And I have even had glimpses of that shadowy apocalypse that finds its images, not in thrones and sceptres, but in the flesh-hooks and seething-pots of the kitchen....
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
Even Christian teaching, while it offers a sure promise of a life to come, has not lifted the veil of the great mystery, and the material imagery of the apocalypse, or the shadowed hints of Jesus or S. Paul, have left the believer of the twentieth century with no clearer vision of the life beyond the tomb than that which was vouchsafed to Plato, Cicero, Virgil, or Plutarch.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
In the apocalypse of Seneca a new note is struck in pagan meditation on the immortality.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill