Did T. Lobsang Rampa actually go buzzing through the solar system in a flying saucer?

Or was he just another deluded psychopath dredging up a good yarn from the dark depths of a twisted mind? f he was a nut! he had plenty of company. "en #and some women$ ha%e been circumna%igating the cosmos for thousands of years! lea%ing e&tensi%e records of their tra%els behind for us to puzzle o%er. '%en 'noch! the traditional son of (ain and father of "ethuselah! is supposed to ha%e %isited other worlds where he had such harrowing e&peri) ences that they became a part of religion and folklore. *c) cording to the +ooks of 'noch! which were once part of the (hristian bible! he was sleeping alone in his house one night when he was suddenly awakened by ,two men! e&ceedingly big! so that ne%er saw such on earth...They were standing at the head of my couch and began to call me by my name.The two giant entities plucked 'noch from his bed and escorted him into outerspace where! during the ne&t si&ty days! they ga%e him a guided tour of ten different worlds. .ome were occupied by deliriously happy people while oth) ers were gloomy and dark! filled with /regori...wretched

gray beings with withered faces who mumbled and marked in dreariness. 'noch saw worlds of dazzling lights and allergy! too. 0e was the first space tra%eler. 0e was also the first abductee. *lthough he supposedly underwent those ad%en) tures more than 1!222 years ago! copies of his ,books#scrolls$ were smuggled out of Russia about 3!422 years ago. .ince then! thousands of other people ha%e claimed almost identical e&periences. ndeed! the beginning of 5hitley .treiber6s (O""78 O8! the big bestseller of 39:;! is un) easily similar to 'noch6s account. * great .wedish seer! 'manuel .wedenborg! went floun) dering around the cosmos in the 3;226s! lea%ing behind a score of ponderous books written in Latin. *pparently! he was a powerful psychic and astral projectionist. "any of his e&periences were undoubtedly what we now call O+'6s #out) of)body)e&periences$. Like 'noch! many modern O+'6s be) gin when the percipient is seemingly aroused from a sound sleep and finds himself confronted with a guide who re) sembles an ndian! a giant! a dwarf! an ethereal spirit or e%en a space entity. This guide then takes the percipient on a wonderful tour of a %ery realistic uni%erse. t doesn6t seem to be a dream but there are many dreamlike <ualities. =or e&ample! the tour may seem to take many hours! e%en days! but when the percipient is returned to his bed he finds only a few minutes ha%e passed. This happened to 'noch and .we) denborg. The process can also be re%ersed. The e&perience may seem to be short but when the percipient returns he finds he has been gone for days! weeks! e%en years. 'arth time loses its meaning in these ad%entures. =or most of his life! .wedenborg was a scientist! mathe) matician and mining engineer. Then! suddenly! at the age of fifty)si&! he underwent the classic (osmic llumination proc) ess when powerful %isions and psychic insights re%olutionized his thinking and changed his entire life almost o%ernight. The dull! middle)aged man of science suddenly became aware of the great uni%erse of energies that surrounds all of us. *nd! like so many other %ictims of (osmic llumination! he abandoned his former life completely. 0is friends and

relati%es thought he had gone bananas. 0e claimed that he had %isited >upiter and other planets. *nd he professed to ha%e daily con%ersations with the spirits of great men from the past. 0e often fell into trances that sometimes lasted as long as three days! much to the alarm of the people around him. Of course! during some of these trances he became the %ictim of missing time. That is! his brain was unable to account for long periods of time or supplied confabulations #false memories$ to fill in the gaps. This ,missing timephenomenon has been happening wholesale in the ?2th cen) tury and whole cults ha%e sprung up around the confabula) tions produced by the percipients. Lacuna amnesia! the medical term for this! has become a serious study for many doctors and psychiatrists and hundreds of technical books ha%e been written about it. Did 'noch and .wedenborg actually %isit hea%en! hell and all the myriad worlds in between? t6s not %ery likely. +ut their minds did take trips stimulated! perhaps! by the mysterious forces which seem to control the human race and are actually able to distort our reality. These forces ha%e been gi%en a thousand names o%er the centuries and ha%e been credited with all kinds of wonders! miracles and catas) trophes. ,"an is so created!- .wedenborg noted! ,as to li%e simul) taneously in the natural world and in the spiritual world. Thus he has an internal and an e&ternal nature or mind...of the interior state of the mind! or of his internal man! man knows nothing whate%er and though infinite things are there! not one of them rises to man6s cognizance..wedenborg astonished his friends with precise prophe) cies of future e%ents. 0e was e%en able to accurately de) scribe e%ents that were occurring hundreds of miles away at that e&act moment. 0e tra%eled in the highest circles! mi&) ing with Royal court circles and the wealthiest people of his time. +ut his books were poorly recei%ed during his life) time. *fter he died! at the age of :1! his work became the center of a religion that flourishes to this day. *nd his books ha%e been translated into many languages and are easily obtainable through the %arious .wedenborgian =oun) dations and churches around the world. .o here is a ,con) tactee- who has sur%i%ed for almost four hundred years@ There ha%e been many others. .e%eral years ago! was mysteriously drawn to a cemetery on Long sland after a rash of strange phone calls and eerie instructions from %arious 7=O contactees. =ollowing their directions! found myself standing among the tombstones of

a family named Denton. +ut didn6t understand why. .o later! on one of my many %isits to the musty book stacks in the ca%ernous 8ew Aork Bublic Library! decided to see if could locate any information on the Denton family. was flabbergasted by what disco%ered. +ack in the 3:C26s! shortly after the (i%il 5ar! the Denton family of 5ellesley! "assachusetts began to %isit Denus and other planets@ They did it psychically! with their mind6s eye! according to 5illiam Denton. 0is son .herman was the first to establish contact in 3:CC. Denus was %ery prominent in the sky and .herman just closed his eyes and! according to his father! ,described trees! animals that were half fish and half muskrat! and water that was hea%y but not wet. This was the first of a number of e&periments in outer space! achie%ed by choosing the object! then closing the eyes..herman6s ne&t trip was to "ars where he saw flying ma) chines made of aluminum. Bublic interest in the Denton family6s ad%entures soared. "rs. Denton was soon fluttering around the solar system! too! while Bapa Denton wrote a series of best)selling books. ,* telescope!- he obser%ed! ,only enables us to seeE but the spiritual faculties enable their possessors to hear! smell! taste and feel! and become for the time being! almost inhabi) tants of the planet they were e&amining.The Denton family hit the road with the act and! for the ne&t se%eral years! they played theaters all o%er the country! peddling their books in the fashion of the medicine shows popular during that period. They took ad%antage of the 8ew *ge craze that was sweeping *merica in the aftermath of the (i%il 5ar and the amazing rise of .piritualism. '%ery)

