The UFO Phenomenon Part 2
Despite widespread agnosticism about the existence
of “aliens,” to leading UFO researchers,
the weight of the evidence eventually points to non-otherworldly origin of
these manifestations. One example is the highly-respected Jacques Vallée who had originally intended to prove
validity of the popular Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (or ETH), before finally
arriving at a completely contrary
conclusion. As Vallée indicated, most
witnesses do not typically report seeing an object or a craft, but a massive,
multicolored, intense, pulsating light, accompanied by strange sounds. Actual
entry into “space crafts” is typically described as an out-of-body experience.
Occurrences often involve losses of memory, recaptured only through hypnosis.
And a professor of English at California State University in Long Beach, Al
Lawson has demonstrated that contactee experiences can be induced in almost
anyone. 17 Vallée has suggested a multidimensional visitation hypothesis. In
Messengers of Deception, Vallée concluded: “I believe that UFOs are physically real. They represent a fantastic
technology controlled by an unknown form of consciousness. But I also believe
that it would be dangerous to jump to premature conclusion about their origin
and nature, because the phenomenon serves as the vehicle for images that can be
manipulated to promote belief systems tending to the long-term transformation
of human society.” 18
Vallée began exploring the commonalities
between UFOs, cults, religious
movements, demons, angels, ghosts, cryptid sightings, and psychic phenomena.
Another well-reputed researcher John
Keel, best known as author of The Mothman Prophecies, has arrived at the
same conclusions. Keel believes the data
point to what he suggests is a “paraphysical” basis to contactee experiences. According to Keel, the contacted beings are not
extra-terrestrials, but
“ultraterrestrials.” He summarizes:
Sensible research must be dictated by this
basic precept: any acceptable theory must offer an explanation for all the
data. The paraphysical hypothesis meets this criterion. The extraterrestrial
hypothesis does not. The UFO enthusiasts
have solved this problem by selecting only those sighting
and events that seem to fit the extraterrestrial thesis. They have
rejected a major portion of the real evidence for this reason and, in many
cases, have actually suppressed (by ignoring and not publishing) events that point
to some other conclusion. 19 To explain the nature of his “paraphysical”
hypothesis, John Keel makes reference to
the remarks made by RAF Air Marshal Sir
Victor Goddard, a very high-ranking member of the British government.
However, Keel warns, “If you are not
familiar with the massive, well-documented occult and religious literature, his
words may be incomprehensible to you.” 20
In 1969, at a public lecture in
London, Goddard said:
That while it may be that some operators
of UFOs are normally the paraphysical denizens of a planet other than
Earth, there is no logical need for this to be so. For, if the materiality
of UFO is paraphysical (and consequently normally invisible), UFO could more plausibly be creations of an
invisible world coincident with the space of our physical Earth planet than creations
in the paraphysical realms of any other physical planet in the solar system…
The astral world of illusion, which on physical evidence is greatly inhabited
by illusion-prone spirits, is well known for its multifarious imaginative
activities and exhortations. Seemingly some of its denizens are eager to
exemplify principalities and powers. Others pronounce upon morality, spirituality,
Deity, etc. All of these astral exponents who invoke human consciousness may be
sincere, but many of their theses may be framed to propagate some special phantasm,
perhaps of an early incarnation, or to indulge an inveterate and continuing
technological urge toward materialistic progress, or simply to astonish and
disturb the gullible for the devil of it. 21
As Brenda Denzler noted, in The Lure of the
Edge: Scientifi c Passions, Religious Beliefs,
and the Pursuit of UFOs, “the contactee
movement was, in effect, a conduit through which established spiritualist
and Theosophical ideas and practices moved
into the UFO community.”22
Lynn E. Catoe, the senior bibliographer who
read thousands of UFO articles to
compile UFOs and Related Subjects: An
Annotated Bibliography for the US Government
Printing Office, issued for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, commented:
A large part of the available UFO literature is closely linked with mysticism and the metaphysical. It deals with
subjects like mental telepathy, automatic writing, and invisible entities, as
well as phenomena like poltergeist manifestations and possession… Many of the UFO reports now being published in the
popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demoniac
possession and psychic phenomena which has long been known to theologians and parapsychologists.
23
Thus, the channeled Ascended Masters came to
be presented as visitors from outer space which, combined with the New Age
doctrines and race theories of Theosophy and legends of advanced Nazi
technologies, contributed to constructing the modern myth of extra-terrestrials.
