Excerpt from The Great Work in America, Vol. 3: November, 1927 You say our friends do not return. An apple ripens and falls, dies, and returns into the tree by absorption. Therefore is its body dead? Its seeds grow into trees. Is the coming fruit evidence of immortality? Destroy all the apples in existence. Have you destroyed that power which held them all together? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.