Chapter Twelve

As the book comes to an end, so do all of Ishmaels teachings and stories. Now is when everything falls together and all of the questions are answered. All of the questions they have stated for example, "How did man become man?" Pg 237 are being answered. Other important questions are "What do I do if I earnestly desire to save the world?" Pg 248. There are many things in this chapter which I consider of great value. At the end Ishmael tells the man their lessons are over, but before this he tells him many things.

"Man became man by living in the hands of the gods." Pg 237. What they also say that by living in the hands of the gods, man evolved and cam to be this way. After man became man and the Takers started taking over the world, they have put an end to creation. If they go on like this there will be no sucessor to life on this planet. There are many points of view to this. Personally I think that going by the book, it is almost impossible for man to go back to the Leaver life and due to this, evolution has probably come to an end. Another interesting part of this chapter is "The premise of the Taker story is the world belongs to man." then they say, "The premise of the Leaver story is man belongs to the world." Pg 239. Which of these is correct? The Takers think that they can do whatever they feel like. This has each time made the world worse. If we would have continued to the Leaver premise, in the other hand, we wouldnt have what we have now, but the world wouldnt be coming to an end. Both of these things are reason of debate. I actually think that it would have been imposible to keep man from wanting more than what they had so the Leavers would have to get extinct eventually.