This presentation introduces a fascinating, provocative and controversial book called Star Guests, Design for Mortality, one of the first volumes in the writings and channeled discourses compiled by William Dudley Pelley beginning in the late twenties. He moved to New York following a successful stint of writing novels and screenplays in Hollywood, preceded by an adventurous career as a roving journalist and war correspondent in Eastern Europe and Russia. This came during and following the First World War, coinciding with the Bolshevik Revolution and establishment of the Soviet Union. From that experience, he began a crusade against communism in all its forms, including those arising in the United States. The earlier parts of his life are a story that could be about a character found in novels and movies. During the politically volatile 1930s, Pelley rather quickly became a key figure in American right wing politics, fiercely opposing the Roosevelt Administration and our involvement in the Second World War. For what were essentially thought crimes, he spent time in a federal lockup after a conviction for so-called “sedition”. He was released in 1950, apparently after swearing to avoid anything even remotely political, which he did. The complete story is quite absorbing, but we focus only on his metaphysical writing and publishing ventures during the spiritual-philosophical latter phase of his life.

Star Guests is from a manuscript created by automatic writing sessions, channeled by “discarnate entities” in 1928 and 1929, while the author was in New York. In order to gain insight into the ancient mysteries, and about our true origins, the reader must be open to some challenging concepts, literally reaching to the stars -- to the star system Sirius, to be precise. From there, spiritual (later corporeal) beings came to earth, committing sodomy with physical earthly life, creating some strange beings who images are, to some degree, still with us. These travelers were immigrants from the star system Sirius. Pelley presents all of this – and a great deal more -- in an intriguing style in Star Guests and other books in the series of channeled writings. The automatic writing sessions eventually produced over one million words. Beginning in 1950, the volumes (along with several related journals, newsletters, pamphlets and magazines) were published under the general heading of Liberation Soulcraft Doctrine.

“[Jesus] conversed with His disciples in private, and especially in their sacred retreats, concerning the Gospel of God; but the words which He uttered have not been preserved, because it appeared to the evangelists that they could not be adequately conveyed to the multitude in writing or in speech… and they saw… what things were to be committed to writing, and how this was to be done, and what was by no means to be written to the multitude, and what was to be expressed in words, and what was not to be so conveyed”. Origen, Contra Celsus, Chap. VI. 18.

Read the texts carefully (also in Mark 9 and Luke 9), and decide for yourself if this speaks of past and future reincarnations, a doctrine that would have been known by Jesus’ inner circle. But more than that, it was known to early Christians, especially among the mystical Gnostics, Essenes and others. The mystical and otherworldly story of the Transfiguration was so strongly entrenched that even the Roman redactors dared not change the text too much, much less totally remove it. Hence, the rather successful tactic has been to simply ignore any references to reincarnation, not even discussing it other than to cite all sorts of other texts supposedly refuting it. The verses below are from the Revised Standard Version.

“For all the prophets and the law prophesized until John the Baptist, and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come.” Matthew 11:14.

“And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain apart. And He was transfigured before them, and his face shown like the sun, and his garments became white as light. And behold there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him.” … And as they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded them, ‘Tell no one the vision, until the Son of man is raised from the dead.’ And then the disciples asked him, ‘Then why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?’ He replied, ‘Elijah does come, and he is to restore all things; but I tell you Elijah has already come, and they did not know him, but did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of man will suffer at their hands. Then the disciples understood he was speaking to them of John the Baptist.” Matthew 17:1-3; 9-13.

It seems clear to me, but the prelates, priests and preachers cite other texts to the contrary, refuting any idea that “ye must be born again” means rebirth in a later life. If you follow the hypothesis that much of the New Testament was created from earlier Buddhist writings and stories from ancient India, then references to metempsychosis don’t sound so strange. But there are no New Testament manuscripts before the 400s, and a lot can happen in four hundred years. Any direct references to reincarnation were surely expunged, beginning with St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate Bible in the late 300s. No earlier copies exist. If you think the old monks just sat around in their hermitages copying, preserving and illustrating manuscripts, think again! The monks did reproduce and preserve church approved manuscripts, but also spent time editing and rewriting the then-available scripture texts, then destroying all originals. Beyond that, like a literary SWAT team, the monks hunted down, seized and destroyed any contradictory “heretical” writings such as those of the Gnostics. Of course as with the Cathars, the pious churchmen not only burnt the books but the believers as well.

“Give thought to that which is introduced to you by this paper. Give it deep thought and I will reveal a new incentive to you to carry over the bleak days which are necessary for humanity to endure that it may arrive at an appreciative understanding of the rich days. Now we go from you, leaving you to your thought. Pursue and develop it, because presently, my beloved, a GREAT DOCTRINE groweth from it. A GREAT DOCTRINE groweth out of it! -- That hath within it the truth of eternal manifestation in all forms.”

THE NINE POINTS, A SOULCRAFT SACRAMENT.

In effect, this is a very Christ-centered doctrine, but within the earlier esoteric traditions of the Christian Essenes, Gnostics and the later Cathars. Metempsychosis is a essential theological and philosophical assumption. May you read and be enlightened.

[Begin quoting.] There are Nine Points to be established before the masses of Christendom.

One, every soul helping to compose the grand ensemble of humanity is an embryonic Messiah, making his way life by life up the Cosmic Stairflight, to graduate resplendent with divinity manifest;

Three, the concourse of the nations approaches an intersection in eternity where positive principles demand to be recognized – that each race, each nationality, each system of government, has something worthwhile to contribute to the character gains of all souls composing them;

Four, that certain nations are qualified to serve definite individuals that their progress may be quickened;

Five, that as each individual attains to such consciousness he contributes of his force to attainment of the Ultimate;

Six, that the Ultimate is creation of a condition on this earth-plane where those who show themselves outstandingly spiritual are symbolically allotted Keys to the Kingdom which is established at the Avatars’ imminent appearance;

Seven, that the favored in this concourse are those who are reincarnated purposely to be a part of it, that they pursue their labors and responsibilities unto the End – that this End shall recognize and reward them for fidelity to an Ideal;

Eight, that the Ideal is universal awakening to the basic principles of Cosmos – that each man and each woman is divine in his innermost essence of being, that the centuries await the proclaiming of Stalwarts, that they are present in the earth-scene to witness a new Triumphal Entry: the arrival within the Gates of Modern Enterprise of a new Son of Heaven with healing in His wings;

Nine, this Healing is manifest Honesty of Purpose in that which each doeth standing for righteousness within a hoodwinked generation.

A CALL TO GREATNESS.

The ASPIRATIONS of a man are the fodder for his soul. But different men have differing aspirations depending on their Cosmic gradings. Those of little mein are weak in Cosmic circumstance; the mighty of the ages are chosen for a diadem. None can take it from them. Choose ye this day whom ye will serve: God or Mammon.

We are a free and worthy people, not weaklings or cowards. We disown our fears and cast them far from us. They are largely self-generated anyway. Some of you are especially called, known in Soulcraft as the Goodly Company, preparing for the Great Coming. We are at a New Age, passing from Pisces to Aquarius, right now. You probably know who you are but some may just now be reawakening. Come forth, O Goodly Company. This is your time. Listen and mark it well. The Great Avatar, the Ever-Living and Undying Christos, is coming at the Turning of the Cosmic Cycles. He returns, as always, at the proper places and proper times to the proper people as determined by our Eternal Father-Mother God, the Great and Mighty I-AM, the Ancient of Days.

If the Great Avatar is not already among us, it can’t be very long now. Be aware; watch for the signs. As revealed in Star Guests, thirteen is the number and seven times seven is the number of days.

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