"[T]hroughout the mystical systems inspired by Orphism, we... find the fundamental contrast between... principles of Light and Darkness, identified with Good and Evil. This cosmic dualism is the counterpart of the dualism in the... soul; for... physis and soul... are... identical in substance. The soul in its pure state consists of fire, like the divine stars from which it falls; in its impure state, throughout... reincarnation, it... is infected with the baser elements, and weighed down... In the cosmologies... the manifold world of sense will be viewed as a degradation from the purity of real being. Such systems will tend to be other-worldly, putting all value in the unseen unity of God, and condemning the visible world as false and illusive, a turbid medium... obscured in mist and darkness. These characteristics are common to all the systems which came out of the Pythagorean movement—Pythagoreanism proper, and the philosophies of Parmenides, Empedocles, and Plato."