Among the fantastic legends associated with the Fourth Reich is the myth that the Nazis learned to make use of the Vril to power
flying saucers . 24
The mythos was popularized in the 1990s by
two Austrians, Norbert Jürgen-Ratthofer and Ralf Ettl, developed from the Gnostic
ideas propagated by Ralf Ettl through his Tempelhofgesellschaft (Temple Society) in Vienna. 25 German researchers
have in fact recently discovered that a
Vril group did exist in Germany. An obscure astrological publisher,
Wilhelm Becker, published a short brochure
Vril: Die kosmische Urkraft(1930), which described the Atlanteans as
possessors of a spiritual “dynamo-technology,” superior to the mechanistic
notions of modern science. Based on Vril
energy, this technology also enabled the
Egyptians and Aztecs to build their pyramids. The brochure claimed that this
ancient knowledge should now be applied for the benefit of modern mankind. The
group’s second brochure, Weltdynamismus (1930), rejected explosive technology
and spoke of the release of free energy, a concept that would become highly
popular among UFO aficionados.26
In 1917, four members of the Vril society apparently met in a cafe in Vienna.
They discussed secret revelations, the coming of the new age, the Spear of
Destiny, the magical violet black stone, and making contact with ancient
peoples and distant worlds. Their source of power was the Black Sun,
an infinite beam of light which, though invisible to the human eye,
exists in anti-matter. The Vril emblem therefore became the Black Sun, representing a secret ancient
philosophy on which the occult practitioners of the Third Reich would later build.
Among this group were two women, spiritual mediums
known as “Vrilerinnen.” They wore their hair unusually long, believing it to
act as cosmic antennae to receive alien communication from beyond. One of
these, a Croatian woman named Maria
Orsic, claimed to have received telepathic transmissions in a secret
German Templar script. Vril documents mention that these telepathic
messages had their origin in Aldebaran, a solar system 68 light-years away in
the constellation Taurus. A second set of scripts were purportedly written in
Sumerian, the language of the ancient Babylonians. The scripts were to have
contained technical data for the construction of something called the Vril Machine. It allegedly was a saucer-shaped
interdimensional time travel machine. By 1934 the Vril Society
had apparently developed its
first UFO shaped aircraft, known as the
Vril 1, which was propelled by an antigravity effect. The ship was to
have been inspired by the historical German development of specialized engines
such as Viktor Schauberger’s “Repulsine.”
A well-known promoter of this mythology is
Vladimir Terziski, a Bulgarian engineer
who bills himself as president of the American Academy of Dissident Sciences.
In UFO Secrets of the Third Reich, Vladimir Terziski describes that
antigravity research began in Germany in the 1920s with the first hybrid antigravity circular craft, the RFZ-1,
constructed by the Vril Society. In
1942–43 a series of antigravity machines culminated in the giant 350-foot
long, cigar-shaped Andromeda space
station, which was constructed in old zeppelin hangars near Berlin by E4, the
research and development arm of the SS.
Terziski claims that the Germans collaborated in their advanced craft research
with Axis powers Italy and Japan.
However, following their defeat during
World War II, the Nazis escaped
with their crafts to secret underground bases in Antarctica, South America or
the United States. He also alleges that Germans may have landed on the Moon as
early as 1942 and established an underground base there. Terziski relates that
when Russians and Americans secretly landed on the moon in the 1950s they
stayed at this still-operating base. According to Terziski, “there is
atmosphere, water and vegetation on the Moon,” which NASA conceals to exclude
the Third World from moon exploration.27
Though the Discovery Channelrecently explored
these claims in a documentary called
Nazi UFO Conspiracy, presenting
them as an open question, according to Kevin McClure in The Nazi
UFO Mythos: An Investigation:
An extensive search in the mainstream, ‘consensus’
historical record of this, the most
researched and chronicled period in history, found no mention of even the most
prominent features of the mythos. Putting these two findings together, the only reasonable conclusion on
the available evidence is that the long-held belief that high-performance, German, disk-shaped craft actually flew during the Second World War can
be shown to be a false belief. I hope that this investigation into the ‘
Nazi UFO’ mythos has demonstrated that
the evidence presented to date—at least, that of which I am aware—is irrevocably flawed. 28
Indicating the ultimate import of the UFO visitations, contactees are typically instructed in various New Age prognostications: humankind stands now
in the transitional period before the dawn of a New Age. The extraterrestrials, they are told,
are here to teach, to help awaken the human spirit, to help humankind rise to
higher levels of vibration so that the people of Earth may be ready to enter
new dimensions. To mark the immanent changes, crop circles, UFO sightings and contactee and abductee
experiences are preparing those who are receptive of these changes. Instructions
often betray a racialist inclination, where ETs are described as Aryans with blonde hair and blue eyes, and
advise their abductees that some humans are part extra-terrestrial, and therefore
comprise a “superior race.” Others are being told that the chosen ones will be
saved by benevolent ET’s, and taken away in their “motherships” when the
time of disasters finally take place.
