The romantic story of the encounter between a South African woman and a man from Meton, a planet in Proxima Centauri.
BEYOND THE LIGHT BARRIER is the autobiographical story of Elizabeth Klarer, a South African woman and Akon, an astrophysicist from Meton, a planet of Proxima Centuri that, at a distance of about 4.3 light years, is our nearest stellar neighbor.
Elizabeth was taken in his spaceship to Meton, where she lived with him and his family for four months and where she bore his child. Her life on Meton is fascinatingly described. Akon brought Elizabeth back to Earth after the birth of their son, and continued to visit her thereafter.
Akon explained how his spaceship's light-propulsion technology operated, and how it allowed him and his people to travel across vast interstellar distances. This technology is explained in detail in the book.
Particular interest was shown in Elizabeth's experience by the British Ministry of Defence and they announced that UFOs do exist and are now official. Elizabeth's story has attracted the attention of many countries, in particular America, Britain and Russia.
In 1975 she was given a standing ovation at the 11th International Congress of UFO Research Groups at Weisbaden, Germany, and her speech as guest of honor was applauded by scientists of twenty-two nations. In 1983 she addressed the House of Lords, in England and her paper was also read at the United Nations.
ABOUT ALPHA CENTAURI
Proper Names: Rigel Kentaurus, Rigil Kentaurus, Toliman
Bayer Designation: Alpha Centauri
Flamsteed Number: None
BSC: 5459
HD: 128620
Constellation: Centaurus
Right Ascension: 14h 39m 36s
Declination: -60° 50' 2''
Distance: 4.4 light years/1.4 parsecs
Apparent Magnitude: 0.0
Absolute Magnitude: +4.3
Spectral Class: G2 Yellow Dwarf
Optimum Visibility: May
DEDICATION
To the memory of my sister, May Flower, who struggled for existence in a hostile world, and dedicated with love to Akon, who made it possible for this book to be written
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
During the past twenty-one years I have had the assistance of many hundreds of South Africans, foreign citizens and officials to whom I would like to express my gratitude.
My deepest appreciation and gratitude to Mr. Hollidge and Mr. Tucker of Mathison & Hollidge, whose wonderful and unforgettable kindness, generosity, interest and care in my welfare have given me the time and strength to create this beautiful book. I also wish to thank and express my deep appreciation to Karl and Anny Veit, who gave their selfless cooperation in the publication of this book, and for the inestimable value of Manfred Landeck's translation—he was tuned to my frequency.
I wish to express my deep appreciation to the late Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding. I also express appreciation to Dr. Meiring Naude (Scientific Adviser to the Prime Minister), Professor Tusinius, Professor Wilson (International Liaison Lawyer and Jurisconsultant to the British Institute), the South African Air Force, South African Security Police, Major and Mrs. Jock Flower and Major Aubrey Fielding (British Intelligence MI-10) for their valued encouragement and help.
A special tribute is due to SABC, SABC-TV and the South African press. I wish to thank all the broadcasters and members of the press who have supported me and given publicity to this book, among many of them: Mrs. Joy Anderson, Mrs. Doreen Levin, Chris Vermaak, Richard Gibbs, Jan de Waal, Hilary Prendini, Petra Pieterse, Colonel Stephen Grenfell of the BBC, the Argus Group of newspapers, the Citizen and Fair Lady Magazines, Hoofstad, Dagbreek and many other news media.
Finally, I want to express my love and gratitude to my daughter, Dr. Marilyn Phillips; my son, David Klarer; my sister, Mrs. Barbara McKenzie; my dearest friend, Mrs. Neslie Schmutz; and Mrs. Stephanie Mellis, who understood and supported my aspirations. I also want to thank our very dear Gus, Mrs. Augusta Sell, for giving me her thoughtful care, and to Geoff and Lynette Wilson for giving me such a lovely home to live in.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
(*) TIME ON THE COSMIC LEVEL
(**) FOREWORD: A SYMBOL OF MAN REACHING FOR THE MOON
(1) A STRANGER IN OUR SKIES
(2) LINK WITH MEN OF OTHER WORLDS
(3) THE SECRETS OF LIGHT
(4) AN ESCAPE ROUTE TO THE STARS
(5) THE HEIGHTS OF CATHKIN
(6) BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER: TO ALPHA CENTAURI
(7) THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE
(***) EPILOGUE: THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF ALL THINGS
(*)
TIME ON THE COSMIC LEVEL
This book is about time on the cosmic level, with new data not yet registered on scientific instruments. The reader needs to follow the cosmic layout of my writing very closely to understand the vast implications involved. Otherwise, the cosmic scale of this book will be lost and misunderstood by many whose intelligence cannot be expanded in this epoch of time to a conscious awareness of our cosmic connections.
—Elizabeth Klarer A.T.C.L.
Dipl.Met., Cambridge
The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull primitive can comprehend only in their primitive forms — this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
—Albert Einstein
Ikhanya elikhanya emnyameni.
(A light that enlightened the darkness.)
—Zulu praise
(**)
FOREWORD
A SYMBOL OF MAN REACHING FOR THE MOON
"... and he was also a symbol... a symbol of man reaching for the moon and the stars, of man flashing into space in an endless adventure ..."
For as long as man has lived in this world, from the days when he lived in a cave, he has searched for knowledge. He has reached the heights of Everest, the depths of the sea. His aircraft in thousands span the globe and gradually encircle this Earth at greater heights and greater speeds, making of what was a vast circumference something that is so puny that it is not surprising that he is reaching out into the vast, limitless, uncharted fields of space.
He has reached the moon, the first stage of his journey to other civilizations on other worlds—for make no mistake, we are not alone. This is now proven by archaeologists, scientists and astronomers. The pace of discovery is heightening now that the clues have been established. Almost every day brings amazing and exciting discoveries. Other civilizations from whence we came are out there, and it is there that man's future must lie.
Some years ago, when in British Intelligence in Malaya—fighting the communist bandits hidden in the vast jungles—one felt a sense of awful frustration. Nowhere in the world was there peace. The whole Earth was torn by strife, Cold War and hot war. Thousands of people said, "Man is making such a mess of life; there is such turmoil. Is it really worth living?"
At the time, an Oxford professor came out and lectured to us. He said: "There are masses of Mother Grundies saying, 'What a dreadful age in which to live!' Do these people realize what a wonderful age it is? We are on the very threshold of leaving this planet and traveling and exploring the vast universe... This is the beginning."
He went on to describe the ramjet, or flying stovepipe, as he described it—just a heated stovepipe that would soon project men through space at ever-increasing speeds. A dreadful age indeed! How fortunate we are to be alive, and what wonderful, enthralling achievements we may see in our lifetimes.
These pages tell, through personal experience, of an advanced civilization in outer space, a civilization that has already found the secrets of space propulsion. One is enthralled at the beauty and wonder of their silent electrical ships that hover over and have landed on this Earth.
Purely imaginary, one might say, until one reads the immense amount of scientific and technical explanation given by the author. The defeat of so-called gravity has long been a dream, with weightlessness being the answer. This, it seems, can only be achieved in the electrical field, and here it is described in absorbing detail for the scientist or the man in the street to perceive. It is indeed true to say that he who first achieves the answers will be complete master of this Earth.
But these people from space are not only advanced in the scientific field; they are physically, mentally and spiritually evolved and wish to bring nothing but good to this planet. Let us hope that before man is given the secret, he too will want to take with him peace and goodwill and not the present strife and evils of this Earth. Why, whenever there is a reported landing, must people rush for firearms in a panic and start blazing away? Because it is man's instinct of self-preservation and destruction.
May we fly peacefully into the unknown one day. May the space people come to us and show us a better way of life before we destroy ourselves and the world. Not only is there technical detail in all fields in this book, but the beauty of universal love as described by the author—who is certainly no ordinary person herself—will never be forgotten.
Anthony Fielding, Major British Intelligence Corps (retired)
(1)
STRANGER IN OUR SKIES
We were feeding our Sealyham puppies in the stableyard when we saw it. The Sun had just gone down behind the Drakensberg and the early summer sky of the Natal midlands was clear and rain-washed after the storm had passed. The guinea fowl were calling to each other as they prepared to roost in the wattle tree that grew near the house. Suddenly, they stopped calling—and my sister and I both saw it at the same time.
An enormous silvery disk swooped down toward us, moving with a changing brightness out of the clear expanse of sky—a globe of light as clear as a pearl. Fascinated, we watched it maneuver over us, while the puppies left their food and ran yelping into the kennel.
Then suddenly another huge sphere fell out of the sky, rolling down toward us, glowing orange-red and rotating slowly as it came, pockmarked with craters like the Moon. A fiery and terrifying planetoid was silently and gracefully sweeping through the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere, and as it slowly rotated, suspended on its course toward us, the silvery disk moved with a flash of light and paced beside it in a slow passage across the sky until the planetoid moved out of the Sun's rays to the north, leaving a long, thick trail like smoke across the heavens.
We both ran for the house, my heart thumping so loudly against my ribs that I was quite breathless when we reached the wide verandah where our parents were sitting, enjoying the evening tranquillity. My sister told them what we had seen in breathless snatches of excitement—two small children with white, excited faces trying to tell of something fantastic in the sky. My father got up and walked to the edge of the long verandah and looked up into the sky.
"Perhaps it was a meteor," he said.
