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creatures who grope for their way back to Him who make mistakes, hold on to them for awhile, and then cast them aside for the more true things which lead to Him. There is as much room for error on the way back to God as there is for the correct. Like pioneers, we must forge our way back to Him and His Glory. For that the Creative Fatherhead awaits, nothing less, nothing more.” “Whether you are right, Adam, or whether you are wrong, I frankly admit I do not know, but I agree with your attitude completely,” Saturn said. “Now that you have assumed a position equal to the moment, may I proceed to speak, promising at the same time not to break through any premise or salient that has not already been established somewhere on earth?” “Indeed, Saturn, speak at will, and I will not disturb you unless I have a question or a challenge,” Adam replied. All faces turned to Adam, including Launie’s. All seemed to ask in silence, “A challenge? Challenge Saturn?” But all faces melted back to thoughtful truth, a truth which silently said, “Why not?” And Adam looked at the glass of bubbling ginger ale, symbolic of the ether, of all matter and life. After all, he was a son of bubbles in the ether, and Saturn himself was no more than that. “And then, Adam,” Saturn went on, “there was Genesis and there were Adam and Eve and their sons Cain and Abel, the first beings on earth. Yet Cain went forth eventually to meet the wrath of whole nations. From where did these nations arise so fast, and how did they know that Cain had the sin of slaying his brother on his conscience? Is that not just allegorical? Yet, could any playwright be so brief and so symbolic? “Then there was Daniel in the lions’ den. And Elijah went up in a flying and flaming chariot. And Ezekiel saw the wheels. And Noah and his Arc survived the deluge. And Samson alone stood up to nations. And David, the boy, wrote psalms and slew Goliath. And then he became sinful, king, and pure again. And Moses was born into the palace of a Pharaoh, to turn and And David, and nations. to wrote 153 ADAM LEARNS ETERNITY