Tigerlilly - Lobsang Rampa

earth ahead of their time, are resented and persecuted just
because they are not understood, and because they are in pos-
session of greater knowledge, and are more advanced, than
are most earth people. They become suspect and people of the
earth do not understand. It is said that what people do not
understand they fear and try to destroy, so that could well be
one reason these higher beings have such a hard time trying to
do their tasks and getting their message over. We of the earth
believe ourselves to be very clever, but this does not prevent us
from trying to destroy what we do not understand! It is very
fortunate for those creatures such as the Yeti (the so-called
abominable snowman), the Loch Ness monster and the hum-
anoid types who are reported occasionally to emerge from Un-
identified Flying Objects, it is fortunate indeed that as far as
we know none of these creatures have been captured by
humans. Bah! Sometimes I feel ashamed to belong to the
human race.
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