one e%erywhere was suddenly aware of .wedenborg6s ,inter) nal man- and before the century ended! most were chatting with spirits! *tlanteans! ndian guides! *shtar and assorted space entities. *stral projectionists e%erywhere were zoom) ing around to the backside of the moon and frolicking on the satellites of >upiter. The ne&t 8ew *ge re%i%al took place in the aftermath of 5orld 5ar . The boys who failed to come home in 393: began con%ersing with their lo%ed ones through spirit medi) ums and spiritualism again became the rage. #.piritualism began in 3:1: and has had many re%i%als since.$ 0arry 0oudini sa%ed his flagging career by e&posing some of the many phony spiritualists who claimed they had %isited dis) tant planets! particularly "ars. "ars was a fa%orite of the .unday supplements because bearded astronomers of great repute claimed they could see broad canals and e%en cities on the faraway body. Our space probes of the 39C26s and ;26s pro%ed that they were wrong and that there is appar) ently no sign of intelligent life anywhere in this solar system. 0owe%er! astronauts gazing back at the earth from deep space did discern peculiar grid marks in 8orth *merica that suggested some kind of intelligence. t turned out that the grid marks were logging roads in northern (anada. '&cept for those roads! there is no other %isible sign of life on our own planet@ =ollowing 5orld 5ar ! there was another big re%i%al of interest in things spiritual and a whole new 8ew *ge mo%e) ment sprang up in the 39426s. These 8ew *gers were preoc) cupied with flying saucers and the space brethren who were issuing stern warnings about our atomic follies. 5e were told to shape up or ship out. *nd some of us went@ There were growing numbers of contactees all o%er the world who claimed they had been flown to other planets in flying sau) cers. Thousands of others were complaining about being seized by hypnotic)like trances and losing time. The phe) nomena were so widespread and so bizarre that no go%ern) ment could deal with them. n%estigating the manifestations was an impossible task. '%en more impossible was the task of interpreting what was going on. 0ard facts were few. .peculations were rife. .cientists who attempted to study what was going on soon were at each other6s throats. (i%il) ian groups ended up battling meaningless windmills...and each other. +ecause no go%ernment would confirm their personal theories! they assumed the go%ernments of the world were engaged in a massi%e co%er)up. The =rench go%) ernment did finance ci%ilian in%estigatory efforts in the

39;26s. The result was that the =rench ci%ilian ufologists soon decided there were no 7=Os and the whole =rench mo%ement collapsed in a sea of disgruntled blarney. 0ere in the 7...! a sign painter named *llen 8oonan fell off a ladder! banged his head and found he had awakened strange psychic abilities in himself. 0e was soon communi) cating with space people and undergoing all kinds of strange e&periences. n 0olland! a man named Beter 0urkos also fell on his skull and the accident turned him into a world famous psy) chic who has spent his life helping police sol%e crimes. n 391;! in 'ngland! a struggling +ritish writer named (yril 0oskin told his astonished wife that he had decided to change his name. * few months later! (yril 0oskin became (arl Fuon.uo by court order. +ut he found he was just as unemployable as Fuon.ou as he had been as 0oskin. Life was a tiresome struggle e%en though he felt a strange com) pulsion to adopt Oriental ways. 0e became confused men) tally! abandoned his home and mo%ed to a distant district where he was troubled by hallucinations #by his own admis) sion later$ and de%eloped a kind of split personality! the 'nglishman being slowly replaced by an Oriental entity while his appalled wife watched. Then! on >une 3G! 3919! while climbing a ladder in his garden! (arl Fuon.uo fell and cracked his head! suffering a mild concussion. 5hen he reco%ered! the 'nglishman was gone and had been replaced by a Tibetan with full memories of growing up in Tibet@ n 3919! Tibet was still one of the most remote and inac) cessible places on 'arth. Only a handful of 5esterners had e%er been there. t was a forbidden mountain kingdom.

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ted to answer his critics. The newspapers would not gi%e him any space and only one tele%ision station offered to inter%iew him pro%ided he followed a script they wrote@ =or the rest of his life he repeatedly insisted that all his claims were true. +ut the +ritish press delightedly pointed out that he was an unemployed 'nglishman named (yril 0oskin who had ne%er once set foot outside /reat +ritain. The contro%ersy raged for years and the press finally dro%e Tuesday Lobsang Rampa out of 'ngland to (anada where he spent his remaining days. 0is wife later wrote! ,*lthough The Third 'ye has been such a great success and brought enlightenment to many! my husband ne%er wanted to write it. nstead he hoped to ob) tain a position which would pro%ide an ade<uate income so that he could a%oid publicity and the limelight...+eing un) able to obtain employment! there was no alternati%e to writ) ing The Third 'ye! which is absolutely true! and he is satis) fied that it has been a means of bringing help! comfort and assurance to many.Once he was a famous Tibetan author! Tuesday Lobsang Rampa wrote other books! including the one now in your hands. This book was! in fact! chapters deleted from one of his other works. t was disco%ered by the late /ray +arker! who rescued it from total obli%ion. t is possible! of course! that it is total hogwash. t is also possible that it is a descrip) tion of an O.+.'.! like so much of Lobsang6s work purports to be. (ertainly! it is at least as %alid as .wedenborg6s %isits to >upiter! 'noch6s tra%els among the /regori and 5illiam Denton6s e&cursions to Denus. t may be that there is a curtain of magnetic fre<uencies between our reality and some other! greater uni%erse that only a few are pri%ileged to see. *nd e%erything indicates that T. Lobsang Rampa was one of them. >ohn *. Feel B.O. +o& 3491! Brescot Ontario! (anada 8ew Aork! 8.A. 39::

"r. /ray +arker +o& ???: (larksburg 5est Dirginia Dear "r. +arker!

October G3! 39CC

This book should not ha%e been published really! but am prepared to belie%e that you published in good faith under the assumption that was in .outh *merica and so not a%ail) able. To regularise your position suggest thisE you make two alterations as re<uested by me! and will gi%e you permission to publish and sell the book. will not take royalties on this book! ,"y Disit to Denus!- but instead you can send ten per cent of your profits to The .a%e * (at L!eague of ?14 5est ?4th .treet! 8ew Aork (ity! because poor little cats ha%e a miserable time in this hard world. Aou and ha%e had a hard time at the hands of the igno) rant and spiteful! and ha%e 8'D'R been afforded any opportunity of gi%ing my own side of the case. The moronic press are like mad dogs in their insensate hatred of that which they do not understand. tell you definitely and emphatically that all my books are true! are my own personal e&periences! and am whom claim to be. Aours sincerely!

T. Lobsang Rampa

ntroduction n 394C! London publishers .ecker and 5arburg brought out what they thought was a %ery good occult book. 8e%er did they! nor Doubleday and (ompany the 8ew Aork publishers! foresee that the book would suddenly capture the imagination of two nations as the general public read the most fascinating book on Tibet e%er published. The book was autobiographic and told the strange and inspiring story of a Tibetan monk who had progressed from neophyte to lamahood! and had e%entually attained a certain occult faculty which comprised the title of the book. ,T0' T0 RD 'A'!- by Tuesday Lobsang Rampa was not only a recounting of his initiations and monastery doings! but it also pro%ed to be a highly li%ely account of e%eryday Tibetan life. 5e read the book from co%er to co%er one night! e%ery bit as fascinated as e%erybody else. +ut we couldn6t help won) dering how an 'asterner could ha%e mastered the 'nglish language so %i%aciously. The reason was soon to come in the furor o%er the book ;

