We live in an era that has replaced the Godhead with a secular focus on empiricism, science and capitalism. Our concerns are largely those of a temporal nature based on self-interest. As a species of and in nature, we have distanced ourselves from our connection to it. These and other claims are offered in Jeffrey Brown's (2005) Black Body Radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe. While some of these claims are directly addressed and others implied, the story of Augustus' spiritual quest serves not only as a roadmap for reconnecting with nature and our eternal spirit but also as a stern warning of dire consequences if we continue on as we are, focused only on the temporal and self-interest. A forward entitled "One Witness's Appeal," serves a role similar to "testimony" in organized religion, offered by a Commander William Holtenzennerson, a believer in the message of the "great Universal Auger" (Brown 1). We are warned to pay heed to the need to discipline ourselves to develop our eternal soul over our desires of the flesh.
A young boy named Augustus receives a visitation from a "being" that is "light within light within light" (Brown 3). This being is described as having the characteristics that we will eventually see are the characteristics we are being urged to develop as human beings, for the "being" is one "that conveyed profound wisdom, knowledge of the eternities, supreme compassion, [and] a nimble and focused intellect" (Brown 3). S
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