Finally one day we were told that we had done some right good dreaming--that it was all true. We were advised that it was no affair of ours if other people didn't get it right away; that they would get it.... So we began to put these things in stories. They mean Romance to us. Queerly enough the stories are coming through--one long one especially, called _Archer_, that shows the downhere activities of the Big Mill and the White Council and the Shop Itself. * * * * * I have said it often in this book--that our culture consists of the quantity of properties that we have tallied off--the within with the without. The Kingdom is within, also the King; the Sky and the Nest are one; one are the heavens and the homing heart that finds its peace in the deep vales where the adorable humanities come to be. The inmost and the uppermost are one. We are where the torch of consciousness is. We are in the body, or in the mind, or in the soul; we are in time or eternity, or we pass back and forth.... First we tally off the far outposts of the kingdoms without and within; first we are mere sentries learning to become clear-eyed and brave to stand alone--almost outsiders, having scarcely heard of the Kingdom, dimly conscious, but learning to become steady-eyed. Then we are called in a little--called in to become couriers on foot, running to and from among the outer provinces of the kingdom; then messengers to the Middle Countries; then Charioteers to the gates of the City; then ministers to the court of the King.... The day comes at last when we have audience with Him--when we rule with Him, when we become united with Him. From the throne Itself, then we perceive the outsiders, the sentries, the couriers, messengers, charioteers, the winged riders and the deep-down men of the dungeons.... With the fine tranquillity of power, we measure forth to all, reverence, justice and grace. * * * * * 20 BOYS AND DOGS Children of the new social order love strange creatures; they are passionate about the care and protection of animals, but until they are made to suffer, they are apt to be sceptical about the infallibility of their elders. They are usually forced into silence early. I have noted that their ideas are intrinsically at variance with parental ideas--about purity, sunlight, dancing, foods, religion, odours.... It takes a good man to break a horse or a dog. In a sense _break_ is the word, although I would accomplish it with enchantment rather than a gad.... This is invariable: "When the pupil is ready--the Master appears----" an old occult saying, and another: "The first thing the Master does, is to break the back of his disciple----"