“Never!” she cried. “That is an impossibility in nature. It only seems sacrificed; it never really is.”
“But He was sacrificed.”
“His great sacrifice of Himself for Truth’s sake was really His whole life work, and it was Perfection,” said Adele.
“His life, as well as His death,” acquiesced the Doctor, solemnly.
“Yes, a perfect work.”
“Well then, Adele, no other idealized sacrifice in administering could make the service more complete, nor the atonement more adequate than it is.”
The atonement!
Yes. The at-one-ment—the Saving of the World—the Salvation of Mankind by the Truth.
And as they conversed thus, upon the Lepcha Holy Ground, the Doctor concluded that Adele’s meditations had not led her astray; but he felt constrained to say something further which had been on his mind from the first.