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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
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Holly Dixon
– Computer boffin
(“Clever Dix”)
Theodore Dixon
– MP and Holly’s husband
(“Thick Dick”)
“Pig Mac”
– Hamburger seller
McDonell
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PROVINCE: HUEVA
Clan: Huzu
PROVINCE: WENEVA
Clan: Wenuas
PROVINCE: WERREVA
Clan: Wertu
PROVINCE: WITSHEVA
Clan: Witshwei
PROVINCE: WOTEVA
Clan: Wotnow
PROVINCE: WYEVA
Clan: Wyzegyze
PROVINCE:
Clan:
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“It looks to me,” said Mrs Ryan, “as though all the kids
are glued to what he's saying. And they seem cheerful
enough. Come on, let's go have a coffee in Murph's pub,
and hear about Lena, and anything new about our Mr
Murlon.”
“Hang on, girls,” pleaded Mrs Kendall. “Just wait a few
more minutes to see how they get on.”
“Nonsense, Marge,” smiled Mrs Masters, “Dom's
hardly the person I'd like to talk to about my life history,
and neither would you. Tell me, what do you see going on
in that classroom? Does it look as though a little green man
with antennae is busy dissolving the kids with his ray-gun?”
“It looks to me,” said Mrs Ryan, “as though all the kids
are glued to what he's saying. And they seem cheerful
enough. Come on, let's go have a coffee in Murph's pub,
and hear about Lena, and anything new about our Mr
Murlon.”
“Hang on, girls,” pleaded Mrs Kendall. “Just wait a few
more minutes to see how they get on.”
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A Foiled Stratagem
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gle great nation, when the planet's name was changed from
Ifeva to Foreva.
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The Mystery Man
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“All right, all right, one at a time.” Josh raised his hand
cheerfully. “Firstly, the days were given these names around
three thousand years ago, but Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
were only discovered in the last century or so. Yes, it’s true
the moon isn’t an independent planet – though I may tell
you a story about that one day – and the sun is a star not a
planet. However, these two bodies have the strongest influ-
ence on the Earth. The ancients did not concern themselves
too much about whether a heavenly body was a star, a planet
or a moon. They simply acknowledged that there were seven
heavenly bodies whose energies all contributed to our
wellbeing here on Earth. They decided that each of these
bodies was presided over by a god. Then they honoured
those gods – and the powers they believed those gods pos-
sessed – by naming the days of the week after them.”
“But wasn’t there a god of the Earth?” asked Lucinda,
obviously quite annoyed with the ancient Greeks and
Romans. “Surely Earth was more important than the
moon?
“There were many gods of planet Earth in most of the
ancient cultures that worshipped idols and man-made
gods,” said Josh. “The American Indians, the Maya peo-
ples, the Australian aborigines and the Southern African
bushmen, amongst others, all worshipped Father Sky and
Mother Earth. They understood that one’s bodies are actu-
ally made directly from earth and water, while one’s life
force comes directly from the sun. That is correct, of
course, within the limitations imposed by their ability to
believe in only what they could see. You and I believe that
behind this is an Infinite Creator, Who brought about all
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with their central eyes they could see and feel the rocks
flinching, and they felt they were doing wrong.
The amadoli laughed and said, “They are vibrating with
pleasure at being released from their prison inside the hills
and brought out into the bright sunlight where they can
display their beauty to greatest advantage.”
So the amodangi went back to work, closing their cen-
tral eyes to the suffering of the rocks.
Before too long they had dug large holes in the hillsides,
and decided to create stronger tools so that they could
mine deep into the body of the planet. When the females
complained they were being overburdened with so many
baskets of stones, a meeting was called. Noit sug gested
that they had enough, if not more than enough stones, and
that they should stop dig ging immediately. Thirteen voices
cried out in protest, saying the problem was simply the task
of carrying the heavy baskets.
Far from stopping, it was decided that for a short while
the amodangi would mine stone only half of each day.
During the other half of each day they would set out to
capture a number of yevaras, which are creatures very simi-
lar to donkeys on Earth. These they would train to to be
harnessed and to work as beasts of burden. At the same
time, the amadoli would create harnesses and saddlebags
so that the yevaras could bear the heavy loads of stone
back to the seven-housed village.
One Re-Creation Day morning the seven couples met
as usual in the centre of the commune and emptied their
baskets of precious stones into seven huge heaps, ready to
be shared out between them. Dadeh, wife of Hudeh, made
this morning different from all those before it when she
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replies made no sense. That was how they learned that they
had also lost their common language, that each pair now
spoke in a unique tongue that they alone could understand.
Weary, hungry, wet and cold, the seven pairs of amoda
finally emerged from different areas of the now-destroyed
Valley of Aspireda, and dispersed into a bleak new world
beyond. Two couples left through the hills to the east, two
more couples found their way out to the north and another
two made their way through the hills in the west. One mis-
erable pair stumbled blindly southwards and arrived at the
sea. Arms intertwined to support each other against the
wind, they were suddenly swept out by an enor mous wave.
They had the great good fortune to cling to a tree-trunk
that had crashed into the ocean at the same time, and many
days later they were washed ashore hundreds of miles to
the west.
Moments after the last pair to escape had scrambled and
tottered down the outer slope of the purple hill a series of
ferocious tremors shook the ground beneath their feet fol-
lowed by a terrifying explosion. Huge flames shot high into
the sky, and a gigantic rock,
almost half of the green hill,
was hurtled into space and
disappeared through the
dense rain clouds.
As the ter- rified couples
turned to look back, they saw
the coloured hills crumble
and dissolve as the Valley of
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of most school days.
A single building occupied the northwest corner of this
huge rectangular field. The schoolhouse comprised the
classroom itself, which once seated 32 children, with two
doorways in the rear, or western, wall. These led respec-
tively into a small science laboratory and a kitchen. A ve-
randah ran the length of the eastern wall of the building, in
the centre of which was the entrance door into the class-
room. The door into the ablution block was at the far end.
The area from the southern wall of the schoolhouse to
the School Street fence, then along the fence to the en-
trance gate and from the gate along the path to the veran-
dah, was occupied by a delightful garden. This had been
created by Miss Sallows and was cared for by the children.
Two swings, a seesaw and a slide stood on the other side of
the path, conveniently placed to keep children entertained
while their parents chatted to the teacher at or near the
gate.
East of the verandah was a large grassy area, and along-
side it, to the south, a gravel playground. Beyond these,
two small-sized sets of goalposts had been erected at the
ends of a beautifully lawned area. The confines of this
miniature soccer pitch were demarcated by rows of
benches that faced each other along the sidelines. Beyond
this area and down to the eastern end of the property lay
the athletics track, with professionally-painted and main-
tained lanes. It had its own entrance gate from School
Street, for the use and benefit of any exercise-minded citi-
zen of Mount Hotwater.
In the short period that Josh had served the community
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millimetres.”
When he was sure they had all recorded the difference
in their minds. he called them to the centre. “Right, gather
round me,” he said, sitting down on the grass alongside the
string.
”According to some archaeologists,” he explained,
“this planet is four thousand-six hundred million years old.
Many scientists, particularly nuclear physicists, say it’s
much, much older than that, but we will work with the low-
est figure. On that basis, every millimetre along that piece
of string represents one hundred-thousand years in the
history of this planet! Earth came into existence where
Ruth’s peg is, then you have to walk forty six metres to Si-
mon’s peg and the very last millimetre, right at the end, is –
more or less – where human beings came into existence.
You children have been here for one ten-thousandth of a
millimetre. Imagine that, if you can! “
He leaned back and waited. The children were absorb-
ing the infor mation with a mixture of puzzlement, amaze-
ment and amusement.
Josh continued: “Let us stretch our imagination a little
further. If we led that string down the road all the way to
the next town, that’s almost five kilometres away, then ev-
ery millimetre mark along that journey would represent
only one thousand years. The world’s history since the time
of Christ would occupy only two millimetres of that jour-
ney, while your lifespan would measure one hundredth of a
millimetre. Does that make it any easier for you to grasp?”
