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"
You
see
,
dearie
?
I
knew
what
it
meant
,
I
knew
love
was
in
that
water
.
You
’
re
seekers
,
very
near
the
light
.
But
since
you
two
,
from
the
love
that
is
in
you
,
did
‘
share
water
and
grow
closer
,
’
as
Michael
says
,
I
can
tell
you
things
I
couldn
’
t
ordinarily
tell
a
seeker
-
"
The
Reverend
Foster
,
self
-
ordained
–
or
directly
ordained
by
God
,
depending
on
authority
cited
–
had
an
intuitive
instinct
for
the
pulse
of
his
culture
and
his
times
at
least
as
strong
as
that
of
a
skilled
carney
sizing
up
a
mark
.
The
country
and
culture
commonly
known
as
"
America
"
had
had
a
badly
split
personality
all
through
its
history
.
Its
overt
laws
were
almost
always
puritanical
for
a
people
whose
covert
behavior
tended
to
be
Rabelaisian
;
its
major
religions
were
all
Apollonian
in
varying
degree
–
its
religious
revivals
were
often
hysterical
in
fashion
almost
Dionysian
.
In
the
twentieth
century
(
Terran
Christian
Era
)
nowhere
on
Earth
was
sex
so
vigorously
suppressed
as
in
America
–
and
nowhere
else
was
there
such
a
deep
interest
in
it
.
The
Reverend
Foster
had
in
common
with
almost
every
great
religious
leader
of
that
planet
two
traits
:
he
had
an
extremely
magnetic
personality
(
"
hypnotist
"
was
a
word
widely
used
by
his
detractors
,
along
with
others
less
mild
)
and
,
sexually
,
he
did
not
fall
anywhere
near
the
human
norm
.
Great
religious
leaders
on
Earth
were
always
either
celibate
,
or
the
antithesis
.
(
Great
leaders
,
the
innovators
–
not
necessarily
the
major
administrators
and
consolidators
.
)
Foster
was
not
celibate
.
Nor
were
any
of
his
wives
and
high
priestesses
–
the
clincher
for
complete
conversion
and
rebirth
under
the
New
Revelation
usually
included
a
ritual
which
Valentine
Michael
Smith
at
a
later
time
was
to
grok
as
especially
suited
for
growing
-
closer
.
This
,
of
course
,
was
nothing
new
;
in
Terran
history
sects
,
cults
,
and
major
religions
too
numerous
to
list
had
used
essentially
the
same
technique
–
but
not
on
a
major
scale
in
America
before
Foster
’
s
times
.
Foster
was
run
out
of
town
more
than
once
before
he
"
perfected
"
a
method
and
organization
that
permitted
him
to
expand
his
capric
cult
.
In
organization
he
borrowed
as
liberally
from
freemasonry
,
from
Catholicism
,
from
the
Communist
Party
,
and
from
Madison
Avenue
as
he
had
borrowed
from
any
and
all
earlier
scriptures
in
composing
his
New
Revelation
?
and
he
sugar
-
coated
it
all
as
a
return
to
primitive
Christianity
to
suit
his
customers
.
He
set
up
an
outer
church
which
anybody
could
attend
–
and
a
person
could
remain
a
"
seeker
"
with
many
benefits
of
the
church
for
years
.
Then
there
was
a
middle
church
,
which
to
all
outward
appearance
was
"
The
Church
of
the
New
Revelation
,
"
the
happy
saved
,
who
paid
their
tithes
,
enjoyed
all
economic
benefits
of
the
church
’
s
ever
-
widening
business
tie
-
ins
,
and
whooped
it
up
in
the
endless
carnival
amp
;
revival
atmosphere
of
Happiness
,
Happiness
,
Happiness
!
Their
sins
were
forgiven
–
and
henceforth
very
little
was
sinful
as
long
as
they
supported
their
church
,
dealt
honestly
with
their
fellow
Fosterites
,
condemned
sinners
,
and
stayed
Happy
.
The
New
Revelation
does
not
specifically
encourage
adultery
;
it
simply
gets
rather
mystical
in
discussing
sexual
conduct
.
The
saved
of
the
middle
church
supplied
the
ranks
of
the
shock
troops
when
direct
action
was
needed
.
Foster
borrowed
a
trick
from
the
early
twentieth
-
century
Wobblies
;
if
a
community
tried
to
suppress
a
budding
Fosterite
movement
,
Fosterites
from
elsewhere
converged
on
that
town
until
there
were
neither
jails
nor
cops
enough
to
cope
with
them
–
and
the
cops
usually
had
had
their
ribs
kicked
in
and
the
jails
were
smashed
.
If
some
prosecutor
were
brave
enough
to
push
an
indictment
thereafter
,
it
was
almost
impossible
to
make
it
stick
.
Foster
(
after
learning
his
lesson
under
fire
)
saw
to
it
that
such
prosecutions
were
indeed
persecution
under
the
letter
of
the
law
;
not
one
conviction
of
a
Fosterite
qua
Fosterite
ever
was
upheld
by
the
national
Supreme
Court
–
nor
,
later
,
by
the
High
Court
.
But
,
in
addition
to
the
overt
church
,
there
was
the
Inner
Church
,
never
named
as
such
–
a
hard
core
of
the
utterly
dedicated
who
made
up
the
priesthood
,
all
the
church
lay
leaders
,
all
keepers
of
keys
and
records
and
makers
of
policy
.
They
were
the
"
reborn
,
"
beyond
sin
,
certain
of
their
place
in
heaven
,
and
sole
participants
of
the
inner
mysteries
–
and
the
only
candidates
for
direct
admission
to
Heaven
.
