They have become the forms under which all things were comprehended.

There was a need or instinct in the human soul which they satisfied; they were not ideas, but gods, and to this new mythology the men of a later generation began to attach the powers and associations of the elder deities.
The idea of good is one of those sacred words or forms of thought, which were beginning to take the place of the old mythology.

It meant unity, in which all time and all existence were gathered up.

It was the truth of all things, and also the light in which they shone forth, and became evident to intelligences human and divine.

It was the cause of all things, the power by which they were brought into being.