A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries

Indeed, if these wise men believed in a future state of retribution and at the same time considered connection with a body as the death of the soul, it necessarily follows that the soul's punishment and subsistence hereafter is nothing more than a continuation of its current state—a transmigration, as it were, from sleep to sleep and from dream to dream.

But let us attend to the assertions of these divine men concerning the soul's conjunction with a material nature. To begin with the obscure and profound Heraclitus, speaking of unembodied souls: “We