A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries

Philolaus, as is evident from the following remarkable passage in the Doric dialect, preserved by Clemens Alexandrinus in Stromata, book 3, page 413:
“The ancient theologians and priests also testify that the soul is united with the body for the sake of suffering punishment, and that it is buried in the body as in a sepulchre.”

And lastly, Pythagoras himself confirms these sentiments, when he beautifully observes, according to Clemens in the same book, “that whatever we see when awake is death; and when asleep, a dream.” Original Greek: Θανατος εστιν, οκοσα εγερθεντες ορεομεν· οκοσα δε ευδοντες, υπνος.

But that the mysteries occultly signified this sublime truth, that the