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"In Syria Monasticism produced the concept of the holy man, a man to be reckoned with, a man capable of bringing upon the surrounding communities, and on the great cities, blessings or curses. Superstition and divination continued to be practiced in the name of Christianity."

"Philosophy (science), in Pythagoras’s view, is the means to the divinization
of man. When the soul, through much labor, has at last gazed upon the harmony and order of the divine cosmos, it will itself become harmonious and ordered, a belief that will re-emerge at the outset of the modern world with the Renaissance."

In the ideal of the hero there appeared the god-like qualities needed to imbue human goals with eternal value...Man, in Homer, begins to think of himself and his deeds as the product of the divine within himself, and although Homer still thought of those god-like features as coming to man from without, nevertheless he regarded them as innately human.