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This idea, however, underlies sympathetic magic in general: the sunthemata (tokens) of the gods, whether they be myths or language or actual physical objects, have some affinities to the god(s) in question.

Here too, I think the Platonist can agree about this affinity, while making the case even more strongly. Everything in the cosmos both proceeds from the Gods, and desires to revert back to its divine source.