The oldest rules for the communal life of intelligent beings came from extraterrestrials.
We should get to know the ancient technology of the extraterrestrials, their metallurgical skills, in short, their state of knowledge.
I fully realise that there would be religious and political opposition to such a search in Israel, Jordan and/or Ethiopia. You don’t have to tell me the scepticism that boils up as soon as an apparently Utopian idea is even mentioned. But to be fair, people should not always be asking me for visible proof of the presence of extraterrestrials, if they are not prepared to make the slightest attempt to follow up the hints that do exist.
The ark of the covenant must still be in existence.
The ‘case of the Ark of the Covenant’ could have a happy ending even now, if only we wanted it badly enough.
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Communiqué
IN 1753 the Portuguese Joao da Silva Guimaraes published his Historical account of a vast hidden uninhabited city of great age discovered in the year 1753. Today the document is preserved in the state archives of Rio de Janeiro.
Guimaraes tells how he and eighteen companions were looking for gold and diamonds on the River Gonfugy north of the town of Boa Nova. During the months spent in forests and marshes, they had completely lost their sense of direction when they suddenly found themselves on a hill. This moment is described as follows:
‘Below us lay the buildings of a city surrounded by forest. We passed through a large arched gate on which writing was engraved. We found broad streets, and broken columns lay everywhere. A black column stood in a square and on it was a man, with his left hand on his hip, and his right hand outstretched and pointing northwards. We also visited a hall with many pictures on stone that were badly damaged. There were characters on the obelisks that we could not read. In a ruined hall hung a large disc of rose-red stone . . .’
In 1925 Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, a member of the Royal Geographical Society of London, set out on an expedition to find this mysterious city. Fawcett and his companions never came back.
A rescue expedition was organised in 1928. It was unsuccessful.
In 1930 another expedition set out under the leadership of the British journalist Albert de Winton. Winton did not return either.
In 1932 the Swiss trapper Stefan Rattin made a report to the British Consul-General in Rio de Janeiro. He had seen Colonel Fawcett, who was the prisoner of an Indian tribe. From the verbatim report:
‘Towards sunset on 16 October, 1931, my companions and I were washing our clothes in a tributary of the River Iguassu Ximary, when we suddenly found ourselves surrounded by Indians . . . After sunset an old man wearing skins with a long yellowish-white beard and long hair appeared unannounced. I realised at once that he was a white man . . . He looked very sad and could not take his eyes off me . . . When the Indians were asleep, the old man came over to me and asked if I was English . . . He went on: “I am an English colonel. Go to the British Consulate and ask them to tell Major Paget that I am held prisoner here.”’
Bryan Fawcett, the missing man’s son, did not believe Rattin’s story of seeing his father and as the son took no action, the Swiss, in a fury, decided to bring the old man back to civilisation on his own account. Stefan Rattin was never seen again.
In 1952 Bryan Fawcett organised his own expedition to look for the father who had vanished from the face of the earth twenty-seven years before. His conclusion after his mission: Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett and all his companions were murdered by Indians.
And what about the city described in the Portuguese document of 1753? It has never been seen again. No serious official expedition was ever organised. Today the people in the Red Square in Moscow can be counted from a satellite. From a height of x kilometres we can say whether Leonid Brezhnev’s dacha is heated or not. Airborne sensors can discover minerals and oil deep in the earth from a moderate height.
We can do all kinds of things, but we cannot take the trouble to discover cities hidden in the virgin forest. At least one, the city that Guimaraes came across and Colonel Fawcett looked for, would be a worthy goal. Why does no government or research institute commission a search for this missing city? It would be an excellent project for NASA.
Colonel Fawcett said:
‘Whether we get there and come back again, or leave our bones to rot in the interior, one thing is certain: the answer to the puzzle of ancient South America and perhaps of the pre-historic world as a whole may be found when the location of those ancient cities is established and made accessible to scientific research. I know that those cities exist.’
Sources:
Bryan Fawcett, ed., Exploration Fawcett, London, 1953.
Revista, Vol. 1, 1839, p. 181, Document No. 514.
2: Man Outsmarts Nature
IT is well known that men make men and that the process is pleasurable. Men made by robots will come in the future. I have claimed that gods made men. I am going to prove that today men are already capable of producing men artificially, like the gods.
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Thanks to the friendly cooperation of Lesley Brown, 32, from Bristol, the world’s Press was able to sail through the silly season of summer 1978 with ease.
Mrs Brown was infertile; the oviduct leading to her womb was blocked.
