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are visible. In the past they were often visited by the inhabitants of the world of Thebel, but the visitors were stricken with failing memories on Adamah and no longer knew whence they came. Once again the old familiar questions arise. How did the authors of the Cabbala know that the beings in the seven other worlds had a different appearance from the citizens of earth? How did they know It is also worth mentioning the statement in the Cabbala that originally human beings did not look each other in the face during the sexual act and that the union of the seeds took place in a single being. Modern cabbalists claim that, before Adam, God created another being, who was 'man' only, a characteristic that did not prevent this being from producing children, who later mated with the snake. The main work of the Cabbala, the Book Zohar, is written in Aramaic and interprets the Pentateuch from the standpoint of the cabbalistic conception of God. The Zohar is considered to be the work of Rabbi Simon bar Yochai (A.D. 130-170), but was probably first written down from oral traditions by Moses de Leon in Spain at the end of the thirteenth century and first printed in Cremona in 1558. In the Zohar—and this is astounding—a conversation between an earthman and someone stranded from the world of Arqa is given. In this dialogue we learn that after the earth had been destroyed by fire some refugees, who had survived the catastrophe and were led by Rabbi Yosse, met a stranger, who suddenly emerged from a crack in the rock and had 'a different face’. Rabbi Yosse went up to the stranger and asked where he came from. The stranger answered: ‘Tam an inhabitant of Arqa.' The refugee was surprised and asked: "You mean there are living creatures on Arqa?' sowing and harvest would only recommence after several years; the arrangement of the constellations was also different from the way it looked on earth ... 700 years ago and only printed for the first time 400 years ago. But once again I have to ask what ancient knowledge was hidden behind these words. ‘The inhabitants of the world of Arqa sow and harvest. Their faces are different from our faces. They visit all worlds and speak all languages.’ that they ate different food and knew other suns in the sky? And then the stranger said that in his world the seasons were not the same as in their country; there Nearly 1,800 years of oral tradition stand behind this account, which was not written down until about Naturally a stranger who visited the earth saw the constellations from a different point of view from