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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Rebuttal - -Author: Betsy Curtis - -Illustrator: GIUNTA - -Release Date: February 21, 2022 [eBook #67455] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REBUTTAL *** - - - - - -Rebuttal - -By BETSY CURTIS - -Illustrated by GIUNTA - -_Immortality? Like anything else, it may be a -matter of definition, or just of the point of view...._ - -"THE STAR" _by Arthur C. Clarke was by all odds the most -popular story in the first issue of_ INFINITY, _and probably -one of the most popular science-fiction stories to be published -anywhere in 1955. It was also highly controversial, and in "Rebuttal" -Betsy Curtis presents the other side of the question--plus an idea that -seems to be totally new. The result, we think you'll agree, is one of -the outstanding science-fictional events of 1956._ - -[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from -Infinity Science Fiction, June 1956. -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -They brought Father Phillip Burt to St. Luke's as our "share" of the -research project on the mysterious disease which afflicted most of -the crew of the recently returned Phoenix Nebula expedition. News of -the disease, of course, was not spread beyond the research teams, as -the public seems to fear a plague worse than damnation itself. And it -didn't seem to be a very serious disease: Father Phillip was easily the -worst case of all; and although several members of the expedition had -died, their deaths could be evaluated as due to secondary infections -of common enough earth origin. Very few of the crew members were in -actual pain; but Father Phillip was in constant agony which no amount -of sedation seemed to calm. - -I ran the customary tissue cultures and biopsies, including those on -internal organs not customarily available. We were given an excuse -for getting internal samples of tissue when Father Phillip's appendix -flamed into infection. And although I did not find a general infecting -organism, what I did find was enough to send me trotting up to his room -on the double. - -I suppose I should explain here that I, Father Niccolo Molina, am head -research pathologist for St. Luke's and that I don't, therefore, meet -the patients personally very often. But Father Phillip I had to meet. - -His day nurse, Sister Mary Felicia, met me at the door in her crisp -white teflon overall. - -"Father is very uncomfortable today," she told me. "The incision is not -healing at all and he keeps trying to talk and then breaking off in the -middle of a sentence with the pain." - -"Talking about anything in particular?" I asked suspiciously. - -"The merest chit-chat. The weather ... pleasantries about the -hospital ... jokes about doctors in particular. He doesn't have a very -high regard for doctors, it seems. Thinks they are notable atheists, I -gather." She smiled. - -"Many thanks for the diagnosis, Sister," I told her gravely. Then I -added, "I suppose you are having to maintain a considerable quarantine -and decontamination routine as Father's nurse?" - -"Oh yes. In this wing, you know, we are all in solitary, approaching -no persons other than our patient and the doctors ... sometimes for as -much as three months after the end of a case. It provides excellent -time for a retreat, which is why most of us apply for such duty." She -pointed to the small _prie-dieu_ in her tiny cubicle, which stood as a -buffer between the contagion room and the hallway of the ward. - -"If I am right about the nature of Father Burt's disease," I told her, -"you will soon see the end of this case, and without any three months' -decontamination, either." - -She smiled again. "You couldn't say a happier thing," she said, "even -though I shall probably apply for a leprosy case if I am relieved of -this one. I've become very concerned about Father Phillip." - -"Good. He needs your prayers as no man probably ever needed them -before. I'll see him now." I crossed her small room and opened the -inner door and went in. - - * * * * * - -Father Phillip was lying flat in the narrow white bed, his arms lying -listlessly on either side of the slight hump of his body under the -sheet. The big bulge halfway down was his knees over a pillow, the -usual position for post-operative appendectomies. - -He squeezed out a smile with an effort. "Morning, doctor," he said. - -"Father Nick," I smiled back. "Father Nick Molina of Pathology, Father." - -His wasted body jerked as if with a knife thrust. Then he said, "Excuse -me. I had forgotten that there were doctors who were not laymen. I'm -sorry." He drew up a shoulder against his cheek in a curious gesture, -then shivered. - -"Sorry for what?" I asked. - -"Just sorry, I guess...." He winced and was silent. - -"Sorry for me?" - -"Well, yes." - -"That I'm not a layman?" - -"You could put