CONTENTS
For January, 1960
THE
ROAD BACK .......................................................................................................... 2
Excerpts from A TRIP IN THE NIGHT ............................................................... 2
MORE FROM THE STARS ........................................................................................... 4
TOMATO THEORY EXPOUNDED HERE .................................................................. 6
MacARTHUR AND PEACE ......................................................................................... 7
SPACECRAFT DEPARTMENT ................................................................................... 12
POET'S CORNER .......................................................................................................... 15
BULLETIN BOARD ........................................................................................................ 16
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DANIEL W. FRY
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VOL. V JANUARY, 1960 NO
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EDITORIAL
The reception which was accorded President Eisenhower in
each of the countries which he visited during his recently completed tour was
both encouraging and enlightening. The enthusiasm with which his talks were
received indicated plainly that there is still time and opportunity for the
United States to regain much of the prestige, respect and friendship which it
has lost during the last ten years while our politicians labored under the
fallacious belief that it was possible to buy the respect and friendship of the
people of other countries with golden `handouts' delivered with a superior air
and a very obvious condescension.
Mr. Eisenhower has discovered and has just completed a
very successful demonstration of the one true path to international friendship
and international peace-the path of understanding by intimate personal contact
with the people as well as the governments of the various nations. This is, of
course, the exact path which we have been advocating in every issue of
UNDERSTANDING since its birth in Jan. 1956.
Now that the path has been `discovered,' let us hope that
it will be followed by many more of our politicians and our statesmen. There is
no statesman in this country who is so busy that he could not well afford to
spend thirty days visiting the countries and the people who may be affected by
the decisions which he must make.
A friendly visit and a few sincere and honest discussions
will buy more respect and friendship than any amount of gold. Especially when
gold has so many political strings attached.
Eisenhower has opened the door to international
understanding; let us hope that there will be much more traffic on this path in
the coming year.
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by John Wesley Root
We fail utterly sometimes to comprehend that our
surroundings are but a picture of our own painting, which we judge does not
always merit the highest award. Until we can paint a better picture through
self-expression-which is the self expressing the God within-then the
undesirable picture will have to do until the time our conscious awareness has
expanded to include the better.
Precious One, Divine Justice is not meted out by Divine
Beings from afar, because they do not, nay, WILL NOT judge. It is administered
by the Divine Self of God within our self, which, being Divine, is every bit as
divine as any other Being, or all other Beings, for there is no such things as
`grades' of Divinity. To be divine is just to be divine. There is no
divine-diviner-divinest.
The question immediately arises in your heart, `How about
the Ascended Masters and Cosmic Beings? Are they not more Divine than we?' No.
That would be impossible, and would disrupt entirely the Law of Being. They are
not more divine than we, they are only more AWARE of their Divinity.
Let us look at it in this manner. The water in the cup is,
just as much the quality of water as the whole ocean, or all the water on
earth. The light that flickers from a tiny candle is no less light than that
which shines from the greatest star or sun, or all the light in the Universe.
The one but expresses more light than the other, as the ocean expresses more
water than the cup.
The Self of God anchored in our hearts is just as much God
as any Great Being of our fancy, or of all the Great. Beings of whom you have
read or heard. So, we, our true selves, our Self of God, are just as divine as
the Great Divine Principle. No less. For we are that Principle in action; and
any grade or degree lies in our concept of it and exposes itself in the
expansion of our awareness of this knowledge-in our awareness of the TRUTH of
our being.
That which at the time may seem injustice to one, is only
a viewpoint of our own active expression in its relationship to Divine Justice.
When we see imperfection in person, place, condition or thing, we are
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meting out divine justice, not to the person, place,
condition or thing, but to our self. And we are saying in substance, Great Self
of God, which I AM, this is the best way of which I know to express YOU. This
is the judgment I render unto you.'
Know, Precious One, the friend or enemy, the thing, the
place, the condition that has seemingly come under judgment, is but our self
being revealed. God is All and in all. YOU are God. Then YOU are ALL and in
All. No less. And your neighbor or your brother is YOU, for there is but ONE
CONSCIOUSNESS. When we KNOW this, then we will know that all things that come
into our world are attracted there by the quality of our expanded
consciousness, and so all are GOOD because from them we may learn how to use
the gifts we now have, and the sense of proportion manifesting in our lives
will include seeing PERFECTION in all expressions, picturing to the inner
vision the IMAGE OF GOD hidden there.
Until we prove to ourselves that the Great God is within,
we will not KNOW, we will only believe, and our hearts will go on hungering to
express in a greater expanded consciousness. In reality, that great hungering
is the desire, the avenue through which is poured the very expansion we seek.
As we finally expand into the realization of this, as we surely will, and prove
it by the practical use of all we have, we will suddenly become aware that GOD
POWER, GOD WISDOM, GOD LOVE, in the expression of Divine Idea manifests through
US its Divine Justice as well-and we become just THAT.
Just to the extent that we recognize that we are of value
to LIFE, GOD-PRINCIPLE, only as we KNOW and FEEL God within us, will we see
Divine Justice working through us to our ultimate expansion (ascension) no matter
what our faults, tendencies or weaknesses may be. Then we will use these
THINGS, CONDITIONS and EXPERIENCES, which we criticize in others, and condemn
or excuse in ourselves, as stepping stones to greater expanded awareness in
really getting acquainted with, and knowing, the God within-our own true SELF.
As God is in us, and as God is in every other individual
that exists, and as all the wisdom and all the power and all the LOVE that all
ex press through all Life is within US, why not seek out that Self of God,
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the Omnipresent, the Omnipotent, the Omniscient, the
inspiring Idea back of all manifestation, and expand IT into every expression
of Self to the perfection of all. And finding that God Self-the Self of God and
discovering we are that Self, then we know we have Divine Justice at our finger
tips and can and do administer it DIVINELY, because of our inherent DIVINITY.
Then, and then alone, do we find that we are the Master we have for so long
desired to see and hear and to know, that by SELF application we have reached
the APEX of BEING, and become the conscious expressor of Perfect Divine Idea.
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Concerning all reformists, New Agers, and others
interested in the advancement of humanity. Be reminded and consider this fact.
This is Free Will riot to be transgressed by the Space People or any other. We
must do this ourselves, and that is this. All of our contactees have been
receiving ample inspirational works and information for many books. But what
else to help them? NOTHING, in the way of finances. There ate in our family
many people who disdain the word finances, their argument being that if it is
to be-it will be!
Every effort will be made by the McCaffrey Research Corp.
to aid and abet this so called "To Be." "God Helps Those Who
Help Themselves." The foundation of the McCaffrey Research Corp. rests on
this premise. Our "MUST," our job, our every effort must be to find
`Big' and `Not So Big' people who will go `all out' for TRUTH. This job must be
shared by every sincere truth seeker. This in reality means that.
every TRUTH SEEKER shall himself seek out people with means.
This effort on your part is the LIFE BLOOD of the McCaffrey Research Corp. WHY?
Because this is the ONLY organization in the entire field which specializes in
this kind of work. We are soliciting specialists-par excellence. We have the
time, the background, the inspiration. We have everything we need to do the job
RIGHT. We have plans to open offices in one hundred cities in the USA and other
foreign countries, BUT we can only operate with YOUR CO-OPERATION; you must do
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the preliminary work. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF
ALL.
Our Space Friends have made it plain that "Free Will'
must be applied and used regarding finances. It's up to us to make the effort. Incidentally
your director, Francis McCaffrey, need not concern himself with any of this effort.
He could take a slow boat to China and forget all about New Age work. But he is
one of the Chosen Ones-otherwise you would not be reading this. SO for the LOVE
OF HUMANITY send in names of people with means who are interested in anything
NEW AGE. You can be assured they will be given specialized attention. We have
built up an organization predicated upon the fact that in our country there are
literally thousands upon thousands of Truth Seekers in the TOP and MIDDLE
Classes just waiting to be SOLD on the TRUTH.. And Truth is our specialty and
we have the ways and means to sell it.
Talking about your director, Francis McCaffrey, while
taking 16 mm movies of a trick parachute jump of Mr. Swede Wing at Giant Rock
Spacecraft Convention, May 1958, a square freighter type spacecraft was
impressed on his film. Two other contactees Mr. Howard Menger and Mr. Dan Fry
were taking movies at the same time. Mr. Menger got a perfectly round type
spacecraft with celestial rays radiating downward covering completely the parachutist.
However our good friend Dan Fry got nothing on his film. Later on two L. A,
ministers gave affidavits that they too saw the square spacecraft AND the
mother ship which was just outside of the frame of the camera, and had given
off the celestial rays which had covered the entire scene. Proof that your
director has been selected for this job by the Space Brothers came later, when
he sent up a negative thought, which of course was picked up by them.
Immediately they took away the whole picture just leaving the parachute, and
just a fraction of a second before the camera was turned off. Later a contact
was made, "McCaffrey you're our boy, but we will have nothing to do with
you unless you stop these negative thoughts, and we have proven it," they
said. It is well known that these square craft are in our atmosphere, but very
few, if any, pictures have been taken of them, especially colored movies. A new
Belt and Howell Sound-o-film projector is used to show these movies to
prospective donors. Also a late model slide projector is used in conjunction
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with the movie projector. Our Corporation is equipped with
the latest and best promotion equipment on the market.
Instruction have been received that these movies are to be
shown only to prospective donors, and not to large groups. Perhaps the logic of
this lies in the fact that all other contactees specialize in large groups.
We make our last appeal to members of the `FAMILY.' Send
in your names of prospective donors. As of Jan. 20, 1960, they will! receive Federal Income Tax exemption.
And now a parting word of encouragement. REMEMBER THIS IN
ALL YOUR TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS. You, TOO, are ONE OF THE CHOSEN ONES,
OTHERWISE YOU WOULD NOT BE READING THIS. AND another item to bring to your
attention: The Occult Law says that YOU VOLUNTEERED FOR THIS JOB long before
you were born on this planet! THINK THIS ONE OVER. It helps tremendously.
Eternally, my best,
Francis McCaffrey
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(Pasadena Independent, Dec. 8, 1959)
Everything from foreign policy to space age education to
rotten tomatoes was discussed yesterday at the Institute of World Affairs here.
... Earlier in the day, Dr. A. R. Hibbs, acting chief of the division of the
space sciences at JPL, presented this theory
Imagine, he said, one rotten tomato being left on a planet
by space explorers. Then imagine the bacteria of the tomato multiplying and
mutating rapidly and soon adapting themselves to life on this new world.
And then, one billion years later, that life form will
probably produce a specimen capable of exploring neighboring planets.
On the basis of this assumption, Dr. Hibbs said, it is
possible that future spacemen will take with them to other planets carefully
prepared cultures of extremely hardy species which will give evolution a
billion year jump over the accidental start of a carelessly tossed bacteria.
Maybe life on earth began, the scientist speculated, when
visitors from outer space dropped by a million or so years ago and "before
they left, deposited their rotten tomatoes."
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Craft coming into
view. Bright spot is parachute.
Craft in full view. Parachute below
Craft disappearing
from view.
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ED. NOTE: When this speech was first printed in our
Vol. 1, No. 1 issue in January, 1956, several readers suggested that it should
be reprinted every year in order to keep its message alive in human
consciousness. We are reprinting it now because it seems that the message is
finally beginning to be understood and heeded.
“OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE"
That famous barrack room ballad apparently counts on us,
those old soldiers who have escaped the carnage of the battlefield, to find the
fountain of youth. And indeed, we might if we only understood what the poet
said, that youth is not entirely a time of life-it is a state of mind.
It is not wholly a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips or
supple knees. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor
of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life. It means a
temperamental pre-dominance of courage over timidity, of an appetite for
adventure over love of ease.
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People
grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to
give up interest wrinkles the soul.
Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair-these are
the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to
dust. Whatever your years, there is in every being's heart the love of wonder,
the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what
next, and the joy and the game of life. You are as young as your faith, as old
as yours doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young
as your hope, as old as your despair.
In the central place of every heart there is a recording
chamber; so long as it receives' messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage,
so long you are young. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered
with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only are
you grown old--and then, indeed, as the ballad says, you just fade away.
HISTORY OF MAN'S WARS
Many in this brilliant audience were my comrades-in-arms
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days of used-to-be. They have known war in all its horror
and, as veterans, hope against its recurrence. How, we ask ourselves, did such
an institution become so integrated with man's life and civilization? How has
it grown to be the most vital factor in our existence? It started in a modest
enough way as a sort of gladiatorial method of settling disputes between
conflicting tribes. One of the oldest and most classical examples is the
Biblical story of David and Goliath. Each of the two contesting groups selected
its champion. They fought, and based upon the outcome an agreement resulted.
Then, as time went on, small professional groups known as armies replaced the
individual champions. These groups fought in some obscure corner of the world,
and victory or defeat was accepted as the basis of an ensuing peace. From then
on, down through the ages, the constant record is an increase in the character
and strength of the forces with the rate of increase always accelerating. From
a small percentage of the populace it finally engulfed all. It is now the
nation in arms. Within the span of my own life I have witnessed this evolution.
At the turn of the century, when I entered the army, the target was one enemy
casualty at the end of a rifle or bayonet or sword. Then came the machine-gun
designed to kill by the dozen. After that, the heavy artillery raining death
upon the hundreds. Then the aerial bomb to strike by the thousands followed by
the atom explosion to reach the hundreds of thousands.
NOW DESTRUCTION IS IN MILLIONS
Now, electronics and other processes of science have
raised the destructive potential to encompass millions. With restless hands we
work feverishly in dark laboratories to find the means to destroy all with one
blow. But, this very triumph of scientific annihilation-this very success of
invention-has destroyed the possibility of war being a medium of practical
settlement of international differences. The enormous destruction to both sides
of closely matched opponents makes it impossible for the winner to translate it
into anything, but his own disaster.
The second World War, even with its now antiquated
armaments, clearly demonstrated that the victor had to bear in large part the
very injuries inflicted on his foe. Our own country spent billions of dollars
and untold energy to heal the wounds of Germany and Japan. War has
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become a Frankenstein to destroy both sides. No longer is
it the weapon of adventure whereby a short cut to international power and
wealth-a place in the sun-can be gained. If you lose, you are annihilated. If
you win, you stand only to lose. No longer does it possess the chance of the
winner of a duel-it contains rather the germs of double suicide. Science has
clearly outmoded it as a feasible arbitrator. .
The great question is-does this mean that war can now be
outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in
civilization since the Sermon on the Mount. It would lift at one stroke the
darkest shadow which has engulfed mankind from the beginning. It would not only
remove fear and bring security-it would not only create new moral and spiritual
values-it would produce an economic wave of prosperity that would raise the
world's standard of living beyond anything ever dreamed of by man. The hundreds
of billions of dollars now spent in mutual preparedness could conceivably
abolish poverty from the face of the globe.
WOULD REDUCE NATIONS' WOES
It would accomplish even more than this; it would at one
stroke reduce the international tensions that seem so insurmountable now to
matters of more probable solution. For instance, the complex problems of German
re-armament, of preventive war, of satellite dominance by major powers, of
universal military service, of unconscionable taxation, of nuclear development
for industry, of freer exchange of goods and people, of foreign aid and indeed,
of all issues involving the application of armed force. It would reduce
immeasurably the power of leaders of government and thus render more precarious
totalitarian or autocratic rule. The growing and dangerous control by an
individual over the masses-the socialistic and paternal trends resulting there
from is largely by virtue of his influence to induce war or to maintain peace.
Abolish this threat and the position of chief magistrate falls into a more
proper civic perspective. You will say at once that although the abolition of
war has been the dream of man for centuries, every proposition to that end has
been promptly discarded as impossible and fantastic. Every cynic, every
pessimist, every adventurer, every swashbuckler in the world has always
disclaimed its feasibility. But that was before the science of the past decade
made mass destruction a
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reality. The argument then was that human character has
never reached a theological development which would permit the application of
pure idealism. In the last two thousand years its rate of change has been
deplorably slow compared to that of the arts and sciences. But now the
tremendous and present evolution of nuclear and other potentials of destruction
has suddenly taken the problem away from its primary consideration as a moral
and spiritual question, and brought it abreast of scientific realism.
DECISION NOW IS BEFORE THE MASSES
It is no longer an ethical equation to be pondered solely
by learned philosophers and ecclesiastics, but a hard core one for the decision
of the masses, whose survival is the issue. This is as true of the Soviet side
of the world as the free side-as true behind the Iron Curtain as in front of
it. The ordinary people of the world, whether free or slave, are all in
agreement of this solution; and this perhaps is the only thing in the world
they do agree upon. But it is the most vital and determinate of all. The
leaders are the laggards. The disease of power seems to confuse and befuddle
them. They have not even approached the basic problem, much less evolved a
working formula to implement the public demand. They debate and turmoil over a
hundred issues they bring us to the verge of despair or raise our hopes to
Utopian heights over the corollary misunderstandings that stem from the threat
of war-but never in the chancelleries of the world or the halls of the. United
Nations is the real problem raised. Never do they dare to state the bald truth,
that the next great advance in the evolution of civilization cannot take place
until war is abolished. It may take another cataclysm of destruction to prove
to them this simple truth. But, strange as it may seem, it is known now by all
common men. It is the one issue upon which both sides can agree, for it is the
one issue upon which both sides will profit equally.
SELF INTEREST KEEPS TRUTH
It is now no longer convincing to argue, whether true or
not, that we cannot trust the other side-that one maverick can destroy the
herd. It would no longer be a matter depending upon trust-the self-interest of
each nation outlawing war would keep it true to itself. And there is no
influence so potent and powerful as self-interest.
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It would not necessarily require international inspection
of relative armaments-the public opinion of every part of the world would be
the great denominator which would ensure the issue-each nation would so profit
that it could not fail eventually to comply. This would not, of course, mean
the abandonment of all armed forces, but it would reduce them to the simpler
problems of internal order and international police. It would not mean Utopia
at one fell stroke, but it would mean that the great roadblock now existing to
development of the human race would have been cleared. The present tensions
with their threat of national annihilation are kept alive by two great
illusions.
The one, a complete belief on the part of the Soviet world
that the capitalist ;countries are preparing to attack them; that sooner or
later we intend to strike. And the other, a complete belief on the part of the
capitalistic, countries that the Soviets are preparing to attack us; that
sooner or later they intend to strike.
Both are wrong. Each side, so far as the masses are
concerned, is equally desirous of peace. For either side war with the other
would mean nothing but disaster. Both equally dread it. But the constant
acceleration of preparation may well, without specific intent, ultimately
produce a. spontaneous combustion.
WORLD LEADERS SHOW LACK
I am sure that every Pundit in the world, every cynic and
hypocrite, every paid brainwasher, every egotist, every troublemaker, and many
others of entirely different mould, will tell you with mockery and ridicule
that this can be only a dream-that it is but the vague imaginings of a
visionary. But, as David Lloyd George once said in the House of Commons at the
crises of the first World War, "We must go on or we will go, under."
And the great criticism we can make of the world leaders is their lack of a
plan which will enable us "to go on." All they propose merely
gravitates around but dares not face the real problem. They increase
preparedness by alliances, by distributing resources throughout the world, by
feverish activity in developing new and deadlier weapons, by applying
conscription in times of peace all of which is instantly matched by
the prospective opponent. We are told that this increases the chances of
peace-which is doubtful and increases the chances of victory if war comes-which
would be incontestable if
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the other side did not increase in like proportion.
Actually; the truth is that the relative strengths of the two change little
with the years. Action by one is promptly matched by reaction from the other.
We are told we must go on indefinitely as at present-some
say 50 years or more. With what at the end? None say there is no definite
objective. They but pass along to those that follow the search for a final
solution. And, at the end, the problem will be exactly the same as that which
we face now.
Must we live for generations under the killing punishment
of accelerating preparedness without an announced final purpose or, as an
alternative, suicidal war; and trifle in the meanwhile with corollary and
indeterminate theses-such as limitation of armament, restriction on the use of
nuclear power, adoption of new legal standards as propounded at Nuremberg-all
of which are but palliatives and all of which in varying form have been tried
in the past with negligible results?
