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Early Pythagorean ( Iamblikhos V.Pyth. 267) under whose name is preserved an apocryphal treatise deeply influenced by Peripatetic doctrines: the universe is eternal, indestructible and ungenerated; it undergoes no change, by remaining always identical with itself. The whole divides into a celestial or superlunary region, which, inhabited by divinities, is in perpetual motion and governs the constantly changing sublunary realm, inhabited by mortals. This part of the world, wherein generation occurs, is the realm of the four elements, neither corrupted nor generated. The human species, which as a co-subsistent part of an eternal world must be perpetual, attains immortality through the continuity of generation, where intercourse should occur not for pleasure, but only for the procreation of children. Under Ocellus&s; name, we also have a brief fragment from an apocryphal On laws, where law is described as the cause of concord in the family and the city, since God is the cause of harmony in the world.

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