 Complete the following phrase:  Hendrik Wagenvoort maintained that caerimoniae were originally the secret ritual instructions laid down by Numa, which are described as statae et sollemnes, established and solemn. These were interpreted and supervised by the College of Pontiffs, flamens, rex sacrorum and the Vestals. Later, caerimoniae might refer also to other rituals, including foreign cults. These prescribed rites unite the inner subject with the external religious object, binding human and divine realms. The historian Valerius Maximus makes clear that the caerimoniae require those performing them to attain a particular mental-spiritual state animus, intention, and emphasizes the importance of caerimoniae in the dedication and first sentence of his work. In Valeriuss version of the 