which took place in London when some Tibetan scholars challenged the authenticity of Rampa and a%erred he was not a Tibetan and had ne%er been to Tibet@ Then T. Lobsang Rampa6s side of the story was re%ealed. 8o he had indeed ne%er been to Tibet! in his present body. The spirit of a Tibetan lama had! howe%er entered his body! under unusual circumstances. n reply to his critics! Rampa statedI ,T0' T0 RD 'A' is absolutely true and all that write in that book is fact. ! a Tibetan lama! now occupy what was originally the body of a 5estern man! and occupy it to the permanent and total e&clusion of the former occupant. 0e ga%e his willing consent! being glad to escape from life on this earth in %iew of my urgent need. ,The actual change)o%er occurred on the lGth of >une! 3919! but the way had to be prepared some time before that. know that ha%e a special task to do! and became aware that it would be necessary to come to 'ngland for %arious reasons connected with it. n the latter part of 391;! was able to by telepathy send impressions to a suitable person. n =ebruary! 391C! he changed his name by legal Deed Boll. ,To make the change)o%er easier he altered his address a number of times and lost contact with all friends and rela) tions. On the lGth of >une! 3919! he had a slight accident which resulted in concussion and which Jknocked him out of himself.K This enabled me to take o%er. , tried %ery hard indeed to obtain employment in 'ng) land! but for %arious reasons there was no assistance from the 'mployment '&change. =or years %isited 'mployment '&changes and the *ppointment +ureau is Ta%istock .<uare! London. was also registered with a number of pri%ate 'mployment *gencies and paid <uite a considerable amount to them in fees! but none of them did anything for me. ,=or some time we li%ed on capital which had been sa%ed and upon anything which was able to earn from doing free) lance writing or ad%ertising. , ha%e a special task to do because during my life in Tibet had been to the (hang Tang 0ighlands where had :

seen a de%ice which enables people to see the human aura. am clair%oyant and can see the aura as ha%e demonstrated to many people at many times! butL am aware that if doc) tors and surgeons could see the human aura then they could determine the illness afflicting a human body before it was at all serious. t was not possible for me to come to 'ngland in the body which then had. tried but to no a%ail. ,The aura is merely a corona discharge of the body! of the life force. t is similar to the corona discharge from a high tension cable which can be seen by almost anyone on a misty night! and if money would be spent on research! medi) cal science would ha%e one of the most potent tools for the cure of disease. had to ha%e money in order to carry out my own research! but! ha%e ne%er taken money for curing people6s illnesses or for taking their troubles off their shoul) ders as has been misrepresented in a certain paper@ ,*nd how did The Third 'ye come to be written? cer) tainly did not want to write it but was desperate to get a job so could get on with my allotted task. tried for job after job without a%ail! until e%entually a friend offered to put me in touch with a gentleman who might be able to use my ser%ice. "r. +rooks said should write a book. insisted that did not want to write a book and so we parted. "r. +rooks wrote me again and once more suggested that should write a book. n the inter%al between seeing him and recei%ing his letter had been for other inter%iews and had been rejected. .o with much reluctance accepted "r. +rooks6 offer to write such a book! and here again repeat that e%erything said in that book is true. '%erything said in my second book! Doctor =rom Lhasa is also true. One should not place too much credence in Je&pertsK or JTibetan .cholarsK when it is seen how one ,e&pert- contradicts the other! when they cannot agree on what is right and what is wrong! and after all how many of those JTibetan scholarsK ha%e entered a lamasery at the age of se%en! and worked all the way through life as a Tibetan! and then taken o%er the body of a 5esterner? have @9

5hat about the man whose body Rampa took o%er? 5hat of his former life before the transformation? =ollow) ing are some remarkable statements by his wifeI ,"any people will wonder about the one who occupied that 5estern body before it was taken o%er by a Tibetan and ! as the wife! would like to tell something of e%ents leading to the change of personality. ,*t the first indication of something different was more than a little startled. 5e were leading a <uiet life in .urrey! my husband being on the staff of a correspondence college! in an ad%isory capacity! and the war had been o%er for two years. Out of the blue came his remark toward the end of 391;Lsitting <uietly for some time! he startled me by sud) denly saying! , am going to change my name.- looked at him aghast for failed to see any point in doing such a thing. 5e had nothing to hide! nothing from which to run away. t took me some time to reco%er after he continued! ,Aes! we will change our name by Deed Boll.,+y =ebruary! 391:! all the legal formalities had been completed! and we had no further right to our pre%ious name. "y husband6s employer was not pleased! but there was little he could do about it! especially as at about that time one of the firm6s directors had made an alteration to his own name. ,Of course e%eryone thought we had at last taken lea%e of our senses! but that ne%er bothered me. had li%ed with my husband for eight years and knew that if he had a hunch to do anything at all there was always a good reason for it. .oon! howe%er! we noticed people were not saying our name when addressing us! and e%en after seeing it written they didn6t seem able to spell itE for that reason we later short) ened it. want to clarify this point to show that we ha%e at no time used an alias as has been mistakenly suggested. ,*t about this time my husband talked a great deal about the 'ast and on occasions he did in fact wear 'astern dressE he often seemed to be %ery preoccupied in his manner! and ha%e known him to fall into a trance state and speak in an unfamiliar tongue! which now belie%e to be a language of the 'ast. n >uly! 3919! he again made a sudden decisionL this time to gi%e up his job@ This he did to the consternation of his employer who had always found him to be a %ery useful and conscientious member of his staff. 32

,The idea behind this was so that we could lea%e the dis) trict and lose all contact with the past! which we did. 5ithin a year we had completely lost touch with pre%ious ac<uain) tances and with our former life. 5e managed to e&ist on what we had sa%ed! together with what we could earn from %arious forms of writing. ,The day happened to look out the window and see my husband lying at the foot of a tree in the garden is something shall ne%er forget. hurried out to find he was reco%ered! but to me! a trained nurse! he seemed to be stunned or something. 5hen e%entually he regained consciousness he seemed to act differently! and in ways did not understand. ,*fter getting him indoors and upstairs to our flat to rest! the main thought in my mind was to get a doctor as <uickly as possible! but was reckoning without himLhe seemed to sense my alarm and implored me not to do so! assuring me that he was <uite all right. (ertainly his speech seemed dif) ferent! more haltingLas if he was unfamiliar with the lan) guage! and his %oice appeared deeper than before. ,=or some time was <uite concerned! for something seemed to ha%e happened to his memory. +efore speaking or mo%ing he appeared to be making calculationsE much later learned that he was ,tuning in to my mind- to see what was e&pected of him. do not mind admitting that in the early stages was %ery worried! but now it seems <uite natu) ral. ha%e ne%er ceased to wonder that such an ordinary indi%idual as myself should be so closely associated with such a remarkable occurrence as the ad%ent of a Tibetan lama to the 5estern 5orld*lthough the so)called ,Tibetan .cholars- grabbed most of the press copy! there were those who felt that they were not so scholarly after all. (onsider the following letter! re) cei%ed by /ray +arker from a +uddhist! when +arker an) nounced that he would publish Rampa6s second book in the 7nited .tates and discuss the contro%ersy in print. 33

Dear "r. +arkerI *fter reading your remarks on Lobsang Rampa6s The Third 'ye! am prompted to add a few of my own. During 394;! had occasion to write a re%iew of the book for the 8orth ndian +uddhist Muarterly! and most especially to dis) cuss the theological and philosophical material contained within the te&t. *t the time wrote the re%iew! was! as were so many others! trying to find fault with the accuracy of the information gi%en. had already heard that some of the descriptions of costume and garb did not accord with the reports of academic anthropology! and! in my ignorance of the di%ergences of Tibetan religion from orthodo& +ud) dhism! was shocked to find that one who called himself a monk should embrace %iews which! from the standpoint of *ryan doctrine! were all but heretical. magine my surprise! then! when recei%ed letters from Tibetan phoongi! complimenting the succinct description of dbu)chan theology contained in my re%iew. This description was composed e&clusi%ely of paraphrases on the Lobsang Rampa book under re%iew. The greatest point of discussion was that which had to do with the order of discipline within the itinerant communities of Tibetan monks. The 5estern correspondents! and ndian obser%ers all told me that Rampa was wrongE but the Tibet) ans wrote complaining that he had di%ulged secret knowl) edge! which was the property of the arcane schools of their country! and which ,a closed brother! in physical form! or etheric! did poorly to publish in the far lands to the 5est! where it lay open to the gaze of the 7ninitiate..incerely yours! /anesha! "ahaguru! at +odhi .angha .at *merica 8ew Aork! 8.A. 3?

'%en though ,e&posed- by ,Tibetan scholars!- the public continued to belie%e in RampaLand to buy his books. Lobsang Rampa6s subse<uent books gi%e more details of e&periences which he encountered after the period co%ered by The Third 'ye. .ome of them consist of practical occult teachings from which the ordiriary person can profit. Rampa kept the subject of flying saucers and space tra%el out of his books! e%idently afraid that these accounts might not be belie%ed. .ome of these writing! included in this book! ha%e been published by the ,saucer press!- and some of them ha%e been circulated pri%ately in a mimeographed manuscript edition. Bublic awareness of the 7=O phenomena! howe%er! has come a long way since the 39426s. 5e think it is time to put together Rampa6s flying saucer writings in book form so that the public can read of these remarkable e&periences. *nd so this limited edition has been prepared and pub) lished. 5e predict that it will be much sought after! and that once this original edition is gone it will become a prize collector6s item. The copy you hold will become much worn and dog)eared before its demise. 5e hope it gi%es pleasure to the owner! and to those who borrow it@ /ray +arker

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B*RT O8' T0' 0O"' O= T0' /OD.

=lying saucers? Of course there are flying saucers@ ha%e e%en been for a trip in one. Tibet is the most con%enient country of all for flying saucers. t is remote from the bustle of the e%eryday world! and is peopled by those who place religion and scientific concepts before material gain. Throughout the centuries the people of Tibet ha%e known the truth about flying saucers! what they are! why they are! how they work! and the purpose behind it all. 5e know of the flying saucer people as the gods in the sky in their fiery chariots. +ut let me relate an incident which certainly has ne%er been told before in any country outside of Tibet! and which is utterly true. The day was bitter. =rozen pellets of ice dri%en by the howling gale hammered like bullets into our flapping robes and tore the skin off any e&posed surface. The sky was a %i%id purple with patches of startlingly white clouds which raced off into the hinterland. 0ere! nearly thirty thousand feet abo%e the sea! in the (hang Tang 0ighlands of Tibet! we were toiling upwards! upwards. 3;

*t out last resting place! some fi%e miles behind us! a %oice had come into our consciousnessI ,.tri%e on! my brothers. .tri%e on! and enter the fog belt again! for there is much for you to see.- The se%en of us! all high lamas from the lama)series of Tibet! had had much telepathic communication with the /ods of the .kies. =rom them we had learned the secret of the chariots which sped swiftly across our land and which some) times alighted in remote districts. Onwards we climbed! higher! and higher! clawing a foot) hold in the hard earth! forcing our fingers into the slightest cre%ice in the rocks. *t last we reached the mysterious fog belt again! and entered. .oon we were through it and into the wonderfully heated land of a bygone age. ,* day6s march more! my brothers!- said the %oice! ,and you shall see a chariot of old.=or that night we rested in the warmth and comfort of the 0idden Land. 5e found ease and rela&ation on a soft bed of moss! and in the morning we gratefully bathed in a warm! broad ri%er before setting out on another day6s march. 0ere in this land there were pleasant fruits which we took with us for our meal! a satisfactory change indeed from the eternal tsampa@ Throughout that day we journeyed upwards through pleas) ant trees of rhododendron and walnut! and other the like of which we had not seen before. *ll the time we were rising upwards! and all the time we were in this pleasant warm land. 5ith nightfall upon us we made our camp beneath some trees! and lit our fire! then rolled oursel%es in our robes! and fell asleep. 5ith the first light of dawn we were again ready to continue our journey. =or perhaps another two to two and a half miles we marched! and then came to an open clearing. 0ere we were stopped! dumfounded with amazementE the clearing before us was %ast! and incredible. The open plain we saw was perhaps fi%e miles across and the scene was so strange that e%en now hesitate to write because of the knowledge that shall be disbelie%ed. The plain was about fi%e miles across and at its distant side there was a %ast sheet of ice e&tending upwards! like a sheet of glass reaching toward the hea%ens. +ut that was not the strangest thing before us! for the plain contained a ruined city! and yet some buildings were <uite intact. .ome buildings! in fact! looked almost new. 8earby! in a spacious courtyard! there was an immense metal structure which reminded me of two of our temple dishes! 3:

clamped together! and it was clearly a %ehicle of some sort. "y guide! the Lama "ingyar Dondup! broke our awed silence! saying. ,This was the home of the /ods half a million years ago. During those days men stro%e against the /ods! and in%ented a de%ice to shatter an atom which wrought disaster on the earth! causing lands to rise and lands to sink! destroying mountains and creating anew. This was a mighty city! the metropolis! and here was once the seashore. The con%ulsion of the earth which followed an e&plosion raised this land thou) sands of feet! and the shock of that e&plosion altered the rotation of the earth. 5e shall go closer! and we shall see other parts of the city embedded in the ice of the glacierLa glacier which! in this hot %alley! was gently melted! lea%ing intact these ancient buildings.-

5e listened in fascinated silence! and then! as if by one common impulse! we mo%ed forward. Only as we came close to the buildings did it become apparent to us that the people who had li%ed here must ha%e been not less than twel%e feet tall. '%erything was on a giant scale! and was forcibly reminded of those huge figures which had seen deep in the hidden %aults of the Botala. 5e approached the strange %ehicle of metal. t was im) mense. Berhaps fifty or si&ty feet across and now dulled with age. 5e saw a ladder e&tending up into a dark opening and! feeling as if we trod sacred ground! we crept up! one by one. The Lama "ingyar Dondup went first and soon disappeared into the dark hole. was ne&t! and as reached the top of the ladder and stepped inside the metal hull saw my guide bending o%er what looked to be a sloping table in this large metal room. 0e touched something! a bluish light came on! and there was a 39

faint hum. To our horrified amazement! at the far end of the room figures appeared and walked toward us and spoke to us. Our first impulse was to turn and run! to flee this house of magic! but a %oice in our brains stopped us. ,+e not afraid!- it said! ,for we were aware of your coming and ha%e been so aware this last hundred years. 5e made pro%isions so that those who were intrepid enough to enter this %essel should know the past.5e were held as if hypnotized! powerless to mo%e! powerless to obey our animal instincts and escape. ,+e seated!- said the %oice! ,for this will be long! and tired men do not listen well.5e sat! the se%en of us in a row! facing the end of the room! and waited. =or some seconds the buzzing continued. The light in the room faded! and we were in a darkness so profound that we could not see our hands before us. .ome seconds later the buzzing stopped and there was a faint click! then upon the wall appeared picturesLpictures so utterly strange that they were almost beyond our comprehension. Bictures of a mighty city among whose ruins we now sat! a city beside the sea upon which rode many strange craft. O%erhead! disc)like %ehicles soared through the air! soundlessly! effortlessly. 7pon the shore of golden sands giant figures strode amongst wa%ing palm trees. 5e could hear the sound of happy %oices of children at play as they splashed in the surf. 5e saw scenes in the streets! in the houses! in the public buildings. 5ithout warning! we saw as if from some craft in the air. t reminded me so %i%idly of my kite flying that almost clutched a non)e&istent cross)bar. Then there was a dreadful boom! and from afar a mushroom)shaped cloud soared miles to the hea%ens! a cloud shot with crimson and yellow! as if the %ery breath of the gods was afire. '8/7L='D =rom our %antage point we saw buildings topple! and people fleeing for their li%es. Then! from out of the distance roared a huge wa%e of the sea! perhaps fifty feet! perhaps a hundred feet high. t struck the land and engulfed the housesLthe once stately metropolis. The earth shook! the picture swirled! and spinning! and all was blackness. =or what seemed to be a long time we sat wonderingly in the darkness. * picture came on the wall again! but this time a different picture. 5e saw the clearing! and in it were strange craft! such as that in which we now sat. "en seemed to be doing maintenance work! ser%icing. ?2

