Plutarch on the Tutelary Daimon of Socrates

A dire prophecy about Egypt: A passage from the Asclepian Dialogue ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus.

Emanation and Radiation

Plutarch on whether water or land animals are the most crafty

Dissertation on the Hymns of Orpheus

Our enemies are our friends and teachers.: We learn far more from our enemies than from our friends. We should therefore be tolerant and charitable to our enemies, for they are adept at fault-finding.

The Silent Brother

Envy is the worst of all maladies.: Envy begins with jealousy and ends up as hate, the hate of malice.

Devotion, Worship, Loyalty: Versus Irreverence, Profanity, Flippancy.

Plutarch comforts Apollonius

Nous moves man, and vice versa: On the occult constituents of man.

That which is false can only be known by truth

Plutarch comparing passions and diseases

The double act of Oedipus and Sphinx unriddled: Sphinx is the granite pedestal of philosophy and the eternal enigma of the vulgar.

Plutarch on the twists and turns of worldly versus divine love.: The noble lover, pure and hallowed, stands on the threshold of divinity. The passionate lover, inflamed by the fires of desire, enters the women’s chambers.

Retributive Justice in the Cave of the Echoes: An appalling tale of retributive justice inflicted by an earthbound "spirit."

Plutarch on boasted wisdom, fortitude, magnanimity, and temperance

The Biblical Little Ones, or Innocents, were High Initiates

The very best of all talismans: On the Occultism of Southern India.

Plutarch on why eating animals is repulsive