Nevertheless, Dr Patrick C. Steptoe, a gynaecologist, helped Lesley to have the child she longed for. He removed an egg from her ovary and united it in a test-tube—in vitro, as doctors say, which means ‘in glass’ in Latin—with one of her husband’s sperm cells. Under the doctor’s watchful eye, the embryo flourished in a nutrient solution. At the critical moment he inserted it in Mrs Brown’s womb. Louise, born in the summer of 1978, was a healthy child. Just like a baby conceived in vivo (inside the body). She differed from other babies in the same year only by the publicity aroused by her birth. No baby ever hit so many headlines or had such detailed commentaries on how it originated. No other baby had so many photographs on the front page or a proposal of marriage in the cradle as little Louise.
The test-tube baby of summer 1978 only became a sensation because parents and doctors were not afraid to publicise the story of its origin. No one can openly state that Brown Jr. from Bristol has hundreds and possibly thousands of ‘brothers and sisters’ of the same provenance, because the SECRET sign is up. They grow up safe and sound in secret, because the doctors who ‘produced’ them are justifiably afraid of being attacked by scientists and even more so by the Church (although there are voices on both these fronts who cautiously admit that fertilisation in vitro is compatible with religious doctrines and ethical requirements).
But look what happened to Daniele Petrucci of Bologna when he announced in the middle of the 50’s that he had successfully bred over 500 human embryos in test-tubes and kept them alive. At least one Petrucci child is now alive, of marriageable age and sound in wind and limb. Presumably the young man will not forgo the pleasure of creating his progeny in vivo—at least I hope so.
His father, Petrucci, however, forswore further experiments when Pope Pius XII, admittedly without mentioning him by name, issued an unmistakeable warning to anyone interfering with God’s handiwork.
As early as the sixteenth century, the Church had to come to terms with the danger of manipulation during the early stages of human life, when Paracelsus, doctor and natural scientist (1443-1541), introduced the then unheard of idea of breeding embryos outside the womb.20 Paracelsus surmised that a homunculus, a little man, could be produced, if male sperm kept at body temperature in a vessel was nourished with essence of human blood.
Paracelsus’s bold vision inspired Goethe, in Faust Part II, to include a homunculus produced in a laboratory according to this recipe. His helper Wagner was delighted with the result:
‘A human being in the making!
. . .
A mighty project may at first seem mad,
But now we laugh, the ways of chance foreseeing:
A thinker, then,
in mind’s deep wonder clad,
May give at last a thinking brain its being.
. . .
Now chimes the glass, a note of sweetest strength,
It clouds, it clears, my utmost hope it proves,
For there my longing eyes behold at length
A dapper form, that lives and breathes and moves.
My mannikin! What can the world ask more?’
300 years later all that is left of the alchemist’s kitchen is the fact that in ultramodern laboratories scientists are also experimenting in the strictest secrecy and removing the aura of the miraculous from many miracles.
Manipulation of hereditary factors has become possible with the headlong advance of genetic molecular biology since the middle of our century. Here we are talking particularly about molecular genetics, which is concerned with the molecular bases of heredity, mutation, the exchange of hereditary systems, etc. In other words, it investigates the secrets of the cells of which all organisms are made up.
To get even a remote idea of how difficult research into this ‘microcosm’ is, you must realise that a man has about 50 billion cells in his body. To give only a few comparative sizes, the sperm cell is 0.05 mm long, the largest, the egg cell, has a diameter of 0.1 mm, whereas the nerve cell has a diameter of only 0.008 mm. Nevertheless, the secret code, the building plan (DNA), according to which the whole plant, the whole animal, the whole man, is formed, is in every cell. One cell being ‘born’ from its predecessor is a very logical way of building on nature’s part. To put it as simply as possible: if only one of the 50 billion cells stays alive, the whole man could be reconstructed from it. To put it another way, it is as if every stone of Saint Paul’s Cathedral was impregnated with the ground plan and façades of the whole building.
You would imagine that Dr Steptoe received unanimous congratulations on his success in creation in vitro. How wrong you would be! He did not suffer as much as his American colleague L. B. Shettles, who, at the insistent request of a couple from Florida, also succeeded in fertilisation in vitro, but was hounded from his university before implantation took place.21 But even Dr Steptoe was accused of ‘degrading mankind’ and labelled ‘immoral’. Abuse poured in from all sides.
I do not understand what is immoral about doctors helping married couples who want babies to achieve happiness! But there exists the ‘Order of Pessimists’,22 which resists every advance and raises a hue and cry condemning every kind of technological and scientific success, whether it be the peaceful use of nuclear energy, or a step towards interstellar spacetravel. In the free-speaking west at least, the ‘Order of Pessimists’ has a broad field with a free range of fire and they stand ready to attack outside every research station.
