Pythagorism

Pythagorism, Essenism, Indian asceticism betrayed this erroneous tendency, and the Indian ascetics are actually quoted by Clement of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

All these stories are anticipated by the Greek chroniclers, writers of myths, collectors of strange tales, neo-Platonism, and neo-Pythagorism.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Epicureans, mixed with astrological superstitious, and some traits of Pythagorism.

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

Efros, I. “Saadya's Second Theory of Creation in its Relation to Pythagorism and Platonism”.

Saadya [Saadiah] Pessin, Sarah 2003

To take, for example, his final, and, of course, his fifth chapter, we find him modestly disavowing an 'inexcusable Pythagorism,' and yet unable to refrain from telling us that five was anciently called the number of justice: that it was also called the divisive number; that most flowers have five leaves; that feet have five toes; that the cone has a 'quintuple division;' that there were five wise and five foolish virgins; that the 'most generative animals' were created on the fifth day; that the cabalists discovered strange meanings in the number five; that there were five golden mice; that five thousand persons were fed with five barley-loaves; that the ancients mixed five parts of water with wine; that plays have five acts; that starfish have five points; and that if anyone inquire into the causes of this strange repetition,

Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868

Greek philosophy which originated in a restoration of Pythagorism and its alliance with Platonism (Plutarch of Chieronea, first century

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The question takes a new aspect when the influences of the Oriental and Jewish religions are brought to bear on Greek philosophy by neo-Pythagorism, the Jewish theology (end of the first century), and, above all, neo-Platonism (third century

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913