The following posting is a collection of three articles from 1947, presented as they first appeared in the original BSRA Round Robins and Journals, all three explorations of the flying saucer phenomena as they were reported to Borderland Sciences Associates by director Meade Layne.

Fly, Lokas, Fly!

Originally included as part of the the BSRA Round Robin (Vol. 3, No. 6, July – August 1947);
Article by Meade Layne.

On June 26, 1947, the morning radio broadcasts in California carried a seemingly crack-pot story, sandwiched between Hollywood gossip and some other puerility, about a flight of curious objects over the Cascade Mountains, observed and daringly reported by one Kenneth Arnold, a “flying business man”, “flying fire extinguisher salesman”, “U.S. Forest Service employee”, “veteran pilot”, “fire control engineer”, “owner and manager of the Great Western Fire Control Company” (etc., etc., crescendo as the facts were verified). Mr. Arnold, flying east toward Mt. Rainier on June 25, at 9200 ft., spotted nine saucer-shaped objects, “big as a DC-4 passenger plane”, flying in a “screwy formation”, at right angles to his own line of flight, about 25 miles ahead of him, at a 10,000 ft. altitude. They were “weaving and ducking in and out”, were “extremely shiny as if nickel plated”, had a “rocking movement”, were half-moon shaped, oval in front and convex in the rear, without tails, bulges or cowling, looked like disks – and the line waves “like the tail of a Chinese kite.” By clock time and later triangulation the speed was estimated as between 1200 and 1700 miles per hour.

This temerarious tale encouraged another “flying business man”, of Oklahoma City, to tell how, some weeks ago, he and his wife saw a “very big, shiny, silver object moving at terrified speed,” without any noise. “I know that boy up there (Arnold) really saw them,” said the Oklahoman. Several residents of Seattle next reported the strange craft; then an engineer at Joliet (Ill.) reported nine of them. If these were the same as seen by Arnold the same day, they had made the 2000 miles in 50 minutes. The craft flipped and righted themselves in unison, as if all were powered from the leading disk or were in tow. The same or a similar flight of nine was seen the next day over Kansas City. Reports of other observers came in from Oregon, and “nine or ten” of the objects were reliably reported over Woodland, Wash., two days later. Other accounts came from Boise, the Grand Canyon area, west Texas, New Mexico, the Columbia River country, and San Francisco. All the reports agree essentially in description. On July 3, the objects were reported over Denver, and even the Lt. Governor of Idaho saw something he couldn’t explain – this time a “comet-like object hanging in the sky”. And “three metallic gleaming disks” were seen “going around and around in a circle” over Beverly Hill, Calif. By the time RR gets into print the things may be as common as breakfast food advertisements, so we won’t follow the story seriatim any further. Enough has been said to show the first stages of the affair.

It goes without saying that public, official, and press reaction followed the familiar pattern: first a series of hoots, gibes and jeers, then a baker’s dozen of “explanations” (many of them incredibly asinine), finally a blessed silence by hooters and explainers alike, but not by disappearance of the reports. Among the explainers we regret to include General Wainright, who said “People obviously saw something, I don’t know what. I don’t believe all the claims. I don’t believe it at all” – which is understandable, if slightly incoherent. Howard Blakeslee, science editor for AP, obviously trying hard, suggested that the objects were merely reflected flashes of light from distant planes, which were being given a fanciful build-up by minds stuffed with scientifiction. A university of Oregon astronomer thought Arnold’s saucers were “persistent vision” caused by looking at reflections on the glass of his own plane; a Portland meteorologist thought it was all optical illusion caused by layers of atmosphere, and when one E.H. Sprinkle of Eugene, Ore., got a photograph of “seven dots lined across the sky”, other photographers said probably the negative had not been agitated in the developer. “Army rocket experts” decided in favor of jet planes, and the projectile theory was also popular for a while. Several ex-service men recalled having seen objects similar to the saucers during the war, when they of course got the brush-off from their superiors for reporting them. — We’re all for Caution, of course, and the judicious and common-sense approach to strange happenings, and we know that the Brush-offer League has a tremendous membership, and has been able to completely suppress and extinguish a whole book-full of desperately important facts which happened to be isolated and sporadic. This time, however, the facts, being saucer-shaped, fly right back again, refuse to accept the damned-datum status — By present writing the hoot-owl chorus has died away, but the affair remains front-page news and the newspapers are really in a bad fix, having a most sensational event on hand and nothing what-ever to say about it.

The Fortean Society (to which this writer belongs) is undergoing a most painful parturition, under the midwifery of Secretary Tiffany Thayer; so far the only issue has been an apparition of Charles Fort (to whom be honor), gabbling “I told you so” . Fort was a mighty hunter-out and collector of weird and science-damned happenings, of which strange sky-craft were not the least. The problem is right up the avenue for Vincent Gaddis also, who lately sent us some 20 instances of similar mysteries of the skies. The most incredible and outrageous things happen, and always have been happening, and students of such matters know about them; the most incredible fact of all is that there actually are people who think we live in a sane, orderly, intelligible and well-understood world, where “science” has explained everything or is about to do so,, and that these ignoramuses include about nine-tenths of our so-called intellectuals… Recurring to Secretary T.T. mentioned above, and while we think of it, it was he who gibed more than once at the Round Robin Corrida (Kareeta) story of last November, not because of its extraordinary nature but because it “stinked” of the “occult”. The “occult” got into because we printed a statement, for what it was worth, received clairaudiently by a most honest and non-professional medium. “Let Austin have his swink (or stink) to him reserved!” — We’re all for the Forteans, be it understood, in their war on scientism and smugism, but otherwise they get no forwarder with their hunting simply because most of them are nauseated by the mere mention of anything occult or spiritualistic.

To return to our saucers, so to speak: a sergeant of the State Highway Patrol reported seeing a dozen bright metal objects about the size of a football whiz over San Francisco Bay and fall into the ocean. A resident of a town in Washington says he saw one of the disks “explode about 200 ft. from the ground. There was a great shower of sparks but no flash, and flames which seemed to hurtle to the ground.” Other observers have reported a dim vapor trail and a faint humming noise – that one disk dropped a reddish-white flare – that some have been seen hovering or stationary. Lt. Col. Turner (N.M. Rocket Proving grounds) is sure they are jet planes, and that certain “falling bodies” were meteors, but “is investigating”. We also hear of a “disk-like bluish object following a zigzag course over New Mexico” – a flight of “soup-dishes dropping south at 150-200 mi. per hr” over San Diego, and “a silver ball that swooshed” over Colorado. Some of these items complicate the problem considerably – if that is possible; particularly the objects falling into the sea and the disk which “exploded”. And “Astronomers at Seattle and Joliet said there was no natural explanation for the reports.” Is’t possible our learned brothers have an unnatural one up their sleeves? Or maybe, just none at all? That sentence we quoted intrigues us almost as much as the saucers themselves; the more you think about it, the less sense it makes.

In a final sense there is, of course, no such thing as an explicable fact. Everything known to us is, at bottom, equally mysterious. But there are familiar mysteries, such as sunsets, and grass blades, and systems of philosophy, which we can fit into categories and hence relate to other facts — and things like “black days” and fairy tombs and Cock Lane apparitions which are unfamiliar and hence called mysteries. Add, flying saucers. The unfamiliar mysteries make mockery of “scientific” smugness, and also of common sense – and also of about nine-tenths of of all the alleged occult learning of the pseudo-adepts. Among these latter wise-acres there ere undoubtedly some thousands who pretend to exalted and secret knowledge of anything and everything, saucers included; and it’s equally certain that not a dozen of them will agree. We think there actually are people who know – but few if any of them are going to say anything, account of the utter futility of telling the ‘facts of life’ to children. They are merely sitting tight anf waiting for the Last Act, without expectation of surviving it, or much interest in doing so. If they have a pretty good idea what makes the curtain go up or down, they won’t say much about it, or start any last minute panic in the audience.

Having said this much, and taunted all learned men with their ignorance (ear-wig to our betters), we new present the only intelligent and intelligible comment on the saucer party so far offered by anybody. That doesn’t mean we ‘guarantee’ it in any sense; we wouldn’t ‘guarantee’ Tuesday after Monday. But it’s a point of view, and coherent end possible and probably interesting to everybody with a smattering of esoteric knowledge – which leaves most of our intelligentsia out of it, but happily lets in about fifty million lesser folk of this Pilgrims’ Pride. The commentator is our friend “Lingford”, a familiar control at the Mark P. seances. If nobody on our own plane has anything intelligent to say about saucers, why not interrogate the ghosties – get an astral viewpoint anyway, even if you don’t believe a word of it. Of course, if you think Lingford is a dissociated complex, a subconscious invention, a personalized memory, or a wholly fictional character invented the medium and the RR editor for ye sheckels sake (as RR has been credibly informed), your interest will be “O” with the rim left off. But having spent many hours in converse with this oeuf dur of the Invisibles, we consider him a very real person, and quite smart and well-posted and worth listening to. Our semi-quote is not verbatim-literatim-et-punctuatim but it does not misrepresent him in any way.

‘When will you people learn that there are worlds within worlds – that the etheric worlds interpenetrate with your plane and with each other? I know I should not be sticking my neck out by talking so much about those saucers, as you call them, at least until I have investigated more fully. But they are not craft constructed on your planet, nor is it necessary to assume that they came from any other planet. It seems impossible to get it through the heads of you people, that objects can pass from an etheric to a dense level of matter, and will then appear to materialize there. Then they may disappear by dematerializing – returning to an etheric condition. It is a perfect analogue to the materializations witnessed in the seance room, which many of your learned men bear witness to. Not only do human forms materialize there, but solid objects appear miraculously, as you say, and often these ore brought from long distances. You call them apports, but an apport is dematerialized so that only the etheric patter remains, and then the original atoms are reassembled in the pattern or mould and you have a materialized object. Well, these saucers that puzzle you so much come out of an etheric world also and can return to it. The purpose of these visitors is simply to compel your attention, to wake you up. They come with good intent. They have some idea of experimenting with earth life – I mean, of coming to your world to live. There will be many strange sky appearances, as we have often told you before in these seances. Watch for them. These saucers make their great speed because of their peculiar bun-shape and peculiar motion; they encounter almost no air resistance. I do not know their means of propulsion but I shall try to find out. The wilful ignorance and hostility of your time toward etheric and astral studios is appalling. The strange sky craft reported over your city last November was probably also an etheric construction. These visitors are not excarnate humans; but they are human beings who live in their own world, which happens to be made of stuff which your senses cannot directly perceive, and which you therefore childishly imagine cannot exist at all…

Sic dixit Lingford. This communicator (to add the personal touch) was a resident of New York State, and departed thence for his present ‘station astral’ some 40-45 years ago, at the age of 40 years. He is a somewhat stocky young man, very self-assured, a great reader and traveller about, good-humored but also a trifle impatient and sardonic at times. This ‘information’ comes from other communicators and from several persons on ‘this side’ who have encountered him while on astral excursions. (If you don’t believe in that kind of info., kindly skip this paragraph) We also understand that he lives in a house on the side of a valley, overlooking a beautiful lake, has many flowers, paints a little, and has a great many books. When we asked him if he lived alone, he replied “You bet I do – and I like it!”. He added that his plane is a “very lovely place” and that he has no desire or intention of going anywhere else, least of all of returning to earth life – at least for a very long time. We have talked with this communicator two or three times a week for nearly a year, and can only say that if he is a fraud, or a complex or secondary personality, no sign of it has so far appeared. He is unpretentious, conservative, strongly individualized, and apparently a very real person apart from the regrettable fact of being invisible and being obliged to talk through the organism of another person. We don’t ‘guarantee’ him, any more than we do Wednesday after Tuesday – or our next-door neighbor, who may be a hallucination (from 5:00 a.m. to midnight, anyway).