Another pause was required, as by now his pupils were
laughing, chattering and bubbling with questions and com-
parisons.
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the story doesn’t just end. The story of Earth did not end
when the Greek or Roman empires collapsed, and my story
of Ifeva does not end with the expulsion of the Amoda.
Actually, that was just the beginning.”
“Oh, please, tell us what happened to all those couples
in the storm!” Lucinda, whose attention had been drifting
until then, suddenly sprang to life.
“Yes, come on Josh!” pleaded Godfrey. “Once upon a
time …Oh, do carry on!”
“’Once upon a time’ would be inappropriate,” said
Josh. “That’s the way to start a fairy tale or a story that is
locked in time, or hinges on one major event. Historical
tales begin with ‘It came to pass…’ The reason is that
nothing is per manent, everything that comes, does pass.“
“Go on then, Josh,” urged Melanie. “It came to pass
that … what?”
Josh settled himself more comfortably on the grass,
and told them this tale.
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rose, the green moon from the south and the grey moon
from the west. The Amoda had decided that the green
moon was female and they had named her Nomos. The
grey, masculine moon they called Monos. Tonight Monos
was full, casting a grey and eerie light across the valley.
“How shall we get down?” asked Ugo the howzit.
Migo said, “Look, the light from Monos is being re-
flected from a stream. We could follow it downhill!.”
This they did, and the stream deepened and widened
until it reached the valley floor, by which time it had be-
come a mighty river. So Migo and Ugo named those hills
the Hills of Monos, and the river they called Piyura.
Urged along by Getamuvon, they journeyed eastwards
for forty days and nights across the scrubland. One fine
morning they arrived at the foothills of a majestic moun-
tain range. So inspiring were its jag ged peaks that pierced
the sky, atop gentle yellow grassy slopes, that they named
the range the Mountains of Lusa, in honour of the great
star of light, their sun. The highest mountain, which they
named Lusapiik, was the source of several rivers that trav-
elled down to the sea in a number of directions. Migo and
Ugo named the widest of these the River Hiila. They de-
cided to follow this river, then they would always be close
to water regardless of where it led them. Alongside the
Hila, then, they travelled through deep gorges and down
grassy plains, stopping whenever necessary to make hunt-
ing and climbing tools.
Eventually they reached the north-eastern tip of the
continent, where the river emptied into the sea, nearly six
thousand kilometres from the start of their journey into
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birds ate, and then picking the fruit from the same trees.
They covered greater and greater distances each day as they
became accustomed to walking without the help of the
tails they had lost in the disaster that ended Aspireda. After
fifteen days they reached a towering range of mountains,
so high that there seemed no way to pass through or across,
so they decided to stop there. Then Yuil heard Kipon’s
voice inside his head, saying, “Where there is a mountain
there is a way over. Have courage.” So they scrambled and
clambered their way to the peak of the highest mountain,
and there below them, stretching far into the distance, lay a
land of incredible beauty. In honour of their angel’s advice,
they called the mountain range the Mountains of Kipon,
then they went down into the vast territory below.
“Where shall we settle?” asked Ayil.
“Where we are best able to go on expeditions by land,
by river or by sea,” replied Yuil.
Supported by their guardian angel of Courage, they jour-
neyed on and on to the very furthest limits of the land.
They came at last to a peninsula, right at the northwestern
edge of the continent, where enor mous mulberry trees,
weighed down with silkworm coccoons, grew along the sea-
shore. There, nearly seven thousand kilometres from the ru-
ins of Aspireda, Yuil and Ayil spun themselves a marvellous
home of yellow werram (or silk, as you know it), and con-
verted the trunk of a fallen tree into a boat. From time to
time Yuil and Ayil and their descendants voyaged in boats
like that to encounter the Noewer, which was their name for
strangers, and sold or exchanged some of the precious to-
paz that had been carried all the way from Aspireda.
On that very peninsula now stands Werbonayr, the capi-
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them by the winds, and took root, just as they had pictured.
Under guidance from Inspayami, their guardian angel,
they placed pieces of the quartz they had borne out of
Aspireda into the soil wherever seeds had taken root, to
support the growth of the vegetation. Before long the
plain was filled with plants and trees. As the seasons
changed the blue soil yielded crops of delicious vegetables
and the trees were laden with a great variety of fruits.
These attracted insects, which, in turn, drew flocks of
birds. Thus Duit and Noit saw their desires fulfilled.
On the first evening they spent there, Duit said, “Why
do we sleep in the open? Why don’t we search this area for
materials to build a home that will shelter us?”
Noit replied, “Why should we? Why not rather use our
mental powers to create a sphere of light, and in that light
we shall live and move and have our being.”
Thus their land, Wyeva, is the closest territory to the
lost Valley of Aspireda. Indeed, Wyzerale, its capital city, is
no more than three hundred kilometres from the edge of
the Crater of Noteva. This remarkable city consists not of
solid buildings but entirely of spheres of light. These
shine out brightly through each day, while at night the glow
on the distant horizon changes from grey to green, de-
pending on which moon is upper most.
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The other four couples who were banished from Aspireda
told similar tales of their wanderings and ordeals to their
children and their children’s children. So vast was the land,
and so widely dispersed were they, that not one of the orig-
inal couples encountered another throughout their differ-
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bad weather!”
“Class, pay attention, please, to what Marie said, and es-
pecially to the words she used.” Josh’s voice was mat-
ter-of-fact, there was no trace of accusation or reprimand,
yet the firmness of his message could not be mistaken.
The children’s eyes were alive with interest. They knew this
unusual man was about to launch into some unexpected
lecture on some unscheduled topic.
“You were right!” whispered Melanie into Godfrey’s
ear. “Now we’re going to get it!”
“Her words were ‘I can’t stand bad weather,’ correct?”
Josh looked at the class for consent and received it via a few
nodded heads. “Be very careful, children, that you never
ask, with emphasis, or in an emotional manner, for some-
thing you do not actually desire. Your words are solid,
denser forms of your thoughts. Your thoughts are creative.
When they are charged with emotion they generally create
with power and burst into form in your life. Thus many peo-
ple who use expressions like ‘I can’’t stand this or that…’
eventually end up with arthritis, swollen feet, broken legs,
corns or other problems that make standing difficult, pain-
ful or impossible.
“You should learn also that weather can never be bad.
All weather is only enjoyable and welcome, or uncomfort-
able and unwelcome, depending on who you are, where
you are and what you are doing at particular points in time.
Right now as we move into summer you may be really up-
set if it started to snow. In winter, when you wish to go ski-
ing, you would be equally upset if it didn’t. Without black
clouds and rain, we might have no drinking water and no
food to har vest. “ Josh checked that all the pupils under-
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stood what he had said. Then he added, in his nor mal gen-
tle tones with their penetrating quality: “Let us all promise
ourselves never to speak like that again.”
“Here are two sentences that will be of great value
throughout your lives,” he continued. “Write them down,
learn them well and repeat them often. They will become
clearer and clearer to you in the course of time. ‘I have in-
vented the world I see.’ The second is ‘The only meaning
anything has is the meaning I give to it.’ Do you under-
stand them? You may decide that those black clouds are
bad when they keep you indoors. Farmers may decide the
blue sky is threatening them with drought.
“Weather can never be bad. The meaning we give to it
may be ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Flies are not bad, no matter how
much we may dislike them. They have a lifetime job of re-
cycling waste matter to regenerate the earth. Over-ripe or
even rotten fruit is not bad, it is simply not edible by us. It is
edible by lots of other creatures.”
Miles asked, “Aren’t some humans bad?”
“No, no-one is bad through-and-through, with no sav-
ing grace,” replied the master. “Many humans indulge in
bad actions, some intentionally, some unintentionally.
Sometimes we appear wicked or stupid, when we act on
our impulses or desires without caring or thinking how
such action may affect us ourselves, or our loved ones or
other beings, or the planet as a whole. Usually, it is actually
the consequences of our act that is bad, though we our-
selves may be labelled evil by those who have suffered.”
As Josh fell silent the classroom erupted into a babble
of young voices, his pupils trading ideas on all the things
that had seemed bad and now could be looked at differ-
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len sock. They were astonished to discover how full the ap-
parently empty playground was.
“Excellent work!” pronounced Josh. “If you had more
time, you would probably have found more. Now, what is
the single feature common to all of these items?”
This question thoroughly puzzled the children, as they
observed that wood had nothing in common with metal,
nor metal with liquid, nor plastic with minerals, nor cloth
with flesh and feathers.
“I give up!” cried little Simon, on the brink of tears.
“We all give up!” said Lucinda, putting her arm around
the youngster.
“I don’t blame you,” said Josh flashing them a reassur-
ing smile. “It is genuinely not obvious to most people, par-
ticularly those who live in urbanised areas like towns and
cities. It is not obvious even to those who live close to
countryside but whose lifestyles have left nature far be-
hind.
“Look again at the items on your lists. Wood comes
from trees. Great trees like oaks come from tiny acorns.
Acorns grow from the soil. What is it that expands a tiny
acorn into a giant oak tree?. Think of it – it’s only earth and
water. That’s what one acorn is, and so is every item you
have collected. Plastic is a petroleum by-product. Its source
is crude oil, a liquid that comes out of the earth – even
when it is produced from wells out at sea, it still comes
from earth. The glass of those marbles is made from silica,
which is part of the soil. The water is a liquid, the source of
which is a river or a spring or maybe even desalinated sea-
water. The cold drink is not pure water, it is a mixture of
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see now, that every substance you found, and every sub-
stance on the planet, and in fact the planet itself, is made of
nothing else than earth and water?”
“But oil isn’t water, and steel isn’t earth!” declared
Melanie, whose logical Libran mind often blinded her to
wider possibilities.
“Correct,” said Josh, “and that is precisely what chem-
istry is about. It concerns combining the elements of water
and the elements of earth so that different materials result.
However,” he continued, “let us look at it from the Cre-
ator’s point of view. What was originally created?”
“Earth and water!” shouted Esther as though she had
just discovered some enor mous truth.
“And air!” added Sharon.
“What about fire?” asked Tanya, hesitantly. “It’s always
mentioned as one of the four elements.”
“You are all doing very well,” Josh encouraged. “Water,
earth, air and fire are the four established elements of West-
ern philosophy, while others add wood or ether. Let me say,
though, that the universe, or that part of it which is known
to mankind, is composed of five basic elements. These are
water, earth, air, fire and gas. Each has an individual role in
the construction of the universe, yet none of them is much
use without the other four. This is how it works:
“Every visible and tangible substance on this planet
starts off as water or earth or both. Then along come air,
fire and gas, their tasks being to effect changes in sub-
stances. Air, although invisible, is probably the most im-
portant because it is a carrier of the other four in their
various forms. That dead bird and the caterpillar are com-
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back into dust and water vapour, and release gases into the
air. So, too, with the paper. Other substances may not decay
or dissolve as fast, such as the metals and stones. These
may need fire to reduce them to earth, water vapour and
gas.
“The word ‘gas’ of course is used very loosely, for you
all know there are many different gases, just as there are
many different liquids covered by the word ‘water’, solids
under the name ‘earth’, and ‘fire’ in its various forms in-
cluding lightning and electricity. These elements are thor-
oughly interdependent. Air differs greatly from day to day
and from place to place, depending on what particles and
properties it contains of earth, water, fire and gas. Many
gases are produced by combinations of earth and water,
earth and fire, water and fire. Many liquids derive from
combinations of water and earth or water and gases. Dif-
ferent types of earth, including sand, stone, metals, min-
eral, plants and animals, are caused by the liquids, gases and
fire that have interacted with them. In the same way, fire in
its several forms across a range of temperatures and differ-
ent types of air, has very pronounced effects on different
liquids, solids and gases, and is, in turn, affected differently
by various combinations of these.
“These five elements are present throughout this entire
solar system, though not all the elements are present at
once, as they are in Planet Earth. The moon, for example,
appears to be a waterless rock. The sun is a great fire-ball –
a mixture of fire and gases. Jupiter is a huge frozen sphere
of gas, that is, it is for the most part gas and water.”
Suddenly, Josh’s speech was drowned out by a great
flash of lightning followed by a mighty thunderclap and a
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ceive our books from the Ministry till the day before she
took ill, so she didn’t start. All we’ve done are a few experi-
ments with you, when you showed us some magnets, and
explained how ice becomes water and then steam when the
temperature rises. But I don’t know what physics means,
or why we’re supposed to learn it.”
“Very well,” commented Josh. “The word physics co-
mes from the Greek word for Nature. Originally ‘physics’
related to living bodies, and the discovery of plants that
contained remedies for such bodies when they were un-
well. That is why old books talk of sick people being given
a physic, which was often spelled Physick or Fysicke.” He
wrote the words on the board. “That, too, is how old-time
healers came to be called physicians. The modern science
of physics, which grew out of that, is still concerned with
matter and energy, which means it sets out to discover and
prove the laws behind Nature. It is the study of all the ele-
ments in nature. It is about knowing what makes water
boil, what brought gold or lead into existence, how to turn
oil into plastics and gasoline, why bodies float, or go round
in the air yet fall to the ground when within our atmo-
sphere, or orbit in Space for millions of years.”
“Reverend Jenkins says that science and religion don’t
get on,” interrupted Tom. “He says that people are so ob-
sessed with science that we have forgotten God.”
“Why, that’s just a swing of the pendulum,” said Josh,
“God is often forgotten. For at least two thousand years –
until a short while ago – mankind was obsessed with reli-
gion. Millions of humans were slaughtered, crucified,
burned alive, tortured or hanged by warriors and thugs of
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perfor mance, not on future potential. The fact that his fa-
ther was a judge may have had something to do with it.
In the nor mal course of events, an issue confronting
the Council of Weneva was fully discussed, then voted
upon. Until the vote was counted nobody could really say
what the decision would be. In this case, however, there
could be no doubt. The issue, according to the minute
book, was “Shortage of Fuel”. In reality it was war – war
against Wyeva.
The three generals were – naturally – in favour. The ser-
geant-major – naturally – would vote whichever way the
generals did. The archaeologist and the historian – naturally
– would not want to be seen to be disloyal to their country,
so they would vote whichever way the generals did, while the
apprentice – naturally, being the youngest – would support
the majority. Thus an unusually brief meeting was expected,
ending with a unanimous vote in favour of war.
The snag arose because the apprentice, a youngster no
more than 50 years of age (Ifeva years, that is), surprised
the other six by asking many questions. Under the circum-
stances, no one had thought of the answers in advance. He
asked, for instance, “When all my friends are called up for
active ser vice will I stay behind to sit on the Council?”
“Of course not!” answered Tymelis, the chair man, who
was also the most senior general, sitting tall and erect for all
his 222 years. “All the generals go with their men, so when
they do, you should accompany your fellows!”
“Then when you three generals and I go to the war
front, all the decision-making will be left to the three re-
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have to use less and less heating until they had none at all.
“The reason why war against Wyeva makes such good
sense,” said Digarok the archaeologist, “is that it is a land
full of trees. When we win the war we will have an excellent
supply of fuel that will last us for decades.”
“You forget that Wyeva once had no trees at all,” said
Rolin, “and that having seen them grow from seeds over
the centuries, the Wyzegyze may fight for them! In addi-
tion, we first have to get our men across the River Piyura or
over the Mountains of Monos, and then we have to get
them back again, laden with trees. Apart from which, we
don’t know why no other nation has ever gone to war
against them. I would sug gest that we spend some time re-
searching them before going to war.”