it that way." - -"That's a very interesting statement, Father, and one about which -I want to know a good deal more after I've asked you some other -questions. You see, I think I know what's the matter with you, and it's -definitely curable." - -"It is not curable." His voice had a flat finality, and his lips drew -into a thin firm line. - -"Let me ask you the questions anyway, Father," I said. He gave no other -sign, "Have you ever looked through a microscope?" - -"At the little beasties? Yes, in college." - -"Well, that's what I have just finished doing with a number of slivers -of living tissue from your body. Do you know what I saw that would -bring me up here?" - -"I might," he answered warily. - -"What do you think?" - -"Cancer, maybe." - -"No, cancer cells have their own pattern of behavior which is very -pretty and, of course, no longer at all deadly. You do not have cancer; -but the cells of your kidneys, for instance, are doing something I've -never seen live kidney cells doing." - -"And what is that?" he said, as if he really couldn't care less. - -"Nothing in particular. This is unheard of indeed. Kidney cells are -busy little widgets doing a tremendous job night and day. Like the -individual muscle fibers of the heart, they work on year after year -with no vacations, no coffee breaks, secure in the knowledge of their -purpose." - -"No pseudo-sermons, please, Father!" Father Phillip's voice was stern. -"You don't have to Peter Rabbit up biology for me." - -"A scholar indeed to have heard of Peter Rabbit," I laughed but he -did not smile. Then I asked, "Do you want to see how real kidney -cells--yours---are behaving? I have a projecting microscope in the -basement. Do you want to see what's going on?" - -"Not particularly. If you think you can cure me, go ahead and try." - -"Are you willing to pray for your own recovery?" - -"No!" He spat out the word with a ferocity that seemed to surprise even -himself. - -"Then I am going to sermonize indeed. And you are going to listen, my -dear little kidney cell." - -"Oh, go ahead. But I warn you that I know something that will cancel it -all in advance." He had developed more force of personality than he had -showed since I came in. - -"Oh? Then suppose you tell me about that. I always do better in -rebuttal." - - * * * * * - -And he blurted it out ... the whole story of the Phoenix Nebula -expedition and its discovery of the memorials of that beautiful -race which was destroyed utterly in the explosion of its star ... -the supernova which was our own Star of Bethlehem. "So you see," he -concluded, "we found out that ultimate dreadful secret of the cosmos, -that there is no plan, no purpose, no good God who watches the fall of -the sparrows with tender concern. To whom could I pray for my recovery? -To the random spin of electrons or planets? To a petty tribal totem? To -nothing!" - -"_We_ found out? You _and_ the crew?" - -"I gave them what answers I could." - -"They asked _you_ ... and for a fish you gave them a stone, is that it?" - -"Scold away," he said tonelessly. "I would not lie to them." - -"The poet Dante," I began. - -"Spare me the poets," he said bitterly. - -"The poet Dante," I repeated firmly, "in his recounting of the vision -of Paradise, came at last to the Outside. He had pressed on just as -you of the expedition had pressed on, ever outwards, looking for The -Purpose. He was fortunate, of course, in not actually making his -expedition physically, in spite of pretending that he did so. Because -space seems to be too big for man to make anything of while he's in the -flesh. Anyhow, when Dante got Outside, the whole universe did a strange -flip-flop. If you can imagine a tennis ball really turning inside-out -and every other atom of the universe being compacted at the center and -the atoms of the original ball rarefying outwards, you may have his -Rosa Mystica. At any rate, you can understand that the further out you -go, the more you look at the same thing no matter in which direction -you look ... like every direction being South from the North Pole ... -so you might as well say that you are looking at a Center when you have -reached the periphery and look farther out." - -"For the purposes of analogy, I suppose?" He was still bitter. - -"For the purposes of making it clear what I want you to do. I want -you to turn inside-out. I want you to be God, so to speak, for a few -minutes." - -"Indeed?" - -"Indeed. For those minutes, at least, you have done with searching for -Him further and further out ... where you must have thought He was -(and He is, of course) or you'd probably have been a nuclear physicist -or a cytologist like myself. Consider yourself, then, the deity of -yourself, your body, of each personality-packed cell within it. Those -cells respond more or less well to your purposes and your plans. You -love them all and they love you, whether or not