WorkDiogenes Laertius

Lives of the Philosophers

Lives of the Philosophers, Inferred

InferredFuller mentions 'the trance of Pythagoras' as a parallel to the magnetic trance of the Seeress of Prevorst; alludes to the ancient tradition that Pythagoras experienced states of mystical ecstasy or catalepsy.

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Documented 1843

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1836

1844

1846

1850

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“yet it may be that, in last result, the trance of Pythagoras might be classed with the more infantine transports of the Seeress of Prevorst.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller mentions 'the trance of Pythagoras' as a parallel to the magnetic trance of the Seeress of Prevorst; alludes to the ancient tradition that Pythagoras experienced states of mystical ecstasy or catalepsy.