The First Supper 200 pe (precession of the equinox).
There will soon be no more priests. Their work is done. They may wait awhile...
perhaps a generation or two...dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place.
A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his
own priest. The churches built under their umbrage shall be the churches of men and
women. Through the divinity of themselves shall the kosmos and the new breed
of poets be interpreters of men and women and of all events and things. They shall find their
inspiration in real objects today, symptoms of the past and future.... They shall
deign to defend immortality or God or the perfection of things or liberty or the
exquisite beauty and reality of the soul. They shall arise in America and be
responded to from the remainder of the earth.
Walt Whitman 1855, Leaves of Grass