For whoever of the deathless gods that hold the peaks of snowy Olympus pours a libation of her water is forsworn, lies breathless until a full year is completed, and never comes near to taste ambrosia and nectar, but lies spiritless and voiceless on a strewn bed: and a heavy trance overshadows him. But when he has spent a long year in his sickness, another penance and an harder follows after the first. For nine years he is cut off from the eternal gods and never joins their councils of their feasts, nine full years. But in the tenth year he comes again to join the assemblies of the deathless gods who live in the house of Olympus. Such an oath, then, did the gods appoint the eternal and primaeval water of Styx to be: and it spouts through a rugged place. (...)

ὅς κεν τὴν ἐπίορκον ἀπολλείψας ἐπομόσσῃ ἀθανάτων οἳ ἔχουσι κάρη νιφόεντος Ὀλύμπου͵ κεῖται νήυτμος τετελεσμένον εἰς ἐνιαυτόν· οὐδέ ποτ΄ ἀμβροσίης καὶ νέκταρος ἔρχεται ἆσσον βρώσιος͵ ἀλλά τε κεῖται ἀνάπνευστος καὶ ἄναυδος στρωτοῖς ἐν λεχέεσσι͵ κακὸν δ΄ ἐπὶ κῶμα καλύπτει. αὐτὰρ ἐπὴν νοῦσον τελέσει μέγαν εἰς ἐνιαυτόν͵ ἄλλος δ΄ ἐξ ἄλλου δέχεται χαλεπώτερος ἆθλος· εἰνάετες δὲ θεῶν ἀπαμείρεται αἰὲν ἐόντων͵ οὐδέ ποτ΄ ἐς βουλὴν ἐπιμίσγεται οὐδ΄ ἐπὶ δαῖτας ἐννέα πάντ΄ ἔτεα· δεκάτῳ δ΄ ἐπιμίσγεται αὖτις  εἰρέας ἀθανάτων οἳ Ὀλύμπια δώματ΄ ἔχουσι. τοῖον ἄρ΄ ὅρκον ἔθεντο θεοὶ Στυγὸς ἄφθιτον ὕδωρ͵ ὠγύγιον· τὸ δ΄ ἵησι καταστυφέλου διὰ χώρου. (...) 

Cf. ORPHICA : Everything was generated by Love, From man you became God ||| PLATO : The Creator, The world is a living being, A moving image of eternity, We are a heavenly flower ||| ARISTOTLE : God, Divine thought, Nature, Substance of the elements, One ||| DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE : All-comprehending Smallness and Super-essential Identity ||| MAXIMUS CONFESSOR : God is Thinking, He divided wisely the ages ||| NICHOLAS CABASILAS : The old and the new Adam