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Will an international organisation, possibly UNESCO, ever reach the decision to have the thousands and thousands of rock paintings and cave drawings all over the world catalogued? Actually the ancient 'gods' were always telling us that we were deaf and blind, but that one day we should know the ‘truth’. From time immemorial all religions have promised that we should find the 'gods' if only we looked for them, and that once we have found them we should go to heaven and eternal peace would reign on earth. Perhaps we are making a mistake when we interpret the concept ‘heaven’ as another-worldly, never ending state of bliss. Perhaps ‘heaven' simply meant the 'universe'? Surely we ought to seek the 'gods', and the messages they left, here on earth, instead of hoping for them somewhere in an interminable eternity? May not these 'gods', whom mankind has longed for and prayed to in all ages, have left behind technical instructions which would enable us to meet them in the universe? Since the beginning of human history wars have been and are being waged continuously somewhere or other on our planet. Did the 'gods' promise peace on earth because they knew that once the inhabitants of earth had felt the full impact of seeing their tiny planet from outer space they would realise that all terrestrial squabbles were utterly futile? Do the 'gods' hope or expect that once earthly beings get to know space they will lose the national consciousness they have only assumed and instead consider the infinite cosmos as the universal motherland? From the perspective of the universe all men will be simply inhabitants of the 'third planet’, a minor sun on the edge of the galaxy—and not Russians or Chinese, Americans or Europeans, black or white. Could mankind make its age-old dream of 'going to heaven' come true if it took up the promise of the ‘gods'? That the 'gods' promised men the possibility of return to the stars is implicit in Genesis 11:6: primitive cultures on different continents? Is it not possible that the keys to the 'kingdom of heaven’ are hidden in many places on earth? Were we smitten with blindness for thousands of years? And are we still? Why should we not take this promise literally?