THE DEATH DECREES MADE BY THE BALLARDS

 

 

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:

 

-      “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”:

 

-      “Those who try to oppose this Light are dissolved by it.”

-      “Destructive individuals shall be searched out and shall leave those bodies.”

-      “I would dissolve those physical bodies before they shall harm him.”

-      “They sound their own death knell!”

-      “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!”

-      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.