Entering now into the secret dome, he is filled with horror and astonishment. He is seized with loneliness and total perplexity; he is unable to move a step forward, and at a loss to find the entrance to the way that leads to where he aspires to, till the prophet or conductor lays open the anteroom of the Temple. (Themistius, Orations, Oration 5, Section 67, in Themistii Orationes, edited by Wilhelm Dindorf.)