they know it very well. -Now think back ... how did you explain it to your baby incisor when -it first felt the pushing of a second tooth underneath? That it was -expendable? That it was no longer part of your purpose?" - -"I don't suppose I felt that I was accountable to my teeth." Grumpily. - -"But at any rate, your purposes had not changed, had they?" - -"I suppose not." - -"Now listen closely, God. Suppose you actually told your teeth that -you didn't need them any more ... and your heart cells that had been -contracting along so bravely ... and your marrow cells that had been -making blood ... and your stomach and your spleen ... you told each -and every cell that it was probably a good enough cell but that really -there was no purpose in their doing anything as you yourself had no -purpose and probably didn't exist anyway. Then what?" - -"They'd go right on working. What a man tells his cells can't affect -them. You know that." Truculently ... as if to say: _you can't fool me_. - -"They would begin to quit right then and there. A man _might_ not be -able to tell his cells much, but remember, a god can. Now let's go a -step further in. Let a cell be God and let its individual molecules be -its creatures. And this God tells His creatures that it's all over ... -no more purposes, no more action because there's no reason for it ... -what then?" - -"The molecules break down?" Facetiously. - -"Exactly. And the atoms disperse and the electron shells fall away and -what happens after that, I'm hardly prepared to say." - -"Hardly." Amusedly now. - -"Now back to man as man, not God, for the next. While you and your -eager predecessors were pushing outward to the stars, I and mine were -exploring cells. And we found cells dying from simple lack of faith ... -or, you might say, from an excess of faith in purposes which had been -abandoned. 'Our God said so and so' they insisted, long after their God -had revised his plans to such and such." - -"Changeable gods do not interest me." Boredly. - -"I'm glad to hear it," I told him. "That's fairly important. The -discovery part of this investigation, however, is that man does act as -a god to his cells, can tell them things and know that they hear his -still small voice. And among other things which man has to say to his -cells is his promise of immortality to each and every one." - -"That's going too far, I think," Father Phillip objected seriously. -"The body dies." - -"Man has a Precedent," I said quietly. "But," I added, "you have just -told me that it was a number of bodily deaths which destroyed your -faith in all pattern and purpose." - -"Is that comparable?" - -"Not only is it comparable ... it is, you might say, one of the myriad -identical petals of the Mystic Rose. And it is the one I know something -important about. You see, I have witnessed the immortality of the cell. -That's _my_ contribution to the journals, if not to the instruction of -the world which doesn't read them." - -"Oh, I know ... every cell that's alive is merely a daughter cell of -one original cell, so that cell is immortal." - -"I don't mean that at all, even though that's true. You might say that -I mean I have seen the souls of 'dead' cells in heaven." - - * * * * * - -Incredulously: "Through the projecting microscope in the basement?" - -"No, you don't see them with eyes or hear them with ears," I assured -him. - -"I thought not." - -"But that doesn't mean they're not there. The first time was in a -placenta from the garbage can. We had been culturing polio viruses in -human placentas (very interesting personalities viruses are, too) and -I'd been sent a whole placenta more than I needed. What can a mother -tell a placenta which has been doing its work and is still in excellent -shape, just like that civilization in the Phoenix Nebula some two and -a half millennia ago? Does she say, 'There's nothing more for you in -time or space; the baby is born, I abandon you to utter nothingness'? -Very rarely. And even then she doesn't mean it. But the life does go -out of the cells. And disperses to God, glorifying Him in no uncertain -terms. This is what I heard and saw, with a God-given perception which -is not in my eyes and ears." - -"You don't mean intuition, surely," he objected disgustedly. - -"Let me put it another way with another question. With what ears do you -hear the music of the spheres?" - -"You are too much the poet. I don't follow you." He was puzzled. - -"To be very prosaic, then, how do you sense the 'turnover' or change in -energy level of the lone electron of a hydrogen atom in interstellar -space?" - -"By deduction from whatever type of recording is made from a -radiotelescope." - -"You have no physical nerve endings to sense this directly?" - -"Of course not." - -"But you are quite sure, nevertheless, that so gross a creature as man -may be aware of so slight an emission of energy?" - -"Yes." - -"And