This caused a lengthy discussion, most of which con-
sisted of attacking Rolin’s youthful ignorance. Ultimately
the vote was four-three in favour of war unless Wyeva of-
fered its wood immediately. It was also decided – unani-
mously – that in the event of war all seven Council
members would stay at home and on the Council, so as to
be able to give clear advice to those on the battlefield. Fi-
nally, the decision was taken – by six votes to one – to give
the Wyzegyze a maximum of sixty hours to send all their
adult trees to Weneva, or face invasion by the Wenuas. This
was considered the best solution to the problem of how to
get the trees across the river or over the mountains … Let
the Wyzegyze figure it out!
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The Council of Wyeva was a decidedly odd organisation.
It, too, had seven members, but in every other respect it
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them they may take the trees on condition they also take
the children, for we will be unable to warm them or cook
their food once the trees are gone. At first, they may be so
keen to have the trees they will be willing to take the chil-
dren too, so do not stop there. Ask them how many trees
and how many Wenuas exist in Weneva. Then get them to
add our trees to theirs and our children to their population.
Does it make sense to take our trees and our children?
“If, by chance, that approach does not succeed, just do
your best to keep them talking for as long as possible in-
stead of acting. Then, as though it were a sudden inspira-
tion, ask them whether their leaders might like to talk to
ours. If their leaders are not there, tell them that their lead-
ers are probably talking to our leaders, and they shouldn’t
do anything drastic before checking it out… Or anything
else you can think of to delay them from doing anything.
Tell them a story, read them a poem, anything!
“Maogandi, you who have been so silent today, lost in
the future, are you? Well, what an opportunity I present to
you ! You are to go totally into the future, and learn what
you can there. Look back to this period and see what has
happened to Wyeva and Weneva, so as to prepare us for
the best or the worst. And please, please, check over the
future weapons. Are there any we can use with our present
knowledge and our present populace? If so, bring back ei-
ther the weapons themselves or the technology for making
them. Finally, while there, check out anything and every-
thing that may be relevant.”
Hagelpanz stopped speaking, and sank into his seat with
exhaustion. To his amazement there was total silence for
what seemed like a long time. Eventually Spinosmut spoke.
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vade Wyeva the children had been taken to the forests and,
seemingly in fun, tied to the trees (then, much to their sur-
prise and annoyance, not released).
Rusolin and Spinosmut having returned from the past,
and Maogandi from the future, Hagelpanz held a meeting
in the Council chamber with the three. Spinosmut reported
first, painting a quite ter rifying picture of the Weneva army
and its equipment. They had bows and arrows, spears and
lances, battering rams, guns and cannons. The army had
been divided into groups experienced in using these differ-
ent weapons.
“Why have they not appointed a group to cut the
trees?” asked Hagelpanz. “Is my suspicion, that what they
wanted most of all were our trees, therefore incorrect?”
“On the contrary, you were very correct, or so I assume
because of the discussions I overheard concerning the fell-
ing of the trees,” said Spinosmut. “It appeared they had
tree-saws and axes that tree-fellers once used, but these are
much-admired antiques now in museums. The modern
Wenuas are more familiar with the tiny wheels and cogs
that go into watches and similar small machines. Mostly,
they use branches and twigs for their fires and stoves, and
when it comes to the hard work of felling a tree, they hire
itinerant tree-fellers from Howeva or Woteva. These itin-
erants did not wish to accompany them to Wyeva because
their countries have – at this point at least – no argument
with Wyeva.”
“Aha! So they either expect to transport our trees to
Weneva, or to annex our country to theirs. They will proba-
bly use the strongest among the Wyzegyze as slaves to fell
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Next day, the young general who headed the Weneva army
was shown into the council chamber, where sat three of his
predecessors plus the sergeant-major who had trained his
sergeant-major together with three civilians. He bowed to
the seven councillors and announced that the army was
ready to invade Wyeva.
“Very good,” replied Tymelis. “When your army is
ready tomorrow, let it be divided into groups to take up po-
sitions around, and preferably just within the borders of
Wyeva. When this has been seen to, you personally will ac-
company us to the doors of the Wyeva council chamber.
You will remain outside. When I or one of my companions
tell you, you will either instruct your troops to invade and
overrun Wyeva, or to withdraw immediately to within the
borders of Weneva. Should the first option, that is, war,
prevail, you will take the strongest Wyzegyze prisoner so
they may fell their trees for us. The rest of the population
will be confined to their homes or workplaces, under su-
per vision of our soldiers, their fates to be decided upon
later. Go now and organise the army. Yourself, be here,
packed and ready to go, by noon tomorrow.”
Those were the last warlike words the elderly general ut-
tered. That night the excitement proved too much for his
ricketty frame, and he died while practising his salute in the
mirror. Because he had been a senior general as well as
head of the Council, his funeral was a matter of great im-
portance to Weneva, taking precedence over all other
events or intended events. Consequently the invasion of
Wyeva had to wait a further three days.
Rustipajus, the historian, succeeded Tymelis as head of
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Many eons later, this olivine rocket burst into the Milky
Way and then into our solar system. In what seemed like a
few seconds, speaking galactically, it sped past Pluto, Nep-
tune and Uranus, narrowly missed Jupiter, gave Saturn a
wide berth and headed straight for Planet Earth. The im-
pact when it struck this lovely globe had utterly horrific re-
sults. Earth was jerked off its axis, out of its course around
the sun, and literally frozen stiff as it was launched into a
bitter ice age. Instantly most forms of life, especially the
warm-blooded creatures, became extinct.
At the moment of impact the olivine rock shattered,
and a huge fragment crashed into the countryside in an
area of what later became known as Moldavia in Central
Europe. In gem stores everywhere today one can buy small
pieces of the green hill of Aspireda under the name of
moldavite. Humans who deal with or collect gemstones
are amazed at the power of this stone, but they don’t know
where it originally came from. If they knew, they wouldn’t
be so surprised..
Depending on which archaeologist or scientist one is to
believe, it took from a hundred thousand to a million years
for Earth to recover from the shock of the impact. The
great dinosaurs were gone forever, together with most
other creatures of that era. Only a few of the smaller spe-
cies, like lizards and crocodiles sur vived, together with a
few birds and a number of insects. New forms of life
came into existence, either mutating from those that sur -
vived the impact, or perhaps created afresh by the Eternal
Creative Spirit of the universe.
Meanwhile, throughout this passage of Earth-time,
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that most captivated the visitors, for these were the main
means of recognising that this group comprised different
races. There were the howlas and the howzits with glowing
red eyes, the yellow-eyed werbins and wergos, the wotsons
and wotsups staring out of shiny mauve eyes, the huzu
gazing through green eyes, and the witlis and witya mem-
bers, whose eyes were a delicate shade of blue-grey.
Gofrit, the werbin expedition leader, and Aktinahari,
the beautiful and brilliant howzit designer, led the visitors
through the wondrous burnished copper sphere that was
to house the explorers through a hundred light years of
travel to Celboneva and another hundred light years back.
All agog with curiosity they entered Univamurli, won-
dering what extraordinary machinery and navigational in-
struments a sophisticated spacecraft would contain. They
gasped in surprise. There was nothing, save a great circular
conversation pit with thirty-two seats in the centre, and a
large food cabinet and a washroom behind these, consti-
tuting the rear of the vessel.
Aktinahari had invented one-way translucent copper, so
that, from within, the craft seemed to be made of glass,
thus the crew could look out in all directions at once. The
wyzegyze instructors had thoroughly programmed the
crew in the art of creative imagination, so they did not re-
ally need a vehicle at all, said Aktinahari. Nor did they need
food or toilets for that matter; all they had to do was order
themselves there and they would be there in a matter of
minutes. Thus the sphere she had created required no con-
trols, she said. It was merely for their reassurance, for their
togetherness, and for any non-Forinas they brought back.
