To you who have scanned this report, further greetings:

     Since I who compiled it am only a youth, a Guardian only by title, and hence

unable to visualize even approximately either the time of nor the necessity for the

opening of this flask of force, I have no idea as to the bodily shape or the mental

attainments of you, the entity to whom it has now been made available.

     You already know that Civilization is again threatened seriously. You probably

know something of the basic nature of that threat. While studying this tape you have

become informed that the situation is sufficiently grave to have made it again necessary

to force certain selected minds prematurely into the third level of Lensmanship.

     You have already learned that in ancient time Civilization after Civilization fell

before it could rise much above the level of barbarism. You know that we and the

previous race of Guardians saw to it that this, OUR Civilization,, has not yet fallen.

Know, now that the task of your race, so soon to replace us, will be to see to it that it

does not fall.

     One of us will become en rapport with you as soon as you have assimilated the

facts, the connotations, and the implications of this material. Prepare your mind for

contact.

                                         Christopher K. Kinnison.