that what man can be aware of, God is also aware of?" - -"It follows, if God is aware at all." - -"If there is a God, then, there wouldn't be much chance that He didn't -know about such gross creatures as the men of the Phoenix? Excuse -me ... I've gone far afield. You said the radiotelescope. Well, a few -other doctors and I have been working on an instrument to measure -cellular action currents--in living cells, of course; and I had added -an auxiliary component which was supposed to find out what became -of certain suspected possible energy emissions not accounted for or -required by chemical processes in the cell. Where there's smoke there's -fire, you know ... and where there's energy there's apt to be more -energy. And here was a nice piece of fresh dying tissue in beautiful -condition. - -"I put a tiny sliver into the infrascope just as a young child will -put anything that comes his way into his mouth for analysis ... and I -saw the scintillations on the plate which I knew signalled the ascent -of the souls of the cells, the binding energies ... one flash for -each dying cell body ... calculated later ... one quantum of binding -energy, one soul!" - -"And so they were gone ... done ... dissipated into your -machine ... souls no longer." Father Phillip's sigh was one of -infinite disappointment. - -"Binding energy to light ... light to mass, maybe ... and mass -to energy again ... or is there anything but energy in the final -analysis? You astronomers profess to know something of this. Why is -it, then, that when you bump head-on into life you suppose it to be -mysteriously something else? Something capable of complete extinction, -of contradicting the laws of the universe? - -"But I digress again. I am sorry. I have not said what you are waiting -to hear." - -Father Phillip drew in a long breath. - -"In a frenzy of spirit I worked for months to refine the instrument -and to make more precise the registering and recording, daily trying -various tissues in the original machine ... getting reacquainted, too, -with the personalities of various types of cells in the big projecting -mike. Today I can show you, or any interested person, the endurance of -personality in the energy quanta after the cell body is dead. Does -this make a difference?" - -Father Phillip's sigh this time was a relaxation of his whole being. -"Somehow it does," he said, "but I don't know why." - -"You know," I assured him, "that the crux of the Phoenix matter was the -question of personal immortality. If the souls of the Phoenix folk are -in the hand of God, what does it matter to you or to me where their -bodies are? Suppose, just before the end, God told them that He would -bless their physical passing and set it for a sign to a younger people -that their savior was at hand? You have no way of knowing that He did -not. You _do_ know that He said: 'Other sheep I have which are not -of this flock.' And when your own body dies, you may even meet your -beloved folk of the Phoenix Nebula and there shall be 'one flock and -one Shepherd.'" - -Father Phillip's hand reached out and I grasped it. He returned the -pressure firmly. "Thank you, Father," he said gravely. "I have been in -mortal danger of making a mistake. You have been sent to me." - -"As you were sent to the crew of the expedition, and have not yet -wholly failed them. How do you feel at this moment ... in your body?" - -His look became abstracted and he seemed to be searching himself -internally. Then he looked back at me with a shade of a grin. "My -incision itches like fury," he said, "and I need the bedpan." - -"So, you are healing already? Now try to tell me a man can say nothing -to his cells." I drew back the sheet and observed the drying of the -serum at the edges of the incision. - -"How soon can I get out of here?" he asked eagerly. "I must go to the -other members of the crew at once!" - -"First to confession," I reminded him. "And then, depending on God's -will, it may be weeks or even days. I cannot predict the speed of a -miracle." - - * * * * * - -And it was well I did not try. It was a scant ten hours later that -the figure of Father Phillip Burt was wheeled in a chair to a waiting -ambulance that was to take him to the first of the hospitals where -a member of the crew lay in desolate quarantine. His body was still -frail, but his smile was of radiant health. He waved to me. - -"One flock," he called, and was borne away. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REBUTTAL *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part -of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project -Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm -concept and trademark. 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Like anything else, it may be a<br /> -matter of definition, or just of the point of view....