“One of the most erudite as well as one of the most spiritual, of the literati of any age or people, and certainly the most estimable of all the extant Greek philosophers after the days of Plutarch.”
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“Every body is in place; but nothing essentially incorporeal, or any thing of this kind, has any locality.”

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“Incorporeal hypostases, in descending, are distributed into parts, and multiplied about individuals with a diminution of power; but when they ascend by their energies beyond bodies, they become united...”

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“Not only can logos be seen in absolutely all animals, but in many of them it has the groundwork for being perfected.”

Porphyry (philosopher)

“The Pythagoreans made kindness to beasts a training in humanity and pity.”

Porphyry (philosopher)

“So people should abstain from other animals just as they should from the human.”

Porphyry (philosopher)