Purifications

These steps are summed up as the Four Preparations, Four Purifications, and Four Relinquishments:

PEACE PILGRIM SIGHTED 2008

Purifications, one cosmological and the other ethico-religious.

Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007

The relation between On Nature and Purifications is the subject of varied speculations.

Empedocles Parry, Richard 2005

Purifications has a style markedly different from that of

Empedocles Parry, Richard 2005

More recently, as the usefulness of such a rigid dichotomy seemed less plausible, commentators have seen the teaching about nature as continuous with Purifications.

Empedocles Parry, Richard 2005

One part presents a theory of the physical world, the other concerns Purifications.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES PHILIP 1968

But though it would be improper to draw an absolute distinction between his two poems, On Nature and Purifications, the former is primarily an attempt to explain the physical world and the latter an account, in the Orphic-Pythagorean tradition, of the incarnations, rewards, and punishments of the “soul” (daimon).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968

Purifications are constantly, and with great strictness, performed by the Mussulmans of every country, but especially by those of Turkey.

History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian

But though it would be improper to draw an absolute distinction between his two poems, On Nature and Purifications, the former is primarily an attempt to explain the physical world and the latter an account, in the Orphic-Pythagorean tradition, of the incarnations, rewards, and punishments of the “soul” (daimon).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

They are mightily given to Divination, and foretel future Events, and imploy themselves either by Purifications, Sacrifices, or other Inchantments to avert Evils, or procure good Fortune and Success.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904