It was compiled years after his death by his later followers around the year 330 BC.
Most scholars today accept the basic authenticity of the book, but see in it significant additions by a "school" of later followers of the original prophet.
Vasubandhu's original analysis leaves ample room for the proposition of a transcendent essence, but was interpreted in an idealist way by later followers.
However, many of his later followers quite explicitly committed themselves to an occasionalist position.
Among the later followers of Basilides, magic, invocations, "and all other curious arts" played a part.
The first is that the text was actually written and compiled by later followers of the Taigong, rather than by the man himself.
Although it has been claimed by much later followers of both soccer and American football, the club predated formal rules of any football variant.
Others see Jesus as a teacher who worked with the gentiles and ascribe the messianic claims they find objectionable to his later followers.
Two of Confucius's most famous later followers emphasized radically different aspects of his teachings.
Much of what is known about Epicurean philosophy derives from later followers and commentators.