Christopher Partridge wrote that the works
of Bailey and Theosophy in general all influenced the
so-called “ UFO
religions.”29 He explained that “…
Theosophy has several prominent branches, and, strictly speaking, the branch
which has had the most important influence on the UFO religion is that developed by Alice Bailey.” 30 “ UFO religions” are commonly
groups which deal with alleged
communication between humans and extra-terrestrial beings. Forms of communication include telepathy and
astral projection. Groups often believe that humanity can be saved after being
educated by the aliens as to how to improve society. Scientology is probably the largest and most
commonly known. Others include the
Aetherius Society, Church of the SubGenius, Heaven’s Gate, Industrial
Church of the New World Comforter, Raëlism and the Nation of
Islam.
While it is widely recognized that the Nation of
Islam is only remotely associated with the true religion of Islam, it happens to be connected to a fringe
African-American tradition of the religion that traces its decent again to Jamal ud Din al Afghani. The
Nation of Islam was founded
by Elijah Mohammed, who was instructed by a mysterious
person of Arab background named
Wallace Fard Muhammed who claimed he was
God. According to the FBI, Fard had as many as 27 different aliases and
was a sometime petty criminal. Fard
initially joined the Moorish Science Temple, a quasi- Masonic and
pseudo-Islamic organization founded by
Noble Drew Ali. According to Peter Lamborn Wilson, in Sacred Drift: Essays on the
Margins of Islam, Ravanna Bey of the
Moorish Academy of Chicago claimed that the Drew family had settled in Newark,
New Jersey, in the early 1880s and there encountered the “master adept” Jamal ud Din al Afghani who was visiting the United States In 1882–1883. The Drews
were initiated into Afghani’s
Salafi movement and supposedly into the
Brethren of Sincerity . 31
But
Fard seems to have been involved in a conspiracy to usurp leadership of
that order by having its leader Noble
Drew Ali killed. However, Fard’s activities
were brought to wider public notice after a major scandal involving an apparent
ritual murder in 1932, reportedly committed by one of his early followers,
Robert Karriem. Karriem later confessed that he had committed the murder “to
bring himself closer to Allah.” Karriem had quoted from Fard’s booklet titled Secret Rituals of the
Lost-Found Nation of Islam: “The unbeliever must be stabbed
through the heart.” Karriem told the detectives that he intended to carry out more murders, which he called “sacrifices.” He referred to Fard as the
“gods of Islam,” and told the
investigators, “I had to kill somebody. I could not forsake my gods.” 32 When Fard was interviewed, he told detectives, “I
am the Supreme Ruler of the Universe,” resulting in his being placed in a
straightjacket and padded cell for psychiatric examination. 33
However,
Fard’s religion was a hodge-podge of
Islam, Jehovah’s Witness doctrine,
Gnosticism, ufology, and heretical Christian teachings and Prince Hall Freemasonry, a branch of North American Freemasonry composed predominantly of African
Americans. 34 It basically sets the history of the occult in reverse, where an anthropomorphic doctrine is the “true Islam.” The “ Sons of God” or Nephilim, are
God, a man, and his council, in “ Shambhala,” explicitly associated with the “
Great White Brotherhood” of Blavatsky.
35 Its former leader, Elijah Muhammed, claimed that the Book
of Ezekieldescribes a “Mother Ship,” an aircraft built by black
scientists in Japan many thousands of years ago. This aircraft, undetectable by
radar, still circled the earth and carried powerful weapons which would be used
on white America if she dared to harm the members of the Nation of
Islam. 36
Partridge writes that the first UFO religion was the “ I AM” Activity, founded by Guy
Ballard, in 1930. The term “I AM” is a reference to the ancient Sanskrit mantra
“So Ham,” meaning “I Am that I Am.” The name of the organization was derived
from the belief among Theosophists
that Ascended Masters are individuals
who have lived in physical bodies, acquired the Wisdom and Mastery to have
become free of the cycles of “re-embodiment” and karma, and have attained their
“Ascension” (the Sixth Initiation). They consider the Ascension to be the
complete permanent union with the Mighty “I AM” Presence, that True Identity
that is the unique Individualization of Almighty God residing in each person.
This knowledge is believed to have previously been taught for millions of years
only within “ Ascended Master Retreats” and “Mystery Schools.”
Almost all communication from Ballard’s Ascended Masters though came telepathically.
