DECREES OF
DEATH!
By Gerald B. Bryan
The Ballards have not only by fear and threat and by
flattery and cajolery tried to keep their movement from disintegrating, but
they have in their decrees against individuals called upon the Mighty Powers of
Heaven to destroy physically those who sought in any way to interfere with it.
It seems a strange and fantastic thing, but for over five
years large groups of people throughout the United States have been meeting
together and shouting decrees which have for their purpose the “dissolving,”
“consuming,” “annihilating,” “blasting,” “exploding,” and “destroying” of
certain human beings, or the political or religious organizations which they
represent.
They project at their meetings what they call the
destructive “BLUE LIGHTNING,” analogous it seems to the “DEATH RAY” of the pulp
magazines, and if the reader should happen to pass an I AM Temple or
“Sanctuary,” he would be very likely to hear reverberating out upon the street
the loud shouting of the following decree:
“STOP! STOP! STOP!
YOU HAVE NO POWER! YOUR DAY IS DONE! BE THOU DISSOLVED AND CONSUMED BY THE
POWER OF LIGHT!”
In an effort to show the power of these “Blue-Lightning”
blasts, Guy Ballard at the Chicago class on May 8, 1938, said:
“You five hundred thousand students have been calling
into action the Power of the Blue Lightning! Do you know what that means? Do
you know one day the momentum gained in that action, if necessary, will be
released! and no matter how terrifying It is to humanity, That Power Shall Be
Released!” (“Goddess of Liberty” dictation, page 2, May 19, 1938, Group
Letter.)
In the Ballard “I AM Decree Book,” copyrighted by the
Saint Germain Press, there are seventy-one decrees intended to meet all their
needs, from controlling the state of the weather to the state of the nation!
The book presents a curious litany of hate, love, and intolerant rule over the
life and liberties of others.
The following are parts of some of the other decrees which
are shouted from coast to coast:
“SILENCE the tongue and make HELPLESS and inactive all
attempts to interfere with or cast discredit upon this I AM Instruction! . . .
BLAST and annihilate all that would interfere in any way with this Perfection!
. . . Project the Blue Lightning into every one of these vortices of human
discord . . . and EXPLODE, EXPLODE, EXPLODE every one this instant!”
On the evening of October 21, 1937, in New York City, Guy
Ballard shouted to his audience the following decree:
“I call the Angels of Blue Lightning, the Legions of
Light to stand guard over your America; My America; that every person who tries
to bring destructive conditions, qualities or activities into America, SHALL
CEASE TO EXIST IN HIS HUMAN FORM!” (p. 23, Dec., 1937, V., our capitals.)
The above is a decree
for death!
It takes one back in imagination to some aboriginal
jungle where some native medicine man with savage incantations and rites is
decreeing the death of his enemy. Books dealing with witchcraft, sorcery, and
demonology are full of this sort of thing, but we hardly expect it in civilized
America. Yet this decree for the destruction of a human form was publicly
uttered on the stage of the Engineering Auditorium in our own New York City!
If it be thought this death decree was merely a slip of
the tongue made in the excitement of the moment, the reader should be
disillusioned. Such a thing is a studied and regular activity of this
black-magic organization.
In making these death decrees Ballard sometimes tries to
hide behind what he calls his own “Mighty I AM Presence,” and says that it is
his “I AM” speaking and not Ballard. If so, Ballard’s “I AM” is a dangerous and
death-dealing “I AM,” and most sensible people would have nothing whatever to
do with it.
Speaking at West Palm Beach, Florida, on the afternoon of
December 5, 1937, Guy Ballard stated:
“Ere long the light shall compel every human being, every
human form, to give the necessary obedience to Me, the Mighty I AM...When It
reaches a certain state of vibratory action, the human form who will not give
obedience becomes DISSOLVED.” (p. 12, Jan, 1938, V., our capitals.)
At Cleveland on the afternoon of November 14, 1936,
“Mighty I AM” Ballard shouted:
“I AM the Presence that silences and places out of action
every person, association or whatever sends forth destructive activity to My
Presentation . . . of this Light and work! . . . All unfortunate individuals in
human form who henceforth attempt to personally interfere with this Light . . .
SHALL MEET the recoil of their own destructive creation . . . There is no Power
in heaven or earth to stop it . . . I HAVE SPOKEN!” (pp. 3 and 9, Jan., 1937,
V., their capitals.)
Most often, however, instead of hiding behind his “I AM,”
Ballard takes cover behind some supposedly great “Ascended Master,” and has
this great Being say and do things of which not even the most ordinary of human
beings would be guilty — and certainly not a real Master of Wisdom.
It is easy to discover that the Ballard “Gods” and
“Goddesses” are all created in the image of their maker. We find them without
exception expressing the thoughts, feelings, and grammatical errors of their
creators.
Once when Edna Ballard was reading one of Saint Germain’s
(?) discourses, a former school girl friend dryly remarked:
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“Edna, you should not have Saint Germain make
the same grammatical errors that you made in class.”
It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that the Ballard
“lady and gentlemen Ascended Masters” are just as proficient in throwing the “Blue
Lightning” as are the Ballards. The following threats of death are all taken
from the Ballard literature, and supposedly made by “Ascended Masters”:
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“Those who try to oppose this Light are
dissolved by it.”
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“Destructive individuals shall be searched out
and shall leave those bodies.”
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“I would dissolve those physical bodies
before they shall harm him.”
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“They sound their own death knell!”
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“When It moves into action everything unlike
Itself dissolves and disappears before It! If that includes some of mankind’s
bodies, then shall it be so!”
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Etc., etc.
