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306 with him there"—not speaking from a distance, through an Amplifier, "but staying with him." And it came to pass, when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai and the two Tablets of the Testimony in his hand —as Moses was coming down from the Mount— he knew not that the skin of his face radiated when He was speaking to him. And Aaron and all of the Children of Israel, seeing Moses, saw that the skin of his face radiated; and they were afraid to come nigh unto him. So "Moses put a covering-mask upon his face. But when Moses was coming before Yahweh to speak with him, he would take off the covering mask until he left and came out to speak to the Children of Israel whatever he was instructed; but when the Children of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of his face was radiating, Moses would put back the covering-mask, until the next time that he would go to speak" to the Lord. It is evident from this that Moses, when he had been in the proximity of the Kahod, was subjected to some kind of radiation that affected his skin. What exactly the source mate- rial of that radiation was we do not know, but we do know that the Anunnaki could (and did) employ radiation for a variety of purposes. We read of that in the tale of Inanna 's Descent to the Nether World, when she was revived with a pulsating radiance (perhaps not unlike that depicted on a clay plaque from Mesopotamia, in which the patient, protected by a mask, is treated with radiation—Fig. 103). We read of it, used as a killing beam, when Gilgamesh tried to enter the Restricted Zone in the Sinai peninsula and its guardians di- rected the radiation at him (see Fig. 46). And we have read in the Tale of Zu what had happened when he removed the Tablet of Destinies from the Mission Control Center in Nip- pur: "Stillness spread all over, silence prevailed; the sanctu- ary's brilliance was taken away." A physical object, one that can move about, station it- DIVINE ENCOUNTERS