When Ballard claimed to physically encounter Ascended Masters, he said they appeared to him from the etheric plane. During his first encounter he met the Ascended Master St. Germain in a cave underneath Mount Shasta, who showed him a television set that
could receive transmissions from the planet
Venus. An “I AM” offshoot was the
Church Universal and Triumphant,
established
in 1958 in Montana and led by Mark Prophet and later by Elizabeth
Clare Prophet, where St. Germain
was also a central figure.
According to Prophet, St. Germain is to
the Age of Aquarius what Jesus was to the Age of Pisces. The movement
gained media attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s while preparing for
potential nuclear disaster.
Mount
Shasta is a volcanic peak in northern California, which has long been
rumoured to be inhabited
by faeires and Sasquatch figures and known for frequent UFO sightings.
It was first brought to attention in
novel A Dweller on Two Planets (1894), in which Frederick Oliver related
information he received telepathically from “Phylos the Tibetan.” Oliver’s
account, which discussed a hidden
citadel of Atlantean Masters within the mountain, became popular with occult
and Theosophical communities in America.
Spencer Lewis, founder of the Rosicrucian order
AMORC, published Lemuria: The
Lost Continent of the Pacific (1931), which claimed Shasta was riddled with
caverns in which ancient Lemurian masters preserved their ancient wisdom.
According to the ancient manuscripts allegedly in his possession, northern
California was once part of Lemuria, where Shasta was among the highest mountains
in the world, making it an ideal refuge for those seeking to escape the great
deluge.
A similar account was also put forward by
Maurice Doreal, also known as Claude
Doggins—or Dr. Doreal as he preferred to
be called. In Denver about 1930, Doreal
founded the Brotherhood of the White Temple, the
first major occult movement to refer to
Shambhala as an underground city.
Doreal claimed that as he was lecturing in Los Angeles in 1931, the year
after Ballard’s experiences, he met two Atlanteans who transported him to a
gigantic cavern twelve miles beneath
Shasta. 37 Fearful of nuclear attack, he relocated the Brotherhood to a
rockbound valley west of Sedalia, Colorado, in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Doreal was also in part responsible for the
dissemination of the theory that linked
UFOs to “Reptoids,” which gained
popularity in UFO and conspiracy circles.
In a pamphlet called Mysteries of the Gobi,
Doreal offered a revisionist history of the world, which featured an
ancient war between human beings and a “Serpent Race.” The latter, he wrote,
had “bodies like man, but… heads… like a great snake and… bodies faintly
scaled.” They also possessed hypnotic powers that allowed them when necessary to
shapeshift into fully human form. 38 Similar ideas appeared in a long poem,
The Emerald Tablets, reputedly the work of “ Thoth, an Atlantean
Priest-King.” The work recalls a text by the same title prized by the Arab
alchemists, which claimed to be the work of Hermes Trismegistus, who was a
combination of the Greek god Hermes and the
Egyptian god Thoth. Doreal claimed to have translated the work
when he was given the tablets from the Great Pyramid of Egypt in 1925. In his accompanying
commentary, Doreal adds a dire
political warning about this Serpent Race: “gradually, they and the men who
called them took over the control of the nations.” 39
These ideas, suggests Barkun, may have their
origin with an obscure pulp fiction author,
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936). Howard is
regarded as the father of the sword and
sorcery subgenre and is probably best known for his character Conan the
Barbarian. In 1929, Howard published a story in Weir d Tales magazine called
“The Shadow Kingdom” in which the evil power was the snake-men whose adversary
Kull came from Atlantis. These creatures
had bodies of men but the heads of serpents, and like Doreal’s Serpent Race, had the capacity to
shapeshift into human form. In Howard’s story they were thought to have been
destroyed, but returned by insinuating themselves into positions of power.
Howard became a member of “The Lovecraft Circle,” a group of writers all
linked to H. P. Lovecraft, who consequently
also incorporated serpent men into his own work. Lovecraft (1890 –1937) was an
American author of horror,
fantasy, and science fiction, especially
the subgenre known as weird fiction. Stephen King called Lovecraft “the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner
of the classic horror tale.”40 Lovecraft is best known for his Cthulhu
Mythosstory cycle and the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites
and forbidden lore.
Lovecraft subscribed to a nihilistic philosophy
of cosmic indifferentism, referring to a horror similar to that potrayed by Munsch’s
The Scream, stating in the opening sentence of his 1926 short story “The Call
of Cthulhu” that, “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the
inability of the human mind to correlate
all its contents.” 41 Lovecraft believed in a purposeless, mechanical, and
merciless universe that human beings could never fully understand, and that the
cognitive dissonance caused by such a realization leads to insanity. To Lovecraft,
there was no room for religion which could not be supported by scientific fact,
and therefore, in his tales, he
portrayed cosmic forces that had little regard for humanity.