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huge dent had been punched into the planet’s body by a gi-
gantic fist. The eight wotnow were immediately intrigued
and started to dig up stones and bones. Soon they an-
nounced to Gofrit that the dent had been made by a comet
that had deposited starseed from the sun overhead, and
from this starseed had emerged all the different living mat-
ter on the planet.
At Gofrit’s request, they studied the area outside and
surrounding the crater, to establish what Celboneva was
like before the starseed was deposited. Suddenly a wotsup
archaeologist said she was sure there had been other life
here much earlier, thus there had been a prior occasion
when starseed had been deposited on Celboneva. She dug
up, and held out for all to see, a huge dinosaur thighbone.
Then all the members of the party joined in the search and
before long excavated the remains of a complete
tyrannosaurus rex. Now they knew that life had existed on
Celboneva millions of years earlier, in the form of crea-
tures now extinct.
The eight wotnow found themselves extraordinarily
busy recording the expedition’s findings. For them, this
visit was the best possible reward for the discovery of
Celboneva by their astronomers, and they took their task
of record-keepìng very seriously. They decided that the
planet consisted of Sustaining Elements and Consuming
Elements. The Sustaining Elements they identified as Wa-
ter, Air, Land and Plant; while all the creatures that could
move of their own volition – birds, insects, mammals, fish,
amphibians and reptiles were classified as Consuming
Elelments. Not having delved into the soil other than their
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While the Wotnow recorded all they had seen Gofrit ad-
dressed the entire team. “It is well to tell those back home
all we have discovered on this magnificent planet. Only do
remember and praise the Creative Mind that designed this
multitude of creatures in so many forms, shapes, sizes,
colours and functions.”
This brief address gave rise to a lively debate about the
attributes of the various creatures, and how interdepen-
dent they seemed to be. The Forinas agreed that the exis-
tence of such an enor mous variety was the hallmark of
genius in the Creative Spirit.
Having relaxed, the explorers considered it time to re-
turn to Foreva. They arose, preparing to depart the Garden
of Eden and the wondrous planet Celboneva. The
Howrite members of the team went to ensure that
Univamurli was in good working order and ready for
take-off. They were accompanied by the Wotnow, who
thought that a short period of separation from the others,
the more vocal crew, would give them an opportunity to
complete their written work in peace.
Suddenly the remaining Forinas heard a remarkable
burst of noise – the sound of large creatures crashing
through trees, accompanied by the most astonishing vo-
calisations – barking, coughing, squealing, grunting and
the chattering of many voices. Within moments a band of
apes burst into the clearing, and greeted the visitors with
great animation, examining them, embracing them, leaping
into their arms, and commenting vociferously all the while.
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eight foot tall, were much larger than the apes, none of
whom was taller than five foot. Nevertheless, the explorers
were enchanted by the friendliness of these bumptious,
noisy animals, and romped and frolicked with them, rolling
about on the grassy banks, clambering through the trees
beside the clearing, diving into the pools of crystal clear
water. The visitors from Outer Space treated the apes with
charm, kindness, love and sheer pleasure. It was during
this period of abandonment, of pure, overwhelming cele-
bration, that the Forinas and the apes mated with each
other.
A short while later, Univamurli and its crew arrived in
Foreva. The SEXPRO committee was hastily summoned,
and before long Gofrit and his fellow explorers stood be-
fore its members to report on the outcome of MISSION
CELBONEVA. At the end of Gofrit’s lengthy recital, dur-
ing which the Wotnow members provided precise details
when required, Sensisvitel conferred quietly with his fellow
committee members. After some time Sensisvitel called the
Mission team together and told them:
“You have done brilliantly well! On behalf of SEXPRO
and indeed all the inhabitants of Foreva, we thank you for
your remarkable voyage of exploration, for the wonders you
have performed, and for the marvels you have discovered.
What you did with the apes on your final day was a deviation
from the project, and its outcome could be quite serious for
planet Celboneva. The committee wishes to say this. We do
not condone it. However, we do understand it was not
planned, and there was no malicious intent. We therefore
forgive you your momentary loss of control. Should the
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ory of our visit, and tales will be told there of how the sons
of God came down and took the daughters of men as
wives. Not only will they forget that we Forinas mated with
apes, they will make it a sin to say that apes were their an-
cestors.
“Some of my Wyzegyze colleagues sug gested that had
we sent a contingent along, they would have had the wis-
dom to prevent the others from mating with the apes, or
they would have joined in the celebrations, leaving the
Wyzegyze attributes on that planet as well as thought, love
and action. Having consulted with Inspayami, our guardian
angel, it became evident that Intuition – the main feature
of our tribe – is not a quality that can be genetically trans-
ferred from one planet to another. Intuition gives rise to
wisdom and creative imagination. These qualities, accord-
ing to Inspayami, develop only in those who work with the
three other powers in balance.”
“Surely, the offspring of our union with the apes will be
a race that recognizes these qualities?” said Sensisvitel. “Af-
ter all, on that planet, the dog, among many others, already
embodies them!”
Solodamus shook his head. “No creature on Celboneva
has a well-developed Intellect, which is where Thought re-
sides. Many have Intuition – or Instinct, which is the begin-
ning of Intuition. Thus although the dog exhibits
unquestioning, non-critical love as an inherent part of its
nature, this great blessing will be available only to those hu-
mans who consciously choose to exercise the powers of
Intuition, Thought, Feelings and Action. By uniting the as-
sets of the apes with the powers received from our astro-
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J osh was usually seated and ready for his class each
morning, but this day he was delayed outside the
classroom. Paul Francis, Ruth’s father and the town’s
favourite television presenter, had waylaid him.
“Don’t you think it’s a wonderful idea?” gushed Paul,
“You could have anything from a fifteen-minute spot to a
whole hour on Channel d’Hotwater to talk about the school,
the pupils, yourself, your approach to education…. “
“I’m very sorry,” replied Josh, “I don’t appear on televi-
sion.”
“Well, I agree with you,” Paul enthused, not thinking for
one moment that Josh’s remark was literal in more ways than
one. “TV is not everybody’s cup of tea, but it is such a pow-
erful medium. I mean, just think, you could build the
school’s image, put out some propaganda, subtly of course,
but that’s the beauty of TV. With your looks, your voice,
your vision, you could maybe even pull a number of chil-
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said, “It’s only that there are some lessons you haven’t
done with us in the time that you’ve been here.”
“Well, what have I missed out on, that you want so
badly?” asked Josh.
Sharon answered: “For one thing, you said ‘What’s
cooking?’ but you haven’t taken us for a cookery class. We
wondered whether you hate cooking.”
“I thoroughly enjoy cooking,” replied Josh, “I have to
admit I did not give it the importance here that it has in our
daily lives. So you would like a cookery lesson today, would
you?”
“Yes! Yes!” shouted several children. “What are we go-
ing to cook?”
“I am not going to ask you what Miss Sallows taught
you, nor am I going to ask what you would like to cook, in
case you all say ‘hamburgers’ or ‘pizza’ or ‘cookies’. So, do
you wish to learn how to cook stir-fried vegetables in a wok
with a variety of herbs and spices?”
“Oh, that’s great!” cried Marie. “We never get a lot of
veggies at home, because Dad always brings us meat from
the butchery! But what are we going to do? We don’t have
any ingredients here.”
“Did you know, Marie, every problem carries a solution
in its pocket,” said Josh. “The solution to this one is simple.
Melanie and Gregory, please show me where the cookery
lesson is usually conducted, and where all the equipment,
cutlery and crockery is kept, so we can check up what we
need in the way of utensils. The rest of you, please get to-
gether and make a list of the vegetables, herbs and spices
you feel should go into this lesson. Then we will all take a
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walk into the village and pay a visit to Jeremy’s father’s su-
per market.”
“Oh no!” exclaimed Jeremy, but his cry fell on deaf
ears. The class was excited. Jeremy was secretly delighted in
spite of his feigned resistance.
A few minutes later, Josh returned with his two com-
panions from his inspection of the kitchen.
