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been a fall of live fishes at Benares, a shower of red substance at 

 Furruckabad, a dark spot observed on the disk of the sun, an earth- 

 quake, "an unnatural darkness of some duration," and a luminous 

 appearance in the sky that looked like an aurora borealis 



But there's more to this climax: 



We are introduced to a new order of phenomena: 



Visitors. 



The Deputy Commissioner writes that, in the evening, after the 

 fall of the Dhurmsalla meteorite, or mass of stone covered with ice, 

 he saw lights. Some of them were not very high. They appeared 

 and went out and reappeared. I have read many accounts of the 

 Dhurmsalla meteorite July 28, 1860 but never in any other of 

 them a mention of this new correlate something as out of place in 

 the nineteenth century as would have been an aeroplane the inven- 

 tion of which would not, in our acceptance, have been permitted, 

 in the nineteenth century, though adumbrations to it were per- 

 mitted. This writer says that the lights moved like fire balloons, 

 but: 



"I am sure that they were neither fire balloons, lanterns, nor bon- 

 fires, or any other thing of that sort, but bona fide lights in the 

 heavens." 



It's a subject for which we shall have to have a separate expres- 

 sion trespassers upon territory to which something else has a legal 

 right perhaps someone lost a rock, and he and his friends came 

 down looking for it, in the evening or secret agents, or emissaries, 

 who had an appointment with certain esoteric ones near Dhurm- 

 salla things or beings coming down to explore, and unable to stay 

 down long 



In a way, another strange occurrence during an earthquake is 

 suggested. The ancient Chinese tradition the marks like hoof 

 marks in the ground. We have thought with a low degree of 

 acceptance of another world that may be in secret communication 

 with certain esoteric ones of this earth's inhabitants and of mes- 

 sages in symbols like hoof marks that are sent to some receptor, or 

 special hill, upon this earth and of messages that at times mis- 

 carry. 



This other world comes close to this world there are quakes 

 but advantage of proximity is taken, to send a message the mes- 

 sage, designed for a receptor, in India, perhaps, or in Central 

 Europe, miscarries all the way to England marks like the marks 



