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Having seen these things, then, and moreover having taken part in mysteries, and having examined the religious rites that are everywhere maintained through effeminate men and androgynes, and having found among the Romans their Latian Zeus delighting in the gore of men and in the blood that comes from slaughter of men, and Artemis not far from the great city pursuing the same kind of deeds, and one demon here and another there contriving incitements to mischief—being by myself, I sought in what manner I might be able to find out the truth. And while pondering the serious questions, it befell me to chance upon certain barbarian writings, older as compared with the doctrines of the Greeks, but more divine as compared with their error; and it befell me to be persuaded by these, both through the unpretentiousness of the wording, and through the artlessness of those who spoke, and through the easy comprehension of the creation of the whole, and through the foreknowledge of things to come, and through the extraordinary character of the precepts, and through the doctrine of the monarchy of the universe. And my soul having become God-taught, I understood that, while some writings have the character of condemnation, others release the slavery that is in the world, and rescue us from many rulers and ten thousand tyrants, and give us not what we had not received, but what, having received, we were hindered by error from keeping.