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LIFE SUPREME 91 "The unceasing desire for perfection shows clearly that progress in paradise shall be endless. For, when they shall have attained one excellence, they shall not stop there but seeing a higher stage of excellence, shall consider that to which they have attained as imperfect and shall, therefore, desire the attainment of the higher excellence. When they shall have attained to this, they shall yet see another higher excellence and they shall continue to pray for the attainment of higher and higher excellences. . This ceaseless desire for perfection shows that they shall be endlessly attaining to excellences. '. INCOMPREHENSIBLE UNIVERSE. Although the universe has its boundaries, its domain and function is beyond the comprehension of the human mind to fathom. Unlike space, it is impossible for matter to be limitless. Somewhere in the depths of space there exists the most distant of all the stars, but its location is beyond the range of the most delicate scientific instruments used for probing into the universe. . The distances of the stars from us, and also from one another, are so great that it is inconvenient to measure them in miles. They have to be measured in light years. It is known that light travels 186,000 miles per second and that the nearest star is four and a quarter light years away. That is to say the light from that star takes four and a quarter years to reach this world; or if we work out the distance in miles it is approximately twenty five million million miles. In endeavouring to comprehend such a distance the brain becomes severely taxed; but this distance is almost negligible when compared to the greater astronomical distances which separate us from the stars in the remote regions of heavens. The best light telescope of today can see and photograph clusters of stars four thousand million light years away; and radio telescopes can contact stars six thousand million light years awayı These telescopic distances bewilder and stagger our finite minds. . As we cast our eyes across the starlit sky and think upon the insoluble mysteries of the universe we are reminded that one of the attributes of God is 'Latif'-the Incomprehensible. . THE SUN. The sun shines all the time; but at night it is invisible because then