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81 Nou are far behind th visitors in your technological development, so you must rely upon Knowledge. It is the greatest force in the universe, and your visitors do not use it. | is your only hope. visitors in your Therefore, do look the Greater not at technological must rely upon your world. is your only hope. THRESHOLD: A NEW PROMISE FOR HUMANITY the Creator has given you, and to express Knowledge and to contribute Knowledge in all of its manifestations? Your visitors do not have this freedom. It is unknown to them. They look at the chaos of your world, and they believe that the order that they will impose here will be redeeming for you and will save you from your own self-destruction. This is all they can give, for this is all that they have. And they will use you, but they do not consider this inappropriate, for they themselves are being used and know of no alternative to this. Their programming, their conditioning, is so thorough that to reach them at the level of their deeper spirituality holds only remote possibilities. You do not have the strength to do this. You would have to be so much stronger than you are today to have a redeeming influence on your visitors. And yet, their conformity is not so unusual in the Greater Community. It is very common in large collectives, where unifor- Mou are far behind the mity and compliance are essential to efficient functioning, particularly over vast areas of space. Community with fear, but with objectivity. The development, so you conditions that we are describing already exist in You can understand these things. Knowledge. It is the Manipulation is known to you. Influence is known greatest force in the to you. You have just never encountered them on universe, and your such a great scale, nor have you ever had to com- visitors do not use it. It pete with other forms of intelligent life. As a result, you do not yet have the skills to do so. We speak of Knowledge because it is your greatest ability. Regardless of what technology you can develop over