</i></p> - -<p>"<span class="smcap">The Star</span>" <i>by Arthur C. Clarke was by all odds the most<br /> -popular story in the first issue of</i> <span class="smcap">Infinity</span>, <i>and probably<br /> -one of the most popular science-fiction stories to be published<br /> -anywhere in 1955. It was also highly controversial, and in "Rebuttal"<br /> -Betsy Curtis presents the other side of the question—plus an idea that<br /> -seems to be totally new. The result, we think you'll agree, is one of<br /> -the outstanding science-fictional events of 1956.</i></p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Infinity Science Fiction, June 1956.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>They brought Father Phillip Burt to St. Luke's as our "share" of the -research project on the mysterious disease which afflicted most of -the crew of the recently returned Phoenix Nebula expedition. News of -the disease, of course, was not spread beyond the research teams, as -the public seems to fear a plague worse than damnation itself. And it -didn't seem to be a very serious disease: Father Phillip was easily the -worst case of all; and although several members of the expedition had -died, their deaths could be evaluated as due to secondary infections -of common enough earth origin. Very few of the crew members were in -actual pain; but Father Phillip was in constant agony which no amount -of sedation seemed to calm.</p> - -<p>I ran the customary tissue cultures and biopsies, including those on -internal organs not customarily available. We were given an excuse -for getting internal samples of tissue when Father Phillip's appendix -flamed into infection. And although I did not find a general infecting -organism, what I did find was enough to send me trotting up to his room -on the double.</p> - -<p>I suppose I should explain here that I, Father Niccolo Molina, am head -research pathologist for St. Luke's and that I don't, therefore, meet -the patients personally very often. But Father Phillip I had to meet.</p> - -<p>His day nurse, Sister Mary Felicia, met me at the door in her crisp -white teflon overall.</p> - -<p>"Father is very uncomfortable today," she told me. "The incision is not -healing at all and he keeps trying to talk and then breaking off in the -middle of a sentence with the pain."</p> - -<p>"Talking about anything in particular?" I asked suspiciously.</p> - -<p>"The merest chit-chat. The weather ... pleasantries about the -hospital ... jokes about doctors in particular. He doesn't have a very -high regard for doctors, it seems. Thinks they are notable atheists, I -gather." She smiled.</p> - -<p>"Many thanks for the diagnosis, Sister," I told her gravely. Then I -added, "I suppose you are having to maintain a considerable quarantine -and decontamination routine as Father's nurse?"</p> - -<p>"Oh yes. In this wing, you know, we are all in solitary, approaching -no persons other than our patient and the doctors ... sometimes for as -much as three months after the end of a case. It provides excellent -time for a retreat, which is why most of us apply for such duty." She -pointed to the small <i>prie-dieu</i> in her tiny cubicle, which stood as a -buffer between the contagion room and the hallway of the ward.</p> - -<p>"If I am right about the nature of Father Burt's disease," I told her, -"you will soon see the end of this case, and without any three months' -decontamination, either."</p> - -<p>She smiled again. "You couldn't say a happier thing," she said, "even -though I shall probably apply for a leprosy case if I am relieved of -this one. I've become very concerned about Father Phillip."</p> - -<p>"Good. He needs your prayers as no man probably ever needed them -before. I'll see him now." I crossed her small room and opened the -inner door and went in.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Father Phillip was lying flat in the narrow white bed, his arms lying -listlessly on either side of the slight hump of his body under the -sheet. The big bulge halfway down was his knees over a pillow, the -usual position for post-operative appendectomies.</p> - -<p>He squeezed out a smile with an effort. "Morning, doctor," he said.</p> - -<p>"Father Nick," I smiled back. "Father Nick Molina of Pathology, Father."</p> - -<p>His wasted body jerked as if with a knife thrust. Then he said, "Excuse -me. I had forgotten that there were doctors who were not laymen. I'm -sorry." He drew up a shoulder against his cheek in a curious gesture, -then shivered.</p> - -<p>"Sorry for what?" I asked.</p> - -<p>"Just sorry, I guess...." He winced and was silent.</p> - -<p>"Sorry for me?"</p> - -<p>"Well, yes."</p> - -<p>"That I'm not a layman?"</p> - -<p>"You could put it that way."</p> - -<p>"That's a very interesting statement, Father, and one about which -I want to know a good deal more after I've asked you some other -questions. You see, I think I know what's the matter with you, and it's -definitely curable."