daemonology
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The daemonology of Pythagoras, along with the doctrine of metempsychosis in its moral aspect, was adopted by Plato, whether as a serious theory or as a philosophic myth.
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Plutarch’s daemonology, as he admits himself, is an inheritance from the past.
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The pagan daemonology, on its worse side, had been accepted by the champion of the Church.
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This Platonic daemonology, indeed, from the Christian point of view, was a very crude and imperfect attempt to bridge the gulf.
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Platonism, few adherents of, in the first century, 408; affected Panaetius, ib.; and Seneca, 308; and Plutarch, 409; its daemonology, 430; encouraged belief in immortality, 501; visionary power of the great Master, 523; influence on Mithraism, 600 Plebeian life, picture of, in Petronius, 132 sqq.; in the inscriptions, 252 sq.,
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