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sun, nor did he know that she was only the first of three women who were to put him through the intensified exercise of catching up on the void in his life to date in the love and romance department. He did not know that Vega was wholesome, yes, but placid compared to the two women he must encounter before graduating to the capacity for love in its deeper meaning, a love that could not be confined within the limits of the Milky Way. Another thing Adam was not yet aware of, but which he awakened to later in his experiences, was that one does not learn the inner secrets of the universe without love accompanying the 1 sod roe 1 Basically good men learn through love. Basically evil men must learn through the hard laws of Nature. Adam had not yet learned that a mysterious force we call destiny had long ago, from the birth of time itself, sown a thread of preordainment, invisible to the physical eye but visible and sensible to the intuition of basically good beings. He did not at the moment know that the love of man for woman could attain the divine heights of man’s love for God, that the one was merely one half loving the other half. He was not yet fully aware that every wave which roars onto the beach slips back only into its own sea. Every splash in a pool falls back into the pool . . . crashingly or lovingly. At this moment, Adam was not conscious of the fact that all things come from themselves, and merge back into themselves in pulsating motions, like the beating of the heart, the flowing of the blood, the generation and regeneration of all the stars. To Vega these were elementary things, long ago resolved. To Adam they were things and thoughts yet to be learned. Thus, two beings road on in a space ship at ten million miles per hour, worlds apart in evolution’s scale, but close together in Creation’s intent. One of them, Vega, who was from a world far advanced beyond the other’s, continued her Creation’s intent. One of them, Vega, who was from a world far advanced beyond the other’s, continued her discourse on the speed of light, hoping to bring its truth to world far advanced continued her 59 THE SPEED OF LIGHT lesson—indeed, it may even precede it.