These approaches were accidental and imperfect and therefore they did not last long and they ended in catastrophe; usually, the higher the rise went, the deeper and more precipitous was the fall. This figure consists of two circles, one inside the other. In the other case, where the soul is born in the place of a soul who has died, it also receives a very difficult part, though the difficulty here is of quite a different kind and may have been created by the personal qualities of the man who has gone or by the external conditions of his life. In the usual interpretation, these words are regarded either as indicating a life after death in which a man joins his ancestors who have passed there before him or, in a more materialistic sense, as burial in family tombs. But in esoteric understanding, it was certainly clear that people whose lives consist of a series of catastrophes could not be admitted to participation in the Mysteries or to initiation, because the fact of these continuous catastrophes showed that they were going down hill and could not be stopped. Whether there is evolution in this process is a question open to dispute. We cannot leave the sins of our past behind us. This gesture is precisely what Nietzsche identifies as “Platonism” and polemicises against – see for instance the passage “How the ‘True World’ finally became a fable” in Twilight of the Idols. This applies also to their number, which is always the same. [A Hero of our Time, by M Y Lermontoff. The man has gone having freed himself internally, but eternally having a large and varied karma. From the ordinary standpoint, man's life is taken as a line from birth to death. In a man who is but little developed, even the causal body is hardly more than a principle. And under the mouldering mill His life is his time. In this connection it is interesting to note the words of Eudemus, Aristotle's disciple (in the 3rd book of Physics). A third point of divergence between Eliade’s version of eternal return and Nietzsche’s concerns the question of what exactly returns and how. Absolute time for man is his life. The only duty of a Sudra is to serve the three castes. Treating eternal recurrence as a systematic doctrine fails to do justice in my eyes to the profoundly anti-systematic and indeed anti-philosophical tenor of Nietzsche’s work. The preceding passage from Simplicius is particularly interesting in that it gives a key for the translation of other Pythagorean fragments, that is, notes on Pythagoras and his teaching, which have been preserved in certain authors. Such a construction is possible only with a naïve understanding of time. Man dies because his time ends. Coming into the world, the Brahman occupies the highest place on Earth, as the lord of all created beings, for the protection of the treasuries of the law. At the first glance, this is a very strange theory. But just when at that swallow's soar And so long as this wave of life rolls on, the waves of days and the waves of years must rotate at their appointed places, repeating and repeating themselves. They start each new life striving towards their unattainable aim, every time with new strength, and they sometimes begin and "remember" astoundingly early, like some famous musicians or thinkers. This explains where these people disappear who have remembered their past lives. They cannot be studied with the four rules of arithmetic. Everything is the same and therefore time is the same. The Apostles may exchange rôles, but there may have been some among them who did not know their rôles thoroughly enough or who attempted to introduce something of their own, to "improve" something. But Nietzsche’s writing on the eternal return typically involves a “subjective” side as well, fusing together the grandest cosmic vistas with the most intimate personal experience. The difference in comparison with the first case is that the incarnating soul in this case must not play any part. — PDO]. Did the order which Manu teaches ever exist? an entirely new "space-time-eternity". The laws of time and eternity are illogical laws. Participation in the Mysteries was barred: first, to criminals; second, to foreigners (that is, barbarians); and finally to people in whose lives great calamities occurred.