There was once, far away in the greatest city of the world, a small museum.

It’s name was ‘The Museum of the Unseen’ and people came to visit it’s voluminous halls from far and wide.

What was curious, was that no visitor was permitted to see the exhibits that were displayed within these halls. Instead, those who found themselves invited through the grand brass studded doors of the museum, were permitted to go no further than the lobby.

They were however greeted by knowledgable attendants and invited to sit in rows of chairs and listen to descriptions of the exotic and fantastical exhibits. These were represented as having been collected from all over the world and were older, more beautiful, more functional, more elaborate, more grand, more expensive than any exhibits in any museum, anywhere.

These attendants were naturally prone to exaggeration of the museum’s splendourous exhibits, simply because no visitor – expert or otherwise – was able to disprove their claims.

Secretly, the attendants had never seen any of the exhibits either, and they made up for this deficiency by wearing bizarre and unecessarily large hats and long robes made of the finest colourful silks and other exotic materials. Rousing music, singing, money collecting, smoke, exotic statues, oversized paintings and ‘holy books’ were also employed to distract the congregation from their original interest in the unseen.

The impression made by this band of charlettans was consumate awe and no person over the hundreds of years that the museum was open, dared to challenge the status of the attendants as intellectuals of the highest order and members of society deserving the greatest respect.

The Museum is open even to this day and if any reader is curious enough to wish to visit it, then it can be found as most sacred of all edifices throughout Europe. Franchises are available describing themselves as churches and cathedrals, mosques, synagogs, temples and many other most holy-on-high edifices of the most bizarre and extravagant construction that it is possible to create, so that they substantially defy the laws of gravity, sudden earth movements, hurricanes and tornadoes, lightning and acts of war.

So, sadly most such edifices remain standing and the great deceipt continues.