“What on earth is all this racket about?” he demanded
at the top his voice so he could be heard above the hubbub.
“We can’t decide on anything, Josh,” wailed Ruth. “One
wants mushrooms, another doesn’t like them, and it’s the
same with just about everything!”
“There’s also an argument about where to go!” ex-
claimed Jeremy indignantly. “Some of the kids don’t want
to buy their veggies from my Dad’s super market.” His
mask of resistance had been stripped away quite acciden-
tally.
“There are problems with buying vegetables and fruit
from super markets,” said Josh. “However, one objection
at least can be overcome by buying only what’s in season,
rather than fruit or vegetables that have been imported or
frozen and are out of season. On that basis, I’m sure we
can agree on six or so basic vegetables. I sug gest you put
your lists together and see what you come up with. Marie,
you be in charge of the vegetable list, and Michael, you take
charge of the herbs and spices.”
After a few minutes, Marie announced proudly, “My fi-
nal list is potatoes, onions, tomatoes, red peppers, cauli-
flower, beans, carrots, broccoli and courgette. This is a
splendid colour mix, and it seems these are acceptable to
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portant ingredient.
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nor can you take away any part of love without damaging
all of love. Were I to remove the radishes from the salad
just for you, I would be agreeing to give you less than my
complete love. And you, in asking for less than my best, are
offering me less than your best, and that is an insult to me.”
Then the holy man called Pharenwyde to him and said,
“What I have heard about you is true. You are the finest
cook not just in Huroma but on the entire planet of
Foreva. Everything you offer is of the purest quality and
the quality of love you put into its preparation is even more
pure than any of the ingredients. Have you also considered
the quality of love you deliver towards your customers? For
them, the meal is not complete until it has been consumed
and the bill paid. It is sad for both a diner and yourself
when the mar vels of your cuisine are sullied by a thought-
less or high-handed attitude. It may well be true that he
who rejects your food is rejecting your love, yet I must tell
you, Pharenwyde, you do not do yourself justice by be-
coming angry, frustrated or disappointed. When you chase
away allergic customers, that too is an unloving act It
means that you have replied to an act of rejection with an-
other act of rejection. For love to be whole and complete,
one has to accept even those who reject one.”
Seeing a cloud of sorrow cross Pharenwyde’s face, the
holy man went on to say: “You set such a splendid example,
Phrenwyde, showing everyone on the planet how well
work can be done when it is done with unconditional love,
that I will extend to you a special blessing. Judgment makes
love conditional. I wish to present you with a gift that will
release you from judgment. Then you may give your love
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and your ser vice freely to all who come to your door,
whether they are able to enjoy your meals or not. Those
who are unwilling, because of their allergies, to eat some
ingredient will instantly be unable to eat here at all, yet you
will not be involved. They will have to decide whether to
change their beliefs about themselves or to go through life
dissatisfied, experiencing less than the best. Thus you will
never again need to feel sad or rejected, nor will you need
to make yourself a judge of others, or send anyone away
from your inn.”
The holy man then returned to his meal, completely ig-
noring Pharenwyde’s attempt to question him further.
When he had finished, he stood up, walked over to the chef
and with a satisfied expression on his face, said, “Thank
you, Pharenwyde, I do indeed feel well loved after that ex-
cellent meal. Now wait here.”
He went out, and within minutes returned, doubled
over under the weight of a huge carton he was carrying.
He set the carton down, opened it and revealed a set of the
most beautiful dinner plates Pharenwyde had ever seen. He
gasped in amazement, and the holy man said, “From now
on, serve your visitors only on these plates. You will dis-
cover that the plates will refuse to allow those with allergies
to eat the food you set before them. You will not need to
give the plates any instruction, nor will you need to com-
ment on the wrong beliefs of your customers.”
“I thank you humbly for this great gift, O wise one,”
said Pharenwyde, “but please explain what you mean about
wrong beliefs and allergies.”
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you only had customers who are perfect, who live lives of
unqualified, unconditional love. Every one of us to some
extent fails to love himself or herself as fully as we should.
Most of us do not even know what loving oneself fully
means or feels like, nor what it entails to develop that qual-
ity. Those who know only an incomplete love are able to
give only an incomplete love. As you yourself have done
today, and on many other occasions, most folk quite unin-
tentionally commit unloving acts, say unloving words, or
hold unloving thoughts about themselves or others, with-
out the faintest idea they are doing so. If every such person
were to be debarred from your inn, you would have no
business left. Now, that would hardly be a blessing, would
it?”
Pharenwyde’s face registered shock at this realization,
but the holy man continued. “Most folk haven’t the slight-
est knowledge that there is a powerful connection between
the thoughts they think and their physical experiences.
However, there are the special cases, those few who have a
really profound dislike of themselves, or who hold a defi-
nite belief that in some respect they are poorer, less fit, less
worthy, or less competent than their fellow beings. No one
can be less than anyone else, since we all come from the
same pure Source. Nevertheless, those who believe they
are inadequate to some extent may well suffer conse-
quences through the working of the Law of Belief.
“This Law attracts situations according to one’s beliefs,
hence it would cause such folk to seem inadequate or less
well off than others, and this at times may take the form of
an allergy. This could happen when their self-dislike is so
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A lthough the sun was shining, the grass was still wet
from the rain. Nevertheless, Josh told the children
to change into their gym clothes, and when they
emerged from the cloakrooms, he took them straight down
to the athletics track.
“Right!” he said. “Let’s see whether you are fit or fat!
I’ll time you over 200 metres.“
Josh organized several combinations of the children, so
that he kept them interested in the activities as well as the
results. First, he put them into five age groups, from 8 to
12 years, and had them run the 200 metres in their group.
Then he had all the boys together, then the girls. He timed
all the winners, and as many as he could of the followers,
writing the results in a notebook. Most of the children, af-
ter being pent-up in the schoolroom for a day and a half,
thoroughly enjoyed the exercise, the variety, and – of
course – the breaks in between the events. Just a few pulled
up their noses at running around the field, but at first they
kept their counsel.
After he had made several calculations in his notebook,
the schoolmaster divided the children into two new groups.
His plan, as he explained to them, was to set the fastest run-
ners, as well as those who tired quickly, in the 100 metre cate-
gory. Those who relied on stamina rather than speed he
would place in the 400 metre category. He would, during the
week before the next outdoor games session, study his note-
book to see which children should run the 1,000 metres,
5,000 metres and 10,000 metres events, and which should
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her. They were already doing a great job of that, albeit ig-
norantly and reluctantly. “You see, even though I have no
legs and no wings, I have ways of feeding that you don’t
know about. Creative Spirit made us all different for a pur-
pose, even though I do not know what the purpose was or
is. I do know, though, that although you have legs and
wings, and your wives lay eggs,” (Carefully, now, Sheena,
she told herself) “the humans who pretend to be your
friends eat your tribe and its eggs. They don’t pretend to be
friends of mine, yet by and large they don’t eat my eggs or
members of my tribe.”
Colin needed time to think this through, and he asked
Sheena not to go away while he thought about it. Oblig-
ingly, she stayed, but it didn’t help Colin. He could not see
the provider of his maize, greens and water as an enemy to
be feared. Finally, he shrugged off this puzzle.
“Listen, beautiful snake,” he called. “We may be very
different from one another, but we can complement each
other by our differences, can’t we? For example, because
you are invisible in the grass, you could hide there and tell
me who is stealing the eggs every day from the nest my
wives lay them in. I, from this height, on the other hand,
could warn you of any approaching danger, or anything
else you wanted to know.”
Sheena thought this through very carefully, because she
could see herself making a much greater sacrifice than
Colin if she agreed. “Well,” she thought to herself, “There
are other hens laying other eggs nearby. And his help may
make catching rats easier than it has been.”
She looked up at Colin and said, “Done! We’ll be
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what is now called nor mal water. Then I milk the cows in a
natural way and because everything is so clean and healthy,
I do not need to put chemicals into the milk to sterilize it.