</p> - -<p>"It is not curable." His voice had a flat finality, and his lips drew -into a thin firm line.</p> - -<p>"Let me ask you the questions anyway, Father," I said. He gave no other -sign, "Have you ever looked through a microscope?"</p> - -<p>"At the little beasties? Yes, in college."</p> - -<p>"Well, that's what I have just finished doing with a number of slivers -of living tissue from your body. Do you know what I saw that would -bring me up here?"</p> - -<p>"I might," he answered warily.</p> - -<p>"What do you think?"</p> - -<p>"Cancer, maybe."</p> - -<p>"No, cancer cells have their own pattern of behavior which is very -pretty and, of course, no longer at all deadly. You do not have cancer; -but the cells of your kidneys, for instance, are doing something I've -never seen live kidney cells doing."</p> - -<p>"And what is that?" he said, as if he really couldn't care less.</p> - -<p>"Nothing in particular. This is unheard of indeed. Kidney cells are -busy little widgets doing a tremendous job night and day. Like the -individual muscle fibers of the heart, they work on year after year -with no vacations, no coffee breaks, secure in the knowledge of their -purpose."</p> - -<p>"No pseudo-sermons, please, Father!" Father Phillip's voice was stern. -"You don't have to Peter Rabbit up biology for me."</p> - -<p>"A scholar indeed to have heard of Peter Rabbit," I laughed but he -did not smile. Then I asked, "Do you want to see how real kidney -cells—yours—-are behaving? I have a projecting microscope in the -basement. Do you want to see what's going on?"</p> - -<p>"Not particularly. If you think you can cure me, go ahead and try."</p> - -<p>"Are you willing to pray for your own recovery?"</p> - -<p>"No!" He spat out the word with a ferocity that seemed to surprise even -himself.</p> - -<p>"Then I am going to sermonize indeed. And you are going to listen, my -dear little kidney cell."</p> - -<p>"Oh, go ahead. But I warn you that I know something that will cancel it -all in advance." He had developed more force of personality than he had -showed since I came in.</p> - -<p>"Oh? Then suppose you tell me about that. I always do better in -rebuttal."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>And he blurted it out ... the whole story of the Phoenix Nebula -expedition and its discovery of the memorials of that beautiful -race which was destroyed utterly in the explosion of its star ... -the supernova which was our own Star of Bethlehem. "So you see," he -concluded, "we found out that ultimate dreadful secret of the cosmos, -that there is no plan, no purpose, no good God who watches the fall of -the sparrows with tender concern. To whom could I pray for my recovery? -To the random spin of electrons or planets? To a petty tribal totem? To -nothing!"</p> - -<p>"<i>We</i> found out? You <i>and</i> the crew?"</p> - -<p>"I gave them what answers I could."</p> - -<p>"They asked <i>you</i> ... and for a fish you gave them a stone, is that it?"</p> - -<p>"Scold away," he said tonelessly. "I would not lie to them."</p> - -<p>"The poet Dante," I began.</p> - -<p>"Spare me the poets," he said bitterly.</p> - -<p>"The poet Dante," I repeated firmly, "in his recounting of the vision -of Paradise, came at last to the Outside. He had pressed on just as -you of the expedition had pressed on, ever outwards, looking for The -Purpose. He was fortunate, of course, in not actually making his -expedition physically, in spite of pretending that he did so. Because -space seems to be too big for man to make anything of while he's in the -flesh. Anyhow, when Dante got Outside, the whole universe did a strange -flip-flop. If you can imagine a tennis ball really turning inside-out -and every other atom of the universe being compacted at the center and -the atoms of the original ball rarefying outwards, you may have his -Rosa Mystica. At any rate, you can understand that the further out you -go, the more you look at the same thing no matter in which direction -you look ... like every direction being South from the North Pole ... -so you might as well say that you are looking at a Center when you have -reached the periphery and look farther out."</p> - -<p>"For the purposes of analogy, I suppose?" He was still bitter.</p> - -<p>"For the purposes of making it clear what I want you to do. I want -you to turn inside-out. I want you to be God, so to speak, for a few -minutes."</p> - -<p>"Indeed?"</p> - -<p>"Indeed. For those minutes, at least, you have done with searching for -Him further and further out ... where you must have thought He was -(and He is, of course) or you'd probably have been a nuclear physicist -or a cytologist like myself. Consider yourself, then, the deity of -yourself, your body, of each personality-packed cell within it. Those -cells respond more or less well to your purposes and your plans. You -love them all and they love you, whether or not they know it very well. -Now think back ... how did you explain it to your baby incisor when -it first felt the pushing of a second tooth underneath? That it was -expendable? That it was no longer part of your purpose?"