"The Holy Spirit had never let himself be appropriated by those in high places — in contrast to God the Father and God the Son, who were glad to be brought in to help with royal coronations, during oath-taking in courtrooms, and in the event of war. The Holy Spirit preferred to linger among half-crazed nuns, eyeball-rolling prophets, desert dwellers, forest people, at the edge of the world, not in the centers of power. He was inclined to recruit his mediums from the bottom levels of society, from the low-income groups of every period, starting with the carpenter's son and his following of Galilean fishermen and continuing through Phineas Quimby, Mary Baker Eddy, and Daniel Dunglas Home. Once or twice such play resulted in a world religion, but much more often produced some fringe group, or nothing at all."