Bee Lore

Plato’s doctrine of the transmigration of souls holds that the souls of sober quiet people, untinctured by philosophy come to life as bees. Later than Plato comes Mahomet, who admitted bees, as souls, to paradise; and Porphyry said of fountains; “They are adapted to the nymphs, or those souls which the Ancients call bees.”

From: http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/bees/beesadd.htm