On the Mysteries (De Mysteriis)

-tribution according to place, and determining as much as pertains to that, if they are conceived in respect of species or genus, there can be mutual comprehension and mingling. But those things which differ entirely in their whole beings admit no reciprocal co-distribution, mixture, or comprehension among themselves at all. When the distribution of divine powers occurs through different regions of the world, understand that different regions receive the gifts of the gods in different ways according to their own property. Considering this, the art of sacred works employs specific invocations which appear suitable to such distribution and to the property of the divine powers. Any part of the world receives something from any God; for every God is present as a whole to any part of the world. But different parts receive from this source in different ways: Ether indeed receives in an ethereal manner, and Air in an aerial manner. For the gifts of the gods are naturally attracted by certain materials and invocations.

That everything divine is free from passions.

The divine powers superior to us have nothing passible in themselves; and this (so to speak) impassibility they possess not by acquired virtue, but by nature; nor does even the soul, which is the last of things divine, have anything passible: