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And tell of me, Dream thou! Such a vision-quest is universal among the Indians of America, although among some tribes (such as the Pueblos and Navahos) it is limited to the priests and initiates. To Evans-Wentz, the beings contacted in the course of such visions are identical with the Celtic creatures of the Secret Commonwealth, and he concludes that there is evidence for their true existence. These beings are the guardians of secret places, "holding them in trust for a future of wonders." Evans-Wentz had been told by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats that such places existed and were thus guarded. He identifies one such spot in France, one in County Wicklow (Ireland), one in Campagna (Italy), and others in Asia and America. Can we then use the vast and untapped reservoir of fantastic events in the collections of UFO lore to force an answer from our gods old and new, to bring them down to a human dimension, or to understand their power? Or do we find ourselves locked in their maze, their "fly bottle?" Is the time of our inquiry always wrong, the place always elsewhere? Are the angels in heaven rejoicing, or do they laugh at our stupidity? A former Jesuit priest, Father Salvatore Freixedo, has deeply researched this aspect of the phenomenon in several books like Defendiamonos de los Dioses (In Defense Against the Gods) that are not yet aviable in English, unfortunately. He argues convincingly that the spiritual control system of which UFOs are a part may have resulted in the religious myths that keep mankind in a state of abject submission to obsolete myths. In our private conversations, he implied that the phenomenon originates with entities that manipulate our reality and our destiny for their own purposes. Using our naiveté and our lack of critical judgement in the presence of "miracles," these entities, in his view, play with our emotions in order to be worshipped as gods. I discovered a light appearing in my room, which continued to increase until the room was lighter than at noonday, when immediately a personage appeared at my bedside, standing in the air, for his feet did not touch the floor... He called me by name, and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni; that God had a work for me to do; and that my name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds and tongues. Thus begins the account of the revelation of the Book of Mormon with the story of what transpired on the night of September 21, 1823, between Joseph Smith and an angel. The book itself, the angel stated, was in the form of gold plates that lay buried at a certain spot and could be translated with the help of two stones in silver containers that were buried with the plates. After this communication, I saw the light in the room begin to gather immediately around the person of him who had been speaking to me, and it continued to do so, until the room was again left dark, except just around him, when instantly I saw, as it were, a conduit open right up into heaven, and he ascended until he entirely disappeared. In 1842, at the request of Colonel Wentworth of the Chicago Democrat, Joseph Smith wrote a sketch of the history of the Mormon Church that contained additional details on the apparition: On a sudden a light like that of day, only of a far purer and more glorious appearance and brightness, burst into the room; indeed the first sight was as though the house was filled with consuming fire. The appearance produced a shock that affected the whole body. In a moment a personage stood before me surrounded with a glory yet greater than that by which I was The Mormon Story