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Before he should lose whatever grasp he had of what I had just said, I offered another approach. “Let’s start from the beginning, Adam, as all things start. Let us suppose the Supreme Fatherhead willed to remove all creatures from the Universe. All right, it is now devoid of mortal life. “Now, then—we suppose the Fatherhead willed just one be- ing to appear, created in life. Every creature that ever existed before would feel he was that life in its consciousness.” Adam’s smile became radiant. But he had one more question. “O.K., Orfeo. Now, suppose the Supreme Fatherhead created another being? There would now be two. The one cannot feel the life of the other. They would be experiencing different feelings in the same frame of mind. How do you reconcile that with your concept?” Of course, he already knew the answer, but he wanted to hear it in words. Truth and fact appear to all or us in the same clear perspective. By the gleam in his eyes I could feel that he and I were again “at one”. I replied at once. “It would make no difference, Adam. There would be the though all the universe were alive. Even now you and I think alike, and feel alike. The nectar caused our faculties to be brought to a certain level, so we feel exactly alike and think exactly alike. You could suddenly feel something that had not touched me, and I would feel exactly the same way as you if the ate ‘ 1 1 1 something touched me also. “I may touch a flame and feel the burning, while you feel nothing. But if the flame touched you in the same place you would feel what I feel. If I stub my toe my nose feels nothing of it. Yet both are part of the same life oft me. A drop of Ocean ca water is the very consciousness of the entire seven seas, though they be separated. “In the deepest coma, in the deepest sleep of anaesthesia, there is yet some consciousness, and that is the reason we feel unconscious. But when we really pass away, and true But when unconscious. But when we really pass away, and true oblivion would seem to engulf us, there is a sudden transpira- and true 27 ADAM IN THE DESERT consciousness that you and I are alive. And it would be as