It has come to my attention that practising Christians on earth at the current time have been deeply disturbed at the publication of my hitherto secret Addendum, in which I have explained my own philosophical beliefs. I am distressed at this. I have never intended to cause offence, and indeed it was the whole reason for my wishing to keep this postscript to my written works private, for the eyes only of my wife and my closest associates. I wrote it with a view to preserving my opinions for the distant future rather than to provoke further controversy in my own already discordant age (I count the time from the nineteenth century to the twenty first as one era, it being but the blink of an eyelid in the full vastness of time). However it appears that my thoughts have been published prematurely despite my intentions, and have served to intensify the dispute which has raged since humans developed minds to ponder such matters. Perhaps then, if indeed the exposure of my thoughts does advance that debate, it is no bad thing. I have to be frank and say that, from this lofty perspective, it does seem that many aspects of the various creeds still followed across the globe do seem astonishingly primitive for a supposedly advanced species. Supernatural phenomena and divinely inspired crusades appear almost laughably naïve from this aspect. But then, as I also describe in the Addendum, and as I have reiterated in these messages, man is in so many ways not at all advanced. He is in fact but a step or two out of the jungle. Ah well, the millennia will pass. One has to be patient….