Meditations XII.28

If any ask, Where hast thou seen the Gods or how hast thou satisfied thyself of their existence that thou art so devout a worshipper?⁵⁷ I answer: In the first place, they are even visible to the eyes.⁵⁸ In the next, I have not seen my own soul either, yet I honour it.⁵⁹ So then from the continual proofs of their power I am assured that Gods also exist and I reverence them.

• 57.Compare Dio’s Roman History 71. 34 § 2.
• 58.The stars were Gods in the Stoic view. Compare above, viii. 19, and Seneca’s On Benefits iv. 8.
• 59.Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus i. 2 and 5.

  Theophilus was bishop of Antioch in the later 2nd century; in To Autolycus, a defence of Christianity, he argues that God, though invisible, is known from his works, as the soul is known though unseen.