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by our own efforts through learning and intuition, we must attain to perfection. It is either that or its utter opposite, the destruction that ultimate arrogance brings. Now, let’s drink some of this nice, c 1 co fresh coffee.” We sipped a little coffee, pausing a few moments, then I finished my reply to his question. “You see, Adam, what happened to you happens to a good many. It happened to me, and that is why I understand your plight. The sudden impact of realizing what you had made you shed the blanket of barnacles from the real you. The one important thing now was the fact that there was to be an end to you. Spiritually you came face to face with a great truth. You wondered, how could it all end? After all, you were created. And that is your big perplexity—why must a creation end? Your saving grace, Adam, is the beauty of the real you which you now know. That does not die. It will be added to the weaving threads until they fill all space as far as the eye can see. That is life. That is what never dies. Beauty always is. And you are beautiful, Adam, if you will pardon my inept words. You are beautiful physically and spiritually. “You are more successful now than ever. Knowing you have not long to remain in your present being, you find a rapture, a rapture that comes from the grand horizon your eyes and your soul see. You do not see death, you see life. You do not see hellions, you see angels. You hear their song swell into all space accompanied by the music of the ether, the flow of the spheres. Yes, I know, your last few days will know agony once more. But your eyes will never show what your physical form feels, for they will show only what your soul knows. So many men and women and children have passed over with that same light in their fading eyes. “Adam, listen to me. It is not only you who must go. Thou- sands will have passed on before your seven months are up, and soon after, the rest of us. Yet there will be more people on earth than ever before. You and I will be one of them. We must inherit everything unto the Great Day; remember?” Before I had finished, Adam held his head between his 42 SON OF THE SUN