Quite recently Charles du Prel has advanced the same opinion, supporting it with numerous facts and details in a well-written volume, _Philosophie der Mystik_ (1886). He starts from this fact: the consciousness of the ego does not exhaust its object. “Soul and consciousness are not two adequate terms; they do not cover one another as they have not an equal scope. The sphere of the soul far surpasses that of the consciousness.” Consequently there is _a latent ego_ in us. This latent ego, which manifests itself in sleep and in dreams, is the real ego, supra-terrestrial and transcendent, whose existence precedes our terrestrial ego which is bound to the body. The terrestrial ego is perishable, the transcendent ego is immortal. This is what St. Paul meant when he said--“----the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body, so that it be fashioned like unto His glorious body.” [10] Origen states that Pythagoras was the inventor of physiognomy. [11] _Katharsis_ in Greek. [12] In transcendent mathematics it is demonstrated algebraically that zero multiplied by infinity is equal to One. Zero, in the order of absolute things, signifies the indeterminate Being. The Infinite, the Eternal in the language of the temples, was marked by a circle of a serpent biting its tail, signifying the Infinite moving itself. Now, once the Infinite is determined it produces all the numbers it contains in its great unity, and which it governs in perfect harmony. Such is the transcendent meaning of the first problem of the Pythagorean theogony, the reason which brings it to pass that the great Monad contains all the small ones, and that all the numbers spring from the great Unity in movement. [13] Doctrine identical with that of the initiate St. Paul, who speaks of the _spiritual body_. [14] In the first rank of these must be placed Fabre d’Olivet (_Vers dorés de Pythagore_). This living conception of the forces of the universe, traversing it from top to bottom, has nothing to do with the _thesis_, the _antithesis_ and the _synthesis_ of Hegel, which are simply _jeux d’esprit_. [15] In Greek: _Teleiôtes_.