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The highest form of purification is philosophy. The soul imprisoned in the body has lived before and will live again, passing through many forms. The philosopher, by contemplating eternal truths — the harmonies of number, the ratios of music, the geometry of the cosmos — begins to free the soul from its material entanglement and returns it toward the divine. I established my community at Croton on this principle: that a disciplined life, mathematical study, and vegetarianism were not eccentricities but a preparation for immortality.