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Thus Adam was permitted to see the innermost philosophy of these people. It was simple, but utterly profound. At first he found it difficult to understand why in the physics section he was given much of what really was religion, and in the religious session he received what might be called higher physics. The difficulty did not clear up, for by now Adam found it impossible to separate one from the other. Now he knew that no one truly probes a thing deeply until that thing becomes nothingness, yet everything. It is so with the hydrogen atom. It is equally so with man himself. When the intellect and the intuition reach the point where no mortal can provide any light or reply, then the light and the reply is provided by hierarchies more enlightened in the Divine Estate. Indeed, then, man has heard the Word of God; but not from God directly. Man has uttered the Word of God, and utters it eternally; but man is merely the image, the third harmonic of God. In that one-third man has often felt he was the total image, for sometimes the one-third seems to reach into the infinity of matter and thought. Yet the other two-thirds, equally infinite, being the material estates and domains of action and reaction, are totally unknown to man. Suddenly, almost terrifyingly, Adam hit the ultimate thought, from which he shrank back at once. Was there anything en rn 11 sda imaginable that God could not do? The answer came back to him almost in the same instant. Yes, there is. God cannot make an exact and absolute equal to Himself, for in such a case a conflict would result in which the eternity of Creation itself would be at stake, and in this conflict Creation would dissolve, because all Creation is in constant ferment, every minute particle of which registers with God, and has purpose. Adam knew now with absolute finality that he must not be healed by any being except one of his own earth brothers, for it was part of the purpose, and a place and period in that cosmic fermentation, that he be healed only by the efforts of himself or his family of earth. This, then, is what is commonly known among more en- lightened earthmen as the Plan, the Purpose. Every hair on 172 SON OF THE SUN