The wide stoep, peculiar to South African farmhouses, hid the sky with its sloping roof, and the view was across a beautiful expanse of lawns with great oaks and pine trees; the home park with brilliant flowers in long beds, azaleas and rhododendrons massed among the trees; and beyond, to the hills and the mountains of the Dragon.
"No, no," I insisted when I got my breath again. "Something out there saved Earth, our beautiful planet, from a ravening, desolate asteroid intent on a collision course and destruction."
I paused, and then said, "And—something out there, a beautiful spaceship from elsewhere—came in time to see our plight."
"In time?" my father gently queried. "How do you know?"
"Yes... I know..." And putting my hand in my mother's, I went indoors with her to have supper. My mother's great gift of understanding was an everlasting joy to me, as in that moment the vibrations of time drew aside the nebulous mists of eternity and the womb of the future revealed itself to my questing soul.
The grown-ups' dinner was much later, and when my mother came to kiss us good night, she had changed into a flowing gown of shimmering gold. Maintaining the civilized standards of her aristocratic English background even in the distances of the African veld, she brought the gracious way of life inherited from her noble family.
Too excited to sleep, I lay awake listening to the heavenly music of Mozart as my mother played the Bechstein boudoir grand in the distant drawing room. Her magic touch on the keyboard liberated my soul to the heights of heaven as I relaxed and looked up through the wide-open window into the starry sky and wondered if we would see the beautiful spaceship again.
The Year of Halley's Comet
I was born in the year of Halley's Comet, at the other farm set in the rolling thorn country overlooking the vast distances of the lowveld, where the Mooi River meets the mighty Tugela in surroundings of startling beauty.
The still nights of the full moon were filled with the rhythmic stamping and chanting of the Zulu, and the rhythm of the drums, rising and fading in volume, beat like a heart through the moonlit distances of the thornveld.
When we moved to the new farm in the foothills of the Drakensberg, Ladam, theinduna*, came with us. He refused to stay behind in the thornveld where it was much warmer. He was an ikhelha** and all would listen to his advice and words of wisdom, and he would not allow us to go elsewhere without him to take care of us. He rode the many kilometers on the gray mare my father had given him and appeared like a wraith in the stableyard as a howling blizzard swept down from the mountains of the Dragon.
*) headman
**) man in late middle age
In the beautiful rolling grass country of the Drakensberg foothills, I was allowed more freedom, and after lessons I would catch my pony and canter away to the solitude of the hills, often going to my favorite hilltop overlooking the farmstead in the valley. The pony would roll and then enjoy the evergreen grass within the bowl or dip at the top of the hill, browsing to her heart's content, while I would lie in the thick grass, watching the sky in the hope of seeing the never-to-be-forgotten spaceship my sister and I had seen from the stableyard in the valley below. Little did I realize what this hilltop would mean to me in years to come.
Where the Sky Joins the Earth at the Horizon
Ladam would watch me go with the knowledge of centuries in his wise old eyes and send an umfana* to watch and see that no danger befell me. There were always eyes, though—herdboys and abafana** lying in the long grass as still as mice or swaying in the branches of a tree or squatting in an outcrop of rocks. Nothing ever goes unseen. All is known. This faculty, which is born and bred in the African veld, spreads its influence to the white children conceived within its embrace.
*) boy
**) small boys
Ladam always called me by my Zulu name. "Hlangabeza*, Inkosazana**," raising his hand in salute, and my mother looked at me with wondering eyes.
*) to meet
**) little chieftainess
"To meet—one who brings together," he explained to my mother.
"The golden hair of her head will bring the Abelungu* from the sky, and there will be a meeting together," Ladam said. "They are the sky gods who once lived on this world, but afterward ascended to the sky over our heads by means of the spider's thread in clouds of lightning and thunder."
*) white people
Then he would tell me in the expressive language of the Zulu about the folklore of his people while I sat on the garden wall. I could understand the Zulu tongue, and I listened while he unfolded the folklore of his tribe, which was more enthralling and fascinating than any tale from elsewhere. I sensed his sincere belief and the ring of truth in his narrative, and I would glance up into the depths of the blue sky with wondering eyes as he told of many strange and mysterious things.
"Once upon a time, a man and a woman came down from the sky on a cloud and alighted upon a hilltop. They were white and shining, with hair of gold. Their village is said to be lighted by a mightier light than any on this world. The people wear shining clothes and the huts are thatched with shining grass. They were caught up to heaven again by a flash of lightning.
They are goodly to look on, beautiful and radiant—their clans are taller and lighter-complexioned and markedly different in feature. These heaven dwellers will return with the lightning bird whose scales glitter in many colors. It is blue or gold, or it is red or green like a metallic iridescence. And when you are a grown woman, you will go to the mountaintop and there you will wait for the heaven dwellers and there will be a meeting together, a mating. You belong to the heaven dwellers. We know this. The mfiti* has told us.
*) witch
"There," he said with a long, drawn-out breath and pointed a gnarled finger. "There, on the mountaintop, the lightning bird whose blue and gold scales glitter in many colors like the rainbow will come for you, Inkosazana. The heaven dwellers used to live here in a big land far to the south, but afterward ascended to the sky by means of the spider's thread from the lightning bird. Some of our people have gotten into the heaven country by climbing a mountain or a tree, ascending by means of a rope uncoiling from a cloud, or by the thread the spider obligingly spins for them. The Zulu say, 'Who can plait a rope for ascending, that he may go to heaven.' Into the sky for Zulu means 'the sky,' and we Zulu have long had a high opinion of ourselves to be tall like the sky and not mingle with the lesser tribes of black peoples. Our destiny lies in the proud aggression of our Izimpi*, who await the return of our sky gods.
*) Zulu army
"Cattle and horses were sent down from the heaven country for the sustenance of the Zulu. Only white cattle and white horses were sent, but the horses died of a fever in our country, and the few that were left raced away one day before the great wind of a storm, while the cattle flourished and became as numerous as Inyonikai pumuli*. And when the big drought came, we turned to eating the flesh of the white cattle for sustenance, and by so doing became a warlike people.
*) The white birds that have no rest.
"The spirits of our ancestors remain in a village in the center of the world, and clumps of tall trees beside mountain tarns show the way to the underworld. These trees are cared for and venerated. The ghost country can only be reached through caves or holes in the ground, and it is not usual for the heaven dwellers to be found in the company of the underground dwellers by the slope where the sky joins the earth at the horizon.
"There is also the Tokoloshe* who comes out of the ground to make unlawful love to women. He can live in the water, and it is said that this being has been seen on the banks of the Umzinduzi River near Umkam- bati, beyond Pietermaritzburg."
*) A being with a short, hairy body.
There Was No Sound, Only Complete Silence.
As Ladam told me of these things, the Sun dimmed as sudden, scudding clouds swept across its disk. A black cloud gathered to the east with sudden jagged flashes of forked lightning playing about its flat base. As the menacing cloud moved closer, I cried out with delight as we both saw the great silvery spaceship glowing with a white radiance against the awesome cumulonimbus. The terrible, broad funnel of a tornado began to form from the base of the cloud, swaying and twisting as it reached downward toward the ground, moving swiftly and haphazardly along its destructive path and heading up the valley toward the homestead.
Attracted by the deafening roar of the mature tornado, my mother's anxious face appeared at the drawing room windows. I saw the sudden wonder in her eyes as she caught a glimpse of the spaceship moving across the terrifying tornado, and the broad funnel swayed as it lifted over us. Looking up, my awestruck eyes beheld the interior of the great funnel.
Swaying gently and bending slowly toward the east, filled with the pale blue light of electricity, it stood motionless over us save for a slow up-and-down pulsation. Higher up, the funnel was partly filled with a bright cloud that shimmered like a fluorescent light. This brilliant cloud was in the middle, not touching the smooth, rotating walls, which looked as if it were composed of rings moving one behind the other, rippling down toward the rim in a wave motion. It pulsed like a live thing, and as the higher ring moved onward, the ring immediately below slipped over to get back under it.
I found myself involuntarily responding to the rhythm of the great rings as the pulsebeats in my head kept time with their wave motion. Yet there was no sound, only complete silence, and as the wave motion reached the bottom of the circle, the far rim of the funnel jerked downward and long, vaporous, pale blue streamers extended out and upward from the roof of the house. And then the thick opaque rim passed over, without touching the house or the surrounding trees.
A few feet further on, the rippling motion within the funnel jerked downward and flicked a tall pine tree away like a flash of light! When the funnel touched it, the tree dissolved, the parts shooting off to the right like sparks. Again the funnel touched down, demolishing an empty shed, and with a frightening roar, spent its fury in the hills beyond.
Ladam's face had aged in those few moments of sudden danger. Shaking his head with awe, he explained that the heaven dwellers and their lightning bird with glittering silver scales had come to save us again as they had done that evening many months back. Therefore, the mfiti was telling the truth.
Humankind Is Not Unique
The angry cloud had not finished with us. As I ran into the house, a ball of lightning surrounded by a glowing blue haze moved along the telephone wires into the house. It squeezed past me through the doorway and out into the garden as if it had a mind of its own. The fiery sphere swiftly moved along the ground like a creeping corona discharge in the electric field and then shot up the bole of an oak tree, returning to the serrated cloud base above in a flash of lightning. Bits of bark scattered through the open doorway, and the whiplash crack of the lightning channel's explosive shock waves knocked me sprawling on the polished floor.
