Chapter 24:

The Fifth Stage of Theocracy

Q. Please begin by explaining what the fifth stage of Theocracy is, and how it differs from the other stages.


A. The fifth stage of Theocracy employs electronic mind control instead of religious mind control, and it can enslave people who subscribe to belief systems other than those of organized religion.

 

The fifth-stage Theocrats have much stronger psychic powers than ordinary Theocrats, because they have access to psychic machines of the same type we use, and they are also able to control elementals to some extent.

 

This allows them to control people sufficiently advanced in personal psychic development to resist ordinary religious mind control, and to deceive people capable of recognizing that fourth-stage organized religion is a tool to enslave and exploit human beings.

 


Q. This seems to be another connection to the Shaver Mystery. When Shaver mentions the "Ray Mech of the Deros" he is referring to the psychic machines left in Earth's astral plane long ago by the Elohim. I find it extremely frightening that Theocratic spirits have access to this technology. Just how big a threat is this to your plans to liberate Earth from Theocracy?


A. On the purely technical level, it's not a serious threat.

 

The Elohim races who originally perfected the astral-matter technology are allies of ours and enemies of Theocracy. Their agents, and our agents who have received training directly from them, have much more complete knowledge of how to modify and use this equipment than any of the Theocratic spirits have.

 


Q. When you say "agents," do you mean living people or disembodied spirits?


A. The rumors that certain living people have advanced knowledge of psychic technology are untrue.

 

Only disembodied spirits who have never incarnated on Earth can have this knowledge - it's far too complex a set of astral memories to survive the incarnation process. Living Earth people do make use of this technology, but they are analogous to the users of a computer system, not to the technicians and system operators who actually run it.

 

And the use of this equipment by the Theocrats and the living people who work for them is directly analogous to what computer hackers do on Earth: they have direct control of only a limited amount of soft-ware, but they use it to make unauthorized use of the whole system.

 


Q. Since I made the breakthrough, I've noticed that much of the literature on operational magic resembles manuals for using computer systems. For example, those lists of "secret names" and "words of power" seem directly analogous to passwords for accessing computer files and commands for instructing the system to perform specific functions.

 

I also see a resemblance between "magical languages" like Enochian and computer languages. The same holds true of numerological and literological systems.

 

And many magical spells and incantations have a structural similarity to computer programs.


A. That's exactly what they are.

 

All those books that tell people how to work magic by controlling demons or other spiritual entities are quite literally manuals for using psychic technology. Our code name for the network of psychic machines left here by the Elohim has always been the "black network," which is the origin of the term "black magic."

 

It has nothing to with morality, but is strictly a technical term.

 


Q. I think this is an unfortunate choice of terminology, as is your identification throughout history of the forces fighting Theocracy with the devils of the various organized religions. Why do you do this?


A. We already explained why we identify ourselves with the spiritual adversaries of the gods of Theocratic religion: that's simply a matter of operational reality. We oppose the gods, therefore we are devils. No matter what terminology we use.

 

The Theocrats would say that we are morally evil and encourage people to sin, so we might as well follow our own custom. Of course, people should compare what we do with what the Theocrats do, and decide for themselves who is good and who is evil.


The use of the term "black magic" for psychic workings performed with the aid of psychic technology has a similar grounding in operational reality.

 

The energies radiated by astral-matter machines appear to be black in color when perceived with the psychic senses, whereas the energies radiated by human astral souls - including those of Theocrats - appear to be white or bright-colored. This has a physical cause related to the frequency of the radiant astral energies themselves: the former appear absorptive and the latter reflective.


All use of psychic technology radiates "black" energy and all use of people's own psychic powers radiates white energy, and this has absolutely no relationship to whether these energies are being used for good or evil purposes.

 

Theocratic propaganda long ago taught people to identify the concept of "black magic" with evil, because the Invisible College has always made more extensive use of it than the Theocrats.

 


Q. This is the first definition of "black" and "white" magic I've ever seen that makes sense. Please tell me more about fifth-stage Theocracy.


A. Fifth-stage Theocrats work through organized religion, but they are not tied to it as strongly as are Theocrats using more primitive methods. They are capable of turning almost any group of people into a Theocratic cult and any ideology into a Theocratic doctrine.

 

The spectacular corruption and exploitation of the People's Temple cult is an example of what they can do to a religious group; but the Symbionese Liberation Army affair - the kidnapping and conversion of Patty Hearst - is proof that they can work through a purely political group as well.

