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THE FOURTH Manipulation Religious Beliefs Traditions and n order to understand the visitors’ activities in the world today, we must present more information before. BRIEFING regarding their influence on world religious institu- tions and values and on the fundamental spiritual impulses which are common to your nature and which, in many ways, are common to intelligent life in many parts of the Greater Community. We should begin by saying that the activities that the visitors are conducting in the world at this time have been carried on many times before in many different places with many different cultures in the Greater Community. Your visitors are not the origina- tors of these activities but merely use them at their own discretion and have used them many times It is important for you to understand that skills in influence and manipulation have been developed to a very high degree of functionality in the Greater Community. As races become more adept and more capable technologically, they exert more subtle and more pervasive kinds of influence upon one another.