Lecture given on October 30th, 1966, by Riley Crabb

THE MASS LANDINGS IN 9TH CENTURY FRANCE

One of the most interesting pieces of comparatively early Flying Saucer literature was published in Paris, France in 1670. A lay priest of the Roman Catholic Church was the author, the Abbe de Villars. He titled his little masterpiece of occult literature, “The Comte de Gabalis”, the Count of the Kabala; for this mysterious Count, an Adept from the Western Lodge, is the central figure. The material in the book is mainly a series of discourses by the Comte de Gabalis. These are instructions in metaphysics for his student, the Abbe. We have already referred to the Sun behind the sun in this talk, Sirius. It was our own reading of the Comte’s discourses that stirred our interest in that tremendous, binary star system, the brightest star in our heavens. In the opening “Invocation to the Flame” there is a direct reference by the Comte to “the unseen parent of the sun”. During the discourses it is made clear that this unseen sun is the brightest star which the Romans called the Dog Star, Sirius.

THE KABALIST, ZEDECHIAS

In Discourse V, the Count tells the Abbe, of a Jewish Rabbi who was in contact with the Ethereans, the Visitors from outer space. It was long, long ago near the end of the reign of Charlemagne in France.

“The famous Cabalist Zedechias,” said the Count, “in the reign of your Pepin, took it into his head to convince the world that the Elements are inhabited by these Peoples whose nature I have just described to you. The expedient of which he bethought himself was to advise the Sylphs to show themselves in the Air to everybody; they did so sumptuously.

“These beings were seen in the Air in human form, sometimes in battle array marching in good order, halting under arms, or encamped beneath magnificent tents. Sometimes on aerial ships, whose flying squadrons roved at the will of the Zephyrs. What happened? Do you suppose that the ignorant age would so much as reason as to the nature of these marvelous spectacles? The people straightaway believed that sorcerers had taken possession of the Air for the purpose of raising tempests and bringing hail upon their crops.

“The theologians and the learned jurists were soon of the same opinion as the masses. The Emperors believed it as well; and this ridiculous chimera went so far that the wise Charlemagne, and after him Louis the Debonnaire, imposed grievous penalties upon all these supposed Tyrants of the Air. You may see an account of this in the first chapter of the Capitularies of these two Emperors.”

You see, the government of France imposed a “silence policy” on Flying Saucers in the 9th Century just as our government does today. And our “grievous penalties” against the Visitors is the standing order to Air Force and Navy pilots to shoot down Flying Saucers wherever they can. In the 9th Century the Ethereans tried a novel way to change the minds of the leaders and the masses. Said the Count:

“The Sylphs seeing the populace, the pedants and even the crowned heads thus alarmed against them, determined to dissipate the bad opinion people had of their innocent fleet by carrying off men from every locality and showing them their beautiful women, their Republic, and their manner of government, and then setting them down again on earth in divers parts of the world.”

No wonder those bloody dictators, Charlemagne and Louis, were so violently opposed to the presence of the Visitors. Thousands of Frenchmen were treated to a view of a republic, responsible citizens choosing their leaders by popular ballot. This was a threat to their absolute rule. The bloody dictators of the Roman Catholic Church were no less alarmed. The presence of the Flying Saucers was an open threat to their absolute rule of the minds and hearts of their pitiful subjects.

According to the Count, the Sylphs ”carried out their plan” of trying to awaken those southern Frenchmen to the possibility of a New Age of Enlightenment, free from ruthless dictators and religious tyrants. “The people who saw these men descending (from the space ships) came running from every direction, convinced beforehand that they were sorcerers who had separated from their companions in order to come and scatter poison on the fruit and in the springs. Carried away by the frenzy with which such fancies inspired them, they hurried these innocents off to torture. The great number of them who were put to death by fire and water throughout the kingdom is incredible.”

HAVE WE CHANGED? NOT MUCH!

Of course we’re too modern now to subject Flying Saucer contactees to torture or drowning. We are more sophisticated and more subtle than the Frenchman of the 9th Century; we use character assassination. Air Force spokesmen imply that people who see Flying Saucers are deluded dupes or outright frauds. Neighbors subject Flying Saucers sighters to all kinds of ridicule. Frank Mannor, the Michigan farmer who watched a Saucer maneuver around over his land for four hours one night last April, went through hell afterward. Drunks drove by his house afterward, at night, and heaved beer bottles through his car windows. He and his wife received threatening and obscene telephone calls from people who refused to identify themselves. Some of these callers were spurred on by their religious leaders, no doubt.

“One day among other instances,” continued the Count, “it chanced at Lyons that three men and a woman were seen descending from these aerial ships. The entire city gathered about them crying out that they were magicians and were sent by Grimaldus, Duke of Beneventum, Charlemagne’s enemy, to destroy the French harvests. In vain the four innocents sought to vindicate themselves by saying that they were their own countrymen, and had been carried away a short time since by miraculous men who had shown them unheard-of-marvels, and had desired them to give an account of what they had seen. The frenzied populace paid no heed to their defense, and were on the point of casting them into the fire when the worthy Abogard, Bishop of Lyons, who having been a monk in that city had acquired considerable authority there, came running at the noise, and having heard the accusations of the people and the defense of the accused, gravely pronounced that both one and the other were false. That it was not true that these men had fallen from the sky, and that what they said they had seen there was impossible.”

Clever man, the Bishop of Lyons, he saved the lives of four innocent people. Even more important, he preserved the authority of the Roman Catholic Church. “The people believed what their good father Agobard said, rather than their own eyes, were pacified, set at liberty the four Ambassadors of the Sylphs, and received with wonder the book which Agobard wrote to confirm the judgment which he had pronounced. Thus the testimony of these four witnesses was rendered vain.”

