{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "the-book-which-tells-the-truth", "chapter": 2 }, "data": { "n": 2, "bookSlug": "the-book-which-tells-the-truth", "bookCode": "TBWTT", "refId": "TBWTT-2", "title": "The Truth", "translation": {"method":"ai-assisted","model":"claude-opus-4-7","modelLabel":"Claude Opus 4.7","date":"2026-05-16"}, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "speaker": "Narrator", "refId": "TBWTT-2:1", "text": "The next day I was at the meeting place with a notebook, a pen, and the Bible. The craft reappeared at the appointed time, and I found myself facing the same little man, who invited me to come in and take a seat in the comfortable armchair. I had spoken of all this to no one, not even to those close to me, and he was pleased to learn that I had remained discreet. He invited me to take notes and began to speak." },{ "n": 2, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:2", "text": "“A very long time ago, on our distant planet, men had reached a technical and scientific level comparable to the one you will soon attain. They began to create primitive and embryonic forms of life, living cells in test tubes. This thrilled everyone. They perfected their techniques and managed to create small, strange animals, until public opinion on our planet and the government forbade these scientists to continue their experiments and to create monsters that could become dangerous for the community. One of these animals had in fact escaped and claimed several victims. Since, in parallel, interplanetary and intergalactic exploration had progressed, they decided to leave for a distant planet that gathered just about all the conditions for them to continue their experiments there. They chose the Earth where you live. It is here that I ask you to take the Bible, where you can find the traces of the truth—which have of course been somewhat distorted by the copyists, who could not technologically conceive of such things and could only attribute to the mystical and the supernatural what was being described." },{ "n": 3, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:3", "text": "Only the parts of the Bible I am going to translate for you are important. The others, which are merely poetic chatter, I will not speak to you about. Recognize all the same that, thanks to the law which stated that the Bible had to be recopied without changing anything, not even the smallest sign, the deep meaning has remained even though the text became laden with mystical and useless phrases over the millennia." },{ "n": 4, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:4", "text": "Take the Book of Genesis first, the first chapter: «In the beginning Elohim created the heaven and the earth.» (Genesis, I-1)" },{ "n": 5, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:5", "text": "Elohim, unjustly translated in some Bibles as God, means in Hebrew “those who came from the sky,” and it is indeed in the plural. This means that the scientists from our world first sought the planet that seemed to them most suitable for carrying out their projects. They “created”—in reality discovered—the Earth and realized that it gathered all the elements necessary for the creation of artificial life, even though its atmosphere was not quite identical to their own." },{ "n": 6, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:6", "text": "«And the Spirit of Elohim moved upon the face of the waters.»" },{ "n": 7, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:7", "text": "They carried out reconnaissance trips, and what you might call artificial satellites were placed around the Earth in order to study its makeup and its atmosphere. The Earth was then entirely covered with water and thick mists. “Elohim saw that the light was good.” (Genesis I-4)" },{ "n": 8, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:8", "text": "It was important, in order to create life on Earth, to know whether the sun was not sending harmful rays to its surface, which was studied. It turned out that the sun warmed the Earth correctly without sending it harmful rays. The “light was good.”" },{ "n": 9, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:9", "text": "«And the evening and the morning were the first day.» (Genesis, I-5)" },{ "n": 10, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:10", "text": "These studies took a fair amount of time. The “day” corresponds to the period during which your sun rises under the same sign on the day of the spring equinox—that is, about two thousand Earth years." },{ "n": 11, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:11", "text": "«And he divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament.» (Genesis, I-7)" },{ "n": 12, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:12", "text": "After studying cosmic radiation above the clouds, they descended below the clouds while remaining above the water. Between the waters above—the clouds—and the waters below—the ocean covering the whole Earth." },{ "n": 13, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:13", "text": "«Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.» (Genesis, I-9)" },{ "n": 14, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:14", "text": "After studying the surface of the oceans, they studied the bottom of the water and noticed that it was not very deep and roughly equal everywhere. Then, by means of fairly powerful explosions that did something like the work of bulldozers, they arranged for matter to be removed from the bottom of the seas and gathered in the same place, which formed a continent. Originally there was only one continent on Earth, and your scientists have moreover just realized that all the continents which drifted apart fit together perfectly to form a single one." },{ "n": 15, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:15", "text": "«Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb (…) the fruit tree (…) whose seed is in itself (…) after his kind.» (Genesis, I, 11-12)" },{ "n": 16, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:16", "text": "Then, in this magnificent and gigantic laboratory, they created plant cells from nothing other than chemical products. This gave rise to plants of all kinds. All their efforts focused on reproduction. The few blades of grass they brought into being had to be able to reproduce. They spread out over this immense continent in various scientific research groups, and each, according to its climate and its inspiration, created different plants. They gathered at regular intervals to compare their research and their creations. Far away, their planet followed their work with wonder and passion. The most brilliant artists came to join the scientists in order to give certain plants a purely decorative and pleasant purpose, whether through their appearance or their fragrance." },{ "n": 17, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:17", "text": "«Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years!» (Genesis, I-14)" },{ "n": 18, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:18", "text": "By observing the stars and the sun, they were able to measure the length of days, months, and years on Earth, which would help them regulate their lives on this new planet so different from their own, where the days and the years did not have at all the same length. Astronomical studies allowed them to locate themselves perfectly and to know the Earth better." },{ "n": 19, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:19", "text": "«Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth (…).» (Genesis, I-20.)" },{ "n": 20, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:20", "text": "Then they created the first aquatic animals. From plankton to small fish, then very large fish. So that all these little creatures would be balanced and would not die out, they created algae for the small fish to feed on, large fish to eat the smaller ones, and so on, so that a natural balance would be established and one species would not completely destroy another it needs for food. What you now call ecology, in a way. This was a success." },{ "n": 21, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:21", "text": "They often gathered and organized competitions to designate the team of scientists that had created the most beautiful or the most interesting animal." },{ "n": 22, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:22", "text": "After the fish, they created the birds—it must be said, under pressure from the artists, who indeed had a field day spreading the wildest colors and the most astonishing shapes onto animals that sometimes could scarcely fly because of their very cumbersome decorative feathers. The competitions went further: after the shapes, they modified the behavior of these animals during the preparations for mating so that they would perform ever more admirable courtship dances. But other teams of scientists created appalling animals, monsters that proved that those who had not wanted them to carry out their experiments on their planet had been right. Dragons, or what you have named Dinosaurs or Brontosaurs, and so on." },{ "n": 23, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:23", "text": "«Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind!» (Genesis, I-24)" },{ "n": 24, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:24", "text": "After the seas and the air, they created land animals on an earth whose vegetation had by then become magnificent. There was food for herbivores. These are the first land animals that were made. They then created carnivores to balance the population of herbivores. There too, the species had to balance themselves out. These men came from the planet I come from. I am one of those who created life on Earth." },{ "n": 25, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:25", "text": "It was then that the most skilled among us wanted to create a man like ourselves, artificially. Each team set to work, and we were soon able to compare our creations. But the inhabitants of the planet we came from were scandalized that we were making “test-tube children” who, moreover, risked coming to spread panic among them. They feared that these men would be a danger to them if their abilities or powers turned out to be superior to those of their creators. We had to commit to letting them live primitively, revealing nothing scientific to them and mystifying our actions. The number of teams of creators is easy to find: each human race corresponds to a team of creators." },{ "n": 26, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:26", "text": "«Let us make man in our image, after our likeness! And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild beasts, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth!» (Genesis, I-26)" },{ "n": 27, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:27", "text": "In our image! You can see that the resemblance is striking." },{ "n": 28, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:28", "text": "There, the problems began for us. The team that was in the country you today call Israel—which at the time was not very far from Greece and Turkey on the single continent—was one of the most brilliant, if not the most brilliant. Its animals were the most beautiful and its plants the most fragrant. It was what you call the earthly paradise. And the man created there was the most intelligent. So they had to take measures so that the created would not surpass the creator. He had to be confined in ignorance of the great scientific secrets while being educated, so that