My Siamese cat sprang to my aid, spitting defiance at the elements beyond the door, her feline sensitivity outraged by the sudden proximity of magnetic lines of force. Emotionally disturbed, she padded about the hall and refused to be comforted until I gathered her up in my arms and ran through the house to a more neutral spot.
Ladam called the beautiful grass-covered uplands where our homestead nestled Mpofana, a musical name well suited to the rolling hills where the long grass sings in the south wind. "Good horse country," my father said, where he could breed the white horses so dear to his heart. I would watch them gallop with the wind that blows down ahead of an approaching storm, drinking the wind like Mohammed's sacred white mare, or like Pegasus, whose real home is in the upper sky, where one must go upon wings to see it.
It was here that Selene was born and given to me, a true daughter of the wind. Tossing her delicate head and turning to me with gentle affection, nudging her soft muzzle into my back, she would stand in the open doorway of her loose box, the classic curve of her head outlined against the darkness within like snow upon the blue molecules of the sky.
Her ancient lineage is lost in the mists of time—there is no trace in the history of the past to indicate the origin of her white ancestors. Could it be the stony uplands of an arid land where first they set hoof on earth to gladden the hearts of men? Or perhaps from the empty coolness of a cloud drawing the golden chariot of Helios, as the white horses pranced across the aura of the Sun coming to Earth as a culmination of the Sun's rays, where white is the great principle of light from the farthest spiral galaxy to the minutest micro-atoms within the atoms?
Bred in the cradle wind of heaven, the snowy-white horses brought to Earth the graceful rhythm of dancing snowflakes. They moved with the vibrations of time in perfection of composition as only the soaring imagination of Mozart could conjure. Mozart, who brought the majesty and peace of heaven to Earth in a life of sublime creation, whose life was cut short, destroyed by an envier whose dark and sinister intent is inherent in mortal man. What legacy of immortal music could there have been for humankind had he been allowed to live, had he not been poisoned by the black alchemy of the age?
The unearthly white horses are a legacy for humankind. In this age of mechanization and frightening technology, people of Earth are merely human beings while each horse is unique—a genius of its species, an elemental force, like a dream in the drab emptiness of our time. As they tread the soil of Earth in the rolling high grass country of Mpofana, perhaps there is a similarity to the heady atmosphere of the stony uplands of yore, when Earth was younger and closer to her star and the planet of their origin. Ladam had said the white horses came from the heaven country, and these are their descendants.
I looked into the mysterious sky, remote and never still, and wondered about Nature's plan for men of Earth. Will they ever grasp and understand her plan of evolution set for them? Will they realize one day that the whole universe in which they have their being is life, composed of energy and matter, and that they are merely a part of its condensed energy? Humankind is not unique. He is merely a creature of the cosmos who is still too immature to comprehend the profound truth of his origin—his galactic origin. Perhaps a race memory, nourished and retained within his subconscious through centuries of Earth time, may burst forth in the splendor of truth when he treads the road to the stars and returns into the fold of the universe in which he has his being.
The Magic of the Lodestone Is the Basis of All Life.
Growing up and going to live overseas to further my studies could not dim the memory of the great silver spaceship hovering in the mysterious sky. Unconsciously I would look up into the depths of blue, hoping, hoping, my eyes clouding with tears I could not restrain, as a snatch of music or a sunset in the sky would cause me suddenly to catch my breath in memory.
Even marriage and the birth of my first child could not ease my longing. My husband chided me on being so restless and flew me into the sky in a Tiger Moth biplane, teaching me how to fly. Encouraged by his understanding, I would fly off into the depths of blue, seeking the ship of space in her own environment.
The hazards in the sky were few and the lovely days clear with endless vision. I headed toward the Drakensberg with the rolling green hills spread out beneath. Only an isolated thundercloud prowled to the west. Suddenly, I was struck by a volley of hailstones out of the sunlit sky. The beautiful white anvil cloud that was soaring innocently in the sky spewed a barrage of ice across the blue from its scarflike fringe.
I instantly banked away to escape, but the angry cloud had not finished with me. It released a bolt from the blue. Lightning rapped the top of my head and ran through my hands into the control column. Pale green sparks jumped in front of my eyes and soft bluish tongues of light played about the wingtips and propeller, forming an eerie corona about the little craft diving through the air while the muttering thundercloud prowled on, looking for something new on which to vent its spleen.
Lightning is only dangerous when one is in contact with Earth, and if one depends on thunderstorm manners and behavior in the great presence, there is no need to be afraid at all. I soon learned to love and become one with the whirling thunderheads, though I always kept my distance. Great swirling clouds—their cells growing, fusing and multiplying in a chain reaction of exploding cumulus—would spring up like amoebas, generation by generation, moving across the face of Earth. I, with my tiny plane, would find a safe cloud canyon through which to fly, or I would pass to the left to avoid headwinds while the thunderhead boiled upward until the frigid heights flattened its top and the wind tapered it to a leeward point.
I found happiness in the sky. I loved to feel the wind high in the sky as the plane soared through the ocean of air to sense the rhythm of the wind as the airy depths became a fluid mass that I could see, understand and trust—to go with the wind or against it, and to know which is the lee side of a range or hill, for there is danger on the lee side when flying with the wind.
For us who see from the distances in the sky with the clean fresh wind blowing in our faces, truth is the messenger of joy, an understanding of the soul toward the firmament beyond. To tune into the vibrations and waves on certain combinations of harmonics, to listen for the cosmic celesta, is to release the elusive magic of truth.
It was glorious to move through the uncharted sky, threading a way through the depths of air, the substance of which the sky is made, where the clouds float in all their glory and the wind is the spirit of the sky's third dimension. There, the forces of magnetism permeate all matter and all life and the connection between magnetism and the mind is a reality, while in the geomagnetic field there is an affinity with the universe, which is the source of all telepathic thought.
The magic of the lodestone is the basis of all life. It holds the stars and planets in place and is responsible for their birth and evolution, pervading our entire world in an affinity with the galaxy.
I Could Sense an Affinity beyond Normal Human Conception.
High in the sky, one can see the whole—the mountains and the sea beyond with the faint envelope of air that wraps the Earth. At sunset, the Earth's shadow rises in the east, steadily mounting the sky as a blue darkness, a prelude to the many-hued stars of the cosmic spectrum. High in the sky I sensed the nearness of something alien. I responded to a telepathic power beyond the mysterious sky. As I droned homeward through the flute note of the wind, my thoughts became a conviction and my mind responded to this mysterious power like a barometer.
Then one evening the mysterious stranger in our sky returned, and I knew my mind was being influenced as we flew over the Drakensberg. I was flying with my husband in a DH Leopard Moth from Durban to Baragwanath. The weather was clear and the Drakensberg lay ahead, stretching across the skyline, a rugged wall of darkness against the golden yellow of the sun's longer wavelengths. We were soon over the escarpment, our engine roaring in the strain of sudden turbulence. Above us, the southern skies had lost the pink counterglow that heralded the dark azure blue of Earth's shadow in the east. It rose as a huge arch to fill the whole sky with the fathomless velvet of darkest space, studded with stars and planets blazing out as beacons to their own part of creation.
Looking toward the east for Spica, which was rising over the horizon in virginal splendor, I was spellbound by another sphere flashing out of the dark azure of Earth's shadow. It was blue-white and pulsating, and it moved with incredible velocity straight for our tiny, helpless plane.
I tapped my husband on the back of his neck. He looked around and saw the enormous craft slow its speed, changing color to a brassy yellow as it leveled out and paced our plane. Fascinated, I observed every detail as I pressed my nose against the starboard window, seeing the bright hazy outline of the great circular ship as it paced alongside. Three portholes, shedding a softer glow, looked out from the side of a dome that sloped up from a vast hull. Beneath the hull, an intense blue-white light alternated with deepest violet, and no sound reached my ears above the frightened roar of the DH Moth.
Suddenly the great ship flipped onto its side, rolling along like a vast wheel, and then, with a brilliance of intensified light emanation, it disappeared—vanished!
"How wonderful!" I exclaimed into the headset.
"It was uncanny," my husband said. "As I banked away from the craft, it still maintained the same distance."
I was not afraid, though I felt as if a magnetic force was influencing my mind. I was sure that we had been thoroughly examined. The craft was the same type of spaceship I had seen as a child, and again, something known flashed into my mind. I found myself longing for its return, and a deep sense of loneliness mysteriously flooded my soul when the great ship vanished into the velvet darkness of the sky.
Looking down, I could just discern the vast contours of the Drakensberg. Quathlambais the Zulu name for this beautiful mountain range lying like a sleeping giant so close to the sea—rugged and mysterious, still hiding the secrets of the universe. Precipitous cliffs, knife-edged against the glow in the west, merged into soft and steep slopes mantled in long green grass, sweeping on as rolling hills to the sea, the mountain peaks guarding the lush softness of a shadowed land—the rolling grass country of Mpofana where I was born.
Dangerous crosswinds threw our light plane about, and I thought that Saint Christopher must have pulled strings for us so that we did not end up in a spin over the mountains when my husband had banked and dived to avoid the spaceship. Spica winked at me out of the eastern sky, her lucid glory undimmed, pulsing, flashing blue-white and green, warning of a change in the weather and beckoning us to our rightful course. My mind was far away and filled with a great wonder. Again, the fantastic spaceship had appeared over the same area and I could sense an affinity beyond normal human conception.