It is quite obvious, of course, that this Voice from the neant is not going to get a hearing, and the fact distresses neither him nor the RR editor. If or when the mystery of the flying disks is solved, and if they turn out to be something quite different from Lingford’s description, we do not have a single syllable to retract. We are telling our readers the facts as they now stand, about this communicator and his statements concerning the phenomenon. What he has to say fits very well into the main body of occult knowledge – but he may be mistaken about the disks and we may be mistaken about him. We believe that the time is coming, and to some extent is now here, when scientists and students of every subject will accept the cooperation of the invisible helpers.

By the 7th of July the disks had been reported over 34 states – yet certain jackasses, by which we mean astronomers, physicists, editors and radio commentators were still gabbling about delusion, hysteria, mirages and the like. On that date the Editor held a short “sitting” with a non-professional medium (Mr. Mark Probert), and after some delay an interesting communication was received, of which we can here print the substance only:

“Well, how am I doing now?” (referring to difficulty in control). “No, I have never spoken thru a medium this may before, but I did speak once thru a trumpet at Lily Dale” (a spiritualist center in N.Y.). I was Thomas Edison. During my life on your plane I made many secret experiments, in the effort to recapture and reproduce sounds made in past time, and preserved in the ether. I still believe that this is possible and that it will be done. At the time I had only a hypothesis to work on, but one often has to use a hypothesis in order to have a starting point.

(Q. as to how he happened to come to the medium) . Well, you have a very unusual group over here, who are interested in the particular type of seance which you carry on. . . Continue with this work and you will probably get some very strange news. If you publicise it you will be ridiculed, but I was ridiculed too.

About these disks that are stirring up so much comment – I’m a little afraid they are going to make trouble. (Q). I mean, they may start a panic. My ideas about them are much the same as those given by Lingford. They are etheric in nature, and they materialize spontaneously on entering the vibration rate of your world of dense matter. I think this is going to stir up a hell of a lot of trouble. The great trouble, of course, is with your scientists, they can’t get into the right way of thinking about such problems.

(Q). They happen to be appearing just now, because your world is now in that phase of thought. Do you understand what I’m getting at? There will be many other types of strange sky craft also. That Corrida (Kareeta) you wrote about last year was the same type, etheric construction. It was an experimental craft. (Q) These people are much like yourselves but they are much bigger.

(Q) Yes, I think it might be right to say they come from the Lokas. * No, they are not astral, and not from any of the planets you know about. They come from an etheric planet which your senses do not perceive. Some of the disks carry a crew, but others are managed by remote control. These craft have some means of radiating a powerful energy which is very destructive. If they are attacked or interfered with they may easily destroy the attacking planes. (Q) No, I doubt whether they can be communicated with by radio, but if you can signal by radar perhaps that would work. I don’t understand radar, myself. If you can make friends with these people you can learn a world of new facts from them. The medium is getting very tired and I think I shall leave you.”

One point in the above which we feel sure is correct, is that “strange news” or any other kind, derived from mediumistic sources, will be ridiculed. We reflect for the ten-thousandeth time on the tragedy, the irony, and the futilities of the whole contemporary situation. Isolationism, applied to the life of our plane, is as stupid as in social and political matters; yet of help from beyond the border our ‘intelligentsia’ will have none… It should be easy to understand that a very serious and dangerous situation exists with regard to these disks, and we present here in these pages data which might avert disaster – yet it is doubtful whether any person high in authority can even be induced to read the facts here set down. Our science and our culture have no means of dealing with the issues which are new fast arising… If the same military judgment which permitted a Pearl Harbor should instigate an attack on these strange craft, the results, and the panic to follow, and the flood of international suspicion might well be the beginning of the end of our national existance.

Yet if you repeat in public our favorite RR principle, that public education in psychic matters is imperative, and intensely and supremely practical, you are considered as being teched in the head!

[NOTE: There are 7 of those Lokas under the Vishnu-Purana classification. The word simply means places (loci), worlds, wheres. They do not belong to the earth-chain of globes, nor to the astral. They are just as 'material' as our world, but the matter is of a different vibration range and cannot be detected by our senses or any existing instruments... Note that Corridas (Kareeta) was an experimental craft from the same Loka, as indeed the communicators asserted indirectly at the time.]

For the sake of the record we quote another Control, who declined to give his name:

“Most of these craft you are talking about are corrugated lengthwise of the oval. The controls are in the front section. The middle section is a laboratory. The rear contains defensive and offensive armament. They have means of sending out a powerful radiation of energy in all directions from the ship.”

Among the countless stupidities engendered by this new sensation, is the cackling in some journalistic roosts over the discrepancy in accounts of size of the “Lokas.” Such people should be threatened with instant death unless they can agree at once as to whether the full moon is the size of a pie plate or a cartwheel.

It is reasonably certain that a number of small objects are flying about. Some of them may have fallen from the Lokas. But a doughnut overboard does not prove that all air liners are doughnut size.

It may also pay us to take careful note, that new sky craft of various designs have been predicted. The Corrida (Kareeta) is a case in point; it did not resemble the Lokas at all, but is said to have been an experimental design and to have come from the same region. (Tho’ neither the public nor the so-called scientific mind of our generation is going to be able to grasp where this ‘region’ is, or rather what it is).

Only one fact has arisen, so far, to suggest that these sky newcomers are of earth invention. The general concept of the saucer-shaped craft has been grasped by several inventors, and a Frenchman named George De Bay actually made a working model, powered by rubber bands, as far back as 1928. Our own authorities, characteristically, turned thumbs down, Did this inventor find financial and technical aid from some foreign Power? The idea is not pleasant to contemplate. We prefer the Lokas, ourselves. It has not yet even occurred to our wise-cracking commentators, that the operators of the Lokas, whoever they be, have our world completely at their mercy.

Another cause of mirth, to the cackle contingent, is that strange sky craft have often been reported in the past – and since these are all supposed to have been delusions, the Lokas must be fancy-bred also. But students of such curiosa have compiled lists of them, and studied them for years past. And now somebody has discovered Charles Fort’s Book of the Damned, which also ‘proves’ that these happenings are very old stuff. It is described as a “rare old book” – tho every student of the borderland sciences owns a copy, and the complete works of Fort are on sale – page Tiffany Thayer, Fortean Society, with a five-dollar bill clearly displayed, sign of the Fortean Brotherhood.

We venture a small prediction of our own – that the Lokas will probably be withdrawn for a time (to the huge satisfaction of the cackle-club), but will reappear later. It is to be hoped – tho’ against all probability – that our Leading Intellects will learn a few pertinent facts in the meantime.

“The animals” (cattle and horses) “sure do get up and go when they see these things – So says rancher Henry Seay to a reporter of the Birmingham News (July 7), referring to a disk which swooped down within 500 feet “dropping sparks like dust”. We disrespectfully recommend this to AP science editor Blakeslee, and to all the “spots in your eyes” professors. Can a cow be frightened by muscae volitantes – in the eyes of her owner, or do Dobbin and his master have the same hallucination at the same moment? It will take more than the eye-wash of the Doctors of Science to explain this incident – plus some half-dozen photographs, plus reports of experience observers.. Perhaps our civilization ought to be destroyed – considering the number of learned, brilliant, and self-complacent FOOLS! (We thank P.W. Osman of Birmingham)

Concerning the Lokas, ‘Flying Disks’

Originally included as part of the the BSRA Round Robin (Vol. 3, No. 7, September – October 1947);
Article by Meade Layne.

In this September issue of Flying Roll, the RR Editor has recurred to this subject at some length, and there are a few points we wish to keep before the RR readers also. For one thing, it was stated in FR that this issue of RR would give the name of a national magazine which would presently print a special edition devoted entirely to the phenomena of the disks. But this information has not yet been released. We may have to handle this by means of a special bulletin to our readers.

We do not know at the moment, just what explanation, if-any, the magazine referred to will give concerning the Lokas. But we can assure you that any lingering doubts concerning their reality will be definitely disposed of. There never has been any question on this point, among thoughtful and informed people; but there has been a systematic campaign of denial and ridicule, as well as an unofficial but effective censorship on news stories. Make no mistake: the Lokas are real, and the authorities know it, and the F.B.I. and Military Intelligence are deeply concerned, and no one yet has been able to trump up a yarn that will satisfy the public, ‘if and when they return in large numbers. Some of these constructions are nearly a mile in diameter.

There are only three hypotheses about them: (1) That they are constructed by some foreign Power (Russia, of course). The practical objections to this theory seem to this writer to be conclusive. (2) The theory suggested by at least one distinguished occultist, that they are craft of Atlantean construction, kept stored in caverns, and now brought out for the training of crews against time of need in the ceasing war. Considering all the data at hand, RR does not at present incline to this view. (3) The flat statements made by the communicators at the Mark P. seances, that they are craft constructed on the etheric levels (etheric worlds interpenetrating with our own) , that their mission is friendly but for definite purposes. That there are flying objects and small craft of many sorts in our skies, all of them experimental efforts on the part of the Ethereans. Some details of construction and mode of propulsion have also been given. Of course, if you reject this last explanation a priori, on account of its source, it is useless at this stage to argue the matter. We only say here, that there is a large amount of contributory data, concerning the interpenetration of the planes of etheric and dense matter; and further, that so far at least, there is not a single item of objective data, of observed fact, which conflicts with the hypothesis of etheric origins When or if such data comes to us, we will present it at once.

We know that the Lokas are new present over other parts of the world, and sooner or later it is most probable that they will return to our own skies. There is danger of panic, and even of war, when once the public realizes that we are completely at the mercy of these visitors – and, of course, attributes them to some unfriendly foreign power. If, as we new believe, they are “apports” from the etheric, it is going to be quite useless to attempt to get this idea across to the masses, and even to most of our alleged intellectuals, and to a public press which is incapable of grasping even the first syllable of what it is all about. This is NEWS of incredible world importance (and so was the much-derided Corrida or Kareeta of last November). We are not trying to sensationalize it – it is already sensational beyond the reaches of imagination. We feel justified in pointing out to our readers, that no other publication in the United States has so far offered either the objective facts or the explanations which have appeared in Round Robin and Flying Roll. . . We do not wish to frighten anyone, but to allay fear, for we feel sure that the Lokas are friendly. But their existence and the issues raised by it must be faced sooner or later, and we believe that in the end our readers will be grateful to RR for preparing the way, to some extent, for the understanding of one of the strangest phenomena in the history of mankind.

