HARBINGERS OF DISASTER

 

 

By Gerald B. Bryan

 

The two heroic and self-proclaimed Messengers of Saint Germain and the ascended Host have not come into the world to bring olive branches of peace to an already distraught world. Rather have these two come to stir the prophetic waters into new currents and whirlpools of disaster.

 

They have brought forth in glittering array such a procession of astral ghosts, demons, entities, black magicians, male and female, that all other time-honored processions of headless horsemen and sheeted ghosts have been relegated to the background. When astral entities pop out from behind every antique, when danger lurks in a little bit of garlic, when the coastal regions of our land are only held in place by shouting bands of I AM-ers, when black magicians are tied up only to get loose again, and so on and on in ever-widening circles of disaster, then we may well suspect that the story tellers and writers are at it again.

 

Therefore, as we record some of the Ballard prophecies of cataclysms that threaten to destroy some of our American cities and the earth itself, we hope the reader will not take them too seriously. We merely take them out for a much needed airing and sunning, and then we shall let them fly away like eider down in the wind.

 

Early in their movement the Ballards began to appreciate the psychological effect of holding over the heads of their people the threat of some cataclysm which would destroy the particular city in which the credulous students were living. Like a sword of Damocles, this cataclysm was suspended, as it were, by only a hair, and withheld solely by the heroic efforts of the “Ascended Masters” and their earth-plane “Messengers.”

 

So as the Ballards traveled from city to city, they pictured to their audiences the doom which was in store for a certain city unless sufficient numbers in that city would join the decreeing army of Mighty I AM-ers and shout commands to the “Ascended Masters.” It seems that these great “Beings” would pay no attention to humanity’s woes unless they were shouted at and ordered around. If sufficient numbers of students would only take part in this decree-shouting, these “Masters” and their Messengers would not only save the world from the big, bad wolf, the black magician, and from wars which still go on, but they would also keep miscellaneous and sundry “Gas Belts” from hurling mankind to destruction.

 

At Washington, D.C., on the evening of December 8, 1938, “Saint Germain,” as is his usual happy duty, came forth to praise the work of his Messengers, but this time he tells the appreciative audience how they saved the city from destruction.

 

“These two whom I love so much,” he said, “who have given such implicit obedience, are as humble as humbleness can be . . . Without them mankind would have been in the most seething vortex of war right in your midst today. Your Capital would not be here today!” (p. 6, Dec., 1938, V.)

 

At New York, on October 8, 1937, they had none other than the “Lord Maitreya,” who had formerly been a Master connected with the Theosophical Society but who had now assertedly embraced the Mighty I AM, say:

 

“You stand with the war entity above you and the destructive gas belts beneath.” (p. 160, A.M.L.)

 

Poor New York! Besieged from above and below, there seemed little hope for her; but a little later, at their next visit to the apparently doomed city, the “Goddess of Peace” gave the New Yorkers a breath of hope.

 

“Our Records show great devastation has already been prevented in your land . . . Your city where you rest so serenely tonight would not have been here the past eighteen months, if it had not been for the call to Light.” (Page 11, July, 1938, V.)

 

San Francisco, if we can believe it, has been saved a number of times by the Ballards and their local I AM-ers. “Before the Messengers came,” said Saint Germain in August, 1937, “your city was in great danger.” (p. 3, September, 1937, V.) And on every subsequent visit he would give additional warnings about “Gas Belts” alleged to lie underneath the city.

 

However, they overdid it a bit here, and the San Francisco wide-awake Chamber of Commerce came down on their heads.

 

It was all on account of a mimeograph letter sent by the Ballards to the faithful at the San Francisco “I AM Sanctuary.” We quote: “Saint Germain says that San Francisco is in greater danger of earthquake than any city in the whole United States because of the gas underlying it. San Francisco’s WHOLE PROTECTION rests in the guard of the I AM students at the SANCTUARY . . . All sincere students are asked to stand by the SANCTUARY which is the Light’s Protection in San Francisco against another earthquake.” The Ballards, well aware that the “Sanctuary” in San Francisco was having considerable internal disturbance at this time, evidently took this method of holding it together, making it appear that the fate of the city depended upon the unified work of the I AM-ers there. What public spirited citizen among the San Francisco I AM-ers wouldn’t bury his differences to save the city! It seems that the faithful at the Sanctuary actually did take this danger very much to heart, buried the hatchet, and, in an endeavor to “save” the city, wide publicity was given to this letter. At least so it appears from a newspaper article in the San Francisco Examiner on May 28, 1938, headed: “C. of C. Puts ‘Master’ Wise on Prophecy” We quote in part:

 

“Nasty little rumors to the effect that the Chamber of Commerce has put the fix on none other than ‘The Ascended Master St. Germain’ got themselves considerable credence yesterday . . . “He speaks or writes through his only accredited messenger, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ballard . . . A lot of Bay region cash goes into their pockets.”

