Meditations XII.2

God sees the Ruling Parts of all men stripped of material vessels and husks and sloughs. For only with the Intellectual Part of Himself is He in touch with those emanations only which have welled forth and been drawn off from Himself into them. But if thou also wilt accustom thyself to do this, thou wilt free thyself from the most of thy distracting care. For he that hath no eye for the flesh that envelopes him will not, I trow, waste his time with taking thought for raiment and lodging and popularity and such accessories and frippery.⁷

• 7.Literally stage-scenery; compare Seneca’s Consolation to Marcia 10.

  In the Consolation to Marcia Seneca describes the goods of fortune as borrowed stage properties, to be returned.