With our flight plan completed at Baragwanath, we landed in the teeth of a southeast gale. Visibility was nil as mine dust blew from the dumps.
"Spica warned me," I said. "We were extremely lucky to land in one piece."
But all my husband could think about was that thing in the sky. He immediately made a detailed report to Air Force Headquarters in Pretoria.
What Do the Experts Know about the Sky?
I remained silent during the interrogation, because I knew they would not understand my feelings in the matter. Military men were unable to cope with such thoughts as mine, but I knew without any shadow of doubt that here was something new, something to break all the rules, something outside the realm of ordinary Earth people—a spaceship of revolutionary design, with an advanced method of propulsion. Had I not seen this same spaceship swoop down over my sister and me years before—and again, moving against that ominous tornado cloud—long before any nation on Earth could perfect such a craft?
What do the experts know about the sky? The secret heights still elude humanity's questing mind. My woman's intuition told me this was an alien ship from the far reaches of outer space. After that, my days of freedom were limited, as my husband packed us away in a ship for England. There, we became a part of the de Havilland Experimental Flight Center.
(2)
LINK WITH MEN OF OTHER WORLDS
The plane came in low, streaking across the landing field like a bat out of hell. Shivering, I tried to turn away, but the icy wind pinned me to the verge of the misty field. The long grass, sodden with moisture, penetrated my gillie shoes with every step.
"How can he land at such speed? He could crash," I said to the wind as the tiny craft disappeared into the murk of the English day.
The north wind cut through me, and the blue clouds tossed their dark skirts across the sky, full of the whisperings of snow as the fat yellow clouds banked to the east. Reading the writing in the sky, I watched with relief as the shadowy form of the aircraft emerged far out on the field. She taxied toward the haven of the hangar, her engine pulsating with rhythmic wholeness in the lull of the wind. Flurries of snow swept past as the pilot turned her nose into the hangar entrance and the ground crew surrounded her. The full-throated, whining roar of her engine died to silence as the pilot, hampered by cumbersome fur-lined boots and a sheepskin jacket, slowly climbed out of the cockpit. He stood wearily beside the aircraft for a moment, then yielded to the backroom boffins. Their excitement was electric, but he shook them off like an impatient bear and strode toward me, taking my arm in a vice-like grip and pulling me along with the momentum of his stride.
"It's a miracle," he muttered. "She handled like a bird up there above the clouds, and her landing speed is higher than anything tested before. Thank God I did the flight plan myself! She is a wonder plane."
The pilot's enthusiasm for the aircraft entrusted to his skill overcame his weariness. I knew my husband only too well and remained silent as he peeled off his flying helmet and goggles with weary impatience and searched in his pocket for a cigarette. He lit it as we reached the lee of the mess, lines of strain and fatigue clearly etched on his face in the flare of the match.
If I voiced my fears for his safety while making a fast turn or when pulling out of a steep dive high above the clouds where the element of air in the third dimension reacts differently to our senses, he would laugh and say that I was imagining things again. The ocean of air, our vast canopy of protection, is of a different substance in the higher reaches of its secret heights. It has accelerated the tempo of transport for those who climb the sky, but the smoke and smog of humankind's poisonous habits can retard the higher functions of his brain and senses when he exists as a denizen of the ocean floor of air and must breathe a denser pressure of molecules in slower time.
As we entered the lounge-bar, the heated atmosphere caused me to choke and recoil. Cigarette smoke hung in blanketlike bands across the room. Aircraft technicians and personnel set up a monotonous hum of conversation against the discordant din of the background music. With a feeling of despair in my heart, I quickly bagged our usual table by the window. I could open it without anyone seeing and get some fresh air, no matter how cold, whenever a feeling of claustrophobia affected me.
It was bad enough being in England with a cloud blanket that never seemed to lift—days and days of it. I longed for the wide-open spaces of my homeland far away to the south, a beloved land where the east wind blows with the fresh clean tang of the sea across vast stretches of rolling grassland and the glory of the sky is open to the heavens. A land where the Southern Cross glitters with spangled arms across the meridian and the deep bowl of the sky, alight with the glow of millions of star systems. I longed to breathe the air of the wide-open spaces again, with the fragrance of rain, and to feel the wind on my face. I belonged out there, in the pure atmosphere of the sky, flying—flying over the mountains, flying through the clouds and under the glittering stars, in the velvet sky, with the glow of light always there high above. I longed to live in the ocean of air, to hear the celestial note of the wind, to sense and feel the vibrations and freedom of our planet moving with the velocity of a spaceship through the fathomless reaches of space and away from the habitat of people who swarm and crawl on her surface like slugs of the airy depths.
Looking through the window, I noticed that the low, scudding clouds had lifted. The great pile of the de Havilland buildings stood dark and gaunt against the reflection of the lights of London on the base of the cloud mass. Brilliant lights still illuminated the hangar where the boffins studied the wonder plane. Code-named TK4, perhaps it would revolutionize flying for England, enabling the nation to have a craft to defend her skies against any of the aggressive invaders who seemed to get more and more ruthless in their quest for power and world domination and who were forever devising more horrible and diabolical weapons of destruction.
To destroy one's fellow creatures and one's planet is a reflection of mass insanity. Violence and destruction are but a symbol of power for the race of humankind on Earth—vast masses of people who have barely evolved beyond savage flesh-eating murderers. They are barbarians, whose one ambition is to destroy. The way of tolerance and coexistence with all nature is not yet understood. Instead, a twisted state of mind exists, spawned by centuries of wrong thinking and living, in all social systems set up by people of Earth. Humankind of planet Earth is thereby a product of its environment.
I longed to escape from it all, but found myself bound up at the forefront of a nation's preparations for the defense of her very existence. In a world becoming more dangerous to live in, I wondered at my husband's nonchalant attitude and realized that he would think nothing of the dangers involved. His only anxiety was to shield me from them. Little did he realize how my powers of observation, instilled since childhood, could foresee the trend of human behavior. Humankind thrives on disaster, and my mind was constantly aware of the disasters to come and the dreadful perils ahead.
"Our Planet Is under Close Surveillance by an Alien but Highly Advanced Civilization from Outer Space."
Premonitions had come to me in the past and taken tangible shape in their due time, but now time was running out fast. Perhaps it would come suddenly one night, a world war triggered in the hush of night. Perhaps it would come while my husband marked a fleeting furrow through the peaceful sky to navigate his airy wanderings. What would it be like to be annihilated in a flimsy aircraft, shot down out of a beautiful summer sky with only the stars to witness the cruel calculation of man's inhumanity to man?
My husband suddenly woke up out of his reverie over a whiskey.
"We have an appointment with the Chief this evening," he said.
The evening was bitterly cold when we went out into the snow-filled atmosphere, and I was thankful the wind had dropped.
We were soon with the Chief, an old friend who greeted us warmly in his natural, courteous manner. His eyes took in every detail of our appearance, a habit of cold observation instilled through years of heavy responsibility and duty to his country. I was happy to be with him again and had much to tell him, so much to tell of a particularly thrilling nature, something of wonder and excitement that I felt sure he would understand and listen to. A man of his experience and position would know of the spaceships appearing in our skies.
"Yes, my dear," he said. "I am very anxious to hear what you have to say, and what you think. A report has just been handed to me that an unidentified flying object was sighted by two of our pilots while on a cross-country maneuver this afternoon in the vicinity of your husband's flight path with the TK4. Some time back, I received a dispatch from South Africa stating that you had both reported the sighting of an unidentified flying object, which paced your DH aircraft while flying over the Drakensberg."
His eyes softened as I looked directly into them and told him every detail of our experience, and of my childhood experiences.
"It is as I suspected," the Chief replied. "Our planet is under close surveillance by an alien, but highly advanced, civilization from outer space."
He paused for a moment, looking at me intently.
"And you, my dear, seem to be dedicated to this. You know what to look for, you are not afraid, and I can think of no one more qualified. Besides, you have intuition and imagination, which is very important in this advanced research. Will you do it for us?"
"Of course I shall do it," I answered without hesitation.
"Thank you, my dear," the Chief said. "I feel sure something will come of this. Help and guidance will be given to the sorely afflicted peoples of this planet, who seem unable to live in peace and harmony. And as you know, you have been thoroughly vetted. We know the full history of your family and its ancient lineage."
"This research may take you many years," he went on. "Therefore, every detail of information must be given to me, no matter how fantastic. We are dealing with a fantastic realization. I want you to use your powers of extrasensory perception and follow up any hunches you may have. This extraordinary ability you are so liberally endowed with can be of tremendous value to us."
The hour was very late when we left him, and in that moment of leaving, I was aware that he had slumped back in his chair. What dreadful responsibilities rested on his frail shoulders. My heart went out to him, and the memory of the deep sadness in his eyes spurred me to redouble my efforts to find the great spaceship one day, to seek help for the people of Earth—and perhaps salvation—from an advanced people from beyond our skies. I stood stunned for a moment—trapped, helpless. My natural independence of spirit—the glorious heritage of freedom I was brought up with—faded away into the mists of the past and the dead weight of responsibility threatened to crush my soul.
Early the next morning I escaped in the MG along the great north road to the village of Aston and the home of my paternal ancestors. The family seat, Astonbury, was set among the ancient trees of England, which dappled the emerald sward with leafy shadows. Leaving the MG in the drive, I walked on through the park, inhaling the fragrance of sweet, damp earth and vegetation. Fallow deer paced beside me with gentle patience, sensing my preoccupation, while through the trees the great mansion of Astonbury glowed with its wealth of rose brick and many Tudor chimneys. Gone were the halcyon days of freedom and leisure. The ease and grace of a world that belonged to the few, in which I had been born and nurtured, had faded away into the fog of time. I found solace, however, in the quiet beauty and peace of the scented park.
I looked toward the lily pond my grandmother had made out of a bomb crater many years ago when the beautiful mansion was spared from destruction and the evil thoughts of those intent upon their many tribal wars. Walking on, beside the ancient, creepered walls of my ancestral home, I resolved to help protect a freedom inherited through the centuries as only an island nation can know—the freedom of the seas, the freedom of the skies, the freedom of space. Freedom is the very stuff of life, and without it one ceases to live.
Yet I realized that most people were unaware of the wider scene of faraway places. They could not connect the whole or comprehend how it would affect them all with crushing impact in years to come. They had rallied around in panic to stem the flow of Hitler's hordes, but there was no vision to gauge the blow to England's pride that was now being forged. The veil of silence is so cunningly drawn over the perception of man that he cannot see the plan to enslave him with wars and rumors of still more wars to come—wars of racial strife, black against white—in a bid to take over the planet.
Each Year on Earth Goes by a Little Faster than the One Before.
Gazing into the limitless sky, I suddenly felt a longing so intense that it seemed to transport me away from the material things about me. It was a longing to see the great spaceship again, hovering like a wraith in the depths of blue—mysterious, unattainable and remote from this warring planet. Where was she now, and where did she come from, and why was I so deeply affected by the thought of her? Did she nurture some precious being who would change my whole life, and who was already in telepathic communication with me?
In my longing to escape from the dangerous confines of this planet, a strange restlessness filled my soul, and I sensed this urgency with acute knowledge. To go home—that was it, I thought. I must go home to the rolling foothills of the Drakensberg, where the long grasses whisper and sing to the touch of the south wind that brings the tang of the sea in its breath. Perhaps my freedom would come sooner than I expected. Perhaps I could go home to the freedom of the mountains I loved, the mountains of the Dragon hiding in the mist.
I longed to turn from the casual and flippant ways of humankind. The honor and ethics of my upbringing were deeply rooted, and I had found my only happiness in the sky. That was now denied me, as fighter planes and bombers took to the air. I was grounded and always shadowed by a lithe individual who kept his distance, as the Chief netted me within his circle of security. Perhaps I did know too much, I thought—and the first twinge of fear struck at my heart.
The only escape and refuge was Astonbury, the home of my beloved grandmother, whose gentle presence could still be felt throughout the vast mansion. Her love of horses, inherited from her ducal parents, was portrayed in unexpected places with the magic of a true artist, and I could feel her guiding hand on my shoulder as I wandered on through the garden. It seemed that my future would be shaped from here, where there was so much gentleness amidst a violent universe. Here, the old retired horses could browse away their closing days in the sheltered home paddock, and the cats could sleep in peace by the kitchen range, always sensing the presence of my lovely grandmother in the home of her ancestors.
My questing mind had searched through the years for skies and seas of sapphire blue, a land and seascape not of this world, but another home of life, another island moving in the vast void of heaven where soft mountains mantled with emerald sward sweep down to the sea. That tranquil sea of vast dimensions touched a chord in my memory like a note sounding in the key of evolution, eternally vibrating in the scale of the spectrum.
I knew of a lovely planet glowing in the velvet depths of space beyond the light barrier. My soul attuned to her eternal vibration and my destiny forever entwined within her magnetic field as the magic of the lodestone gives affinity of telepathic thought to permeate the mind. I felt sure that one day I would find this mysterious and exotic land—I never doubted its existence. It was a race memory, revealed by time as a dimension of development, as time is of our mortal essence and is steadily accelerating our consciousness toward simultaneity and the infinite. Each year on Earth goes by a little faster than the one before.
Would an Advanced Civilization Help Us to Find These Secrets to Interstellar Travel?
My gentle parents, far away in the sunny land of my birth, wrote to me about time and how it had speeded up for them. In aging, one's inner clock slows down while Earth time remains constant. This planet moves in three directions at the same time, giving to us our speed or flow of time—past, present and future. There is less and less time to do things as one grows older, and time is speeded up because the processes of the living body are slowing down.
As planet Earth rotates and speeds in orbit about the star of her system while the whole solar system moves in orbit about the nucleus of the galaxy, we mark intervals of time by the clock. We become slaves to it and, harassed by the continuous and inexorable ticking away of intervals of time, our souls cry out for peace and freedom from it. If we knew how, we could control the variable nature of time, as time is a wave motion in a triple unity with light and gravity. Perhaps we could find an alternating wave motion in time and escape to the stars.
I felt sure that this was already a reality for an advanced civilization out there, whose spaceships could move in a stream of time in reverse to our time. Perhaps they would help us to find these secrets to interstellar travel, if we could forge a link with them. And the link, I knew, would indeed be found—through love.
(3)
THE SECRETS OF LIGHT
We received transfer orders home to South Africa, and the Chief's instructions to me before leaving England still rang in my mind: "Find that spaceship at all costs. It could mean the salvation of our planet—and our race."
A shiver of apprehension caused me to catch my breath as he said these words. Our beautiful planet, host to such a destructive predator as man! It is no wonder that we lift our eyes to the heavens.
I knew that it was a spaceship from another planet, another world somewhere out there, and through the years, I had lived with this knowledge, knowing within my heart that the spaceship would return. I prepared myself spiritually, mentally and intellectually to attain a wholeness with the universe and tune in to the infinite. I worked to develop a sense of telepathic communication with all nature and living creatures and, in so doing, to become whole in spirit, mind and body. To meet with people of a highly advanced civilization, thousands of years ahead of Earth people, I could only hope for contact if I was prepared to go halfway to find them.
Being aware of their presence in our skies, I practiced telepathy with horses, dogs and cats, and even with plants, machines or anything with the electric spark of life. I found this to be of great value in my experience through the years, and eventually I was able to communicate with the man who came in the spaceship from beyond our solar system. As time went by through the years of preparation, the telepathic link became stronger and stronger. In the understanding of universal harmony, I knew his name within my soul and I knew that he was there within the spaceship.
Upon our arrival at Cape Town, the scene through the window was dreary, windblown and wet. The rain lashed in torrents against the windows, driven by the swift downdrafts of a southeaster. Where were the open skies of my beloved homeland, the fathomless depths of blue? The fairest Cape in the world stood braced against the relentless polar front. It swept across the empty southern seas from Antarctica where a volcanic link lies in the seabed from the mighty peak of Mount Erebus to the tumbled mountains of the Cape where vineyards flourish in the valleys.
I had seen the cloud cap draped snugly upon the summit of Table Mountain, with another stay-put cloud hovering in the windy sky high above. It was strange and lovely—smooth and lens-shaped with iridescent colors around its circumference, like a painting by Dali. Its unearthly beauty was anchored by a standing wave of air that billowed up from some irregularity of ground to windward. It was an omen of bad weather and cold leaping winds, and we prepared for a day of rain squalls, with all aircraft grounded.
The shrill and demanding clamor of the telephone startled me out of my reverie, and the peace and seclusion of my office transformed to bedlam by the screeching monster. The voice at the other end of the line was strident with excitement.
"Fire! Fire in No. 11 hangar!"
My mind raced ahead, oblivious of the flow of words pouring out along the wires. All the planes were grounded, and sabotage was so easy in a land where attack was unknown and unprepared for. My husband would be there fussing round the planes by now. Slamming the receiver down, I grabbed my raincoat and ran out into the icy squall. The flames had enveloped two of the planes and my husband was valiantly pushing away another. As I ran to help him, a petrol tank exploded. We were both flung to the ground, and a black cloud smothered my senses.
I Had Felt the Touch of Death and Knew It Was All Part of the Preparation.
Very slowly, I became aware of light and movement around me. I felt terribly hot and pushed my foot into the lovely, cold sheets at the side of the mattress. I pushed the bedclothes away and tried to turn over. A kind face framed in white linen hovered over me, and hands wrapped the hot bedclothes about me again.
I was restless and I longed for coolness. Suddenly, the heat faded away as my mind reached out for relief. A refreshing breeze fanned my cheeks, and a scene, luminous but with a clear perspective, unfolded around me. I was sitting in lush, cool emerald grass on the top of a hill overlooking an expanse of dark blue sea. The fragrant breeze blew from across the sapphire sea and, far below, a beautiful curve of bay sparkled in the morning sunlight. Behind me stretched a fantastic mass of mountains, their emerald slopes dotted with enormous golden trees and mountaintops of deep rose rocks glowing in the sunlight against the delphinium blue of sky. Coming in toward the hill from across the sea, a beautiful circular craft glinted and flashed in the sunlit atmosphere. The lovely vision faded as quickly as it had come, and I heard voices around me.
"She is out of danger now," a man said softly. "It's quite remarkable— I didn't expect her to pull through."
The familiar atmosphere of a busy hospital, the muffled sounds beyond the half-open door, flowed back with lucid adaptation. I turned my head to look out through the window and saw the wooded mountainside of Devil's Peak. Above the timberline a banner of cloud streamed like a flag, continuously gaining new substance as air, riding on the wind's back, condensed near the crest. As I slowly regained my strength, the lovely vision I had experienced remained alive and real, filling me with a warmth of secret happiness. Here was the mysterious and exotic land of my dreams, the faraway planet somewhere beyond the light barrier and the time barrier of this solar system.
