Importance of Cathedral

This is also from chapter one. This was an object that held a "double" existence in the dream world but also in real life. He had visited a cathedral in the waking world, but then it appeared to him in a dream where he had an offensive and frightening nightmare of that very cathedral being inundated with feces from above.

Later in his life he found that while he retained interest in God and theology, he tended to do better when he did not attend church, which may have been foreshadowed by that dream.