“Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.”

—  Sallustius

VI. On Gods Cosmic and Hypercosmic.
On the Gods and the Cosmos

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