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The Story of the Mystery of Life.
As one person interprets it.
Around the mystic stream of life, we see grouped eighteen persons typifying many walks and stations in life. First we see:
(1) A boy who is astonished at the miracle that has happened in his hand -- one moment, an unbroken egg; the next moment, a chick teeming with life. "Why?" he asks. How does it happen? What is the answer to this mystery of life?" He questions
(2) His ages grandmother, who, he reasons, knows everything. But we see her resigned in the face of the inexplicable. Then we see
(3) and (4) The lovers, who believe they have found the answer to the mystery in their first kiss.
(5) Sweet girl graduate, lost in dreams, with no place as in her thoughts for a serious questioning of life's destiny.
(6) The scientist, troubled because all his learnings, all his searchings, have not solved the mystery.
(7) and (8) The mother, who finds the answer in the babe at her breast.
(9) (10) (11) (12) and (13) The happy family group, not greatly perturbed by the mystery, although even they seem to ask "Why do the doves mate?"
(14) The learned philosopher, scratching his puzzled head in vain.
(15) and (16) The monk and the nun, comforted and secure, confident that they have found the answer in their religion,
(17) The atheist, the fool, who grinningly cares not at all, while
(18) The stoic sits in silent awe and contemplation of that which he believes he knows but cannon explain or understand.
Gentle reader, what is your interpretation? Do you see yourself in one of the characters here portrayed? Forest Lawn has found the answer to the mystery of life. Have you found it? Or are you still in anxious doubt? |