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of what we may answer. So here we are again at the limits and must say we will not answer this, for we are not allowed. D: I wasjust wondeing if the animalswre herefor aperiodof time before the humans were broughtinto the picture. P: Humans are animals. Ifyou wish to look at it in this viewpoint, you are brothers to the animals on this planet as surely as you are brothers to those who are inthe craft and the lights in the sky. You have adual nature here, that of the light and that of the dark, or that of the ethereal and that of the material, the physical. I'mjust trying to understand. Are you saying that we evolvedfrom the animalsin evolutionaryprocess? (Phil gave a big sigh.) Ifyou don'twant to answer, that'sall ight. We are trying to reach a consensus on how to answer this, in such a way that the forbidden zone is not crossed, and yet you are still given an answer which you can comprehend. We will say this. There was a gradual and attentive pruning ofan established stock which was nurtured and cared for very attentively to insure that the outcome is this which we have on us at this time-speaking from a vehicle's point ofview. It is no accident that the physical bodies which humans wear at this time are as they are. For it was carefully planned that they bejust such orjust so. I've always had the idea theremight have been some experimentationgoing on too in thoseearly days. That is correct, for there has always been experimentation going on, on this planet and others. For there is never reached a point where one says, "This is fine, we will leave it at that." For each planet has its own individual requirements and so there is not that which is the perfect answer for all. For each is an individual requirement : I've always wondered if something like this might accounfforthe different legends of half-man, half-beast which have been passeddown through history. Imagination can account for most of all legends. Well, then when the planetwas seeded did the shipsjust leave it that way; orwhat happened: ? ts - eta be feee 2n a wade P: There was, as was said before, the careful and attentive garden- ing to insure that all was well. Occasionally an intruder from the outside ... (He paused as though listening.) ... and we will not 132 The Keepers of the Garden D: That's true.