(raft were continually arri%ing and departing. There seemed to be many different types of people! ranging from those about fifteen feet tall to some about fi%e feet tall. The picture changed and we saw %iews outside the earth! and a %iew of the dark side of the moon. The %oice of the screen ga%e us an e&planation throughout the picture. 5e learned that there was an *ssocia) tion! a 5hite +rotherhood! composed of incarnate and discar) nate entities. Those who were incarnate came from many different planets! and they had as their one aim the safeguard) ing of life. "an! we were told! was certainly not the highest form of e%olution! and these people! these guardians! worked for creatures of all kinds! not merely for man. 8D*. O8 5e were told Tibet was to be in%aded! and that the in%aders! (ommunists! would be as a disease on the body of the earth. (ommunism! we were told! would be eradicated and in the age to follow creatures of all kinds would commune together as in the days of long ago. Tibet was to be in%aded. +ut e%en Tibet would play her part with telepathic lamas who could so easily contact space ships. 'arth! they said! was a colony! and these people of outer space super%ised the earth so that they could mitigate the effects of atomic radiation and! it was hoped! sa%e the people of earth from blowing their world to pieces. 5e! the se%en telepathic lamas! were taken in a space ship! and up into the air. 5e saw! in half an hour! our land of TibetL a land which it would take three months for a man on a fast horse to cross. Then with no increase in gra%ity! with no sensation of speed! we were taken out of the atmosphere and into space. 5e know how these space ships work. 5e know why they can turn so <uickly! and why those within them are not affected by centrifugal force! but that is for another occasion.

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The %i%id purple of the afternoon sky was suddenly cut by a snow white line as if a finger of a god had swept aside the dark to show a light beneath. The glittering sil%er at the head of the growing line sped across the sky almost too fast for the eye to follow. * sudden flash of light! and the sil%er was gone! heading for the blackness of space. 5e lamas lay upon our backs upon the soft green sward of the hidden %alley some twenty)fi%e thousand feet abo%e the le%el of the sea. 0igher still towered the jagged peaks which surrounded the warm and pleasant land and protected larger than the +ritish sles! has many mysteries but none so strange as this! a %alley of tropical splendor amid the sub) ing back to the time of the =lood! and stranger still! where the /ods of the .ky had a base. =or centuries past telepathic lamas of high degree had been in communication with these /ods! and had learned much from them. 8ow we! highly fa%ored men! were meet) ing them. 5e lay upon our backs! thinking of the wonders we had seen. To our right! in an immense clearing! stood strange machines! machines which would be strange e%en to the highly merchandised world beyond our land. "en of other worlds than 'arth walked about! some mo%ing with lithe ?4

grace! breathing the air we breathed! and others stumbling a little in strange clothing which! transparent! co%ered e%en their heads! and allowed them to breathe a different atmos) phere. =or some hours we had lain thus! watching! mar%eling and following by telepathy the purpose of these acti%ities. Our close concentration was suddenly shattered by a deep hum) ming which came from just abo%e us. Turning our heads we saw a spinning disc approaching. *s it passed o%er us we were flattened to the earth as if by a %ery strong wind! as if our weight had surprisingly doubled on the instant. Then it was o%er! and we raised up! resting upon an elbow to watch the landing of the machine. t resembled two %ery shallow Tibetan bowls placed edge to edge! one resting upon the other! and through the center of both was a transparent dome! or perhaps translucent would be a better description! because! while it was ob%i) ously transparent! we could not see clearly into it. 8ow the whole machine was rotating abo%e the dome! and making a ,swish)swish)swish- noise! reminding us of Brayer =lags flut) tering in a strong breeze. The deep humming had stopped as the machine ho%ered abo%e what was <uite ob%iously a landing ground. /radually the machine sank! lower and lower! until it was obscured from the %iew by N much larger tubular %essel. =rom a nearby building a pear)shaped %e) hicle sped to the newly)arri%ed machine. .ome minutes later it came into %iew again! going in the opposite direction! and returning to the building. Our intent watching was interrupted by a man who came towards us and saidI ,(ome now! my brothers! for we ha%e much to show you.- 5e rose to our feet! and once again we felt ashamed of our lack of statureE the Lama "ingyar Dondup was si& feet tall! and we were all within three inches of that! but this man was twice as tall as "ingyar Dondup@ felt as if we were a se%en)year)old about to enter a lamasery for the first time. The Tall One had apparently guessed my thoughts! or read them telepathically! for he saidI , t is not the size of the body which matters! my brother! but the size of the aura! and the soul which is within. 0ere we ha%e people ranging from those smaller than you to taller than .0e lead us across the green! moss)co%ered earth. This was as hard as rock! smooth without mark or blemish! yet it ?C

did not jar our feet as we walked across it as rock did. looked about me in fascination! wondering at all the strange alien acti%ities going on around us. The Tall One was e%i) dently a man of much importance! for all those working nearby touched their heart to him as he passedLa greeting which we in our ignorance thought was our 'astern method. 5e felt %ery self)conscious in our shabby robes! torn and threadbare through the hard journey from Lhasa. *s we walked! the Tall One amplified the remarks of the day before! telling us the 'arth was a colony! a colony which was afflicted with a dread disease which made most of the inhabitants beha%e like mad dogs. =or centuries the 'arth has been obser%ed so that all at the right time people could be helped. That time was near. (ertain of us! of Tibet! were more de%eloped telepathically and esoterically! so we were being gi%en special information and special e&perience. ,8ow!- he said! ,we are going to show you your world from beyond its atmosphere. =or this it will be better if you are in a craft manned by those of your own stature.8. D' T0' .0 B 5e were standing before a %essel of tubular shape! some three hundred and fifty feet long by about si&ty feet wide. * broad platform led from the ground to the interior. *s we approached! a man of medium height! but %ery broad! came down to meet us. 0e touched his heart to the Tall One! and for a moment they looked at each other while a message passed between them. Then the +road One turned to us and beckoned for us to follow him. 5e! following the e&) e&ample of my /uide! the Lama "ingyar Dondup! turned first to the Tall One! touching our right hand to our heart before bowing and turning away to follow the +road One. The unknown is always fearsome. "y own heartbeat in) creased in tempo as we walked up the sloping ramp! paused a moment! and entered that alien doorway. nside was a long corridor! pale restful green in color! and the walls ap) peared to be luminous. The light was uniform! and there were no shadows. The +road One led us along the corridor for se%eral yards! then stopping! he raised his hands and a portion of the wall slid aside to re%eal a pleasant room of which one side and the floor appeared to be so transparent that we were almost afraid to enter. ?;

