CHAPTER XW 



WE see conventionally. It is not only that we think and act 

 and speak and dress alike, because of our surrender to social 

 attempt at Entity, in which we are only super-cellular. We see 

 what it is "proper" that we should see. It is orthodox enough to 

 say that a horse is not a horse, to an infant any more than is an 

 orange an orange to the unsophisticated. It's interesting to walk 

 along a street sometimes and look at things and wonder what they'd 

 look like, if we hadn't been taught to see horses and trees and houses 

 as horses and trees and houses. I think that to super-sight they 

 are local stresses merging indistinguishably into one another, in an 

 all-inclusive nexus. 



I think that it would be credible enough to say that many times 

 have Monstrator and Elvera and Azuria crossed telescopic fields 

 of vision, and were not even seen because it wouldn't be proper 

 to see them; it wouldn't be respectable, and it wouldn't be respect- 

 ful: it would be insulting to old bones to see them: it would bring 

 on evil influences from the relics of St. Isaac to see them. 



But our data: 



Of vast worlds that are orbitless, or that are navigable, or that 

 are adrift in inter-planetary tides and currents: the data that we 

 shall have of their approach, in modern times, within five or six 

 miles of this earth 



But then their visits, or approaches, to other planets, or to other 

 of the few regularized bodies that have surrendered to the attempted 

 Entity of this solar system as a whole 



The question that we can't very well evade: 



Have these other worlds, or super-constructions, ever been seen 

 by astronomers? 



I think there would not be much approximation to realness in 

 taking refuge in the notion of astronomers who stare and squint and 

 see only that which it is respectable and respectful to see. It is 

 all very well to say that astronomers are hypnotics, anc| that an 

 astronomer looking at the rqoon is hypnotized by the moon, but 

 our acceptance is that the bodies of this present expression often 



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