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THE LAWSUIT IN CHICAGO AGAINST GUY BALLARD

 
 
 
By Gerald B. Bryan
 
The Chicago suit, with its revealing connection with Ballard’s “Lake of Gold,” was no doubt one of the embarrassing moments for the two dictators.
 
They had not expected it. They had had their agents working in Chicago trying to get the two indictments withdrawn. They had contacted the two signers in an effort to get them to withdraw the charges; and it appears they were successful in doing this, for the indictments were nolle prossed in July, 1938. It therefore seemed safe to return in October, at which time, owing to the Illinois statute of limitation, they seemed to be assured their old debts would be outlawed.
 
Months before, when they were in nearby Detroit the early part of May, 1938, they had been looking forward to their Chicago return. At that time hundreds of Chicago students had come down to Detroit to hear the Messengers, as these Messengers could not for very good reasons at that time go with them. Notice now what these Chicago students were told:
 
“I congratulate you beloved ones of Chicago,” said the Goddess of Liberty (!), “in having the Power and Action of Light . . . which drew you here in this great number. (Applause) be patient, beloved ones, the time is near at hand, when the Power of Light will sweep Chicago! (Applause) Mankind should understand the importance of letting the Wisdom of These Great Ones, Who have come forth, regulate and govern what the Messengers do and where they will go!” (p. 9, June, 1938, V., our italics.)
 
And so the Ballards and their “Power of Light” did “sweep Chicago” with much show of glitter in a grand and triumphant entry, but this unexpected suit shook the glitter out, and made it necessary for them to brazen through the crisis in some way. How they did it will now be shown.
 
On the following evening after the papers were served, and “pandemonium reigned among their followers,” the Ballards attempted to make some sort of answer. We quote from the Chicago Herald & Examiner of October 15, article headed: “Sought in Gold Swindle; Cult Leader Begs Faith.”
 
“People of America,” called Mrs. Ballard, in a broadcast from the platform, “we ask you, regardless of anything you have heard or read, to believe that the work of the Mighty I AM Presence and the Ascended Masters is clean and honest and is the truth. Regardless of all untruth that has been spoken or printed, we never have asked for a dime and never tried to draw any human being from any other creed or belief. I say this to the whole earth: Mr. Ballard has never done a dishonest or dishonorable thing in his life and never shall!”
 
Mrs. Ballard then turned the microphone over to Ballard, who said:
 
“Thank you, beloved Lotus! It is incredible that any one should wish to be vicious to us, who have never asked one thing for ourselves. I have never claimed I was a Master, and any one who says I did is a liar!”
 
That certainly should settle the matter once and for all, but we might gently inject the thought that Guy Ballard has perhaps made more claims for himself than has any other person in America. Even Father Divine only permits his followers to call him “God.” He doesn’t come right out and proclaim it, having retained a little modesty in the matter. But Mr. Ballard comes right out in print and speech and has “God, the Mighty I AM” give a stirring sales talk all about Guy Ballard!
 
The following modest claims for himself are made: He lives in a “body of immortal endurance.” (p. 390, M.P.) There “isn’t anything in the universe that he fears,” and “nothing can be recorded upon his life stream.” (August, 1935, Lecture) He is “a free being and could leave at any moment.” (p. 11, Sept., 1938, V.) “No one on earth can take his place.” (p. 13, Nov., 1938, V.)
 
He is “as humble as humbleness can be.” (p. 6, Dec., 1938, V.) “Has not made one single mistake from the beginning.” (p. 15, Feb., 1937, V.)
 
He “Can decree and it is fulfilled almost instantly.” (p. 77, A.M.D.) But for him and his good wife Edna “mankind would have perished from the earth.” ( Jan. 7, 1938, G. L.)
 
And lastly, believe it or not, he “has never asked for a dime in his life.” (pp. 391-392, A.M.L.)
 
Surely, if Guy Ballard is all of the above, then he is not only a “Master” but something more!
 
Why call someone a prevaricator (to use a gentler term than he did) because this same somebody said he claimed to be a “Master” fifteen years ago? Does he not today claim to be something very much more than that?
 
Fortunately for the Accredited Messengers of Saint Germain, the Chicago suit against Guy Ballard and its past gold mine connections was not publicized very much in other cities. The Ballards did everything they could to keep their students from believing it was anything but a “vicious attack.”
 
In the next issue of their official journal after the Chicago suit, the Ballards attempted to pour a little miracle-working oil over the troubled waters of the movement. They referred evasively to this Chicago suit, and cunningly headed their article: “OUR ASCENDED MASTER MIRACLE!” We quote:
 
“We wish to express our deepest Eternal Love and Gratitude, and to thank every ‘I AM’ student for the Love, Loyalty, unflinching courage, Self-control and Assistance with which all handled the intrusion of discord which attempted to touch the Chicago Class.
 
“Mr. G. W. Ballard has never done a dishonest or dishonorable thing in his entire life and never shall. We have never asked any human being for a thing, not even a dime nor a student list; and all who know us even slightly know THAT IS THE TRUTH!
 
“We have given all and asked nothing in return . . . “We all called in this Chicago class for Gigantic Ascended Master Miracles . . . to come out of even the slightest attempt to discredit or interfere . . . The recent Occurrence has Turned into Just That . . . Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ballard.” (pp. 19-20, Nov., 1938, V.)
 