Lovecraft constantly refers to the “Great Old
Ones,” a pantheon of ancient, powerful deities from outer space who once ruled
the Earth and founded ancient civilizations and were worshipped as gods.
Lovecraft summed up the significance in
“The Call of Cthulhu,” where in a young man discover the shocking
secret of a race of aliens that served as gods to a strange cult:
There had been aeons when other Things ruled
on the earth, and They had had great cities. Remains of Them… were still be
found as Cyclopean stones on
islands in the Pacific. They all died vast epochs of time before men came, but
there were arts which could revive Them when the stars had come round again to
the right positions in the cycle of eternity. They had, indeed, come themselves
from the stars, and brought Their images with Them. 42
The Great Old Ones formed a cult in dark places
all over the world, “until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his
dark house in the mighty city of R’lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring
the earth again beneath his sway. Some day he would call, when the stars were
ready, and the secret cult would always be waiting to liberate him.” 43 At the
time, according to Lovecraft, in his
diabolical pessimism:
… free and wild and beyond good and evil,
with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and
revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to
shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the Earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and
freedom.”44
Lovecraft derived his notion of
extra-terrestrial visitors from his reading of both Fort’s The Book of the
Damned and Scott-Elliott, in the compilation volume The Story of Atlantis and
Lost Lemuria (1925). Although Lovecraft referred to Theosophical material
as “crap,” he drew inspiration from the
Book of Dz yan, which formed the basis of Blavatsky’sThe Secret Doctrine, in developing
the Cthulhu Mythos’own account of pre-human or occult texts. Blavatsky claimed to have discovered the
book, written in the language of Senzar in
Tibet, where it was guarded by an Occult Brotherhood. Lovecraft declared that they “antedate the
earth,” in The Diary of Alonzo Typer, in which he transformed Theosophy’s
spirit Venusians into aliens who flew across the
solar system in space ships to “civilize” planet Earth.
Lovecraft’s The Great Old Ones from the
Cthulhu Mythos equate with The Great Old Ones of the Night Time, a phrase which
occurs in rituals of the Golden Dawn. Colin Low has suggested that Lovecraft’s
wife, Sonia Greene, had had an affair with Aleister Crowley months before she met Lovecraft, and to whom she confided the idea of the Necromicon,
which she would have learned from Crowley. 45 Crowley’s disciple Kenneth Grant, head of the Typhonian Ordo Templi
Orientis, suggested in his book The Magical Revival(1972) that there was an
unconscious connection between Crowley
and Lovecraft. He thought they both drew on the same occult forces— Crowley
through magic and Lovecraft through the dreams which inspired his stories and
the Necronomicon. Grant claimed that the Necronomiconexisted as an astral book
as part of the Akashic records and could be accessed through ritual magic or in
dreams.
The Necronomicon is a fitional 1,200
year old grimoire
mentioned in Lovecraft’s stories. It was supposedly
written by the “Mad Arab” called Abdul Alhazrad, who worshipped the Lovecraftian entities Yog-Sothoth and
Cthulhu. The book was supposedly
originally titled Al Azif, an Arabic word Lovecraft defined as “that nocturnal sound (made by
insects) supposed to be the howling of demons.” Alhazred was born in Yemen, a
country with historically a strong Jewish
and Kabbalistic community. Alhazred is
said to have visited the ruins of Babylon, the “subterranean secrets” of
Memphis, and discovered the “nameless city” below Irem in the Empty Quarter of
Arabia, living his last years in Damascus, before his death in 738 AD. Al Azif was
translated into Greek and Latin, and
despite attempts at its suppression,
was finally acquired by John Dee.
According to History of the Necronomicon, the very act of studying the text is
inherently dangerous, as those who attempt to master its arcane knowledge
generally meet terrible ends.
