BLACK TERROR WHITE SOLDIER PART 33

Esalen, the CIA & Ancient Aliens Part 2

    While in a trance state, Cayce would channel messages that mirrored many of the teachings of Saint-Yves, Blavatsky and Bailey about the Atlantean origins of the Tibetan and Egyptians civilizations. Following the tradition of Fabre d’Olivet and Saint-Yves, Cayce refers to events on Atlantis as happening several hundred thousand years “before Ram entered India.” According to Cayce, refugee Atlanteans arrived in Egypt after the sinking of their continent in 10,700 BC, bringing with them the records of their civilization, which were deposited in the “Hall of Records” buried beneath the pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx. When they will be uncovered, human civilization will be transformed. As Cayce explained:

With the changes that will be wrought, true Americanism, the universal thought that is expressed and manifested in the brotherhood of man, as in the Masonic order, will be the eventual rule in the settlement of affairs of the world.⁴⁷

In the 1970s, ARE received a sudden infl donors, and is now a powerful organization which has supported archaeological work in Egypt and elsewhere to try to fi civilization and the Hall of Records predicted by Cayce.⁴⁸ Many of the projects’ remote viewers reported encountering pyramids during their sessions. So when Lambert Dolphin Jr. took charge of the SRI expedition to Giza in the 1970s, primarily aimed at searches for hidden chambers beneath the Sphinx, he had information about the plateau derived from these sessions.⁴⁹ In 1973, ARE selected Mark Lehner to be their “insider” among academic Egyptologists, and paid for his training. ARE and Lehner also collaborated on a number of projects investigating the Giza Pyramids with SRI. Most important of these was a study headed by D. Joseph M. Schoch, to determine the possibility of water erosion on the Sphinx. Schoch, like all the authors of the new Egyptology, also drew on the work of Schwaller de Lubicz. De Lubicz began his study of Luxor in 1938, fi nding, he believ ultimate examples of synarchy, because they were ruled by a group of initiates.

His conceptions of Egypt were shaped by Saint-Yves, who believed that the Sphinx was created by the Atlanteans many thousands of years before the rise of Egypt. Saint-Yves placed the end of Atlantis at around 12,000 BC. Schwaller de Lubicz therefore proposed that the erosion on the Sphinx resulted from of exposure  to  water,  caused Atlantis . by  a  gre

Also conducting work at Giza in the late 1970s coinciding the SRI’s projects

was James Hurtak. Although Hurtak ha he has retained close contact with

 Jr, who according to Hurtak, “shared private insights” about Giza with him.⁵⁰ In 1977 and 1978, following up on a tradition found in Masonic lore, Hurtak and a number of colleagues undertook a private expedition to Giza, where they measured the angles of the shafts of the King’s and Queen’s Chambers to test the hypothesis that they were aligned with certain stars and constellations, namely Orion and Draco, and the star Sirius.

One of the most infl uential book Robert K. G. Temple’s 1976 The Sirius Mystery , which presents the hypothesis that the Dogon people of Mali in west Africa preserved a tradition of contact with intelligent extraterrestrial beings from the Sirius star-system. Temple’s attention was fi rstDogondrawnbyArthur Mto.Young,the myth who with Puharich and others had been one o with The Nine through Dr. Vinod in 1952. Young introduced Temple to the subject of the Dogon through a French book called Le Renard pale, which he in turn received from Harry Smith. Known as a surre a member of the OTO and claimed that Aleister Crowley was “probably” his biological father. ⁵¹ Known for experimenting heavily in hallucinogenic drugs, Smith became a hero of the Beat generation of the 50s and the Hippies of the 60s, and in the last Gratefulyears Dead.He of his produced the Folkways anthology, which became an such artists as Bob Dylan and received a Grammy in 1991 for his contribution to the music industry.

Temple’s The Sirius Mystery attracted the attention of the CIA, MI5 and the Freemasons. Temple was approached by Charles E. Webber, 33rd degree Scottish Rite and an old friend of his family and Mason, who had been high-ranking generations for generations, and asked him to join the Masons, in order to be able to discuss the book without divulging the order’s secrets. Webber told Temple:

We are very interested in your book The Sirius Mystery. We realize you have written this book without any knowledge of the traditions of Masonry, and you may not be aware of this, but you have made some discoveries which relate to the most central traditions at a high level, including some things that none of us ever knew.⁵²

The “mystery” that is central to the book is how the Dogon allegedly acquired knowledge of Sirius B, the invisible companion star of Sirius A. And he tries to show that the knowledge of the Dogon originated in the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Sumeria. Temple believed the Dogon preserved the memories of the visit of an amphibious, extraterrestrial race called Nommo, who descended to Earth in an “ark” from the Sirius system. These beings, who are hypothesized to have taught the arts of civilization to humans, are claimed in the book to have originated the systems of the Pharaohs of Egypt, the mythology of Greek civilization and the Epic of Gilgamesh among other things. Temple’s theory was largely based on his interpretation of the work of ethnographers Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen. However, some doubts have been raised about the reliability of their work, and alternative explanations have been proposed.⁵³ The claims about the Dogons’ astronomical knowledge have been challenged.

Nevertheless, these speculations form the basis of what is called the Ancient Astronauts hypothesis. Also known as Ancient Aliens, it attempts to connect the occult legend of the Sons of God of the Bible, or Lucifer and the Fallen Angels, who supposedly created the Aryan race on Atlantis, with extra terrestrials. A leading proponent of the hypothesis was Zecheriah Sitchin. Born in Soviet Azerbaijani, but raised in Israeli, American author Sitchin received a degree in economics from the University of London, and taught himself Sumerian cuneiform. However, Sitchin wrote his books at a time when only specialists could read the Sumerian language, and since then, sources such as the 2006 book Sumerian Lexicon have made the language more accessible to non-experts. Sitchin’s ideas have been rejected by scientists and academics, who dismiss his work as pseudoscience and pseudohistory, and criticized for flawed methodology and mistransla and scientifi c claims.

According to his interpretation of Mesopotamian iconography and symbology, outlined in his 1976 book The 12th Planet and its sequels, Sitchin attributes the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he equates with the Nephilim of Genesis, and which he asserts were a race of extraterrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune called Nibiru. The Sumerian myth of the Annunaki is recognized by scholars as being connected to the story of the Anakim, or Sons of God of the Bible. The Annunaki are the seven judges of the Underworld, the children of the god Anu, who had once lived in heaven but were banished for their misdeeds. Effectively, the Annunaki are part of the common motif of giants, or Titans, found throughout the ancient dying-god mythologies. According to Sitchin, however, 50 Anunnaki, inhabitants of a planet named Nibiru, came to Earth approximately 400,000 years ago with the intent of mining raw materials, especially gold, for transport back to Nibiru. To assist them in their efforts, they genetically engineered slaves to work the mines, creating homo sapiens, the “Adapa” (Archetypal Man) or Adam of occult theology. Sitchin further claimed the Anunnaki were active in human affairs until their culture was destroyed by global catastrophes caused by the abrupt end of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago. Seeing that humans survived and all they had built was destroyed, the Anunnaki left Earth after giving humans the opportunity and means to govern themselves.

The Ancient Astronauts hypothesis is related to the “White Gods” theories, the belief that ancient cultures like those of the Egyptians and the Maya of South America, were visited by Caucasian civilizers who were ignorantly worshipped by primitive peoples as “gods.” Popularized by the works of Erich von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin, these theories fall into a category of pseudohistory known as Mayanism, derived originally from Freemasonry and Theosophy. During the eighteenth century, speculations associated Mayan history with Biblical stories of Noah’s Ark, the Tower of Babel, and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. This included speculation about legendary culture heroes such as Votan and Quetzalcoatl. In the early nineteenth century, Alexander von Humboldt and Lord Kingsborough contributed further to such speculation, and who were in turn cited by Godfrey Higgins, whose Anacalypsis (1833) contributed to the emergence of perennial philosophy and claims that all religions had a common origin in an ancient Golden Age. Higgins proposed the existence of a secret religious order, which he labeled Pandeism, for the worship of a pantheon of gods, that he purported had existed from ancient times, which at one time had constituted a grand world empire, and maintained that the institutions of Christianity were borrowed from the Essenes. However, the preface to Vol. I, Higgins warned of the cryptic nature of much of the book:

I think it right to warn my reader, that there are more passages than one in the book, which are of that nature, which will be perfectly understood by my Masonic friends, but which my engagements prevent

me explaining to the world at large.

