Why there are rejections of god, and that god is not injured.
Nor need the fact that rejections of god have taken place in certain parts of the earth and will often take place hereafter, disturb the mind of the wise:
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both because these things do not affect the Gods,
just as we saw that worship did not benefit them;
and because the soul, being of middle essence, cannot be always right; and because the whole world cannot enjoy the providence of the Gods equally,
but some parts may partake of it eternally, some at certain times,
some in the primal manner, some in the secondary.
Just as the head enjoys all the senses, but the rest of the body only one.
For this reason, it seems, those who ordained festivals ordained also forbidden days, in which some temples lay idle, some were shut, some had their adornments removed, in expiation of the weakness of our nature.
It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of god is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the Gods and neglected them in one life may in another life be deprived of the knowledge of them altogether.
Also those who have worshipped their own kings as gods
have deserved as their punishment to lose all knowledge of god.
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