 

Right now, they are trying to turn many rock groups and their inner circles of fans into Theocratic cults, and they have also corrupted a number of occult and New Age groups. This ties in with what we said earlier about "living Theocrats."


The best example of how fifth-stage Theocracy operates and how we are fighting it involves subliminal warfare through the electronic media. This began in the Sixties, when many idealistic people in the counterculture tried to form new religious systems to replace Judeo-Christianity.

 

On the overt level, their attempts produced the New Age movement and the present revival of traditional occultism, but the process has had an even more important effect on Western society on a subliminal level.

 

A high percentage of the imaginative novels, movies, and television programs produced in the last twenty years contain hidden messages about the war between the Theocrats and the Invisible College; and popular music today is an even more effective tool for mind control than it was in the Sixties.

 

As soon as we started this subliminal warfare, the fifth-stage Theocrats began using it too, and both sides have been fighting desperately for control in this area all during the last twenty years.

 


Q. I very quickly noticed the magnitude of this warfare when I started doing research for a book on the role of popular music in the War in Heaven. Many of today's rock songs tell the same story, over and over again. It's like reading passages from the diary of someone gradually going mad in an old horror novel. Every new rock group starts out with a few normal protest or love songs.

 

Then they get swallowed by a group mind controlled by fifth-stage Theocrats, and from that point on all their songs sound as if they were written by the same person. However, this Theocratic subversion is often not complete, and periodically one of the groups still writes a song about the fight to liberate the human race from mind control.


A. A number of musicians who are also highly skilled magicians have set out to train and control some spiritual beings that they believe are young gods that can eventually oust all Theocrats and Invisible College spirits from the astral plane, leaving them in control of this brain-washed spirit and thereby the rest of the world.

 

Furthermore, they all believe that they will somehow merge with this creature and become gods themselves.

 


Q. This sounds identical to what you said in the last chapter about the Elohim and the birth of new gods, yet you seem to be taking a negative attitude towards it here.


A. The actual situation is extremely complicated.

 

Some of the people in this movement are working with Elohim, and their efforts will allow the elementals they are training to become gods. Such people are themselves Elohim-in-training. However, the majority of people who are involved with this are actually working with Theocratic spirits who lack both the morality and the technical knowledge to raise their elementals as true gods.

 

These elementals will cause a great deal of harm during the Last Days, and they will almost certainly devour all the spirits and living people linked to them.


These "false gods" are controlled through astral-matter machines belonging to Theocratic spirits. Some of these machines can generate immense quantities of psychic powers and allow magicians to do spectacular acts of magic, which convince them that they are truly on the way to becoming gods; but this is just another deception.

 

They are merely on the way to becoming Theocrats by imitating their methods and morals. The Theocrats treat the embryonic gods as domestic animals and use them for their own selfish purposes just as they use other human spirits, living people, and psychic machines.


The Theocrats are able to deceive many people who study the higher levels of Western occultism, because many famous magicians of the past are now Theocrats.

 

The best example of this deception is in the medieval alchemical mythology about the Homunculus, which was later picked up by the Golden Dawn and Crowleyites as the Magical Child theory. One element in this theory is the idea that properly trained human magicians can control gods or other spiritual beings much more powerful than they are if they know the proper spells and secret names.


Anyone who applies this concept and tries to gain control over theocratic spirits, elementals, or units of the astral psycho-technology, is entering on very dangerous ground. The Theocrats are quite willing to let magicians think they are controlling them, and will assist them in working all manner of magic using their various passwords.

 

However, the more the magicians use this system, the more mental reprogramming signals the Theocrats send back along the linkages being used. This reprogramming affects both the astral mind and the physical mind, and there is a grim irony in the phrase "You yourself are the instrument."

 

Anyone who collaborates with Theocratic spirits to do magical workings is putting his or her own astral and physical mind directly into the reprogramming circuitry.

 


Q. The medieval literature on alchemy and ceremonial magic is full of protective spells and charms that magicians are supposed to use to protect themselves from being affected or taken over by the gods, demons, or other spiritual beings they are supposedly enslaving to work for them. Are you saying that none of these protections work?


A. No, not if the magician is in contact with Theocratic spirits. And the closely related concept that magicians cannot be affected by the entities they contact to work black magic if they are "pure in heart" is equally false.

 

The Theocrats don't care if people are virtuous or not: their mind-control linkages will corrupt magicians slowly but surely.

 

There are many living magicians walking around right now who think exactly like Theocratic spirits. They think they are gods, they think they are immortal, they think they have the right to control other people and disembodied spiritual beings to do their bidding, and they drain psychic energy freely from others like psychic vampires.


