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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

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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.,

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N e w Y o r k 32, N. Y.

Your comments on the "Toffee" stories were

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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

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they are true or not— ij you think about it loo

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

Mystery. A great many people feel that parts or

al l

of the

Shaver M ystery answ er experiences that

they have

had

themselves.

So who is

right?.

.Ed.

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"And they're m ine. I own 'em. Nobody can

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"I've got a little money coming in, regu

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" It wasn't always so. ,

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John, if we can only keep up this saving, think

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(Concluded from page 171) '

before I took m y thir ty days off. I'd

have pitied him less and enjoyed my

self a lot more."

The Chief's eyelids raised slightly.

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time.

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

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Jam es Fo rha m could' live, before he es

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