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Chapter 3--Maldek And Malona
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   BOOK III
OTHER FLESH
      Chapter 1--The Migrants
      Chapter 2--The Wanderers
      Chapter 3--The Prophets
      Chapter 4--The Harvesters
      Chapter 5--The Agents
      Chapter 6--The Intruders
      Chapter 7--The Guessers
      Chapter 8--The Remnant
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EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY
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PROLOGUE
Before the eyes of Milton's Satan peering into Chaos appeared a new
expanse, another vast illimitable ocean without bounds--the distances
of interstellar space; and for a moment Satan was appalled by Chaos
and by space. So it is with modern man as he discovers new worlds like
his own in the heavens about him . . . .
The world has not let the theme of cosmic voyage willingly die,
whether in poetry and fantasy, in satire or seriousness, in the pulps or in
the comics. There has been the growing realization of the possibility of
other universes than ours, a plurality of worlds, even an infinity of
worlds. We have become more fully aware of the insignificance of both
our satellite, the Moon, and this rather small planet, the Earth. Man
began to think that if Life possibly did not exist on other planets in this
system perhaps it would be found in other universes.
The idea that earthbound man may someday journey into the heavens
to discover other men and women, like or unlike himself, seems to be a
conception the world persists in entertaining. From the time of Lucian
it has existed in European literature. Why the appeal of this perennial
theme? Is it curiosity? Is it humility? Is it perhaps a result of the
essential loneliness of man? Is it because within man's soul lies the
truth--that mortals exist on other spheres?
From a fanciful vision of other worlds where all is beautiful and good
and just, we come back in somber mood to Earth which seems indeed a
sad and silent planet. Man on Earth knows in his heart that other worlds
are also inhabited, but he is reluctant to admit even to himself that
Earth is only one small house of the many mansions in the Father's
House; and worse, that she is a fallen house; a disobedient house; a
wayward house.
In 1867, Matthew Arnold described the Earth well when he said: ". . . a

darkling plain, swept with con-fused alarms of struggle and flight,
where ignorant armies clash by night."
The people of Earth today are either confused, amused, or simply
terrified by the reports of Unidentified Flying Objects and various types
of extraterrestrial space craft seen in the skies and detected under the
seas. If they accept the theory that life exists on other worlds besides
our own, they cannot believe anything but stories of monsters, robots,
sinister vegetables, or armies of evil, invading, mechanical
Frankensteins.
Many people today are asking: "If spacemen are here, why don't they
land and contact our leaders? Why don't they explain their mission?"
Did these same individuals ever stop to think that no sane Earthman
would descend into a pit of crawling rattlesnakes? With all Earth's
strife, with bloody wars that carry thousands of men, women and
children to slaughter worse than any Circus of Nero or Medieval
Inquisition, is it any wonder that spacemen have not landed here?
However, these brothers from outer space have landed here, and they
have contacted those whom they knew would receive them in the spirit
of brotherly love and truth. It is now reliably reported that over
one-hundred personal contacts have been made between Earthmen and
Saucer occupants. They sought and seek those who have been looking
for them. This is what they mean when they say: "We do not choose
you; you choose us!"
Would these highly developed beings care to contact those who have
held the people in slavery for centuries? No, because their coming to
Earth will eliminate all forms of greed and selfishness. The actual
"owners" of the Earth are on the side of the negative-dark forces, while
the "Sons of Light" of the Space Confederation are of a higher
authority. And being of a higher authority, they seek out those who
love TRUTH and Truth alone. Like Diogenes, they search long and
unceasingly, but unlike Diogenes, they find a man here and a man there;
not many, but some.
The people of Earth like to picture themselves as Lords of Creation.

One well-known anthropologist believes that far-off worlds may
contain "gelatinous masses that control diabolic machines", but of men
elsewhere, he positively states: "Never!" Those who do accept life as
existing on