Q. How do the Gods differ from the Elementals?
A. On the structural level, a
God is simply an adult Elemental, a
huge colony of astral souls that lives in deep space and absorbs the
astral energy radiated by certain stars.
The desire to fore a composite entity is programmed into the astral
template of every human soul. This is a major reason why so many
living people desire wealth, fame, political power, and other
symbols of having control over others that simulate being the
guiding force of a composite entity.
The ambitious earthly
politician, the aspiring despot, the "Man Who Would Be King," is
just acting behaving in the physical world as his astral soul is
programmed to behave in the afterlife.
Disembodied astral souls do the same thing when they become
Theocrats. Readers have asked why Theocratic spirits would want to
remain on the astral plane indefinitely if they must feed on other
human souls.
This is the answer. Almost every human culture has produced some
version of the saying, "A man is a God in embryo," and it's true.
However, the astral template also can program the soul to act as a
sovereign individual, which is why there are free spirits as well as
Theocrats.
The extension of this influence to living people creates
the desire for freedom and individuality on Earth as well.
Q. This dichotomy is a partial answer to the age-old "problem of
evil." However, you are implying that both the desire for
individuality and the desire to form a composite entity are just
natural biological drives, too fundamental to be judged by terms
like good and evil.
A. This is why human beings have a characteristic similar to
neoteny.
Elementals are the adult form, but without a truly
intelligent composite soul: they are more like animals than people.
Gods are also the adult form, but have a highly developed composite
mind. The civilizations you call "space people" are made up of
individuals that reject the adult form.
A long time ago, the people on a particular planet developed
sufficient technology to allow them to flee into deep space before
adult Elementals developed and depopulated their world. After the
Elementals had matured and departed, the people returned to their
planet, whose biosphere was badly damaged, and lived in space
colonies circling the world.
By the time the planet again became fit
for human habitation, they had no desire to return. They had become
fully adjusted to life in their self-created environment, and their
knowledge and technology had reached an extremely high level.
Since the population of their space colonies was low, they were able
to prevent the cycle of Theocracy from re-establishing itself, but
their society eventually found itself threatened with extinction
through sheer stagnation. After a certain number of incarnations in
a stable, "perfect" society, people became suicidal.
Large numbers
volunteered to be teleported as disembodied spirits to far-away
planets in order to create life or guide the evolution of existing
life towards the development of intelligence.
New souls replaced those who departed on suicidal missions of
creation, but this didn't stop the over-all stagnation of the
culture: the generations who underwent their evolution in a
civilized environment with little real challenge became suicidal
through boredom even more quickly than those who had evolved
struggling to survive.
Eventually, they tried to figure out a way to
balance life between danger and security, to create a dynamic cycle
that would allow advanced human cultures to survive indefinitely.
They forced some of their people to recolonize their planet under
the most primitive of conditions, letting the natural evolution of
human society occur there. They allowed the advance of technology to
cause a population explosion, and didn't interfere when Elementals
started to develop.
However, they manipulated the development of the planet's
civilization much as we are doing on Earth today.
Their purpose was
to interfere with the natural human lifecycle in a way that would
allow sovereign individual humans to live in peace with Elementals,
so that both could realize their full positive potential and
eliminate the negative aspects of the individual/composite
dichotomy.
The result was the creation of the first true Gods.
When the planetary population reached the saturation point, and a
mass die-off of souls at a low stage of spiritual development
allowed Elementals to grow to maturity, the advanced civilization on
the space colonies in the vicinity of the planet managed to tame or
capture some of these vast spiritual creatures, and tried to turn
them into civilized people instead of wild animals.
Elementals have
the potential to be Gods, but they don't realize it unless raised by
their peers.
Elementals don't have peers in the natural cycle of their evolution
because they are the composite form of another race. We individual
humans are their parents as well as their children, but we also have
a destiny of our own which conflicts with theirs.
This is why the space people interfere with this natural cycle of
human evolution. They raise Elementals to be fully human and
civilized by teaching them to accept a symbiotic relationship with
individual humans.
Remember, an Elemental is similar in structure to
a Theocratic band, and it has a place in its astral body for
individual humans to attach to it.
In a primitive, animalistic Elemental, these attachment points
remain empty when the creature reaches maturity. To produce a God,
human astral souls attach themselves to these points as the
Elemental is growing and try to control it.
If it overcomes them and
remains an animal, then it may have to be killed. If the spirits win
and tame the Elemental, it becomes a God.
A God allows human spirits at an advanced state of development to
attach themselves to it and travel with it when it leaves its planet
of origin and travels into deep space. These spirits are mentioned
in Earth mythologies as "the sons of the Gods," "Elohim," and by
many other names.
Once the young God becomes fully conscious, they
stop controlling the God, and it stops trying to control them. Both
cooperate for mutual benefit.
As the Gods travel through the universe, the Elohim who ride on them
can visit planets and create life there, or guide the evolution of
existing life, without having to die in the process as the original
Missionary Spirits did.