In the late nineteenth century, Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg became convinced that the ancient Maya culture could be traced to the lost continent  of  Atlantis.  Brasseur’s work            influenced  the  pseudoscience and pseudohistory of Désiré Charnay, Augustus Le Plongeon, Ignatius L.  Donnelly,  and James Churchward. Le Plongeon and   Donnelly in  turn infuenced  H. P. Blavatsky and  Rudolf  Steiner who introduced misconceptions about the ancient  Maya into early New Age circles. These ideas became part of a belief system  fostered by psychic  Edgar Cayce and later popularized in the 1960s by author  Jess Stearn. Attempts at a synthesis of religion and science, a common theme in  Mayanism, are one of the contributions from  Theosophy. Alice Bailey’s husband,  Foster Bailey, wrote that Freemasonry was a remnant of the “primeval religion”  that had once been common on the whole world, citing the pyramids of Egypt  and South America as “witnesses” of this ancient world religion.” 54

  Mayanism experienced a revival in the 1970s through the work of   Frank  Waters, a writer on the subject of Hopi mythology. In 1970, Waters was the  recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation grant to support research in Mexico and  Central America. This resulted in his 1975 book Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth  World of Consciousness, a discussion of Mesoamerican culture strongly colored by  Waters’ beliefs in astrology, prophecy, and the lost continent of Atlantis. Notions

about extraterrestrial influence on the Maya can be traced to the book         Chariots  of the Gods? by  Erich von Däniken, whose “ancient astronaut” theories were in  turn influenced by the work of Peter Kolosimo (1922–1984)   and     especially Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels, the authors of The Morning of the Magicians. These latter writers were inspired turn  influenced  by  the  work  of  Peter Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels, the authors of The Morning of the Magicians. These latter writers were inspired by publications by Charles Fort (1874- 1932), and by the fantasy literature of H. P. Lovecraft, especially in “Part One:

Vanished Civilizations,” where they s alien-constructed civilizations of the past.⁵⁵ However, contributi also included notions of lost continents and lost civilizations, especially as popularized by Jules Verne, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and H. Rider Haggard.

  The “White Gods” theory is popular amongst White supremacists, Christian Identity groups, ancient astronaut theorists and pseudoarchaeological and Atlantis writers. White gods theorists typically make reference to various South American  gods  supposedly  identified  a Typically, accounts of these gods refer to them as “civilizers” who instructed their societies with various skills. Most common is the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl who, like Hermes and the other dying-gods of the ancient Middle East, was also related to Venus, the dawn, and pertaining to merchants, arts, crafts and knowledge.⁵⁶ There were other deities, among the Maya in particular, whose identities seemed to merge closely with those of Quetzalcoatl. One was Votan, a great civilizer, whose principal symbol like that of Quetzalcoatl was a serpent.

  The story of Votan in Mexico dates back to at least the late seventeenth century, when  Constituciones was diocesanas fidelrs to bispado de relate Chiappa (1702) by Francisco Nunez de la Vega, Bishop of Chiapas, as reported by a Jesuit priest named Francisco Javier Clavijero. These clerics associated Votan with the Biblical stories of the Tower of Babel and as proof that these Native Americans regarded themselves as descendants of Noah. In 1773, Ramon de Ordonez y Aguilar attested that Palenque was built by Votan who travelled back and forth to the Middle East.⁵⁷

The similarity between the names Votan and Wotan, a variation of Odin, has also been the source of much confusion. Assertion of a relationship between Votan and Odin is found in the work of geographer Alexander von Humboldt who wrote Vues des Cordillères (1810). Ignatius L. Donnelly, in Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882), in a chapter titled “The God Odin, Woden, or Wotan,” repeats Clavigero’s reference in the context of speculation about Atlantis and (following Brasseur de Bourbourg) also suggests that Votan built Palenque. In Histoire des nations civilisées du Mexique et de l’Amérique Centrale (1857), Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg had claimed that Votan was an ancient Phoenician legislator who had migrated from the Middle East to the Maya, built Palenque, and established an empire to have once covered all of Mexico and part of the United States. The story of Votan was further associated with the Atlantis legend by Lewis Spence, whose 1940 book Occult Causes of the Present War seems to have been Nazithe f occultism.⁵⁸ In Atlantis in America (1925), Spence iden name for Quetzalcoatl” based on the account by Nunez de la Vega.

Votan has also been cited in the literature of neo-Nazism, like that of Miguel Serrano, that associates him with Quetzalcoatl who was to have come from Venus, as proof that these civilizations were founded by Aryan extra-terrestrials. Some Mormon scholars believe that Quetzalcoatl, who has been described as a white, bearded god who came from the sky and promised to return, was actually Jesus Christ who, according to the Book of Mormon, visited the Americas after his resurrection.

  Notions  about  extraterrestria lMaya of South  America can be traced to Chariots of the Gods, by Erich von Däniken, which brought widespread popularity to ancient astronaut theories. Däniken’s book, titled Gods from Outer Space in the US and Return to the Stars in Britain, was an immediate best seller in the United States, Europe and India, and subsequent books, according to von Däniken, have been translated into 32 languages and together have sold more than 63 million copies.⁵⁹ The book’s television adaptation, In Search of Ancient Astronauts (1973), was hosted by Rod Serling of the Twilight Zone. Von Däniken did not credit Pauwels and Bergier’s The Morning of the Magicians in his books, until a lawsuit forced him to disclose the sources he paraphrased In Chariots of the Gods? von Däniken reproduced a drawing of the Sarcophagus

of Palenque, the Mayan city-state in southern M seventh century, and compared the pose depicted on it of Pacal the Great,

the city’s famous ruler, to that of the 1960s Project Mercury astronauts. He interpreted drawings underneath him as rockets and offered it as evidence of a supposed  extraterrestrial Maya:  influence 

In the center of that frame is a man sitting, bending forward. He has a mask on his nose, he uses his two hands to manipulate some controls, and the heel of his left foot is on a kind of pedal with different adjustments. The rear portion is separated from him; he is sitting on a

complicated chair, and outside of th like an exhaust.

To acquire an understanding of von Däniken’s sources, we can consider that in his 1970 follow-up to Chariots of the Gods he writes of Blavatsky’s Book of Dz yan, which he describes, much as H. P. Lovecraft did, as “older than the earth,” and claimed that chosen people who simply touch the book will receive visions of what it describes, through “rhythmically transmitted impulses.”⁶⁰ Dz yan “is supposed to contain the primordial ancient world, the formula of creation, and to tell of the evolution of mankind over millions of years.” The book originated “beyond the Himalayas,” and its teaching reached Japan, India and China and traces of its ideas were found in South America. It was among the books of vast size guarded by secret fraternities in China. The Church Fathers failed to suppress this secret doctrine which was transmitted orally from generation to generation. Von Däniken quotes from the book at great length, discussing how its seven stanzas of creation are a perfect account of alien visitation, and notes, “Mahabharata , Cabbala, Zohar, Dz yan. Identical as to facts that point in one direction. Are they accounts of things that really happened?”⁶¹

Von Däniken claims that ancient art and iconography throughout the world illustrate air and space vehicles, and artifacts of an anachronistically advanced technology. To support his theory, he makes mention of the chariot of Ezekiel and the “wheel inside a wheel” as referring to a spacecraft. He also discusses the Ramayana , where the gods and their avatar chariots” called Vimanas. There are many mentions o the Ramayana, which dates to the 5th or 4th century BCE.⁶² However, much of the information proffered by ancient astronaut theorists on Vimana is derived from channeled information, as is the case with most of their absurd theories. They rely on a text known as the Vimanika Shastra, the existence of which was revealed in 1952 by G. R. Josyer, who asserted that it was written by an Indian

mystic named Pandit Subbaraya Shastry the years 1918–1923. A study by the a departments at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1974 concluded

that the aircraft described in the text were “poor concoctions” and that the author showed a complete lack of understanding of aeronautics.⁶³

The Seventies Part 1

  The cultural transformations of the 60s all marked the thorough success of the Frankfurt School’s strategies, which used the left-wing politics of the 60s to pass through their bogus Freudian fantasies of the liberated self. Their mission accomplished, the leading intellectuals of the “non- communist left,” who had been responsible for nurturing the leftist ideals that helped shape the countermade-culture,complete ideological flip to-the fotherop extreme of the political spectrum. Reinventing American conservatism to align it with neoliberal economic principles, they became known as neoconservatives. As these neoconservatives gained control of the American administration, the Cold War acquired new intensity the 1970s, when they redefined the country role by reviving the notion of its mission to defend democracy around the world.

As reported by Justin Raimondo in Reclaiming the American Right, with the end of the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), “the core group later came to be known as the Neoconservatives.”¹ The CCF had faced an embarrassing scandal when its connections with the CIA and its publication of Encounter were made in 1962, in press articles, especially Ramparts, the New York Times, and the Saturday Evening Post. Irving Kristol then left Encounter and left-wing politics, to become the leader of the neoconservatives. The funding for his activities would continue to derive from the CIA fronts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and ExxonMobil.

