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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself - College of Stoic Philosophers

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v MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS cxxix<br />

<strong>of</strong> Providence; the hand <strong>of</strong> God, or gods 1<br />

for the<br />

theistic or polytheistic forms <strong>of</strong> belief are alike covered<br />

and interpreted by Pantheism is operative everywhere ;<br />

above all his voice is articulate within man's self, as his<br />

indwelling<br />

In this way man enters in<strong>to</strong> partnership with God,<br />

life and soul.<br />

and shares his franchise in<br />

2 the universe ; God in man,<br />

man with God are spiritual confederates ; life is con-<br />

tinuous 3<br />

ministration <strong>to</strong> the divine man's moral ;<br />

sense,<br />

'<br />

' 4 *<br />

an efflux <strong>of</strong> god a particle <strong>of</strong> Zeus ' 5 '<br />

an effluence<br />

<strong>of</strong> the disposing reason <strong>of</strong> the world ' 6 is one with the<br />

moral movement <strong>of</strong> the universe<br />

The soul that rises with us, oui- life's star,<br />

Hath had elsewhere its setting<br />

And cometh from afar.<br />

The word <strong>of</strong> Heraclitus rjOos av0pw7ru> 6W//,

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