Ἱερατικὴ

[Priest-craft] and philosophy do not originate from the same sources. But philosophy coming down from the one cause of all things to the foundation of [material] beings, through the middle of all kinds [of things], both the divine and those which along with the gods are more powerful and appear, as they say, on the third step [...].¹ For nothing is one among those things which have been declared universally by the philosophers on both sides, so that the harmonization would be easy for one who wishes to reconcile the [philosophy] of the Greeks with the Egyptians.² But [it is said that] priest-craft, which is the service of the gods, originates from somewhere among the causes within the cosmos, and concerns itself with these matters, of souls concerning immortality, because the same things are also stated in Egyptian philosophy; both of their innumerable diverse allotments in Hades separated according to virtue and wickedness, and of the innumerable changes in life, as they dwell at different times in different bodies and kinds of animals and plants. The Egyptians were the first to state these [beliefs] in their philosophy; for the Pythagoreans brought each of these from the Egyptians to the Greeks.³