The God cannot approach the gravitational
field of a planet very closely, but the Elohim can do so and return,
using psychic technology that the God creates within itself. Another
thing the Elohim do before they leave a planet is to create an
elaborate and self-sustaining network of astral machines, which
remains there for future use.
Much of what the Invisible College is doing on your planet right now
makes use of such machines, which were left on Earth's astral plane
by the Elohim when one of the Gods seeded your planet in the remote
past.
It might have been hundreds of thousands of years ago, or
millions of years. The devices are constructed of organic astral
matter. They are machines, but they are also alive as plants are
alive. This is why they were able to survive for unimaginable
periods of time.
The equipment is capable of defending itself from
Theocrats and all but the largest Elementals, and of sustaining
itself indefinitely. It possesses an artificial intelligence like a
computer, but does not have true volition or creativity.
It repairs
itself but it does not reproduce or evolve.
Q. Do the Elohim and Gods return to a planet when it reaches the
"Last Days" and new Gods are about to be born? Most Earth
mythologies imply this.
A. No. The Gods normally visit a planet only once. After that, they
can call to their children when they are ready. The Elohim can
return to a planet, using the same type of teleportation equipment
that we use. Many of the spirits in the Invisible College are in
fact Elohim.
Q. Are Elohim and
space people different races, or the same?
A. We both belong to the same race or species in a genetic sense,
because our astral souls are capable of incarnating in the same
types of bodies.
There is not a single race of space people or a
single race of Elohim, though: there are actually several of each
that we are in contact with. Your occult literature has used the
word "Elohim" to refer to the beings we're talking about for many
centuries, just as it has called space people angels.
In general, the difference between the
space people and the Elohim
is simply that those who live in space value physical technology and
life in a physical body more than the Elohim do.
Space people
normally incarnate immediately after death, though they can function
quite well in the disembodied state if there is reason to do so.
The
space people possess a high level of psychic technology, much of it
learned from their friends among the Elohim people, but rely on it
less to meet their total needs than they rely on physical
technology.
The Elohim have cultures that reverse the patterns described above.
They incarnate in bodies only for specialized reasons, such as
coming to Earth to assist with the birth of new Gods. By choice,
they spend most of their time in the disembodied state, traveling
the universe with the Gods, or living in the astral planes of
advanced societies like and unlike ours.
Some cultures of space
people have a very strong relationship with the Elohim, and others
do not, the ones who do often live with a lower level of physical
technology than those who do not: for example, they live on the
surface of planets rather than in space stations, and would rather
use biologically-engineered plants and animals than machines of
metal or plastic.
They, like the Elohim themselves, make more
extensive use of machines constructed of living astral matter then
we ordinary space people do.
Another major difference between space people and the Elohim is
equally difficult to describe. It has to do with group minds and the
relationships between individuals within the society. The Elohim
like to link their astral souls together using methods that are
superficially similar to the way spirits are linked together in
Theocratic bands on Earth.
However, the Elohim are civilized, moral
people, and would never control or exploit one another when they do
this.
Their group minds compare to Theocratic bands as sexual
intercourse between lovers compares to rape. We space people, on the
other hand, do not link our souls together in this fashion except
very briefly for specialized purposes, education, psychotherapy,
etc.
It should be pointed out that these differences between cultures are
matters of esthetics, not morality or level of evolution. Both
groups are good in the moral sense and highly advanced in the
evolutionary sense.
Of course, the cultural differences between the
two groups often create political friction arising out of
conflicting goals and values, but this can be beneficial and
stimulating to both sides if handled correctly on the social level.
An individual can change from one group to the other, as a person on
Earth might immigrate to another country and become naturalized.
Whole societies have made this change in the past on the collective
level, and adopted a new technology and culture.
Over the last six hundred years, both space people and Elohim have
been coming to Earth in ever-increasing numbers.
Many of your
greatest minds were directed by astral souls from advanced
extraterrestrial civilizations. And your whole modern Western
civilization is the creation of our political organization on Earth,
the Invisible College.
However, not all the space people on Earth are our agents. Theocracy
is not confined only to primitive planets. Even advanced societies
still have a minority of people with an insane lust for power, and
use planets like Earth as places of exile for them.
After spending a
few lifetimes here, either they will reject their Theocratic
tendencies, and become rehabilitated by joining the Invisible
College and assisting in the birth of the new Gods and an advanced
human civilization on Earth; or else they will be devoured by
elementals during the Last Days, as the new Gods are reaching
maturity.
Q. This confirms all these rumors I've heard about
Earth's being
used by other worlds as a hospital, or insane asylum. But doesn't
the presence here of people with Theocratic mentalities and advanced
extraterrestrial knowledge make survival and spiritual development
more difficult for the native Earth people? How do you justify this
ethically?
A. Most of the memories are removed from the exiles' minds before
they are sent here, so they don't have the same type of knowledge
that our regular agents have.
The majority of them have a vague
feeling of being alien to earthly society, but very few possess
conscious memories of life on other worlds, and they have no
technical knowledge at all.
