pythagorica" (Beveridge, Institutionum 233).
Numerological tradition in the works of Jupiter Hammon by Nydam, Arlen / African American Review
8) Kalasiris' ascetic and itinerant lifestyle, together with his physical appearance, align him rather more with Pythagoreanism than with the Isis cult of which he was high priest.
The Wisdom of Egypt: base and heavenly magic in Heliodoros' Aithiopika by Jones, Meriel / Ancient Narrative
A belief in metempsychosis seems to have been a feature of ancient Pythagoreanism and remained surprisingly persistent, mutating not only into various forms in Western thought but, in conjunction with Indian conceptions of reincarnation, spreading into the Islamic world, where theologians and philosophers sought to suppress it for centuries.
A song and a mistake by Ormsby, Eric / New Criterion
 
 
 
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