I Could See a Man Standing in the Ship, Looking at Me. I Looked Back at Him without Flinching.
Soon I was allowed to leave Groote Schuur hospital and go home to the rolling foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains. I had felt the touch of death and knew it was all part of the preparation. It is when one can respond with love and kindness, understanding and wisdom, and with no vestige whatsoever of fear or hate that one can hope to meet with the people who maintain the interstellar spaceships, to approach within their domain. I waited for the man from space to make physical contact, but the key was first to find him with my mind and spirit in complete harmony. It happened one stormy night while I lay quietly meditating.
The rain lashed in torrents, driven by gale force winds, across the iron roof of the farmhouse, sometimes roaring down the chimney to fan the flames of the log fire. My sister had gone to the kitchen to make tea when, suddenly, I was teleported up through the ceiling, though my body remained on the couch. As I went up through the clouds, I could feel the wind blowing in my face and pressing my cheeks inward with its reality.
Above the clouds, two spaceships were hovering in the clear sky. Akon's ship lowered a little and I knew we had found each other. This brought me into close communication—a bond of affinity and love—with Akon, who assured me of his physical presence and transmitted much information about his way of life, where he came from and the great civilization of his people. When the time was right, I went out into the mountains to find him, away from the cities and pollution of Earth people, away to the beautiful and mysterious Drakensberg of Natal where I was born in the year of Halley's Comet.
The Amazulu called to me from the mountaintops, their voices echoing through the valleys, tuning in to the grapevine of their own method of communication. They told of the great wagon of the sky and the fiery visitors from the heaven country, who would come to take me away in the lightning bird whose scales glitter in many colors. It would land in a cloud upon a hill and there would be a meeting together. The storm doctor and the witch had foretold this and the legend had grown around me since I was a child.
"The golden hair of your head will bring the Abelungu from the sky," they called across the valleys as I listened to their descriptive language, understanding it as well as my own. "You are 'one who brings together,' Inkosazana! The heaven dwellers will come and take you away from us." And the song spread away in the hills.
It was at this time that the spaceship came, and I sensed her proximity as great white cumulus clouds sailed with the east wind across the sky, clearcut against the blue, using the clouds as camouflage. She tested my patience and faith, and she knew the secret within my soul.
Gazing into the depths of blue, I saw a flash of light against the sky and then again near the outline of a cloud. The great spaceship appeared then, hovering below the clouds. It moved rapidly toward the hilltop, slipping gracefully and soundlessly through the air to hover again, a few hundred meters above and to the south of the hilltop. Then it slowly lost height to remain about a meter from the ground.
A pulsating hum filled the air that caused my eardrums to pop from the sudden displacement of air caused by the huge ship. Its circular hull was at least 18 meters in diameter, with a rounded dome in the middle and three large portholes facing me, through which I could see a man standing in the ship, looking at me.
I looked back at him without flinching. He stood there with his arms folded across his chest, regarding me with a compelling and hypnotic attraction about his eyes that seemed to influence and control me, even at that distance. With a shock, I realized that I was entirely forgetting my training and powers of observation and it was with great willpower that I looked away from his eyes. I studied his face—the most wonderful face I had ever seen—and I felt a sense of affinity and love.
A slight smile softened the ascetic lines of his face. It was a gentle smile and it caused my heart to miss a beat. I knew that smile had softened his eyes too, and I dared not look again into those eyes. My heart beat against my ribs with suffocating intensity; I felt faint. A man from another planet, another world, influencing my life! Time seemed to stand still at that moment. There was no fear. There was only a deep and exciting happiness.
He Instantly Answered My Thoughts.
I observed his spaceship. Although I could see through the porthole, the whole effect was a dazzling brightness from its smooth glasslike surface—a bright haziness that came from the ship itself and not from the Sun shining on it. Watching the hull, I realized it was spinning rapidly in a clockwise motion while the rounded dome remained stationary. It lowered a little more toward the ground, and the brightness began to hurt my eyes. The top of my head ached from the vibrations set up in the atmosphere, and I wondered how much longer I could stand the pain in my head from these pulsing vibrations without turning away and running.
The spaceship slowly began to rise vertically, the smooth perfection of its compact design etched against the blue sky through a haze of the white mist surrounding it. Then, suddenly, it flashed into the depths of blue and was gone, and only a heat-wave effect shimmered in the atmosphere where seconds before it had hovered. My hat sailed up into the air like a live thing, and a blast of hot air struck me. My hat had gone as if there was no gravity to bring it back, and a strange feeling of weightlessness caused me to sit down suddenly on the grass.
I remained sitting, close to the Earth, too nervous to stand up again. To the west, the clouds had moved away from the vast profile of Giant's Castle and the sleeping face was outlined against the blue sky. The immense bulk of the sleeping giant stretched away to Cathkin and beyond and to the jagged teeth of Mont-aux-Sources where clouds swirled up from its base.
Breathing in the pure atmosphere of the mountain, filled with a harmony unknown anywhere else in the world, I regained my composure and quietly sat and thought about it all. It was no good reproaching myself for failing the first time. I knew there would be another. I would be ready to meet him then. I knew it was necessary to gain still more knowledge and instruction from him through telepathy, to relax and understand the presence of his faster-than-light spaceship, and thereby to go with him.
I closed my eyes and sighed deeply in complete happiness. As I did so, I could see his compelling eyes again, willing me to be aware of his presence always, controlling my thoughts and actions. A sense of fulfillment and a deep and everlasting love filled my heart for the man in the spaceship. There was no doubt in my mind that he would return—and soon.
The months went by, and there was no further sign of the spaceship and the man who maintained it. Over the vast and majestic mountains of the Dragon, the Amazulu quietly went about their work in hushed and awed silence—waiting, waiting.
Then one morning I awoke early and knew that he was coming back. I looked through the window into the depths of blue and again sensed the pull of the unknown—the deep and strong call of something beyond the skies of Earth. My heart answered the magnetic pull that touched my mind. The vibration came gently out of the mysterious sky with the south wind, with the tang of the sea wind as it rustled and rippled through the long grasses of the hills—the cool sea wind bearing the fragrance of mist, a finer entity of minute moisture cells sweeping up over the mountains. This fragrance that I had known and loved through the years now filled my being with a sudden longing to return.
Hurrying into my clothes, I set out for the hilltop. It was a long walk from the farm homestead, and the fresh mountain breeze flapped the damp pleats of my kilt against my knees. I felt cold as the summit of Flying Saucer Hill loomed higher and the going became more arduous. I climbed the steep incline to the top where I saw the silver spaceship resting on the ground in the bowl at the top of the hill.
Beside it stood a tall man. I looked at him with awe, and I could feel my beating heart. In that wonderful moment I didn't hesitate, but ran down the rough slope, straight to the man beside his ship. Within seconds I was at his side. Laughing gaily, he caught me round the waist and swung me up on to the hull of his ship. We both laughed as though it was the most natural thing in the world. Then he spoke to me in precise English and his voice was like a caress.
"Not afraid this time?"
Holding me close in his arms, he smiled gently as I looked up into his kind gray eyes.
"I have known your face within my heart all my life," I answered.
"I am not from any place on this planet called Earth," he whispered with his lips in my hair.
He carried me into the cabin of his spaceship and set me down on a soft, circular bench. Another man sat at a control panel. He looked up, and a smile of welcome lit his handsome face. I saw the door closing from between double walls. Without a sound it shut automatically. The shiny wall and door seemed to fuse, and no opening remained.
I inhaled sharply. The shiny, circular walls of the cabin were sealed. Covers closed over the portholes with a sudden movement, and there was no trace left of them either—there were just the smooth walls, illuminated with a soft glowing light as natural as daylight on the surface of a planet. The whole cabin was lit with this soft, reflected light. The effect of it was light without shadows, and I saw no wiring or cables. Fresh, invigorating air filled the cabin and I breathed in a higher oxygen content, immediately feeling the benefit from it. A gentle humming sound came from the ship, accompanied by a slight vibration. There was no sense of movement, but I knew we were rising slowly into the air. In that moment of wonder, I glanced at the pilot, who sat at a simple control panel composed of pushbuttons.
The smooth simplicity of the spaceship took my breath away. The floor was covered with a beautiful rose-red type of carpeting, soft and springy yet very firm. It covered the whole of the cabin floor, encircling a bubble-like lens in the center of the cabin. The bench I was sitting on was extremely comfortable and set low to the floor. Another half-moon bench faced the lens on the other side. The lens itself was like a crystal bubble, only half of it showing above the floor, with a circlet of shining gold set in pearl around its base.
The tall man sat beside me and held my hand in both of his hands. The firm warmth and reassurance of his touch caused me to relax completely, and I leaned back against the soft bench.
"My name is Akon," he said. "I am a scientist, and my research takes me to many planets beyond our home system. Sheron, who greeted you as we came in, is my pilot, and he is also a scientist. Our home system is beyond—far beyond—this small star with its family of planets. We come from a double star system."
