And, secondly, that the religious truths we refer to as metaphorical, and that are often perceived as ‘not as true’ as those that are literal and that can be proven, assume the form they do not because they arise from a mythology that would deceive, or mislead, or otherwise condescend, but because, I think, if we attempt to trace the history of the personhood that is common to us all back into those stages of consciousness that have been lost in the mists of evolution, the way our individual memories are lost, at some point, in the mists of infancy and incomprehension, we must be willing to involve ourselves in the imaginative work that belongs more to the realm of poetry and allegory than to the realm of science and transcription, if we are to enter into the places where those truths transpire, and are made sensible to us.