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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: permanent projection of elder minds arose many of those lasting
changes of personality noticed in later history - including mankind's.
As for the ordinary cases of exploration - when the displacing
mind had learned what it wished in the future, it would build
an apparatus like that which had started its flight and reverse
the process of projection. Once more it would be in its own body
in its own age, while the lately captive mind would return to
that body of the future to which it properly belonged.
Only
when one or the other of the bodies had died during the exchange
was this restoration impossible. In such cases, of course, the
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