Pythagoras' ban of beans: The rationale for this proscription is explained physiologically, pathologically, politically, sexually, mystically, biochemically, esoterically, and etymologically.
Apollonius, Aristoxenus, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Empedocles, A.C. Gellius, Iamblichus, Pausanias, Plutarch, Porphyrius, Thomas Taylor
Religion & spirituality