These destroyers of the future must be obsessed by gloomy thoughts. Obviously they can only imagine the fruits of research being used in a negative way. Progress is equated with the annihilation of mankind and Armageddon. I prize reason and human responsibility higher than the professional pessimists do. We shall remain masters of anything the human mind may produce, just as we have done during the thousands of years of the history of civilisation. For all time.
The replication of men without natural fertilisation will be achievable in the foreseeable future and be far more successful than the implantation of test-tube babies in the womb.
What I predicted ten years ago—to tell the truth, I am amazed I was so daring—has since come true in vitro.
At the time I read:
‘In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.’ —Genesis 5:1-2
And:
‘And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
‘And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones (!), and flesh of my flesh (!): she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.’ —Genesis 2:21-23
At the time I asked whether humanly intelligent beings could not have been programmed by an artificial mutation of the genetic code and I also questioned whether our charming mother Eve might not have originated without mating by the removal of a male sperm cell.
It is conceivable. The Sumerian cuneiform character for rib is ‘ti’ and that means ‘vital power’. Should a modern translation of the Bible read: ‘God took vital power from Adam’?! But vital power is the cell. Without it there is no life, not even in paradise.
Today research into molecular biology is based on this fact.
It is easy to be clever with hindsight.
My former questions did not probe deep enough. I should also have asked how Adam came on to the scene out of the blue. Which was there first: the egg, the cock or the hen? Adam may have been a test-tube baby, but he may also have been produced as a clone. I am interested in this first clone and now I want to set down some ideas on the subject which I hope are not too audacious.
To which race did the test-tube baby made in Oldham belong? Naturally to the white race, because its parents were white.
But to which race did our ancestors—let’s call them Adam and Eve—belong? Were they white, black or yellow? Did they have skins with other colours, which are not found today?
The evolutionists say that man descends from monkeys. Yet who has ever seen a white monkey? Or a dark ape with curly hair such as the black race has?
No one will deny that our physical structure indicates a relationship with the apes, that there are similarities, such as using the hands as prehensile tools and the large eyes facing forwards which facilitate spatial vision.
All this is admitted, but there must have been an additional element. In my view an extraterrestrial one. A cross between the planet earth (animal) and the cosmos (intelligence), because intelligent man as he exists cannot simply have descended from some pre-ape species. His race alone proves that.
So which race did the first man belong to?
Why are there different races anyway?
Ethnology is a branch of biological anthropology and the history of human races. By race we mean the subgroup of a species which differs from another subgroup of the same species by various external traits. Such traits may be proportions, shape of face, colour of skin (caused by pigment, a material with its own colour appearing in the cell), hair, position and colour of eyes, shape of lips, blood groups, etc.
According to the 1951 definition of race by UNESCO, the three major races—Caucasian, Mongoloid and Negroid—differ from one another by having their own well-marked characteristics which are mainly determined by heredity.
All human racial groups are part of a species, that is to say the three major races with their splinter groups all over the world belong to a single biological species. Species are populations whose individual members can breed with one another. They are able to mate because there are no physiological or morphological limits on human races. This fact is ‘proved’ daily all over the world . . .
But this does nothing to explain how the different races originated. There are many theories, but no firm scientific confirmation that it happened in such and such a way and no other! It is certain that races did not originate during the historical period known to us; they have existed since the earliest times.
The ancient civilisations of Sumer, Babylon and Egypt treated racial differences as if they had always existed. Herodotus, Hippocrates and Aristotle mention different races as a matter of course. Racial polemics, accounts of racial wars and hideous pogroms run like a blood-red thread through the millennia of oral and written tradition. One race has always felt superior to the rest at some period or other; members of one race felt provoked by the representatives of another race simply because they were different.
In our century confusing the representatives of one species culminated in Hitler’s racial lunacy. The
resulting trail of blood and murder will live as the prototype of inferno for the rest of human history. As the writing on the wall for all future generations. Present-day communications between countries, peoples, races and tribes will make the feeling and knowledge that we are all members of a single species part of the general consciousness. At least I hope so.
This having been clearly and unmistakably stated, there remains the question; why are there human differences? Human genetics, a modern branch of racial research, is trying to make an objective classification enabling us to pick out genetic characteristics. Blood groups, serum proteins and Rhesus factors are examined to find classifying characteristics and compared in tabular form as representative of the various races.
Thus it was discovered that 89.3 per cent of all Indians belong to blood group O, whereas only 0.8 per cent of the Indian population has blood group B. Results for the Mongoloids are different: only 18.3 per cent belong to blood group B and 55.7 per cent to blood group O.
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