35. Consider the Pythagorean first principles of number and the origin of the number five out of the first odd and the first even.
36. Five senses, five fingers, five planets (the sun with the two inner planets taken as one).
37. The relation of the five solid figures to Plato’s theory of creation further considered. But we are on slippery ground here.
38. Lamprias is invited to return to the original question, as to the oracles and the migration of daemons.
39. Lamprias resumes:
Why should the prophetic gift be associated with daemons, i.e. souls which have left the body, rather than with those still in the flesh, though it may be more energetic after death? Compare the processes of Memory.
40. Divination touches on the future through bodily conditions assisted by emanations and the like.
41. The special virtues of certain vapours or streams, as the Cydnus at Tarsus.
42. The story of the first discovery of the Adytum of Delphi by the shepherd Coretas. There must be sympathy of soul with prophecy, as of the eye with light. The identification of Apollo with the sun.
43. The local prophetic currents may shift their place about, as rivers and lakes are known to do.