Alice Bailey’s teachings are still the fundamental philosophy of the New Age. Not only does ‘Tom’ of the Council of Nine recommend her books, but the underlying philosophy of Dr James Hurtak is, as we have shown, quite clearly derived from them. Given their popularity among hundreds of thousands - probably millions - of New Agers, surely this is profoundly worrying.
Another disturbing influence is the American William Dudley Pelley, who we mentioned more or less in passing in Chapter 5, but have now come to realise is much more important where the genesis of the stargate conspiracy is concerned. We referred only briefly to his 1950 Star Guests - now a very rare book - which was probably the first collection of channelled material from extraterrestrials ever published (he claimed it was based on material he had received in the late 1920s). Recently, however, we have managed to acquire a copy for ourselves, which certainly makes interesting reading. We were staggered to find that it brings the whole story round full circle, as it focuses not just on Sirius, but actually on Sirius B ... 37
According to Pelley, the human race is the product of the interbreeding between apemen and advanced extraterrestrial beings that migrated to Earth from the Sirius system. Linking this with ancient Egypt, he asserts that the union of ‘half-god, half-human progeny’ is symbolised by the Sphinx38 and that the hawk-headed gods represent the Sirians39 (shades of Puharich’s hawk-headed ‘Spectra’).
Pelley’s channelled sources told him that the human race is now composed of the descendants of the Sirian/Earth interbreeding (who he calls the ‘beast-progeny of the ape-mothers of long ago’40 or the ‘indigenous biologic earth-forms’41) and the reincarnated spirits of the original Sirian migrants. But along the way something went wrong and the descendants of the hybrids became corrupt, so the intelligences that rule the universe sent messengers — of which Jesus was one - to ‘repair’ the damage.42 This is strikingly similar to Hurtak’s concept of a failure in the genetic programme that needs to be repaired. In Pelley’s teaching everything is building up to the Second Coming with the advent of the Age of Aquarius.43
All the major elements of the doctrine underlying the stargate conspiracy - elaborated in the later Council of Nine material - were present in Pelley’s seminal book. This is unlikely to be a coincidence. In fact, the circle of the ‘psychic contactees’ of the early 1950s was very closely knit: for example, the ubiquitous godfather of alleged extraterrestrial channelling, Dr Andrija Puharich, knew the alien contactee and UFO writer George Hunt Williamson (real name Michel d’Obrenovic). Williamson worked for Pelley’s white supremacist magazine Valor in the early 1950s, and continued to write favourably about Puharich’s work with the Nine until the late 1970s. Puharich must have been aware of Pelley’s book, especially as he was keenly interested in communication with non-human entities.
However, we believe that the most significant aspect of William Dudley Pelley’s influence was his politics. As we have seen, he founded a white supremacist magazine entitled Valor, and was an unrepentant admirer of Hitler and founder of the fascist Silver Shirts of America. He was actually interned as a security threat during the Second World War.
What are the implications of this for his alleged channelled communications? It could be that his ideology drove his unconscious mind to fabricate them, but on the other hand, if they are genuine, one has to ask why these entities chose to make contact with a Fascist...
Increasingly, we have become aware of the darkly disturbing elements of this story — the apparently racist undercurrents in some of the teachings of the Nine. We noted with some satisfaction that the first of the BBC Horizon programmes made the point that the Nazis’ belief system included a belief in Atlantis and lost superior races. While we agree, of course this is not to say that anyone with an interest in the idea of Atlantis or lost civilisations is a closet Nazi. The point is that such beliefs can be dangerous because - with all their talk of superior races - they inevitably smack of the Master Race, eugenics and all the dire logic that leads to the gas chambers and the death of the soul of mankind. It is no accident that the Nazis themselves used the myth of Atlantis to justify the racial doctrines that led to the Final Solution.
No doubt most of those whose work and ideas are pressed into the service of the stargate conspiracy - such as Alternative Egyptologists, promoters of the Face on Mars and Baileyites and Cayceites - are as repelled by these ideologies as we are. While it was never our intention to suggest that any of the these individuals hold racist or fascist views, our principal concern is that the often faceless behind-the-scenes manipulators have no compunction in seizing their ideas and twisting them for their own ends.
