THEO. And I support the view. Besides Plato, there is Pythagoras, who also followed the same idea.[21] He described the _Soul_ as a self-moving Unit (_monad_) composed of three elements, the _Nous_ (Spirit), the _phren_ (mind), and the _thumos_ (life, breath or the _Nephesh_ of the Kabalists) which three correspond to our “Atma-Buddhi,” (higher Spirit-Soul), to _Manas_ (The EGO), and to _Kama-rupa_ in conjunction with the _lower_ reflection of Manas. That which the Ancient Greek philosophers termed _Soul_, in general, we call Spirit, or Spiritual _Soul_, _Buddhi_, as the vehicle of _Atma_ (the _Agathon_, or Plato’s Supreme Deity). The fact that Pythagoras and others state that _phren_ and _thumos_ are shared by us with the brutes, proves that in this case the _lower_ Manasic reflection (instinct) and _Kama-rupa_ (animal living passions) are meant. And as Socrates and Plato accepted the clue and followed it, if to these five, namely, _Agathon_ (Deity or Atma), _Psuche_ (Soul in its collective sense), _Nous_ (Spirit or Mind), _Phren_ (physical mind), and _Thumos_ (Kama-rupa or passions) we add the _eidolon_ of the Mysteries, the shadowy _form_ or the human double, and the _physical body_, it will be easy to demonstrate that the ideas of both Pythagoras and Plato were identical with ours. Even the Egyptians held to the Septenary division. In its exit, they taught, the Soul (EGO) had to pass through its seven chambers, or principles, those it left behind, and those it took along with itself. The only difference is that, ever bearing in mind the penalty of revealing Mystery-doctrines, which was _death_, they gave out the teaching in a broad outline, while we elaborate it and explain it in its details. But though we do give out to the world as much as is lawful, even in our doctrine more than one important detail is withheld, which those who study the esoteric philosophy and are pledged to silence, _are alone entitled to know_. THE GREEK TEACHINGS. ENQ. We have magnificent Greek and Latin, Sanskrit and Hebrew scholars. How is it that we find nothing in their translations that would afford us a clue to what you say?