his intelligence could be measured." },{ "n": 29, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:29", "text": "«Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.» (Genesis, II, 16-17)" },{ "n": 30, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:30", "text": "Which means: you may learn everything you want, read all the books we have here at your disposal, but do not touch the scientific books or you will die." },{ "n": 31, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:31", "text": "«And brought them unto the man to see what he would call them.» (Genesis, II-19)" },{ "n": 32, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:32", "text": "He had to know well the plants and animals around him, their way of life, and the means of obtaining food through them. The creators taught him the name and the powers of everything that lived around him: botany and zoology, because that was not dangerous for them." },{ "n": 33, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:33", "text": "Imagine the joy of this team of scientists having two children, male and female, running about their legs, to whom they taught all sorts of things they were eager to learn." },{ "n": 34, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:34", "text": "«Now the serpent (…) said unto the woman (…) of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden (…) ye shall not surely die: but Elohim doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods.» (Genesis, III, I-5)" },{ "n": 35, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:35", "text": "Among all the scientists of this team, a few who deeply loved their little men, their “creatures,” wanted to give these children a complete education and make them scientists like themselves. They told these young people, who were almost adults, that they could pursue scientific studies and would be as strong as their creators." },{ "n": 36, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:36", "text": "«And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked.» (Genesis, III-7)" },{ "n": 37, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:37", "text": "Then they understood that they too could become creators, and they resented their fathers for having forbidden them to touch the scientific books, thus regarding them as dangerous laboratory animals." },{ "n": 38, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:38", "text": "«And Yahweh Elohim said unto the serpent: ‘(…) thou art cursed (…) upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life!’» (Genesis, III-14)" },{ "n": 39, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:39", "text": "The “serpent”—that small group of creators who had wanted to teach Adam and Eve the truth—was condemned by the government of the original planet to live on Earth in exile, while the other creators had to stop their experiments and leave the Earth." },{ "n": 40, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:40", "text": "«Unto the man also and to his wife did Elohim make coats of skins, and clothed them.» (Genesis, III-21)" },{ "n": 41, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:41", "text": "The creators gave them rudimentary means of survival, enough to manage on their own without contact with them. The Bible has here preserved a phrase almost intact from the original document." },{ "n": 42, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:42", "text": "«Behold, the man is become as one of us (…). And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.» (Genesis, III-22)" },{ "n": 43, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:43", "text": "Men’s lives are very short, and there is a scientific means of prolonging them for a very long time. A scientist who studies all his life begins to possess enough knowledge to make interesting discoveries when he grows old—hence the slowness of human progress. If men could live ten times longer, they would make a gigantic scientific leap. If from the start they had been able to live so long, they would very quickly have become our equals, because their faculties are slightly superior to ours. They are unaware of their possibilities. And especially the people of Israel, who, during one of those competitions I spoke to you about earlier, were chosen by the scientific jury as the most successful terrestrial humanoid type in terms of intelligence and genius. This explains why this people has always considered itself the people chosen by God. It is true: it was the people chosen by the teams of creators gathered to judge their works. You have moreover been able to note the number of geniuses this race has brought forth." },{ "n": 44, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:44", "text": "«So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.» (Genesis, III-24)" },{ "n": 45, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:45", "text": "Military personnel possessing disintegrating atomic weapons were placed at the entrance to the creators’ residence in order to prevent man from coming to steal further scientific knowledge." },{ "n": 46, "speaker": "Narrator", "refId": "TBWTT-2:46", "text": "The Flood" },{ "n": 47, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:47", "text": "If we skip further ahead, in Genesis IV: “And in process of time it came to pass (…) that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground (…) unto Yahweh. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock.” (Genesis IV, 3-4)" },{ "n": 48, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:48", "text": "The exiled creators, who remained under military surveillance, urged the men to bring them food in order to show their superiors that the beings they had created were good and would never turn against their fathers." },{ "n": 49, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:49", "text": "They thus obtained that the chiefs of these first men be granted the benefit of the “tree of life,” which explains why they lived so long: Adam nine hundred and thirty years, Seth nine hundred and twelve years, Enosh nine hundred and five years, etc. (in Genesis V, 1-11)" },{ "n": 50, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:50", "text": "«And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of Elohim saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.» (Genesis, VI, 1-2)" },{ "n": 51, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:51", "text": "The creators in exile took from the men their most beautiful daughters and made them their wives." },{ "n": 52, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:52", "text": "«My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.» (Genesis, VI-3)" },{ "n": 53, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:53", "text": "Longevity is not hereditary, and the children of men did not automatically benefit from the “tree of life,” to the great relief of the authorities of the distant planet. Thus the secret was lost and the progress of men slowed." },{ "n": 54, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:54", "text": "«When the sons of Elohim came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.» (Genesis, VI-4)" },{ "n": 55, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:55", "text": "There you have the proof that the creators could mate with the daughters of the men they had created in their image and have exceptional children by them. All this was becoming dangerous in the eyes of the distant planet. Scientific progress was enormous on Earth, and they decided to suppress their creation." },{ "n": 56, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:56", "text": "«And Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.» (Genesis, VI-5)" },{ "n": 57, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:57", "text": "Evil—that is, the desire to become a people equal to its creators, a scientific and independent people. Good, for them, was that man should remain a primitive being vegetating on Earth. Evil was that he should want to make progress, risking one day being in a position to rejoin his creators." },{ "n": 58, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:58", "text": "So they decided, from their distant planet, to destroy all life on Earth by sending nuclear missiles. But the exiles, forewarned of the matter, had asked Noah to build a rocket that was to orbit the Earth during the cataclysm, containing a couple of each species to be safeguarded. This is an image. In reality—and your scientific knowledge will soon allow you to understand it—it is enough to have a living cell of each species, male and female, to then reconstitute the whole being. Somewhat as the first living cell of a being in its mother’s womb already possesses all the information to make a man one day, down to the color of his eyes or his hair. It was a colossal task, but one that was completed in time. When the explosion took place, life was preserved a few thousand kilometers above the Earth. The continent was submerged by an immense tidal wave that destroyed all life on its surface." },{ "n": 59, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:59", "text": "«(…) the ark (…) was lift up above the earth.» (Genesis, VII-17)" },{ "n": 60, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:60", "text": "You can see that it is indeed said that it rose above the Earth and not upon the waters. Then it was necessary to wait until there was no more dangerous fallout." },{ "n": 61, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:61", "text": "«(…) the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.» (Genesis, VII-24)" },{ "n": 62, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:62", "text": "And the three-stage rocket (“you shall arrange it in stages, the lower, the second, and the third”) landed on the Earth. Inside there was, besides Noah, a couple of each human race of the Earth." },{ "n": 63, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:63", "text": "«And Elohim remembered Noah (…) and Elohim made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged.» (Genesis, VIII-1)" },{ "n": 64, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:64", "text": "After monitoring the radioactivity and making it disappear scientifically, the creators asked Noah to let some animals out to see whether they would tolerate the atmosphere, which was a success. They could then go out into the open air. The creators asked them to work and to multiply, showing their gratitude to their benefactors, who had created them and saved them from destruction. Noah committed to giving a share of all the harvests or livestock to the creators for their subsistence." },{ "n": 65, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:65", "text": "«And Noah builded an altar unto Yahweh; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.» (Genesis, VIII-20)" },{ "n": 66, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:66", "text": "The creators were happy to see that the men wished them well, and promised never to try to destroy them in the future, for they had understood that it was normal for them to want to make progress." },{ "n": 67, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:67", "text": "«(…) the imagination of man’s heart is evil.» (Genesis, VIII-21)" },{ "n": 68, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:68", "text": "Man’s goal is scientific progress. Each human race was placed back in its place of creation, and each animal was recreated from the cell preserved in the ark." },{ "n": 69, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:69", "text": "«By these were the nations divided in