Photo: “The Rhodes Photo” (July 7, 1947, Phoenix, Arizona)

At the request of a British television producer, we dug up the following article from the archive, and now present it here for your consideration: “Malta, Entrance to the Cavern World” is a recounting of an experience at Hal Saflieni Hypogeum by C. Lois Jessop, then Secretary of New York Saucer Information Bureau, with follow-up commentary by Riley Crabb, originally included in the Journal of Borderland Research (Vol. 17, No. 2, March 1961). We have left the spellings of place names as they were originally printed— Hal Saflieni Hypogeum as Hal Saflini Hypogaeum, Valletta as Valetta, Paola as Paula. This article is part of our “Round Robin” classic series, presenting random pulls from the archives and the best offerings of the BSRA from 1945 into the 1970s!

MALTA, ENTRANCE TO THE CAVERN WORLD

C. Lois Jessop, Secretary, New York Saucer Information Bureau

I visited some friends on the Island of Malta in the Mediterranean in the mid-1930s. One afternoon six of us decided to hire a car and visit some of the many historical tourist attractions on the island. One of our party suggested that, since the weather was very hot, our best bet was to visit some of the caves and underground temples. At least there we could keep cool for a few hours.

Some few miles out of Valetta, the capitol of Malta, is the little town of Paula. It has only one main street, Hal Saflini, and on this is the entrance to an underground temple known as the Hypogaeum of Hal Saflini. We stopped here and sought out the guide for a tour of the cave or catacombs of the Hypogaeum.

There was a fairly large cave entrance with ancient mural decorations of whirls and wavy lines, diamond patches here and there, also oval patterns seemingly painted with red ochre. The entrance itself smelt damp and mouldy, but inside the cave there was not a trace of mustyness. Joe, the guide, told us there were three floors of underground rooms and gave each of us a lighted candle.

One by one we bent down low to walk through a narrow passage which led to a step or two, and again we were able to stand up in a fair sized room which had been built out of the Malta sandstone aeons ago in the Stone-Age. Joe told of a powerful oracle (or wishing well) deep down, and how it had worked wonders in the old days for the initiated who knew the correct sound to use. I think the oracle still works today unless it was damaged. Malta was heavily bombarded during World War II.

The oracle was supposed to work only if a male voice called to it but as the guide was saying this I slipped down a small step and gave a yell that was picked up by something and magnified throughout the whole cave.

We followed the guide through some more narrow passages which led down, down, down, then straightened our backs again when we came into another room. In this large opening was a circular stone table or altar in the center of the room. Cut out of the rock walls around were layers of stone beds or resting places of some kind, with hollows scooped out for head, body, and narrowing to the feet. I guess these were places for adults about four feet tall, with smaller scooped out beds. It looked like mother, father and child either slept or were buried here, although we saw no bodies here.

Down, down, down again, stooping and crawling through a narrow passage into another large room, with slits or narrow openings in the stone wall.

“They buried their dead in here,” said the guide.

I peered through a slit and saw skeletons another. Through another slit I peered into a cave where, the guide said, they kept their prisoners. A three foot thick stone door, about four feet high and four feet wide, guarded the entrance.

“What kind of people, and how strong were these pigmies, to be able to carve out these rooms to a definite pattern and to move doors this thick and heavy?” I thought.

“This is the end of the tour,” Joe, the guide, said. “We must now turn and retrace our steps.”

“What’s down-there?” I asked him; for on turning I noticed another opening off one of the walls.

“Go there at your own risk,” he replied, “and you won’t go far.”

I was all for more exploring and talking it over with my friends, three of them decided to go with me and two waited with the guide. I was wearing a long sash around my dress and since I decided to lead the group I asked the next one behind me to hold on to it. Holding our half-burnt candles the four of us ducked into this passage, which was narrower and lower than the others.

Groping and laughing our way along, I came out first, onto a ledge pathway about two feet wide, with a sheer drop about fifty feet or more on my right and a wall on my left. I took a step forward, close to the rock wall side. The person behind me, still holding on to my sash, had not yet emerged from the passage. Thinking it was quite a drop and perhaps I should go no further without the guide I held up my candle.

There across the cave, from an opening deep below me, emerged twenty persons of giant stature. In single file they walked along a narrow ledge. Their height I judged to be about twenty or twenty-five feet, since their heads came about half way up the opposite wall. They walked very slowly, taking long strides. Then they all stopped, turned and raised their heads in my direction. All simultaneously raised their arms and with their hands beckoned me. The movement was something like snatching or feeling for something, as the palms of their hands were face down. Terror rooted me to the spot.

“Go on, we’re all getting stuck in the passage!” My friend jerked at my sash. “What’s the matter?”

“Well, there’s nothing much to see,” I stammered, taking another step forward.

My candle was in my right hand. I put my left hand on the wall to steady me, and stopped again. My hand wasn’t on cold rock but on something soft and wet. As it moved a strong gust of wind came from nowhere and blew out my candle! Now I really was scared in the darkness!

“Go back,” I yelled to the others, “go back and guide me back by my sash. My candle has gone out and I cannot see!”

In utter panic I backed into the narrow little passageway and forced the others back, too, until we had backed into the large room where Joe and my friends were waiting. What a relief that was!

“Well, did you see anything?” asked one of them.

“No,” I quickly replied, “There was a draft in there that blew my candle out.”

“Let’s go,” said Joe, the guide.

I looked up at him. Our eyes met. I knew that at one time he had seen what I had seen. There was an expression of caution in his eyes, adding to my reluctance to tell anyone. I decided not to.

Out in the open again and in the hot Malta sunshine we thanked the guide, and as we tipped him he looked at me.

“If you really are interested in exploring further it would be wise to join a group. There is a schoolteacher who is going to take a party exploring soon,” he said.

I left my address with him and asked him to have the schoolteacher get in touch with me, but I never heard any more about it, until one of my friends called me to read an item from the Valetta paper.

“I say, Lois, remember that tunnel you wanted to explore? It says here in the paper that a schoolmaster and thirty students went exploring, and apparently got as far as we did. They were roped together and the end of the rope was tied to the opening of the cave. As the last student turned the corner where your candle blew out the rope was clean cut, and none of the party was found because the walls caved in.”

The shock of this information didn’t change my determination not to say anything about my experience in the Hypogaeum, but several months later my sister visited Malta and insisted on making a tour of the underground temple on Hal Saflini. Reluctantly, I went along, retracing the same route; but there was a different guide this time. When we got down to the lowest level, to the room where I had taken off to explore the tunnel entrance was boarded up!

“Wasn’t it here that the schoolmaster and the thirty students got trapped?” I asked the guide.

“Perhaps,” he replied, with a noncommittal shrug of the shoulders, and refused to say anything more. You cannot get a thing out of the Maltese when they don’t want to talk.

“You are new here, aren’t you?” I asked him. “Where’s Joe, the guide who was here a couple of months ago?”

“I don’t know any Joe.” He shook his head. “I alone have been showing people around this catacomb for years.”

Who was this guide? And why did Joe disappear after we left Hal Saflini that first time? And why is it impossible to get any facts on the disappearing schoolchildren story? In the Summer of 1960, Louise Becker, N.Y.S.I.B.’s treasurer visited Malta during her European trip. She searched old newspaper files and the Museum, trying to get some facts to substantiate my story, but in vain. The Maltese are tight-lipped about the secrets of their island.

CRABB ON JESSOP, MALTA, AND THE CAVERN WORLD

Your editor’s third lecture, “Flying Saucers and America’s Destiny”, contains brief references to the Cavern world in the interior of the earth; and it was after hearing this talk to her New York saucer group that Miss Jessop told Mrs. Crabb and me the Malta experience described above.

We spent two days with Lois Jessop during our eastern trip in April, 1960, and found her a charming hostess, cosmopolitan as a much-traveled Englishwoman can be, and a student of the borderland. Lois has a level-headed, level-eyed way of looking at life and people, which is very refreshing; nevertheless, I found her Malta story difficult to believe until Mrs. Crabb and I returned home and I had a chance to look up Malta at the San Diego library. Two Malta articles in the National Geographic are especially fruitful for the underground researcher: Griffith’s “Malta, Halting Place of Nations”, May, 1920 and Walter’s “Wanderers Awheel In Malta”, August, 1940. (p. 267, 272)

Walters and another young American friend made a leisurely bicycle tour of Malta in 1939, with plenty of time to get acquainted and to ride around with island teenagers. They visited Hal Saflini, too, and proved the startling amplifying power of the “oracle”. They also picked up this sad information from their Maltese friends.

“Years ago one could walk underground from one end of Malta to the other, but all entrances were closed by the government because of a tragedy. On a sight-seeing trip, comparable to a nature study tour in our own schools, a number of elementary children and their teachers descended into the tunneled maze and did not return. For weeks mothers declared that they heard wailing and screaming from underground. But numerous excavations and searching parties brought no trace of the lost souls. After three weeks they were finally given up for dead.”

Griffiths noted a hollow-sounding floor in one of the rooms of Hal Saflini, indicating yet unexplored lower levels. He also gives a few facts which back up Richard Shaver’s contention that the Deros, the evil Cavern dwellers, are cannibals and enjoy eating human flesh. Hal Saflini was discovered in 1902 but before the Valetta museum director could open it up for the tourists, dirt, broken pottery, and enough normal-sized human bones to account for 33,000 people had to be removed from the rooms of the Hypogaeum. Archaeologists and other innocents believe that catacombs like Hal Saflini were burial tombs; I rather think that it was a Cavern restaurant for the degenerate, undersized descendants of the Atlanteans who were forced into the caves thousands of years ago.

Here is Griffith’s description of the “oracle” in the cave: ” . . . at about the level of a man’s mouth is a hemispherical hole in the wall about two feet in diameter. Here it was noticed only a few months ago that any word spoken into this place was magnified a hundredfold and audible throughout the entire structure. A curved projection is especially carved out of the back of the cave near this hole and acts as a sounding board, showing that the designers had a good knowledge of sound-wave motion. The impression upon the credulous can be imagined when the oracle spoke and the words came thundering forth through the dark and mysterious places with terrifying impressiveness.”

GIANTS IN THE EARTH

Lois Jessop was reminded of the peculiar appearance of the twenty-foot giants she saw in Hal Saflini, by a couple of 35mm slide illustrations in my No. 4 Saucer lecture, concerned with mediumship. These slides are copies of Max Heindel’s drawings of the human aura, from his book, “Cosmo-Conception”, curved lines radiating out beyond the body.

Of the huge Cavern dwellers she saw she said, “their covering seemed to be like long white hair, combed downward and shaggy looking. Their heads were oval and elongated at the chin and top; and the hair on their heads fell about the shoulders like a draped monk’s cowl.”

Now these underground beings, whatever their origin, have no resemblance to Shaver’s Deros. At least we have the fact of their existence; and in this experience of Lois Jessop’s, and in the Hal Saflini material in the National Geographics, we do have some of the best factual support of the Shaver Mystery your editor has yet seen. In fact it was this material which encouraged me to go ahead and put together talk No. 5, “The Reality of the Underground”, including a portion of Miss Jessop’s experience and a review of Shaver’s basic theories as spelled out by Ray Palmer in the early Mystic Magazines back in 1954 and 1955. My basic premise is that there are many different races in the interior of the earth, of all shapes, sizes and colors, and of different degrees of density, depending on what level or plane of vibration is normal to them. Along with our former director, Meade Layne, I believe that some of these underground races can shift back and forth across the border between 3-D and 4-D; so that sometimes they are visible to normal humansight and at other times they are invisible — to our great bewilderment!

