They Live in the Sky
By Trevor James Constable
Pertinent Excerpts From A Flying Saucer Classic Of The 1950s, Part VIII
[Index of 10 parts]
Oct. 2: Tokyo, Japan. USAF KB29 tanker plane crashes. Got out of control on landing.
Oct. 2: San Diego, Calif. Navy AD5N Skyraider crashes into San Diego bay, pilot missing.
Oct. 3: Honolulu, Hawaii, Marine jet fighter missing on night training flight. Fury jet was last heard from approaching its base at Kaneohe Naval Air Station.
Oct. 3: Charleston, S.D. C-124 Globemaster crashes and burns on landing at Kelley Air Force Base. Coming in with one dead engine, plane lost power on second engine during final approach.
Oct. 4: Rapid City, S.D. An F-28-D jet based at Ellsworth Air Force Base crashes. Pilot bails out after feeling "explosion in the tail of the plane". Live rockets are strewn around crash site.
Oct. 4: El Cajon, Calif. Navy F3H Demon Fighter crashes on mountain side. Pilot bailed out.
Oct. 5: Everett, Wash. Two F89H interceptors missing, believed to have collided in flight. Both planes carried pilot and radar observer.
Oct. 6: Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming. DC4 airliner crashes en route from Denver to Salt Lake City. The Civil Aeronautics Board, in its formal report said, the probable cause was pilot deviation from the planned Denver-Salt Lake City route for some "unknown reason".
Only a fool would point to such a list of accidents and say it is concrete proof of interference by UFO or proof of the hostility of some of them. It is not concrete proof, but it is a highly unusual list of accidents when it is considered alongside Ashtar's message of September 17, 1956.
Many of these strange happenings in the air may be part of a long term plan to terrorize, i.e. to produce fear in people. Referring to this matter, Ashtar made the following statement:
"Let me give you this earnest injunction. Cast out all fear, for fear is the lubricant, the food and the vehicle of the Dark Forces. Without fear you are truly impregnable, so strive for this attainment."
As for the seeming contradiction found in the possession of extremely advanced scientific devices by certain of these degenerate spirit-beings, who appear to have aggressive designs on some aspects of our civilization, let another statement from Ashtar be our guide:
"Scientific advancement is not now, never was, and never will be related to moral development."
Let those who adhere to the fiction that the advent of the UFO is a purely scientific phenomenon, unrelated to spiritual, moral or ethical values ponder upon the self-evident truth of this statement.
THE DANGERS OF INDISCRIMINATE MEDIUMSHIP
In recent years, since the first contacts with space men were made, a great deal of indiscriminate trance mediumship has been indulged in by untrained persons of varying scruples.
The result has been a plethora of communications from alleged "spacemen", many of which are of a specious nature, self-contradictory and at variance with the observed facts. The point has now been reached in the various "saucer clubs" where the sound of a voice, any voice, on a tape recorder mumbling about "the confederation of interplanetary government" or other questionable things is greeted with delighted cries of "It's the spacemen speaking!" Voices of unseen personalities, no matter who they may claim to be, are no guarantee of truth. The thing that makes a man a liar is that he pretends to tell the truth and takes you in! A skillful liar often gets away with lying for years in our own society.
Another difficulty lies in the fact that many people claiming contact with "spacemen" want to be the new Messiah. . . their total lack of discrimination merely indicates that they are ideally suited to be fooled. They are set-ups for those unethical invisibles who are themselves set up to fool, to delude and to confuse.
The particular being referred to in this book, Ashtar, once expressed the view that all communications, no matter whence they are purported to emanate, be considered solely on their own merits. He has frequently stated that many come in his name and under his name, and therefore it is foolish to presume that because a message comes "from Ashtar" it is automatically the truth. It is his wish that all messages be scrutinized and given the full glare of critical judgement regardless of the purported source, and especially of the name employed to gain confidence and a ready ear. . .
Ethical beings wishing to convey information will usually ensure that the person they contact will have access to and will seek protective measures necessary to prevent the unethical beings from interfering [17] with and corrupting the channel they wish to use. For these ethical beings to open these faculties in a human being, probably by etheric means, is therefore a very solemn undertaking. Naturally, for their own purposes, they do not want contacts on earth who are just "broad tuned" to everything thrust at them from the invisible. . . Here is a warning on this matter from Andolo, mentioned earlier in the book:
THE NEED FOR OCCULT SCIENCE
"I shall issue this warning. Those of you who are seeking to make contact with the higher forces, are exposing yourself to dangers from which it may be beyond our power to deliver you once they have happened. Our suggestion to all those seeking contact by other than mechanical or artificial means is to first seek protection and knowledge from what are termed on your surface, 'occult sources'.
