[132] All that remained of the shield was the carved ivory ornamentation, the iron had been eaten away by rust.

[133] Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana.

[134] Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana.

[135] Marinas, Vita Procli.

[136] The Ego, the human soul properly so-called, what Egypt named the liberated intelligence which resumes its sheath of light, and again becomes a "daimon" (Maspero). In antiquity the name of daimon was given to the human soul or to higher intelligences.

[137] Hades; the Purgatory of Catholics; the Kâmalôka of Hindus.

[138] Allusion to the struggle which separates the mental from the astral body in Purgatory.

[139] Kâmalôka; Purgatory.

[140] The subterranean hell, the lowest world in Purgatory.

[141] Plato's Laws, Book 10.