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turning his eyes toward Adam, he merely said, “You are welcome, friend; most welcome, indeed.” “Thank you, Antares,” Adam responded, with ease. “I pray that 1 will prove worthy of being here. Please forgive any shortcomings you find in me. All that I see and learn is ap- preciated, and I revere it. At this moment it seems I have lost the dividing line between what I once called matter and spirit. I wonder if there ever was a dividing line?” Adam turned his head from Antares to Launie. For once, she looked intimately, deeply and exquisitely into his eyes, finding her way into his soul. Adam was learning of the future, while she was learning of the particular awakenings of evolution in this man who was far behind her in cosmic time. will Please any “Adam, do you think you would have appreciated all this if you had not met Vega and Launie?” Antares asked, motioning for them to be seated, one on each side of his desk. Adam sat to his left and Launie to his right. Adam made haste to reply to Antares’ question. “No, I wouldn’t. I would have seen everything as merely material knowledge, which would soon curdle my spirit, and my whole being with it. I must admit I love Launie, but she is so elusive! I find myself forever chasing an unreachable promise of ecstatic love. As for all things, material and spiritual, I now feel they are one and the same. I feel the merging of the two must occur before the final attainment of great happiness is possible. For the first time, so-called spiritual things have come to mean even more to me than so-called material things. Am I to know the dazzling finality of this supreme understanding?” » “No, Adam, not in this lifetime,” replied Antares. “Even our civilization has not yet found it. It awaits us all on the last rung of the upward ladder. Nevertheless, you will learn enough to give you peace of mind, and the rapture of awakening to some extent. Your material life ended when you closed your office for reasons beyond your control; but because there was the slight spark of the angel in you, you ascended, as it material life when Your extent. 113 ADAM MEETS ANTARES