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Rampa was also aware of censorship surrounding the reporting allegiance to the Master of the World. of UFOs in the West. "The pilots who fly the [aircraft], whether in The Gardeners took the monk to an orbiting observatory where a commercial capacity or in connection with the armed forces, nine wise men were in charge of observing the Akashic records of have seen and will continue to see UFOs but, until the moronic Earth and other worlds. They showed him the history of the world, governments of the world change their attitudes, not much will be beginning with a huge comet colliding with a dead world at the heard of those sightings. The Argentinian government is surely centre of the galaxy, sending out gobbets of incandescent gas one of the most enlightened in that they officially recognise the which eventually became the planets. Two expeditions explored existence of UFOs." (p. 86) The military clique cannot the new worlds while a third dropped biological specimens onto acknowledge UFOs because it would compromise security and the land and into the seas. Millennia later, a fourth expedition reveal their vulnerability. He noted that any reference that delivered huge dinosaurs to planet Earth. However, after many astronauts make to UFOs while they're in space is deleted and their years the Earth was wobbling on its axis, so a vessel was photos destroyed. While this may have sounded like unfounded despatched to break up the supercontinent with a laser beam. paranoia in the 1960s, many people today believe there has been a Another expedition brought purple humanoids to the Earth monstrous government conspiracy of silence lasting over 50 which had eight breasts and long, ape-like arms. They lived in years—a belief fuelled by such TV shows as The X-Files, Dark caves and could not use fire, so the Gardeners were forced to Skies, The Smoking Gun and Roswell. exterminate them to make room for more advanced humans. After Rampa also claimed that religious leaders would not thousands of years and climate change, these humans developed a acknowledge UFOs because it would shake their paradigm that mighty civilisation. But the Gardeners fraternised too freely with man is made in the image of God, if an advanced alien appearedto the Earthlings, especially the women. A group stole their be non-human. technology, attacked them and let off a nuclear device which Further, he noted: "If the UFO people had wanted to take over —_ wreaked havoc upon the Earth, sinking whole cities and continents the Earth, they could have done it centuries ago. The point is, they beneath the oceans. are afraid that they will have to take over the Earth (and they do For centuries the Gardeners stayed away from the irradiated not want to) if the Earth goes on releasing too much hard atomic _ planet but eventually returned with more human and animal radiation. These spacemen are the specimens, distributing them on Gardeners of the Earth. They are trying different continents. | Mankind to save the Earth from the Earth eventually evolved and built towns people—and what a time they are and cities, while the supervising having!" (p. 89) Gardeners were worshipped as gods Some of Rampa's ideas by the Earth inhabitants. - The Hermit Aa From another galaxy, a warlike race Five years before Sitchin wrote his were original and may have with horny growths on their forehead cult classic The Twelfth Planet, influenced later writers. attacked the empire and laid waste to expounding the belief that our solar system. Cataclysmic battles extraterrestrials had seeded and took place in the heavens: genetically engineered the human race, atmospheres were blasted away and Rampa explained the whole process in worlds destroyed. A planet, dislodged The Hermit. The story began with a from its orbit, struck the Earth, blind old Tibetan hermit imparting his causing a catastrophic loss of life. knowledge to "the chosen one". In his youth he had been abducted Only a few humans and animals, aided by the Gardeners, were by an advanced race who revealed themselves as "the Gardeners of conveyed to safety in a great ark. the Earth". They took him to another galaxy and performed On the Earth, a great ice age developed. The Gardeners now medical experiments upon his unwilling body, including brain decided to live apart from humans and dwell on mountains. Some surgery to increase his intelligence. Bluntly they informed him inexperienced Gardeners, the "gods of Olympus", engaged in that the Earthlings were a very evil race who threatened to destroy licentious behaviour and were transferred to other worlds. So the not only themselves but other intelligent life on nearby worlds. Gardeners then decided to communicate only through suitably The Gardeners informed him: "We travel in universes putting chosen natives such as Moses, Buddha and Jesus, who were people and animals on many different worlds. You Earthlings instructed to institute new religions. But always the priests have your legends about us; you refer to us as gods of the sky. perverted the true teachings for their own power and gain. Now we are to give you information as to the origin of life on The hermit was returned to a comfortable cave in Tibet where he Earth...for it is time that people knew the truth of their gods before was told a "chosen one" would come many years later to hear his we initiate the second phase." (p. 14) They transported the blind wisdom. The Gardeners decided that even though the auras of the monk to another galaxy and implanted artificial sight so that he human race were faulty, mankind would be given another chance. could witness the wonders of their civilisation. He was taken to the However, if humans did not heed such warnings and stop polluting centre of the empire, where "the colours were all wrong. The grass their planet with radioactivity, the Gardeners would be forced to was red and the rocks were yellow. The sky was of a greenish cast _ intervene at any time in the future. and there were two suns." (p. 104) The empire was vast and incorporated many different planets + Tibetan Sage and star systems which co-existed in harmony. The inhabitants In Tibetan Sage, Rampa provided more information about these were humanoids with varied characteristics and features. There Gardeners, although he repeated many themes from earlier books. were vast cities of towering spires traversed by flying vehicles of | With his Guide, he visited an artificial cave which "...used to be the all descriptions. This world was the headquarters of the vast headquarters of a special race who could do space travel and just empire, where every planet was self-governing but owed about everything else. Some of Rampa's ideas were original and may have influenced later writers. + Tibetan Sage In Tibetan Sage, Rampa provided more information about these Gardeners, although he repeated many themes from earlier books. With his Guide, he visited an artificial cave which "...used to be the headquarters of a special race who could do space travel and just about everything else. 54 = NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2006 www.nexusmagazine.com