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SO N
OF
THE SUN
By ALEXANDER BLADE
(SEE BACK COVER)
W
E ARE already here, among you. Some
of us have always been here, with you,
yet apart from you, watching, and occa
sionally guiding you whenever the opportunity
arose. Now , however, our numbers have been in
creased in preparation for a further step in the
development of your planet: a step of which you
are not yet aware, although it has been hinted at
frequently enough in the parables of your pro
phets, who have garbled whatever inspiration they
have been able to receive. Sometimes they were
ignorant. Sometimes they were unable to trans
late clearly the concepts implanted in their minds.
Sometimes they were cautious, and to insure the
preservation of the information they wished to
place upon record in the world, they spoke in
metaphors and symbols.
We have been confused with the gods of many
world-religions, although we are not gods, but
your own fellow creatures; as you will learn di
rectly before many more years have passed. You
will find records of our presence in the mysterious
symbols of ancient Egypt, where we made our
selves known in, order to accomplish certain ends.
Our principal symbol appears in the 'religious art
of your present civilization and occupies a position
of importance upon.the great seal of your country.
It ' has been preserved in certain secret societies
founded originally to keep alive the knowledge of
our existence and our intentions toward mankind.
We have left you certain landmarks, placed care
fully in different parts of the globe, but most
prominently in Egypt where we established our
headquarters upon the occasion of our. last overt,
or as you would say, public, appearance. At tha t
time the foundations of your present civilization
were "laid in the earth," and the most ancient of
your known landmarks established, by means that
would appear- as m iraculous to you now as they
did to the pre-Egyptians, so many thousands of
years ago. Since tha t time the whole art of
building in stone has become symbolic, to many of
you, of the^ wo rk in hand— the building of the
human race toward its perfection.
• Your ancestors knew us.in those days as precep
tors and as friends. Now , through your own ef
forts, you have almost reached, in your majority;^
a new step on the long ladder of your hberation.-
You have been constantly aided by our watchful
"inspiration," and hindered only by the difficul
ties natural to y our processes of physical and m oral •
development, for the so-called "forces of evil and
darkness" have always been recruited from among
the ranks of your own humanity^a circumstance
for which you would be exceedingljf grateful if
you possessed full knowledge of conditions in the
universe. ~
You have lately achieved the means of destroy
ing yourselves. Do not be hasty in your
self-
con gratula tion. You rs is no t the first civilization
to have achieved—and used—such means. Yours,
will hot be the first civilization to be offered the
means of preventing that destruction and proceed
ing, in the full glory of its accumulated knowledge,
to establish^ an era of enligh tenm ent upyon the
earth. •
However, if you do accept the means offered
you, and if you do establish such a "millennium"
upon the basis of your present accomplishments,
yours will be the first civilization to do so. Always,
before, the knowledge, the techniques, the instruc
tions,
have become the possessions of a chosen few:
a few who chose themselves by their own open-
minded and clear-sighted realization of "the shapes
of things to come." They endeavored to pass on
their knowledge in the best possible form^ and by
the most enduring means at-their comm and. In a
sense they succeeded, but in another sense their
failure equalled their success. Hum an acceptance
is, to a very large extent, measurable by human
experience. Succeeding generations, who never
knew our actual presence, translated the teachings
of their ^elders in the terms of their own experi
ence. For instance, a, cross-sectional draw ing,
much simplified and stylized by many copyings,
of one of our traveling machines, became the "Eye '
of Horus," and then other eyes of other igdds.
Finally, the ancient symbol that was once an ac
curate representation of an important mechanical,
device, has been given surprising connotations by'
the modern priesthood of psychology.
The im portant fact is, however, tha t we are here,
among you, and that you, as a world-race, will
know it before very much longer The time is
almost ripe, but as -with all ripening things, the
process may not be hurried artificially without
danger of damaging the fruit. There is a right
time for every action, and the right time for our
revelation of ourselves to your era is approaching.
COME of you have seen our "advance guard"
already. You have met us often in the streets
of your cities, and you have not noticed us. But
when we flash through your skies in the ancient,
traditional vehicles, you are amazed and those oi\
you who open your mouths and tell of what you
have seen are accounted dupes and fools. Actually
you are prophets, seers in the true sense of the
word. You in Kansas and Oklahoma, you in Ore
gon and in California, and Idah o, who know what "
you have seen: do not be dismayed by meteorol
ogists. Their business is the we ather. One of you
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says "I saw a torpe do-sh ape d object ." Others re
port "disk-l ike objects," some of you say "spherical
obje cts," . or "pla tter- l ike o bjects." Yo u are al l
reporting correctly and accurately what you saw,
and in most cases you. are describing the same s ort
of vehicle.
The "golden disk"—now confused with the solar
disk and made a part and parcel of rel igion—even
in your own t imes. Th e "discus," hur led sun
ward by the Grecian—and your own—athletes .
The "eye of Horus," and the o ther eyes of sym-
bology, alchemical an d otherwise. Our mechanical
means of t ranspor ta t ion.
Now that the ar t of manufactur ing plast ic ma
terials has reached S certain perfection among you,
perhaps you can imagine a mater ia l , a lmost t rans
parent to the rays of ordinary visible l ight, yet
strong enough to endure the stresses of extremely
rapid f light. Lo ok again at the great nebu lae, and
think of the construction of your own galaxy, and
behold the universal examples of what we have,
found to be the perfect shape for an object which
is to travel through what you st i l l fondly refer
to as "empty" space.
