"From which you conclude that I am unfeeling," answers Seraphitus, who, through excess of feeling, is transfigure; for on this mountain he shines with a radiance that illumines his face and person -- an inward radiance shining through him like light through an alabaster vase.

From whence this light, this radiance? It is the divinely illuminated soul. The human soul pays the price of initiation into the divine mysteries -- crucifixion. It lays down its life to find the lasting life.

Hear Seraphitus as he says: "With us, and us alone, begins the knowledge of things. We become great through intellect and feeling . . . . Nothing is stable here. . . . Our fleeting happiness is the forerunning proof of another and perfect happiness. . . . Men ever mislead themselves in science by not perceiving that all things on this globe are related and coordinated to the general evolution, to a constant movement and production which bring them, necessarily, both advancement and end. Man himself is not a finished creation."

These words remind us that Man is created the image of God, but he is made, or finished, within the image. Within Man's own nature is all that is required for its unfolding. Man will never be finished, completely made, till he stands forth as the likeness of God. This is the aim and object of evolution which must be discerned if we would find the "missing