Does immortality exist?

Platonius, do you not recognise me? Have you forgotten the Portico of Pythagoras?

Ah―how can I express the overflowing rapture, which thrilled my whole being when the sublime reality of immortal life came rushing over my soul like a gleam of lightning! 

Words are but faint indicators of the emotions I experienced―or the ineffable joy,  which filled my being.

When I look back on bygone ages, I feel as if standing on the summit of some lofty pinnacle and looking down on my path until it seems lost in mists and I can clearly see now from what a small beginning I had started.