From Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations":
“God beholds our minds and understandings, bare and naked from these material vessels, and outsides, and all earthly dross. For with His simple and pure understanding, He pierces into our inmost and purest parts.”
So often, ancient Romans are un-charitably characterized as pagans and poly-theists. While it's true that their socio-cultural structure had a poly-theistic fabric woven into it. There is so much evidence, as with this quote, that many educated Greeks and Romans believed that there was one uniting force or God to the universe. Food for thought...
“God beholds our minds and understandings, bare and naked from these material vessels, and outsides, and all earthly dross. For with His simple and pure understanding, He pierces into our inmost and purest parts.”
So often, ancient Romans are un-charitably characterized as pagans and poly-theists. While it's true that their socio-cultural structure had a poly-theistic fabric woven into it. There is so much evidence, as with this quote, that many educated Greeks and Romans believed that there was one uniting force or God to the universe. Food for thought...
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