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he said, with calm but eager voice as he manipulated the buttons on the cabinet. This caused the room to darken except for one section of the wall across from them, which maintained an ethereal glow. It gave a beautiful, three-dimensional effect. As they watched, the glow took on the darkness of space, visible only because stars merged in motionless suspension at the same instant. This was an actual photograph of space. Antares’ fine voice began to narrate the film for Adam’s benefit. “You are looking at one of our televisions, my friend. All our walls and partitions have this same capacity for electronic function. Now, watch carefully as we bring in a close-up of the center section of this scene. One of the stars will enlarge. Our crystal telescopes give details that show only as indistinct light on the best telescopes of earth. See, Adam! Do you notice that star in the center getting larger? Our film has been speeded up so we can bring in this close shot hundreds of times larger than we originally were able to photograph it. This, of course, is merely a fast- motion type of moving picture, and does not mean we have attained velocities exceeding the speed of light.” As Antares spoke, all the stars seemed to move off to the sides, while the center star became larger and larger. Then the focus on the center star revealed the beauty of the planet Saturn, with its concentric rings in bold relief. There, before his eyes, Adam saw one of the most beautiful sights of the universe. Shown in the suspended relief of three-dimensional photography, it would be difficult for one to imagine a more awe-inspiring scene. “There, Adam,” Antares explained, “is your solar planet, Saturn. As you look upon it, know that you are looking upon the exact replica of the atom, hydrogen. Yes, your nine planets are replicas or symbols of some dynamic function of nature that underlies invisibly what we perceive visibly. It is as though the great Creative Intelligence gave to our eyes a macroscopic replica of what goes on in the microscopic realms. Thus, you see now not only Saturn, the planet, but the atom, hydrogen. “Now, let us go directly to the surface of Jupiter, the largest 116 SON OF THE SUN