The negative bias of the Piscean Age was too strong to be overcome in the 9th Century with even this powerful testimony. This attempt of Zedechias and the Ethereans to open the minds of men failed, then, almost; for there was no cessation in the endless wars, brutality and corruption of the times. Yet a philosophical seed had been planted by the Visitors; for the Count went on to tell the Abbe of the results of the visit to the Etherean realms by the three men and the woman:

“Nevertheless, as they escaped with their lives they were free to recount what they had seen, which was not altogether fruitless; for, as you will recall, the age of Charlemagne was prolific of heroic men. This would indicate that the woman who had been in the home of the Sylphs found credence among the ladies of that period. . . which compelled the people of those times to apply themselves somewhat to Philosophy; and thence were derived all the stories of the fairies which you find in the love legends of the age of Charlemagne and of those which followed. . . “

THE DAWN OF PROTESTANTISM

Here is a clue to the seeds of protest against the corruption of priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church. They were planted in the hearts of Frenchmen of Languedoc and elsewhere in Southern France by Visitors from outer space in the 9th Century. Two centuries later the so-called Albigensian heresy was in full-blown revolt against the dead dogmas of the Church.

So liberal was the atmosphere of western Provence, Languedoc, then that the Kabala could be openly acknowledged and taught by such leaders as Abraham ben Isaac, president of the Court of Law in Narbonne. The oldest known book on the Kabala, the “Bahir”, was in circulation. Then a religious fanatic named Lothario di Conti grabbed the throne in Rome and launched an all-out political and economic war against the French heretics, more generally known in those times as Catharists. In Peter of Castelnau this new pope, Innocent III, found a religious maniac as ruthless and greedy for power as himself. Castelnau was appointed Papal Legate with full power to enlist the aid of the king of France in destroying all liberty in Southern France. When Brother Peter was assassinated on Jan. 14, 1208, Innocent III conceived the brilliant scheme of launching the Fourth Crusade, not against the infidels in the Holy Land, but against good Christians in Southern France! The bloody and successful war against Christian heretics dragged on long after Innocent III’s death. But self-consciousness does not end at the grave and in 1245 the great pope’s revenge was complete. From the Catholic heaven he could watch in triumph as his fanatical followers overwhelmed the last Catharist citadel on Montsegur. To make their triumph complete the good Catholics roasted the remaining 200 protesting Christians alive. The stink of their burning flesh perfumed the air of Southern France for days afterward. Heresy was suppressed for a time and the teaching of the Ancient Wisdom was driven underground; but the Church forever lost its moral authority.

Nowhere in our history is the negative bias of the Piscean Age more obvious than in the sad tale told above. The story of the Albigensian heresy was dramatic proof of what the great Greek philosopher, Plato, had predicted almost a thousand years earlier at the end of the Aries Age. There are negative, barren periods when men lose sight of the divine principle within them, and they are governed solely by their animal passions. He foresaw correctly the endless strife and cruelty of the coming Piscean Age. Plato was also aware of the continuing and uplifting pressure of the Sun behind the sun.

THE DAILY “MONTSEGUR” OF VIETNAM

Thank God, Piscean influence is on the wane now. Daily, the Aquarian ideal of brotherhood is expressed more powerfully as millions lift their hearts and minds in prayers for peace. World War III, which threatened so surely from Korea 15 years ago, has been held off this long. Let us continue to believe that the increasing volume of prayer will be answered by an even mightier response from on high.

We cannot rest. There are billions of souls here on earth still dominated by Piscean Age influence. There is that religious fanatic Cardinal Spellman, for instance. A couple of years ago he prevailed upon the President of the United States to defend Catholic freedom in Vietnam by force of American arms. Communist and Buddhist heretics in that unhappy land were threatening to overpower the religious dictatorship of the extreme right. Every day is a “Montsegur” in Southeastern Asia as patriotic Americans slaughter Vietnamese with the very best weapons. Those who aren’t fortunate enough to be blown apart by our bombs are roasted to death with Napalm. This fiendish stuff is jellied from the best high-test gasoline Standard Oil can produce. The stink of burned hair and scorched flesh is a melancholy perfume indeed to send aloft anywhere. How much longer will we support the missionary effort of the Church in Vietnam before our national conscience is aroused? That is a moot question. The President has vowed to keep our troops there until every last heretic is killed, if necessary. Congress has voted more war-powers and money than he has asked for; and the majority of the people are backing him in this strife, according to the national polls.

But there is the continual and visible presence of Flying Saucers in America. All through 1966 the Visitors have been shaking our smug self-assurance. Sightings are so numerous and continuous now that Flying Saucer research groups cannot keep up with the flow of news stories. The Visitors will succeed now where they failed in the 9th Century. This is the end of the Piscean Age, not the middle of it. Saucer sightings and Saucer stories will continue to hammer away at our minds and hearts until we are forced to recognize that we are not alone in the universe. With this knowledge will come a sense of international responsibility so sadly lacking before. Even the President seems to be getting sick of the huge conflict he started without even bothering to obtain a declaration of war from Congress. During his recent tour of the far east he told the Australians:

“We are ready to stop the bombing of North Vietnam. We are ready to produce a schedule for the withdrawal of our troops whenever the other side tells us what it is prepared to do to move toward peace in Vietnam. . . We do not seek the unconditional surrender of those who oppose us, nor to destroy or change any system of government, nor to deprive any people of what is rightfully theirs. . . “

Excerpt from The Journal of Borderland Research 1966

See Part I here.