The Symbol of Crab
The narrator symbolizes the rights of others using the crab. Each person has the right to be respected and treated fairly. The narrator implies that it is good to respect the religions of others because they have reasons why they are there. When addressing other people's religions inappropriately, the concerned parties feel aggrieved and disrespected. Therefore, it is appropriate to address people properly just as if the crab would wish to be addressed. The narrator writes:
“Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. ‘I am no such thing, it would say; I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.“
The Fire of the Lord (Symbol of Power)
The fire is used symbolically to mean the power of the Lord. For those who understand the Lord’s power and doings can attest to Fox’s sentiments. When the Lord speaks, his words spike-like fire and no one can go against what he says. When Fox listens to the Lord's instructions, His voice trembles and one can feel hot all over the body. The narrator writes:
“But the fire of the Lord was so on my feet, and all over me, that I did not matter to put on my shoes again, and was at a stand whether I should or no, till I felt freedom from the Lord so to do: then, after I had washed my feet, I put on my shoes again.”
The symbol of Blood
Fox is ordered by the Lord to go to the streets of Lichfield and deliver his message, which says “Wo to the bloody city of Litchfield.” The blood is used to symbolize those faithful who died defending the word of the Lord. They are martyrs and heroes in the presence of the Lord. Fox goes to the streets as per the Lord's instructions to memorize the good work did by the martyrs. He says:
"So I was to go, without my shoes, through the channel of their blood, and into the pool of their blood in the market-place, that I might raise the memorial of the blood of those martyrs, which had been shed above a thousand years before, and lay cold in their streets."
The symbol of the little Child
The narrator uses the little child to symbolize innocence. For one to receive the Lord's blessings, must live as a child. Children are innocent and they forgive easily unlike adults. Therefore, a devoted worshiper must follow the Lord's teachings and live a holy and truthful life just as a baby does. When this is achieved, the Lord Showers blessings as the mother does to her suckling child. The child can suckle endlessly without moving his lips. The same way, God blesses those who do his will endlessly.
The Symbol of Sex Organs
The narrator says that there is a chemical contribution that makes the sex organs trigger pleasure to the blood and brain. There is a connection of activities before the brain is nourished with pleasure after arousal. The narrator says that there should also be a way in which religion triggers the blood to nourish the brain. According to the faithful, they say that the word of God nourishes the heart something the narrator thinks is a fallacy. He writes:
“If now the defenders of the sex-theory say that this makes no difference to their thesis; that without the chemical contributions which the sex-organs make to the blood, the brain would not be nourished to carry on religious activities, this final proposition may be true or not true; but at any rate, it has become profoundly uninstructive: we can deduce no consequences from it which help us to interpret religion’s meaning or value.“
