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probationers. This is the goal and everybody’s ideal. Distractions may well take on a primitive aspect when the supreme goal is so high.’ ‘Does this mean that the eternals have a totally different way of life c 1 1 sone ao ‘Oh yes. They live apart in cities reserved for them and meet regularly to make decisions.’ “How old are the oldest ones?” ‘The oldest, the president of the council of the eternals, is 25,000 years old, and you see him before you now. I have lived in twenty-five bodies up to this day, and I was the first one on whom this experiment was successfully carried out. That is why I am the president of the eternals. I myself directed the creation of life on Earth.’ ‘Then your knowledge must be immeasurable?’ ‘Yes, I have accumulated quite a lot of knowledge, and I will not be able to gain much more. It is in this way that the people on Earth may be superior to us because the capacity of that part of the brain, which accumulates information, the memory, is larger. Human beings on Earth will be able to accumulate more knowledge than us, and therefore will advance further scientifically, if they have the a4 oe 1 cod 1 1 means. This is what frightens those who oppose the “council of eternals. People on Earth may progress faster than us, if nothing stops > them.’ ‘The knowledge that students need to accumulate must be enormous, and must take a very long time?’ ‘No. Thanks to an important scientific discovery, which in fact your scientists on Earth are beginning to consider, we can teach a student his lessons surgically. Your scientists have just discovered that 113 THE ELOHIM - THE SECRET OF ETERNITY from the other inhabitants?’ Chemical Education