When Grace and I churn it into butter, we add only a little
salt for flavouring and we don't use chemicals to preserve
or colour it. Finally, every morning when we wake and ev-
ery evening when we go to bed Grace and I say ‘Thank
you God for all you’ve given us’ and we say thank you to
the cattle and all the plants that have blessed us with their
produce.”
The terrible trio looked at each other and snig gered.
Richard’s whispered “Weirdo!” was heard by all.
“Yes, most people here think Grace and I are weirdo’s,”
said Adam without turning a hair, “but we do what we love,
and we love what we do. We live with Nature and Nature
looks after us very well indeed. Those are some of the dif-
ferences between us and nor mal people.”
The children remained silent for a few moments, then
Sharon asked, “Well, why does it have to be different?
What do other farmers do?”
Adam replied, “To use Josh?s term, I think that's a very
proper question. However, you should ask it of Farmer
Carney or the people who buy from him like Mr Hacker or
Mr Greenways; or those who sell him chemicals and hor -
mones or make artificial feeds, like Mr Sanders.”
Marie, Jeremy and Tanya all blushed and became very
silent and withdrawn. Nevertheless, they quickly forgot
that their fathers' names had been mentioned when Mr
Freeman and Josh took them out into his fields and right to
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Barkis, came along, wag ging his tail and barking fiercely at
the same time.
“I suppose you call him Barkis because he barks such a
lot,” said Tom.
“Yes, and also because of Barkis in David
Copperfield,” answered Adam.
“Who's that?” came from several voices at once.
Josh replied, “Well, didn't I say this was an English les-
son? David Copperfield is a book I hope you'll read one
day. In it is a man called Barkis, who sent a message saying
'Barkis is willing' .”
Adam continued, “And my dog Barkis is willing, too.
He's always friendly, always happy, yet always willing to do
whatever I tell him to. For instance, if I tell him to round
up the cattle now, he'll jump the fence and do it.”
“Isn't he scared of them?” asked Michael. “They're so
big!.”
“No, he isn't, and they aren't scared of him, either,”
said Adam. “He lets them know who’s in charge and they
accept it. It's only when animals or people are frightened
that other animals or people sense it, and can take advan-
tage of the fear to threaten or attack.”
“Do cows attack people?“ queried Ruth.
“Not often;” answered the farmer. “They're docile
creatures, usually, but they can become very threatening at
times. A holidaymaker here recently walked into the cows'
field one morning. Later he told us that when he saw cows
so close to him he became ner vous. Instantly one cow put
her head down and started to move towards him, then all
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Sebul raised her head and looked all round to see where
the real pastures were. There were none. This little field
was the only patch of Nature amidst a mass of Wertu
homes, each of which had its own garage for the family
landcar, and boat-berth or helipad, that is, hovercar hangar.
A sense of desperation descended upon the cow.
Sidani attempted to tie a rope around her horns, but
Sebul lowered her head and advanced threateningly to-
wards him. The werbin backed off, and picking up three
metal poles, said to his friends, “We could prod her in with
these poles. I´ll take the rear if you take one side each.
Sirril, you keep her going straight. If she turns, yap at her.”
Everyone took up their positions and Sirril wagged his tail
again.
Sebul turned her head around, checked from which di-
rection the truck and trailer had arrived, and decided to go
straight back that way to her home in Witsheva. She turned
as though her feet were oiled, put her head down and
marched.
“No, no, you stupid cow!” shouted Sidani, “I want you
to come this way!” He ran after the animal and grabbed her
tail. She marched on, pulling him along behind her. His
companions ran alongside, trying to change her direction by
prodding her with the poles. Sebul, growing angrier and
more determined, uttered an almighty bellow and the two
friends fell back. Sidani, still hanging desperately onto her
tail, shrieked, “Sirril, stop her! Go for her, Sirril, attack, attack!”
“What a wonderful game!” thought Sirril, “I must join
in here!” With that, he darted towards Sebul, yapping at
her front leg. Sebul lowered her head, glared at him and
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do they mean?”
“I mean you to look them up in a dictionary,” said Josh.
“When you see them in black and white, you will remember
them better. I will tell you this, though. ‘Black and white’
refers not only to print, but also to the piano. Words –
which are sounds – and music are closely related. Thus, al-
though they come from the world of music, the words dis-
har mony, dissonance and discord are all unpleasant
effects in our daily lives. They are caused by dissent, and
they lead to greater dissent.”
“So if you look after the sense, the sounds will look af-
ter themselves !” Melanie volunteered, and Josh was un-
able to respond because so many hands and voices were
raised. Tanya got in first.
“What do you describe as head-banging noise?” she
asked. “Are you referring to modern pop, rock, rap, heavy
metal or other modern music for young people? Or are
you referring to jazz?”
“Or to Shostakovich, Webern, Stravinsky, Schonberg
and similar modern composers?” added Gregory.
“My comments do not apply only to the sphere of mu-
sic,” replied Josh, “nor to a specific class of music. It is a
symptom of the modern world. I refer to aeroplanes, cars,
motor-bikes, hammers, drills, mobile phones, rowdy
crowds, barking dogs, clattering bottles, exploding fire-
works – not just the ear-splitting sounds conveyed via car
radios, or mobile juke-boxes, as I’ve heard them called.
The atmosphere is so full of head-banging stuff nowa-
days, it doesn’t need musicians to add to the quantity, but at
any club or dance, the volume of sound, blared out on
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ings that you either suppressed until you forgot about their
existence; or do they lie there yet, craving recognition and
expression? Or were you amongst the few who broke free
and went on to realise the dream? I have two hopes in this
respect. One is, that your children have developed and will
continue to develop the right hemispheres as well as the
left hemispheres of their brains. The second is that you,
their parents, will help them do so rather than hinder them,
which seems to be the mission of today’s parents and
teachers.”
He fell silent, and so, for a few moments, did his audi-
ence. It was quite a lecture he had just delivered. However,
Marie Hacker’s mother, Katy, was more interested in outer
effects than inner. She asked Josh quite directly, “You are
an attractive young man. We do not know whether you
have a wife or a partner, and you show no interest in our at-
tractive young women. Since we have to trust our children
to your care, may I ask, are you nor mal?”
Josh laughed out loud, then replied with his customary
but not-so-noticeable evasion. “What do you mean by
‘nor mal’? Nor mal means in accordance with the norms,
that is, the public standards of the time. I don’t know
whether the public today has definable standards, and if
such exist, what those standards are or whether you and I
would choose to live by them. I certainly do not conform
to today’s standards of confusion, where people are uncer-
tain of their identities, of their roles in life, of their sexual-
ity, of their origins, or of the power they have within
themselves to deter mine their own futures rather than be
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gen and others. All of these are present in the air. They
travel in air but are not air; and all of them have a function
in our lives and in all living things. When you inhale, you
breathe in oxygen; when you exhale, you breathe out car-
bon dioxide. They release waste in the stomach and bowels,
and have medical uses as well…“
“Excuse me, Josh,” said Marie Hacker, “but I thought
I’d point out that Miss Sallows may be back fairly soon.
Would you mind giving us an outline of the complete
course as you would do it? I’m asking this in case you don’t
finish your approach before her return, and hers is so dif-
ferent that I – and I think the whole class – would like to
look up anything you might miss out on telling us.”
“I take your point,” smiled Josh. “May I say how well
you’ve put it, not to insult either Miss Sallows or me! I will
give you a breakdown of the route I intend to follow, which
is not strictly the route of the Education Board or Miss Sal-
lows. Please note that I do teach you or intend to teach you
what the Education Board wishes you to know. However,
I also have other items on my agenda, that I believe are as
important, or perhaps even more important for you,
which accounts for how far I stray – in this and every other
subject.”