  For Kristol and the other Neoconservatives, their original distrust for Stalinism supposedly turned to an outright rejection of communism as they drifted to the right. As Robert Lind wrote in a 2003 article for Salon:

Most neoconservative defense intellectuals have their roots on the left, not the right They are products of the influential Jewish-America sector of the Trotskyist movement of the 1930s and 1940s, which morphed into anti-communist liberalism between the 1950s and 1970s and finally into kind of militaristic and imperial right winoh precedents in American culture or political history. Their admiration for the Israeli Likud party’s tactics, including preventive warfare such as Israel’s 1981 raid on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor, is mixed with odd bursts of ideological enthusiasm for “democracy.” They call their revolutionary ideology “Wilsonianism” (after President Woodrow Wilson), but it is really Trotsky’s theory of the permanent revolution mingled with the far-right Likud strain of Zionism.

The reason for the hundred and eighty-degree turn was offered by Kristol who explained: “a neoconservative is a Liberal who has been mugged by reality.” Denounced as traitors by their former friends, they were mocked in the left-leaning publication Dissent as “neoconservatives” and the slur became their slogan.

Kristol and the Neoconservatives’ worldview was inspired by German-Jewish political philosopher Leo Straus. As a youth, Strauss was “converted” to political Zionism as a follower of Zeev Jabotinsky. He was also friends with Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin of the Frankist School, who were both strong admirers of Strauss. He would also attend courses at the University of Freiburg taught by Martin Heidegger. After receiving a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1932, Strauss left his position at the Academy of Jewish Research in Berlin for Paris, where he established a life -long friendship with Alexandre Kojève. Because of the Nazis’ rise to power, he chose not to return to his native country and ended up in the United States, where he spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. Prior to teaching at the University of Chicago, Strauss had secured a position at The New School of Columbia University where he joined the Frankfurt School exiles.

A significant influence on Leo Str Nazi past, was influential among the

Frankfurt School, like Walter Benjamin.² Schmitt’s highly positive reference for Leo Strauss was instrumental in winning Strauss the scholarship funding that allowed him to leave Germany, when he ended up teaching at the Rockefeller- funded University of Chicago. In turn, Strauss’s  critique  an The Concept of the Political led Schmitt to make signifi ca second edition. Strauss’ fascist tend through his and Schmitt’s mutual friend, Alexandre Kojève. Kojève and Strauss both played a major role in Schmitt’s postwar “rehabilitation.” In 1955, Kojève addressed a group of Düsseldorf businessmen at Schmitt’s invitation, and Schmitt attempted to arrange a private meeting between Kojève and Hjalmar Schacht. ³ Throughout his career in the US, Strauss regularly sent his leading disciples to study under Kojève in Paris. For example, Strauss’s top protégé the late Allan Bloom travelled to Paris annually, from 1953 up until Kojève’s death in 1968, to study Kojève’s Nietzschean fascist beliefs. Bloom would consider Kojève to be one of his greatest teachers.⁴

According to Steven B. Smith, “Strauss believed that modern philosophy began with Machiavelli, through his ‘realism’ and rejection of the utopianism of the ancients, and his desire to describe a political order more in tune with the brutal nature of humanity.”⁵ Strauss believed Machiavelli contributed to three waves of European thought, marked by attempts to provide a rational basis for human morality. First were the liberal theories of Hobbes and Locke and their notions of natural rights, followed by Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx who fixed laws in history Nietzsche,.Thewhose critique third pha of reason prepared the way for the “radical historicism” of Heidegger, who Strauss called the “highest self-consciousness” of modern thought.⁶ Strauss described how upon hearing Heidegger in 1922 it slowly became evident that Heidegger was preparing a “revolution” in thought the likes of which had not been experienced since Hegel.⁷ This was despite Heidegger’s association with Nazism. In fact, Strauss himself concedes that Heidegger, who had never praised any other contemporary political movement or leader, even refused to denounce the Nazis long after Hitler had been “muted.”⁸

Strauss shared Heidegger’s condemnation of modernity, but Strauss viewed Heidegger as falling victim himself of the fundamental problem of modernity, which was the nihilism that ensued from the rationalism of the Enlightenment, which would explain his false hope in the promise of Nazism. According to Strauss critic Luc Ferry, Strauss took over Heidegger’s critique of modernity, but gave it a more directly political meaning.⁹ While Heidegger proposed a deconstruction of history to discover the meaning of Being, Strauss proposed a similar deconstruction also through a return to the Greeks. Praise for the wisdom of the ancients and condemnation of the folly of the moderns, according to Shadia Drury, was the entire basis of Strauss’s most famous book, Natural Right and History. As Drury explained:

Strauss is not as obscure or as esoteric as his admirers pretend. There are certain incontestable themes in his work. The most fundamental theme is the distinction between the ancients and the moderns—a distinction that informs all his work. According to Strauss, ancient philosophers (such as Plato) were wise and wily, but modern philosophers (such as Locke and other liberals) were foolish and vulgar. The wise ancients thought that the unwashed masses liberty; and giving them these sublime treasures was like throwing pearls before swine. Accordingly, they believed that society needs an elite of philosophers or intellectuals to manufacture “noble lies” for the consumption of the masses. Not surprisingly, the ancients had no use for democracy. Plato balked at the democratic idea that any Donald, dick,  or  George ¹⁰ was  equally  fit

To Strauss, the ancients recognized the absence of any natural right to liberty. For Strauss, they correctly recognized that there is only one natural right: the right of the superior to rule over the inferior. In On Tyranny, Strauss referred to “the tyrannical teaching” of the ancients which must be kept secret for two reasons: to both spare the ignorant masses the humiliation and to protect the elite from reprisals. As Drury further explains:

Of course, Strauss believed that the wise would not abuse their power. On the contrary, they would give the people just what was commensurate with their needs and capacities. But what exactly is that? Certainly, giving them freedom, happiness, and prosperity is not the point. In Strauss’s estimation, that would turn them into animals. The goal of the wise is to ennoble the vulgar. But what could possibly ennoble the vulgar? Only weeping, worshippin masses. Religion and war—perpetual war—would lift the masses from the animality of bourgeois consumption and the pre-occupation with “creature comforts.” Instead of personal happiness, they would live their  lives  in  perpetual¹¹   sacrificet

As with Marx and capitalism, the neoconservatives attacked liberalism as containing the seeds for its own destruction through historicism, relativism and nihilism. The reason for resorting to religion was that, to Strauss, the problem with liberalism was that it led to relativism. Relativism was a problem because it removed society’s belief in one absolute truth, particularly religious truth. This was not because Strauss believed that such a belief was possible. On the contrary, he rejected all possibility of such truth, regarding religions as “heroic delusions” and “noble dreams,” and said of Judaism that “no nobler dream was ever dreamt” and concluded that “it is surely nobler to be victim of the most noble dream than to profi it.”¹² Rather, these delusions, or “noble lies,” were necessary for the masses who would succumb to nihilism for their inability to manage the awful truth that there is no truth. But for Strauss, the “philosopher,” who is equal to Nietzsche’s Superman, can create and manipulate delusions for the sake of society, but is himself beyond the truth and conventional morality, but he was required to keep his sacred mission secret from the rabble.

Strauss’ apologists who question his impact have often pointed out that Strauss managed to avoid all discussion of modern politics. However, as Shadia Drury explains, “He was a very secretive thinker who expressed his ideas with utmost circumspection.”¹³ To understand the role that he saw for himself, it is simple enough to consider how he interpreted the role of a philosopher. To Strauss, there are “gentlemen” and there are philosophers. The “gentleman” is the urban patrician who derives his income from agriculture. He must be a man of moderate wealth, or wealthy enough to be free from toil to pursue noble or honorable things. He devotes himself to the well-being of his estate, his household and his city. He is well-bred and public-spirited. He is the type of man described in Plato’s Republic as the lover of honor and reputation.¹⁴ He is the citizen par excellence. According to Strauss, while the best regime is the tyrannical rule of the philosopher, the best practical regime is the rule of “gentlemen” who are favorably disposed toward philosophers, and so allow them to direct political affairs in a “remote manner.”¹⁵

