Nor is it solely within the domain of family morality that I am seeking to employ this technique. I have been striving for many years to play my (infinitesimally small) part in the re-emergence of Wessex upon the world's atlas. Coaxing the population where I live to start thinking of themselves as Wessaxons, rather than as Englishmen, is indeed half the battle; and not one where it can really be claimed that I have made any significant progress.

But the pressure for change along this particular evolutionary path is being applied from political quarters too. Politicians are becoming aware how their constituents increasingly resent the distance that is opening up between the governors and the governed. There is a premium to be won by bringing government back closer to the people, which stands in partial explanation for the recurrent interest in Devolution; and eventually we may anticipate that the issue will be seen as ripe enough for its political realisation.

It is at the point in time when this occurs that I might hope that my own groundwork on the resurrection of a Wessex identity might finally be appreciated; and I would regard the re-emergence of Wessex upon the political map of Europe as another case of my preaching by example. For with Wessex actually there in existence, I could make much more of an argument for rapid progress towards the creation of a United Regions of Europe as an umbrella organisation for a multiplicity of individual regions practising their own distinctive culture, beneath an umbrella of economic security to which all such cultures make their invaluable contributions.

It will be a Europe which contains a fully regionalized Yugoslavia, Rumania and Poland, although the destiny of Russia perhaps remains more ambivalent. (It is conceivable that the former Russian empire might be subjected to regionalization from within; or it is equally possible that it might splinter, with different Regions acquiring new associative allegiance, either to the west or to the south.) But once the example of the United Regions of Europe stands in existence, then there are other parts of the globe which will follow suit by organising themselves upon similar lines - partly for their economic well-being, and partly for the attainment of political clout where international politics is concerned.

If that summarises my endeavour to preach politics by example, it leads on to the question of how I might preach pantheism while employing the same technique. The answer lies perhaps in the existence of my autobiography, which goes by the name of Strictly Private. It already consists of some three million words, spread out over 14 books, and the tale has only just reached the Eighties. I might speculate that in ten years from now, I might just about have updated my life’s tale; and my ambition of course is that it will be the best autobiography that has ever been written - to be found on my Internet website @ >www.lordbath.co.uk<

The task I have set myself is a mammoth one, but I am setting on record the example of someone who worked out for himself the pantheistic modus operandi, along with the principles, the values and the underlying logic beneath such a faith. Whatever problems emerge in my life, I discuss them in the minutest detail within this autobiography, until I manage to feel that I am edging them towards their resolution. I create the platforms, upon which I feel as if I might have something of consequence to proclaim; and I like to imagine that the commentary is entertaining in its own right, so that the work will eventually come to the attention of an avid cult readership.

At the same time I am fully aware how no author should be prepared to publish, as it stands, a work that is written quite deliberately in a spirit of true candour, during the lifetime of the people he discusses within those pages. It is not that I write maliciously or with any intention to be unkind. But I do realise that in publishing it on my Internet website, a large quantity of the material will need to be withheld, until such a time that the last person who is featured within its text has in fact expired. I have also thought it advisable to conceal behind the letters of the alphabet, the precise names of many a participant within this story, for reasons of tact. But I remain hopeful that the completed work will be regarded as a considerable literary accomplishment, which will be regarded - alongside the murals - as the most significant of my life’s achievements.