With wonder, I looked into his eyes—those fantastic, compelling eyes. He smiled at me in his gentle way, and then his whole face lit up for a fleeting moment. I was fascinated by his strong and fine appearance, tall and strikingly handsome with a force of character unknown to me. His ascetic face was. grave but tender, and his golden hair shone white at the temples as he moved his head to glance at the viewing lens. It was a most striking face, with aquiline features, high cheekbones and light gray eyes slanting up to the temples. His forehead was high and his skin golden and fair, with no vestige of suntan. There were humor lines around his eyes and deep lines down his cheeks. He was an older man, well past middle age, with a strong and lithe body just under two meters in height.
His hair was straight and long, behind his ears and to the nape of the neck, and he wore a plain, close-fitting garment that shimmered with a silvery sheen. It was all one piece, light and comfortable like a shiny nylon, and very soft. The trousers narrowed down to the ankles and covered his feet like a soft glove on which he walked. Long sleeves closed tightly around his wrists, and a high round neckline fitted him like a polo-neck sweater. Only his hands, face and head were exposed, and I noticed gloves and a head covering of the same shiny material lying on the other bench. The head covering looked tight-fitting and had slits for the eyes slanting upward and slits for the mouth and nose.
Longing to cast off the formality of my English upbringing, I tried hard to stifle my natural reserve. Here was a man immune to any artificial or feigned approach to human relationships.
He instantly answered my thoughts.
"I would not have you otherwise. I love you as you are. You are now one of us."
A deep emotion and great happiness spread its warmth through my mind and body. The wondrous reality was almost too much for me, and I could not find words adequate to express the fullness of love within my heart for this man from another planet.
"I Know What Is Best for You and Will Always Look after You, My Beloved."
"My beloved," he whispered. "There is no need for you to say anything. I know everything—I have observed you before. It is a knowledge and understanding that we share, and you now belong to me. It was only necessary for me to wait until you had grown up in this knowledge and understanding. To be one of us, you must think as we do. I observed you first when you were a child, with your sister in the garden of your home in the valley adjoining the hill. At other times, I have watched you growing up, flying through the skies of Earth looking for me, and I watched while the lightning high in the sky wrapped you with its purifying flame to make you mine."
"It has been a lifetime for me," I whispered back.
"Your delicate face is still filled with wonder and awe," he answered.
Gathering me into his arms, he kissed me on the lips. A magical, electric current seemed to fuse us together in an eternity of ecstasy. In that moment, I knew that the art of love was of the mind and soul, not only of the body.
Smiling at my thoughts, he put his hand gently under my chin, tilting my head back and looking deep into my eyes.
"We rarely mate with Earth women," he said. "When we do, we keep the offspring to strengthen our race and infuse new blood."
Trembling with excitement, my sensitive being responded to the beauty of his love. My soul was enraptured by his nearness and spellbound by his eyes, his gentle but compelling eyes. The viewing lens suddenly flashed on, and the magic spell was broken.
Akon's golden hair shone white at the temples as he moved his head to glance again at the lens, a smile creasing still more the deep lines down his cheeks. Bending forward, he pressed a button set in the circlet of gold about the base of the lens. The shiny walls and ceiling of the spaceship changed to sapphire blue like the skies of my dreams, and I got the impression of being out of the spaceship and looking at a panorama in all directions. The wonderful panorama unfolded all around and in every direction—all around the horizon of Earth and beyond, into the far distances of the sky.
My hand tightened around Akon's, and he took my other hand and drew me closer. I saw the Drakensberg range to the west and the line of blue sea to the southeast. My eyes wide with wonder, I watched surface features flatten and merge into a uniform color scheme of browns, greens and bluish haze. Away to the north, clouds covered the surface, the tops shining white in the sunlight with dark shadows beneath. The empty, sky-swept country spread out—the real magic carpet of Earth herself, her magic revealed beyond ancient ken. Her roundness became apparent, her mysteries uncovered to the all-seeing eye from the far reaches of the sky.
The seas appeared as a wide expanse of darkness against the lighter land masses, which became curved against the darkness of the sky. A brilliant blue band hugged the Earth along the horizon like the deep blue wavelength of the primary rainbow. From the outermost skirts of the sky a hazy, faint reflection from the envelope of air that wraps the planet in onion-like layers etched the shores of Africa against the sea, except where clouds shone white.
Earth showed her veiled face to us, floating in space, her delicate blueness lightly shrouded in white clouds swirling in wind patterns. She rotated smoothly, her rounded sides moving over. The polar caps glistened white, the southern polar region large and pronounced and the northern cap smaller but with a beauty of shifting pulsating colors like a banner reaching into space. Her bulging waistline rotated about her flattened poles like a fat apple with a heavy base. The enormous power and energy of her being filled the whole viewing lens, her night side moving over into the sun side in a slow smooth rotation.
A lovely shifting display of colors in the ionosphere emanated from the auroral zones. It formed a rainbow effect over the magnetic polar regions, giving the Earth delicate veiled banners that reached out into space. These mingled with remnants of her atmosphere, which were left behind in the velocity of her orbit around the Sun to form a tenuous tail, tapered to a leeward point by the solar wind.
We moved away into a blue darkness like the shadow of the Earth that catches up at the end of day. The walls and ceiling of the spaceship changed color, and the many-hued stars shone with a brilliance of light. I felt an overwhelming sense of remoteness as I watched the distant sphere of Earth—a blue and white globe, a home of life, an island moving in the vast void of heaven.
Would I be allowed to return to my family there on that distant planet? My children there were still young, and my mind became troubled.
"There is no need to be nervous," Akon reassured me as he held me closer. "We are proceeding to our mothership, where you will be our guest for a short period before we escort you back to the hill on which we found you. I know what is best for you and will always look after you, my beloved."
I had known the truth of it in my heart long before hearing it from his own lips, when in years gone by I had gazed into the depths of blue with a longing I could not then define. Now I knew the reason for my longing and why my whole being had always been aware of someone, of an affinity of souls and a love to be fulfilled with wondrous anticipation and awe. I knew now that, through the years, he had prepared my mind for this eternal love, this love of a man and a woman.
"The Key to All Life and the Universe Lies in the Harmonic Interaction of Light."
At that distance from Earth, my mind became aware of a new dimension. Humans there—with all their petty quarrels, cruelty and vicious occupancy of all their bits of territory—ceased to exist. Gone were the insular and selfish ways of human beings on Earth, their fecundity destroying the beauty of their planet like parasites swarming over her surface. The mother planet harbored life on her surface and within her surface. She protected it against the radiations of space and provided it with abundance, yet she shielded a viper within her bosom.
My mind was full of questions, but checking the impulse, I looked around the circular cabin, noticing the simplicity and beauty of design, the comfort and sense of security. There was a simple row of pushbuttons on a panel for flight control and robot control, as well as television far in advance of anything we know, telescopes and searchlights of immense power and range, remote-controlled scanning disks and television eyes.
A map of our galaxy, the Milky Way, filled the domed ceiling. We saw its polar view, rotating slowly in its distant velocity of majestic movement. Its seven closely wound, dust-streaked spiral arms glowed blue with the light of young, massive stars. Millions of stars gleamed around the hub or nucleus, lighting up the clouds of hydrogen gas with the divine colors of the spectrum and the overcast of rose-red halo stars. A flashing light pinpointed our position in the Sun's system, far out on a limb. I gasped in wonder as I looked up at this stupendous, lens-shaped galaxy of ours—a supersystem riding like a glowing wheel in the remote void—where before the domed ceiling had appeared as a sky of sapphire blue.
A misty shape began to emerge in the great bubble lens and I saw the mothership suspended like a planet in the velvet void. The radiations from the Sun cast a sheet of white light on her enormous side, while her shadow side glowed with an ashen light like a planet taking her environment with her. Her radiant energy propulsion glowed around her in the visible wavelengths of blue and violet.
Again my mind filled with questions and this time I could not contain them.
"Have you been out into intergalactic space?"
"We will need to perfect our spaceships still more for a voyage of that nature," Akon said. "We are now preparing for it, enlarging our scientific survey ships like this one. As you have noticed, this ship is shaped like a galaxy, and once we have perfected the larger spaceships, which vary in diameter, we will be able to move through intergalactic space. Our intergalactic ship is exactly twice the diameter of this one, or twice the harmonic, and we are creating still larger spaceships for interstellar and intergalactic vibratory changes in the unified field. Circular ships of this type are a duplication of nature—they take their environment with them like a natural celestial object."
"How are these spaceships created?" I asked. "They are not just constructed in a building yard, then?"
"No, not on the surface of a planet. Our spaceships are created by converting pure energy into physical substance, and we do this in space. The material of the spaceship's outer skin is completely smooth, without rivets—the material is created in one piece in a continuously circular smooth shape. The radius of the curvature transforms the total mass of the spaceship's outer skin into a combination of matter and antimatter, as the atomic creation of the outer skin is conducive to energizing in alternate pulses. This is achieved when the entire system is switched on, by pressing that red button on the panel. A unified field of light instantly encircles the spaceship—an electrogravitic field that acts on all parts simultaneously, including the atoms of one's body.
"These field differentials interact to create a vacuum that encircles the spaceship, and it shifts without the restriction of speed and without sound in the atmosphere of a planet. The light emanating from the ship is subject to varying time and gravitic waves, either shortened or lengthened. All radiations and molecules are pushed aside in varying speeds and quantities to emit light, and the difference in speeds is perceived by the eye as colors.
