Moreover, as we have seen, the new Platonism was striving to create some Mediatorial power between the world of sense and the Infinite Spirit, transcending all old materialistic fancies of the Divine.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
And the need of Mediatorial sympathy, of a sympathetic link, however slight, with the dim, awful Power, ever receding into more remote and mysterious distances, was also connected with the need of some assurance, or fainter hope, of a life beyond the tomb.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
The Mediatorial system of Rome is essentially Pagan.
"Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors"
James Freeman Clarke