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I had to agree with Adam; that in the final analysis there is only one virtue—the love of pure learning. Paradoxically, I could see the reverse of that axiom. The ultimate sin must be sustained i ignorance. ad wed . 1 c Adam did not speak as a man having a complex of any kind. He felt neither inferior nor superior. Yet he had just come through an experience of learning and romance that was not one which mortals of earth usually know. It was one to be compared with cosmic grandeurs, like huge meteors, comets, and supernovae. It included a love that must soon be relegated to a nebulous memory, for its exquisiteness was too ethereal for undeveloped earth people. Of course, Adam had been guided through the experience by experts who would not put any person through it at random just for fun. According to Adam, these people were not of earth but were visitors from another world. I believed him from the very start, believing him even more after he had told me all there was to tell. In the course of three evenings he narrated : nr rrr his fantastic story to me. Sitting in the little desert restaurant in the heart of Twenty- nine Palms, Adam told me he had read my book, “The Secret of the Saucers,” but that he had never expected to meet me in person. Andas for me, I certainly had never expected to meet one like Adam, for he had recently gone into the sun and out again. He did not flinch when he told me this. Indeed, there was a mystical look on his face which as much as said that his trip into the sun was not quite his top experience-that other events more extraordinary had recently occurred. And I believe each one on earth is destined, in time, to have similar experiences. Adam’s whimsical grin told me of his faith in confiding his story to me. As he related detail by detail, I listened as a jurist might listen to a defendant or a plaintiff, returning him smile for smile and comprehension for comprehension. What man or woman wouldn’t have been totally intrigued by his words, enthralled by the truths of their essence, and completely swept away by his sincerity? If a man hands you the secret of 14 SON OF THE SUN