>To the Orphic, life in this world is pain and weariness. We are bound to a wheel which turns through endless cycles of birth and death; our true life is of the stars, but we are tied to earth. Only by purification and renunciation and an ascetic life can we escape from the wheel and attain at last to the ecstasy of union with God. >~ [[Bertrand Russell]] #philosophy mastery of the soul over the body. Socrates is said to have achieved ultimate Orphism. [[Homo Deus]] Highly similar to Buddhism? [[The Buddha]] >The **Orphics**, unlike the priests of Olympian cults, founded what we may call “churches,” i.e. religious communities to which anybody, without distinction of race or sex, could be admitted by initiation, and from their influence arose the conception of [[Philosophy|philosophy]] as a way of life. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] I have a feeling that the oldest [[Philosophy|philosophies]] / [[Religion|religion]] are the most interesting, I mean the most sound to me, [[Logic|logical]]....