As Drury also noted, “There is an uncanny resemblance between Strauss’s view of the philosopher-prophet and the Sabbatean conception of the Messiah.”¹⁶ The Sabbateans, through the doctrine of holy sin believed, as Scholem pointed out, that “the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be judged by its standards. Standing under a new spiritual law and representing as it were a new kind of reality, they are beyond good and evil.”¹⁷ Strauss also betrayed otherKabbalah . For Strauss,influences Kabbalistic from numerology became one of the most important clues for deciphering the secret meaning of the texts. Strauss was notorious for att number of the chapters in Machiavelli’s Prince and to Locke’s numbering the paragraphs of his Two Treatises. Strauss notes that Machiavelli’s Prince consists of 26 chapters, which is the same numerical value as the letters of the sacred name of God in the Hebrew Tetragrammaton. Additionally, Strauss highlighted Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy where, in relation to a critique of the Aristotelian conception of the eternity of the world, Machiavelli notes that religions tend to change two or three times every 5,000 to 6,000 years. This passage indicates Machiavelli’s belief that religions have a typical life span of 1,666 and not more than 3,000 years, corresponding with the date of the appearance of the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi.¹⁸

Strauss shares the Kabbalistic view of knowledge as both dangerous and erotic. The Kabbalah was considered dangerous because its heretical tendencies could lead to excommunication, an uninitiated. Like the Kabbalists, Strauss associates the tree of knowledge with philosophy, with sin, the fall, and the devil. In Persecution and the Arts of Writing,

Strauss insists that all the great authors of the Western tradition are esoteric writers for precisely these same reasons. Kabbalistic theology is highly erotic through its religious interpretations of the interplay of God as the masculine quality in relation to the Shekhinah as the feminine aspect, or the relation of the “lover” and the “beloved.” Likewise, Strauss often relates that philosophy is a manifestation of Eros. To Strauss, Philosophy is the quest to understand man’s true nature, which is Eros, as opposed societal con constructs. Eros, like nature, is the enemy of society, marriage, and order. The fact that the Bible uses the same word for knowledge as for sexual relations reinforces the Kabbalah’s identification Eros. The Greek  words for “philosophy” is phil sophia, or love of wisdom, Metis the Zeus.But first Strauss’s conception wife of Eros is also connected

to the fact that he points out that the greatest philosophers, those who manage to rise above convention altogether, were pederasts.¹⁹

For Strauss, Kojève’s End of History is the result of all the errors of modernity and its values of liberalism, and was equivalent to the tragedy predicted by Nietzsche, as being the days of the Last Man. The error of liberalism is that it has departed from the wisdom of the ancients, who recognized the inevitability of a natural hierarchy among men. And while Strauss recognizes that the End of History is fated to produce itself, in a Hegelian sense, he believes that it will perish only to renew the cycle of history in Nietzsche’s sense of an “eternal recurrence.” As Strauss explains, “There will always be men (andres) who will revolt against a state which is destructive of humanity.”²⁰ In a world where “there is no longer a possibility of noble action and great deeds,” the rebels against the universal homogenous state may be “forced” into a “nihilistic revolution that is not “enlightened by any positive goal.” ²¹ As Shadia Drury comments, “What is ironic is that such radicalism passes for conservatism in America.”²²

Essentially, the Straussian basis of neoconservatism is that “liberalism,” which is the source of western liberal democracy and free market capitalism, is in crisis because of the Enlightenment principles on which it is based, and which were articulated by Kant, Locke and Adam Smith and put into practice in the United States by Jefferson and Madison. The main anti-liberal philosophers were Nietzsche, Heidegger and Carl Schmidt.

  Effectively, Neoconservatism was triggered by the repudiation of the politics of the American New Left. As journalist and writer of neoconservative ideology Jacob Heilbrunn related, “Neo-conservatism was turned into an actual movement by Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz,”²³ and as Podhoretz explained in an article in the leading neoconservative publication Commentary for which he was a long -time editor, neoconservatism “came into the world to combat the dangerous lies that were spread by the radicalism of the 1960s and that were being accepted as truth by the established liberal institutions of the day.”²⁴ As Adam Curtis explained in the BBC documentary, The Power of Nightmares : “Strauss explained it was the very basis of the liberal idea, the belief in individual freedom, that was causing the chaos because it undermined the shared moral framework that held society together. Individual this inevitably²⁵ According led to Irving Kristol: conflict.”

If you had asked any liberal in 1960, we are going to pass these laws, these laws, these laws, and these laws, mentioning all the laws that in fact were passed in the 1960s and ‘70s, would you say crime will go up, drug addiction will go up, illegitimacy will go up, or will they get down? Obviously, everyone would have said, they will get down. And everyone would have been wrong. Now, that’s not something that the liberals have been able to face up to. They’ve had their reforms, and they have led to consequences that they did not expect and they don’t know what to do about.²⁶

Podhoretz’s Commentary was originally a journal of the liberal left, but became a major voice for neoconservatives in the 1970s. As Benjamin Balint described it, it was the “Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right.”²⁷ Historian Richard Pells concludes that “no other journal of the past half century has been so consistently influential, or so central to the m political and intellectual life of the United States.”²⁸ Commentary was published by the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which was also responsible for the publication of The Authoritarian Personality. In the 1970s, AJC spearheaded the fight  to  pass  anti-boycott  legislatif Israel. In particular, Japan’s defection from the boycott was attributed to AJC persuasion. In 1975,  AJC   became  the  first  Jewish organization to  campaign against the UN’s “ Zionism  is    Racism” resolution, succeeded in 1991. AJC played a leading role in breaking Israel’s diplomatic isolation at the UN by helping it gain acceptance in WEOG (West Europe and Others),  one  of  the  UN’s  five  regional

The theoretical framework for neoconservative foreign policy during the final Cold years War was articulated of by the Jeane Kirkpatrick, in “Dictatorships and Double Standards,” published in Commentary in 1979. Though she ultimately became a conservative, as a college freshman in 1945 Kirkpatrick joined the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party of America, influenced by her grandfa and Socialist parties in Oklahoma. Kirkpatrick had also been involved with the League for Industrial Democracy from 1960 to 1965 known as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), part of the network of the Tavistock Institute’s Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which had been instrumental in creating the New Left in America.²⁹ Kirkpatrick eventually criticized the foreign policy of Jimmy Carter, which supported detente with the Soviet Union. She went on to serve the Reagan Administration as Ambassador to the United Nations.

  Ultimately, the social upheavals of the sixties caused by liberalism were perceived by the neoconservatives as a “rotting” through America’s lack of self-confi dence and belief in its of identity, the neoconservatives took hold of Strauss’ notion of the need to resort to Noble Lies. They would fabricate the mythos that America was the only source for “good” in the world, and should be supported, otherwise “evil” would prevail. Of the purported threat that came to be exaggerated by the neoconservative lobby, Adam Curtis explained, “this dramatic battle between good and evil was precisely the kind of myth that Leo Strauss had taught his students would be necessary to rescue the country from moral decay.”³⁰

Towards building the reinvention of America’s role in the world, the neoconservatives took advantage of that resulted from America’s defeat in Vietnam and the Watergate scandal. Primarily responsible for escalating the involvement of the US in Vietnam were McGeorge Bundy and McNamara who, along with Dean Rusk, were reportedly the authors of the controversial Report from Iron Mountain, which called for the need to maintain perpetual war. In the documents, “an established and recognized extraterrestrial menace” is also listed among the possible “substitute institutions for consideration as replacements for the nonmilitary functions of war.” McNamara was Secretary of Defense under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, and served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. Dean Rusk, an important participant in the formation of the Bilderberg  a top official with  the  CFR  and  then the head of  the  Rockefeller Foundation.

The Report from Iron Mountain was first published then editor E. L. Doctorow. According to the report, a panel called the Special Study Group met at an underground nuclear bunker called Iron Mountain in 1963 to examine what problems would occur if the US entered lasting peace. A member of the panel, a professor naming himself “John Doe,” decided to release the report to the public. The report concluded that peace was not in the interest of a stable society. Because war was a part of the economy, it was necessary to conceive a state of war for a stable economy. The government, the group theorized, would not exist without war and nation states existed in order to wage war. War also served a vital function of diverting collective aggression. They recommended that bodies be created to emulate the economic functions of war.

However, Leonard C. Lewin, claimed to have been the author of the work. Nevertheless, the report was reviewed in the book section of The Washington Post by Herschel McLandress, the pen name for Harvard professor John  Kenneth Galbraith, where he claimed t authenticity, because he had been invited to participate in its creation.³¹ Others have suggested it is merely a parody of the disturbing material produced by the popular think-tanks. Whatever the case may be, the conclusions mirror those discovered several decades earlier by Norman Dodds, as expressed in minutes of the tax-exempt foundations.

