Mout Caas

“Apollo Loves at first sight; he wants to marry Daphne, He hopes for what he wants—all wishful thinking!”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses: The New, Annotated Edition

“Notes of joy blend with the tearful dirge
When Apollo's voice rings forth,
when with his golden plectrum
He rouses rich music from his lute.
I too will chant the praise
Of one who has entered the night of the world below”
― Euripides, Herakles

“There was not a philosopher of any notoriety who did not hold to this doctrine of metempsychosis, as taught by the Brahmans, Buddhists, and later by the Pythagoreans, in its esoteric sense, whether he expressed it more or less intelligibly. Origen and Clemens Alexandrinus, Synesius and Chalcidius, all believed in it; and the Gnostics, who are unhesitatingly proclaimed by history as a body of the most refined, learned, and enlightened men, * were all believers in metempsychosis. Socrates entertained opinions identical with those of Pythagoras; and both, as the penalty of their divine philosophy, were put to a violent death. The rabble has been the same in all ages. Materialism has been, and will ever be blind to spiritual truths. These philosophers held, with the Hindus, that God had infused into matter a portion of his own Divine Spirit, which animates and moves every particle. They”
― Helena P Blavasky, Works of H. P. Blavasky 31 Illustrated Books w/ links

“There are often evolutionary parallels on the different worlds because creation tends to be economical.”
― Julian May, Orion Arm