By Gerald B. Bryan
During the time Guy and Edna Ballard have been presenting
their Mighty I AM teachings to “America and the World,” they have used
advertising methods and a showmanship which could teach even the late P. T.
Barnum a trick or two. Instead of having a raucous-voiced old showman come
forth to harangue the crowd as to the particular merits of the performance and
the wonders to be seen, the Ballards have no less a personage than some high
and mighty “Cosmic Master” shout the praises of the show.
Let the deluxe advertising clubs of the land take note.
the best they have done is to get some
glamorous Hollywood star to praise the merits of somebody’s brand of cigarettes
or face cream. It remained for two heretofore unknown Chicago persons to get
the stars in the firmament to advertise for them and sing paeans of praises
concerning their products.
A great “Star-Being,” known as “Arcturus,” has come
forward from cosmic space and has okayed the Ballard show and all the actors in
it.
A “Mighty Being” from the planet Venus, traveling some
twenty-six million miles to attend a speaking engagement in Los Angeles, has
sung Venusian praises about the “Accredited Messengers of Saint Germain,”
delivered in quite ordinary English, with a few slang expressions thrown in.
A “Great Being” beyond the “Central Sun” of the universe
has even taken note of the delectable merits of Saint Germain’s precipitated
dinners, ascension robes, and what not, and has come forward after a million
years of silence to boost the sale of the Ballard books and merchandise.
“We have not
used,” say Mr. and Mrs. Ballard, “the outer world’s methods of advertising to
gain the attention of anyone or draw students to us.” (p. 20, Aug., 1938, V.)
No, indeed! What they have done is to scour the world
invisible for personal supporters to their hoax. They brought forth such
singular names as “Mighty Victory,” the “Great Tenor,” the “God Meru,” the
“Lady Master Nada,” the “Tall Master from Venus,” the “Old Man of the Hills,”
and thirty others of equally good advertising value, They even signed the name
of “Jesus the Christ” to some of their sales talks!
In introducing the Ballards to their audiences, their
stage announcer and chief earth-plane advertising man has many times said:
“These wonderful people, beloved ones, are occupying the
place that Jesus the Christ did two thousand years ago!”
And later, when some of the contradictions in their
writings and statements were pointed out, they had this same “Jesus” say:
“These Beloved Messengers have not made one single mistake from the beginning.”
(p. 15, Feb., 1937, V.)
They had Jesus’ most loved disciple, “John the Beloved,”
allegedly come forth for the first time since his death to say of the Ballards:
“There never were two such interested, selfless human
being on the face of this earth as the Messengers are.” (p. 13, Feb., 1938, V.)
Not being willing to let their greatness speak silently for itself,
or perhaps being a trifle dubious about it themselves,
the Ballards had an “Ascended Master” known as “The Great Divine Director,”
whom they solemnly assert is the teacher of Jesus, say:
“This Work the Messengers are giving is the Greatest that
will ever be given on earth!” (p. 17, Dec., 1937, V.)
Then to add an element of mystery as to who and what they
really are, these “Mighty I AM” magicians brought forth out of their bag of
cosmic tricks the “Tall Master from Venus.” This tall Venusian gentleman with
long golden hair, not being able, it seems, to use his own vocal cords, made
use of Guy Ballard’s, and got quite a bit of applause from the large audience
at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on the evening of July 17, 1938, when
he said:
“I call your attention to these beloved Messengers, the
most precious Beings on the face of this earth today. Look how they struggled
for years just like the rest of mankind; and look today! . . .
“They are free Beings today and could leave you at any
moment; but their great Love will not let that be done at present. (applause) .
. . You do not yet know who is in your midst; you might be greatly amazed one
day when we tell you.” (p. 11, Sept., 1938, V.)
Just who it was in their midst was at first a cherished
secret among informed I AM-ers, and they mentioned it with bated breath, but it
wasn’t long before Guy Ballard himself was publicly advertising to the whole
country that he was none other than the reincarnated George Washington, the
traditional “Father of Our Country!”
And so Ballard has since been known, quite appropriately
it seems, as “Daddy Ballard” — and his Blessed Lotus, as “Mamma Ballard!”