Although they seem to have suffered a significant setback with the banning of the Millennium capstone ceremony, too much has been invested in their long-term plans for this to be anything more than a temporary reverse. The timetable may have been set back, but it has not been abandoned. The process of trying to win our hearts and minds is remorseless. Investing the mysterious monuments of the ancient world with roles for which they were not built and the gods with powers of which they have no need, the conspirators will continue to seduce us with fabricated excitements.
Anyone who wishes to contribute to the debate concerning the issues raised in this book can do so through the Stargate Assembly, an on-line forum on the world wide web, at www.templarlodge.com.
Notes and References
Prologue: The Nine Gods
1 Utterance 600, trans. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, p247.
2 Except where noted, information on the history of Heliopolis is taken from Saleh, Excavations at Heliopolis.
3 Saleh, vol. 1, p5; Rundle Clark, p37.
4 Lehner, The Complete Pyramids, p142.
5 Saleh, vol. 1, p23.
6 Hurry, p11.
7 Harris, p30.
8 Lehner, The Complete Pyramids, p31.
9 The translation of the Pyramid Texts that is generally accepted as the standard is that of R.O. Faulkner. There are still many parts whose meaning is obscure or debatable.
10 Lehner, The Complete Pyramids, p32; Rundle Clark, p37.
11 The discovery of the precession of the equinoxes is ascribed to the Greek astronomer Hipparchus of Nicaea (who coined the phrase) in 127 BCE, though he overestimated the length of the precessional cycle. In The Death of the Gods in Ancient Egypt, Egyptologist Jane B. Sellers, following up the theories of Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend in Hamlet’s Mill, argues persuasively that the ancient Egyptians were aware of the precession.
12 Luckert, p47.
13 Ibid., p45.
14 Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods, p153.
15 Luckert, p50.
16 Ibid., p54.
17 Lehner, The Complete Pyramids, p34.
18 Rundle Clark, p35.
19 ‘European Probe finds Water at Titan and Orion’, Associated Press report, 8 April 1998.
20 Rice, Egypt’s Making, p38.
21 See Coppens, ‘Life Exists Since the Big Bang’; Schueller, ‘Stuff of Life’.
1 Egypt: New Myths For Old
1 Lehner, The Complete Pyramids, p106; Kingsland, vol. 1, pp3-4.
2 On the use of pi and phi, see Rice, Egypt’s Legacy, pp24-5. On the geodetic significance of the Great Pyramid, see Kingsland, vol. 2, p42, and Livio Catullo Stecchini’s appendix to Tompkins, The Secrets of the Great Pyramid. For an analysis of the geometry of the Giza complex as a whole, see the books by Robin J. Cook.
3 Collins, Gods of Eden, p25.
4 Cook, The Horizon of Khufu, p52.
5 Lehner, The Complete Pyramids, p94.
6 Ibid., p124.
7 Edwards, p102.
8 In the 1994 BBC television documentary The Great Pyramid: Gateway to the Stars, produced by Christopher Mann.
9 Collins, Gods of Eden, pp52-7.
10 See Hapgood, Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings.
11 Bauval and Hancock, Keeper of Genesis, p248.
12 See Beaudoin, p121
; Guerrier, p137.
13 Marti, p92.
14 Bauval and Hancock, Keeper of Genesis, p100.
15 Telephone interview with Martin Barstow, Reader in Astrophysics at the University of Leicester, 28 August 1998.
16 Beaudoin, p121.
17 Lunan, p4.
18 The European Space Agency’s Hipparchos project was developed in order to make detailed measurements of the movements of the stars from beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. The Hipparchos satellite was launched in 1989 and completed its survey in 1993. The data gathered - the most accurate available - was published in a seventeen-volume star catalogue, and has been available on the World Wide Web since 1997.
19 Temple, The Sirius Mystery, p3.
20 The inundation of the Nile was (until the Aswan Dam brought it to an end in 1964) caused by the summer monsoon in Ethiopia swelling the waters of the Blue Nile (Baines and Malek, p14). Records from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries show that the waters could start to rise in Egypt as early as 15 April and as late as 23 June, and that the period between successive inundations varied between 336 and 415 days (Parker, p32). Any correlation between the heliacal rising of Sirius and the onset of the flood could therefore only ever be approximate.