The following posting is a collection of three older pieces, presented as they first appeared in the original BSRA Round Robins and Journals, all three explorations of the still mysterious Mount Shasta (Úytaahkoo, the White Mountain), that legendary Cascadian peak in Siskiyou County, California. We present these selections here as a historical survey of early thoughts and ideas on phenomena that has been linked to Shasta, viewed through the dawn prism, in hopes that you will find some value or curiosity in them.

The Mystery of Mt. Shasta

Originally included as part of the the BSRA Round Robin (Vol. 3, No. 7, Sept.-Oct. 1947);
Article by Edward Lenser, with opening and closing remarks (and footnotes) by Meade Layne.

The following article appeared in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine of May 22, 1932, and has since been quoted in part, in many publications. Its interest however is perennial end the mystery still unsolved. For the sections quoted, RR is indebted to Miss Ella Young, of Oceano, Calif., a well-known writer and poet.

The author of the article is Mr. Edward Lenser. He tells us that one morning, while en route to Portland on the Shasta Limited, he went out on the observation platform to see the sunrise, and was looking at Mt. Shasta.

“Gazing upon its splendor, I suddenly perceived that the whole southern side of the mountain was ablaze with a strange reddish-green light – a flame that grew faint, then flared up with renewed brilliance. My first conjecture was a forest fire, but the absence of smoke discounted that theory. The light resembled the glow of Roman candles… The thing intrigued me, and when I met my travelling companion at breakfast, he asked me if I had seen the forest fire on Mt. Shasta.”

“Did you see smoke?” was my question.

“No,” he replied. “Just a red glow.”

Convinced that I had not been the victim of a mirage, I later asked the conductor about the mysterious pyrotechnics. His answer was short but enticing:

“Lemurians,” he said. “They hold ceremonials up there.”

“Lemurians!” ………..

Just as soon as I had transacted my business in Portland I returned to the Mt. Shasta region, incredulous but consumed with curiosity … I planned to equip myself for an expedition ..

I motored toward the point of my investigation, pausing at Weed, a town near Mt. Shasta, for the night. There I discovered that the existence of a ‘mystic village’ on Mt. Shasta was an accepted fact. Business men, amateur explorers, officials and ranchers in the country surrounding Shasta spoke freely of the Lemurian community, and all attested to the weird rituals that are performed on the mountainside at sunset, midnight, and sunrise. Also, they freely ridiculed my avowed trek into the sacred precincts, assuring me that an entrance was as difficult and forbidden as is an entrance into Tibet.

It appears that tho the existence of this colony has been known for more than 50 years, only four or five explorers have penetrated the invisible protective boundaries; and no one has ever succeeded in entering the village, or at least returned to tell the tale. It is of course possible that such a person might have good reasons to hold secret whatever he had seen.

It is safe to say that 50 out of 100 people living within a reasonable distance of Shasta have at some time or other tried to approach the Lemurians – yet many who are known to have penetrated at least part of the mystery will deny having made such an investigation or having any knowledge concerning the Lemurians.

It began to look as if the whole affair was a matter of well-seasoned legendry, yet I myself had seen the strange illumination of Mt. Shasta …. And yet it seemed incredible . . .

Then I learned that the existence of the Lemurians on Mt. Shasta was vouched for some years ago by the scientist Professor Edgar L. Larkin, formerly director of the Mt. Lowe observatory. He penetrated the Shasta wilderness as far as he could, or dared, and then continued his investigations from a promontory with a powerful telescope.

What he saw, he reported, was a great temple in the heart of the mystic village, a marvellous work of carved marble and onyx, rivaling the magnificence of the temples of Yucatan. He saw a village of 600 to 1000 people; they appeared to be engaged in in the manufacture of various articles and in farming the sunny slopes and glens with miraculous results … evidently contented to live as did their Lemurian forebearers … Professor Larkin gatered enough evidence to enable him to say … that in this village live the lest descendants of the first inhabitants of this earth, the Lemurians.^[1]

That these Lemurians are cognizant of the disaster which befell their ancestors is revealed by the fact that each night at midnight they perform a ritual to Guatama, which is the Lemurian name for America. The chief object of this ceremony is to celebrate the escape of their forebears from the doomed Lemuria and their safe arrival in Guatama.

In this midnight ceremony, as in the sunrise and sunset rituals, the weird but wonderful light that first attracted my attention is used. I have seen the midnight ceremonials cause the entire southern side of Mt. Shasta to be illuminated in s most baffling way – a light that reaches up and covers the landscape for great distances … This display of light far exceeds our modern electrical achievements. . .

The Lemurians have been seen on various occasions; they have been encountered in the Shasta forest, but only for a brief glimpse, for they possess the uncanny secret knowledge of the Tibetan Masters^[2] and can blend themselves into their surroundings and vanish. At times they came into neighboring towns – tall, bare-foot, noble-looking men, with close-cropped hair, dressed in spotless white robes that resemble in style the enveloping garment worn by the high-caste East-Indian women of today – to patronize certain stores.

Indeed, the records reveal that at one time on official visit was made to the City of Sen Francisco by a white-robed patriarch from the mystic village. He came on foot, with an escort of younger men, to bring greetings and an assurance of good will upon the anniversary of the founding of their sacred retreat in California. The patriarch was met by an official committee at the Ferry Building and escorted to the City Hall. As soon as greetings had been exchanged the visitors returned to their retreat.

The article concludes by saying that purchases made in Shasta villages by these ‘white-robed men’ include a greet deal of sulphur, lard, and salt; their purchases are paid for in gold nuggets, “they cannot speak our language”; and they make extensive donations to charity. When forest fires occur, they “cause an invisible wall of protection to rise up”.

The alleged factual data in this article obviously falls into some four categories: (a) Observations by Mr. Lenser himself, apparently confined to the lights; (b) Reported observations of Professor Larkin, source not stated – but We believe contained in a small book by Professor Larkin himself; (c) The visit of the “Patriarch” to San Francisco – said to be a matter of record – somewhere; (d) A digest of stories, beliefs and alleged experiences from inhabitants of the Shasta area. It is impossible further to evaluate this material as it stands, but seems certain that there is a considerable substratum of remarkable facts.

We are anxious to know whether there are any recent reports of similar phenomena (within the last 5-4 years), and would appreciate information from our readers.

Footnotes

1. No reason appears in the account for calling the colony “Lemurian”, except the alleged use of the word Guatama, nor do we know how the meaning and use of this word was ascertained.
2. The “secret knowledge of the Tibetan Masters” is a bit of journalistic build-up; probably some slight skill in woodcraft would be sufficient explanation.

Photo: Michael Zanger, “Sunrise on Mount Shasta” (CC BY-SA 2.0)

This is a hit-and-run article, sans literary grace, about aurameter, and etheric objects, and thought-forms and teleportation, and the ethers and the flying Discs and what-have-you. “A” stands for Aurameter, so we begin where it seems proper; but afterward mix everything up as seems most improper. The Aurameter is a lately devised gadget intended primarily for water dowsing, but which turns out to have far more important properties – such as, for example, locating and outlining objects which can’t be seen. ^[1]

“Thoughts are things” is the sleepiest of bromides. Every spiritist and occultist is born with that spoon in his mouth whether he knows it or not. But just what, if you please, do you mean by a “thing”? In common use a thing is an object, and an object is objective, visible, and usually tangible. But since thoughts and feelings are not of this sort, how can they be called things? Obviously and QED, such talk is all mystical moonshine.

But now, suppose I visualize a milk bottle on one end of a table, a large cube on the other, and a solid brick wall across one end of the room. Then suppose some one experienced in the use of this gadget comes in and locates these mental images by feeling around with it, somewhat as a dowser does with a forked stick or a pendulum. Has the thought-form, the mental image taken on “thingness”, or has it not?

Elaborate and repeated experiments show that this feat can actually be performed. Make a mind image, place it definitely in space, and the Aurameter can find it. Touch one book in a row of 50, and the instrument will pick out the right one. We suggest, there is “something there”, just as real and objective as any visible brick or box or bottle could possibly be. We suggest, the burden of explanation is now on the skeptic. Let him explain what is happening, and he had better make it good.

But to go on from there – since we have no space here to battle with straw men.

I put an imaginary milk bottle on the table in front of me, and the aurameter man can find it. But it’s just as easy and as quick for me to put it in another room, another house, another block or city distant. I can put it anywhere I want to, provided I can visualize enough of the background, and distance makes no difference at all, per se. If my friend in Calcutta has an Aurameter and can use it, and I steadfastly visualize a black cat or a bronze Buddha in his library, and if he knows where and when to look for the something I am sending, he will be able to find it and describe its outlines.

Now, this is the projection of an image, and an image or thought is evidently a reality. That is, it has a material existence, although the matter it is made of happens to be invisible, and untouchable by our unaided hands. It is, if you please, what we call an existent in etheric matter. If you poke the positive pole of a magnet into the positive field of another magnet, you feel a strong repulsion, the push-away of like polarities. The magnetic field is an invisible, tangible entity composed of etheric stresses, but no one thinks of denying its existence. The thought form seems to have the same kind of existence, and the resistence it offers to the aurameter bob feels to the hand exactly the same as that exerted by the magnet. But before the invention of the aurameter we had no instrument (except possibly the pendulum) for measuring it.

Otherwise stated, a thought image is an etheric construct made by the operation of mind-energy on the ethers. If you don’t believe in the ethers, or in the ‘energic’ character of thought, go ahead and make your own interpretation – only, please do not fail to explain just what it is the aurameter finds and how it finds it.

In other words, try to ‘save’ the phenomena – or, don’t throw out the baby along with the bath water.

Our assumption and information and reasonable belief is, that etheric matter exists everywhere, and that there is an infinite series of ethers of increasing density, and that all of them are particulate in structure, and consequently interpenetrate. ^[2] Our so-called dense matter is really (comparatively) a rarefaction, and the enormously dense ethers pass through it like wind through a mesh with huge interstices. That makes good science and good metaphysics, once you stop to think about it, as most people will not do.

If, as is highly believable, there are etheric beings living in etheric worlds, their bodies and worlds and all that is in them will be far more dense than ours, the component particles will be thousands or millions of times smaller than our atoms and electrons, and consequently the etheric matter will be responsive to the more subtle forms of energy, that is, to thought energy. And if I visualize a pumpkin, I create said pumpkin in etheric matter, but it‘s out of my plane of visual perception. If I were in an etheric body I would be able to see it, and I could send it by my thought energy to any place I chose. And if I want to construct a flying disc, I would first think it into existence and then spot the etheric creation anywhere I wished. It’s our information and belief, that most of our space visitors get here in just that way. It is not a problem of constructing a craft out of materials known to us as matter and have it capable of flying across space and withstanding the conditions of space fight. The craft is first built out of enormously dense etheric matter, by thinking it in to form; and this etheric form is ‘teleported’ or ‘spotted’ along with crew into the upper regions of the earth’s atmosphere – the ‘trip’ of course taking no time at all. Within the Earth’s gravitational field the vibratory rates of the etheric matter are converted into the slower rate of our earth matter, and then the craft becomes visible and tangible to us. If it is true that we now have many visitors even from ‘beyond the galaxies’, hundreds and even thousands of light years distant, it must be plain that they do not get here in any craft made of earth-substances and travelling at any speed we have even conjectured, and that they do not ‘cross space’ at all in our sense of the words.

