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Chapter 8 “Adam,” Mercury asked, “do you know how the author felt when he came upon the concept of the treatise, Nature of Infinite Dons DE Entities? “ “No, I do not know how he felt, but I also read the story of his experiences with visitors from space and, putting the two together, I can imagine how he must have felt.” “No, Adam; you cannot imagine. You have had a similar experience, called the sudden moment of enlightenment, the cosmic consciousness and many other names, but we shall call it the Cosmic Splendor, for it is just that. It comes only once in a lifetime. Many people seek it from the fountains of others and thereby lose any hope of attaining it. You cannot seek it, for in seeking it you lose it, but if you seek the truth and the light which makes a better person of you, you will one day know this moment of splendor. No one on earth can retain its fullness for long. The evolutionary stage of earthlings is too primitive as yet for your mortals to sustain its grandeur. “Yet, remember this. There was one being on earth who was born with it, grew up in its glow, lived every moment in the fullness of it and lost it not even in the torture of the cross. Yes, read the story of Christ, and you will note this fact to stand out clearly throughout his thirty-three years.” “Wait a moment, Mercury,” Adam interrupted. “I like this tremendously, but I thought I was in the physics department, and in the presence of a true physicist.” “T like this “Adam, Mercury is a true physicist, as you will see,” Launie said, quick to defend Mercury even though Adam’s words were far from challenging. She continued, “Our physics are somewhat ahead of yours; in fact, they are ahead by many hun- dreds of years. True physics merges into metaphysics, and true 128 NATURE OF INFINITE ENTITIES