Day 48, Ostia

Those who accept and those who reject Western Christianity are directly influenced by Augustine, his theology and his anthropic cacogony*.

*http://steppenwolfmoscow1.blogspot.com/2016/02/evil-origins_96.html

I believe one of the reasons I have had to travel to so many places to see the locations of events, buildings, and someone, what is the very abstract education, I received as a typical American.

“History” was something that happened outside, before, or in books around us. Not in which we lived, explained clearly. The Story of Maning, the Meaning of the story in which we lived. Live.

I cannot think of a better, deeper, nor more meaningful way to end my Italian journey than to find this litte-visited Mithraem (at the far distance from the entrance at “Ostia Antica”). It represents a path Augustine did not take, though it now seems there were a large number of real opportunities for him to have.