“Zeus is the first, Zeus is the last; Zeus is the head, Zeus the center. From Zeus all gods are born and to Zeus all return.”

— Orphic Fragment 167 (Kern)

"For man, as these writings affirm, has two souls. The one is from the First Intelligence and is participant of the power of the Creator, but the other is given from the revolutions of the worlds of the sky, to which the God-beholding soul returns."

— Iamblichus