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"Souls!" I said

We walked slowly but steadily, and I tried not to be distracted by the greenery, and the flowers; but I have always been seduced by flowers; and here I saers of a size which our world would surely find impractical and impossible to support Yet these were species of trees I knew This was the world as it had once been

"Yes, you're correct on that Can you feel the warmth around you? This is a time of lovely evolutionary development on the planetWhen men speak of Eden or Paradise, they 'remember' this time "

"The Ice Age is yet to come "

"The second Ice Age is co Definitely And then the world will renew itself, and Eden will coe, men and women will develop But realize of course that even by this point, life as we know it had existed for millions of years!"

I stopped I put ain (If you want to do this, just reread the last two pages )

"But He knehat Matter was!" I said

"No, I', that essence and He cast it in a form which became Matter!

But I don't kno truly He foresahat that woulddispute I don't think He sees the consequences of His actions! I don't think He pays attention! That's what the big fight is about!"

"So He created Matter perhaps by discovering what it was as He did it "

"Yes, Matter and energy, which are interchangeable as you know, yes, He created them, and I suspect that the key to Hiy,' that if huels and God can be satisfactorily explained in huy will be the key "

"So He was energy," I said, "and in ed into Matter "

"Yes, and to create a circular interchange independent of hiinning He didn't say it I don't think He knew it We certainly didn't know it All we kneas that ere dazzled by His creations We were absolutely astonished by the feel and taste and heat and solidity and gravitational pull of Matter in its battle with energy We knew only"

"Ah, and you saw the universe unfolding You saw the Big Bang "

"Use that term with skepticism Yes,the universe co set into motion, as it were And ere overawed! That's why alion on earth celebrates the enius of the Creator; why the earliest anthelories of God We were impressed, just as huelic hty and Wondrous and Beyond Co