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46 perverse, degenerate DERO apparently uses this technology for the most bizarre and depraved purposes, giving rise to the surface people’s legends of Hell. Surface people are, according to Shaver, frequently abducted and enslaved in the world below. This brief synopsis of the Shaver Mystery doesn’t even attempt to do the scope of it justice; the major point here is that Shaver and Palmer scandalized the science fiction Establishment by asserting that all of this was, essentially, real and not fiction. The material began appearing in Palmer’s Amazing Stories magazine in 1943. The circulation increased by 50,000 almost immediately, but by the end of the decade the scandal overwhelmed the publishing house, and the Shaver material ceased ap- pearing. Palmer attempted to revive interest in the early 1960s, during which time I became involved with both Shaver and Palmer. They were quite different types; Shaver, like Adamski a pragmatic visionary, con- sidered these entities to be physical beings and a literally true reality. Palmer was inclined to see it more in metaphysical astral terms, leaving a few individuals like myself sort of on the fence. Palmer presented the material with a mystery that seemed to have physical, psychological and paranormal components. Shaver first encountered Palmer when the former sent Palmer something he called the “Mantong Alphabet”—a sort of cipher that he claimed was the root-language of beings throughout the universe, and which bore a close relationship to English. Shaver maintained that English was a late, degenerated form of Mantong, relating rather like Spanish does to Classical Latin. Palmer took one serious look at the “al- phabet” and recognized he was on to something. Either Richard Shaver, or whoever (or whatever) his Source was, appears to have been attempting to introduce the Cipher of the UFOnauts to certain scattered Initi- ates through Amazing Stories and related publications. The base readership certainly overlapped with that of Weird Tales and other followers of the fantastic occultism of the Lovecraft circle. The new readership, which came and went with the Shaver material were prime candidates for introduction. Mantong is not the Cipher of the UFOnauts in its current form, but many key names and words used in the Shaver material, sometimes capitalized for emphasis, yield startling results for the UFOlogist and occultist when reduced to cipher and decoded, using the methods outlined in this book. Example: According to Shaver, the Dero used advanced telepathy—augmentation machines, which serve as a kind of virtual reality projector throughout the caves and on surface people. The machine used is called a TELAUG, or 80 in the Cipher, iden- tical to ALL CAVERN and RECORDS. MANTONG itself equals 92, the number of READING. As we have established, 92 can also be thought of as 9 + 2, which equals 11, the KEY to the Cipher of the UFOnauts. One could easily interpret this as, “READING MANTONG means using the cipher based in the number 11.” At one point Shaver tells us we have allies in the caves, capitalizing for emphasis, ALL CAVERN PEOPLE ARE NOT DEROS which equals 329, the exact numeri- cal equivalent of RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE, a phrase now showing up in the Allen H. Greenfield