</p> - -<p>"I don't suppose I felt that I was accountable to my teeth." Grumpily.</p> - -<p>"But at any rate, your purposes had not changed, had they?"</p> - -<p>"I suppose not."</p> - -<p>"Now listen closely, God. Suppose you actually told your teeth that -you didn't need them any more ... and your heart cells that had been -contracting along so bravely ... and your marrow cells that had been -making blood ... and your stomach and your spleen ... you told each -and every cell that it was probably a good enough cell but that really -there was no purpose in their doing anything as you yourself had no -purpose and probably didn't exist anyway. Then what?"</p> - -<p>"They'd go right on working. What a man tells his cells can't affect -them. You know that." Truculently ... as if to say: <i>you can't fool me</i>.</p> - -<p>"They would begin to quit right then and there. A man <i>might</i> not be -able to tell his cells much, but remember, a god can. Now let's go a -step further in. Let a cell be God and let its individual molecules be -its creatures. And this God tells His creatures that it's all over ... -no more purposes, no more action because there's no reason for it ... -what then?"</p> - -<p>"The molecules break down?" Facetiously.</p> - -<p>"Exactly. And the atoms disperse and the electron shells fall away and -what happens after that, I'm hardly prepared to say."</p> - -<p>"Hardly." Amusedly now.</p> - -<p>"Now back to man as man, not God, for the next. While you and your -eager predecessors were pushing outward to the stars, I and mine were -exploring cells. And we found cells dying from simple lack of faith ... -or, you might say, from an excess of faith in purposes which had been -abandoned. 'Our God said so and so' they insisted, long after their God -had revised his plans to such and such."</p> - -<p>"Changeable gods do not interest me." Boredly.</p> - -<p>"I'm glad to hear it," I told him. "That's fairly important. The -discovery part of this investigation, however, is that man does act as -a god to his cells, can tell them things and know that they hear his -still small voice. And among other things which man has to say to his -cells is his promise of immortality to each and every one."</p> - -<p>"That's going too far, I think," Father Phillip objected seriously. -"The body dies."</p> - -<p>"Man has a Precedent," I said quietly. "But," I added, "you have just -told me that it was a number of bodily deaths which destroyed your -faith in all pattern and purpose."</p> - -<p>"Is that comparable?"</p> - -<p>"Not only is it comparable ... it is, you might say, one of the myriad -identical petals of the Mystic Rose. And it is the one I know something -important about. You see, I have witnessed the immortality of the cell. -That's <i>my</i> contribution to the journals, if not to the instruction of -the world which doesn't read them."</p> - -<p>"Oh, I know ... every cell that's alive is merely a daughter cell of -one original cell, so that cell is immortal."</p> - -<p>"I don't mean that at all, even though that's true. You might say that -I mean I have seen the souls of 'dead' cells in heaven."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Incredulously: "Through the projecting microscope in the basement?"</p> - -<p>"No, you don't see them with eyes or hear them with ears," I assured -him.</p> - -<p>"I thought not."</p> - -<p>"But that doesn't mean they're not there. The first time was in a -placenta from the garbage can. We had been culturing polio viruses in -human placentas (very interesting personalities viruses are, too) and -I'd been sent a whole placenta more than I needed. What can a mother -tell a placenta which has been doing its work and is still in excellent -shape, just like that civilization in the Phoenix Nebula some two and -a half millennia ago? Does she say, 'There's nothing more for you in -time or space; the baby is born, I abandon you to utter nothingness'? -Very rarely. And even then she doesn't mean it. But the life does go -out of the cells. And disperses to God, glorifying Him in no uncertain -terms. This is what I heard and saw, with a God-given perception which -is not in my eyes and ears."</p> - -<p>"You don't mean intuition, surely," he objected disgustedly.</p> - -<p>"Let me put it another way with another question. With what ears do you -hear the music of the spheres?"</p> - -<p>"You are too much the poet. I don't follow you." He was puzzled.</p> - -<p>"To be very prosaic, then, how do you sense the 'turnover' or change in -energy level of the lone electron of a hydrogen atom in interstellar -space?"