THE SOURCES THAT THE BALLARDS USED TO PREPARE THEIR CULT

 

 

 

 

Guy and Edna Ballard initially wandered around mountaintops with mediums to see if they could find gold mines, but they never found them.

 

And in their search for hidden powers, they wandered from teacher to teacher. But not from the “Ascended Masters” as their books would have the gullible believe, but simply from esoteric pseudo-instructors of the physical plane: occult lecturers, Hindus, Egyptians and others in the magical world of esotericism.

 

But mainly they were interested in mediumship and varied the business by transmitting some spiritualistic messages for themselves, as any other ordinary medium would do. Most of those who knew the Ballards before they became famous attest that the Ballards were very prone to spiritism.

 

They became wandering metaphysical vagabonds, sitting at the feet of false guides of the earth plane who would be too numerous to mention them all, but the principals were the following:

 

They drank a little Christian Science, read a little Walter CS Method, moved to the Unity School in Kansas City, became involved with the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), joined the Order of Mystics Christians, they studied with Pelley the Silver Shirt, sat at the feet of some of the Swamis, examined the magic of Yogi Philosophy and Eastern Mysticism.

 

But above all they were interested in Baird T. Spalding and his “Far Eastern Masters”, who gave them the idea, undoubtedly, together with the Pseudo-theosophy of Charles Leadbeater, to invent their “Ascended Masters”.

 

And from this curious mixture of heterodoxy emerged the books of Guy Ballard, books of which Saint Germain himself has said "none in the world had been written like them", which is false since Guy Ballard also plagiarized a lot.

 

The Ballards used what they wanted, changed and distorted what they wanted, flavored the whole smorgasbord with literary spices from Deadwood Dick-type novels, salted it with pseudoscientific facts from pulp magazines, sweetened it with a certain amount of soul-catching goodness, hungry for spirituality, and wrapped it in cellophane wrappers with an Arabian Nights glow.

 

They labeled it as “Instruction from the Ascended Master of the Mighty I AM”, transmitted by the three and only divinely appointed Messengers (i.e. Guy, Edna and their son Donald) and sold it hot on the counters for huge profits in the sacred temples of the I AM movement.

 

And the money they could not obtain with their fruitless search for gold mines, they obtained by cajoling the people with their trickster cult.

 

And this mixture is the strange and delirious concoction with which so many thousands of sincere people are being fed morning, noon and night, believing in the lies that those liars told them. And most of them will need a good psychological purge to get so much garbage out of their system.