Our Haunted Planet - John Keel-pages

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Catholic church, the Inquisition. The ecclesiastic control of tie various ruling families had for its purpose the rule of the people in their material bodies on this earth-plane. A nation is said by Eastern philosophers to lie under certain occult (or secret) controls. Nations who go to war on the earth-plane reflect certain wars in Heaven. something of their own mission. Ruling families of Europe knew of this occult control and believed themselves in power by divine right, but occult control was secret and not discussed by historians or political writers until just the last few years, All of this may be absolute nonsense, but we cannot overlook the unhappy fact that these truths were completely believed for thousands of years by the leaders of the world and therefore had an appalling influence over human events and destiny. Bloody religious wars were fought for centuries as the different religions attempted fo gain total domination of the known world. Even worse, man's own record of his early history was systematically destroyed by the conflicting factions. The library at Alexandria, Egypt, which housed thousands of years of history was sacked and burned The remnants of early cultures were wantonly destroyed. And then we were given a new history, generously dictated by the ultraterrestrials, and we bogged down in the Dark Ages for a thousand years. The human race quite willingly turned itself Qver to the ultraterrestrials. It was not until the nineteenth century that we began to claw our way out from under occult rule. In 1848 the whole world exploded. There were more than fifty major revolutions. Spiritualism was born that year in Wayne County, New York, when two teenaged girls -the Fox sisters - learned to communicate with a rapping poltergeist. The Communist Manifesto was published. Kings were dethroned. There were major political assassinations just as mysterious as the murder of President Kennedy. The first Woman's Suffrage Movement got underway in Seneca Falls, New York. The whole world was suddenly in upheaval. A host of brilliant inventors and scientists suddenly appeared simultaneously, and the great Industrial and Scientific Revolutions got underway. (Thomas Edison was born in 1847.) Mankind hurtled into a fantastic hundred-year period that saw the rapid development of steam-boats, railroads, aeroplanes, and finally the atomic bomb. Social structures everywhere were suddenly revised. Ironically, the feared goals of the seventeenth century Iluminali have now become a reality to millions of people. Red China and the Soviet Union have gone to an extreme, suppressing religion and carving out totalitarian states that appear to be steps towards robotizing the human race. But the technological advances and the conflict of political ideologies are insignificant when compared to the amazing revolution of the mind which has taken place - almost unnoticed - in the past decade. The secret cults of the past have been replaced by the eerie mysticism of the LSD cults and the Hippie movement Young people everywhere are turning to witchcraft and It is true that the Masonic founders of the United States knew of this occult control and even