Note 49.1 — The Evolution of Religion

Epist. 395: the doctrines of the Orphic sects from the fourth century B.C. onwards also emphasised the kinship of man with God, as the well-known Orphic tablets, found in South Italy and Crete, reveal (Hell. Journ. 3, p. 112: Miss J. Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion: Appendix by Prof. Murray, p. 660). In the pseudo-Platonic Axiochus, p. 371 D, the sick man is assured of salvation as being “of the family of God” γεννήτης τῶν θεῶν.