Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

The cry of the Little Peoples goes up to God in vain, / For the world is given over to the cruel sons of Cain.

Stay the course, light a star,
Change the world where'er you are.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.