He is inaccessible to good and to evil.

He need fear neither rhinoceros nor tiger.

In battle he needs neither cuirass nor sword.

The tiger cannot tear him, the soldier cannot wound him.

He is invulnerable and safe from death.[21] If Neo-Platonism had not had for its antagonist the vital force of Christianity, it might have established itself as a permanent form of religion in the Roman Empire, as Tao-ism has in China.