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?You have passed all the tests with flying colors,? Ilmuth said warmly. ?In the face of all the derision, disbelief?even when the validity of your photographs was challenged?we saw how staunch you remained to that which, within yourself, you knew to be true.? This encouragement filled me with happiness and | knew that, with such friends, any faltering would be impossible. ?There was another thing, too, which we had to know,? said Ramu, ?in regard to your discretion and judgment. For example, there were certain things which the master revealed to you tonight which, as he made clear, must not yet be told to your people. In a world like yours, it is a great temptation for most men to make themselves important by indulging in attention-getting statements. Moreover, the whole of what is now permissible for you to tell cannot, with wisdom, be told to all. This is where your good judgment enters. After all, you have devoted the better part of your life to teaching universal law insofar as you knew it. In doing so, you learned well that it is not only useless, but often dangerous, to give more knowledge than can be absorbed or understood. We know that you will apply this principle to the information you receive from us.? ?In regard to telepathy,? | said, voicing a question which had been in my mind, ?although | am able to use it, | cannot claim really to understand its operation. Could you explain it a little?? They glanced from one to another, and then laughed. | realized that all present could answer my question and that they had been amused at the courtesy which had prompted each to give the other the opportunity. In fact, as | look back on the entire discussion, | realize how different it was throughout from what happens in our world when two or more people are gathered together. Where we jump in, talk at cross-purposes and constantly interrupt the speaker (who should at least be permitted to come to an occasional full stop), these men and women had, in all cases, spoken without interruption from the others. And none had held the floor by sheer force of verbosity. As if by common consent it was Orthon who answered. ?In your world you have what you call radio, and there are many amateur radio operators whom you call ?hams.? These have certain channels on which they are allowed to operate. These channels, which you refer to as ?ether waves,? enable a person in one location to send a message to a person at another instrument in some far distant place. The two can hear one another as clearly as if they were in the same room. At one time such communication would have been considered fantastic by | wee AL ab ee AE ee ee eee eet 2 et nt. people of the type of mind which now derides an interplanetary origin for our ships. To this kind of mentality, little that has not already been proven to the point of being sold over a counter is conceivable. ?Thoughts are received and transmitted in exactly the same way as by radio, along certain wave lengths, but minus any instrument. We work directly from brain to brain, and here again | distance i is no barrier. tee ee ee 2 ee La However, an open and receptive mind is needed for success. Through all the years that you have been sending thoughts to us, we have answered. This has established a solid cable-like connection between us by maintaining the thought waves in a single channel. Whenever your mind is open, we can send you the