The subject of past incarnations among the members of
this blue-blooded Ballard family is most illuminating and even exciting. Quite
naturally, it is to be expected that Edna Lotus Ray King Ballard’s
reincarnations would be equally be famous as those of her illustrious
husband’s. And we find that that is so.
Edna, however, is not the reincarnated Martha Washington,
as might be expected. “Saint Germain” has chosen a more dramatic and heroic
role for the present George Washington’s ambitious wife. And so we learn that
Edna is none other than the French heroine, Joan of Arc, sainted Savior of
France!
And to properly advertise the fact, the Archangel Michael
(!) came forward from far-away cosmic space to confirm the present Joan’s
identity by saying:
“I have not ministered to earth since My Ministry in
France. I ministered then to the same individual who, this night, I begin to
minister through in America, our beloved Joan of Arc.” (p. 5, Jan., 1939, V.)
The third and last member of this illustrious Ballard
family is of course, Donald Ray King Ballard. Here also we find a remarkable
history of past achievement. Donald was born into the world on May 12, 1918, in
the city of Chicago, as Edona Eros Ballard. That is exactly the name which
appears on the official certificate of birth. In a former earth life he was
King of the Incas, and in one more recent he was the distinguished nobleman,
Marquis de Lafayette of France!
Now that we have the Ballard reincarnation tree duly
established, and properly advertised, we believe the three-fold combination
will prove to be rather thought provoking — for we now have Washington, the
Father of our Country, Joan, the Savior of France, and Lafayette, dashing young
friend of the American Revolution, all right here in our midst!
These three, and the other more numerous but less
illustrious members of the “Mighty I AM” family, numbering some hundreds of
thousands strong, are here to “Save America” and bring in a “New Government” in
the good old U.S.A.
We wonder what were the thoughts of the trio when on a
trip to Washington, they visited George and Martha’s old homestead at Mt.
Vernon?
We wonder what they thought about when they drove down
historic Pennsylvania Avenue in their expensive platinum-tinted car, passed the
White House, and headed for the Capitol?
We do not know, of course, but we have it from “Saint
Germain” himself (speaking at the Rialto Auditorium in Washington on November
8, 1938) that “These two (meaning Joan and George) . . . 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 Capitol would not be
here today!” (p. 6, Dec., 1938, V.)
All of which somehow reminds us of the childhood story of
George Washington and the cherry tree, and the little boy who could not tell a
lie.
On authority of no less a personage than the “Archangel
Michael,” the U.S.A. will fare a good deal better with her reincarnated Lotus
Ray King Ballard than did France with her martyred Jeanne d’Arc, for in keeping
with the story books, the heroine lives instead of meeting an untimely end.
“That blessed one,” says the Archangel (meaning Mrs.
Ballard), “who was once burned at the stake, will not be this time. (applause)”
(p. 20, Jan., 1939, V.) Which, of course, in anyone’s life is a reassuring
thing to know.
But the “Goddess of Liberty” is even more eulogistic of
this remarkable “I AM” family than is the more conservatively-speaking
Archangel Michael. At their great Shrine Class in Los Angeles, on Sunday
afternoon, January 2, 1938, this magnificent feminine deity reportedly “came
forth” to say to an applauding audience:
“We can tell you, every one of you, in the embodiments
where you were in association with the Messengers, and how you came again and
again, giving the same loyalty . . . We won’t go back far, but in the time of
Richard the Lion-hearted in England, again Joan of Arc in France, again
Washington, and again today, you stand, and have stood through the Ages with
that Loyalty to the Light and to those Precious Ones (the Ballards) who
represented the Light . . . Let Me call you ‘Our Sweethearts of America,’ for
without you MANKIND WOULD PERISH FROM THE EARTH!
“And but for these Messengers MANKIND WOULD HAVE PERISHED
FROM THE EARTH!” (Jan. 7, 1938, G.L.)
Today, these same Ballard “Sweethearts” actually believe
that George and Joan, or “Blessed Mamma and Daddy Ballard,” are the saviors of
mankind, and will bring a new government to the United States of America.
Can the reader contemplate what is happening to the
intelligence of an astounding number of American citizens who accept as gospel
truth the crudely devised personal advertisements of a Chicago couple?
(Psychic Dictatorship in America, chapter 10)
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