Bedecked with the wreath of Ceres, clad in the saffron pallium of Saturn or the linen robes of Isis, the soul often invokes God as judge in the very temples. The soul stands in the temple of Asclepius, Juno or Minerva and refuses to acknowledge that they are living deities. In fact, they are demons. He invites the soul to consider its fate after death. Christians declare that it will survive, that according to its deserts it will be consigned either to eternal bliss or to everlasting torment.
Men fear death.
For they call the dead unfortunate and wish them a peaceful repose. They must therefore believe that the soul retains the capacity for feeling even after death. And men desire still to be remembered when they die. They try to perpetuate a record of themselves, either in works of literature or through remembrance of their virtues or simply by the ostentation of their tombs. Christianity offered a more pleasing hope.