Josh then wrote on the board the course he would fol-
low, and it was, indeed, much more than they would get
from Miss Sallows. Of the twelve headings he listed, the
children would receive no more than three from their regu-
lar teacher, and those three, ‘Body construction and func-
tion’, ‘cells’ and ‘chemicals and chemical reactions’, would
probably be enough for them to gain university entrance
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good as humans, you know. That’s why they use pig’s livers
and hearts in transplant operations.”
“The reason it’s wrong to call them pigs is that pigs may
just be better than humans,” said Richard. “My dad told
me of a Ger man expression he heard long ago: Man is not a
pig – Man eats everything.”
“Well, this too has been a biological discussion, I
guess,” said Josh. “It’s not listed on the Department’s
schedule, nor on mine, so we shall drop the discussion of
pigs and turn to the human biological make-up. We will
now deal seriously with this subject, so open your books,
and write down the heading; `Body construction and func-
tion´.”
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the Lunatix part. They had to be careful what and how they
wrote. No direct mention is made of Atlantis or the
Lunatix, and they scrambled the dates of various events so
that some appeared to take place before and others after
they actually happened.”
“I’m lost, again!” wailed young Simon. “Please, can
you explain it a bit more clearly?”
“I’ll do better than that!” said Josh sympathetically.
“I’ll give you some examples from the Bible: Adam, a
clean-living Atlantean, was beguiled by Eve – a vulnerable
Atlantean female - who was beguiled by a Luni serpent.
Cain was a Luni-human who murdered Abel the
Atlantean. They were brothers, which may be another fig-
ure of speech, symbolising the idea that all mankind is a
brotherhood; or that the Atlanteans and the Lunatix be-
came brothers through inter marriage.
Abraham and Sarah were do-gooder Atlanteans, but
Haggai was a Lunit.
Esau was an Atlantean, but Jacob, the great de-
ceiver-cum-do-gooder, was a Luni. He deceived his father
and Esau, then wrestled with an angel and won. The angel
was dressed as a normal man, so he was probably an
Atlantean. This may be another way of saying that the
Lunatix overcame the Atlantean do-gooders. Don’t forget
he underwent a name-change here to ‘He who fought with
God’.
Moses was an Atlantean, Pharoah a Luni-human;
David vacillated between the two cultures;
Jesus was an Atlantean facing a growing mass of
Lunatix.”
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how they function within you, starting with the least dense
and moving to the most dense.”
“Excuse me, Josh,” interrupted Gregory. “Why only a
little? Why don’t you tell us all?”
“You – all of you – could become confused if I told you
everything, especially about your minds and your brains,”
replied the teacher. “I will tell you enough for you to under-
stand there are five aspects to each of you. The rest you will
have to learn for yourselves, from medical, metaphysical,
philosophical and spiritual books, from encyclopaedias, and
from other sources. Don’t be worried, though. You have
time on your side, and in any event, what I am about to tell
you is that which no-one else is likely to.”
Greg ory gave a sigh of acceptance. Others in the class
gave a sigh of relief.
“The Creative body, or aspect, works through Intu-
ition and manifests through the right hemisphere of the
brain,” said Josh. “It is the medium through which we
hear the voice of the Divine. Because it seems to be the
most gentle and subtle, it is the most easily overlooked. It is
the realm in which we give to – and receive from – our
Source directly, rather than from our family, friends, neigh-
bours or other beings. The keyword I have given it is Per-
sistence, for without persistence one is unlikely to be truly
creative, or fully receptive to the voice of Intuition.
“The left hemisphere of the brain governs the Intel-
lect. It functions best when we are thinking consciously,
therefore its voice is much louder than the subconscious
messages from the right hemisphere. It manifests as reason
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we would use money for. This includes the land we live on,
the food we require for the sustenance of our physical
bodies, our holidays, education, gifts, and so on. It is also
our debts, just as our emotional body is not only Love but
our hatreds too. Like your Creative, Intellectual and Emo-
tional aspects, your Material body is not always clearly visi-
ble to outsiders. It is best described as the body which, after
one’s death, is dealt with and observed by the executor of
one’s estate. I have given this body the keyword of Honesty,
for if every single human being was honest with himself or
herself as well as with every person they encounter, the en-
tire material world would change for the better.
“The body with which you are most familiar is the
Physical. For the majority of people, it is the only body
they are aware of having, though it exists, like a pen and pa-
per, for no other purpose than for Doing – doing the bid-
ding of the other four bodies incorporated within one
spiritual being. Its job is to give effect to the ideas,
thoughts, dreams, feelings and machinations of these pow-
erful yet intangible bodies. I have given it the keyword
Courage , for that is the quality that will keep it going in spite
of illness, torture or defeat.
“So these are the key-words to guide you in everything
you do and with everyone you meet : PERSISTENCE -
TEACHING – LOVE – HONESTY – COURAGE.
You have no guarantee that everyone you meet will recip-
rocate. In fact, you may find yourselves taken advantage of
at times. Yet, by and large, people – and creatures – re-
spond to what is extended to them; so you will simply
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ples, you will never lack for anything at any level; you will
be able to look yourself in the eye, to sleep peacefully, and
to live joyously. What is more, you will change the world
in the process.”
He paused for a while, to let those who were writing his
definitions in their books finish. Then he continued:
“Now I will keep the promise I made to you a few min-
utes ago. I have spent 12 weeks – 84 wonderful days – with
you. My stay has passed rapidly – too rapidly – yet it is all
the time we have needed together. From now on, you will
be able, with a different and healthier attitude, to listen to
and learn all the infor mation Miss Sallows will pass on to
you, much of which will help you live happily on your
planet. My job has been to remind you that you all have in-
side ears with which you can hear the Truth, the real words
of God; you have inside noses, with which you can sniff
out whether a person you meet is good and honest, or is
dangerous for you or others; you have inside eyes with
which to picture a better world for all to live in; you have
inside thoughts with which you can create that better
world. With your inner voice you can call on me – as well as
on all the master minds of the ages – to help you do so.
That’s how you can all be with me. Above all, knowing in-
side yourselves how powerful you are means you have
nothing to fear, so you are free to create the better world
you desire.
“In a few minutes I will leave you, and you will stay
here. Yet your hearts and your minds will be with me for-
ever, wherever I go, and I will be with each of you wher-
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face and solve problems, knowing at all times that each one
you overcome, each goal you achieve, simply opens the
gates to tougher challenges, greater issues.
“It is my wish for you that you meet every issue of life
with confidence. Develop the inner certainty that you have
the resources to deal with it or the means to access the re-
sources wherever they may be. Yet never let this confi-
dence, nor whatever success you achieve, make you
arrogant, overbearing or contemptuous of others. Con-
stantly cherish a sense of humility. True humility is not
creepiness or Uriah Heepiness, it is not subordinating
yourselves to others or fawning upon others. It is the rec-
ognition that there is a Source of Life that is greater than
you are, wiser, more creative, more loving. It is your
Source, your higher Self, and without it you are nothing.
True humility, then, is acknowledging the Source of your
success, your strength, your health, your ideas, at all times.
Likewise, true self-confidence is confidence in your Higher
Self, your Source, the I AM – not the I.
“Self-confidence and Humility are soulmates. When
they meet in one person they will carry that being safely
and joyously through life and after.”
Josh stood up. “It is time for me to leave, time to say
farewell.” He walked to his desk and produced from a
drawer a large rolled-up sheet.
"Come here, Melanie," he commanded. As she came
forward he continued, "I shall say goodbye to you and to
all the children now. Since you are the eldest, it will be your
task to unroll this sheet and read it aloud to the class. After
I have gone, tape it up on the board. Then you children
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Appendix
Appendix
Province: Howeva.
Clan: Howrite Symbol
Capital: Howanisbar Ancestors: Howlong (Migo & Ugo)
Male: Howla Female: Howzit
Guiding Principle: Action Buildings: Iron
Strangers: Dunnoze Guardian Angel: Getamuvon
Roles: Builders, mechanics, labourers, inventors, actors, bankers, toymakers, advertis-
ing agents, public relations, consultants, weapons inspectors, arms dealers.
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