"If you yourself rend the veil between yourself and the invisible worlds, then you may find waiting on the other side, forces alien to all your ideals and higher concepts. These forces will be unwilling to release you from their toils once you are in them. I therefore enjoin greatest care and caution in attempting telepathic contact with us. If you will read the earlier communications of this channel you will realize as nothing else will make you realize the type of creatures with whom you may be making contact. Some of them are highly evolved and are able to masquerade as spacemen quite effectively. Others have nothing valid to impart and use your contact with them for joking amusement or as a means of obtaining control of a physical vehicle.
"These things deserve to be weighted and evaluated most carefully by those who, however sincere their beliefs, may in the very act of contacting us be exposing themselves to all that they do not wish to contact either in the visible or invisible realms. We have the power and means to make contact with any person we desire to be of conscious service to us, and when we make such contact, it is made so that the person concerned is neither harmed nor placed in danger."
Reared in the Christian faith, I must insist that any invisible being serves the Christ spirit before I will transact any business with him. In the stumbling, backsliding, groping fashion that is the hall-mark of the Christian, I try to live according to the teachings of Jesus Christ. . .
Trevor: "Why has the information you have given me been passed through me? That is, why have I been used as the channel for it?"
Ashtar: "This information is well known in occult circles upon your planet, and has been known for many thousands of years by those you term initiates and adapts. This information, however, could not be revealed through their agency to the outside world. We therefore have selected individuals whose analytical minds and willingness to accept new concepts will make them channels for the truth. Your recognition of yourself as the channel for and not the originator of this material is both discreet and honorable."
Let it be seen from this communication that the knowledge advanced step by step is neither new nor revolutionary in those circles, where under oaths of secrecy, all these matters are studied and mastered by those who are fitted for such things. In my opinion, a great deal more is already known of these UFO by certain human beings on earth than could possibly be passed through a person of such limited abilities and knowledge as myself. . .
Trevor: "I would like your comments on the rumor being circulated that Ashtar is a giant mechanical brain."
Ashtar: "I have in the past mentioned this to my other friends. This idea is sown maliciously to bring about confusion and disbelief in what is coming from this source. The dark ones, who are our foes, would very much like to see the faith built up in these messages and contacts betrayed and destroyed. And yet the merit of their content forbids any such thing taking place. Hence the idea of a 'giant mechanical brain' has been circulated to let your people think that they are contacting some vast mechanism instead of a being. I give you my personal assurance that I am as real and as individual as yourself. The fact that I am upon a plane of existence where higher vibrations prevail alters my reality not one whit. I do not see the reason for any further discussion upon this point."
THE HIGHLY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ASTRAL AND ETHERIC
Trevor: "I would like you to give your description of the differences between space people and spirit people. I would appreciate as full an answer as my understanding permits."
Andolo: "The differences are very great, although to the cursory glance it may seem that space people are spirits. However, it all comes down to a matter of the condition in which we dwell. We are etheric beings, in your expression. By this I mean that we live upon a higher plane of existence. We are not discarnate in the sense of having no bodies. We have etheric bodies which are counterparts of your bodies but which are made of a more tenuous substance, and which are not subject in the same way to gravitational effects.
"The etheric state in which we dwell is one of many on an ascending evolutionary scale to which we all belong. Above us, for example, are beings more highly evolved than us by as great a gap as there is between ourselves and you. This is not meant in any deprecatory sense towards you but merely as a factual statement about the scales on which we dwell. Upon our plane of life we have much the same type of existence as you do, although it is free of the corruptions, crimes and undesirable elements which are to be worked out of a being's karmic life before he may pass into the etheric state.
"Your earth is a testing ground, one of many hundreds of thousands of testing grounds in the Universe, where beings evolve upwards on the scale of life, working constantly towards junction with the Great One as the ultimate attainment of all existence." (To be continued)
Continue with "They Live in the Sky" (Part IX)
They Live in the Sky: Invisible Incredible UFO Around Us
by Trevor James
"Is there extraterrestrial life of any kind? Are there intelligent beings in outer space who can communicate with humans? Are flying saucers real? These questions, and many others of equally fascinating nature are approached, and answered affirmatively, from a completely new viewpoint in this book.
"The author describes his own telepathic contact with an invisible being, and how, at the suggestion of this invisible intelligence, he began experimenting with infrared film in conjunction with elementary principles of spiritual science. Mr. James makes no claims to having boarded or flown in flying saucers, but instead effectively advances the theory of invisible but real creatures and craft in our own atmosphere.
"The book is at once iconoclastic and intellectual — it shatters many dangerous myths and misapprehensions which have hitherto caused enlightened people to shun the UFO phenomenon, at least in public. In place of the popular dogma of 'saucery' it offers new methods of investigation based upon the twin premises that these UFO are predominantly invisible and that man is a spiritual organism."
They Live in the Sky (amazon.com)
Los Angeles: New Age Pub. Co. / Saucerian Press, 1958.