 Despite this pattern, Book I is not a theological treatise; within the text, "moral and historical allegories intermingle" and the reader encounters elements of romance.However, Spenser's method is not "a rigorous and unyielding allegory," but "a compromise among conflicting elements".In Book I of "The Faerie Queene" the discussion of the path to salvation begins with original sin and justification, skipping past initial matters of God, the Creeds, and Adam's fall from grace.