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Orphic

Orphic Magic—The introduction of Egyptian influences were due generally to the agency of Orpheus and Pythagoras, who, while in Egypt, had been initiated into the mysteries. The story of Orpheus shows him as preeminently the wonder-worker, but one of beneficence and beauty. To men of his time everything was enchantment and prodigy. By the irresistible power of his music he constrained the rocks, trees and animals to follow him, at his behest storms arose or abated. He was the necromancer, who by his golden music overcame the powers of darkness, and descending to the world of shades, found his beloved Eurydice, and but for the fatal and disobedient look into her face ere they gained the upper air would have brought her back to the living world. Jealous women tore him limb from limb, and his head floating down the waters of the Hebrus was cast on the rocky shores of Lesbos where, still retaining the power of speech, it uttered oracles, the guidance of which people from all parts sought, even those of Babylon. He was said to have instructed the Greeks in medicine and magic, and for long afterwards remedies, magical formula, incantations and charms were engraved upon Orphean tablets and the power of healing was ascribed to the Orphean Hymns. Pythagoras, Philosopher and geometrician, to the populace a magician, indefatigable in the pursuit of knowledge, wielded an immense influence on the thought of his time. After his return from Egypt he founded a school where to those who had previously undergone severe and drastic discipline he communicated his wide and varied knowledge. He was also credited with miraculous powers such as being visible at the same hour in places far apart as Italy and Sicily; of taming a bear by whispering in its ear; of calling an eagle from its flight to alight on his wrist.

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