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On November 2nd, 1898, Helene reported rising at 6.15 am and feeling an invisible arm clasp itself about her waist. *I then saw myself surrounded by a rose-coloured light which generally shows itself when a Martian vision is coming,’ she said. She found herself suddenly in 'a section of country people by men altogether different from those who inhabit our globe. The tallest of all were three feet high, and the majority were an inch or two shorter. Their hands were immense, about ten inches long by eight inches broad; they were ornamented with very long black nails, Their feet were also of great size." tubes.* All of the things described in Flouraoy's 447-page study, From India to the Planet Mars, published in 1900, have been repeated endlessly in the occult and UFO literature in other cases. The little men have since earned a special place in flying saucer lore. Flournoy speculated that Leopold and Astane could have been the same entity in different guises. Perhaps he was aware of Swedenborg's warning centuries earlier that the ultra-terrestrials could assume any identity, and more interestingly, if the percipient accepted their identity, they would eventually believe themselves that they were Moses, Napoleon, or Astane. Joseph Smith and his friends were treated with visits not only from Moroni but also from entities claiming to be John the Baptist and the apostles Peter, James, and John. Our ultraterrestrials are ham actors who delight in assuming roles and adopting names from ancient mythology. Early theologians were kept busy recording the endless names of angels and demons. Numbers are also flourished indiscriminately in both religious and contactee literature. The Bible contains long chapters giving elaborate but seemingly meaningless measurements. In Oahspe, a book produced by automatic writing in 1880, we learn that Egypt had a population of thirteen million at the tune of Moses birth; four milhon of these were enslaved Hebrews. (Today Egypt's population is about forty million - not much of an increase in two thousand years.) Page after page in Oahspe lists the total number of spirits and angels and druks (the Oahspe word for the Oraega Group). This numbers game has been extended to the modern UFO phenomena. 'On August 7,1965, three prominent men in Venezuela were present at a UFO landing and had a conversation with two tall (seven to eight feet) beings with long yellow hair, large penetrating eyes, and one piece metallic coverall-type garments. The witnesses, who included a well-known Venezuelan doctor, claimed they communicated through telepathy, and among the questions they asked was. 'Are there any beings like you living among us?* *Yes,' came the reply. Two million, four hundred and seventeen thousand, eight hundred and five.' That's a very predse answer. But many other contactees have thought to ask the same question, and the answers are wildly variable... from seventy-five to ten thousand (in the city of Los Angeles alone) to up in the millions. Our long-haired friends also indulge in nonsensical These little men of 1898 resided in simple houses 'all low, long, without windows or doors; and each house had a little tunnel about ten feet long running from it into the earth. The roofs were flat, supplied with chimneys or