It's Angels All The Way Down

[sdi]

"When a delegation from Oenoanda in southwest Asia Minor traveled north toward the coast at Claros in the second century, they seem to have had something profounder in mind than nomenclature, for this is part of what they had carved on an altar when they came home:

Αὐτοφυὴς, ἀδίδακτος, ἀμήτωρ, ἀστυφέλκτος,
οὔνομα μὴ χωρῶν, πολυώνυμος, ἐν πυρὶ ναίων,
τοῦτο θεός· μεικρὰ δὲ θεοῦ μερὶς ἄνγελοι ἡμεῖς.

Self-born, untaught, motherless, unshakeable,
Giving place to no name, many-named, dwelling in fire,
Such is God: we are a portion of God, his angels."

(Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica)