FORWARD
This virtual copy of WiH is based on the Second Printing, issued in
the fall of 1990 by Spiritual Revolution Press. It was prepared from
a digital scan of the original, which was photocopied on 8-1/2 by 11
sheets and spiral bound, and is intended for free downloading by
anyone who is interested in the ideas it contains.
The RC "War in Heaven" Discussion Board contains a complete copy of
the book, with each chapter in a separate thread and each page as a
separate message. Members who have questions or comments about the
material in a particular chapter can post a message in that thread
and receive replies there from me and other members. And of course,
members who wish to conduct a more general discussion of the WiH
ideas, can create a new thread.
The RC "Reality Revolt" Discussion Board is intended as an archive
for all of my notes for the futurist book I'm now working on, which
has the working title of "Informationism: Revolutionizing Reality".
The "As Below/So Above" Board was started with a collection of my
working notes for a book of that title, intended as a sequel to War
in Heaven. And in addition, there is a "General" Discussion Board,
intended for discussions that represent both "radical left-wing
philosophy" and "thinking outside the box".
All of the message boards can be read just by going to the address
above, but only members can post messages. However, all four of the
Discussion Boards are intended for active discussions, and I try to
answer any message that's addressed to me as promptly as I can.
Kyle Griffith
August 29, 2006 |
War in Heaven introduces a completely new and revolutionary
conception of the nature of spiritual reality.
The material in it
was dictated to me by automatic writing, but WiH contains more
explicit, detailed spiritual information than most modern channeled
books and it is much more militant and controversial in tone. Some
readers of the pre-publication edition of War in Heaven were
disturbed or frightened by it, and a few attacked the book as evil
and satanic. However, a larger number of readers hailed it as a
major breakthrough in cosmological theory.
War in Heaven is not a typical New Age channeled book, and I am not
a typical New Ager, though I helped to found that movement in the
Sixties and Seventies. I was raised as a traditional occultist, and
my primary goal in life has always been to develop my skills as a
psychic and magician. However, I also possess past-life memories
that have caused me to develop into a very different kind of
occultist from my relatives who were Freemasons, Rosicrucians,
Spiritualists, or Theosophists.
I have been aware since 1946, when I was four years old, that my
soul was deliberately sent to this planet by an advanced
extra-terrestrial civilization to assist Earth people in dealing
with a major crisis in their spiritual evolution. For this reason,
I've studied UFOs and related subjects as seriously as I've studied
psychic and spiritual phenomena, and the relationship between the
two has always been obvious to me.
The same applies to conspiracy theories - I have known all my life
that unseen forces really do manipulate the course of human history,
and my response has not been fear or anger, but rather a desire to
help any of these agencies whose ethical and political goals seem
similar to mine. I've been a left-wing anarchist and a member of the
counterculture since the late Fifties, and I've grown more
politically and socially radical with age. In the late Sixties, my
spirit guides suggested that I call myself a Spiritual
Revolutionary, and I've been doing so ever since.
However, I didn't become fully conscious of what the term meant
until 1983, when I made a breakthrough in personal awareness about
spiritual reality.
In July of that year, after several years of
intensive magical and intellectual preparation, I asked my spirit
guides:
"Tell me the Great Secret, the theory that explains the true
nature of gods and human beings and the relationship between them."
The reply that I received by automatic writing didn't surprise me,
but I was absolutely astonished by it just the same. The spirits
seemed to be trying to dictate a completely new and revolutionary
cosmology: a view of spiritual reality with moral, social, and
political implications that most people would consider literally
unthinkable.
I eventually became able to record the messages in clear and
explicit English. It took me over five years, and thousands of hours
of grueling labor, to receive all the spirit-dictated information
for War in Heaven and write it into a book.
The review on the next
page will give you an idea of what WiH is about and why I am
advertising it as "The most controversial channeled book of the
century."
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REVIEW and COMMENT
Mike Rhyner review
Here is an excerpt from Mike Rhyner's review of War in Heaven in the
February 1989 issue of Critique:
"War in Heaven is based on messages channeled from a group of
extraterrestrial disembodied spirits who call themselves the
Invisible College. They say that your soul is nourished on psychic
energy generated during life, and when you ‘die,' it lives off the
energy stored up during embodiment. There are also spiritual beings
that the Invisible College calls the Theocrats, the ‘bad guys,' who
do not reincarnate but instead get the energy needed to sustain
their souls by sucking the energy from other souls: psychic
vampirism and spiritual cannibalism.