21 Allen, pp118-25.
22 Sirius was sometimes depicted as a dog in Egypt, but only from the period of Greek domination following Alexander the Great’s conquest in 332 BCE, as the Greeks brought with them their own association with the Dog Star. See Lurker, p114.
23 Bauval and Gilbert, p60.
24 Temple, The Sirius Mystery, pp11-12.
25 Ibid., p135.
26 The identification of Hermes and Thoth is so well attested that it is, frankly, incredible that Temple should have gone unchallenged on this point for so long. In fact, the identification of the two gods is an important piece of evidence that the Hermetic works have an ancient Egyptian (rather than, as long believed, Greek) background. See, for example, Fowden, pp75-6.
27 Temple, The Sirius Mystery, p137.
28 Ibid., pp262-5.
29 Beaudoin, p34; Marti, p10.
30 Temple, The Sirius Mystery, p245.
31 Budge, An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary. The definition of arq ur is in vol. 1, p131; a list of abbreviations of source texts, showing that ‘Sphinx’ refers to such a source, is in vol. 1, p.lxxxvii.
32 Piehl, ‘Notes de lexicographie egyptienne‘, p8. The Egyptians’ borrowing of argyros/arq ur can only have occurred after the seventh century BCE, when Greek trading colonies were established at the mouth of the Nile. It is likely that the word did not enter the Egyptian language until the period of Greek domination that began in 332 BCE.
33 Temple, The Sirius Mystery, pp40-42.
34 Ibid., p44.
35 Ibid., p7.
36 Ibid., pp7-8.
37 Ibid., p401.
38 Edwards, p140.
39 Bauval and Hancock, Keeper of Genesis, p160.
40 West, Serpent in the Sky, p232, citing the work of forensic artist Lieutenant Frank Domingo of the New York Police Department.
41 Breasted, p324.
42 West, Serpent in the Sky, p67; Isha Schwaller de Lubicz, p111.
43 West, Serpent in the Sky, p198.
44 Ibid., p14.
45 Schoch, ‘Redating the Great Sphinx of Giza’.
46 Milson, p20.
47 Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods, p423.
48 Schoch, ‘The Great Sphinx Controversy’.
49 Quoted in Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods, p419.
50 Schoch, ‘The Great Sphinx Controversy’.
51 Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods, p413.
52 Hoffman (pp57-9, 68-77 and 160) gives the accepted dates for rainy periods (pluvials) in Egypt’s history: the Abbassia Pluvial, which lasted from about 120,000 BCE to 90,000 BCE; the Mousterian Pluvial, 50,000-30,000 BCE; and the Neolithic Subpluvial, which began between 7000 and 6000 BCE and ended in approximately 2500 BCE. Hoffman makes no mention of a wet period in the eleventh millennium BCE. This is especially significant, since Hancock uses Hoffman as his source on the ancient Egyptian climate.
53 Milson, p25.
54 Rice, Egypt’s Legacy, p16.
55 Milson, p24.
56 Hoffman, p161.
57 Temple, The Sirius Mystery, pp21-2.
58 Bauval and Gilbert, p128.
59 The idea was first proposed by Egyptologist Dr Alexander Badawy and astronomer Dr Virginia Trimble in 1964 - see Bauval and Gilbert, pp103-7 and Appendix 1.
60 Bauval and Gilbert, pp179-80.
61 Ibid.
62 Lehner, The Complete Pyramids, pp66-7.
63 The Daily Telegraph, after being given the story by Bauval on 4 April 1993 - just fourteen days after Gantenbrink’s discovery - ran a small article three days later. The major coverage began on 16 April, when, after further lobbying by Bauval, the Independent carried the story on the front page. Television news programmes covered it the same evening, and many other British and foreign newspapers the following day.
64 This and the following quotes are from an email to the authors from Rudolf Gantenbrink dated 19 August 1998.
65 For example, Churchward, Origin and Antiquity of Freemasonry, pp65 and 69. (Our thanks to Gareth Medway for directing us to Churchward’s works.)
