“Enter on this Path and put an end to sorrow; verily the Path has been preached by me, who have found out how to quench the darts of grief. You yourselves must make the effort; _the Buddhas are only preachers_. The thoughtful who enter the Path are freed from the bondage of the Deceiver (Marâ).[591] “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction.... Follow me.... Every one that heareth these sayings and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man” (_Matthew_ vii. and viii.). “_I can of mine own self do nothing_” (_John_ v. 30). “The care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word” (_Matthew_ xiii. 22), say the Christians; and it is only by shaking off all delusions that the Buddhist enters on the “Path” which will lead him “away from the restless tossing waves of the ocean of life,” and take him “to the calm City of Peace, to the real joy and rest of Nirvana.” The Greek philosophers are alike made misty instead of mystic by their too learned translators. The Egyptians revered the Divine Spirit, the One-Only One, as NOUT. It is most evident that it is from that word that Anaxagoras borrowed his denominative _nous_, or, as he calls it, Νοῦς αυτοκρατης--the Mind or Spirit self-potent, the αρχητης κινησεως. “All things,” says he, “were in chaos; then came Νοῦς and introduced order.” He also denominated this Νοῦς the One that ruled the many. In his idea Νοῦς was God; and the _Logos_ was man, the emanation of the former. The external powers perceived _phenomena_; the _nous_ alone recognized _noumena_ or subjective things. This is purely Buddhistic and esoteric. Here Socrates took his clew and followed it, and Plato after him, with the whole world of interior knowledge. Where the old Ionico-Italian world culminated in Anaxagoras, the new world began with Socrates and Plato. Pythagoras made the _Soul_ a self-moving unit, with three elements, the _nous_, the _phren_ and the _thumos_; the latter two, shared with the brutes; the former only, being his essential _self_. So the charge that he taught transmigration is refuted; he taught no more than Gautama-Buddha ever did, whatever the popular superstition of the Hindu rabble made of it after his death. Whether Pythagoras borrowed from Buddha, or Buddha from somebody else, matters not; the esoteric doctrine is the same. The Platonic School is even more distinct in enunciating all this. The real selfhood was at the basis of all. Socrates therefore taught that he had a δαιμόνιον (_daimonion_), a spiritual something which put him in the road to wisdom. He himself knew nothing, but this put him in the way to learn all. Plato followed him with a full investigation of the principles of being. There was an _Agathon_, Supreme God, who produced in his own mind a _paradeigma_ of all things.