Also contributing to the Reptoid theory was the 1951 publication of
Robert Ernst Dickhoff ’s Agharta. Dickhoff styled himself the “Sungma Red Lama
of the Dordjelutru Lamasery,” though his lamasery was located in his New York City
bookshop. Dickhoff referred to The Emerald Tablets, but without mentioning their
“translator” Doreal. Dickhoff claims to have studied in Asia, from
a Buddhist Lama who told him, in apparent reference to Sanat Kumara, that the King of the World came
from Venus, and initially inhabited a
serpentine or reptilian form, but has since transformed into a human one. Dickhoff asserts that this being is the
serpent of the Bible. In addition,
Dickhoff also wrote about humanoid serpent men who came from Venus, who exploited an antediluvian tunnel
system in order to infiltrate and capture Atlantis
and Lemuria. Survivors of these sunken
continents supposedly escaped to underground hideouts in Agartha and in the
Antarctic Rainbow City. Although the serpent men were to have been defeated, they and their agents have infiltrated circles of political authority
through their powers of mind control. The remaining reptilians lie in polar suspended
animation, waiting for the moment to strike. 46
While the
UFO religions first “contacts” were telepathic
communication with Ascended Masters, it was not until the advent of the Roswell
crash of 1947 that the myth of
extra-terrestrials as pilots of “flying-saucers” emerged. On June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold, an American businessman
from Boise, Idaho, reported a sighting of ten shining discs over the Cascade
Mountains while flying his private
plane near Mount Rainier in Western Washington. According to Arnold, “they flew l ike a saucer would if you skipped it
across the water.” While there had been sightings
of “balls of fire” (nicknamed “foo
fighters”) by World War II fighter pilots, or cigar and disc-shaped objects, such as the wave of Scandinavian
“ghost rockets,” the research of Robert Bartholomew and George Howard has shown
that before 1947, “there is not a single recorded episode involving mass sightings
of saucer-like objects.” 47 It was Arnold’s
“ flying saucers” that both
began the modern waves of sightings and
ushered UFOs into popular culture. According to Partridge, “the interest in
Arnold’s story was immediate and massive.” 48 Public interest was such that the
US Air Force felt compelled to carry out an investigation. By the end of the
year, 850 UFO sightings were reported in America alone. Within a few weeks of
the Arnold incident, the famous crash took place at Roswell.
The first
of the so-called contactees of the 1950s was
George Adamski (1891 –1965), a Polish-born American citizen who became widely known in ufology
circles, and to some degree in popular culture. He claimed to have photographed
ships from other planets, met with “ Venusians” he called “ Space Brothers,” and to have taken flights with them.
The “ Nordic” spaceman he encountered was described as “ Aryan” looking, with
long blond hair and blue eyes.
Swedenborg’s descriptions of beings from other planets in The Earths in the
Universewere appropriated by Adamski for his lectures and books, including Flying
Saucers Have Landedand Inside the Space Ships.
Adamski had an interest in Theosophy that dated back to the mid 1930s,
when he founded what was called the Royal Order of Tibet. According to Partridge, “the overall
point to note is that Adamski’s fundamental thesis is little more than a
modified version of popular theosophical teaching which stresses spiritual evolution and the role of the masters/aliens
in that process.” 49
Adamski’s purported saucers were identical to
those depicted in alleged captured Nazi blueprints, fueling the mythos that
the Nazis had developed antigravity
crafts. Adamski likely drew his Nazi
influences from the American fascist leader, William Dudley Pelley, with whom he was involved in the “I AM” cult.
Prior to founding the “I AM”
movement, Pelley was a successful Hollywood screenwriter at the height of the
silent-film era. In the late 1920s and
1930s, he popularized the idea of near-death experiences. Beginning in
1929, Pelley wrote the first widely
read article on the subject, describing his
visit to the spirit world where heavenly Mentors counseled him in the hidden
truths of life. However, acting under “clairaudient” instructions from his
Mentors, who extolled the destiny of Adolf
Hitler, Pelley was inspired to
form his own pro- Hitler, fascist paramilitary order, the Silver Shirts, begun in 1932. By the
mid-1930s, Pelley attained such infamy
that Sinclair Lewis was inspired to model his American dictator, Buzz Windrip,
after him, in It Can’t Happen Here.
Pelley was later interned during the War for his Nazi sympathies.50 But, he eventually
abandoned organized Nazism and went on
to help found the “ I AM” movement. 51
Pelley published a major work on extraterrestrials called Star Guests. It consists
mainly of channeled communications that
Pelley claimed to have been receiving since the late 1920s. According
to Pelley, sentient life came to earth
from planets near Sirius, sent by the
divine principle he called “Thought Incarnate.”
However, the “semiintelligent spirits” who arrived on earth seventeen
million years ago interbred with indigenous apelike life forms. This
interracial breeding, which caused the Fall, he linked to the Genesisaccount of
the “sons of God.” Pelley asserted that
this “half-god, half-human progeny” was symbolized by the Sphinx, and that the
hawk-headed gods of the Egyptians represent the beings from Sirius. However, according to Pelley, the hybrid races became corrupt, so the
intelligences sent messengers, of which
Jesus was one, to repair the damage. The Evil spirits, explains Pelley, first
incarnated in Napoleon and later in the leaders
of the Soviet Union. If they are not
stopped, wrote Pelley, “a coalition of
oriental nations—of which Russia is
leader—… [will] subjugate the globe, reducing its white and Christian peoples
to bondage.” 52 All is building up to the
Second Coming with the advent of the
Age of Aquarius.
