Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00086)

John:" And yes there were lots of rumours that were around about 
a "Nazi" connection even one that included a suspected Nazi spy who 
blew himself up. "

This "Nazi spy who blew himself up."was actually running a psuedo 
Masonic lodge. I once met his former secretary (she and her husband 
up until recently run a classical music library wich I visited) an 
old lady , who told me the whole story. 

John: "I personally know George Van Tassel for several years prior to 
his passing away. I found him to be a fine person and was astonished 
when I inspected his major Project , the Integratron, a marvelous
construction ."

Yes a nice construction supposedly to create longevity,for wich 
people had donated him a lot of money, but it didn't work.
The reason why Theosophy has something to do with it from starters is 
becouse the whole UFO myth goos back to story's in the Secret 
Doctrine ,about earlier planetary situations. As Blavatsky's SD 
could not be kept to conform with physical reality as it originally 
claimed to be, contents where transformed to meat more modern 
circumstances. flying saucers in a way replaced astral travel as 
means of getting around. In many contactee accounts during the 
fifties, no flying saucer is included at all. Venusians walk the 
streets of urban America ready to talk to anyone aware enough to 
recognise them

Young people in the US that time also had been reading about 
extraterrestrials for years in such magazines as Amazing Stories and 
Astounding Science Fiction. The editor of Amazing, Raymond A. Palmer 
embraced the "new" phenomenon of flying saucers. 
Ray Palmer, editor of Amazing Stories SF magazine, often boasted he
could turn any crackpot idea into a salable story. One day in 1944 a
weird manuscript arrived at his office. It was purportedly
non-fiction, and it described how a race of underground beings were
responsible for all the mayhem and madness in the world. The author
of this strange opus was Richard Shaver, a welder from Pennsylvania.
Shaver exhibited many of the classic symptoms of paranoid
schizophrenia (persecution by unknown forces, ill health caused by
mysterious "rays," hearing voices), but Ray Palmer saw
gold in the other man's delusions. He re-wrote Shaver's manuscript
into a "fiction-fact" story called "I Remember Lemuria!" and
published it. Shaver's paranoia, coupled with Palmer's 
exposition of the wonders of alien super-science, ignited the
readership. Circulation soared, and the letters column of Amazing was
swamped with notes from people claiming experiences just like
Shaver's.

The first ten years after the Arnold sightings in 1947 saw the growth 
of an interest in physical flying saucers (that we can hardly 
understand now, plagued as we are since then by more psychological 
tales of abduction and ancient gods.) Then, the search for an 
explanation generally started from the premise that what had been 
seen - and a lot of shiny, revolving flying-saucerish things were 
reported as really having been seen - were physically real. On that 
basis the choice was whether they were terrestrial or extra-
terrestrial, and for those who weren't prepared to believe in the 
reality of extra-terrestrial craft and their extra-terrestrial 
occupants, there was a further choice - were they friends or enemies, 
US or Soviet, and how could anyone tell?

Brigitte