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quite a bit in regard to the questions, What, Where, When, How, but to that one question, “Why?’, there is not yet a glimmer of a reply. Some day, perhaps ages from now, we shall have answered the first four questions. Indeed, they are the only ones man probes. When they have been unveiled, the biggest question of all, ‘Why?’, will stand before us as broad as infinity. “No, Iam no more doomed than anyone else. We live on and on in birth and rebirth. We must keep spiraling upward or remain in the dark. Nature itself demands our upward climb, and if we cannot attribute intelligence to Nature, then it must be an innate road ro. oe on YT coed urge guided by a Supreme Intelligent Power. Heaven is inherent within earth. It is hidden behind many veils. We have hardly begun to remove one of them as yet,” he said, receding into calm reverie. Then he added slowly, as if speaking to an unseen being, “I wonder how many veils the Alpha Centaurians have removed.” The rising sun lighted up the desert. For the third time Adam and I beheld the coming dawn as the desert began to glow through our windows. With the reality of rock and sand all around us, Adam found himself not only at the end of his story but at the beginning of his own awakening between two worlds. One was under his feet, in the air all around him, the other sunken like the ended night into the quicksands of elusive memory. Which was more real? Which world was more important? These questions were going to be with him as long as he lived, be it seven months or seven centuries. The world in which he lived now was a pageantry of evolution never ceasing. The other world was similar, but its form of evolution seemed to be less complex and given to deeper searchings. Yes, the other world was something for earth men to aspire to. Adam, having spent seven short days in a small view of it, was no longer adapted to his normal function on earth. How could he go back to his profession? The glory of the future pervaded his whole being like a Divine essence 209 ADAM SAYS GOODBYE