"These micro-atoms of light form an electrostatic shield around this interstellar survey ship, this ship of light. A light-thrust of three beams controls and directs its maneuverability in harmonic interaction. The whole is a combination of cosmic forces—electric, magnetic, tempic and resonating. It is the harmonic interaction of the four forces of the universe—the unified field. Like a natural celestial object, this ship protects her crew as a planet would, taking its environment with it through the fathomless reaches of space.
"The tempic field, or time field, is the controlling field. It maneuvers the spaceship from one time field to another within the vibration of a higher frequency that emanates from the total mass of the ship's triple skin. As the field intensifies, the spaceship becomes invisible to any watcher on the surface of Earth. It disappears completely or suddenly appears again. It can vanish on the spot when landed or it can materialize again. On Earth, the first indication of this would be a heat-wave effect during daylight in the atmosphere. At other times, depending on atmospheric conditions, the molecules of atmosphere surrounding the area of proximity to the spaceship condense into a cloud as it comes into the condensation level of the atmosphere. This can occur while it is hovering or moving in the sky, whether the ship is visible through the cloud or in its invisible state. All you can see, usually, is an inorganic cloud that sometimes builds and bubbles up into a vast organic cumulonimbus, spreading storm destruction far and wide or simply decaying away slowly in the higher atmosphere."
Akon thought for a few moments and continued.
"The minimum temperature around the spaceship allows her complete mobility and velocity without limits of stress, strain, heating or restrictive influence of atmospheric pressure. This gives us feather-light landings, in a state of weightlessness, on any surface of the planet. The heat blast that is felt in the proximity of the spaceship is caused by the sudden air displacement. Micro-atoms of light are stopped, and are thereby equal to heat. These micro-atoms are pushed aside by the field differentials surrounding the spaceship, which spins faster than the speed of sound, accounting for the lack of noise.
"This shield prevents all fauna from approaching too close to the spaceship and prevents aircraft from moving into the fringes of the vortex where they would be affected by this area of reduced binding and simply fall apart in the air. That has happened at times in the past. We worked out the design of this spaceship in mathematical synchronization. It steps up the frequency interaction of light within the unified field, which permeates all of existence, making it possible for a shift in space-time to occur.
"The road to the stars unfolds within a spaceship of beauty and simplicity. It generates its light from the cosmic plasma of eternity, never faltering. It is always alive and pulsating, shaped like a galaxy with a halo surrounding it and the shock wave glowing. All of creation is light, which is the key to the universe. The whole of existence—throughout the planetary systems, the stars and the depths of interstellar space—is made up of visible and invisible waves of light. To the seen and unseen—to all energy, substance, liquids, gases and all life—the release of micro-atoms of light from oxygen is the source of all life. The electromagnetic waveform, or light, forms the building blocks of the cosmos in which we have our being, as micro-atoms of light in greater unities are equal to atoms.
"Mental forces, spiritual strength, soul attainment and thoughts are all made up of micro-atoms of different speeds in the wavelength of light. Electricity is comprised of micro-atoms of light, and while sound and color occur when the micro-atoms have different speeds. When micro-atoms are stopped, they create heat. Light is an intelligent energy that can be thought into existence and substance. The pattern of the micro-atoms of light alters with changing thoughts when one achieves the formula for the harmonic vibration of light. The key to all life and the universe lies in the harmonic interaction of light.
"A mathematical formula for all transportation lies in the vibratory frequencies of the light harmonic, with antigravity waves and time waves—which are simply the frequency rate between each pulse of the spiral of light. By controlling this frequency rate, the flow of time can be varied, and one simply moves within one's environment, within the protection of the spaceship, instantaneously from one planet to another, or one solar system to another. Time, as a geometric, is controlled or eliminated."
"And the speed of light, is that also a geometric?" I asked.
"We speak of the measure of light, not of the speed of light. Light gives the illusion of velocity, when in reality it is a pulse resonating in the frequencies of time and gravity. Thereby, our galaxy is created to the universal geometric harmonics of light—light is a universal geometric. Time and gravity, or a reversal in the flow of time and antigravity, can be achieved by altering the energy of light pulsing through space, through the atmosphere of planets, and throughout all creation, as micro-atoms of light form the atoms of all gases, liquids and solids.
"As I mentioned before, the unified differentials of light interact to create a vacuum encircling the spaceship, and it moves without sound or the restriction of speed as the molecules of atmosphere are pushed aside instead of piling up in flight. In space, the unified field of light creates a shift in space and time. No velocity is involved—there is only a shift in frequency as the spaceship vibrates in harmonic resonance to interact with the wave energy of light pulsing throughout the galaxy. It simply uses the fabric of space itself, which is light, vibrating in waveform frequencies in alternate pulses of matter and antimatter. Thereby we overcome the problems of space travel beyond the light barrier.
"Earth scientists still have the restriction of the sound barrier in atmospheric flight. Perhaps they will discover that there is no restriction that causes the sonic boom if they can perfect an aircraft that pushes aside the molecules of air instead of allowing the molecules to pile up against the craft."
"Like the tunnel or ionized path that lightning creates and uses as a channel through the air from ground to cloud?" I asked. I was so very interested—I could not miss one word of Akon's information.
"My beloved," he answered with a smile, "it can be a duplication of nature. If we can find all the answers to atmospheric and space travel within the simplicity of nature, so could humankind of Earth find these answers, provided they cooperate with nature instead of attempting to destroy her. The key to all this lies in harmony—harmonic interaction with all things and nature throughout our galaxy—and it is for humankind to achieve all this first. We simply disappear with our spaceship out of this planet's time field and appear in the time field geometric of our home planet, within a neighboring solar system. You, my beloved, will simply come with us in a future time cycle."
"Is this why I could sense the spaceship moving slowly from Earth?" I asked. "Because it is necessary for me first to adapt to a slow smooth change from one time dimension to another?"
"It is not necessary, because you move within the atmosphere of the spaceship," Akon explained. "You are protected within your own environment. But we did not wish to frighten you, beloved. In future times you will feel the spaceship suddenly vibrate, a vibration from outside the sealed cabins, something apart from the ship itself. This happens when it moves in instantaneous anti-light harmonics, stepping up the frequency interaction of light (speed of light) when a shift in space-time occurs. I retained your mind though, on moving with the spaceship into this time dimension, which has enabled you to shift in complete harmony. Otherwise it would not have been possible for you to become a part of the shift in space-time beyond the light barrier, owing to the very high frequency vibration of light. We double the harmonic of light to obtain antigravitational and anti-light fields—the unified field equation that is the key to space travel or movement in space-time."
I smiled in reply.
"No wonder it has been almost a lifetime before you contacted me physically," I said.
I was suddenly thankful and very humble for my years of training and self-discipline, instilled since childhood, which now enabled me to understand completely within my mind the intricate secrets of light, and how the spaceship created this cosmic energy to use itself as a source of infinite power.
"Indeed, my beloved, misunderstanding leads to disharmony in thought forces, and I could not have taken you with me from Earth," Akon said, replying to my thoughts. "Harmony is the key to manipulating this cosmic energy, the source of all existence and matter—and thoughts.
"In their search for truth, humans of planet Earth will find that reality conforms to a mental conception. Thus, the idea of using light or gravity as a means of propulsion for spaceships not only becomes conceivable but also perceptible through mental processes.
"Yet the true nature of reality remains quite beyond their comprehension, except in brief moments of transfiguration when the soul transmits the reality or truth to the mind. Evidence for the immortality of the soul is found in this way, independent of reason, where we find the magic lease we sense as life—all made out of stardust. And the harmonic interaction of love..."
"People on Earth Use Cosmic Energy, or Light, for Destructive Purposes."
There is always a reason for things happening in the way they do, I thought. One cannot expect everything to be handed over on a plate if one has not the requisites of knowledge, understanding, harmony, love and discipline without fear. Akon's advanced civilization cannot, at any time, become embroiled in the ruthless politics of Earth's nations. Their entire civilization and the energy source in the harmonic frequency of light depends entirely on universal harmony. Otherwise, all they have attained could fall away in explosive violence and destruction. The holy secrets of nature cannot be misused, and Akon's civilization is the guardian of these secrets. They have full awareness of their cosmic origin and affinity with nature.
Man's inhumanity to man must cease before these holy secrets of nature can be revealed for the benefit of all humanity on Earth, for the benefit of all fauna and flora. Only then will humanity achieve the destiny of all nations and peoples—to attain wholeness and harmony with the universe, and to become one with the great interstellar human family. But expansion of thought will only come in the wavelength of time when the insight of humans has reached a deeper and more spiritual level.
"What wonderful thoughts can be created for the benefit of a planet!" 1 said.
"Yes, my dear, they can, but only by the right people. In the hands of wrong people and politics, thoughts and words can be put into the minds of others, simply with the biological effects of low-level microwave radiation. This is completely foreign to us," Akon said sternly. "In fact, it is the opposite of what we do. We use our own minds as a source of effective radiation to communicate with others. Telepathy, in other words, as you have already experienced.
"People on Earth use cosmic energy, or light, for destructive purposes. Radio wave propagation, nuclear bombs and nuclear power stations—all these are used in the wrong way. People have not the intelligence or the savvy to understand cosmic energy. And this is why we keep apart and away from people of Earth, for we shall never share the secrets of light with them.
"The electromagnetic waveform—or light—is the unified field of matter and antimatter throughout the universe," Akon explained, turning back to watch the viewing lens as we approached the great mother- ship. "We move within the protection of our spaceship as she alters the wavelength of light to create a shift in space and time for movement from one point or place to another."