,0a%e no fear!- he said. ,The floor is %ery solid and will bear you safely. 5hat you actually see is a special screen which shows all outside. There are no windows here.- 5e gasped! and entered hesitatinglyI it was as if we were walking on nothing and certainly had the impression that would fall through to the ground. The +road One faced a wall and seemed to become re) mote from us as if he were deep in thought for a time. stood idly gazing through what had thought was a transpar) ent floor! but now knew to be a special screen. watched other %essels nearby! and people working on them. .ud) denly my knees felt weak with terror. Things were mo%ing further awayI the ground was dropping beneath us! and e&) pected us to fall as well! but there was no sign! no sensation of motion. The +road One came out of his seeming re%erie and spoke. ,5e are going to take you off the earth!- he said. ,5e are going to show you your earth from afar.- replied! ,+ut we are not mo%ing. f we were we would feel some) thing. 5hen swung at the end of a rope! or when flew in a kite certainly felt. +ut here there is no sensation.- The +road One replied! ,8o! there is no sensation! but we ma) neu%er at speeds beyond the ability of any flesh and blood to withstand! and we ha%e special de%ices which automatically neutralize the effect of sudden turns or of too high speed stops. Aou will feel nothing whate%er in this ship! nor is there anything for you to worry about. 5e ha%e long ago mastered the science of gra%ity. Later you shall see through this ship! but firstL- 0e gestured with his hands toward the screens. 5e looked. 8O .'8.*T O8 O= "OT O8 =ar beneath us the rugged land that was Tibet was sink) ing. The mighty mountains! some towering higher than the much)%aulted '%erest! were becoming flattened by the dis) tance! becoming just pimples on a plain surface. 5e rose higher and higher until at last we could see our 0appy Ri%er #as we Tibetans call it$ swelling out into the mighty sacred ri%er of ndia! out into the ocean which we had not seen be) fore. 5e saw the outline of the coast and could easily distin) guish the +ay of +engal! and see far into (hina. 5e could e%en see the /reat 5all of (hina as a thin crack across the ground. ?:

The sun seemed to be below us! huge! swollen by the refraction of the air! glowing red like the open mouth of a lamasery furnace. .till there was no motion! no impression of anything. 5e stood and watched! and thought how utterly remote was all this from our normal life upon the arid earth. The +road One gestured to a wall. 0e touched some) thing and bench)like seats sprang from the pre%iously smooth surface. ,.it down!- he said. ,Aou can see more comfortably sitting.5e sat! rather gingerly and rather embarrassed! because as we sat down we seemed to sink into something which gripped our shrinking forms through our thin robes. ,=orm)fitting seats!- said the +road One. ,%ery comfort) able. They pre%ent you from slipping off yet they yield to e%ery mo%ement.- ,=orm)fitting indeed!- thought . (ertainly am not used to being held in this manner. .till! supposed shall get used to it. 8ow safely seated! gazed again at the screens and held my breath in sheer amazement. had been taught that the earth was flat! now knew better because could see myself that the earth was round globe like the ball with which used to play. 0ere we were! far up abo%e the earth! going higher and higher! until at last we were completely free of the atmosphere. The earth turned slowly beneath us! a huge globe largely co%ered by the grey)green of the ocean. The land masses appeared insignificant! with splotches of green and russet. Large areas of it were co%ered with white fleecy clouds obscuring much of the surface. Through gaps we could see the outline of continents and islands. 5e could see inland lakes! but of cities there was no sign. =rom height there was no indication whatsoe%er that there was life upon 'arth. D '5 O= T0' 78 D'R.' .urrounding the 'arth was a faint bluish haze! fairly dense close in! but fading out altogether after a few miles. The 'arth rolled on! turning lazily like a hawk wheeling slowly in the sky. The +road One said. ,Aou are intent upon 'arth! yet the whole of your 7ni%erse is before you. s it not worth a glance?- t brought us to life with a start! and we looked up. *bo%e us was utter blackness interrupted with startlingly %i%id points of light. Distant planets ap) peared sharply round and of many different hues! while on ?9

those nearer we could distinguish features of their surface. .o that we could gaze upon the sun! the +road One caused a dark shield to co%er part of the screen. 5e saw the sun huge and clear! and the sight struck us with terror because we thought it was on fire. Dast tongues of flame leapt from its circumference! while its surface presented itself to us as a writhing mass! freely marked with dark blobs. ,5e ha%e a base on what you call the "oon!- said the +road One. ,The "oon always presents one side to the 'arth. Our base is on the other side and we are going there now.- The filter was swung aside and we were able to gaze upon the blindingly brilliant face of the "oon! that airless world which still contains life deep beneath its surface. 5e approached it at a speed which was so fast as to be <uite incomprehensible to us! but there was no sensation of speed. ,Aou ha%e learned much about us!- said the +road One. ,Aet! upon 'arth people are taught that we do not e&ist. They ha%e to be taught so because of the religious teaching that "an is made in the image of /od! and the people of the 'arth think that "an is the 'arth human. Today to admit the possibility of "an on other planets would be to pro%e the %arious religions wrong. *gain! those who hold the power of life and death o%er nations dare not let it be known that there is e%en a greater power! for to do so would be to lessen their hold upon their ensla%ed people.BROB7L. O8 Later we were taken on a tour of the space ship and were introduced to the large crew. 5e felt %ery ignorant in their presence! but they did e%erything possible to answer our <uestions and set us at ease. The problem of propulsion interested me greatly! and was gi%en an answer in much detail. There were a number of methods used! ships for different purposes had the appropriate method of propul) sion. That on which we were tra%eling had a form of mag) netism which was repelling to 'arth6s magnetism. The elec) tricity used on 'arth! we were told! was most crude. That used elsewhere was a form of magnetism based on cosmic energy. The force was picked up from the cosmos by special collectors on the surface of the ship and conducted to the ,engine room.- 0ere it was fed through induction coils to the two hal%es of the ship. The half facing the 'arth was G2

strongly repelling to 'arth! and the half facing the planet of destination! in this case the "oon! was strongly attracted to that planet. On a planet the repelling force could be adjusted so that the machine could ho%er! rise or sink. The whole interior of the ship was lined with a network of conductors so that no matter what attitude a ship adopted! the force of gra%ity was at all times that most suitable for the occupants. 5e were shown the remarkable simple de%ice which automatically adjusted the gra%itational force. +ut there is no more space to go into greater detail. t is indeed a tragedy that 5estern peoples are so skeptical! for there is such a lot to tell! and it is a waste of time to e%en start when one F8O5. that one will be disbelie%ed. =lying saucers are real. Dery real.

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"A D . T TO D'87. The e%ening winds sighed gently through the trees of the 0idden Dalley. There was an atmosphere of peace! of har) mony! of +eings working for good. 5e lay by the side of our camp fire! the Lama "ingyar Dondup and three com) panions! fi%e of us in all. 5e had journeyed far from Lhasa! from the frozen slopes of mountains and barren land. 8ow there were but fi%e of us though ele%en of us had started out. Our companions had fallen by the wayside! %ictims of a%a) lanches! %ictims of pri%ation and of the bitter! freezing cold. 8ow! though! in the warmth of this 0idden Dalley we lay at peace. "ar%els had indeed befallen us since we had first communed with the /ods from other worlds! the /ods who looked after the 'arth and kept it from self)destruction. To) night! we thought! we will retire early. 5e had earned our sleep! our rest! for throughout the day we had been seeing the secrets of the immense city which was half buried in the glacier. 5e had learned much butL we were to learn more. 5e looked at each other! wondering who was speaking! because a gentle but insistent thought kept coming into our minds. ,+rothers! brothers! come this way for we are waiting.0esitantly! one after the other! we got to our feet and looked about us. There was no one in sight! but again came the G4