All this kind of thinking clicks well enough with both ancient and modern metaphysics, and also with much contemporary speculative science. It was talking about the aurameter that got us into all this – for the obvious reason that we now have, for the first time, a ‘gadget’ which will show the material presence of an ether-form, or thought form. Our vast ignorance of the whole concept of the ethers, is a kind of black hole of Calcutta for the western mind. We’re gadget-minded and want to see something move, or hear something click, or read numbers on a scale before we think a ‘thing’ is ‘real’. If the aurameter should be studied enough so that its evidence gets through the first layer of western ignorance and stupidity, it will be rated as 20th century achievement No. 1.

It’s still bad form, of course, to so much as mention radiesthesia in ‘orthodox’ and official scientific circles – and the aurameter comes under that classification, as a radi-sensitive device, and so will be rated even lower than the pendulum, the former ne plus ultra of childishness. But what is the twaddle of today is often the gospel of tomorrow.

This aurameter also suggests the possibility of mental communication on this plane by etheric images and symbols. It is also revealing many unknown rays, waves, vibrations – for instance, an energy stream given off from the tips of cones. It’s going to intrude into the field of psychometry and pendulum analysis generally – and it also tells us more about the human aura than is found in all the books. It is, in short, one fine notable ray of light into the black hole we just spoke about – our western ignorance of the etheric worlds and peoples.

The point is sometimes raised, that if (say) a Venusian Etherian wants to visit Terra (for to see but not to admire) he doesn’t need to think up a disc or a mile~long space ship to travel in. His body is made of etheric matter, and it responds to his will, and all he has to do is to think himself even into the most secret places of our world – and there he is. We are informed that this is quite true, leaving aside various if’s and but’s. But let us suppose that he wants to make observations and records, use instruments, maybe offset bad radiation effects, needs active cooperation by other Etherian scientists. It seems natural that he, or they, should prefer to create discs or other craft, load them with the required apparatus, transfer the whole by teleportation to some region close to the earth, and then convert to our vibration rate and so come into our field of perception.

All this is very crude and sketchy, no doubt, and sounds like amateurish scientifiction; yet I think that basically it is reasonable and plausible and fits in with the known data.

There has been a good deal of twaddle in the newspapers during the last few months, about a ‘revival’ of the ‘obsolete’ ether theory, particularly by an English scientist. But the ether concept has never been discarded. Einstein, Jeans, Eddington and many others have said so explicitly. Consider the following quotations from Eddington:

Thirty years ago there was much debate over the question of ether drag – whether the earth moving round the sun drags the ether with it. At that time the solidity of the atom was unquestioned, and it was difficult to believe that matter could push its way through the ether without disturbing it. It was surprising and perplexing to find as the result of experiments that no convection of the ether occurred. But we now realize that the ether can slip through the atc as easily as through the solar system, and our expectation is all the other way . . .

(That velocity through the ether is meaningless) does not mean that the ether is abolished. we need an ether. The physical world is not to be analyzed into isolated particles of matter or electricity with featureless interspace. We have to attribute as much character to the interspace as to the particles, and quite an army of symbols is required to describe what is going on in the interspace. We postulate ether to bear the characters of the interspace as we postulate matter or electricity to bear the characters of the particles …

In the last century it was widely believed that ether was a kind of matter, having properties such as mass, rigidity, motion, like ordinary matter… This ceased to be the orthodox view years before the advent of the relativity theory. Logically it was abandoned by the 19th century investigators who regarded matter as vortices, knots, squirts etc.,in the ether; for clearly they could not suppose that ether consisted of vortices in the ether. But it may not be safe to assume that the authorities in question were logical.

Nowadays it is agreed that ether is not a kind of matter.* Be-non-material, its properties are sui generis. We must determine them by experiment; and since we have no ground for any preconception the experimental conclusions can be accepted without surprise. Mass and rigidity such as we meet with in matter will naturally be absent in ether; but the ether will have new and definite characters of its own. In a material ocean we can say that a particular particle of water which was here a few moments ago is now over there; there is no corresponding assertion that can be made about the ether. If you have been thinking of the ether in a way which takes for granted this property of permanent identification of its particles, you must revise your conception … The ether itself is as much to the fore as it ever was, in our present scheme of the world. But velocity through the ether (is meaningless).

(Nature of the Physical World, pp. 3, 30, 31, 32)

Since the passages quoted were written subsequent to the advent of the relativity theory (and in view of later utterances by Einstein and others), the assertion that the concept of the ether has been discarded is absurd. There is, however, a matter of semantics involved in the last paragraph quoted from Eddington. He is unwilling to describe the ether as matter, since it does not possess the characters of matter as we know it – mass, rigidity etc. This is a question of definitions. If the ethers possess enormous density and consist of extremely small particles in extremely rapid motion, then their mass and rigidity will lie outside the range of our instruments – hence, by definition, we can say they are not “matter”. The point is obvious and not worth laboring, except that Eddington takes a needless plunge into mysticism by postulating a necessary but characterless X to equate with the interspaces. Incidentally, it does us no good to merely substitute the term space for ether unless space be itself a substance or stuff and not mere nothingness – which is a flatus vocis and not a concept at all.

We began by talking about the aurameter because its performances make us realize that etheric bodies are ‘real’ in a material sense, in the same way that a magnetic field is *real* ; and the quotations from Eddington show that the ether is vez; much of a ‘reality’ to the physicist, whether he calls it matter or non-matter or space or an X which can neither be kept out of his equations nor evaluated. The importance of the whole matter, for the ‘average man’ at least, is that unless he can somehow integrate the reality of the etheric worlds into his own thinking, he will never understand a host of remarkable phenomena now occurring on our own plane of existence. Precisely because of this lack of understanding, we are in grave danger of a period of public panic and world-wide confusion. This danger is not merely a matter of being scared witless by “fireballs” and “discs” and nameless flaming monsters of the skies. It is a most ancient and rational occult teaching, that all the life of our world, and all ‘material objects, and the whole of Nature as known to us, originated in the etheric worlds – the true homeland of the human race. Furthermore, it is the personal conviction of many of us that probably the only hope for humanity now lies in friendly contact and cooperation with the etheric peoples, many of whom are, we now believe, excarnate humans operating from etheric rather than astral levels.

For the last five years we have been saying things similar to this, and other and wiser folk have been saying it all down the course of human history. We do not keep repeating them in any hope of ‘enlightening humanity’, but only by way of making a kind of gesture which may call the attention of a few, who may then proceed as they will, each on his own path of understanding.

In view of our reference to Natalli (note to page 2) we may be permitted to introduce a quotation from him. Natalli is a 16th century astronomer who has long been communicating through the deep-trance mediumship of Mark Probert. (This medium, by the way, has almost no knowledge of technical and scientific subjects). The Natalli Control stated, early in March 1952:

“If we look at densities as blending slowly we arrive at a density which will be to all intents homogeneous” (i.e., by successive division of the constituent particles of matter). “But this is not really the case. By basing on the quantum theory each state is periodical a period behaviour of the atoms. This period state can only be conceived of by thinking in this manner. The action of the atom in each grade of density is not a stable condition, but rather a kind of blinking, in lawful sequence. In each passing fraction of time this a different form of motion. Action taking place in one density will cause another form of action in another density. It is this action which creates what you call form.

“Now, we wonder where the atom is, in the fraction of time when it is not in action. There is a time vacuum existing between the peri-states of motion. We have a cause~and-effect in play and spanning the gulf of the time interval. There is a stream of force passing between the two densities. Due to the fact that we cannot ever get to a state of nothingness (by successive divisions) the field between the time intervals we may call a play going on between the two – between the proton and the neutron. They exchange energies until there is a kind of absorption of one of them. Both are sending off energy, and the energy of one is picked up by other bodies. You have a complete breakdown of the atomic body, and it pours itself across this time vacuum into another dimension, where in forming an atomic structure it is moving at a different rate of speed. It may lose or gain electronic bodies in the new dimension and will create a web-like structure with other atoms to form a solid.

“The time vacuum lies in the exchange of neutron and proton in which one of these has absorbed the energy of the other. In that moment you have a time vacuum . . .

“The fractions of time are not really as we perceive them; the notion is so fast that we cannot make any estimate. But there is a pause in this time field that is a complete nothingness. This is basically a heat action and could be thought of according to a dimension of time as a magnetic or electromagnetic field according to the time interval between. We can say that it is magnetic or electrical or electro-magnetic, or that it is pure heat, depending largely on its use in any particular dimension of time. A passing point that is without atomic structure. The atom pours itself out into another dimension of time, across the time field. This is space-time, or a space vacuum between the nucleus and the electron.” ^[3]

Footnotes

1. Invented by BSR Assoc. V.L. Cameron, [booklet still for sale under the title "The Cameron Aurameter"]
2. ‘An infinite series of particulate ethers’ sounds like a logical impasse, but less formidable than a homogeneous ether. The difficulty is neatly handled by Natalli in our Transcript 15, pg. 3.
3. Though somewhat aside from the chief concern of this article, we add a philosophical suggestion of extreme importance. In the application of the quantum theory to psychology, to mind-as-energy, we have for the first time a satisfactory solution of the difficulty known as solipsism. – M.L.

Round Robin (Vol. 11, 3/6; Sept./Oct. 1955)

In a recent issue of the Round Robin there was a report of a Mark Probert seance which dealt with the existence of an ether. Although the reasoning was not very clear to me, still the conclusions seemed to be correct. The existence of an ether is not a question that can be answered by a simple “yes” or “no”, and when I stated in my book on “The Ether and its Vortices” that there can hardly be any question as to the existence of an ether, I meant a dynamic or turbulent ether and not the quiescent stationary ether of the 19th century.

The Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887 did not disprove the existence of any and every ether, but only of a quiescent ether that is stationary relative to the solar system, and which would produce an ether drift of sufficient magnitude to show up in the experiment. The correct explanation for the Michelson-Morley experiment seems to have been given by George Stokes, who considered the ether as being carried along by the earth‘s gravitational field; but Stokes theory was rejected by the physics profession on the ground that it was contradicted by astronomical aberration. It seems, however, that astronomical aberration does not necessarily disprove Stokes’ theory, because even if the ether adjacent to the earth is carried along by the earth’s gravitational field, there would still be astronomical aberration further out in space.

Since the gravitational field of the earth is tied up with that of the sun, it would be more correct to speak of the combined gravitation: field of the earth and the sun, and such a combined field would still be stationary relative to the earth, in complete agreement with the M.M. experiment.