 

This newspaper article went on to quote Saint Germain’s dire predictions about San Francisco’s over-supply of gas. Then a subtitle headed, “DELETE-QUAKE,” said:

 

“Evidence that Saint Germain had been seen by the C. of C., or somebody, was found when a revised version of the same mimeograph sheet emanated from the local ‘sanctuary.’ The new screed is identical in every paragraph with the old, except that the word ‘earthquake’ is out . . .”

 

That is what comes of having a wide-awake Chamber of Commerce in a city which is sufficiently sensitive about its “Gas Belts” as to have the nerve to put the “fix” on even the great Ascended Master Saint Germain!

 

Los Angeles, as might be expected, has also been “saved” many times. But unlike San Francisco, its Chamber of Commerce has not yet put the “fix” on the Ascended Master Saint Germain. Perhaps the local chamber of Commerce believes any kind of publicity for good old Los Angeles has good advertising value, and that tourists will come out to the land of sunshine to see bumper crops of heterodoxy just as readily as bumper crops of anything else.

 

But we do think of the C. of C., or somebody, should call a halt on Saint Germain’s “tidal waves” and “destructive Light Rays from Russia” sweeping in to destroy the city.

 

On New Year’s Day in 1936, speaking at Los Angeles, “Saint Germain” said that the call of the students had rendered a tremendous service.

 

“. . . It had prevented a tidal wave striking the western coast which was thought would have come into action the second of January, 1936.” And he rightly adds:

 

“How much more wonderful it is that mankind might be enjoying the Tournament of Roses than to be in the throes of a destructive activity.” (p. 12, Feb., 1936, V.)

 

A couple of years later he again saved the city, this time from a “destructive Ray” assertedly directed from a “focus in the Ural mountains between Russia and Siberia.”

 

“Had I not been able to check this attempt,” he says, “there would have been no Shrine class in July! because there would not have been any place to have it!” (p. 3, Feb. 18, 1938, G.L.)

 

Thus from city to city the Ballards traveled, and wherever they went, they told the story of the “Ascended Masters” or their “Accredited Messengers” saving that city from destruction. There was always a convenient gas belt, tidal wave, or destroying “Ray” to being forth if the people did not evidence sufficient interest in the Mighty I AM.

 

“Tremendous protection has been given the coasts of America!” said the Ballards to students in cities which would be affected by the disaster. And to enforce obedience, they shrewdly added: “Do you want to undo that, beloved students everywhere, and let this cataclysm come forth and destroy all . . . ?” (p. 38, March, 1937, V.) In their travels, they came across, one day, a leaflet telling the story of an alleged vision of general Washington received during his Valley Forge encampment, which was entitled: “General Washington’s Vision.” The story was told by a feeble, old man of ninety-nine years, who said Washington told it to him.

 

The substance of the vision was: “Three great perils would come upon the Republic . . . the most fearful being the third . . . and that help would come in the shape of Divine Assistance.”

 

Immediately, the Ballards began to refer to the “great peril,” for it seems that Saint Germain had not told them before of this danger confronting the Nation, and the memory of the present reincarnated George Washington (!) failed to recall so important an event until this story of a ninety-nine-year-old man came into his hands.

 

Their numerous “Gods” and “Goddesses” soon got the idea of the “Vision,” too, and made the most of it.

 

At New York, the “Silent Watcher” said:

 

“. . . Should the third episode in Washington’s vision take place in your America, there would scarcely be enough people left on the earth to make one small city.” (p. 121, A.M.L.)

 

At West Palm Beach, the “Goddess of Liberty” said:

 

“. . . The third episode has been the greatest danger confronting mankind today. If it swept into America, the whole world would be a seething vortex of destruction.” (p. 5, Jan., 1938, V.) Such were some of the forebodings of doom made by these harbingers of disaster as they traveled from city to city. They injected needless fear into the minds of credulous people, and deluded them through promises of Ascended Master protection to join the army of Mighty I AM-ers.

 

Military armies were said by the great Napoleon to travel on their stomachs, but this “I AM” army of Saint Germain’s has been nourished on the pabulum of disaster. The whole thing is an outstanding instance of the use of fear psychology, wherein weird processions of phantom masters, black magicians, astral entities, and other hobgoblins are made to pass in disordered review before the minds of their followers.

 

Some day their credulous students will awaken as from a trance and recognize it all as the absurd delusion and unreality that it is.

 

 

 

(Psychic Dictatorship in America, chapter 24)