Lion, Tiger, Bear ] 191 knowledge of the higher realms. Bea raised her arm as if she were back in school. If I remember, old prof, the Persian Zoroastrian mystery schools predate Islam and Mohammed by many thousands of years. They may predate all silly religions. And their concept of monotheism is really about The Law of One at its core, that we are all one in the cosmos, all equal as it were, said McMaster. Different races of people out there and down here have different perspectives of time and reality, but were all part of the same cosmic ‘Source, the supreme creational intelligence of the cosmos. The Prediluvian ancients practiced and believed in cosmology and nature worship, not Anunnaki gods or artificial religions. And all these saucy bits of intelligence stay in this room, if you please. Sir, exactly who the bloody hell would even believe us? asked Alice. McMaster breathed: Good point. Bea asked: Law of One? You mean the law of confusion and bewilderment. God created the world in six days, and was arrested on the seventh, said Alice. Gwafa rubbed his eyes. My head is going to explode like that tank we shot, madame. You. said it. Bernie shook a fist. Now were on the dusty metaphysical trail, cowboys and cowgirls. The key to alchemy lies in the practices of Turkish and Islamic mystics and Freemasons, my personal favorites. The airship engineers must have known about Sufi wisdom, because a person must go through a spiritual alchemical change within themselves for the technology to work properly, or even for it to be discovered in the first place. Right. Hence ye olde Philosophers Stone once again, got it, said Alice. Im smarter than I thought. Bea nudged her. I wouldnt push that theory too hard, stone-head. Bernie took chalk to board. Alice is right. The Stone is the awakened self, its called Utam, the vibration of a new universe within ones consciousness, a higher state of peaceful enlightenment, the merging of the male and female energies. Its happening here, now, to us five would-be mystics in this very room. Get it? Thats why I think the 19th-century airship folks didnt want their new toys ending up in the hands of the military. No offense to all of us, but war is the ultimate lower state of imperfection