By Gerald B. Bryan
The Ballard cult is but one of
the increasing number of subversive influences in America today seeking, under
various cloaks, to bring widespread confusion in the land.
Tyrannies of this kind do not
wear labels on their coat sleeves telling the world what they intend to do.
They work insidiously, under false fronts and colors, and only perhaps when
they have achieved some degree of influence and power will their subversive
nature be revealed.
When hundreds of thousands of
adult Americans can embrace the Ballard doctrines without investigation, and
accept ridiculous and unsupported statements on the word of two individuals,
does it not indicate that some peculiar psychological influence is at work?
Does it not suggest that something is happening to the American people, something
is breaking down their reason and common sense, when movements such as
Ballardism can make headway in our country?
Should this happen to any great
extent, then political tyrannies can make inroads into our government and make
this country something far different than contemplated by the signers of the
Declaration of Independence and the framers of our American Constitution.
Then, when people awake to the
menace, it may be too late to win back the liberties they have lost.
By that time, a dictatorship has
been set up, with a controlled press, a regimented army and police forces; and
until that dictatorship has run its course, little can be done toward a new
birth of freedom.
The Mighty I AM movement is an
abortive effort to make the American people into automatons, fitted only to
obey the mandates of some dictator. The method of doing this has been the
time-tested one of cloaking subversive doctrines in patriotic and religious
observances.
“Save America! Support the
Constitution! Adore your Mighty I AM!” They organize “Minute Men” and
“Daughters of Light”; have them meet in sacred “I AM Temples,” wave the flag,
sing stirring patriotic songs, and shout paeans of praise to unseen “Masters,” who
dictate the course of their lives.
(Cid's
observation: This is absurd because the true Masters are not patriots since they love all humanity, and they insist on the importance of thinking for
yourself and not depending on someone else.)
Although their followers may be
sincere in doing these things, nevertheless, it is very evident —when one gets
behind the movement and sees the demands for obedience by two physical-plane
dictators— that such religious and patriotic observances are but smoke screens.
When these cult leaders blaspheme
Christ by bringing forth an astral “spook” on the stage and force their people
through fear and intimidation to obey the mandates of some supposedly all-powerful
“God” or “Goddess,” is this real religion?
When they decree that an
“Ascended Master” or some “Friend “ be placed in every important political seat
of the Government, and cajole their students into being absolutely subservient
to the dictates of these so-called “Masters” and their earth-plane agents, is
this by any chance the kind of patriotism embodied in our American Constitution
and its Bill of Rights?
How absurd it is for these people
to play up the Constitution and shout decrees to support it, when they doing
everything in their power to break it down!
How hypocritical it is for them
to shout decrees to the “Blessed Master,” when they teach idolatrous and
paranoiac doctrines, breaking down the very ideals of humility, kindness, and
service which the Master of Galilee came to teach!
How dangerous to the sanity of
their people it is for them to launch upon the world an avalanche of monstrous
fear-concepts — black magicians, cataclysms, astral entities, death rays, and
other hobgoblins of the mind!
All this is a part of a plan for
world confusion, organized certainly by the Satanic powers of this universe, to
which the Ballards, perhaps unconsciously, are giving expression — a plan
designed to kill out individualism, our ideals of religious and political
freedom, and eventually set up a dictatorship in liberty-loving America.
The
preparation for a dictatorship begins years in advance. The course of it is slow and
insidious, during which the minds of the people are lulled into byways and
highways. Then, suddenly, one day, it is upon them, almost out of the blue; and
it is then too late to take concerted action against it. The dictator is safely
entrenched in the seat of power, with money and an army to enforce his
mandates.
In Europe and Asia, dictatorships
flourish by reason of might of arms and fears of the prison camps.
In America, if a dictatorship is
to develop, it must first be psychological rather than physical.
Before actual, political
dictatorship can arise in a republic, the minds of the people must be prepared
and molded by propaganda of many kinds.
Anything which tends to keep
people in an apathetic frame of mind, away from contact with reality, easily
lends itself to some future political dictatorship.
For this reason, various peace
proposals, non-resistance programs, metaphysical and religious teachings may
peculiarly become good soils for the growth of some future dictatorship.
This is not said, of course, to
reflect on any sincere effort toward peace or to discourage any true religious
worship. But in so far as these matters may come under control of selfish
individuals or misguided ones, there is naturally some danger that the
unthinking mass of followers may be led into programs which make for slavery
instead of freedom.
The Ballard cult is one of those
psychological influences in America which is drawing, or attempting to draw,
people’s attention away from fundamentals; and by use of what virtually amounts
to hypnotic control over their followers is preventing them from looking sanely
at the problems which confront our Nation.
Expecting their individual and
national salvation to come as a miraculous visitation from heaven in the form
of some mighty “Master” who will straighten out their problems if they decree
loud enough, the Ballard I AM-ers are lying supinely on their backs blissfully
awaiting the inevitable disaster which would result if all of us turned our
independence over to fake “psychic Masters” and scheming human beings.
To prevent such a dictatorship
from arising in America, either from the present Ballard cult or some other
setup, we need to be awake and alert as to what is going on. We must be keenly
aware of the insidious, undercover methods of those who would enslave us. We
must not let this insidious thing which is attempting to sweep in from Europe,
Asia, and from the psychically-disturbed world around us disarm our
independence.
We must beware of movements and
cults which outwardly come in sheep’s clothing of goodness, but inwardly are as
ravenous as wolves.
We must not let the world
confusion break down our faith in God, or in our own inherent, divinely-given
wisdom to work out of any disorder which may now or later confront us.
We must realize that America’s
problems are our own; and we cannot leave them for God to solve for us, any
more than a school child can be permitted to turn his lessons over to his
father or teacher for solution.
Nor should we ever let any
so-called “Master” —ascended or unascended— rule over our lives for us; for no
real Master of the Divine Wisdom would ever interfere with a pupil’s God-given
right of independent and initiative action.
For all these rights of
independence and freedom the early pioneers of this nation fought. They
revolted against political and religious tyranny, which resulted in a
Declaration of Rights which gave the American people the greatest amount of
freedom and independence of any nation on earth.
Let us, therefore, be jealous of
any and all these rights and privileges which we so far have held on to, and
not permit the heel of any dictator within or without our borders, physical or
psychic, to crush out this spirit of independence in freedom-loving America.
(Psychic Dictatorship in America,
chapter 28)
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