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THE BALLARDS ATTITUDE WITH THE OTHER ESOTERIC ORGANIZATIONS


 
By Gerald B. Bryan
 
The Ballard harvest of souls, however, has been particularly bountiful among the waving fields of the unorthodox. Many of these, having no abiding resting place, spiritually speaking, were attracted by greener fields beyond the old occult barriers.
 
“The old occult order has been set aside,” the Ballards announced; and so, like the days of the forty-niners, the “gold rush” was on, both spiritually and materially speaking.
 
But most of the material gold flowed into the coffers of the Ballards instead of the other way around. And most of the spiritual gold today is being found spurious.
 
 
 
The Theosophists
 
From the Theosophists the Ballards purloined their Masters, and set out to catch their students with unique psychic holds all their own.
 
They had the Masters Morya and Kuthumi come forth to say that when they started the Theosophical Society through their messenger, Madame Blavatsky, they “were not then ascended,” and “could only go so far.” (pp. 317 and 334, A.M.L.)
 
And very generously and humbly these new “Ascended” Masters admitted: “Our Beloved Saint Germain has accomplished more in three years than We did in the many years of Our humble efforts.” (p. 323)
 
The Ballards were able by these and other methods to make fair-sized catches among the Theosophists, but it was hard to hold some of these disciples of the out-spoken Blavatsky, who warned her students of astral “spooks.” Many got into the movement, but got out when the “blasting” with the “Blue Lightning” threatened too much carnage in the land.
 
 
 
The Rosicrucians
 
Fair haul were also made from members of the various Rosicrucian societies in America. But, like the Theosophists, those who did not get rid of their intellects, got out; those who did, no doubt are still there.
 
 
 
The Spiritualists
 
From the Spiritualists, or those inclined that way, the Ballards naturally made many converts. Which is very understandable, considering that the Ballard cult itself is nothing but a glorified spiritualism with streamlined additions.
 
And yet, of all people who have ever condemned spiritualism, the Ballards have been the worst! They practiced the very thing they condemned, but distorted it, adding so much which is illegitimate and absurd that is has been a real detriment to the scientific investigation of spiritualism. They unwisely opened the psychic plane to people who have no comprehension of or control over the forces they have been led to play with, interfering with their proper focus on the physical plane of being, and threatening their mental balance.
 
 
 
The Metaphysicians
 
No doubt the Ballards have made their greatest catches among students who have been associated with one or more of the various metaphysical organizations scattered throughout the United States. Most of these schools had been teaching about the “I AM” long years before Mrs. Ballard set herself up as an authority on the I AM in all languages.
 
The Ballards have drawn many from the Unity School of Christianity at Kansas City, and the variously-named Divine Science, New Thought, and Spiritual Healing groups.
 
The bait the Ballards used in getting converts from the various metaphysical schools was usually a more dynamic presentation of the “I AM,” the greater lure of material prosperity, health, and the addition of streamlined “Masters” and “Goddesses.” With so potent a combination, is it any wonder so many of the ever-growing numbers of metaphysically-inclined people in America fell for the Great Deception?
 
 
 
The Christian Scientists
 
The Ballards have been particularly desirous, it seems, of getting the disciples of Mary Baker Eddy into their fold; and in their efforts to do this, have gone to extremes of both denunciation and flattery.
 
Thinking, perhaps, that the Christian Scientists would be more responsive to a feminine personality than a masculine one, they brought forth one of the “lady Ascended Masters,” whom they called the “Lady Master Leto.”
 
Leto “came forth” at the Pasadena, California, class, on the evening of January 17, 1937, and among other things she quite generously admitted that “Mrs. Eddy brought another phase of Knowledge to Mankind.” Then in the usual Ballard way, loyal Leto, who, like other Ballard “Goddesses,” has a good sense of advertising values, referred to the “Saint Germain I AM Instruction,” and said: “Now, this had come forth as the final Knowledge!” (p. 226, A.M.L.)
 
But the outspoken “Saint Germain,” not so lady-like and diplomatic as little Leto, threatens to “empty their churches” if the Christian Scientists do not allegedly stop criticizing the Mighty I AM. We quote:
 
“. . . I tell you frankly, EVERY SOURCE, whether it is Unity, Christian Science or whatever it is that attempts to bring disgrace upon This Work or condemns or criticizes It will fail utterly and their churches will be empty!” (p. 10, March, 1937, V)
 
For the most part, we think Saint Germain waxes a little overenthusiastic about the emptying of the Christian Science churches, and the others.
 
Doubtless some of the more restless souls of the Mother Church have become loosened from the C. S. imperturbable rock of faith and have fallen into Ballardism — Saint Germain’s “final knowledge” of Christian Science!
 
And some of these have come out again —sadly disillusioned— and like wandering planetoids with irregular orbits are seeking some parent sun in the religious cosmos, some focus of more dependable faith than Ballardism with its strange coterie of man-made gods and goddesses.
 
 
 
(This is the second part of chapter 27 of the book Psychic Dictatorship in America.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
OBSERVATION
 
We see that Guy and Edna Ballard were very hostile towards the other esoteric and pseudo-esoteric organizations, but not because they knew how to discern the defects that those organizations had, but because the Ballards, having captured most of their recruits through manipulation, from those organizations, the Ballards did not want their members to return to these organizations.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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