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originally posted by: FlyInTheOintment
How could people know about this in those days? It turns out that people of that time were carriers of ancient knowledge and sometimes knew much more than now, although they did not have modern technologies?
Or are they hiding something from us?
Answer: Clairvoyance (otherwise known in modern times as 'remote viewing'.
Expert remote viewers such as Ingo Swann have claimed that there is life on the planets, on the Moon, etc.
The style of the books you quoted made me think of the 'Out of the Silent Planet' 'Thulcandra' trilogy, written by Christian apologist & novelist who wrote the Narnia Chronicles. He described the life of several Martian races, whom are so spiritually pure in comparison the humans (who are known to have been 'infected' by the Fall, the event of pre-history in which Adam & Eve supposedly ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil (an allegory of some sort, to be sure).
In the trilogy, it is related that the residents of the planet Mars know down to the day when they expect to die, because their life is in perfect harmony with the Creator, and with the lives of other sentient beings in the Universal Order. The planets are said to have their own 'gods', the 'Oyarsa' entity, which is basically like a very powerful angelic being. The Oyarsa of Mars remained pure & just, judging wisely & blessing the sentient beings on the planet he was intended to care for. However, on the Silent Planet, Thulcandra (the Martian name for Earth), it is known that the Oyarsa in charge had rebelled against the Creator, and as a result had poisoned the planet he had been charged with overseeing. The planet was coloquiolly known as the 'Silent Planet', because the god of that world (Lucifer) had cut off contact with the other Oyarsa godlike beings supervising the other planets in the solar system.
originally posted by: ChayOphan
a reply to: RussianTroll
Should've put more thought into wording before I posted above.
To clarify: if I truly accepted as fact the existence of such a complex world inhabited by hosts of beings superior to us in most respects, I really doubt that I could function usefully on a battlefield. To broaden the scope - the information contained in those manuals, if true, would forcibly reshape human civilization at the most fundamental levels. I would imagine this more applying to war than most other human endeavors. Thus, I fail to comprehend why such material would be taught as factual to professional soldiers. The risk to unit cohesion alone would seem cause of great concern.
But that's just my thoughts which are typically overwrought, at best.
Edit to add that in no way am I disputing your assessment of the manuals in any regard, be it their content or purpose. Merely trying to better understand the logic that led to their existence.
originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: RussianTroll
Those books are not telling us anything about the real world, but they are telling us what some of the late Victorians were willing to believe (which is not the same thing).