The modifications, however, are all in a more spiritual direction, in keeping with the genuinely evangelic spirit which underlies and pervades even the allegorical ingenuities of the epistle.
The seminal essence pervades the channels of the body, and so there comes mental torpor like thickening darkness.
God is spoken of as the Father-Mother, emphasizing the dual mystery which pervades the universe.
A strong sense of history pervades the region, with crumbling forts and tales of famous wayfarers.
The doctrine of immortality comes prominently forward in his ethics, but whether this must not be reckoned with the figurative accommodation to the popular theology of Greece which pervades his ethical teaching, is very doubtful.