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SON OF THE SUN asked her if it was the ionosphere we had just passed through. She answered me readily, and with ease. “Yes, Adam, it was. Because you have asked and already surmised it, we can tell you. The molecules of our craft were tigthened a little so that the ionized layer around earth would not cause a glare inside. We have no need to do this for our safety, but we do it as a hint to you that we are going through what you think is necessary. The knowledge of it is already in your mind, or we would not show you. We cannot give you knowledge, but we can confirm what you already know. Our ship can adjust itself to conditions around it to quite some degree, especially to electrical and magnetic conditions. But you already had a good concept of this fact in your own understanding. “ Every living entity on earth must rise to learning and knowl- edge through its own initiative. It is pre-ordained. What other purpose, Adam, could there be to existence? It is self-apparent, is it not? Even today your earth is a primitive jungle, in spite of all its progress. Most ofits natives feel it is the final zenith of attainment. It is still a jungle of wild primitive-ness. Yet we cannot interfere, because it is ordained by the Heart of Creation that all life attain to perfection by evolutionary processes. You see, Adam, all the progress that your earth has made has been made by its ever- present resources, and by its own people. The glory to come is inherent within its bosom even now. Its people have not fully unfolded, and the materials of earth lie waiting to be known by its oe ee cr inhabitants.’ “Whether she was an angel or woman I could not know at the time, Orfeo, but she was real, and I asked her name. She said merely to call her ‘Vega,’ for it would be easier for me to comprehend than the knowledge of her true name. I asked her to continue speaking. She did so, in a casual manner. “Your world, Adam, is still motivated by personal successes, so short is the vision of the masses. Yet what are personal ry AW «1 11 1" . m1 All the old lie successes? All the old ones lie quietly in graves. The present ones are nothing but conflicts and strain, and soon The successes? in ones 50