Pythagoras once claimed he had been reincarnated multiple times and was the son of Hermes, who gifted him the power of remembering who he was in all of his past lives.
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"Abstain from flesh."
"We come from God, and we return to God."
"Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul."
"Accustom yourself to a way of living that is neat and decent without luxury."
"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot."
Greek philosopher and mathematician whose school in Croton combined geometry (the Pythagorean theorem), number-mysticism, and a religious-vegetarian way of life. Closely associated with Thales of Miletus (earlier pre-Socratic and the first philosopher). For an intellectual contrast, see Heraclitus, pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of flux — Heraclitus called Pythagoras 'the chief of swindlers' — among the founding insults of the philosophical-rivalry tradition. Their 'all is flux' vs 'all is number' poles still organize the philosophy of mathematics today (Platonist vs anti-realist).
A legend surrounding Pythagoras, reported by later biographers, reflecting his belief in metempsychosis.
Date: c. 570-495 BCE (reported later)
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A person claims continuous identity across multiple lifetimes, possessing divine-granted memory that bridges past and present selves. This asserts that the soul persists beyond individual deaths, accumulating wisdom across reincarnations. The speaker positions themselves as uniquely connected to divine origins, suggesting their insights come not merely from one lifetime of study but from an eternal, god-touched lineage of accumulated experience and knowledge.
Pythagoras founded a religious-philosophical brotherhood obsessed with the immortal soul and metempsychosis, the transmigration of souls across lives. He reportedly recalled being Euphorbus, a Trojan War hero, among other past identities. This belief wasn't eccentric vanity but central to his entire philosophical system: numbers, harmony, and the cosmos were eternal truths his soul had encountered repeatedly, explaining his extraordinary mathematical intuitions.
Ancient Greece, roughly 570-495 BCE, was saturated with mystery cults, Orphic traditions, and Homeric reverence for divine ancestry. Claiming descent from or connection to gods like Hermes legitimized intellectual authority. Reincarnation beliefs from Egypt and the East were circulating through Greek thought. In this environment, Pythagoras's claims weren't dismissed as madness but respected as markers of a supremely elevated, divinely initiated philosopher-sage.
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