"Not until every man is sanctified, until every day is a holy day, and every house a House of God---not until then may you speak of redemption, and array yourself in white and gold. "Woe unto you, forsakers of the world! Was not the world bestowed upon you by the Father as the noblest and most precious gift of the dearest of friends? "How dare you despise it? "Will you openly preserve the penny of your enemy, and reject the noblest gift of the Most High? "Do you speak in the name of the Triune God? But you have smitten the Father's face--you have martyred the Son, and the Holy Ghost have you violated. "You have been told that God is Truth. Yet you have striven against the truth with torture-tongs, with dungeons, and with burnings at the stake. "You have made the Son of man an object of ridicule--a shield for lying and violence, a pretext for strife and bloodshed, a monstrous idol. "And of all sins, the worst is the sin against the Holy Ghost--which is the bread that you eat, and the water wherein you swim. "You shackle and restrain the Spirit. This is of all sins the worst, and this you know. "Where God alone may reign--in the free human heart--there you establish yourselves with your laws and dogmas, your writings and your imageries. "Think you, madman, that the wisdom of the Eternal can be comprised within the limits of written or printed pages? "To Him your sacred books are as cobwebs and sweepings; for He lives and moves eternally, and book nor brain can compass Him. Like to flowing water, you are told, is the wisdom of God. Forever changing, forever the same, no finite word can picture His progressive wisdom. "There is more of the Father's wisdom in the shy, faltering whisper of a poor heathen child, than in all your bulls and councils and decretals. "Would you put a tube to the lips of the Father, that He may speak at your pleasure? Yet will He speak as seems best to Himself. "Would you point with the finger and say to Him: 'Here! These shall speak in thy name, and to these shalt thou give wisdom, and these shalt thou inspire with understanding, and these shalt thou save, and these condemn!' "But He will reply: 'There!' and will regard your pointings even as the lava of a volcano regards the guide-posts and little crosses on the slopes. "But your opinions and your pride are avenged, for the world commands you as the hunter his hound, as the show-man his monkey. You pull the carriage of prince and monied man, and make grimaces before the powerful. "They build you churches, and you say masses for them, although they be Satan himself. "The world is sanctified without you, and you sanctify yourselves because of the world. "That your Popes are not more dissolute, your prelates more prodigal, and your friars more slothful, is because the world has constrained you. But you have constrained the world to no purpose.