There still remains to be considered, however, the rotation of the earth on its axis. Since the earth’s axis is approximately perpendicular to the plane of its orbit about the sun, it necessarily follows that since the earth’s gravitational field remains tied up with that of the sun, the ether around the earth cannot partake of the rotation of the earth on its axis, but should produce an ether drift of about one-third of a mile per second at the equator, and less elsewhere. That such an ether drift actually exists was proved by the Michelson-Gale experiment in 1925, further details of which will be found in my book.

The finite velocity of light proves that the ether must have mass and inertia, but how is that possible with an ether which is not granular or corpuscular? In my book I advanced the proposition that inertia is really a property of motion rather than a property of matter, because motion without inertia would be a contradiction in terms. Inertia merely means continuity of motion, and without continuity there could not be any motion. Continuity must be either toward and from infinity or around in a circle or other closed path, and wherever it is in a closed path it will appear as localized inertia, which is just another name for mass. With mass thus accounted for, it is not difficult to account for matter, because matter is nothing but a highly concentrated form of localized mass. Less concentrated forms of localized mass are electric and magnetic fields, but this does not include the gravitational field, which is something very different.

Similar considerations are also applicable to the ether. Any ether which actually exists must have mass and inertia, because an ether without mass and inertia is inconceivable. If, however, we are correct in our interpretation of mass and inertia as properties of motion, then it necessarily follows that the only kind of ether which can conceivably exist is a dynamic or turbulent ether. The perfectly quiescient and stagnant ether of the 19th century was therefore a theoretical impossibility.

The concept of motion forms an adequate basis for everything in nature, provided we are not too inquisitive as to what it is that moves. We do not need to let this difficulty embarrass us, however, because physicists in dealing with wave mechanics have been confronted with the same difficulty, but have not been seriously deterred thereby. It seems to be the general opinion among 20th century physicists that the concept of motion is complete in itself, even in the apparent absence of anything that moves. On the other hand the 19th century physicists would have pronounced such a view untenable.

It seems that the solution of this problem is to be found in a compromise between the 19th and 20th century viewpoints. Motion with out anything that moves is indeed inconceivable, but if We assume that the world has always existed and never had any beginning, then there never was a time when we would have been confronted with any such difficulty. The world at any instant is adequately accounted for by considering it as the result of the world at the instant immediately preceding. Since continuity is a necessary property of motion, the existence of an ether in motion at the present instant necessarily presupposes the existence of a similar ether in motion at the instant immediately preceding, and wherever there is an ether in motion there must also be mass by virtue of that motion.

Round Robin (Vol. 11, 4/6; Nov./Dec. 1955)

In my previous article on “The Existence of an Ether”, the subject was treated from an astronomical standpoint, and it will now be considered from the ‘standpoint of the Sagnac experiment which is just as important as the Michelson-Morley experiment, although not as well-known as the latter.

The Sagnac experiment was first performed in 1915 in France in an effort to disprove Einstein’s theory of relativity, and with minor variations has been repeated several times since then, but always with the same positive results. It consisted of splitting a beam of monochromatic light into two component beams which were sent in opposite directions around the periphery of a turntable by means of mirrors until they met again at the opposite end of the table so as to produce interference fringes which were recorded on a photographic plate. When the table with all the apparatus on it was slowly rotated the interference fringes were shifted by an amount equal to what the shift would be if the light waves traveled in a medium that was stationary relative to the earth. As long as the table remained stationary, the light waves in the two component beams would traverse the same distance, namely half the circumference of the table. As soon as the table was rotated, however, the light waves of one beam would have to traverse a greater distance than those of the other beam because the photographic plate on which the interference fringes were recorded would then be moving toward the light waves of one beam and away from those of the other beam.

Since the time of travel in each beam must remain the some, any difference in the lengths of the two paths would have to result in a displacement of the interference fringes in the one direction or the other.

The same positive result was obtained regardless of whether the source of light was carried by the turntable or was on a stationary support adjacent to the turntable, which rules out any attempted explanation based on the movement of the source of light. The only possible explanation for the shifting of the interference fringes when the table is rotated is that the light waves of the two component beams travel in a medium, namely an “ether”, which is stationary relative to the earth, or more specifically relative to the earth’s gravitational field, and which does not partake to any measurable extent of the rotation of the turntable.

The Sagnac experiment is therefore in complete agreement with George Stokes’ interpretation of the Michelson-Morley experiment because the gravitational field of the turntable is negligible in comparison with the gravitational field of the earth.

See also:

“The Ether and its Vortices” by Carl F. Krafft
Outside the stagnant channels of “mainstream” science, leading research is now showing the vortex to be a vital key in understanding the subatomic level of nature. This comprehensive book is Krafft’s masterwork covering: The Hydromechanical Ether, Subatomic Vortices, The New Vortex Atoms, Radioactivity and Atomic Fission, the Nuclear Theory Disproved, and more.

AEROFORMS are flying discs, “saucers,” mutants or indescripts, and best understood with respect to their origin and nature as being EMERGENTS: that-is, they emerge on to our plane of perception from a space-time frame of reference which is different from ours. This process may also be described as a conversion of energy and a change of vibratory rates.

That this is so is obviously suggested by the phenomena themselves; since physical matter as we know it could not withstand the speed, temperature and strain imposed by the observed operatons of the discs and other forms. This does not conflict with the apparent composition of the “landed” discs.

When the energy conversion takes place, the aeroform becomes visible and tangible. It appears to be and definitely is what we call solid substance, and so remains until the vibratory rate is again converted. The “steel” of a landed disc is an etheric steel and its copper is etheric copper — since the prototypes of all our metals exist in etheric matter; nevertheless, chemical analysis has shown certain radical differences. The conversion process amounts to materialisation and dematerialisation (“mat and demat”). “Demat,” on our plane of perception, would be “mat” for any consciousness functioning on the etheric level, and vice versa.

Just as there is a spectrum of sound and of colour (ending in sounds we cannot hear and colours we cannot see), so there is also a spectrum of tangibility, ending in forms of matter which are too dense to be touched. The ordinary matter of our plane is a rarefaction, and the interspaces between the nucleus and the electrons are relatively enormous. The extremely dense matter of the ethers passes through earth substance freely and almost without friction. But if the vibratory rate of an etheric object is slowed down, it becomes less dense and enters our field of perception.

[With reference to our use of the word density; this word is used in different senses by physicists and demands definition for which we cannot here afford space.]

Etheric matter, on account of its density, is subject to the play of many subtle forces, including the energic activity of thought. Any form or object of which the mind can conceive can be brought into existence by mental action, and controlled by the same means. Etheric objects are in every way as “real” as those of our own world. And there is abundant experimental evidence for the control of “mind over matter” on our own plane of perception.

The foregoing paragraph applies also to the bodies of Etherian people. Our own bodies are truly made by our minds; we identify ourselves with them and control them. The Etherian makes his own body in a somewhat similar way, but quickly and easy, and makes it in any size and form he chooses. By the same principle, he can produce the form of a sphere, a cylinder, a cube, a disc or “saucer” — and any desired vibrations of colour and sound.

Whether the Etherian people are “human” or not depends entirely on one’s definition of the word human. So far as we know, they are not excarnate humans and have not lived on our planet, though often visiting it. It is a cardinal mistake to assume that their bodies, and the other ships created by them, are necessarily the same as we have seen them, when they withdraw to their own planes of existence. It is a cardinal mistake to assume that they are all of the same kind and “race,” or of the same moral character and evolutionary development.

The “vehicle” of an Etherian, whether his body or his “ship” is thus essentially a thought-form (as our bodies are also) and a thought form can be positioned anywhere. The problems of space travel as we conceive them do not exist for him — as implied by the opening paragraph. By altering his vibratory rates the Disc Etherian penetrates our seas and the substance of our globe as easily as he does our atmosphere. All the aeroforms pass through each other – on occasion – and through our dwellings at will, and are (and always have been) invisibly present in great numbers.

The Etherians themselves – or entities purporting to be such – have given the following accounting: That the first step in constructing huge space craft (“mother ships” and others) is to isolate a cube of space, or ether, to a very low vibration frequency. This etheric substance is then given the desired form, and the proper equipment is placed within it, according to its proposed station and operation. This work is done mainly by mental means: the Etherians make use of machines and apparatus, but these also are etheric constructions.

Teleportation

When the “ship” is completed, it is positioned by mental means – “teleportation” – in any desired location, as, say, in the vicinity of our earth. So far, neither the ship nor any of these operations would be visible to us. But if the frequency of the etheric matter is then converted to other specific rates, the ship will, or may, become visible and tangible to our senses. But there is NO “crossing of space” involved at any time. There is simply a change of location — and this is equivalent to a change of frequency or conversion of vibratory rates.

This last principle cannot be reiterated too often. It is basic to any understanding of the whole mass of the aeroform phenomena. These huge craft may be miles in dimension, or even of planetary size — hence the feasibility of an “evacuation of the planet,” if necessary.

Under what conditions these huge objects, hanging hundreds of miles overhead, are converted to a frequency rate perceptible to us is, of course, unknown. But discs and other forms discharged by the mother ships are obviously so converted, in order to operate under gravitational and magnetic conditions peculiar to our planet. Or it may be a part of the overall plan that those objects be made visible and tangible to us, as part of the education of earth people.

Interpretation

Reverting to the concept of “emergence,” it may be helpful to quote the following illustration: Suppose we have a series of concentric balls, one within another like the “Chinese eggs.” Call the central ball No. 1 and the others Nos. 2, 3, 4, etc. For any given point on, say, the sixth ball, there will be a corresponding spot on both the inside and the outside of ball No. 5 and of ball No. 7 — and so on all the other balls. Consider that each ball has its own vibration rate. Then, if you wish to move any object on, say, ball 6 and place it on ball 5 or 7, you simply change its vibration accordingly. The object will then be located in a new place. It will not have to “pass over” any intervening space — it simply comes into existence in a new location. A change of frequency is equivalent to a change of location.

Such a statement as “I am here” means simply that I am “tuned in” to objects, sounds, and colours of my surroundings. If this receptivity were altered so that I “tuned out,” the environment would disappear, but would be replaced by a different one unless the change destroyed me. This would be a spacetime operation and a change of location without transit of space.

Contemporary distrust of the concept of the ether is unjustified and must be left to physicists who, apparently, do not read the literature of their own subject.

So far the whole mass of material on the aeroforms, with some tentative exceptions, has not produced an over-all interpretation which is at once intelligible science and sound metaphysics. Yet the interpretation reported by us and here summarised is steadily gaining ground, and we bespeak its thoughtful consideration on its own merits. It will be expanded and altered in details but it is basically correct.

Clips, Quotes and Comments on part V of an article for “Specula” by Col. Tom Bearden, as compiled by Riley Crabb, originally included in the Journal of Borderland Research (November – December 1979, Vol XXXV, No. 6): This article is included here as part of a “Round Robin” classic series, presenting random pulls from the archives and the best offerings of the BSRA from 1945 into the 1970s!

Bearden has an interesting explanation for the nuclear disaster in Russia which made hundreds of square miles of Russia uninhabitable. “I believe that in 1958 the Soviet nuclear catastrophe near the Urals was the result of an attempt to transmit a nuclear explosion through hyperspace (the peculiarity of a transmitter tuning failure would have resulted in an explosion emerging from the nearest large nuclear waste storage, and that apparently happened).

