{Socrates, Plato and Aristotle [– Socrates & Plato]}[27th January 1991]

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‘Socrates convinced Plato of the reality of virtue, and Archytas of Tarentum and the Pythagoreans showed him that the universe was founded upon the ever-new beauty of numbers. He knew that the world was a mere illusion.* Thus, it is desirable to free oneself from one’s mortal body and – thanks to the soul that survives it and that, by virtue of the reincarnations, remembers its past lives – to climb from illusion to belief and from belief to the world of ideas, the only reality, since it is the image of God.

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*(cf ‘Maya’?)

**– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 20:285-6

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