Theurgy and the Pagan Counter Church

The Pontifex Maximus is connected to a chain, a sera, that goes all the way up to the ultimate ground of being. He's really important because for Yamblokos and then for his follower Maximus, Vefesus, I guess, ritual has kind of metaphysical effects in the higher worlds. His doing massive sacrifices of 100 bullocks at a time and stuff like this is like setting the world to rights in a really fundamental kind of metaphysical way. It's like he's doing a magic, he's doing magic to keep the universe running, as it were.