In the center of the discus, gyroscopically con
trolled within a central sphere of the same trans
parent material , our control rooras revolve freely,
accommodating themselves and us to f lat or edge
wise f l ight. Both methods are suited to your at
mosphere, and when we convert abruptly from one
to the other , as we are sometimes obliged to do,
and you are watching, our machines seem suddenly
to appe ar— or to disapp ear. At our possible speeds
you r eyes. Untrained and unp repa red for the ma
neuver , do make mistakes—but not the mistakes
your scientists so often accuse them of making.
We pass over your hil l tops in horizontal f l ight.
You see and report a torpe do-s hap ed object . We
pass over, in formation, f lying vert ically "edge-on,"
and you report a series of disk-shaped, platter- l ike
objects, or per hap s a sphere. Or we go over at
night, jet-sl i ts glowing, and you see an orange
disk. In any even t, you see us, an d in any ev ent,
we do no t care. If we chose to rem ain invisible,
we could do so, easily, and, in fact , we have done
so almost without exception for hundreds of years.
But you must become accustomed to our shapes
in your skies, for one day they will be familiar,
fr iendly, and reassuring sights.
This t ime, it i s . to be hoped tha t the memory
of them, passed on to yo ur children and' their
children, will be clear and precise. T ha t you will
i not cause them to forget , as your ancestors forgot,
the meaning of the d iagrams and the inst ruct ions
we will leave with you . If you do fail, as other
civil izations have failed, we will see your descen
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as amulets , expect ing the d iagrams to do what
their forefathers were taught the completed art icle
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177
T H O R N E S M I T H AND " T O F F E E "
Sirs :
I've just finished
the
September
FA, and for
the first time feel impelled to comm unica te wi th
you . Fore mos t , in you r reader ' s page for this
issue, the letter from J. H. C l a y t on was quite
bigoted, in my op i n i on . Th om e Smi t h
was,
and
is ,
a
favori te
of
mi ne .
I've
re a d mos t ,
if not all
of
his
stories. "Toffee"
has
only
the
vaguest ,
superficial resemblance to the ectoplasm ic spiri ts
t ha t ha unt e d Toppe r . I be l ieve tha t Thome Smi th
himself would have been the first to a c knowl -
ledge the original i ty and excellence of Charles F.
Myers ' s tor ies ,
and I'm
sure
he
wo uld n ' t objec t
to
Mr.
M yers '- use
of his
" s t y l e "
in
some places—
t hough
I
c a nnot
say
t h a t
I
found t ha t
to be
grea t ly t rue in the "Toffee" stories. I think
Charles Myers ' s tyle is ent irely his own.
As
to von
Cosel 's stor y,
I
t h o u g h t
it was too
morbi d , and a n y w a y , I cannot bel ieve his theory
t h a t it is possible to b r i ng the dead back to life..
St ick to authors l ike Myers , Wi l l i ams, Bloch,
an d
all the
othe r regulars .
Charles Sherri l l Jr.,
62'S W. 164th St.,
N e w Y o r k 32, N. Y.
Your comments on the "Toffee" stories were
very interesting, and we might add that we think
you've hit the nail on the head ; Ed.
S H A V E R IS F I N E . B U T —
Sirs :
For ye a r s I've rea d science-fiction and fantasy
magazines . They have given me the mo st enjoy
able reading hours
of my
life.
FA in
part icular
has satisfied
my
c raving
for the
imaginat ive
bizarre . I had i ma gi ned t ha t mos t of yo ur fans
were of high menta l ca libre . Th en came the
Shaver stories.
The s tor ies Shaver wri tes are fine—^I like them .
B u t w h a t I don' t l ike is the fac t th a t both you
and some readers seem
to
bel ieve th ey contain
fac tua l t ruth. Whi le
his
stories
are
good ,
his
ideas
are cock-eyed,
and
cou ldn 't p ossibly
be
so,
I
read
for enjoyment—only. If this keeps up I'll have
to s ta r t a " S t o p - S h a v e r - C l u b . " -
P a u l W. Dyer ,
' 1 2 Am ory Place ,
Cambridge , Mass .
Well,
at any
rate, Paul,
you do
like Shaver's
stories. That's
the
main thing— to satisfy your
reading tastes. And don't w orry about whether^
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much maybe you'll start hearing voices— an d you
wouldn't want that to happen, now would you?
"
Ed.
P.S.
But
seriously, belief
is a
funny thing. There
are many people who believe every word in the
Bible, and just as many who think every word
. is false. This holds true too about the Shaver
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al l
of the
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they have
had
themselves.
So who is
right?.
.Ed.
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HELL IS A CIRCLE
By LEE FRANCIS
(Concluded from page 171) '
before I took m y thir ty days off. I'd
have pitied him less and enjoyed my
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The Chief's eyelids raised slightly.
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You could have spen t those thir
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one.
Th is is kin da new, though ,, this
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straight line is a straight line, and a
circle—a circle."
"That depends oh how you look at
it," Th e Chief explained. "T o a person
as narrow-minded and self-centered as'
Forham , a circle is pure, u n d i lu te d . . . ."
The Chief buried his face in the
Book, without finishing the sentence.
''That
word White Robe muttered.
"It 's always popping up."
H e left the room quietly. H e had to
open the ivory gate himself, because
the golden page boy was asleep in the
shad e of the ivory wall. Busine ss was
pre tty slow, W hite Robe mused. M ay
be he'd take a few days off and visit
James Forham, if things stayed slack
for a while. H e won dered idly, how
many thousands of years of torture
Jam es Fo rha m could' live, before he es
caped that tiny, tightly wound circle of
hell he had fallen into. T ha t, he de
cided grimly, would be eiitirely up to'
the mathematics.professor.
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