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where the Lord is; and he received him and placed him before his face, and the darkness went off from the earth, and light came again. And the people saw and understood not how Enoch had been taken, and glorified God, and found a roll in which was traced ‘“‘the invisible God’’; and all went to their homes. The Bible reduces all of this to a single line (Genesis 5:24): “‘And Enoch walked with God; and he was not; for God took him.” All of the religious prophets seem to have undergone contactee-type experiences. A man named Hermas, brother to Pius, Bishop of Rome, left behind a controversial book of visions, which details numerous UFO-like events early in the Christian era. Hermas was dictated to write the book by ‘“‘angels,”’ and in it he describes seeing a great cloud of dust on the desert. As it came closer to him he saw ‘“‘a great beast, as if it were a whale; and fiery locusts came out of his mouth. The height of the beast was about 100 feet, and he had a head like a large earthen vessel.... Now the beast had upon its head four colors; first black, then a red and bloody color, then a golden, and thena white.’’ He also spoke with strange beings dressed in white, with veils over their faces. Some of his ‘angels’ appeared as human beings who could suddenly transform themselves into different persons in front of his eyes. Once, he reports, he was handed a book to read, and as soon as he was finished, it disappeared magically from his grasp. The winged angels in gossamer gowns with halos around their heads are the fictional creations of artists. Throughout history, those who have claimed actual experiences with these entities have described them either na an Alans Date wn nen ana Lee Leia Maka 2H 2 ene. we ate eee tent as radiant beings surrounded by brilliant light, or as very ordinary-looking human beings. They sat down and supped with Lot, just as our modern Venusians reportedly sit down at kitchen tables and drink coffee with backwoods farmers. In the great majority of all these cases, including the numerous UFO stories I have recounted, these entities appear as very young men in their late teens or early twenties. We have both male and female entities in our catalogs of the weird, but there seem to be more male “‘angels’’ and ufonauts than female. Many witnesses have the distinct impression that these entities are actually sexless (androgynous). The males with their long hair, angular faces, and mincing manners suggest hermaphrodites or homosexuals. The “‘inspired’’ (ghost-written) book Oahspe, by Dr. John New- brough, hammers away at the asexual theme, claiming that the great 198 / Operation Trojan Horse