Another mythological element the Theocrats use to deceive traditional Western magicians is the concept that the Atman or higher self of a human being is itself a god, and that if an organized group of magicians merges their higher selves, they can collectively create and control a new god capable of becoming a major force in the world of the living and of taking on an equal status with existing gods.

 

This whole mythos is based on the desire for power over other intelligent beings, which, of course, is one of the principal causes of Theocracy.


From our point of view, the entire mythology is completely false. It is based on a number of false assumptions about spiritual reality that you have already thoroughly debunked in this book. The key fallacy that underlies everything else concerns the so-called "higher self."

 

It exists, of course, but it's no more godlike than the lower self.

 

The higher self is nothing more than the astral soul with its astral mind and psychic powers. Becoming a magician is nothing more than putting the physical mind in conscious contact with the astral mind and using the psychic powers in the astral soul.

 

The medieval alchemists and cabalists developed excellent practical techniques for doing this, but their theoretical explanations of how it worked were completely wrong.

 


Q. How does the information you just gave relate to my experiences with modern rock music? For example, I sometimes seem to hear messages with my name in them. Is this how people get entrapped into Theocratic electronic mind-control networks? And what exactly are the messages - actual subliminals in the music itself, or telepathic messages that use the music as a focusing-device for my own psychic powers?


A. This form of electronic mind control is extremely powerful, and much more is expressed in electronic signals than an analysis of the surface message indicates.

 

Modern rock music is not just a melody and a lyric with a few specific subliminals added in such a way that they can be easily extracted.

 

If it were, then computer scientists on Earth could put songs in digital form, separate out the subliminals that had particular effects on people's minds, and actually write a sort of computer language out of them that could be used for simple kinds of mind control.

 

For this reason, both the Invisible College and the Theocrats deliberately keep the subliminals far too complex to be analyzed and cracked with present Earth computer technology.


Don't assume that the voices you hear on records speaking your name, or various other word patterns that you think are personal and unique to you, are proof that some living person or some disembodied spirit has the same verbal knowledge that you yourself possess. This simply isn't true.

 

The mental programs that human beings use to deal with language involve a lot of what you would call "computer enhancement of images" and also "high-level computer languages."

 

The actual subliminal sounds mixed into recorded music and broadcast on radio and television are more like a computer machine language than either an ordinary spoken Earth language or a high level computer language that resembles such a spoken language. They are not words or even phonemes in English, but patterns of sound that produce certain reactions within the speech-interpretation programs in the listener's mind.


For example, when you think you hear your name being called, the signal is probably not your name as an Earth person at all, nor your name where you came from, but a descriptive term in machine language that refers to a specific type of person. It's comparable to sending a narrow-band radio signal on a certain frequency: if anyone has a set tuned to exactly that frequency, he'll hear a signal.


Some of the Theocrats and many spirits in the Invisible College know what kind of people are here doing various jobs.

 

If they want to communicate with such people, they send a group of machine-language symbols that a mind of one exact type will receive, and no other. If you are that type, you will hear your name being called, or will otherwise be aware that someone has a message for you.

 

What you don't seem to be aware of is that only you or someone exactly like you can hear the signal if it is specific enough. Some of these call codes are more specific than others. Some can be heard by conscious extraterrestrial agents; others by all extraterrestrials, period; and some by everyone with a certain degree of psychic development.


Many of these subliminal messages have the same effect on the human mind, which on one level is computer software, as programming commands sent into a computer. In other words, receipt of a group of machine-language symbols by your mind causes a particular program to start running, if you are in the correct state of consciousness and if your mind possesses the program in the first place.

 

This is why the voices you hear in the music seem to be trying to recruit you to their side or to scare you off from interfering with their activities. Do not jump to the conclusion that the senders have conscious knowledge of who you are or what you are doing on the level of Earth-plane activity.


They know that many different people are doing research into electronic mind control, and that among them are undoubtedly some conscious extraterrestrial agents with the correct mental programs to understand messages of the type you are now receiving from us.

 

They also know how to send messages directly to you through music subliminals, because they know some of the mental programming, you have to do your job.

 

They are "on your wavelength" or "they know your language."

 

So, no matter who they are or which side they are on, they try to get you to join them or to keep you from interfering with them.


Another thing you have to realize is that these messages that you can now receive because you have the right programs loaded into your mind are not new. Many different groups of spirits and living magicians have been sending such messages for years. That hasn't changed; it is you who have changed.

 

You can now hear and see the messages, whereas a few months or years ago you couldn't. What you are receiving is quite real, but it isn't quite what you think it is either. You think that the messages are much more specific than they are. You think that they are aimed at you as a unique individual.

