They have rather spiritualized matter than materialized the soul.
It need hardly be said that he spiritualized the church doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh.
In the interpretation of myths Neoplatonism followed the allegorical method, as practised especially by the Stoa; but the importance it attached to the spiritualized myths was unknown to the Stoic philosophers.
Hence the existing religions, after being refined and spiritualized, were made the basis of philosophy.
Even, therefore, if we can say that at the present day the gods are entirely spiritual, it is clearly possible to maintain that they have been spiritualized pari passu with the increasing importance of the animistic view of nature and of the greater prominence of eschatological beliefs.
