I asked where the house in question was located and was told it was several blocks away and this was a staging area.
As has been said of another thinker, he was " one of those deeply religious men who, when crude theological notions are being revised and called in question seek to put new life into theology by wider and more humane ideas."
To know the mind of the god was equivalent to knowing what the god in question proposed to do.
As early as the 3rd century B.C. Megasthenes makes mention of spices brought to the shores of the Ganges from " the southern parts of India," and the trade in question was probably one of the most ancient in the world.
The supremacy of the emperor is not called in question.