the earth after the" },{ "n": 70, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:70", "text": "Flood.» (Genesis, X-32)" },{ "n": 71, "speaker": "Narrator", "refId": "TBWTT-2:71", "text": "The Tower of Babel" },{ "n": 72, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:72", "text": "But the most intelligent people, the people of Israel, were making such progress that they soon undertook to launch into the conquest of space, helped by the exiled creators. The latter wanted men to go to the creators’ planet in order to obtain their forgiveness by showing that men were intelligent and scientific but grateful and peaceful. So they built an immense rocket: the Tower of Babel." },{ "n": 73, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:73", "text": "«And now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.» (Genesis, XI-6)" },{ "n": 74, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:74", "text": "The people of the planet were afraid when they learned of this. They were still observing the Earth and had noticed that life had not been destroyed." },{ "n": 75, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:75", "text": "“(…) let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So Yahweh scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth (…). (Genesis XI, 7-8.)" },{ "n": 76, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:76", "text": "They came, took the Jews who had the most scientific knowledge, and scattered them over the whole continent, among primitive tribes, in countries where none could make himself understood because the language was different, and they destroyed the scientific equipment." },{ "n": 77, "speaker": "Narrator", "refId": "TBWTT-2:77", "text": "Sodom and Gomorrah" },{ "n": 78, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:78", "text": "The exiled creators were forgiven and were granted the right to return to their planet of origin, where they pleaded the cause of their magnificent creation. As a result, the whole distant planet began to watch over the Earth, which bore beings created by it. But some men had a spirit of vengeance among those who had been scattered and, having gathered and managed to save some scientific secrets, were preparing in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah an expedition to punish those who had wanted to destroy them. The creators sent two spies to see what was being prepared." },{ "n": 79, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:79", "text": "«And there came two angels to Sodom at even.» (Genesis, XIX-1)" },{ "n": 80, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:80", "text": "Some men wanted to kill them, but they blinded them with a pocket atomic weapon." },{ "n": 81, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:81", "text": "«And they smote the men with blindness, both small and great.»" },{ "n": 82, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:82", "text": "(Genesis, XIX-11)" },{ "n": 83, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:83", "text": "They warned the men who were peaceful to leave this city, which they were going to destroy by an atomic explosion. “(…) get you out of this place; for Yahweh will destroy this city.” (Genesis XIX-14)" },{ "n": 84, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:84", "text": "When all the men were leaving the city, they did not hurry, having no idea what an atomic explosion represented." },{ "n": 85, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:85", "text": "«Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou (…).» (Genesis, XIX-17) And the bomb fell on Sodom and Gomorrah." },{ "n": 86, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:86", "text": "«Then Yahweh rained (…) brimstone and fire from Yahweh out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities (…) and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.» (Genesis, XIX, 24-26)" },{ "n": 87, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:87", "text": "As you now know, the burn caused by an atomic explosion to those who are close makes them die by making them resemble a statue of salt." },{ "n": 88, "speaker": "Narrator", "refId": "TBWTT-2:88", "text": "The Sacrifice of Abraham" },{ "n": 89, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:89", "text": "The creators later wanted to see whether the people of Israel, and above all its chief, still felt good sentiments toward them in the semi-primitive state into which they had fallen back, the majority of the “brains” having been destroyed. This is what the passage where Abraham wants to sacrifice his son recounts. The creators put him to the test to see whether his feelings toward them were strong enough. The experiment was fortunately conclusive." },{ "n": 90, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:90", "text": "«Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest Elohim (…).» (Genesis, XXII-12)" },{ "n": 91, "speaker": "Yahweh", "refId": "TBWTT-2:91", "text": "There. What I have just said, take it in and write it down. I will tell you more tomorrow.”" },{ "n": 92, "speaker": "Narrator", "refId": "TBWTT-2:92", "text": "The little man again took his leave of me, and the craft rose gently. But as the sky was clearer, I was able to witness its departure completely. It came to a stop at about 400 meters and, still without a sound, turned red as if heated, then white like a metal heated white-hot, then blue-violet like an enormous spark impossible to look at, and disappeared completely." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/the-book-which-tells-the-truth/chapters/2", "book": "/v1/library/books/the-book-which-tells-the-truth/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/the-book-which-tells-the-truth/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }