The first step to participation in the destiny of humanity today, 

which is neither of this folk nor of that, 

but of the whole population of the globe, 

is to recognise every such local image of a god 

as but one of many thousands, millions, even perhaps billions, 

of locally useful symbolisations 

of that same mystery 

beyond sight or thought 

which our teachers have taught us to seek 

in their god alone.