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"You said the bands of death. What is death?" "Death is simply the losing of our earthly tabernacles for a time. We shall be separated from them, but the promise is that our Elder Brother will be given power to raise them up again. With them again united, we shall become even as our parents are now, eternal, perfected, celestialized beings."
The speaker paused as if to let his listener arrive at the inevitable conclusion in his own mind. "What will it mean?" he asked again. "I don't know," replied Uncle Gilbert. "It will mean fatherhood eternal, celestialized fatherhood. We shall be like Him our Father, not only to beget, but to father a race! Think of that! Did you ever think of that?
Seriously and circumstantially he put forward his proposition. This was that we were to form ourselves into a joint-stock company; that we were to cultivate and make collections of kauri-bugs; that we were to find a "kimust" who could "do the trick," and employ him; and that we were to introduce to the world, and grow rich by, the sale of a sort of celestialized essence of kauri-bugs.
They were forever changing class, all of them the women often marrying above their opportunities, the men striking suddenly a magnificent opulence: a sufficiently preposterous advertising scheme, a celestialized ice cream cone.
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