there is a void outside the Universe into which the Universe breathes forth and from which it breathes in,
and that
the Universe is brought into being by the Deity and is perishable so far as its shape is concerned, for it is perceived by sense, is therefore material, but that (its Essence) will not be destroyed.
Pythagoras declared that all nature is animate, for
Soul is extended through the nature of all things and is mingled with them
and he believed in one Deity, ruling and upholding all things.
There is One Universal Soul diffused through all things—eternal, invisible, unchangeable; in essence like Truth, in substance resembling Light; not to be represented by any image; to be comprehended only by the Nous; not, as some conjecture, exterior to the Universe, but in itself entire, pervading the sphere which is the Universe.
From this One Universal Soul proceed Spiritual Intelligences, above, below, and inclusive of man; the subtle ether out of which they are formed becoming more and more gross, the further it is removed from the divine Source. He classified these Hosts or Hierarchies of Spiritual Intelligences into gods or major divinities, daemones or lesser divine beings of good and bad natures, and thirdly heroes or disembodied human souls, "immortal minds in luminous bodies," in position intermediate between men and the daemones. He declared "the whole air is filled with souls."
H. P. Blavatsky says:
In the Pythagorean Theurgy these hierarchies of the Heavenly Host and the gods were expressed numerically.