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Often appears with: immortality of the soul · transmigration of souls · the earth and its formation · fate, destiny, and necessity · afterlife geography
Usually: reflection (1) · crisis of belief (1) · detachment (1) · skepticism (1)
It argues against a simplistic afterlife by discussing what would happen if souls remain in air, and adds that all beings are reshaped back into an original rational source through transmutation, transfusion, or conflagration.
must he use himself to cut off actions only, but thoughts and imaginations also, that are unnecessary for so will unnecessary consequent actions the better be prevented and cut off. XXI. Try also how a good man's life; (of one, who is well pleased with those things whatsoever, which among the common changes and chances of this world fall to his own lot and share; and can live well contented and fully satisfied in th…