Each circle of the gods shows us some working of the mysterious powers of nature, and of its occult laws.

But when we come to Greece, these personified laws turn into men.

Everything in the Greek Pantheon is human.

All human tendencies appear transfigured into glowing forms of light on Mount Olympus.

The gods of Egypt are powers and laws; those of Greece are persons.
The opposite tendencies of these antagonist forms of piety appear in the development of Egyptian and Hellenic life.