The Stargate Conspiracy (48 page)

Madame Blavatsky, as a Victorian, might be expected to hold what are today politically incorrect views about race. She reflects the thinking of the era on the subject. Even after the abolition of slavery, people of African origin were still considered mere beasts of burden, although it was admitted that they had souls, for were they not forcibly converted to Christianity, often at gunpoint? There remains the nagging doubt that, like Blavatsky, Bailey and Schlemmer, those who claim to channel superior beings should, surely, transcend the vagaries of racial attitudes that change with the years, speaking only timeless unchanging truths. Modem adherents of the Nine, and of Bailey, defend the implicit racism by saying bluntly that this is the way it is.

Racism has no scientific, sociological or anthropological support, no matter who suggests otherwise. Racism can take many forms; we have now come to realise that patronising attitudes can be, in their own way, just as degrading and dangerous as blatant incitements to racial hatred. The argument for ‘benevolent racism’ — that blacks are incapable of self-government and need the fatherly guidance of whites - was often used by the apartheid regime in South Africa to justify the well-known excesses of their somewhat less than paternal rule. In any case, surely truly wise Masters would keep quiet about it simply to avoid its potential to cause havoc, in the way that the Aryan concept was used by the Nazis. (Both the Tibetan and Tom frequently withhold other information for which, they claim, we are not ready.)

Acceptance of such ideology from alleged discarnate entities is, of course, extremely dangerous, both for the recipient and for society as a whole. It is bad enough to accept such evil from raving fanatics like Adolf Hitler, but taking it from invisible beings surely borders on criminal naivety, yet adherents of the Nine are content to accept Tom’s teaching on such complex and enduringly divisive issues as the Jewish failure to accept Jesus as Messiah, abortion, homosexuality and the spiritual inferiority of Islam. The invisible, insubstantial — and for all we know nonexistent — Tom’s pronouncements on such subjects is taken as, quite literally, gospel.

James Hurtak does not actually call the Muslims the ‘Children of Darkness’ in so many words, but talks instead about the ‘anti-universe’, or ’the violation of the Living Light exemplified in the Kabba, the Black Cube in Mecca.‘
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He claims it represents ‘the anti-power of life’ and, most tellingly, ‘the anti-Christos’. The nearest he gets to a bald statement is when writing that the Black Cube ‘functions with Alpha Draconis [for Hurtak, one of the seats of the “fallen spiritual powers”] for the Children of Darkness’.
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By damning the most sacred object of Islam he is, of course, also implicitly damning Muslims themselves as the ‘Children of Darkness’. One of his ‘Keys’ dealing specifically with the symbolism of the Black Cube, states:

Hurtak does refer to the ‘higher message’ of some parts of the Koran,
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but he seems to say that only the passages that accord with the Old Testament are worthy of note. Considering that even his more New Age pronouncements only partly obscure his own version of Christian fundamentalism, this validation of whatever agrees with the Old Testament should hardly surprise us. So what is Hurtak’s view of Judaism?

Hurtak uses the word ‘Israel’ often and is fond of mentioning the Old Testament, but it is clear that, like Tom speaking through Phyllis Schlemmer, he thinks that the Jews were a specially holy people who made a terrible mistake by rejecting Jesus as the Messiah. And, not surprisingly, he announces that followers of the Keys are the ‘True Israel’.
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Hurtak — and others — make much of a prophecy in Isaiah 19:19-20 in relation to the Great Pyramid:

As an apparent prophecy of the Second Coming, this is a favourite quotation of Christian fundamentalists and New Agers alike. The ‘altar to the Lord’ has - bizarrely - become identified with the Great Pyramid, sometimes linked with the imminent discovery of a hidden chamber within it (as in Hurtak’s writings). Even psychic H.C. Randall-Stevens, writing of hidden chambers beneath the Sphinx in the 1920s, uses this same prophecy, adding: ‘I quote this here because my occult teaching has proved to me that the Great Sphinx and Pyramids of Gizeh is [sic] partly what is referred to.’
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And his communicators told him that the time to which this prophecy referred was now.

It is very odd that we have never seen any of these writers continue the quotation. After saying that the Egyptians will ‘know the Lord’ — that is, be converted to the worship of Yahweh — it goes on (verse 22): ‘And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it.’ But shall he smite it in the form of the self-appointed ‘righteous’, like Hurtak, for its Islamic devotion? And what form shall the subsequent healing take?

We recognise with a sinking heart that recent Internet postings of Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval have taken on a new, stridently messianic tone. For example, as we noted earlier, Bauval wrote on 29 July 1998:

 

The millennium is rushing in. There is much work to do for all who feel part of the same quest, namely to bring about a new and much needed spiritual and intellectual change for this planet. Giza, without a doubt, has a major role to play.

 

And Hancock:

Presented with such authority, it is tempting to take this on face value, but does that statement bear closer scrutiny? Has not humanity always faced that ‘stark choice’? And isn’t the ‘unparalleled’ nature of twentieth-century wickedness the result of, not some quantum leap of evilness, but the invention of the means to inflict suffering on an unparalleled scale - whether the atom bomb or the Blitzkrieg bombers? We have also seen a great upsurge in matters of the spirit, of the light, in the form of unparalleled social and medical advances, in welfare reform and sensitivity towards the mentally and physically sick, and understanding of the needs of cultures so cruelly oppressed in previous epochs. It has not been all bad.

