Within ten days, if it happens, you could be seen as a god by the same people who would think of you as no better than an animal or an ape if you went back to your old beliefs and stopped honoring reason.
Within ten days, if so happen, thou shalt be esteemed a god of them, who now if thou shalt return to the dogmata and to the honouring of reason, will esteem of thee no better than of a mere brute, and of an ape.
Until now you have existed as a separate part. Soon you will disappear back into the common substance of the one who created you. Or rather, you will return to that original rational substance from which everything else came and continues to come. Many small pieces of incense are placed on the same altar. One burns first, another later. But it all comes to the same thing.
As a part hitherto thou hast had a particular subsistence: and now shalt thou vanish away into the common substance of Him, who first begot thee, or rather thou shalt be resumed again into that original rational substance, out of which all others have issued, and are propagated. Many small pieces of frankincense are set upon the same altar, one drops first and is consumed, another after; and it comes all to one.