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information you require, exactly as you could receive a message over a telephone. 2You were chosen to meet with me in the presence of witnesses to confirm your experience. We wanted the truth of this meeting to reach as far as possible. And we commend the staff of one of your nation?s newspapers is that the mental contacts we have been discussing are which proved brave enough to publish the fiend aa ene first account. ?But one thing which we want you to make clear to all is that mental contacts we have been discussing are definitely not what your people call ?psychic? or ?spiritualistic,? but direct messages from one mind to another. Explanation of what you call ?psychic? will be given you at another time. 2We call this mental telepathy a unified state of consciousness between two points, the sender and the receiver, and it is the method of communication most commonly used on our planets, especially on planet Venus. Messages can be conveyed between individuals on our planet, from our planet to our space craft wherever they may be, and from planet to planet. As | said before?and let me make this firm in your memory?space or ?distance,? as you call it, is no barrier whatsoever.? While Orthon was talking, Il muth had unobtrusively gone out of the room. Now she returned with a tray on which were goblets holding what proved to be the same refreshing drink | have described before. After she had v distributed the glasses, | said, ?7About these people from other planets who are living amongst us ? has that been going on for long?? It was Kalna who answered, ?Since time immemorial! Or at least,? she corrected herself, ?for the past two thousand years. After the crucifixion of Jesus, who was sent to be incarnated on your world to help your people, as had others before him, we decided to carry on our mission in a way less perilous to those concerned than actual birth on your planet. This was made possible by the great advance in our space traveling ships. We were able to bring volunteers in their physical bodies. These men are carefully trained for their mission and receive instructions in regard to their personal safety. Their identity is never revealed except, rarely, to one or another individual for a definite purpose, as with you. ?They mingle with their Earthly brothers to learn their languages and their ways. Then they return to their home planets where they pass on to us what knowledge they have gathered of your world. We have a history of Earth and the happenings thereon dating back seventy-eight million years. Similar histories which were made by men on Earth have been lost with the civilizations that destroyed themselves?the same pattern of destruction that threatens you today. ?The thing you call ?war? has not existed anywhere else in our system for millions of years. Of course, all planets and their people must pass through the orderly stages of evolvement from lower to higher. But yours has not been an orderly or natural progress; rather, an endless repetition of growth and destruction, growth and destruction. ?There have been Earth men who have left your planet with our help, in order that they might learn from us and, in time, return to their Earthly home and pass