Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these
You bid me please?
The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so!
To my own Gods I go.
It may be they shall give me greater ease
Than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

Prefatory poem to the short story  found in  Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

Unlike many of the poets we have encountered […] Rudyard Kipling was not a Christian. He makes this very clear in his poem Lispeth: The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! / To my own Gods I go. / It may be they shall give me greater ease / Than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities. Doctrine mattered not to Kipling; ethics and life did. Therefore, that Kipling was a Freemason ought not be surprising. Made a Mason in 1885 by dispensation, Kipling wrote overtly masonic poems like “The Mother Lodge” and “Banquet Night,” as well as overtly Masonic prose like “The Man Who Would be King.”

from: Travis Berg @ Christian Culture magazine