insistent command! ,+rothers! this way! we are waiting.- .o we followed our intuition and made our way to the bustling camp where the machines from other worlds lay! where +eings of many other worlds swarmed about doing their multitudinous tasks. *s we approached one of the larger ships a man! the +road One! descended from it and came to meet us with his hand upon his heart in a gesture of peace and of greeting. ,*h! brothers! so you ha%e come at last. 5e ha%e been calling you for the past hour. 5e thought perhaps that your brains slept.5e bowed humbly before him! bowed to the .uperior +eing from outer spaceE he turned and led the way to the %essel. 5e stood on a certain spot beside the shipE it felt as if we were caught by some strong force and wafted upwards. ,Aes!- he said to our unspoken thoughts! ,that is an anti) gra%ity beam! a le%itator we call it. t sa%es one climbing.nside the %essel he led us to a room with seats along the wall. t was a round room! and it reminded us of the ship in which we had recently had a trip. 5e looked about! and we could see out as if there were no walls at all! and yet we knew that those walls were as solid as metal! a metal harder than anything we knew. ,"y brothers you ha%e tra%eled far according to your standards! and you ha%e endured much according to any standards. This night we are going to take you far away from your own 'arth! we are going to take you to a planet which you call Denus. Take you there just to show you that there are ci%ilizations beyond anything that you know on 'arth! take you so that your days of life upon 'arth may be bright) ened by the knowledge of what is! and what can be. =irst let us eat. Aou were! as am aware! about to partake of your e%ening meal.0e ga%e a telepathic command! and attendants entered bearing dishes. One went to a wall and pressed %arious buttons. * section of the floor rose up as a table! and with it appeared seats upon which we could recline in the old fash) ioned 'astern way! and not be cooped up in the 5estern style. The co%ers of the gleaming dishesLdishes which appeared to be made of purest crystalLwere remo%ed! and we were GC

helped to food. The food to us was truly amazing. =ruits of %arious colors! and then pastes in crystal jars. Our hosts were %ery attenti%e to our wants. The +road One said! ,0ere we eat only that which nature pro%ides. These are fruits such as you know not on 'arth! fruits which to us supply bread! meat! e%erything. These pastes which you will find truly delicious are compounded of nuts from other plan) ets of this system.- They were! as he said! ,truly delicious!and we ate %ery well indeed. The fla%ors were most strange to us! but wholly pleasant! and the li<uors which we drank were again the juices of fruits. These people were! we thought! e%en more humane than we of Tibet. They killed nothing! nor did they restrain animals in order that their milk could be taken. *t the conclusion of our meal the dishes were remo%ed and the table and dining seats disappeared again into the floor. The +road One said! ,This time shall go with you. 5e are mo%ing now.- 5e turned and looked through the wall. There was no sense of mo%ement! no sound! yet we were rising. 5e rose faster and faster! lea%ing the darkening 'arth and going out so that looking down we could again see the sun gleaming o%er the horizon! gleaming o%er the cur%a) ture of the 'arth in the far! far distance. *s we rose higher and higher! we could see the continents of the 'arth in %arious hues and colors! green and brownsE we could see the white of the clouds! and the bluish)grey of the turbulent waters of the seas! but of the works of man there was no sign! no sign at all from our height that any) thing li%ed upon the 'arth. *s we went higher we found that the strange lights were playing about outside the win) dows as if the rainbow had come in sheets! undulating sheets! but here were more colors than any rainbow e%er possessed. t was an electric discharge from the aurora. t looked as if the whole 'arth was girded with gold! red! green! and of deepest purple! wa%ing as if in some in%isible wind. .howers of light! glinting and scintillating with all colors! flashed about through the curtains as if those curtains were being pierced by the spears of the /ods. 0igher and higher we went! out into the deep blackness of space. The 'arth was now but the size of a small round fruit! gleaming with a blue)grey light! not at all like the moon which had a yellowish light! but blue)grey! a strange color G;

indeed. 5e sped on and on into space! and the stars ahead of us changed color! the sun ahead of us turned from its golden rays to blood red. +ehind us the 'arth had disap) peared. +ehind us! to our amazed stupefaction! there was nothing at all sa%e darkness! blackness! the blackness of an utter %oid. turned with a gasp of amazement to the +road One! but he just laughed and said! ,Oh! my brother! we are going faster than light! and so behind us there is no light because we are outstripping it! and ahead of us we are catching up on light! so the whole %isible spectrum is deranged. Thus! in) stead of the white glare of a planet you see red! and darker red until the red turns purple! and the purple to black! and the light which you see is not light at all but an illusion of the senses.=*.T'R T0*8 L /0T This indeed was fascinating! but on we sped without feel) ing any sensation! outstripping light itself. could not under) stand how they could na%igate at such a speed! but the an) swer to that was that it was all done by robotic controls. 5e were spellbound in our seats watching outside. nstead of pinpoints of light we saw streaks as if some clumsy artist had daubed a black wall with glowing colors which changed as we looked at them. *t last the colors began to appear more normal. The black ga%e way to purple! the purple to red) brown! and then to scarlet)red! and then behind us again we saw pinpoints of light. .tars! though! behind us were green and blue! while ahead of us they were red and yellow. *s we slowed down still more the stars ahead turned to their nor) mal colors! as did those at the back. *head of us was a huge ball! turning lazily in the black sea of space! a ball completely co%ered in white fleecy clouds! a ball which reminded me of thistledown floating against a black sky. 5e circled two! three! perhaps fi%e times! and then the +road One said! ,5e are about to enter the atmosphere. .oon we shall be down and you can walk upon a world which is not alien! but merely strange to you..lowly the ship sank! slowly it became immersed in the fleecy white cloud! billowing fingers reached out and fled by our windows. The +road One touched a control! and it was G:

as if magic fingers had swept aside the cloud! swept aside e%erything that obscured the %iew. 5e looked out in awe. The clouds by some magic of the /ods had been made in%isible! and beneath us we saw this glittering world! this world filled by superior beings. *s we sank lower and lower we saw fairy cities reaching up into the sky! immense structures! ethereal! almost unbelie%able in the delicate tracing of their buildings. Tall spires and bulbous cupolas! and from tower to tower stretched bridges like spider6s webs! and like spider6s webs they gleamed with li%) ing colors! reds and blues! mau%es and purples! and gold! and yet what a curious thought! there was no sunlight. This whole world was co%ered in cloud. looked about me as we flashed o%er city after city! and it seemed to me that the whole atmosphere was luminous! e%erything in the sky ga%e light! there was no shadow! but also there was no central point of light. t seemed as if the whole cloud structure radiated light e%enly! unobtrusi%ely! a light of such a <uality as had ne%er belie%ed e&isted. t was pure and clean. *t last we left the cities and came to a beautiful sparkling sea! a sea of purest blue. There were a few little craft upon the water! and the +road One smiled bene%olently as pointed to them! and said! ,Oh! they are merely pleasure craft. 5e do not use anything so slow as ships on this world.- *fter some minutes we crossed the ocean and came to another gleaming city! e%en better than the ones we had seen before! and in the %ery heart of the city there was a clearing to which we approached. =or some minutes we ho%ered perhaps half a mile abo%e the city! abo%e the clear) ing! and then! as if in answer to some signal! we sank slowly! soundlessly! and effortlessly. /radually! imperceptibly al) most! the ground came closer and closer. .oon we were le%el with the topmost towers of that glit) tering city! that fabulous city! the like of which no man from Tibet had e%er seen before. 5e could not determine the nature of the materialsE they towered toward the stars! pointed! and from e%ery window of those immense buildings faces peered out. *s we got closer and closer! and lower and lower! we could discern those faces with startling clarityE they were beautiful. Throughout our stay on Denus! indeed! we saw no one who was not by earth standards startlingly beauti) ful. 7gliness was unknown here on this world! whether it be ugliness of mind or ugliness of body! both were absent. *l) most before we were aware of it we were on the ground. G9

