“Not even the gods have all things as they choose,
Excepting Zeus; for he beginning is and end.”
And Orpheus:
“One Might, the great, the flaming heaven, was
One Deity. All things one Being were; in whom
All these revolve fire, water, and the earth.”
And so forth.
Pindar, the lyric poet, as if in Bacchic frenzy, plainly says:
“What is God? The All.”
And again: