{Prophets from Outer Space}[5th May 1968]

[Redbook1:43][19680505:2050b]{Prophets from Outer Space}[5th May 1968][Age 16]

[Sunday 5th May 1968

8.50 p.m.][continued]

            Another theory: were the prophets of history mostly men who were picked up by alien spacecraft and trained to prepare the world for the alien’s coming?  Responsible aliens might pick up a wandering human and train/indoctrinate him to spread the word.  This would account for the periods during which most prophets "disappeared" before they began to preach – i.e. Christ's 40 days in the wilderness.  An S.F. story has been written describing Elijah’s journey through the heavens in his "fiery chariot", and how (due to Einstein) he arrived back in (I think) our future.  Imagine a newly trained prophet starting his task.  "I bring messages from above" he says.  He is either ignored, upon which both he and the aliens lose heart and, seeing that the world is not ready to receive aliens, go back to their respective homes; or else the people claim him as God or a prophet from God -- and, people being what they are, he cannot convince them of his origin.  He shows them miracles to prove his point, and it only proves their point as well.  So the aliens decide that the world is not yet ready for them and leave.  If the prophet wants to go they take him with them, as they did to Elijah (or was it Elisha?  I don't think so).  If he has decided to play it cool and go along with the mob (like, some might say, Christ did) they leave him to it.  Eventually such a prophet would be greeted neither with misplaced enthusiasm or scepticism, but merely with belief -- then they will show themselves, the aliens.

            I don't ask to be believed -- it is just, perhaps, an exercise in where imagination and reasoned argument can take you.

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