Note 38 — LECTURE II. The Origin and Contents of Primitive Religions.

This was the universal opinion of classical antiquity. See Payne Knight, Ancient Art, p. 45. It was also the orthodox theory of the early Church concerning the redeemed soul. It “will know all things as God doth. Whatsoever is in Heaven and whatsoever is in earth, everything will he see with that veritable knowledge which nothing escapeth.”—Select Works of St. Ephrem the Syrian, translated by Rev. J. B. Morris, p. 353.