Through his abstract orphic dreams the words reached Paul's mind; and they were oddly familiar.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
For to Seneca, as to the orphic mystics and to Plato, the body is a prison, and life one long punishment.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
But Seneca is an inconsistent, though eloquent and powerful, expounder of that faith in personal immortality, with its moral consequences, which goes back through many ages to Plato, to Pythagoras, to the obscure apostles of the orphic revelation, perhaps to Egypt.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill