of the soul remained the preserve of only a few philosophers, while the broad masses had to be satisfied with a lesser form of redemption. They could only draw closer to the realm of the divine, and this by means of magical practices. No more was possible for them. Augustine, indeed, also distinguished two ways, but the salvation which the majority of human beings reached by way of auctoritas was not different from the salvation which some few could find by way of reason. Thus the divine economy