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When Joseph Smith dictated the Book of Mormon to his wife, he sat behind a screen with the gold plates, apparently translating them with the crystalline devices he had found in the stone box. Modern UFO contactee writings are filled with enigmatic statements about crystals and how they hold some key to the mysteries of the universe. There are many interpretations of such statements, but no one has managed to crack their true meaning. In the past twenty years, however, crystals have suddenly assumed great importance to our technology. We call them transistors. Although Fauwels and Bergier shrug off the UFO mystery in their The Dawn of Magic, they seem to subscribe to the cultlst belief that spacemen representing a superior technology once visited the Earth. They ofier their charming Cargo Cult Theory, speculating that early man's religious rites were actually based upon their observations of the strange behaviour of the god- kings. A god-king manipulated a radio and talked into a stick (microphone). Prestol A fleet of aerial vehicles soon arrived with supplies. After the departure of the god-kings, men tried to imitate them by chanting into sticks too, and so prayer was born. This brings us full circle. The ultraterrestrials imitated the appearance of man, and eventually man began to imitate them in his rites and ceremonies. We made masks and costumes duplicating their strange appearance. We hauled enormous rocks hundreds of miles and carved replicas of their features for our temples and cities. WhcJe civilizations of stone builders apparently committed themselves entirely to the service of the god-kings and willingly sacrificed thousands of their own people in bloody ceremonies on the sacred hilltops in tribute to these beings. For many centuries human sacrifices played an important role in the religion of all the people of the Earth. In the Bible animal sacrifices are described. Even Abraham led his son to a mountain and prepared to kill him in sacrifice to the Etohim (the original biblical word, which is ee --- The early priesthoods wielded considerable power. Oracles and mediums resided in the great temples, issuing accurate prophecies (and many inaccurate ones). It was a time of miracles and magic. The priests were the only educated men and as usual some were unscrupulous enough to turn a neat profit from the beliefs of the people. But gradually the old tried-and-true methods for communicating with the ultraterrestrials began to fail. According to legend, there was great rivalry among the gods. False messengers betrayed the believers and caused all kinds of mischief. And around 500 B.C. a new force began to make its presence felt among men. In India a wealthy young man named Siddhartha Gautama fell asleep under a tree, so the story goes, and when he awoke, he was filled with a great new philosophy - a new view of man's relationship to the cosmos. He renounced all his worldly goods and set forth to preach under the name of Buddha. Around that same time a Persian named Zoroaster underwent a similar experience and founded a great religion. While in far-off China the great philosopher Lao-tse created Taoism and reshaped plural and means" gods; it has been given singular translation in the modem Bible).