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merely indicating my comprehension? In short, then, action is the only rule and, in the final analysis, learning the only true virtue.” “Not quite, Adam,” Lyra rejoined. “The love of learning is the only virtue. Everyone learns something, but not everyone is endowed with the pure love of learning,” she finished, smiling. Launie looked at her peeress, and received these simple words wrod 1 “Since we have time on our hands,” said Adam, “there are a few questions I would like to ask just for the record. I have recently read the book, ‘The Secret of the Saucers, and I find my own experiences bearing it out. Some things do not seem to correlate, however. “For instance, Orfeo says in his book that he had the sense of being on an asteroid. Yet I find myself in a huge space ship in the atmosphere of Venus, and his description defines the same things Iam seeing here. How is that?” cm. » 1 aro. «cr. ,o4 1 “That one is for me,” spoke up Neptune. “It was I who almost entirely arranged and conducted our part of the communication with him, as you noted in the book. “With that experience, Adam, you will find much actual detail. However, some of the most profound exchanges between Orfeo and myself were allegorical and symbolical, so that their essence could be applied to many situations just as passkeys apply to many locks. “For instance, an asteroid is a piece of a broken planet. Lucifer, the name given to that former planet, denotes evil, and of course, evil in any degree is but a product of ignorance. “Thus, Lucifer the planet had once attained material symmetry, but it was gained in a cold, hard way, not in the least graced by the living warmth of spiritual truths. Thus it destroyed itself. This story has been handed down for countless millenia, and will go in the future throughout the cosmos. cr 1 + coe 1 1 a “Thus, who are the Luciferians, and who are the non- Luciferians? Only their deeds and results will tell. On earth each one has it within him to be either one, so the analogy or allegory is maintained perfectly. Earth can retrogress by 168 SON OF THE SUN with sheer admiration. or allegory is maintained perfectly.