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about her. Everyone around was in love with Launie. She knew it and felt it, but her love was now for Adam. She was his godmother in this moment of his being born again. A new Adam would emerge from the baptism of the Cosmic Splendor. This new Adam would never know the meaning of the words death or oblivion. Indeed, Adam had never known their meaning in a negative way, but he had before thought they existed, and that thought alone was death. The new-born Adam would know the truth of Nature and know that he had always been a segment of it, and always would be. He had a glimpse into the inexhaustible womb of Nature, and had seen that it is ever creating, never dissipating. Launie and Mercury left their chairs and went to a window. Neither said a word. Their main concern was to leave Adam undisturbed, incubating his new self in the bright light of truth. After a time Launie turned to look, and saw Adam sitting in far- away meditation. Perhaps it was her mother instinct, perhaps it was her mating instinct, but she could not stand this gap between them any longer and hurried to Adam’s side. As though it had been planned in advance, so well was the attunement of their minds timed, that a new Adam looked into her eyes as she stood 1 sae close to him. “Tt’s all right, Launie. I see the real you now. I see the real Mercury, the real things as they throb in life in all their motionless being. I see with new understanding the greatness behind all those lovely faces looking at me. “Oh, Launie! Would you believe I saw Eternity? Please sit down, both of you,” Adam requested, as Mercury also came back to the table. “Do not tell me any more about physics. Rather, let me tell you. Stop me if I make a mistake, but I must tell it; I cannot hold it. Even though you know these things, I must repeat them. Please bear with me.” Mercury could see that Adam was speaking more to himself and to the universe than to either Launie or him. The people who had been still in rapt attention behind the partitions went back to their work, knowing that Adam had broken through the thin veil. 135 ADAM’S MOMENT OF ILLUMINATION