The Ballards, however, fail to explain just how it is that “pandemonium among the followers” could at the same time be “unflinching courage and self-control.” Nor just how it was that “intrusion of discord” was turned into a “Gigantic Ascended Master Miracle.”
 
The miracle, of course, lies in the fact that the students should accept such a statement. There was certainly no other miracle.
 
The crisis in Chicago was so great that the Ballards had to call out an entirely new “Ascended Master” — or rather in this case it was a “Lady Master,” who they said was none other than the “Goddess of Light!”
 
“She has opened the Door of the Ascended Masters’ Octave to the earth,” explained Ballard to the Chicago faithful, and added: “It is an unheard of thing in the history of the world . . . (applause).” (p. 5, Nov., 1938, V.)
 
“I want to say to you,” said the Goddess upon being introduced, and conveniently using Ballard’s vocal cords, “that if good were not to come out of the experience which occurred at your class recently, this Messenger could have stood and without a word released the Power of a Light Ray and those individuals would still remain standing in their tracks; but he would not do it.” (p. 10, our italics.)
 
And there you are! What self-control it must have been for Ballard to have withheld the “lightening” that would have stopped the poor process server right in his tracks; which was something the excited efforts of his students failed to do.
 
We are glad that Ballard didn’t forget himself and absentmindedly let it loose. No wonder students run to the cover of the “Mighty I AM” protection and dare not say anything to incur the Ballard disfavor.
 
“. . . That same Power,” continues the Goddess, “could have been released had it chosen to do so. There are no human persons nor creation that could stop it . . .” (p.11)
 
But fortunately for the process server, this terrific power was withheld. To be stopped by a bullet is one thing, but to be stopped by Mr. Ballard’s little “Light Ray” would certainly make any self-respecting officer a trifle shamefaced.
 
The Goddess agreeably concurs with the Ballards that it was indeed a miracle:
 
“Out of this occurrence has really come an Ascended Master Miracle,” she says. “You can all well rejoice that the Messenger was strong enough and calm enough to go serenely on and let it take place. It has been the means of dissolving and removing from your Chicago forever the resistance which has been here for many years.” (p. 11)
 
In the Ballard official Group Letter, or report to their students, under date of November 20, 1938, there are many references to the Chicago suit:
 
“On Thursday night a vicious attack was made on our Beloved Mr. Ballard while he was quietly autographing books in the foyer of the beautiful Chicago Civic Auditorium.”
 
This “vicious attack” consisted of the process server presenting Ballard formally with a summons. Photographers also aimed their cameras at him while he was being served. No real casualties were reported, such as might be suggested by a vicious “attack.”
 
“A few minutes later,” continues the official report, “we heard newsboys crying out ‘Extra — all about the I AM suit.’ It was such a complete surprise that we purchased a copy, and then read to our amusement . . .”
 
Why should this occurrence have been “such a complete surprise” with the all-knowing Saint Germain around? And how much “amusement” did the newspaper article really give?
 
Evidently, Saint Germain was away on “European business” on this “miracle” night, for it was not until the following day that he arrived to do battle against such vicious individuals:
 
“Five of the most vicious black magicians in America were seized last night!” he told the applauding audience. Commenting on the reasons for the suit, he said:
 
“The woman who made this charge, some years ago, for no reason at all, became very angry at the Messengers.”
 
The little matter of $6,775 is of course “no reason at all” to a wealthy “Ascended Master” with his hoard of “Spanish gold lost at sea” and three Colorado gold mines. But it was for the little woman who had slaved all her life to save it from her meager earnings.
 
“She KNOWS that the charge is NOT true!” continued Saint Germain. “She KNOWS very well that this Messenger did NOT receive her money, and I know it!
 
“. . . The vicious individuals who came into that lobby last night,” said Saint Germain, “are dealing with Me, and not the Messenger! I always abide My time.
 
“I say to the newspapers who were unfortunate enough to print that, they too must pay the penalty for it . . . Now begins the destruction of every one who allows such things to continue . . . I say to every newspaper in the land — take heed! I am always present and watching everything, and when I am ready I will act.” Surely, after this fair warning from the great Saint Germain himself, none of us would like to be newspaper people — certainly not Chicago ones. Such as they can only wait the dire and inevitable consequences of their own heedlessness. The suspense must be terrific.
 
While Saint Germain in his speech spent most of his allotted stage time threatening Chicago news reporters and editors, he still had time to praise his tried and tested “Accredited Messengers:”
 
“Beloved Ones,” said he to the Chicago audience, “when I chose him [Ballard] and the beloved Lotus to be the Messengers of My Work, I knew every thought and feeling that is in their Beings. There is not one impure nor dishonest thought in their whole Life! (tremendous applause) . . . This beloved Messenger rendered a service last night for which all America one day will bless him! (Again tremendous applause as the huge audience arose to their feet!)” (p. 2, Nov. 20, 1938, G.L.)
 
This, in brief, is how the Accredited Messengers of Saint Germain and the Ascended Masters answered the Chicago suit. But it appears that the “Gigantic Ascended Master Miracle,” which assertedly happened at Chicago, didn’t influence the Chicago authorities to nullify and make void the suit brought by the little woman who had invested her all in Ballard’s “Lake of Gold.” The “Miracle” didn’t take care of that little point.
 
However, eleven days before the trial was to come up —on December 29, 1939— an event occurred which was to make it forever impossible for Guy Ballard, defendant, to satisfy the claimant in this suit. The details of this will be told in the last chapter.
 
 
 
(Psychic Dictatorship in America, chapter 21)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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