"Of course it is, Ben - for them.  In your case and mine, and Jill's, and a few others - YOU know them all - Michael called us straight into brotherhood.  But to others Michael first teaches a discipline - not a faith but a way to realize faith in works.  And that means they've got to start by learning Martian.  That's not easy; I'm not perfect in it myself.  But it is much Happiness to work and learn.  You asked about the size of the Nest - let me see, Duke and Jim and Michael and myself - two Fosterites, Dawn and myself... one circumcised Jew and his wife and four children-"