DANGEROUS DOCTRINES
Dangerous doctrines too, appear-doctrines which might
result in actual defeat; such doctrines as limited war, of enemy sanctuary, of
failure to protect our fighting men when captured, of national subversive and
sabotage agencies, of substitute for victory on the battlefield-all in the name
of peace.
Peace, indeed, can be obtained at least temporarily by any
nation if it is prepared to yield its freedom principles.. But peace at any price
peace with appeasement peace which passes the dreadful finality to future
generations-is a peace of sham and shame which can end only in war or slavery.
I recall so vividly this problem when it faced the
Japanese in their new constitution. They are realists; and they are the only
ones that know by dread experience the fearful effects of mass annihilation.
They realize in their limited geographical area, caught up as a sort of
no-man's-land between two great ideologies, that to engage in another war,
whether on the winning or the losing side, would spell the probable doom of
their race. And their wise old prime minister, Shidehara, came to me and urged
that to save themselves they should abolish war as an international instrument.
When I agreed, he turned to me and said: "The world will laugh and mock us
as impractical visionaries;
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but a hundred years from now we will be called
prophets." Sooner, or later the world, if it is to survive, must reach
this decision. The only question is when? Must we fight again before we learn?
When will some great figure in power have sufficient imagination and moral
courage to translate this universal wish--which is rapidly becoming a universal
necessity-into actuality?
OLD METHODS NO LONGER SUFFICE
We are in a new era. The old methods and solutions no
longer suffice. We must have new thoughts, new ideas, new concepts, just as did
our venerated forefathers when they faced a new world. We must break out of the
straight jacket of the past.
There must always be one to lead, and we should be that
one. We should now proclaim our readiness to abolish war in concert with the
great powers of the world. The result would be magical.
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Cleve Twitchell, Reporting
SCRIPPS-HOWARD EDITOR PREDICTS LIFE IN SPACE
(Los Angeles Times, Dec. 11, 1959)
Louis B. Seltzer, one of America's most colorful and
creative editors, was in Los Angeles yesterday and at a Statler-Hilton press
conference discussed subjects ranging from tomorrow's newspapers to beings on
other planets.
The veteran newsman who became city editor of the
Cleveland Press when he was 19 and is now editor of the crusading
Scripps-Howard paper, scarcely finished the sixth grade.
Typical comments on some of the topics he was asked about What's
out in space?
"Personally, I think our space explorers will find
thinking beings much more advanced than we on some of the planets in this or
other galaxies. It seems to me monumentally egotistical to believe that of all
the billions of astral bodies, ours is the only one bearing intelligent
life."
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RED SPACE MEN LOSSES CLAIMED NUERNBERG
Germany, Dec. 14, 1959-A German space scientist says he
has heard that one Soviet astronaut disappeared when the Soviets tried to put
him into space, and believes others have vanished in similar attempts.
Prof. Hermann Oberth was commenting on reports distributed
by the Italian news agency Continentale that the Soviet Union had made four
futile attempts to get a human being into space.
"I know from American intelligence reports that one
attempt at the end of 1957 or beginning of 1958 failed," said the
66-year-old former member of the U. S. Army's missile program at Huntsville, Ala.
"I believe the Russians have made several other attempts."
( ... should there ever arrive an occasion when through
your own ignorance a craft containing an occupant of any life form is hurled
through space ... it would be our duty to remove the occupant of that
vehicle."- by Kla-La in the Solar Cross Foundation "Galaxy"
series.)
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SHINY, ROUND OBJECT SIGHTED
(Description of a sighting by Mrs. Lucille Watson of Morongo
Valley, Calif., submitted by F. R. Brooks.)
"About one o'clock in the afternoon, I had retired to
my bedroom for a rest on the bed. I looked out the window which swings outward,
and had a clear view of our Morongo Valley which is surrounded by mountains. I
had just lain down when looking out over the valley I saw my first space ship.
It was round in shape, very shiny and moving at a rapid rate, without any noise
whatever. And it was not very far away. If it had been a plane it would have
made a definite noise and vibration.