BLACK TERROR WHITE SOLDIER PART 32

Esalen, the CIA & Ancient Aliens Part 1

Murphy and Price’s goal was to assist in the coming transformation by exploring work in the humanities and sciences, in order to fully realize what Aldous Huxley had called the “human potentialities.” Esalen thus represented a fruition of The Human Potential Movement (HPM), whose founding has often been attributed to Gurdjieff, and which arose in the 1960s around the concept of cultivating the extraordinary potential that its advocates believed to lie largely untapped in all people. The movement took as its premise the belief that through the development of this “human potential” humans could experience an exceptional quality of fulfillment. According to Kripal, Hux the “nonverbal humanities” and the development of the “human potentialities” functioned as the working mission statement of early Esalen, and Huxley offered lectures on the “Human Potential” at Esalen in the early 1960s.⁵

However, although packaged as “alternative spirituality,” the teachings at Esalen represented the age-old menagerie of practices from the esoteric traditions of the world that formed the core of the occult tradition. Esalen soon became known for its blend of Eastern and Western philosophies, and over the years hosted an influx of ph and religious thinkers. Esalen’s intellectual framework contained, among much

else, the philosophical and psychological ideas of Mesmer, Swedenborg, Freud, Christianity and Eastern mysticism of various kinds, including Buddhism and Sufism,  not  to  mention  parapsychology

At Esalen, Murphy and Price hosted speakers such as Arnold Toynbee, B. F. Skinner, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, Gregory Bateson and Carlos Castaneda. The more famous guests of Esalen would include mystically inclined scholars like Carl Sagan, Joseph Campbell and Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics; as well as astronauts and Apple executives, Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel, Robert Anton Wilson, Uri Geller, as well as numerous countercultural icons including Joan Baez, Hunter S. Thompson and Timothy Leary. Also associated with Esalen was EST (Erhard Sensitivity Training), founded in 1971 by Werner Erhard, a close friend of Alan Watts, and a former Scientologist. Erhard had become involved in Mind Dynamics seminars, which included teachings based on Rosicrucianism and Theosophy, as well as the methods of psychic Edgar Cayce.⁶ Though EST attracted celebrities such as Yoko Ono, Buzz Aldrin and John Denver, the program later achieved some notoriety for its rigidity and abusiveness.

Closely connected with sexual experimentation was the use of drugs. Kripal also points out that, in addition to his discussions of Tantra, Huxley’s writings and lectures on the mystical possibilities of psychedelics and on what he called the “perennial philosophy” were foundational at Esalen. Refl e this interest in both subjects, Timothy Leary, a regular at Esalen, believed he discovered the sexual potential of LSD “to realize that God and Sex are one, that God for a man is woman, that the direct path to God is through the divine union of male -female.”⁷ Huxley explained to Leary that Tantra is the highest ideal possible, linking it to Zen Buddhism, and interpreting it in terms of psychotherapy and gestalt therapy, and said that “LSD and the mushrooms should be used, it seems to me, in the context of this basis Tantrik idea of the yoga of total awareness, leading to enlightenment within the world of everyday experience—which of course becomes the world of miracle and beauty and divine mystery when experience is what it always ought to be.”⁸

It was through their enduring interest in neo-Vedanta of Vivekananda that Huxley, Heard, and Isherwood passed on their Hindu perennialism to Esalen and in turn to American culture. Vivekananda had achieved a wide network of influence Jung, that Joseph Campbell included and Henry Miller,Carl who was also associated with Esalen. Throughout his memoir, The Air Conditioned Nightmare, Miller refers to Vivekananda as the great sage of the modern age and the most able messenger to rescue the West from spiritual bankruptcy. Heard had also become a guide and mentor to numerous well-known Americans, including Clare Boothe Luce (wife of Skull and Bonesman Henry Luce of Time, Life and Fortune), and Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. In 1962, a month after he had introduced Timothy Leary to “the ultimate yoga” of Tantra, and just two months after he met Michael Murphy and Richard Price in Big Sur, Huxley published his very last novel, Island, a celebration of Tantric eroticism.⁹

When Leary inquired about Tantra from Huxley, he recommended to him the works of Sir John Wooddroffe (aka Arthur Avalon), Heinrich Zimmer’s chapter on Tantra in Philosophies of India, ghostwritten by Joseph Campbell, and the works of Mircea Eliade.¹⁰ Joseph Campbell, also famous for his work in comparative religion, was another Esalen regular. In 1924, Campbell met and befriended Jiddu Krishnamurti, with whom he discussed Asian philosophy, sparking his lifelong interest in Hindu and Indian thought. Campbell’s independent studies also led him to explore the ideas of Carl Jung. Campbell edited the fiJung’s rstannual Eranos papers conferences, from where he was an attendee, and helped Mary Mellon found Bollingen Series of books on psychology, anthropology and myth. The series was sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation, established by Paul Mellon of Gulf Oil. Although the Bollingen Series was not a Traditionalist organization, it published the works of central figures in Traditionalism, like R and Romanian scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986), who was also a regular participant at Jung’s Eranos conferencesTheosohy. El and the works of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, and in 1927 was a distant follower of Evola’s and Arturo Reghini’s Ur group and was introduced to the work of Guénon by Reghini, as Evola himself had been.¹¹

Campbell, like Eliade, was also promotion of Yoga and Kundalini, an interest they were both preceded in by Carl

Jung, whose seminars on Kundalini are compiled in The Psycholog y of Kundalini Yoga. Jung’s research on Kundalini is considered a milestone in the bridging of Western psychology with the Eastern model of Kundalini . Mircea Eliade in his classic Yoga, Immortality, and Freedom, attempted to bring to the West some understanding of the relationship between yoga, the awakening of kundalini, and mystical states of consciousness.¹² Campbell regarded Kundalini as “India’s greatest gift to us,” and praised Ramakrishna as a “a virtuoso in the experience of the Kundalini transformations.”¹³

Although not himself a Traditionalist, Campbell’s studies of religions Traditionalis refltected inspiration. Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), which discusses his theory of the journey of the hero found in world mythologies, is an expansion of James Frazer’s theory of a dying-god, but also drawing on Freud’s Oedipus complex, Carl Jung archetypal figure collective unconscious, and Arnold Van Gennep’s the three stages of The Rites of Passage (1909), translated by Campbell into Separation, Initiation and Return. Campbell called the journey of the hero the monomyth, borrowed from James

Joyce, whose Ulysses  was  also  highly  influential

The classic examples of the monomyth Campbell relies most heavily upon are the stories of Osiris, Prometheus, the Buddha, Moses, and Christ.

The Hero with a Thousand Faces has infl uenced a number poets, and fi lmmakers, including Bob Mickey Hart, Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead had mentioned

Campbell’s infl uence and agreed to pa entitled From Ritual to Rapture. On the DVD release of the famous conversations between Campbell and Bill Moyers, fi broadcast in 1988 on PBS as The Power of Myth, Campbell and Moyers discussed

Lucas’s use of The Hero with a Thousand Faces  in  making  his  films

Leary “turned on” another Esalen regular, religious scholar Huston Smith, whose World’s Religions (originally titled The Religions of Man) has sold over two million copies, and remains a popular introduction to comparative religion. During his career, Smith studied Vedanta, Zen Buddhism having developed an interest in the Traditionalism of René Guénon and Coomaraswamy, which shaped his study of world religions. As a young man, Smith was infl uenced Gerald Heard and by Aldous the Huxley,  writings it was Heard who arranged for him to meet Aldous Huxley who introduced him to Vedanta. Though, Smith tried meditating for years without success, to the point of doubting that Westerners could access the same mystical experiences as Asians, until Huxley referred him to Leary. Leary introduced Smith to LSD on New Years Day in 1961, at the Center for Personality Research at Harvard, an experience Smith described in his book Cleansing the Doors of Perception. Smith later became the host of two series from the National Educational Television (the forerunner of PBS): “The Religions of Man and Search for America.” Bill Moyers devoted a 5-part PBS special to Smith’s life and work, “The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith.” Smith has produced three series for public television: “The Religions of Man”, “The Search for America”, and “Science and Human Responsibility Hinduism, Tibetan. Buddhism,”His and films Sufism have all won awards at internal

Included in the heady mix of Esalen’s philosophical and psychological interests were ideas at the farthest fringe of mystical experimentation, even space aliens. As the Ascended Masters of Theosophy had become “space brothers,” now too at Esalen,  under  the CIA’s MK-influence Ultra project and  of inspired by the teachings of Gurdjieff, shamanism came to be seen as the source of the “perennial philosophy,” where the beings in the spirit world contacted through the use of entheogens also came to be regarded as extra-terrestrials.

