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places of the earth. ‘And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire....' Imagination needs something to spark it off. But what sparked off the chroniclers of the Old Testament? Were they describing something they had not seen at all? Time and again they implore us to believe that everything was just as they described it. And I believe them implicitly; they gave eye- witness accounts. In those days no fantasy could have given them the idea of a vehicle that spits fire, whirls up the desert sand and makes the mountains melt under it. We children of the twentieth century who have read the story of Hiroshima sense for the first time what God's epiphany as described in the I should also like to examine what the Old Testament has to say about artificial insemination. 'God' (or the 'gods') had landed on earth in a cosmic vehicle. They began their most important task of fertilising the inhabitants of earth with their seed. They separated all the people chosen for this experiment from the hybrid bestial world and destined them for the ‘journey into the wilderness’. There they had their guinea pigs in quarantine, so to speak. They protected them from their enemies and gave them manna and ambrosia so that they did not starve. They had to stay like that 'in the wilderness’ for a whole generation. unto myself.’ If it is true that the 'gods' were masters of the genetic code, it throws light on the darkness surrounding many texts, for example the passage in Genesis 1:26-27: thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.' One of David's psalms gives a particularly dramatic description of God appearing (Psalm 29:7-9): 'The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire. 'The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. 'The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve and discovereth the forests ...' There is an enthusiastic account of the landing of a spaceship in Psalm civ, 3-4: ",..who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind: "Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire....' But the Prophet Micah outdoes all this (1:3-4): ‘For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high Old Testament might really mean. Exodus 19:4, says: "Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings (!), and brought you