"Immediately I arose and went outside to see more of
it, but in the meantime it. had vanished from sight. The date was Oct. 6, 1959. I am somewhat crippled with rheumatism and cannot move very fast, or likely
I would have seen more of the ship from my porch.
"I have been reading books in regard to space craft,
and have been more or less conscious of their presence through others, but this
is the first one I have actually seen. It was a very exciting experience."
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VISUAL AND TELEPATHIC CONTACT OVER POMONA REPORTED
(The following report has been submitted by Dan and Doris
Buckley of Pomona, Calif. On Dec. 2, 1959, they and others slighted several
unusual objects in the sky over that city, located in the San Gabriel Valley
approximately 25 miles east of Pasadena.
As Mr. Buckley is a telepathic channel, a clarification
was requested the next day. Following is the reply received.)
"We are contacting you from 4000 miles above your
earth approximately 25 miles east of your location of Pomona. We are hovering
in space. I am impressing on this channel's third eye a picture of the ship. It
is somewhat different than those we have been using. The basic principle of
motivation is the same-magnetic attraction and repulsion combined with air
thermals in both your and our atmospheres. In free space it is the attraction
of the planet to which we: direct ourselves that provides the motive power.
There is a ship from another planet 124 miles north of us and at the same
altitude."
(Ed. Note: A check with a map of California shows that the
point 124 miles north of a point 25 miles east of Pomona falls in the, middle
of a large isolated area, but is quite close to a "U. S. Naval Ordnance
Test Station. In small letters is noted the following, "Roads in this area
are permanently closed.")
"We are experimenting in making a triangulation both
mentally and with instruments, electronic instruments, that will beam to a
station in your city of Pasadena. We have made contact there before. It is not
advocated as the novelty is too much for scientists to admit."
Question: Are you working with scientists in Pasadena?
"It is with students in the scientific department. We
are placing our faith in the youth of your earth. More and more are our existences
accepted by youth and the older people are becoming more accustomed. When it
will be safe for us to land among you, we will and allow many of your
scientific groups to examine our ships as well as very many of the ordinary
humans in your land...
"There is being formed above your earth planet a
vortex within a
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vortex whereby great magnetic attraction can be concentrated
on your earth. This vortex within a vortex will give greater protection against
such diseases as will be prevalent. We are energizing this as soon as it is
possible. We exist in space and time, but our time is measured differently than
is yours. This is the work of the combination of all planets that have living
entities upon them with the exception of Earth. They have not advanced far. enough
to join peacefully with us. It will be by means of these vortices that much of
the atomic fallout will be diffused. It is becoming more necessary for us to
use measures to defend ourselves, defend only-not create further chaos by
physical violence upon your persons.
"But there have been many near accidents by your
experiments and we still have to guide them. We have tried in various ways to
approach the leaders that you have but they will not accept a peaceful message,
feeling that it is merely the hoax of an unbalanced mind. They still will not
believe what will be self-evident, but it still will preserve our peaceful
existence. The optical illusion, also the auric illusion will be created so
that they can follow to their ultimate course the experiments that they feel
they are performing. They have arrived at the conclusion that they want and
nothing else will satisfy them. We will give them that conclusion until such a
time that your youth will arrive at their maturity and be able to take over in
peaceful ways."
♦ ♦ ♦
THE INFINITE
by Carlos David Leberman
Around about, above, within the soul of man,
pulses the power of the
infinite!
Eternally it beats upon the shoreline of his
consciousness (awaiting like an
anxious
guest) his recognition!
Eager (like the miracle of love) to be conceived
within his brain, his heart and
to be born
into his goings to
and fro upon the earth.
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The Song of Life is there!
its music to flow through things called wood
and wire-through pipes and
reeds
through golden finger-touch
across, a
harp of many strings.
Cosmic jewels of color sweep across the artist's
palette, as he visions upon a
canvass
-that which is to Be!
At eventide-a mother croons a Lullaby
because Eternal things are in
her heart!
THE INFINITE!
it speaks with the tongues of
angels
through the lips of master-men!
The power that is! turns the Potter's wheel,
moves his fingers as he moulds
the image
of his thinking pattern on the
clay.
New worlds are there! --
within the realm about us now!
New worlds from which to build
a new
world here! -(upon the
wreckage
of a scene disconsolate)
What is this Power? and why? and where?
what mysteries interweave this
void?
In silence comes the answer clear
from pale blue star to blazing
Sun.
Out of the vastness of the
Light
"From everlasting to
everlasting
THOU ART GOD"
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Vista, Unit No. 4 entertained Riley Crabb, director of
Borderland Sciences Research Associates and editor of "Round Robin,"
as its December speaker. Crabb lectured on "Contact with Flying
Saucers." The Vista Unit meets in the Woman's Clubhouse at 155 Park Ave.
in Vista. Monthly meetings are held normally on Saturday nights.
♦ ♦ ♦
ORANGE, Unit No. 7 is hosting Dr. Joseph Larson of Pasadena,
Calif., on Jan. 9. His talk: "Harmonizing and Cooperating with Our Space
Brothers."
♦ ♦ ♦
LONG BEACH, Unit No. 8 elected new officers during
December. They are: Rev. Elvira Rider, president; Lorne E. Pogue, vice
president; Mrs. Rena Strong treasurer; Mrs. Victoria Anderson, secretary; and Mrs.
Mary Thomas, librarian. The unit's January speaker is Clint Cary of Arcadia, Calif.,
lecturing on "My Physical Experience on Rillispore." A member of the
group-Maude Storms-is corresponding in Esperanto with several groups around the
world, including one in Amsterdam, Holland. She may be reached through
Understanding headquarters.
♦ ♦ ♦
SANTA CRUZ, Unit No. 9 heard a talk by Peace Pilgrim on
Dec. 4. The group hosts Orfeo Angelucci of Glendale, Calif., author of
"Secret of the Saucers" and "Son of the Sun," on Jan. 14.
♦ ♦ ♦
SAN FRANCISCO, Unit No. 11 recently increased its membership
by more than 150 per cent! San Francisco now has the third largest unit in
Understanding.
♦ ♦ ♦
BERKELEY, Unit No. 17 entertained James Velesquez of Santa
Ana, Calif., on Dec. 9 at Williams College. The speaker explained various
passages from the Bible. The Berkeley group meets for public lectures normally
on the second Wednesday of the month and for business meetings on the fourth
Wednesday.
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RIVERSIDE, Unit No. 22 recently submitted a detailed
report of all activities since its formation in May, 1959. Dan Fry presented
the group with its charter on May 2 and gave a lecture on "the Curve of
Development." He was followed by Calvin Girvin on June 14 and Ralph
Huffman on July 23. Girvin returned to give the second part of his experiences
on Aug. 3. An August 23 speaker was "Ric" Williamson on "Coming
World Changes." George King of London, England, addressed the group on
"What the Space People Expect of Us" during November.
♦ ♦ ♦
NEEDLES, Unit No. 24, being organized by Muriel Erlewine,
held its second meeting recently and heard a taped lecture by the Mitchell
Sisters.
♦ ♦ ♦
John O. McCoy, author of "They Shall Be Gathered
Together" and "Soarings of the Eagle" and co-author of
"UFO's Confidential," spent the latter part of December in Los Angeles
County, delivering several lectures on "Parapsychology-Frontier Science
of the Mind." Sponsored by Dan and Elma Fry, he spoke in El Monte on Dec.
19, West Covina on Dec. 21 and in Garden Grove Dec. 22.
♦ ♦ ♦
COMING LECTURES
Friday,
Jan. 29: Dr. Wallace Halsey, "Spacecraft, the Bible and You" 8 p.m. Santa Ana Community Center, 1104 W. 8th St., SANTA ANA, Calif.
Saturday,
Jan. 30: Dr. John Hopkins, Ph.D. (Northern vice president of
Understanding) "Flying Saucers and What They Mean to You" 8 p.m., Darby Park Auditorium, 3400 Arbor Vitae, INGLEWOOD.
Sunday,
Jan. 31: Dr. Hopkins, "Flying Saucers" 2 p.m., Science of Mind Church, 1164 N. Lake Ave., PASADENA.
♦ ♦ ♦
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