Cynics preached simplicity and virtue and urged men to meet death fearlessly. [1]
The residual teachings of the disciples of Melchizedek, excepting those which persisted in the Jewish religion, were best preserved in the doctrines of the Cynics. [2] They were characterized by being wandering preachers and they traced their philosophy to Diogenes of Athens. [3]
Occidental religion thus languished until the days of the Skeptics, Cynics, Epicureans, and Stoics, but most important of all, until the times of the great contest between Mithraism and Paul’s new religion of Christianity. [4] Ganid made a summary of the teachings of this religion while he was in Alexandria with Jesus. [5]