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elements and forces are inexhaustible and they existed before your eyes all the time, but only learning will enable you to utilize them. Glory to the Providence which foresaw all this in the Plan, the stooovar 199 Purpose, the Word!” Saturn stopped to meditate a moment in his rapture. When Adam felt that he had come to the end of his meditation, he took the opportunity to speak. “Saturn, you always say ‘you’ though I am the beginning and the end of life on earth. Actually, I am thirty-eight years of age, and have only seven or eight more months of life. What can it mean to me, whatever it is?” “That is a good question, Adam. Lookat it objectively. In all the world’s history there have been important people and nondescript people. Whole civilizations have come and gone. Take them all together and at this very moment, in the eyes of God, who is more important, all they who are no more or you who are?” Saturn countered. world’s been and “Why, true enough, I am, and so is any one or any thing else that exists at the moment,” Adam replied. “Why, then, do people put forth such efforts to promote their ideas or ideals, giving up their very lives? Even a so-called atheist is interested in the history or origin of earth and its life, and he is concerned about the future of the earth as is the most pious person. He will exert effort and give his life for his own ideal, yet he professes to believe in nothing. You see, there is no such thing as an atheist. Such a person is merely ignorant of facts and blind to truths. But the hypocracy of the pious one levels him to the same order as the atheist. “So, we are all really one in essence, and since we are all concerned about the future, we must agree that the concern is a natural instinct. A natural instinct is always unerring. Deep inside our subconscious we all know we do not teally die. As 1 we 1 long as life exists anywhere, none of us dies, and we feel intuitively that this is so. Some of us see it clearly and plainly, and we call ourselves enlightened. It is nothing more than knowing our own instincts. The moment you die from your body, Adam, you cease to exist as you are, but you can- life “and we 159 ADAM LEARNS ETERNITY