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Show 271 the center of the galaxy and from which time, as we understood time, was calibrated. They talked about the physical properties of holy spirit, which was actually a substance composed of highly refined particles and could be transferred from one human body to another, something like electricity, by contact between the two bodies, through the medium of the nerves. They talked about the spirits of the dead, how they were organized matter but not the same as resurrected beings because they weren't solid. They talked about the second coming and the physical and chemical changes that would happen in the earth's surface. They talked about the Three Nephites, and Lorin at last got to tell his story about meeting one of them the summer before he had started college, which she didn't think was as interesting as he did, which hurt his feelings a little. The Three Nephites were three of the twelve disciples selected by Jesus during his New World ministry, who had asked to remain alive until the second coming. They had survived the ravages of centuries and still walked the earth today, old men but not enfeebled, healing the sick, warning the unwary, and disappearing into the mists of legend as soon as they had performed whatever act they had been summoned for. They had been seen by one of Columbus's sailors during the second voyage, on a coastal island near Cuba. They had been seen in Colonial Massachusetts, helping villagers stave off an Indian attack. They were seen, through rarely together, by families with sick children who were miraculously made well after a visit by a white-haired stranger who had eaten at the family's table and afterward disappeared, leaving the food he had eaten untouched on the plate; by missionaries who had seen a white-haired stranger disperse a hostile crowd that had been about to tar and feather them; by down-and-out men who had had wads of greenbacks pressed into their hands in dark alleys by |