The additional notes of Thomas Taylor on the Protreptics of Iamblichus in the Life of Pythagoras Plato number 6 Plotinus Olympiodorus telestic mystic ceremonies Orphic verse: “The Soul that uninitiated dies, Plunged in the blackest mire in Hades lies” contemplative life energize alone “Not to fear a departure from body as into something void, and nonentity, gives subsistence to fortitude”