Our machine had descended without a tremor! without a jerk. The +road One turned to us and said! , t is time for us to alight! my brothers.- *nd then he led the way out of the room. *s we reached the ground we looked about us for the first time. +efore we had been too busy mar%eling at the method of our descent. 8ow we found people waiting for us! officials ob%iously! tall men! gra%e faced! but with a dignity and presence not known upon the turbulent 'arth. One of them stepped forward and inclined his head in our direction. nto our minds flooded thought! his thought! te) lepathy. 0e was greeting us in the uni%ersal language of thought. 8o sound was uttered in all that gathering! no sound! that is! e&cept perhaps our own in%oluntary gasps of astonishment. T0' 0*LL O= F8O5L'D/' =or some minutes we all stood thus in telepathic com) munion! and then the spokesman bowed to us and turned away with a telepathic instruction for us to follow him. 5e did so for some fifty paces! and then we came to a most re) markable %ehicle. They called it an air car. t was a %ehicle perhaps thirty feet long and it was floating two or three inches abo%e the ground. * section of clear plastic slid aside and we were shown inside. The +road One and the spokes) man got in with us. 5e sat back on those %ery comfortable seats! and then again we e&claimed in astonishment for with) out feeling motion we were speeding along at a truly fright) ening speed. +uildings by us were blurred with the %elocity of our tra%el! and certainly was <uite frightened. There were no controls in the %ehicle. 5e were sitting and the machine was taking us. The +road One smiled bene%olently at me! and said! ,=ear not! my brother! there is nothing to fear. This machine is controlled from afar. .oon we shall be at our destination! The 0all of Fnowledge! where you will be greeted! where you will be shown the past of your 'arth! the present of your 'arth! and the future of your 'arth! the probable future! my brother! that is! because man makes his own path! but probabilities are %ery strong things indeed! and unless man changes his mind the probabilities that you will see in The 0all of Fnowledge will be facts.looked o%er the side and found that we were perhaps si& feet abo%e the ground which was absolutely flashing by. The 12

%ehicles passing on either side of us seemed to come charg) ing at us! and then at the last instant miss us. t really frightened me! it sent chill shi%ers up and down my spine to think what would happen if two of these %ehicles tra%elling at such colossal speed met head on. became aware that the buildings were passing by more slowly. could think that the buildings were mo%ing and not us! because we had no sensa) tion of mo%ing nor of speed. /radually the %ehicle slowed! then it ho%ered! and turned in a half circle and went to the left! to an immense building which stood in a clearing. t was a huge public building supported on glittering pillars. 5ide stairs led up to it! and on the stairs there were groups of young people! apparently just waiting to see us %isitors from Tibet. The machine con) tinued on slowly! perhaps at the speed of a man running. t rose to the le%el of the top of the steps! and then slid inside the main doors of that magnificent building. t came to a haltE attendants hurried to meet us! slid aside the doors of our machine! and helped us to alight. looked about me in absolute fascination. To one side was a green co%ered table! and around it there were what appeared to be a group of golden thrones in which a group of mer sat. .oon we were in telepathic communion with the group! the Lords of Denus! the controllers of that particular sphere of acti%ity. t does not matter what they told us! nor what we told them! but e%entually one men thought at us. ,8ow! my brothers! we ha%e e&changed much knowledge of interest. 5e will gi%e you a sight of your world! a sight of the present day conditions of your world as they are in all countries of that globe! and we will show you the probable course of your world6s future.0e rose! and the others rose also. They lead the way along a corridor! and then we of Tibet in%oluntarily stopped and held our breath in sheer shocked amazement. +efore us appeared the blackness of night! the utter blackness of space! and floating! turning lazily! was our own 'arth. 5e saw the blue)grey of the continents! the brownish patches! the streaks of green! and the white of the clouds. 5e saw the bluish haze of the atmosphere of the 'arth! e&) tending round! girdling our world. Our great friend! the +road One! touched me and whis) ered! whispered in Tibetan! ,=ear not! my brother! for this is but the simulacrus! this is the 0all of "emories! the 0all of all Fnowledge of the 'arthE be not afraid of what is to 13

happen! for this is but science! the science of illusion! and that! too! is but the world of illusion. Aou shall see! and what you shall see will be the truth.5e sat down! and that seemed to be the signal. 5e gazed upon the 'arth! and then we seemed to be falling! gently falling. *s we got nearer and nearer to the 'arth we saw that it was a %ery different 'arth. =irst we saw a molten bowl! then before our startled eyes the molten bowl became solidified! cracks appeared! gouts of flame rushed out! water came and spread across the face of the 'arth. The land rose! parts of it sank! countries were formed! and seas tooE we saw the con%ulsions of the 'arth as it was at its birth! we saw the strange unbelie%able people which were the first people of 'arth. 5e saw Boseidon! Lemuria! *tlantis. 5e saw also the mighty ci%ilizations which flourished un) belie%able eons before Boseidon! before *tlantis and Le) muria. +y now we could accept anything without a flicker of surprise. 5e had a surfeit of mar%els! wonders had no power o%er us. .o as the 'arth grew older before our gaze! and nations were swept and replaced by other nations it e%inced interest in us! but no more. Our potentialities of being surprised had ended. Then we came to our own time. 5e saw Tibet when the founder of our religion first ap) peared in that country. 5e saw the buildings of the Botala! of the sweeping aside of the old fortress which had been put there before by the bloodthirsty king of Tibet. 5e reached our present year! passed it! went on and on into the future! into the year G!222. t was wonderful the things we saw and heard. 5e seemed to be upon the 'arth! as if we were standing beside! or e%en slightly behind! the principal actors. 5e could see all! hear all! but we could not touch! nor be touched. +ut e%entually these wondrous impressions faded into the year three thousand and something. The +road One stirred and said! ,8ow you see! my brother! why it is that we guard the 'arth! for if man6s folly is allowed to go unchecked terrible things will happen to the race of men. There are powers upon the 'arth! human powers! who oppose all thought of our ships! who say that there is nothing greater than the human upon the 'arth so there cannot be ships from other worlds. Aou! my brothers! ha%e been shown and told! and ha%e e&perienced this so that you through your telepathic knowledge! can contact others! so that you can bring influence to bear.1?

5e do not know how long we were there upon that planet! it might ha%e been days! it might ha%e been weeks! we were almost blinded by the splendor of the sights we saw. people desiring only peace! desiring! as we of Tibet desired! to do as we would be done by. *nd at last it was time again to return to the 'arth! which now to us seemed a tawdry place! and earth which paled into insignificance against the glory of Denus. .adly we got aboard this space ship! and sadly we returned to the 0idden DalleyE ne%er again! thought! shall see such wonderful things. 0ow mistaken was! for that was but the first of many trips. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Once again! the late T. Lobsang Rampa has shared his e&periences with us. 5hether or not we accept his claims as authentic is really <uite irrele%ant. One cannot deny the knowledge! wisdom and true desire for the brotherhood of humankind which his writings impart to all those willing to listen. n this short book! as in all his other works! his descripti%e words! be they of a hidden %alley in Tibet! the icy chill of the Tibetan mountains! or the shimmering beauty of Denus! make each scene one of reality. "y Trip To Denus is one of Rampa6s shortest works but well worth the reading. There is wisdom to be gained as the little group of lamas is taken to the 0all of Fnowledge for a %iew of our world as it was! is now! and will be. *s the tra%elers return to 'arth! the reader is left with much to ponder and perhaps with a bit of longing for the peace and brotherhood achie%ed on other worlds. The Bublisher

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