“In 1957, however, a major new interpretation of quantum mechanics was originated by Everett at Princeton University under the world-renowned John Wheeler. This is the theory of universal wave function — the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics. Practically the entire Western output on the subject is available in a book by that title from Princeton University Press.”

Yes, it -is- encouraging that a few physicists are taking off their blinders and making a sincere attempt to relate physics to occult philosophy. It is amusing that, though psychic phenomena have been with mankind since our earliest beginnings on this planet, physicists take the attitude that because they could not explain by their myopic view of life, psychic phenomena didn’t exist. It is sad that while government authorities here in the United States have been systematically destroying Radionic or Psychotronic equipment, and persecuting Radionic operators dedicated to helping mankind, government authorities in Russia have been encouraging this New Age science for the destruction of mankind!

“This physics is so exceedingly strange that it has been ignored by almost all Western physicists — indeed, it is so strange that even its originators, Everett and Wheeler, are said not to be able to believe it (Wheeler once stated that he could believe it on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but not at any other time). Using the Many Worlds Interpretation, however, one can produce a theoretical model of Psychotronics which is totally consistent with the entire experimental basis of modern physics!

“The Soviets apparently seized on this new theoretical work and applied it to the Moray device, solving their theoretical difficulties.”

“About 1959 or 1960, the radiation of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow with weak microwave radiation apparently began. The purpose of the radiation is a brilliant intelligence probe. The Soviets were vitally interested in positively ascertaining whether or not their U.S, adversary knew about Psychotronics (i.e. whether or not the U.S, had built PT weapons of its own and might have built defense counterweapons as well).”

No, at that time the technical authorities in the government were examining workable, usable Radionic or Psychotronic equipment with contempt, labeling it fraudulent, and throwing the operators in jail! — Dr. Chapman here in Vista and Dr. Ruth Drown in Hollywood.

“Accordingly, the Russians began weak PT-modulated microwave radiation of a high-level U.S. target — the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union — which would guarantee the personal attention of the State Department, NSA, CIA, DIA, the President, etc. (You left an important one out, Tom, the Office of Naval Intelligence. –RHC)

“The PT modulation apparently consisted of various disease patterns of gradually increasing seriousness — flu, blood changes, heart irregularity, cancer, etc. By the U.S.’s reaction, whether or not it knew anything of PT could be positively assessed. If the U.S. reacted—only to ordinary electromagnetics, then with 100% certainty it knew nothing of Psychotronics, hence had no secret PT weapons of its own or counters to the Soviet PT weapons. So, since about 1959 or 1960, by our slow reaction to the radiation of the U.S. Embassy — and then by our reaction only to the electromagnetic aspects — we have been assuring the Soviets that we know nothing of PT. Even though several presidents have protested the radiation, the Soviets have persisted in it because it is an intelligence tool of the utmost importance to them.

RADIONICS: INFORMATION TRANSFER BETWEEN CELLS

“For confirmation of Soviet experimentation with PT induction of death and disease, see V.P. Kaznachayev et al, ‘Distant Intercellular Interactions in a System of Two Tissue Cultures’, Psychoenergetic Systems, Vol. 1, No. 3, March 1976, pp. 141-142; and by the same authors, ‘Apparent Information Transfer Between Two Groups Of Cells’, Psychoenergetic Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, December 1974, p. 37. These articles give one a glimpse of the results of over 5,000 Soviet experiments on the basic effect.

“Kaznachayev, e.g., is the head of the Siberian Branch of the Soviet Academy of Medicine, and has at his disposal every disease germ/virus/toxin, etc. known to man. Note that the reported experiments were performed in the dark to prevent the quenching effect of the visible light spectrum, and the effect is only obtained through the quartz which has Infra-red and Ultra-violet windows. Also note there is a closely related experiment that is fundamental to quantum physics: in the two slit experiment — which contains all the mystery of quantum mechanics, according to Nobel prizewinner Richard Feynman, cofounder of quantum electrodynamics — one does not get the quantum effect with an electron, e.g., if the electron is first hit by a photon of light before reaching the two-slit region.”

So what’s new? The “quenching effect” of visible light is well known in psychic research; this is the reason for the dark seance room! This is one of the more obvious differences between the physical and astral worlds. The spirits say that our day here is their night “over there”. The quenching effect of visible light was discovered early in Radionics. This is why the black box idea. The interior of the diagnostic equipment must be dark. Some designs called for covering all circuitry with black tar.

AN ELECTRON IS ENERGY, NOT MATTER!

The two-slit experiment staggered orthodox science and shocked the physicists out of their mechanistic point of view. A beam of electrons was directed at a barrier with two slits in it. According to classical physical theory an electron could go through one slit or the other, but not through both because it is supposed to be a physical particle; but to the dismay of the experimenters, their recording equipment indicated that the electron was going through both slits at the same time! This indicated that the electron is really a wave of energy, not a physical particle. Below is David Saxon’s illustration of the experiment from his book “Physics”, published in 1967 by Holt Rhinehart and Winston, New York.

“According to Feynman,” continues Bearden, “the quantum effect in the two-slit experiment is not explainable by any classical means. The reason is that the explanation is not possible by Aristotle’s three laws of logic, on which all Western logic, physics and mathematics are based. However, a fourth law of logic can be written which, together with the present three laws, provides a closed meta-logic which does contain the explanation of the two-slit experiment. The fact there is no problem in explaining the experiment if one takes into , account the nested structure of time was pointed out as long ago as 1957 by Charles Muses. For the basic theory of the hyperspatial amplifier, see Thomas E. Bearden, ‘The One Human Problem, Its Solution, and Its Relation To UFO Phenomena’, appendix I, ‘The Holographic Hyperchannel Effect , January 3, 1977, DDC…”

THE NESTED STRUCTURE OF TIME — AND SPACE

The “nested structure of time” is an old story to occult scientists, East and West! And every Mystery School worthy of the name can give the student the topography of the Universe. These “road maps’ of the heavens have been worked out by direct observation of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of initiates and adepts who have preceded us on the Path to freedom from the tomb of the flesh, dramatized for us here in the Western world by the birth, youth maturity, martyrdom and transfiguration of Jesus

Jesus studied this Cabalistic Topography of the Universe during His “sojourn in Egypt”, where diagrams of the nested structure of time were part of the curriculum of the Mystery Schools there, in Luxor, Thebes, Abydos, etc. The Tree of Life in the Four Worlds drawn here is an example of it.

To your editor, the Quantum energy of the two-slit experiment on the preceding page equates with Kether of Assiah, primal energy of the physical world; and the two slits represent Chokmah and Binah, or energy being polarized into positive and negative matter as it descends the scale of tangibility.

In this context Quantum is mind, is consciousness, is impersonal love — the Life of deep space continually pressing in upon us, demanding to be used, to be expressed in forms of beauty and usefulness. “Know ye not that ye are Gods, and Goddesses?” cried the Master. What have you done with your power of creation; Let us hope that some it, at least, has been put to good use this Christmas of 1979 — if only to help counteract the evil and destruction rampant in the world.

Clips and Comments on the UFOlogy of Wilhelm Reich, as compiled by Riley Crabb, originally included in the Journal of Borderland Research (November – December 1979, Vol XXXV, No. 6). This article is included here as part of a “Round Robin” classic series, presenting random pulls from the archives and the best offerings of the BSRA from 1945 into the 1970s!

Does the Planet Earth Harbor Spacemen?

Borderland Scientist Dr. Wilhelm Reich posted that question in Chap. I of his 1957 book, “Contact With Space”:

[RHC: Dr. Reich was not the first man to harbor such radical ideas; nor was he the first to be jailed and executed for publishing them abroad. The Wardens of this prison of the solar system look with extreme prejudice on anyone who even suggests that it is possible to escape, or that there are advanced, loving beings who are ready, willing and able to help us to rehabilitate ourselves and get the hell off the earth!]

So, Dr. Reich suggested the formation of “a Planetary Professional Citizens Committee with sufficient work democratic organizational and statutory power to take over the responsibility for the direction of the Social Reconstruction of the Planet Earth and of the Ea operations of the future”, a work which was already underway with the organizations and functioning of the United Nations. Now, 22 years later, the formation of a UFO research committee is contemplated, which can make an “end run” around the Silence Policy on UFOs of the individual nations.

Dr. Reich’s plea to be allowed to think unthinkable thoughts about Flying Saucers and the possibility of his being a spaceman himself received an immediate and vindictive response from the U.S. government. His books were piled on the beach in Maine and burned. He was not only jailed but was suddenly dead in a U.S. prison.

Article by John R. Elsom, with comments from Riley Crabb, originally included in the Journal of Borderland Sciences (September – October 1970, Vol. XXVI, No. 5) in excerpt from “Lightning Over The Treasury Building (Or, An expose of our banking and currency)”: This article is included here as part of a “Round Robin” classic series, presenting random pulls from the archives and the best offerings of the BSRA from 1945 into the 1970s!

Soon after your BSRA Director (Riley Crabb) and Mrs. Crabb arrived on the mainland from Hawaii in 1957, he went to work in the Industrial Relations Office of the Marine Corps Supply Center in Bars tow, California A few miles to the northeast in the colorful Calico mountains was the ghost town of Calico, site of several prosperous silver mines in the late Nineteenth Century. Like any other eager tourists, we visited the place several times while living and working in Barstow, on the high desert, but we could never get a satisfactory answer from anyone as to why the mines closed down; for apparently plenty of silver is still there in the ground for the taking. Several years later, in reading Chapter VII of John Elsom’s book, we found the answer and here it is. Hope you enjoy it!

Silver Demonetized. During the period in which the bankers, by the powers given them by the National Banking Act of 1.863, were collapsing the currency of the Nation from $54.46 per capita down to $14.60, they were scheming another method whereby the people could be further impoverished and the bankers’ control strengthened.

In 1816, in England, the Rothschilds had succeeded in having silver demonetized as a base upon which currency could be issued. Gold was made the only base for the issuance of paper money. They and their stooges in America decided, in 1872, to have silver demonetized in the United States. This was desirable to the Rothschilds because England had very little silver, but much gold, while America had much silver and very little gold. The bankers on both sides of the Atlantic knew that so long as currency was based on silver in America they could not obtain absolute control of the money system in this Nation. [And silver money does not pay interest to the bankers! RHC.]

They laid their plans in a most subtle manner. They sent paid emissaries to America with vast amounts of money with which to bribe the right persons in Congress. In 1873 a harmless looking Bill, entitled “A Bill to Reform Coinage and Mint Laws” was introduced. It was a voluminous document. Much verbiage concealed the meaning of its contents. The title itself, as intended, was most misleading.

The Bill was sponsored by Senator John Sherman, who — you will remember — figured in a banker’s letter in the preceding chapter, and by Congressman Samuel Hooper, According to the Congressional Record, Senator Sherman said:

“I rise for the purpose of moving the Senate to proceed to the consideration of the Mint Bill. I. will state that this Bill will probably not consume any more time than it takes to read it. It passed the Senate two years ago, after a full debate. It was taken up in the present House and passed there. It is a matter of vital interest to the government, and I am informed it should pass promptly.”