However, they do possess high
intelligence and control over their psychic powers: these are
essential functions of the astral mind that we don't have the right
to tamper with.
Q. Science-fiction writers often assume that advanced societies
handle their crime problems by reprogramming people's minds to
rehabilitate them. Why don't you do this to your criminals instead
of sending them here?
A. We do employ such methods, but only on the less serious cases.
Every advanced society that's tried to eliminate all crime and
insanity from the population has ended up destroying itself. It's
impossible to program destructive tendencies out of the mind without
also eliminating good qualities like creativity. So exile is the
lesser evil.
And having a few extraterrestrial Theocrats here
doesn't affect the average Earth person at all: they're really no
different from your own native Theocrats, and there's no shortage of
those.
The presence of such people on Earth really has no over-all
effect on events here, especially since about half of the exiles
eventually rehabilitate themselves and fight on our side.
Q. My personal psychic experiences and my past-life memories tell me
that the exiled criminals and the agents sent here to direct the War
in Heaven are only a small minority among the extraterrestrial
spirits now incarnating on Earth? What kind of people are the rest?
A. There are two main groups:
Both come here to be in at the beginning
of a new civilization.
Q. Everything you've just described sounds like what has happened on
Earth during colonization of a new area. The American West was
settled by exactly the same groups: a cadre of professionals who
assisted the others, refugees fleeing poverty or oppression, young
people seeking opportunity, and a minority of criminals running from
the law. Australia is an even better example: it started as a penal
colony, and later attracted the other types of immigrants as well.
A. That is a very good analogy.
And the presence of large numbers of
typical colonist types here ought to make your readers feel better:
the voluntary immigrants wouldn't come here unless they believed
that their chances of surviving and prospering on Earth were
reasonably good.
Q. Just what are the risks? What are the best and worst things that
can happen on this planet, and what is your prediction of what will
actually happen?
A. On the positive side, psychic equipment for controlling the
development of the embryonic Elementals into Gods instead of
all-devouring monsters is functioning extremely well.
It seems to be
completely adequate for its job when the time canes. We also have
plenty of spirits trained to operate the equipment, and others to
work with the embryonic Gods, as well as Elohim to guide them home
when they are ready to leave the planet.
On the negative side, the Theocrats still have far more influence on
Earth than we'd like, considering your state of technological
development. We're not worried about the eventual outcome of the
battle with them.
The Invisible College is going to win, because we
now have much better access to psychic technology than the Theocrats
do.
However, unless the control of Theocratic spirits over your
technology can be broken fairly soon, the Earth's biosphere will be
seriously damaged before the Last Days.
It's going to be a near
thing.
Q. Are you referring to things like the destruction of the ozone
layer by organic halogen compounds, the greenhouse effect, etc.?
A. These are only two out of a long list of symptoms, and not even
the worst ones.
For example, some of your medical researchers are
becoming aware that
insecticides and other poisonous chemicals cause
mutations in bacteria and viruses that create new diseases, but they
have not yet realized just how great a potential danger this is.
Over fifty million years ago, the dinosaurs became extinct because
of diseases caused by chemical pollutants released by the impact of
large numbers of comets with the Earth during a visit of the Sun's
astronomical companion, the "Nemesis Star."
Q. What happens if the Earth becomes uninhabitable after the
majority of the population dies off during the Last Days and the new
Gods depart?
A. It may be possible to start an advanced civilization of
reasonable size on space colonies, as has happened on many other
worlds. This is the most probable outcome, the way things look right
now.
However, if there is large scale nuclear or biological warfare,
the Last Days may come so soon and be so short that this won't be
possible.
That's the worst-case scenario; and if it happens, we will
simply have to evacuate as many souls as possible to other worlds,
using the same psychic equipment that we use to control the
Elementals.
Q. Well, that sounds better than the prospect of universal death
that everyone on Earth would face if the extraterrestrial spirits
weren't here.
A. It is, but it still isn't a good situation.
Only astral souls
above a certain state of development can be teleported out of here.
Weaker souls would not survive the journey.
Now, all of the agents
and immigrants and even the rehabilitated exiles are strong enough
to survive the journey out as they survived the journey in, but many
Earth people aren't.
This means that many ordinary Earth people will
die under these conditions; but they will survive if this planet
continues to support physical human life, or if it's possible to
build space colonies in time.
Q. Knowing this, it's easy to see why you're pushing
the New Age
movement and the resurgence of occultism so hard. You want people to
strengthen their astral souls through practicing psychic development
techniques, because that increases their chances of survival, no
matter what happens.
A. Psychic development alone does not guarantee survival.
Theocracy
on Earth is now entering a fifth stage of development, which is
based on
electronic mind control instead of religious mind control,
and on belief systems with no obvious ties to organized religion.
Fifth-stage Theocracy can entrap living people into group entities
similar to Theocratic bands by linking their souls together with
ties of astral matter, and people capable of entering the psychic
trance are not as resistant to it as they are to the religious
stages of Theocracy.
The next chapter will discuss this fifth stage of Theocracy and some
of the measures that the Invisible College is taking to combat it.