Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00168)

Dennis: "That Old Devil Charles Leadbeater again!"
Why can you not show some activity also, and look in the index ?
I think I said enough below, and I think as a whole it stands, why 
don't you respond to that instead of only nitpicking ? 
And since this is a "discussion" group maybe giving you "own" 
opinion would be more productive.

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?

Wendelle Stevens talked at a recent UFO conference and 
explained "There were apparently nine secret bases in Germany working 
on anti-gravity vehicles. One involved BMW. Stevens even recalls 
seeing a map of the base locations in recovered German documents 
while in the AF, but it was shredded. After Hitler learned that he 
could not use these antigravity vehicles in the war, he launched two 
expeditions to the Antarctic led by Admiral Richard, one in 1938 and 
one in 1942 after the eastern front losses. The work on flying disks 
continued there. According to Meier case documents, Ptah said 334 
members of a secret German society continued the work that has 
remained secret even today. Stevens also mentioned that Adrian of the 
Miami contacts said he and his girl friend were taken by Pleiadians 
to a secret base in SW Brazil where they saw German style saucers 
parked on pedestals. And I recall from that case that Adrian was told 
that some of the German scientists' children were raised on the 
Pleiadies and are now back here working for BMW. Finally, at last 
years conference a retired NRO gentleman presented us privately a 
picture labeled Haunebu 5, made by German, American, and Aldebaran 
scientists in Antarctica."

The identification of the theosophical (hierarchical) "Masters" with 
beings from space is pre-figured in theosophical litterature. For 
example Charles Leadbeater speaking of the Masters explains: We see 
that it is merely a brotherhood of humanity, or even of life this 
Chain of world, but that all Chains in the Solar System mutually 
interact and help one another. I have no direct evidence that Solar 
Systems give assistance to each other in such ways, but I should 
imagine it by analogy to be most certain that even that is done. At 
least I have myself seen Visitors from other systems..(Leadbeater"The 
Masters and the Path")
Desmond Leslie in his chapters on "Flying Saucers Have Landed", 
makes much of saucers in Atlantis, ancient India, and medieval 
Europe, often using Theosophical texsts like the Secret Doctrine as 
resources.
In 1844, two French priests, Evariste Huc and Father Gabet, entered 
Tibet. They were the first to write a detailed account of the 
country, published in 1850. Translated into English as "Recollections 
of Travel in Tartary, Tibet and China", a Blavatsky's appropriation 
of part of their narrative, claiming it to be her own travels, they 
would come to influence modern esoteric traditions.
However since Tibet became more accesable, the believe in beings from 
outer space more effectivly withdraws these newer messengers and 
their sources from the scrutiny of outsiders.

Like the Theosophical Society, the Aetherius Society (a large UFO 
organisation) has Masters for example; though they tend to be on 
other planets rather than in the Himalayas. 
So instead of Blavatsky's invented Masters, people started to find 
in Adamski, Ruth Norman (Unarius), Understanding Inc. (Dan Fry) , 
Mark- Age,not to forget the I Am movement and their off 
shoots,Extraterrestrial Earth Mission, Heaven's Gate, Universarium 
Foundation and so on, their organizers, bischops, and overseers, who 
maintain that the Masters are from outher space.

And of course messages from aliens both proceded the rise of the 
Master mythology and the current wave of UFO's, one of the many 
inspirors of Blavatsky Emanuel Swedenborg, claimed to have spoken 
with spirits from other planets.

Brigitte.

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