 

They aren't; they are aimed at a type of person doing a certain type of job and possessing certain kinds of mental software.

 


Q. You still haven't told how to distinguish subliminal sounds put into the music itself on the physical level from telepathic messages sent to people when they listen to the music.


A. A few modern records contain subliminal messages in ordinary English, but these aren't really important.

 

They are usually quite crude and easy to spot, and are little different from the ones you are familiar with from the Sixties, like the "Turn me on, dead man" back mask on that old Beatles record. The back masked sounds on many rock records have a much simpler explanation than you presently think. First of all, the vast majority of them are not put there for any deliberate effect, but just to make the sound richer and more complex.


Modern recording engineers have a whole library of natural and artificial sounds available to them when they work, and they have it all labeled by various nomenclature systems of their own. If they want a particular effect on a particular record, they usually know approximately what kind of item in their library is appropriate.

 

Then they listen to samples and pick one that seems right and insert it into the mix. But they almost never know what that sound was originally, nor do they care. The recording they hear is already backwards or otherwise mechanically distorted. It is not meaningful to them except for whether or not it fits the sound criteria they need for the job at hand.


Now, when you use your own sound-mixing equipment to distort this sound until it becomes meaningful and you can recognize its origin, you are usually doing something that the people who mixed the record did not even do themselves. The information you obtain by doing this is not a secret message sent by them.

 

The whole process is as fruitless as taking a book that is being used to prop a window open, and reading the contents to try to find out why the window was opened or who opened it.


The important subliminals in modern rock music are nothing as easily identifiable as English words.

 

Some of them are machine-language symbols that evoke particular words or phrases; when you receive these, you may think you are hearing words in sound, but an oscilloscope would not register the sane pattern as it would from the same words actually spoken.

 

In other words, you could "hear" the same group of words from two completely dissimilar oscilloscope-patterns of sound. Some of these machine-language groups are so basic and so powerful that a person who spoke a language like Chinese would still hear words with about the same meaning.

 

However, most of them would not even get through to another speaker of English unless the person also had the correct mental programming.

 


Q. Another thing I'm wondering about is "Raudive voices," named for a psychic researcher who postulated that disembodied spirits could impress their voices onto magnetic recording tape. I have received a large number of messages of this type during my music research. Are they really put there by spirits who psychokinetically manipulate the molecules in the tape, or is there another explanation?


A. The messages are not on the tapes, but in your mind.

 

What actually happens is that spirits perceive the pattern of static going onto the tape and key it to a telepathic message they're sending into your subconscious. You can consciously retrieve the message when you listen to the tape.

 

The proof is that sometimes more than one person will hear the same message on a particular tape, sometimes not. Also, if you listen to such a tape frequently, you can learn to retrieve the message without it.

 

Both the IC and the Theocrats use this method of communication frequently, on music tapes as well as tapes containing only static.

 


Q. The scope and effectiveness of the electronic mind-control techniques you have just described give the fifth-stage Theocrats much more power to control people than the religious Theocrats have ever had.

 

However, Western civilization still seems to be evolving towards the goals set by the Invisible College long ago:

  • an increase in individual sovereignty in all aspects of human life

  • a decrease of bigotry and closed-mindedness

  • a higher level of general knowledge and sophistication in both technological and social areas

I assume that this is why you remain optimistic about the future, but nevertheless, many of the people who commented on Spiritual Revolution expressed serious doubts about the future of the human race on Earth.

 

They believe that nuclear war, biological warfare, or destruction of the Earth's biosphere through pollution will prevent an advanced civilization from developing on this planet, no matter what the Invisible College is able to do.


A. We are still optimistic, but these fears are quite rational and deserve to be discussed in more detail.

 

Our wars with the Theocrats over the centuries have always involved battles over the evolution of physical technology, as well as the programming of individual mental software and the design of social institutions. During the last few decades, this technology war has become one of the most important aspects of the whole struggle.
 

We've already described two major aspects of this technological warfare in some detail: mind-altering drugs and the electronic media.

 

The next chapter will discuss other aspects that are just as important, but are not as easy to identify because they don't involve direct mind control. They are factors that operate behind the scenes, but they are going to play a principal part in determining the ultimate destiny of civilization on this planet.

 

If the Invisible College retains control of these factors, Earth will eventually take its place among the advanced human civilizations.

 

If the Theocrats get control of them, then the physical planet Earth is doomed, and those of its inhabitants who survive will do so only as refugees on other worlds.

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