“The ancient theologists and priests… testify that the soul is united with the body as if for the sake of punishment; and so is buried in body as in a sepulchre.”

—  Philolaus

Quoted by Clemens Alexandrinus, Stromata, Book III (ca. 190 AD) Tr. Thomas Taylor, The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries: A Dissertation https://books.google.com/books?id=vEt0LaOue8IC (1891)

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