sdi | Name-Vibrations

[Names] are given before the life process [e.g. material incarnation] is begun. Every letter has its own vibratory rate which coincides with the vibration and pattern on which that individual proceeds through his lifetime.

("Yan Lu Su," as channeled by Charles Roberts, and as recorded by Eugene G. Jussek, Reaching for the Oversoul.)

Consider:

Pythagoras, "the oracle of Apollo speaks" (a reference to his prophesied birth)
Plato, "broad" (his wrestling nickname)
Plutarch, "wealthy leader"
Plotinus, maybe related to πλωτίς [plotis, "life-preserver" (e.g. a float thrown to a drowning person)]?
Plethon, "full" (a pun on his family name, Γεμιστὸς [Gemistos, "full"])

There's gotta be something about that "P[l]—t[h]—" combination, since the meanings of their names show no particular coherency, and yet the lives of each of these men all certainly seemed to follow a particular arc...