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The Sun draws all things from the Earth, and calls them upwards with a resuscitating and wonderful heat; separating bodies... as far as to the most exquisite subtlety, and elevating things which are naturally borne downwards... for how is it possible that he, who through corporeal heat can produce such effects in bodies, should not much more draw upwards and lead back again fortunate souls, through an unapparent, perfectly incorporeal, divine, and pure essence established in his rays? ...Light...through which a great multitude of souls are led back again, by following the most splendid and eminently solar form of the senses: for the sense of sight is celebrated by the divine Plato as not only lovely and useful for the purposes of life, but as a leader in the acquisition of wisdom. 

From the Oration to the Mother of the Gods, written in 362 AD by Emperor Julian