Openly revealing a sadistic tendency, “Saint Germain,” at
the Minneapolis class threatened to draw these vicious individuals before him
and “see them cry out in agony.” A little later, he boasted: “We have our own
means of causing people to disappear.” (pp. 26-27, Oct., 1939, V.)
“Mighty Cosmo,” another of the Ballard fraternity of
avenging gods, said at Los Angeles: “The insane human beings that try to spread
doubt concerning the Glory of these Messengers . . . should be shut up forever
. . . no longer may mercy be shown to those who willfully turn away from this
Light . . . better had a rattlesnake woven itself in among you than the
poisonous breath of doubt. (applause) . . . If they do not stop it, they will
sting themselves to death! (applause)” (pp. 8-12-16-18, Aug., 1939, V., our
italics.)
Emphasizing this idea of destruction of the physical
body, Ballard came out on the stage of the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on
Wednesday, July 6, 1938, and said that “Saint Germain” would have the
dictation.
“I ask you,” said Saint Germain, “to watch these
unfortunate creatures who have tried to destroy the work of the Messengers and
My Work. One of the worst ones in America is here in your city. Watch the
reaction of their own DESTRUCTION. It must return upon themselves — it is the
Law of Life, so the Law will take its toll. Therefore, I trust BY SUNDAY I
shall have still added joyful news for you.” (p. 17, Aug., 1938, V., our
capitals and italics.)
Is it not evident from “Saint Germain’s” remark of “added
joyful news by Sunday,” that he expected something physically to happen to a
certain Los Angeles person within four days?
At the following Shrine Class in Los Angeles, held six
months later, there seemed to have been much discouragement about the slowness
of action of these “Death Rays” upon certain individuals. The Ballards
therefore gave their chief G-man, K-17 of the “Inner Secret Service,”
additional work to do — and the Chief of the I.S.S. did not hesitate to say
that “physical action” would be necessary. We quote:
“The Messenger said to you, I think it was on last
Tuesday, that he felt the attempted opposition to this Great Light had been
dissolved. It has on the Inner action of life but there are still things to be
done in the outer . . .
“Beloved students in the future, do not hesitate to put
down anything that tries to defame This Work. You have My permission!
(applause) . . .
“Your Mighty Decrees have been answered remarkably so far
and they will be answered in a more and more remarkable way; but, since time is
an essential in this, We shall take a part in PHYSICAL ACTION.
“. . . The unfortunate individuals who . . . have tried
in every conceivable way to bring disgrace upon This Work, watch that disgrace
return upon them! (applause) DO NOT HESITATE TO HELP IT ALONG, beloved
students. (applause)” (pp. 12-13, Feb., 1939, V., our capitals and italics.)
It is evident from the above that the Ballard decrees for
destruction do not work, and that, therefore, this “Secret Service Master,” who
says he has a “tangible body,” is going to take a part in some “PHYSICAL
ACTION.” Whatever it is that he has in mind, the Ballard students are urged to
“help it along” and to “put down anything” which works against their movement.
And the audience, emotionally aroused with the spirit of the mob, applauds and
applauds.
If it was the intention of this “Secret Service Master”
to arouse members in the audience to take some kind of “physical action” against
individuals who were revealing certain facts about this cult, then it was not
altogether unsuccessful.
At least in the case of the writer it was so, for on the
evening of January 13th —twelve days after–17’s “permission” to students to
“put down anything that tries to defame This Work”— he was decoyed to a
dead-end street in Los Angeles, where several members of a gang were waiting to
do him bodily harm. He recognized in time, however, that it was a hold up, and
was able to get away without being injured; but for a number of days following
this experience he received telephone calls from various members of the gang
threatening him bodily harm if he didn’t “lay off ” the Mighty I AM.
This thing of inflaming the mind to destructive action
against so-called “vicious individuals” is one of the most dangerous aspects of
this cult. Imagine the possible effect on certain types of emotional,
unbalanced individuals when statements like the following are made. They were
made publicly in Philadelphia on November 15, 1938, by Guy Ballard, but if you
can believe it — they are the actual words of the Archangel Michael!
“Since more than six hundred thousand people are calling
for Me . . . they shall wield the Sword of Blue Flame in their PHYSICAL HANDS.
(p. 7, Jan., 1939, V.)
“Therefore, tonight, I release to you in Philadelphia the
Power of the use of the Sword of Blue Flame. Mentally, picture it in your
hands. (pp. 8-9)
“These forces that hate so greatly and do all they can to
spread discord everywhere, must be governed; sometimes by FORCE! That is what
We shall proceed to do . . . Therefore, when We tell you that We intend to use
FORCE where it is necessary, We mean just that! We mean the force and Power of
Light that can absolutely SILENCE ANY HUMAN ACTION!... That is why there will
be thousands of students in America in the near future who can say “STOP!” with
a force that will FASTEN THE HUMAN FORM IN ITS TRACKS.” (pp. 12-13, our
capitals.)
Imagine making such
dangerous promises and placing in the hands of emotionally-aroused people such
imaginary power!
In any large meeting of this kind there are likely to be
present those who are mentally unbalanced, psychopathic, or perhaps criminally
insane. Fired with the ardor of being able to wield Archangel Michael’s “Sword
of Blue Flame” in their “physical hands,” there is no telling what such
individuals might do physically against any so-called vicious person; for when
their decrees of death do not work on the mental plane of being, the tendency
is to go over to the physical.
When such a mob spirit as this gets loose in America
under the guise of religion and patriotism, does it not constitute a danger and
a menace?
(Psychic Dictatorship in America, chapter 31)
Cid's observation
Apart from Gerald Bryan, several other former members
have also claimed that the Ballards were constantly making death decrees
against those who criticized them, and this is further proof that Guy and Edna
Ballard were not in contact with the masters, because the masters of wisdom would
never have allowed this negative behavior from their messengers.
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