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       The Therapeutae
       By: Custodian Date: November 3, 2018, 4:28 pm
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       Philo is often taken as the sole authority for the Therapeutae.
       When he wrote, the origins of the Therapeutae were already lost
       in the past, and he was even unsure about the etymology of their
       name, which he explained as meaning either physicians of souls
       or servants of God. Philo was employing the familiar polarity in
       Hellenic philosophy between the active and the contemplative
       life, exemplifying the active life by the Essenes, another
       severely ascetic sect, and the contemplative life by the
       desert-dwelling Therapeutae. According to Philo, the Therapeutae
       were widely distributed in the Ancient world, among the Greeks
       and beyond in the non-Greek world of the "Barbarians", with one
       of ther major gathering point being in Alexandria, in the area
       of the Lake Mareotis
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