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The science of religion is what this title means in simple terms. So let us start at the beginning of it all, when the earth was full of wide open spaces and the earliest humans had to battle with the elements. They would have looked at the sky turning black and then a huge downpour of rain would have followed. They would have watched the powerful winds blow trees over. They would have noted that in periods of sunlight plants would grow and animals would have come our of hibernation and they could get food. All the seasons would have dictated the pattern of life. They would have then attributed these changes to some power other than themselves and maybe have held this power in some sort of awe and reverence.

You know nothing much has changed in 'essence of the truth' of the way our planet works and functions throughout time. The only thing that has changed is man's interpretation of these happenings and then trying to intellectualize them. But before we get too far ahead of ourselves let us go back to an incident, that from all the contemporary evidence may have happened in Australia some 40,000 years ago. A group of aborigines, who incidentally are the oldest race on earth, were sitting in the desert watching the stars one summer night . They had already noted the constellation of the Pleiades was sparkling with star glimmer, as it is the youngest constellation in the heavens and certainly one of the most identifiable with its cluster of seven stars. The aborigines told a myth about these and called them the seven sisters, as did many indigenous peoples around the world. These same people globally all had this next experience too, if we read their stories either carved into rock or painted on rock walls.

As the group of elders were watching the heavens in the vast desert spaces their Creator had given them, a bright light approached from where the Pleiades were. It got brighter and brighter and came closer and closer and started to change colors and finally shimmered before their startled eyes. Then this ball of light landed and four men got out looking similar to themselves but clothed in silver all over. They made friends and said they were from the stars and had come to show a better way of living to these people and this is what they did. They stayed a while, returned every now and again and the aborigines respected them and never forgot them. Their messages worked to give their life more color. In a sense

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