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principle, which would avoid them to be culturally phagocytized by the Roman Empire: the
meaning of the difference itself had no major importance; the concrete would be that the
Arianism would maintain them religiously separated from the Roman population in such way,
that when joining each other, would allow them to conserve the Gothic Culture.

In what consisted such difference with the catholic dogma that only a few understood,
but the nationalist Goths would defend it to the end? Specifically, it referred to a definition
concerning to a problem of the Divinity and Jesus Christ. The posture of Arius, natal of Libya
but enrolled in the diocese of Antioquia, appeared as a reaction against the doctrine of
Sabellius: he affirmed that not existed an essential distinction amongst the three Persons of
the Christian Trinity; the Son and the Holy Spirit were really manifestations of the Father
under other Aspect or prosopon: the essence of the God One, when was presented with one
Aspect of the Father, with other was the Child, and with other the Holy Spirit. Against this,
Arius started to teach since 318 that «only God One is eternal and incommunicable: Jesus
Christ was created from the naught, therefore, he is not eternal; he is a creature of the God One
hence something different from Him, something not consubstantial with Him».
Sabellius didn't establish any distinction within the three Persons of this Trinity
whereasArius differentiated in such way the Father and the Son that he was not God anymore
nor consubstantial with the Father: both would be condemned as heretics for the Catholic
Doctrine. And what was the truth? According to what was decided in Nicaea, in 325, a Council
of three hundred Bishops, Jesus Christ answered to the formula consubstantialis Patri, i.e.,
he was consubstantial with the Father, of his same substance, God as Him. Thence, the
religious difference that separated Goths and Romans treated about the complex concept of the
consubstantiality between God and the Verb of God, difference that would not reach to explain
the Goths obstinacy at least that could be considered that with this was preserving a Culture, a
tradition, and a lifestyle. Perhaps it would not be evidenced on its real dimension the danger of
immersion in the Roman Culture that was denounced by the nationalists Goths if it is not
repaired in the third point, about the numeric disproportion between both populations:
because the Visigoths only counted two hundred thousand; it means, that a community of two
hundred thousand members, just arrived, had to dominate a native population of nine millions
of Hispanic-Romans, exponents of a high grade of civilization. At the light of such quantities it
is better understood the reticence of the Goths to suppress the religious and juristic differences
that isolated them from the Hispanic-Romans.
The reality of their scarse number obeyed the Visigoths to tolerate the religion of the
Hispanic-Romans although without ceding an apex in their Arians convictions. However, even
by the desperation of the nationalists, the universality in that time of a world which was
Roman and Catholic was penetrating them from everywhere and finally they had to accept a
cultural integration that, indeed, was already consummated. In the year 589 the King Reccared
became Catholic during the III Council of Toledo fulfilling the religious unification of the
populations of Spain. Being the Goths an Indo-Germanic Race, that was counted amongst the
last one who abandoned the Pact of Blood, i.e., who were amongst the ones of Purer Blood of
the Earth, it is easy to conclude that their presence in the peninsula could only benefit to the
House of Tharsis; but such step taken by Reccared would elevate, now without obstacles, the
Lords of Tharsis to the most noble dignities of the Court of Toledo: since the VII century the

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