Pythagoras

" Pythagoras had to undergo a fast of 40 days, under supervision, outside of the
city.

Believing that this was a test of his will power and energy, he was told thus: ‘Forty days’
fast is necessary in order that you may GRASP what we will teach you!”


Pythagoras...
opposed flesh eating most earnestly.., not only by voice and pen, but opposed the use of flesh
food as unnatural and unphilosophical, and established a colony, Crotona, from which meat
was excluded.”
Obviously he was taught this “strict dietary rule” as a student in the Egyptian
Mystery System at Annu called in the Bible the “School of On.”

“If we examine various religious and mystic traditions, we find that they recommend or require
vegetarianism. Pythagoras and those who followed his school of thought were
vegetarians. Many of the famous early philosophers such a Plato, Empecodies, Apollonius,
Plutarch and Porphyry also followed the vegetarian diet.”
“Again, many of the early mystic religions, such as the … Orphics and the Essenes had
vegetarianism as a prerequisite for initiation.” Tweet