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the little things took on great significance. I had been seeing life and the world in a distorted way, as a trained seal might see it. But the reality of my condition, and the sudden and urgent awakening within me, brought everything into proper scope. There was now more meaning to everything, even to a spider’s web. There was less meaning to the artifices of man-made things; they became cod mere fads, coming and going. “Tn the blindness of the masses, I began to perceive a vaporous thread of essence, a small essence distilled from the gigantic world of turbulence. This essence became the paramount thing in my new-found existence. This thread, I sensed, is interwoven in all that goes on about us. It is what you might call the mass record etched on the ether. At any rate, it is all that matters on this planet and on all worlds, in the ultimate sense. It is all the basic truths distilled by man himself from his own mass follies. On each side of this thread lies a vast wasteland of regrets, willful mistakes, Tous ‘ 1 sade 4 “Almost everything you can perceive going on in earth’s affairs at this moment, Orfeo, shall be added to the bulk of that vast wasteland. Only truth is filtered out, perhaps slowly and painfully, but filtered out, nevertheless, to be added to the thread of essence, becoming finally a vast sea of substance which will engulf and purify all the wasteland around it. That will be the day of Oneness, of Redemption, and only then can the vision of perfection and eternity become a reality. “I can now see more of this essence in the natural smile of a child than in the words of all the sages of history. No, we do not die. We simply are born, wilt, and come back to inherit the jungle of hypocrisy we leave. “Being a doctor, I tended to regard health as an unnatural state, while sickness was the normal. My patients were of utmost 1 a 1 1 importance, and other people were meaningless entities who would eventually become ill, and thereby gain true stature as human beings. In the perverted values of man at this uncivilized stage on earth, there may be some truth in this view. But I know now that health is the virtue, and sickness the this view. 40 SON OF THE SUN obstinate and vain blindness.