Unity is invisible. You can't see the thing that unifies a group of people, be it a club, a class, a nation, or any other group. And yet, just as you cannot point to a physical number 2, the unifying principalities of groups exist. Spirits have always been understood to exist in this manner, except by materialists, and we win the prize for the best materialists who have ever existed. In the ancient world, the unifying principles were explicitly described as gods. In our modern, disenchanted way of seeing the world, we don't see unifying principles as gods, but rather abstract concepts, perhaps expressed as manifestos or ideologies or constitutions. But, the gods still exist, and the old gods also had their rules. The principalities were perceived as divine because they had a spiritual nature, spreading their unifying presence across many people, transcending time and place. Those god-kings of the ancient world who ruled vast empires were also perceived as carriers of a god, bec