Sometimes referred to as a “witch doctor,” “shaman” is an umbrella term referring to a variety of spiritual practices that typically involve reaching altered states of consciousness in order to encounter and interact with the “spirit world.” Gurdjieff, Through shamanism  the came to bein uflseen as the primitive origin of not only Sufism, Sarmoung such Brotherhood, as the but of all the Ancient Mysteries. This notion was popularized by Mircea Eliade, who brought much attention to the subject of shamanism in writing Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. According to Mircea Eliade, a shaman is “…believed to cure, like all doctors, and to perform miracles of the fakir type, like all magicians [...] But beyond this, he is a psychopomp, and he may also be a priest, mystic, and poet.¹⁴ And Eliade argued that the word shaman should not apply to just any magic practitioners of the ancient religion of the Turks and Mongols of Central Asia. The pre-Buddhist Bön culture was the national form of shamanism in Tibet, which was part of Tantric Buddhism, another area of interest to Eliade, who praised Tantra as the highest form of yoga, and therefore whose works were criticized in Romania for their eroticism.

Linking Shamanism to the ancient practices of the dying- god cult, according to Eliade, “the shaman specializes in a trance during which his soul is believed to leave the body and ascend to the sky or descend to the underworld.”¹⁵ As exemplifi ed by the Ancient Myster communion with spirits to acquire revelations of hidden knowledge. Typically, these mysteries employed intoxicants or drugs to induce such trance states, a method which was known to the modern psychological establishment and the intelligence industry, who sought to make use of them for their own nefarious plans. As Coppens suggests, it was likely through his familiarity with Carl Jung and his theory of “archetypes,” as a euphemism for disembodied spirits, that would have led Dulles, as head of the CIA, to sponsor these experiments.¹⁶

Thus, through its association with Esalen, the CIA’s MK-Ultra and Stargate projects contributed to the evolution of what is known as the “entheogen thesis,” which suggested that the use of drugs could not only help “expand consciousness,” but, like the shamans of the ancient world, achieve contact with beings on other spiritual planes of existence, which was put forward ss the basis of the Ancient Mysteries, but also as a means of accessing the Ancient Wisdom.

Extraterrestrials, to the amateur ethnobotanist and Esalen representative Terence McKenna, represented “the human soul exteriorized into three-dimensional space as a religious experience,” as paraphrased by Jeffrey Kripal.¹⁷ In 1963, McKenna, Gordon who Wasson’s was ethnomycology, influence was introduced to the world of psychedelics through The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley and certain issues of The Village Voice. Heavily inflTeilhard deuencedChardinand AlfredbyNorth Whitehead, in Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge - A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution, McKenna presented his “Stoned Ape” theory, which proposed that the transformation from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens was the result of the addition of the magic mushroom to their diet.

The mushroom, according to McKenna, also gave humans experiences and were the basis for the foundation of all religions. He proposed that the biblical Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was actually an entheogenic mushroom.

Terence McKenna observed how “the shamanic faith is that humanity is not without allies. There are forces friendly to our struggle to birth ourselves as an intelligent species. But they are quiet and shy; they are to be sought.” This, explains Philip Coppens, a consultant to the authors of The Stargate Conspiracy, is exactly what Andrija Puharich did in his psychic work for the CIA, “and it was his quest for the Nine, which he never went in search of in the darkness of the space, but in the other dimension that was accessed by the mind.”¹⁸

Through a government-funded project, Esalen became associated with the channeling of messages of a group of “extraterrestrials” calling themselves “The Council of Nine,” who would go on to have a profound impact on the shape of the emerging New Age movement and its associations with Neo-Nazi mythology, and the myth of Ancient Aliens. As the authors of The Stargate Conspiracy, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, point out, there are numerous occult associations with the number nine. In Greek mythology, when Prometheus gave Fire to mankind, an angered Zeus chained him to a rock and to punish mankind, he and eight other deities gathered to form the Council of Nine. The council members were Aphrodite, Apollo, Athena, Demeter, Hephaestus, Hera, Hermes, Poseidon and Zeus. Together this council created Pandora, and sent her as a gift to Epimetheus who was told never open it. Unable to contain her curiosity she opened the box, releasing all of the misfortunes of mankind.

The number nine also recalls the Enneads, the nine sections of the six books of Plotinus, considered the founder of Neoplatonism. What was distinctive in Plotinus’ system was the unifi ed, hi and the theory of ten divine emanations or spheres, corresponding with the ten sephiroth of Jewish mysticism, and the Pythagorean Decad. For Pythagoras, the number Nine, the Ennead, was considered “the greatest of the numbers within the Decad” for “everything circles around within it.” According to Iamblichus, a key figure in the Mithr the ennead was known as the number that “brings completion.”¹⁹

Louis Jacolliot’s account of Agartha spoke of the Nine Unknown Men who secretly rule the world. Reference to the Ennead, the ancient Egyptian pantheon, as “the Nine Principles,” the same language that the Council of Nine used for themselves, was mentioned by the Synarchist Schwaller de Lubicz, student of sacred geometry known for his study of the architecture of the Temple of Luxor in Egypt and his book The Temple In Man. De Lubicz put forward a Pythagorean system that featured the number nine, and believed that the Ennead of the Egypians was an expression in mythological terms of certain fundamental philosophical principles.

Albert Pike also records a Masonic  legend  that

number nine to a stellar tradition connected with Sirius. The “Nine Elect” are the apprentice Masons who sought to avenge the death of their Master, Hiram Abiff. The Nine Elect are symbolized by the sequential rising of nine bright stars, including those of Orion’s belt, which precedes the rising of Sirius.²⁰ The Elect of Nine are the ninth degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry.

The Council of Nine was also mentioned as the secret guides of American Rosicrucianism. Clymer claimed that the doctrines of his society, the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, were endorsed by a secret order that directed it from France, known as the Council of Nine. Clymer also established a society known as the Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek. Melchizedek was revered by the Sufial Khidrs, asor“the Green One.” The name is also related to the Asiatic Brethren who were known as Melchizedek Lodges, and where the highest degree was that of “the true Brothers of the Rose-Croix.”²¹ And, Guénon equated Melchizedek with the “Lord of the World,” the ruler of Agartha. Clymer claims the order was well established in France and that its secrets originated with a manuscript handed down from the Templars. ²²

Schwaler de Lubicz had also been a member of the Brotherhood of Heliopolis with Eugene Canseliet, who had been instrumental in the founding of the Sovereign Order of the Temple, the precursor to the notorious UFO cult known as the Solar Temple, whose doctrines also emphasized the importance of the secret priesthood of Melchizedek. According to them, Melchizedek was the emissary of a planet called Heliopolis, which orbits Sirius, who returned to his home planet when his mission was completed.²³

Part of Alice Bailey’s work as instructed to her by her Master, the Tibetan Djwhal Khul, was to set up a series of disciples to be known as the Groups of Nine. Djwhal Khul often referred to the two other masters with leading roles as Master R and Master M, while the representatives of The Nine who spoke to Puharich through Dr. Vinod called themselves “R” and “M.”²⁴

The council that governs the Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan also call themselves the Council of Nine. Similarly, Aquino as the off Temple of Set, rules the organization through a council of nine. In the South Park episodes “Imagination land Episode II” and “Imagination land Episode III,” Imaginationland was led by a “Council of Nine” consisting of the nine most revered of all imaginary characters: Aslan, Gandalf, Glinda, Jesus, Luke Skywalker, Morpheus, Popeye, Wonder Woman, and Zeus.

More closely connected is the idea of the Enneagram, an occult glyph resembling Rosicrucian geometrical constructs or the Kabbalistic Tree of life, and which was popularized by Idries Shah, a friend to Wiccans, Gerald

Gardner and Robert Graves, who wrote the foreword to his The . Graves’Sufi s introduction described Shah as being “in the senior male line of descent from the prophet Mohammed” and as having inherited “secret mysteries from the Caliphs, his ancestors. He is, in fact, a Grand Sheikh of the Sufi Tariqa…” Graves confessed, however, that this was “misleading: he is one of

us, not a Moslem personage.”25 The

exploresSufi  the  impact

development of Western civilization from the seventh century onward through the  work  of  such  figures Raymondas Lully,Roger  B Chaucer and others. Although it is disguised Luciferianism, Shah came to be recognized as a spokesman for Sufi sm professor at a number of Western univ in popularizing Sufi sm as a “mystica works have been criticized by Orientalist scholars, he has nevertheless been defended by the famous novelist, Doris Lessing.

In 1960, Shah founded Octagon Press, which was named after the octagram, which Shah believed was related to the Enneagram of Gurdjieff. In June 1962, a couple of years prior to the publication of The Sufi,Shah hads

also established contact with members of the movement that had formed around the mystical teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. He was eventually introduced to noted Gurdjieff student J. B. Bennett, who became convinced that Shah “had a very important mission in the West that we ought to help

him to accomplish.”²⁶  Shah gave Bennett a “Declaration of the People of the Tradition.” Shah declared that the Guardians belonged to an “invisible hierarchy” that had chosen him to transmit “a secret, hidden, special, superior form of knowledge.” It convinced Bennett that Shah was a genuine emissary of Gurdjieff’s “Sarmoung Monastery.”

