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bulletin reported day-by-day activities there.
Each report was accompanied by a transcript
of channeled or automatically written messages,
often with apocalyptic overtones. Soon,
these messages said, cataclysmic changes
would bring flying saucers down from the
skies and Lemuria and Atlantis up from the
ocean bottom.
By the summer of 1957, however, nearly all
of the spiritual pilgrims were back in the
United States. The exception was Martin,
whom Sananda had directed to stay behind.
Living under the most primitive conditions,
suffering from poverty and ill health,
Martin barely survived. She felt that her colleagues
had betrayed her. She spent a portion
of her meager income on postage for mailings
to North America, but no one seemed to listen
or care. Even so, the messages continued
to come at a furious pace. Now they included
dramatic visionary encounters with various
space people, angels, and religious figures.
Though expecting to spend the rest of her
life in the Andes, Martin was surprised to receive
instructions to return to the United
States in 1961. She moved to southern California
and was there for nearly a year before
heading to the far northern part of the state
and Mount Shasta, long an attraction to
America’s mystically minded. Occult legend
held that a colony of Lemurians lived inside
or under the mountain. The Lemurians maintained
contacts with extraterrestrials who regularly
arrived in saucers.
Sananda and Sanat Kumara ordered Martin
to establish the Association of Sananda
and Sanat Kumara. Finding peace and stability
at last, she took up residence in the Shasta
area and worked with a small but devoted
band of followers who carefully recorded and
circulated the messages she received daily.
By 1988, with Sedona, Arizona, now the
New Age center of North America, the space
people dictated yet another move. It was here,
on June 13, 1992, that Sister Thedra’s long,
strange trip ended. Just before her death
Sananda told her of his plans for her in the
next world. As her body failed, her hand
guided a pen one last time to write the final
message from her beloved cosmic friend: “It is
now come the time that ye come out of the
place wherein ye are. . . . Let it be, for many
shall greet thee with glad shouts!”
See Also: Adamski, George; Atlantis; Bethurum,
Truman; Contactees; Lemuria; Mount Shasta;
Orthon; Sananda; Williamson, George Hunt
Further Reading
Clark, Jerome, 1997. “The Odyssey of Sister Thedra.”
Syzygy 6, 2 (Summer/Fall): 203–219.
“The End of the World,” 1955. The Saucerian 3, 2
(Spring): 4–7, 55–60.
Festinger, Leon, Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley
Schachter, 1956. When Prophecy Fails. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press.
Ibn Aharon, Y. N. [pseud. of Yonah Fortner], 1957.
“Diagnosis: A Case of Chronic Fright.” Saucer
News 4, 5 (August/September): 3–6.
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Brinsley le Poer Trench, author of a series of
books proposing esoteric theories about everything
from space visitors to the Earth’s hidden
history, held that the “sky people”—called the
Elohim in the Old Testament—created Animal
or Adamic Man, otherwise known as the
present human race. The creation occurred via
what would now be called genetic engineering,
and it was done by a renegade band of
Elohim called the Jehovah. The Jehovah,
knowing that their experiment was an unauthorized
one, removed their creation to an obscure
location—what the Bible calls the Garden
of Eden—on Mars. In due course,
another extraterrestrial race, known as the Serpent
people, learned of the Garden and visited
it, curious about experiments that had created
women. The Serpent people gave the heretofore-innocent
inhabitants of the Garden wisdom
and scientific knowledge, and they also
introduced them to sexual intercourse and reproduction.
Many of the Adamic Women
bore children sired by the Serpent race.
The Jehovah were furious when they found
out about the Serpent people’s interference,
but it was too late for them to continue their
domination of Adamic Man. The individual
Jehovah most responsible for the experiment,