66 Bauval and Hancock, Keeper of Genesis, pp66-70.
67 Ibid., p70.
68 Cook, The Horizon of Khufu, p86.
69 Ibid.
70 Sunrise on the spring equinox in 10,500 BCE occurs (according to SkyGlobe’s clock and calendar) at around 6.05am on 13 June. (Because our modem calendar falls out of step with the seasons when extended backwards or forwards over long periods of time, the spring equinox — currently 21-22 March - occurs progressively later in the calendar year the further back in time SkyGlobe is projected.)
It is also important to recognise that software packages such as SkyGlobe - which is primarily intended for the use of amateur astronomers looking at the night sky as it appears today - are not designed to be accurate over periods of millennia. Over such long periods, other factors - most importantly the proper motion of stars - unnecessary for everyday star-gazing come into play. Many products, SkyGlobe included, do not take these factors into account. Even those that do, unless they use the new data from the Hipparchos satellite (see note 18 for Chapter 1 above), are liable to be inaccurate.
71 Cook, The Horizon of Khufu, p86.
72 Breasted, p120.
73 R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Sacred Science, pp176-7.
74 Bauval and Hancock, Keeper of Genesis, pp262-7.
75 Report from Dr Krupp to Michael Brass, posted on Egyptnews, 19 June 1998 (Egyptnews is an Internet private mailing list dedicated to the latest research on, and debate surrounding, the mysteries of ancient Egypt, which is edited by Chris Ogilvie-Herald, address: [email protected]).
76 Hancock and Faiia, pp126-8
77 See Lehner, The Egyptian Heritage; Roche, Egyptian Myths and the Ra Ta Story.
78 Robinson, Edgar Cayce’s Story of the Origin and Destiny of Man, p79.
79 Ibid.
80 Ibid., p80.
81 Ibid., p79.
82 Ibid., p159. See also Robinson, Is It True What They Say About Edgar Cayce?, pp160ff.
83 Steam, p80.
84 Carter, p86.
85 Ibid.,p87.
86 Ibid., p88.
87 Steam, p89.
88 Carter, p90.
89 Edgar Evans Cayce, p157.
90 This research will appear in Andrew Collins’s forthcoming Gateway to Atlantis.
91 Carter, p153.
92 Lehner, The Egyptian Heritage, p86.
93 Bauval and Hancock, Keeper of Genesis, p89.
94 Ibid., p295.
95 Milson, p4.
96 Sources at ARE’s Virginia Beach headquarters.
97 Sellers, p172.
98 Bauval and Hancock, Keeper of Genesis, p245.
99 Ibid. pp74 and 78.
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00 Ibid., pp282-4 and 336-7.
101 Ibid., p282.
102 See Erman, pp373-5.
103 Saleh, p25.
104 Translations of the various Arab legends are collected in Kingsland, Vol. 2, Chapter VIII.
105 See Mackey, Chapter IX.
106 Herodotus (trans. Cary), p137.
107 Randall-Stevens, The Teachings of Osiris, p80.
108 Randall-Stevens, A Voice Out of Egypt, p174.
109 Ibid., p178.
110 Ibid., p174.
111 Lewis, The Symbolic Prophecy of the Great Pyramid, pp126-7 and 181-92.
112 ‘An Open Letter by Robert G. Bauval’, Egyptnews, 29 July 1998.
113 ‘Comment from Graham Hancock’, Egyptnews, 14 August 1998.
114 Egyptnews, 20 October 1998.
115 From Robert Bauval’s lecture at the Questing Conference, London, 24 October 1998.
116 Egyptnews, 8 November 1998.
117 Temple, The Sirius Mystery, p36.
2 High Strangeness at Giza
1 Art Bell radio show, 14 January 1998.
2 Kerisel, pp37-44.
3 Hancock, ‘Egypt’s Mysteries: Hints of a Hidden Agenda?’.
4 Ogilvie-Herald, p5.
5 Ibid.
6 Hancock, ‘Egypt’s Mysteries: Hints of a Hidden Agenda?’.
7 Ibid.
8 Hieroglyph, no. 1, January 1997, p1.
9 Art Bell radio show, 14 January 1998.
10 Lehner, The Complete Pyramids, p45.
11 Tompkins, Secrets of the Great Pyramid, p54.
12 Ogilvie-Herald, pp4-5. Danley confirmed his original account in an email to us, dated 3 September 1998.
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