Gods That Walk Upon The Earth

YOU are Becoming Gods.

- Baxter

Augustus as Jove, holding scepter and orb (first half of 1st century AD).

The Imperial cult of ancient Rome identified Roman emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas) of the Roman State. 

The official offer of cultus to a living emperor acknowledged his office and rule as divinely approved and constitutional: his Principate should therefore demonstrate pious respect for traditional Republican deities and mores. 

Many of the rites, practices and status distinctions that characterized the cult to emperors were perpetuated in the theology and politics of the Christianized Empire.

The whole of the Roman Empire, and the civilisation supporting and underlying it was established on the proposition, that had been agreed, as a Truth universally acknowledged, that 

The Emperor of Rome was a God.

( and if you refused to acknowledge The Truth, then they would kill you )

But they took a vote on it.

"It is for the good of Rome that Caesar has stayed so long in Egypt. 

In his absence, The People have come to worship him as a god. 

Why should he return, to show himself as mortal as the rest?"

Cicero

" The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth, for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called gods. 

There be three principal [comparisons] that illustrate the state of monarchy: one taken out of the word of God, and the two other out of the grounds of policy and philosophy. 

In the Scriptures kings are called gods, and so their power after a certain relation compared to the Divine power. 

Kings are also compared to fathers of families; for a king is truly parens patriae [parent of the country], the politic father of his people. 

And lastly, kings are compared to the head of this microcosm of the body of man. "

The Senate had debated the matter of the divinity (or not) of the late Julius Ceaser ( who they had just killed ), voted on the question, and the consensus that resulted from this was, that they had just put to death one of The Gods, and were being punished  (or warned, at any rate) of the gravity of their trespass to as a means to force them to recognise the truth of the matter.

So the late, lamented Gaius Julius Cesar was declared to be (by simple majority vote and popular acclamation), a God, as was (by extension), his appointed heir Augustus.

These were each a God, occupying an earthly throne within dynasty of Gods.

A living God, who walked The Earth and took on human form to rule on Earth. This was decided, and had been the finding of the Senate and The People (but mostly The Senate) of Rome

That he  was not what was extras