Adamski’s fellow contactee, George Hunt Williamson (1926–1986), was a prolific writer on occult matters. After
hearing about the flying- saucer
– based religious cult of Adamski,
perhaps through Pelley, Williamson and his wife became members of his
Royal Order of Tibet. About 1950, Williamson had begun writing for Pelley’s periodical, Va l o r. Pelley’s infl uence on Williamson was
extensive. Although, Pelley did not
directly refer to flying saucers until after Williamson had stopped working for him in
1952. Subsequently, in 1952 and 1953,
Williamson and his associates supposedly established radiotelegraphic
contact with extraterrestrials, in which
they received Morse code messages from “the Planet Hatonn in Andromeda,” the alleged site of the
universal “ Temple of Records.” 53
Williamson eventually combined his own
channeled communications with the beliefs of a small contactee cult known as
the Brotherhood of the Seven Rays, led by Marion Dorothy Martin, to produce a series
of books about the secret, ancient history of the world Other Tongues—Other
Flesh(1957), Secret Places of the Lion(1958), UFOs Confi dential with John McCoy (1958), Road in
the Sky (1959) and Secret of the Andes(1961). These books rewrote the Oldand
New Testamentsto depict every important person as a reincarnation of one of
only six or eight different “entities.” They also expanded on Theosophical teachings that, in the distant
past, Adamski’s friendly Space Brothers
had taught the human race the rudiments of civilization and, according to Williamson, aliens had also helped found the
Jewish and Christian religions, impersonating “gods” and providing “miracles”
when needed. Reflecting what would
later become the basis of the Ancient
Aliens hypothesis, Williamson additionally claimed that some South, Central and
North American ancient civilizations actually began as colonies of aliens in
human appearance.
Other Tongues--Other Fleshwas an extended
treatment on the benevolence of the extra-terrestrials from Sirius, who
supposedly provided mankind with civilization
in the far distant past. In Secret Places of the Lion, speaks of the “Goodly Company” or “Star People,” who migrated
to earth, the “dark star,” many millions of years ago and have worked ever since
as the Creator’s mentors to advance a fallen race. In the same book, Williamson
outlined the entire significance of the UFO mythos in its relation to the
aspirations of Zionism and the Rosicrucian myth of Egyptian Freemasonry, which traces its
origins to a sun cult of which the Pharaoh Akhenaton was an exemplar:
Throughout the entire history of the earth,
the “Goodly Company” or the multitude of
“Christ Souls” have incarnated in a group…
Pharoah was addressed as “The King, the Ra,
the Sun.” This Signified his position as
leader of the “Goodly Company” of star born
beings dedicated to the salvation of a planet!…
A special hereditary order of men was now
created to keep a semblance of Aton (One God) worship amongst the Israelites;
although the Greater Light could not be theirs because they were not yet ready for
it, a less spiritual worship was set up, based on pagan ritualism, that
nevertheless was symbolic in its
sacrifices, ceremonies, vestments, etc…
The promise of an Eternal King, to arise out
of David’s Family, was repeated over and over again: to David, to Solomon, and
again and again...
There are references to the breaking of the
bread and drinking of the wine as a symbol of “the sacred repast.” The wine
represents the “Holy Vine of David” and the bread “the life and knowledge of God.”
Those “Children of the Greater Light” who are descendants of the “Holy Vine of
David” serve, through the “sacred repast,” “the life and knowledge of God!! God
made a covenant with David of an eternal
dynasty.”...
David and Bathsheba prepared the way for the
coming of the Master or the Fulfillmentin Israel…
When Solomon ascended the throne of his
father, he consecrated
his life to
the erection of a temple to God and a palace for the kings of Israel. David’s faithful friend, Hiram, King
of Tyre, hearing that a son of David sat
upon the throne of Israel, sent messages of congratulation and offers of assistance to the new ruler…
Now we
are entering the “twilight of the gods,” when the
final destruction of the Old Age will take place and man and the gods will be
regenerated and reunited! Man will have revealed unto him a true vision of his
eternal heritage--that earthly things may show him the nature of his spirit! 54
In May 1959,
Adamski received a letter from the head of the Dutch Unidentified Flying
Objects Society, informing him
that they had
been contacted by officials at the palace of Queen
Juliana of the Netherlands, wife of Prince Bernhard, former SS officer
and founder of the Bilderberg meetings, and
“that the Queen would like to receive you.”
