http://www.smoking-mirrors.com/2022/05/you-want-to-be-sitting-on-lily-pad-not.html

First, they had the early churches, where it appears that living in The Spirit was a reality. It was also a very dangerous time to be a follower of Christ. Finally, it caught on and began to go mainstream. At that time, it was looking like big business for the priest class; finally, the despotic emperor, Constantine, saw a way to further increase his power, and so... an early times, hostile takeover bid was initiated. Whatever amount of real Christian spirit that remained was put into escrow, where it was held until modern times to be used at electric car charging stations on The Left Coast. America is not known for its graceful dance steps, and that is understandable with two left coasts.

For the next thousand or so years, The Catholic Church held sway over the Nodwells, moving from corruption to corruption, and from perversion to perversion, until the stink of the church became too much to bear (except for the wealthy). The Initiatic Brotherhood had to call in a fumigator named, Luther. It was a stage 4 cancer operation of the make or break kind. He had to cut away the dead tissue, which... for reasons that defy science, the dead part continued to live, and continued to be The Catholic Church. Nothing defies Science these days. Now they just fix the results.