Plato also clearly teaches us that our apostacy from better natures is only to be healed by a flight from hence, when he defines in his Theaetetus philosophy to be a flight from terrestrial evils: for he evinces by this that passions are connascent with mortals alone.

In a lengthy account they give as the cause of the same the apostacy of one of his disciples, Upâli who was converted by Buddha.

He hath done a deed which severs him from hope, as everlastingly as the apostacy with the angels has done Satan.