Adamski informed a London newspaper about the invitation, which prompted
the court and cabinet to request that the queen cancel her meeting with him,
but she went ahead with it saying, “A hostess cannot slam the door in the face
of her guests.” 55
Williamson and Adamski were two of the “four guys named
George” among the mid-1950s contactees. The others were George King and George Van Tassel. George King founded the Aetherius Society, a UFO religion that combined UFO claims,
yoga and ideas from various world religions, notably Buddhism, Christianity, and Theosophy. The Aetherius Society’s stated goal is to prevent
the annihilation of the Earth by improving cooperation between humanity and
various alien species. The society is named after Aetherius, a being King claims to have
telepathically contacted and channeled.
Aetherius is believed to be a “Cosmic Master” from Venus, along with Buddha and Jesus. The society also believes that it is
to make the way for the “Next Master,” a messianic figure who will descend upon Earth in a flying saucer, possessing magic
more powerful than all the world’s armies.
George
van Tassel was a
former aeronautic engineer
and flight inspector who at various times between 1930 and 1948
worked for Douglas Aircraft, Hughes Aircraft, and Lockheed. He met Frank Critzer,
an eccentric loner who during World War
II was under suspicion as a German spy. Critzer claimed to be working a mine
somewhere near Giant Rock, a 7-story boulder near Landers, California, which
the Native Americans of the area held to be sacred. Upon receiving news of
Critzer’s death, van Tassel built a
home and airstrip at Big Rock and started hosting group meditation in 1953 in a
room underneath excavated by Frank
Critzer. In 1952, over a week before they
happened, Van Tassel notified the US air force, Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner,and Lifemagazine of the future events of the 1952 Washington
DC UFO incident via registered letters.
This event, which was witnessed by thousands of people in and around the
Washington DC area is one of the most publicized sightings to have ever taken
place.
In 1952, Van Tassel had begun to channel an
extraterrestrial entity named Ashtar whose messages became the basis for Van
Tassel’s Ministry of Universal Wisdom. Van Tassel hosted the annual
Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention at Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert that at
its peak in 1959 attracted as many as 10,000 attendees. The gatherings began in
1954 with Williamson and Adamski
prominent among the speakers. Also in 1954, Van Tassel and others began
building the Integration based on the design of Moses’ Tabernacle, the writings
of Nikola Tesla and telepathic directions from
extraterrestrials, to perform the “rejuvenation.”
Williamson’s “ Hatonn” was later metamorphosed
from a planet into a being through the experiences of Richard T. Miller, a
Detroit television repairman who heard a lecture by Williamson in 1954. Inspired by Williamson,
Miller and some friends established radio contact with extraterrestrials and entered his
spacecraft, the Phoenix. The entity they spoke with was not Hatonn, however, but a being named Soltec.
Miller and Williamson jointly founded an
organization called the Telonic Research Center in Williamson’s home in Arizona, but parted
company about a year later. Miller
finally published space messages of the being named Hatonn in 1974.
In the 1970s, other channellers claimed access
to Ashtar’s messages. The most prominent among them was Thelma B. Terrell, also
known as Tuella, who emphasized the role of
extraterrestrials in evacuating “purified” souls from the earth in order to escape coming
calamities. While Tuella’s messages come from many of Ashtar’s associates,
Hatonn seems to have gained a special prominence among them. Hatonn is not only a “Great Commander” but
also “the Record Keeper of the Galaxy and the records are kept on the planet
bearing his name.”56 Hatonn went on to inspire the creation of Phoenixmagazine
to publish his radio communications.
Central to the development of Phoenixpublications was George Green who claimed
to have seen an alien craft at Edwards Air Force Base in 1958. According to
Green, he was contacted by “space beings” and entered into an agreement with
them to “publish the material transmitted from the spacecraft called ‘the
phoenix.’” Hatonnn’s full title is Commander Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn, and he claims to be “Commander in
Chief, Earth Project Transition, Pleiades Sector Flight command, Intergalactic
Federation Fleet—Ashtar Command; Earth Representative to the Cosmic Council and
Intergalactic Federation Council on Earth Transition.” He said that he had “well
over a million ships” under his command and that his mission “is to remove
God’s people from the planet when that becomes necessary… if that becomes
necessary.” 57
Another early contactee with Nordic aliens, who also met the so-called Venusian
saucer in the desert in 1946, was Jack Parsons. Parsons was the creator of
solid rocket propellant fuel, who went on to become one of the founders of the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Houston and the Aerojet Corporation. He was a
leader of the Agape lodge, the American chapter of Aleister Crowley’s
OTO. Charles Stansfeld Jones, or Frater Achadby his occult name,
who Crowley considered his “magical son”
and the “one” prophesied in the Book of the Law, started a lodge of the OTO in Vancouver. Jones’s initiate W. T.
Smith started his own group, Agape Lodge, in California in the 1930s.
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