In fact, the twentieth century was simply ‘unparalleled’. It was one of extremes. When it was evil it was astonishingly so, but when it showed its heart, great things were achieved that outshone all the noble writings of the most luminous and self-denying saint. It was a century of action, of communication, of enormous energy, often wrong-headed and usually wrong-footed, but - at least in the West - it was a century of hard-won freedom, a great upwelling of self-expression and an unprecedented hunger for information. It may have been corrupt but it also exposed corruption; it was certainly evil but it brought down evil with unprecedented vigour; and if it was greedy, it was happier than ever before to share more of its wealth with the less fortunate. Previous centuries would have turned their backs and left them to get on with it.

So why are Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval so keen to implant in us the idea that modern man is in a uniquely fallen state? Why do they place a sweeping — and what many would feel to be an inaccurate — emphasis on the ‘unparalleled evil’ of the times in which we live? Are they implying that we need to be rescued from it, and that our rescuers — our saviours — are merely waiting in the wings for us to welcome them in? Hancock and Bauval appear to be preparing us for some imminent spiritual upheaval. As Bauval portentously ended his announcement of the setting up of the Magic 12: ‘The World is with Child ...’.
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Wittingly or unwittingly, he perfectly echoes Aleister Crowley’s vision of the coming Aeon of the Child.

But is their agenda the same as Hurtak’s? They are certainly familiar with him and his work, including
The Keys of Enoch,
although of course this does not mean that they are disciples of his. What is clear is that the essential message in their books - from
The Orion Mystery to The Mars Mystery
— fits the same overall agenda, bringing it to a much wider, global audience and helping to pave the way for the acceptance of Hurtak/the Nine’s ideology.

The new belief system wears a coat of many colours. It derives from several different groups, which it actively draws together to make a homogenous whole. It is carefully crafted, playing on humankind’s kneejerk response to certain potent symbols and emotional triggers. This strange new hybrid religion is specifically designed to appeal to the fundamentalist side of several different religions — except, of course, for Islam. Although it may appear at first glance that the teachings given through the likes of Hurtak, Schlemmer and Carla Rueckert are very modern, full of technological discussion, in fact, when stripped down to their essence, they are revealed to be no different from the more extreme beliefs of old-fashioned fundamentalist Christians.

There is the same emphasis on the apocalyptic battle between good and evil, light and dark, the expectation of the imminent advent of some kind of saviour figure, and the rapture that will carry the righteous off into heaven for eternal life while the sinners are damned forever. Although it may appear odd that James Hurtak would have so much in common with Lambert Dolphin Jr, in fact, they share many attitudes and aims. And in
The Only Planet of Choice and The Keys of Enoch
there is a special emphasis on Israel, both place and people, which is likely to appeal to Jewish fundamentalists. As we have seen, Lambert Dolphin Jr shares many aspirations with right-wing Israelis, which led to collaboration on investigations beneath the Temple Mount.

We have also noted that Hurtak’s system embraces all the major religions of the United States — even welcoming such exclusivist groups as the Mormons. This new hybrid belief system also incorporates the main esoteric developments of the last two hundred years, such as the Great White Brotherhood, Ascended Masters, root races and Atlantis, besides major twentieth-century phenomena including Grey aliens and UFOs. This elite has notable exceptions: it does not include a major religion of African-Americans or of the Arab world. Muslims are not invited.

Skilfully puppetmastering the complex process of drawing all these threads together are, in many cases, the intelligence agencies, whose interests and involvements in the development of belief systems is now firmly established. Time and time again the anti-Muslim strand of this conspiracy becomes blindingly obvious, but why would the likes of the CIA be actively encouraging it? The whole tenor of this plot is one of preparation, of sowing the seeds of a certain mindset in as many people as possible in advance of some global event.

The possibility must be seriously considered that the conspirators are preparing the ground for some kind of major occurrence, a revelatory event that will suddenly, dramatically and radically change the world forever. What form this might take is uncertain - a carefully stage-managed ‘return of the gods’ to Giza before a mass audience, perhaps — but what is certain is that these people have the resources and technology to present such an event.

With or without such a stupendous moment, our minds are nevertheless being prepared to accept the beliefs and dictates of a coming new world order, whether it takes the form of stage-managed theocracy or some other kind of insidious fundamentalism. As the stories of Hitler’s Germany and countless other examples from history prove beyond doubt, ordinary decent folk can only too easily be persuaded to commit atrocities against their fellow man if they truly believe it is part of a grand design — in Nazi Germany’s case, the triumph of the master race. Brute force is not enough to turn the masses into monsters baying for blood; this will only happen if they are won over, hearts, minds — and souls. People are more easily persuaded by invitations to join a glorious gang, whether the Nazis or the ‘righteous’, by an appeal to the spirit than by mere empty rhetoric, or even brute force. Why, we wonder, is the CIA so keen to help promote anti-Islamic material? Why does it want us to think like that?

What any kind of fundamentalism does quite deliberately and explicitly is create divisions in society: Them and Us, the Light and the Dark, the Righteous and the Wicked, the Nazis and the Jews, the Israelis and the Palestinians... There is no room for rationality, intellectual questioning, challenge to the status quo, progress. More significantly, fundamentalists are easy to control — and their leaders have absolute power.

Control of the masses is ultimately what this is about. The idea that powerful and incredibly advanced beings will come to snatch us from the brink of disaster and make the world a better place for the future is, of course, enormously attractive. It sounds too good to be true. It may give us comfort and hope - but it comes at a price. Belief in the space gods and the heightened expectancy of their benign intervention undermines our collective self-esteem. It implies that the human race was given civilisation because it was too feeble to civilise itself, and that it has needed subtle guidance from the extraterrestrials throughout history. Now that humankind has really made a thorough mess of things, its only hope of salvation is to await the return of the gods to rectify the situation.