One part of self-understanding is to understand our physical self and the sub-strata of our material body and soul.

Every person is descended from other people who have their own background, history, and roots. Our body is a history of our ancestors and their decisions to procreate for the next generation of life to occur.

As such, the Ancient religions and the Temple of Zeus focus intently on the topic of one's Ancestors and the future generations. The best is done for the individual today, so the past can be brought to glory and the future can be better than the present.

Certain factors that tie us with our ancestors are present and they cannot be denied. We are connected to them in the same way our descendants will be connected to us.

A building block of our society is our family. While most modern values promote assimilation and hyper-individualism, Zevism stands in the balance of recognizing our ancestors and other people, but also ourselves as free, willing beings.

One’s family should be treated either with respect or, if deserved, with sacredness. One’s ancestral line is filled with people who have laboriously worked their way so that one can exist. One might be grateful or ungrateful for this, but the reality is that these people have fought and survived so we can exist today.

Children are sacred in the Temple of Zeus, and children of other Zevists should be seen as extensions of a larger spiritual family, especially if they follow the path.

The Path of Zevism is one that extends into the aeons. That extends from our ancestors, to ourselves, and finally, to the future in our descendants.

A large portion of Astarte’s / Aphrodite’s powers have to do with procreation and the continuation of our species. She is one of the Divine Mothers of our species through the need for sexual union that leads to procreation and the perpetuation of our existence. These forces bring human beings together in order to procreate and procure life in a loving manner.

We descend from a long river of human beings who have passed down things to us, yet we are individuals. Our elevation might do them right, or it might do them wrong, but one thing is certain: as we advance ourselves, we advance them too. The straight outcome of this is experienced in our own family and close environment.

Race, or where we descend from, can be seen as a river that flows onward, stemming from carrying the power of our greater family line, then our race, then humanity.

While humanity as a term encompasses the whole of our species, we must understand that wherever we come from in regards to our background, we are mutually children of “humanity,” but children of our race of people too.

In contrast to religions that promote forced universalism, the Temple of Zeus positions itself on a realistic truth. We accept all aspects of ourselves.

Gaining the honor of our ancestors and descendants is a primary focus in the Temple of Zeus. It’s the actualization of the self to its highest potential that will make us greater, for us and for them.

Acceptance of the above can lead to healthy introspection, combined with noble acts, giving us bravery and perspective of our origins.

It can also lead to examinations of faults, mistakes, and errant behaviors that might have to do with “inherited” hurdles one has to overcome or set a new example for. Certain elements of our “Ancestors” have to be washed away: we can choose to nullify in ourselves the impious and wrongful traits in us that come from them for the good of the next generations.

No matter where one comes from, the path of Zevism is open to all theophoric humans of the world. This is because the great plan of the Gods is to create higher and higher types of human beings until we too can be called an advanced form of life like they are.