"The Theocrats are the creators of certain forms of organized
religion, which claim that you will have eternal life in Heaven when
you pass over. They create an illusion of this Heaven in your mind
by posing as gods, meanwhile giving you the after-death state that
you expect, whether it is a Heaven or Hell or an eternal orgy. For
instance, if you expect to go to ‘Rock ‘n' Roll Heaven' and worship
at the feet of Elvis Presley or Jimi Hendrix, they will create this
illusion for you. However, there are techniques you can use to avoid
Theocratic entanglement after death, which are described in War in
Heaven.
"Before I read War in Heaven, the more I studied various spiritual
systems, the more disillusioned I became. My main paths had been
Theosophy and its descendants, and the study of channeled messages
of all kinds, particularly those from ‘Ascended Masters' and ‘Space
Brothers'. Each book I read in these fields claimed to teach the
work of highly evolved beings, yet each contained glaring
contradictions of the others. Then I read War in Heaven and found
out why these contradictions occur - the authors don't have an
adequate theoretical frame of reference to correctly interpret the
messages they channel, even though much of the raw information is
perfectly valid.
"War in Heaven contains a revolutionary yet completely logical
cosmology which provides such a frame of reference, and has answered
questions that couldn't be answered by any other spiritual system
that I studied. Reading it did cause more questions to crop up in my
mind, but most of them are answered by the time I finished the book.
The author says that the purpose of
War in Heaven is to help readers
make a major ‘Breakthrough in Consciousness,' and after reading it,
I know what he means. It may well be the most important book ever
published."
Colin Wilson comment
The following is from a letter by Colin Wilson, dated 2/15/89:
"War in Heaven arrived while I was in California last year, and when
I got back, I had so many letters to write that I didn't have a
chance to read it properly. I have just done so and find it an
absolutely absorbing and fascinating piece of work. If I had
received it fifteen years ago, not long after I'd written The
Occult, I would have thought that it was all wildly imaginative. But
since then, I have learned a great deal more about this whole field
of the paranormal, and a lot of what you say seems to me to make a
great deal of sense. Anyway, very many thanks indeed for your
kindness in sending me this extraordinary piece of work."
Jay Kinney review
And here is an excerpt from a review by Jay Kinney that was included
in the Preface of the first printing of WiH in 1988. It originally
appeared in Gnosis #6, and was written about the pre-publication
edition of the book, which was circulated in 1987 under the title of
Spiritual Revolution, but it describes War in Heaven equally well.
"This self-published book is among the most fascinating, and most
troubling, books I've read in some time. It is fascinating because
it consists of channeled (i.e. automatically written) material that
is not only clear and pointed but also flies in the face almost all
other channeled teachings. And it's troubling because to take
Spiritual Revolution (SR) seriously entails entering into a
topsy-turvy worldview that most of us would normally consider to be
highly paranoid.
"Briefly put, the material in SR claims to emanate from a group of
disembodied spirits informally called the ‘Invisible College.' As
one might guess from its name, this group says it was the force
behind the development of groups such as the Freemasons and Rosicrucians. More surprising, however, is its claim to also have
influenced the rise of the civil rights movement, the spread of LSD,
the anti-war movement, and even rock'n'roll. So far so good: if this
were all, one could peg the ‘Invisible College' as the hippest bunch
of inner plane guides around, whispering bright ideas in the ears of
the unsuspecting. However, there's more.
"The group is apparently engaged in a ongoing struggle against
another powerful conglomeration of inner plane spirits it calls ‘the
Theocrats'. These types are apparently the ones behind most world
religions, and, in fact, hang around churches and other places of
worship soaking up the psychic energy that devout believers beam
their way in prayer. These fiends are fond of meeting the newly
deceased as they reach ‘the other side' and ushering them into an
illusory Heaven where their souls are gobbled up by the top
Theocrats. In other words, according to SR, spiritual traditions,
which teach love of God, and ultimately, union with the divine, are
really scams run by the inner plane Theocrats to rip off psychic
energy and souls. SR spells all this out in far more detail than I
have space for here.
"Considering that most channeled messages sound like their spirit
authors have been cribbing from each others' notes, SR's revelations
about a "War in Heaven" stand out as decidedly unique… Spiritual
Revolution is a startling book that makes one re-examine all of
one's spiritual assumptions… Considering that SR's thesis undercuts
the spiritual moorings of world civilization, there ought to be some
heated discussions to come."
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