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sluggish ignorance and apathy, or it can destroy itself by arrogant materialism. The only other course is beauty and perfection in total. That day, for either of these ends, is far off as yet, and what will be must come about by the free choice of the people. “Due to Orfeo’s ignorance at the time, although he saw much that you see now, he was unaware as yet as to where he was or what it all meant. Eventually, it did dawn upon him, and our giving to you the actual experience (in the physical body) still represents no interference with earth’s evolution. He was made to ca 1 1 xr aaa 1 cle 1 c ignorance, half Luciferian and half not. But his pure love of learning has elevated him upward, and that makes him one who does not wish to belong to that long-established hierarchy of Lucifer, so he does not today. Being such a good example of an ‘in- between’ is one of the reasons for his experiences. He was a materialist, true enough, but his love of learning brought him into the Cosmic Splendor, or the Light, and our contact with him was made permissible. “Many on earth have speculated,” Neptune continued, “as to whether there is such a thing as intelligent life in forms different from the human. Well, if there is we have found no traces of it. Many of your intelligent fellowmen know that it could not be by nearly mathematical ascertainment. For instance, if you plant an apple seed you get an apple. Some will say this is not so, because if you plant a peach stone you do not get an apple and they let it go at that, reasoning no farther. Willfully, they would lead the ignorant to think that they themselves believe so when they are in reality deliberately falsifying, knowing within themselves that the same law holds for both seeds and for all seeds. “Thus any seed that can produce the brain of a monkey will in turn lose its properties upon gestation, true; but the brain of the monkey follows predestined laws that make it form a monkey. A brain capable of intelligence follows a natural course which makes it produce the implements of intelligence makes produce the it 169 ADAM LEARNS ETERNITY see part of Andromeda on Venus. He was, because of his share of : loier ore Pawo. mae 1 - of intelligence