After a short debate, in which Sherman assured the Representatives that the Bill only affected the manner in which silver should be coined in the government mint, it was passed without a dissenting vote. It was not until three years later that the full import of the bill was realized. It proved to be a camouflaged bill to demonetize silver so that the currency in the Nation could be further contracted — and the bankers gain more complete control of our money system. It was, perhaps, the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on Americans, the far reaching results of which we will consider shortly.

General Grant, who, as President, signed the Bill, stated, after the fraud had been discovered, that he had signed the document without reading it on the representation that it was merely a bill to reform coinage and mint laws, and had no intimation that it demonetized silver. According to the Congressional Record, none but the members of the Committee which introduced the Bill understood its meaning.

To what power, or influence, was the Committee subjected that those composing it should become traitors to the high office they held and to the people whom they represented?

Ernest Seyd — a supposed authority on the coining of money, and a representative of the Bank of England — was sent by that Bank (to America) in the winter of 1872-73, with 100,000 pounds sterling in his pocket. He had the authority to draw on the Bank for as much more as was required to accomplish the Bank’s objective. He was invited to sit with the Committee and to offer his assistance in the drafting of the Bill “To Reform Coinage and Mint Laws”.

According to his own statement, made to his friend, Mr. Frederick A. Luckenbach, of Denver, Colorado — who under oath has given us the story — he said: “I saw the Committee of the House and Senate and paid the money and stayed in America until I knew the measure was safe.”

Congressman Samuel Hooper, when introducing the Bill in the House on April 9, 1872, stated: “Mr. Ernest Seyd, of London, a distinguished writer, who has given great attention to the subject of mints and coinage, after examining the first draft of the Bill, furnished many valuable suggestions which have been incorporated in the Bill.” (Congressional Globe, April 9, 1872.)

Thus we see that this representative of Rothschild’s Bank -the Bank of England — Mr. Ernest Seyd, did not only supply the cash motive for this Nation’s representatives to sell the Nation down the river, but he also furnished a liberal portion of craftiness while the Bill was being drafted. To even the casual observer it is quite obvious that the banking institutions of America are but subsidiary branches of the notorious Bank of England and that the combined unscrupulous, unpatriotic and undemocratic banking fraternity, operating as they do — outside and above the law — are masters of industry, trade and commerce, and lords of the universe.

SATAN’S FALLEN ANGELS AT WORK

When the people’s representatives got around to reading the enacted Bill to Reform Coinage and Mint Laws, they found that the “Crime of 1873″ had been committed. Silver had been demonetized in America — and with what tragic results! It was not until 1878 that the bankers had the nerve to show their hand by beginning to exercise their privileges under the Act — the destruction of money — but when they began, they prosecuted their maniacal job with Satanic zeal.

In 1878 the per capita currency in circulation was withdrawn and destroyed from $14.60 down to $11.23. This resulted in 10,478 business failures and multitudinous property foreclosures. In 1879 the issuance of coin by Congress brought the circulating medium up to $12.65, which reduced failures from the preceding year to 6,658. But in 1882 the hideous program of bringing the Nation to its knees so it could be delivered into the hands of the money creating, interest-taking, mortgage-foreclosing Shylocks was renewed and prosecuted with fiendish determination and skill.

During the next five years (1882-1887), the per capita money in circulation was reduced from a meagre $12.65 to $6.67. During the 14 years in which money was being destroyed under the Bill “To Reform Coinage and Mint Laws”, (1878-1892), there were no fewer than 148,703 business failures in the Nation — an average of 9, 986 annually, with the resultant profits to the Bankers, through the acquiring of those properties, together with a proportionately greater number of farms and homes. [Now we can see how and why English "investments" in America had reached the staggering total of over $2* billion by World War II, picked up cheap by foreclosures and banker-created depressions since 1872. And all of these ill-gotten gains were blown away in the mortal struggle to save England from capture by the Germans. RHC.]

Although business was ham-strung by the shortage of money, high interest rates and high taxes, and although unemployment was general, with the wages of the few who worked extremely low and hours long, the avaricious money masters were not yet satisfied. Their object then was the same as now — the absolute control of the Nation, On March 11, 1893, the American Bankers Association issued its famous (or infamous) panic, circular of 1893. It was addressed to all bankers and read as follows:

“Dear Sir: The interest of the National Banks requires immediate financial legislation by Congress. Silver certificates and Treasury notes must be retired, and National Bank notes upon a gold basis made the only money. This will require the authorization of-new bonds in the’ amount of $500,000,000 to $1,000,000,000, as the basis of circulation. You will at once retire one-third of your circulation and call one-half your loans. Be careful to create, a money stringency among your, patrons– especially among influential business men. The life of the National Banks, as fixed and safe investments, depends upon immediate action as there is an increasing sentiment in favor of government legal tender notes and silver coinage.”

The command was obeyed immediately and implicitly. Loans were called. The ordered money stringency was created, and the “Panic of 1893″ was on The great Commoner and Statesman, William Jennings Bryan, fought desperately for the free coinage of silver at a ratio of sixteen ounces of silver to one of gold — but the people, under the influence of their bankers (who they foolishly did not suspect of treason), refused to be enlightened on the money racket. His was a voice “crying in the wilderness”, and he was crucified on a cross of gold. From Judge P.E. Gardner’s book, “Our Money System” — which contains a wealth of valuable information -I quote the following:

“The money trust knows no God but Mammon. It declares allegiance to no country. It cages not who are elected to office so long as it creates the money and regulates the value thereof.”

“Harmful Telluric Radiations” by F. Dudley Haskell, Founder of the American Society of Radiesthesia, was originally printed in the BSRA Round Robin (April – May 1948, Volume IV, No. 4): This article is included here as part of a “Round Robin” classic series, presenting random pulls from the archives and the best offerings of the BSRA from 1945 into the 1970s!

Doctors, scientists, and laymen in western Europe who are radiesthesists, and there are thousands of them, have discovered that there are narrow bands of radiations issuing from the earth that have a dangerously harmful influence on all living organisms, including plant life.

They have investigated thousands of cases of cancer, and have found that in every instance the persons suffering from cancer, or who had died of cancer, had been living over these radiations – which, they believe, cause a disequilibrium of the cells of the body.

Though it is thought that one must be predisposed to cancer for these radiations to initiate it, they claim that everyone will stiffer in one way or another (have one disease or another) by a prolonged stay over them, such as sleeping over them or sitting over them every day for several hours. There are even cases of madness attributed to these radiations. Doctors, such as Dr. Alfred Roux, of Vichy, France, who give a treatment that is perfectly suited to patients (a treatment selected by radiesthesic syntonization) and who find that their patients do not improve, have discovered that in every case the patient’s bed was over telluric radiations. They then have them move their beds, or move to another room, and have noted that only then do the patients begin to respond to the same treatment.

There are numerous cases of houses that are known locally in Europe as “cancer houses”, because all families that live in them develop cancer – and radiesthesists have discovered that in every such case the house was over strong telluric radiations. In a talk about this before doctors in London, Dr. Oscar Brunler mentioned a house in Berkeley Square in which 38 persons had died of cancer in a period of ten years.

Such radiations are so powerful that they have been detected in airplanes at an altitude of over 16,000 feet.

These bands of radiations are not imaginary. A number of modern scientific laboratory devices for the detection of faint currents, called milliampere-meters, when placed over these radiations, show immediately that they exist. And if such an instrument is moved only a few inches to one side or the other of such a band of radiations, it ceases to give any indications. Another physical proof is to place a vase of male ferns over one of these radiations, and a similar vase of ferns to one side. ‘Within 24 hours the ferns over the radiation’s will be shriveled up and will not have consumed any water, where those in the other vase will be flourishing and will have consumed a great deal of water.

Animals respond to these radiations. A dog will not remain over them, but a cat seeks them out and thrives over them. Ants seem to require them, and if harmful telluric radiations are removed from an ant-hill, the ants will all migrate to another band of radiations and settle there. Almost every book on Radiesthesia mentions them and every radiesthesist is aware of them, but there is no general agreement about what they are. The most general belief is that they come from geological faults – cracks in the earth that occurred ages ago during great upheavals.

Two explanations are given: 1) that water finds these cracks or faults a convenient path, and the friction of the water may send up the radiations. Also, since such cracks permit surface waters to trickle down, the water is polluted, and it is believed that any stream of polluted water (even a sewer) emits dangerous radiations. 2) that electricity is always flowing through the earth, and when it meets a geological fault and cannot flow on normally (because the strata have shifted and-the normal positive and negative polarities no longer face each other, possibly), the electricity builds up a potential great enough to jump or even explode across the fault, and this constant high potential sends up a radiation.

Monsieur Georges Lakhovsky believed that these bands of harmful radiations were caused by cosmic rays (and he listed many more than science of today has accepted) meeting various types of soil. If they strike a soil that is permeable to them, they are absorbed; but when they meet a soil that is refractory to them they are reflected upward. He has developed this theory in several of his books, but more particularly in his “Contribution a 1′Etiologie du Cancer”, illustrated with maps which show the relationships of types of soil to the density of cancer cases. Dr. Oscar Brunler, having made a serious study of telluric radiations, also believes that there are regions where cancer incidence is greater, as well as houses over bands of radiations.

Besides the studies of numerous French doctors and scientists – too numerous to mention here by name – Dr. Gotsche, Baron von Pohl, and Professor Ugo Bach called attention to these dangerous telluric radiations. Some claim that the radiations are radioactive; Dr. Brunler believes they are composed of Beta rays, 10%, and Gamma rays 90%. A French engineer, M. Cody, found they were 7,722 times more powerful than the radiations of black oxide of uranium. A professor of the faculty of science of Dijon (France) believes they are radon. But in every case they correspond to the negative green radiation of light, which destroys living organisms – and which can be found massively in the so-called King’s Chamber of the pyramid of Cheops. (Dr. Brunler says that this chamber was the initiation room, and that these radiations had the effect of separating or loosening the etheric body from the physical body.)

Our limited space prevents us from giving dozens of names and citing the many facts concerning these harmful radiations – for they would fill volumes. Among the various authors, about 20 different methods of eliminating these radiations from a room or home have been mentioned, all requiring a fair knowledge of radiesthesia. A very small minority of radiesthesists believe that they cannot be eliminated, but this is undoubtedly due to faulty radiesthesic technique.

The radiations may be detected on a map or a drawing, or even a sketch of a room or home. This month’s Bulletin of the American Society of Radiesthesia tells its members how to detect and eliminate them, and offers to have it done on a fee basis by a competent radiesthesist for those who feel unable to do it themselves.

In general, serious radiesthesists believe that the day will come when people will know enough to eliminate these radiations from all buildings, and believe that the mortality rate from cancer will then be reduced to an insignificant level. It is a tragic fact that these radiations exist in hospitals, and a patient lying over them, it is claimed, cannot get better – and it would be so easy to eliminate them:

If radiesthesia could do nothing more than this, it would be to everyone’s advantage to take up the study, and be able to protect themselves and their loved ones from needless suffering.