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acquired immense landed estates in every part of the empire. These estates were worked by slaves...” (p. 83) The exclusive relations thus established between the sacred monarch and the nobles or priests who sur- rounded his person, soon came to be repeated between those nobles and the rank next below them....Another barrier between the artificially exalted monarch and the artificially degraded people, another social rank thus had to be formed; and so it went on, until the lowest substratum of the civil order was reached. (p. 81) At the very outset of the Roman imperial constitution, a tendency is to be observed toward the creation of an involved system of caste. (p. 82) 249 Appendix B: Book Abstracts All these estates eventually became the possession of the Catholic Church. Hierarchies of Control This is called the “Involution of rank.” No Gothic chieftain ever ruled by proxy. (p. 82) Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation