What Sam Hedin Said

The Day Of Their Return, 4.

People accept, reinterpret or reject received ideas. Ideas interact, conflict and change especially in times of upheaval. 

Sam Hedin:

is well-educated, well-travelled and hard-headed;

draws a cross and mutters as he passes an Ancient ruin;

asks where the Ancients came from and where they went;

thinks it unreasonable to suppose that all of them died on Aeneas and elsewhere;

quotes many who wonder (my emphasis) if they didn't go onward and out;

speaks as if the Elders will return;

then says that he doesn't know;

used to go to church but not think about such things;

now asks if so many can be wrong (Comment: yes);

adds that many hope (my emphasis) that the Elders will return, bearing the Word of God;

asks whether the exiled rebel leader could have gone their way;

has heard rumours of a new prophet;

does think that human experience and the stellar universe can't be for nothing;

again asks whether, if God is preparing a new revelation, it should not be through a better and wiser chosen race - who would be preceded by a prophet.

Summary

received ideas

questions

hopes

a rumour

speculation

Further Comments

Purposiveness cannot have preceded consciousness.

Experience and the universe have value because we value them.

If the Elders became better and wiser through knowledge and contemplation, then so can we, with or without external help. We can be Elders.