</p> - -<p>"By deduction from whatever type of recording is made from a -radiotelescope."</p> - -<p>"You have no physical nerve endings to sense this directly?"</p> - -<p>"Of course not."</p> - -<p>"But you are quite sure, nevertheless, that so gross a creature as man -may be aware of so slight an emission of energy?"</p> - -<p>"Yes."</p> - -<p>"And that what man can be aware of, God is also aware of?"</p> - -<p>"It follows, if God is aware at all."</p> - -<p>"If there is a God, then, there wouldn't be much chance that He didn't -know about such gross creatures as the men of the Phoenix? Excuse -me ... I've gone far afield. You said the radiotelescope. Well, a few -other doctors and I have been working on an instrument to measure -cellular action currents—in living cells, of course; and I had added -an auxiliary component which was supposed to find out what became -of certain suspected possible energy emissions not accounted for or -required by chemical processes in the cell. Where there's smoke there's -fire, you know ... and where there's energy there's apt to be more -energy. And here was a nice piece of fresh dying tissue in beautiful -condition.</p> - -<p>"I put a tiny sliver into the infrascope just as a young child will -put anything that comes his way into his mouth for analysis ... and I -saw the scintillations on the plate which I knew signalled the ascent -of the souls of the cells, the binding energies ... one flash for -each dying cell body ... calculated later ... one quantum of binding -energy, one soul!"</p> - -<p>"And so they were gone ... done ... dissipated into your -machine ... souls no longer." Father Phillip's sigh was one of -infinite disappointment.</p> - -<p>"Binding energy to light ... light to mass, maybe ... and mass -to energy again ... or is there anything but energy in the final -analysis? You astronomers profess to know something of this. Why is -it, then, that when you bump head-on into life you suppose it to be -mysteriously something else? Something capable of complete extinction, -of contradicting the laws of the universe?</p> - -<p>"But I digress again. I am sorry. I have not said what you are waiting -to hear."</p> - -<p>Father Phillip drew in a long breath.</p> - -<p>"In a frenzy of spirit I worked for months to refine the instrument -and to make more precise the registering and recording, daily trying -various tissues in the original machine ... getting reacquainted, too, -with the personalities of various types of cells in the big projecting -mike. Today I can show you, or any interested person, the endurance of -personality in the energy quanta after the cell body is dead. Does -this make a difference?"</p> - -<p>Father Phillip's sigh this time was a relaxation of his whole being. -"Somehow it does," he said, "but I don't know why."</p> - -<p>"You know," I assured him, "that the crux of the Phoenix matter was the -question of personal immortality. If the souls of the Phoenix folk are -in the hand of God, what does it matter to you or to me where their -bodies are? Suppose, just before the end, God told them that He would -bless their physical passing and set it for a sign to a younger people -that their savior was at hand? You have no way of knowing that He did -not. You <i>do</i> know that He said: 'Other sheep I have which are not -of this flock.' And when your own body dies, you may even meet your -beloved folk of the Phoenix Nebula and there shall be 'one flock and -one Shepherd.'"</p> - -<p>Father Phillip's hand reached out and I grasped it. He returned the -pressure firmly. "Thank you, Father," he said gravely. "I have been in -mortal danger of making a mistake. You have been sent to me."</p> - -<p>"As you were sent to the crew of the expedition, and have not yet -wholly failed them. How do you feel at this moment ... in your body?"</p> - -<p>His look became abstracted and he seemed to be searching himself -internally. Then he looked back at me with a shade of a grin. "My -incision itches like fury," he said, "and I need the bedpan."</p> - -<p>"So, you are healing already? Now try to tell me a man can say nothing -to his cells." I drew back the sheet and observed the drying of the -serum at the edges of the incision.</p> - -<p>"How soon can I get out of here?" he asked eagerly. "I must go to the -other members of the crew at once!"</p> - -<p>"First to confession," I reminded him. "And then, depending on God's -will, it may be weeks or even days. I cannot predict the speed of a -miracle."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>And it was well I did not try. It was a scant ten hours later that -the figure of Father Phillip Burt was wheeled in a chair to a waiting -ambulance that was to take him to the first of the hospitals where -a member of the crew lay in desolate quarantine. His body was still -frail, but his smile was of radiant health. 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