...but there were four things I taught Walter to consider: 1) That it was Cain who built the first City, 2) That there is a true Science in the World called Scientist Umbra rum which, as to the public teaching of it, has been suppressed but which the proper Artificer must comprehend, 3) That Architecture aims at Eternity and must contain the Eternal Powers: not only our Altars and Sacrifices, but the Forms of our Temples, must be mystical, 4) That the miseries (If the present Life, and the Barbarities of Mankind, the fatal disadvantages we are all under and the Hazard we run of being eternally Undone, lead the True Architect not to Harmony or to Rational Beauty but to quite another Game. Why, do we not believe the very Infants to be the Heirs of Hell and Children of the Devil as soon as they are disclose'd to the World? I declare that I build my Churches firmly on this Dunghill Earth and with a full Conception of Degenerated Nature. I have only room to add: there is a mad-drunken Catch, Hey ho! The Devil is dead! If that be true, I have been in the wrong Suit all my Life.

Hawksmoor