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To supersede this doctrine, the Petelia Tablet and other gold leafs known by a German term give instructions such as saying “the Bacchic one has released me!” This doctrine creates a nine-part hierarchy from winged philosophers down to tyrants in the Allegory of the Chariot from the Phaedrus. According to Diogenes Laërtius, a thinker’s belief in this doctrine led him (15[1])to stop a dog from being beaten. (15[1])This doctrine allows Anchises to show Aeneas the faces of Romulus and Julius Caesar near a river in (*) Hades. In the Republic, Socrates illustrates this doctrine with the myth of Er, who watches people receive lottery tokens and drink from the river Lethe to forget. In Orphic and Pythagorean forms of this doctrine, the indestructible psyche undergoes metempsychosis. For 10 points, what cyclic process is (10[1])governed by karma? ■END■

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