The symmetries in the later work are easier to quote, so the looking-glass symbology and structure is re-used and quoted far more than the dangerous and slippery original Alice. "Through the Looking-glass" was so successful that it and the original Alice are often merged as if they were seamless. His later works tried harder to distance himself from divination and became tepid Christian allegories. This work was based on conundrums created by the symmetries in the world. So to make amends to his God, and to deflate the Kabbalistic origin of the first work, he formulated something with much the same structure and tone, but without the magic.
But he was deeply disturbed in the years that followed as the Church and what came to be called spiritualism diverged. Fortunately for him, it was characterized as the sort of nonsense genre created by Edward Lear. In that original, he had dabbled in the mix of logic and mysticism that he thought respectable. In 1871, A deacon logician at Oxford published a sequel to his surprisingly popular children's story.
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