   In 1953, Bennett had undertaken a long journey to the Middle East, visiting Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Persia, which included a mysterious visit to Abdullah

ad Daghestani (1891-1973), Sheikh of the Naqshbandi Haqqani  Sufi   or Damascus.²⁷ According to Kabbani, Chairman of the Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi Order The of Naqshbandi America, Sufiin   Way:  Hist Saints of the Golden Chain, ad Daghestani initiated Gurdjieff and allowed him through a dream to “ascend to the knowledge of the power of the nine points,” which became the basis of his Enneagram.²⁸ The enneagram is a nine-pointed figure usually inscribed Gurdjieff is quoted by Ouspenskywithinas a ci claiming that it was an ancient secret and was now being partly revealed for the first time, though hints of the symb has been proposed that it may derive from the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, as used in Renaissance Hermeticism, which used an enneagram of three interlocking triangles, also called a nonagram or medieval philosopher Raymond Lull.²⁹ In The Commanding Self, Idries Shah

contends that the Enneagram is of Sufi origin, known in coded form as an octagram, two superimposed squares with the space in the middle representing the ninth point.

The bizarre story of The Nine, the CIA and Esalen, as reconstructed in The Stargate Conspiracy, begins in a private research laboratory in Maine called the Round Table Foundation. It was set up in 1943 to research the paranormal and run by a medical doctor named Andrija Puharich, “father of the American New Age movement.” Puharich,  who  was  a  US the early 1950s, implied that the Round Table Foundation was a front for the Army’s parapsychological experiments.³⁰ The Round Table Foundation also received support from Puharich’s good friend, former Vice-President Henry Wallace, through substantial grants from his Wallace Fund.³¹ Puharich also later confessed that his experiments with the Round Table Foundation were originally inspired by reading the works of Alice Bailey.

Puharich himself has stated that the Round Table Foundation was a front for the Army. In addition, Puharich was also carrying out secret research into techniques of psychological manipulation, including the use of hallucinogenic drugs, and the military and intelligence capabilities of psychic skills. Picknett and Prince stated that his employment was because the Army was interested in  finding  a  drug  that  would Aldousstim Huxley, one of the earliest members of Puharich’s Round Table and who worked with Puharich in experimenting with hallucinogenics, “…whatever may be said against Puharich, he is certainly very intelligent, extremely well read and highly enterprising. His aim is to reproduce by modem pharmacological, electronic and physical methods the conditions used by the Shamans for getting into a state of travelling clairvoyance.”³²

The Round Table Foundation functioned when Puharich was working for the Army Chemical Center in Edgewood, Maryland, which is just ten miles from MK-Ultra connected Edgewood Arsenal, which cooperated with the CIA’s MK-Ultra program. During that time Puharich met with various high-ranking offi cers and offiCIA andcials,Naval Intelligence. One of the projects being conducted at Edgewood at the time was BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE. Ira Einhorn, who led seminars at Esalen, stated that his mentor Puharich “was doing LSD work for the CIA in 1954.” He linked Puharich with Sidney Gottlieb and MK-Ultra and related that Puharich was involved in experiments that resulted in the death of Frank Olson.³³

In December 1952, Puharich had brought into his laboratory an Indian mystic named Dr. D. G. Vinod, who began to channel The Nine or “the Nine Principles.” The Nine also referred to themselves as the Ennead, the nine major gods of the Egyptian pantheon. According to Puharich, The Nine are “directly related to Man’s concept of God,” and that “the controllers of the Universe operate under the direction of the Nine. Between the controllers and the untold numbers of planetary civilizations are the messengers.” The Nine proclaimed themselves to be God, stating “God is nobody else than we together, the Nine Principles of God.”³⁴ Among other pronouncements about the nature of the universe and the history and future of mankind, the Council of Nine, describing themselves as “a circle of universal beings living outside time and space,” would also often recommend the books of Blavatsky and Alice Bailey.

Further séances in 1953 were attended by other members of Puharich’s Round Table Foundation, including Henry and Georgia Jackson, Alice Bouverie, Marcella Du Pont, Carl Betz, Vonnie Beck, Arthur M. Young and his wife Ruth. Marcella Du Pont was a member of the wealthy Du Pont family, and Alice Bouverie, born Ava Alice Muriel Astor, a descendant of John Jacob Astor, was the daughter of Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, who had died aboard the Titanic.

Her  first  husband,  Prince  Serge  Obole Army, and went on to become a major operator in the OSS during WWII.

Arthur M. Young, the designer of Be also an infl uential philosopherspiritual who, evolution of Alfred Noth Whitehead, proposed theories that combined Darwinism with traditional wisdom, Jungian archetypes, Theosophy, astrology, yoga, mythology and other forms of knowledge. Young married artist Ruth Forbes of the Boston Forbes family, a great-granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ruth was also a close personal friend of Mary Bancroft, devoted student of Carl Jung and former mistress to Allen Dulles and later to Henry Luce.  Ruth’s  fi rst  husband,  George  L Trotskyite James Burnham. Burnham was also a friend of E. Howard Hunt, one of the Watergate “plumbers,” and was also suspected of involvement in the JFK assassination. Ruth and Paine were the parents of Michael Paine, who married Ruth Hyde, and who together became notable after the assassination of John F. Kennedy because of his acquaintance with alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Michael and Ruth Paine met Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife Marina at a party on February 22 1963 being thrown amongst the émigré White Russian community, where they had been invited by George de Mohrenschildt. It was Ruth Paine who helped Lee get his job at the Texas School Book Depository while his wife Marina and child continued to live with her in Irving, Texas. When the assassination occurred it was the Paines who led the police to where Oswald hid his rifle, and provided mu photos of Oswald posing with his rifle.

In 1949, while living in New York, Young and his wife met Mary Benzenberg Mayer and enrolled in her school, the Source Teaching Society. Mayer had trained under Freud and was later associated with Carl Jung and used dreams and the study of earlier religious traditions.³⁵ In 1952, Young and his wife Ruth organized the Foundation for the Study of Consciousness in Philadelphia, the forerunner of the Institute for the Study of Consciousness, founded in Berkeley

in 1972, for the scientifi c investiga Three years later, thera appeared  existence of The Nine, when in Mexico Puharich met Charles and Lillian Laughead who also channeled them. The Lougheads were former Christian missionaries who were by then prominent in the burgeoning UFO contactee movement. After having become disillusioned with Christianity, the couple had become interested in the writings of William Dudley Pelley. After a meeting

with Adamski, they became convinced of t of UFOs. Puharich also knew George Adamksi’s fellow contactee George

Hunt Williamson, who had worked for Pelley’s Valor, and continued to praise Puharich’s work with the Nine right up until the late 1970s.

After disbanding the Round Table Foundation in 1958, Puharich achieved international recognition as an inventor of medical devices and as a parapsychologist and author of The Sacred Mushroom: Key to the Door of Eternity and Beyond Telepathy. In The Sacred Mushroom, Puharich tells how in 1954 he received a transcript of medium Harry Stone became possessed by a persona that they later identifi Rahótep,a man who haded lived as 4600 years ago. What fascinated Puharich was the description Stone had given of a plant that could separate consciousness from the physical body. Stone’s drawings of the plant looked like mushrooms, and the description he gave was that of the amanita muscaria, or fl yGordonagaricWasson’sMexicanof shamans. Over the next three years, Harry spoke Egyptian, wrote hieroglyphics, and disclosed the role of amanita in Egyptian cult and divination.

In 1955, Gordon Wasson mentioned to Puharich the divinatory potential of the mushroom he had discovered in Mexico, and invited him to join that summer’s expedition to Oaxaca, which was later described in the Life magazine article of 1957, but he declined due to other obligations. Though, by the fall of 1955, Puharich had an ample supply of the mushroom to experiment on his own. Another acquaintance of Puharich, New York socialite Alice Bouverie, in a trance experiment involving a Ouija board, contacted telepathically Wasson’s Mexican Shaman, Maria Sabina, who advised them correctly that a specimen of amanita muscaria was to be found nearby in Maine.

