14 And Jesus and the Grecian sage returned; and in Apollo’s home the Living Oracle spoke forth for forty days.
15 One day Apollo said to Jesus as they sat alone, This sacred Delphic Oracle has spoken many a helpful word for Greece.
16 Pray tell me what it is that speaks. Is it an angel, man, or living god?
17 And Jesus said, It is not angel, man, nor god that speaks. It is the matchless wisdom of the master minds of Greece, united in a master mind.
18 This giant mind has taken to itself the substances of soul, and thinks, and hears, and speaks.
19 It will remain a living soul while master minds feed it with thought, with wisdom and with faith and hope.
20 But when the master minds of Greece shall perish from the land, this giant master mind will cease to be, and then the Delphic Oracle will speak no more.
CHAPTER 46.
A storm on the sea. Jesus rescues many drowning men. The Athenians pray to idols. Jesus rebukes their idolatry and tells how God helps. His last meeting with the Greeks. Sails on the vessel Mars.