Robert Anton Wilson, one of the Esalen Institute teachers, commented on Puharich in his famous Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati, for which Timothy Leary wrote the foreword, and which deals with Wilson’s experiences during a period of “self-induced brain change,” when he communicated telepathically with extraterrestrials from the Sirius star system. According to Wilson:

The cumulative evidence in such books as Dr. Andrija Puharich’s The Sacred Mushroom, John Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, R. Gordon Wasson’s Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality, Robert Graves’ revised fourth edition of The White Goddess, Professor Peter Furst’s Flesh of the Gods, Dr. Weston LaBarre’s The Peyote Cult and Ghost Dance: Origins of Religion, Margaret Murray’s The Witch Cult in Western Europe, etc., leaves little doubt that the beginnings of religion (awareness of, or at least belief in, Higher Intelligences) is intimately linked with the fact that shamans—in Europe, in Asia, in the Americas, in Africa—have been dosing their nervous systems with metaprogramming drugs since at least 30,000 B.C.³⁶

Puharich became best known as the person who brought Israeli Uri Geller

to the United States for scientif born Geller, who became famous for his television performances of spoon bending and other supposed psychic stunts, was also at times in the employ of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. Puharich’s study of Geller was supported by the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), and funded directly by US intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA’s Offi ce of Techni Research. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, one of the world’s largest scientifi c research organizationsSRI“canbe described as one of the ‘jewels’ in Tavistock’s crown in its rule over the United States.”³⁷ Originally founded as a means of attracting commercial business research at Stanford University in California, SRI began taking on military and intelligence contracts,SRIwhich initiatedmany of t what came to be known as the Stargate Project, the umbrella code name of one of several sub-projects established by the US Federal Government to investigate claims of psychic phenomena with potential military and domestic applications, particularly “remote viewing,” referring to the purported ability to psychically “see” events, sites, or information from a remote distance. At least three of the key remote-viewers at SRI were former leaders in Hubbard’s Church of Scientology, Hal Puthoff, Ingo Swann and Pat Price. Price, a former police chief, after being trained as a remote -viewer, went to work for the CIA. Swann, a New York artist, went on to train remote-viewers at the Pentagon.³⁸

At first Geller started to channel a conscious super-computer aboard a spaceship. When Puharich suggested to

him there might be a connection with the Nine Principles, Spectra agreed. The Nine claimed that they had programed Geller with his powers as a young child. Through Geller, The Nine claimed to have been behind the UFO sightings starting with Kenneth Arnold’s in 1947, and alerted Puharich to his life’s mission, which was to use Geller’s talents to alert the world of an imminent mass landing of spaceships that would bring representatives of The Nine. The Nine also described the “Knowledge of the Book” they had hidden in Egypt 6,000 years ago, during a previous visit to Earth. They spoke too of a race of extraterrestrials they referred to as the Hoova, who came to Earth 20,000 years ago to the area now called Israel, and that their contact with Abraham, the forefather of the Jewish people, was the origin of the Biblical story of the ladder joining Heaven and Earth.

However, Geller finally Nine,saying:turned“Ithink his somebody is playing games with us. Perhaps they are a civilization of clowns.”³⁹

When Puharich  had  to  find  other  channel

Whitmore and psychic and healer Phyllis Schlemmer, who had reportedly also done work for Israeli intelligence. Schlemmer became the spokesperson for The Nine. She, Puharich and Whitmore then set up Lab Nine at Puharich’s estate in Ossining, New York. The Nine’s disciples included multi-millionaire businessmen, members of Canada’s Bronfman family, European nobility, scientists from the Stanford Research Institute, Gene Roddenberry the creator of Star Trek and influentialI ra Einhorn,counter culture who referred to the group of scientists of which he and Puharich were part as his “psychic mafi⁴⁰ Einhorna.” later achieved notoriety as “the Unicorn Killer,” after he beat his ex-girlfriend Holly Maddux to death, and then stored her body in a locker in his apartment for more than a year before she was discovered by the police. In his own defense, Einhorn claimed that Maddux was murdered by CIA agents who attempted to frame him due to his investigations on the Cold War and “psychotronics.”⁴¹

A key member of Lab Nine was James Hurtak, director of IONS, who was appointed Puharich’s second-in-command by The Nine. A former professor at California State University, Northridge and California State University, Los Angeles, Hurtak’s educational background includes a PhD from the University of California and a second PhD from the University of Minnesota. In 1975, Hurtak participated in the First Psychic Tournament in 1975 as part of Gnosticon, sometimes called the Gnostica Aquarian Convention. The events, which attracted many of the best-known Witches, Wiccans, Magicians and Neopagans of the time from all around the world, were covered in 1974 in

Playboy Magazine by Mordecai Richler, author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. Hurtak claimed to belong to a group called the Sons of Light of the Order of Melchizedek, “designed to change the destinies of the world by occult means,” and that he and Puharich, along w secret information,” were working to make the public aware that the people of Earth were soon to be contacted by “highly evolved beings.”⁴² Their literature reveals that, to them, Melchizedek has exactly the same role as Alice Bailey’s Lord of the World, as a higher being who descended during the Lemurian epoch to guide the spiritual evolution of mankind. Hurtak also refers to the ultimate authority of the universe as the Great White Brotherhood, which he also refers to as the “Hierarchy.” His The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch, published originally in 1973, a book of channeled revelations from The Nine which he claims he was chosen to receive, draws on many ideas from Crowley, Blavatsky, Alice Bailey, and Schwaller de Lubicz, and discusses the apparently unusual relationship of the star shafts in the Great Pyramid with the “Belt” of Orion, and where he claims that intelligences to gather information.

Another Nine channeller was an Englishwoman named Jenny O’Connor, who was introduced to the Esalen Institute by Sir John Whitmore. She and The

Nine became so infl uential there enough, listed on the Institute’s staff, even successfully ordering the sacking

of its chief fi nance offi cer and structure.⁴³ Mother Jones commented on the development with the headline: “Esalen Slides off the Cliff.” According to Eric Erickson, who lived and worked at Esalen for more than 25 years, “the Nine were much better known for performing the role of extraterrestrial hatchet men than for giving psychic insight into how Esalen might actually improve operations.”⁴⁴

Puharich and Whitmore commissioned British writer Stuart Holroyd to write an account of their adventures, which appeared in 1977 as Prelude to the Landing on Planet Earth. In this book the Nine confessed to being the Elohim of the Old Testament, and the Aeons of Gnosticism, who visited Earth from the star of Sirius. Their spokesperson was an entity called “Tom” who was revealed as being Atum, the creator -god of the ancient Egyptian religion, and with the other nine composing the Great Ennead of Heliopolis. In ancient Egyptian religion, according to the Ennead system of creation, which was developed and promoted from Heliopolis, there were nine major gods at the head of the Egyptian pantheon. The chief god was Atum, also known as Ra, or Atum-Ra, who was represented and worshiped as the sun. Atum-Ra was also seen as the fi rst being and Ennead,the consisting originat or of and shuTef nut,Geb of the and Nut, Osiris, Set, Isis and Nephthys. Over time, Ra became increasingly identified the Egyptian with version Osiris of the dying-god, and god of the

underworld, in other words, Lucifer.

  Communication with The Nine was an extension of the myths of the Rosicrucian traditions of Scottish Rite and Egyptian Rite Freemasonry, which claimed to follow a Christian Gnostic tradition derived from the Ancient Mysteries of Egypt founded on the worship of Osiris and Sirius. Based on the millennial surrounding these myths and the communications from the Nine, SRI embarked on a number of projects to investigate the Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza, that would shape the evolution of the UFO phenomenon into the myth of Ancient Aliens.

The major components of the Giza complex include the three major pyramids and the massive stone statue known as the Sphinx. The Great

Pyramid, the largest of the three mai the last remaining of the “Seven Wonders” of the ancient world. Contrary to

the authors’ fanciful claims, it is a well- established fact that the Great Pyramid was built by King Khufu (Cheops) of Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, whose reign began around approximately 2500 BC. When Herodotus reported about the

pyramids in the fi fth century BC, th construction. On the contrary, the only “mystery” was that, as he was told, it

took twenty years for a force of 100,000 oppressed slaves to build them. Because the Great Pyramid of Giza is such an essential symbol of their

tradition, regarded as an emblem of the Hermetic philosophy, and placed on the reverse side of the American dollar bill, the Freemasons assert that Herodotus fabricated the story, and that the truth is the pyramids were built before the great Flood. In other words, by Atlanteans. According to Ignatius Donnelly, the pyramid is patterned after a pre- Flood type of architecture, examples of which are to be found in many parts of the world. As related by Masonic and Theosophical historian Manly P. Hall in The Secret Teachings of All Ages, it was somewhere in the hidden chambers of these pyramids and the Sphinx that the ancient initiations took place, and t would again be revealed, and “the Dying God shall rise again!”⁴⁵

In those ventures, SRI collaborated on a number of projects investigating the Giza Pyramids with the Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE), founded by renowned psychic Edgar Cayce (1877 – 1 to promote his work. Cayce, another movement, became known in the very highest echelons of American society, including a meeting with President Wilson arranged by the Secret Service. According to two biographers, Cayce was consulted on the formation of the League of Nations. One of Cayce’s early promoters was David E. Kahn, who

established numerous high-level conta member of the ruling House of Savoy in Italy.⁴⁶