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seeks to raise humanity’s collective vibration.
Coming cataclysms will radically alter the
population and surface of the planet. Certain
chosen earthlings who are advanced spiritually
will be taken up just before the disasters. Others
will be left on the surface for a time as they
help suffering Earth people. Eventually, spiritually
unenlightened but otherwise harmless
persons will be taken up and resettled on uninhabited
planets, while the truly evil will be
left on Earth. Most, though not all, will perish.
All of this, Artemis said in 1981, will happen
“sooner than most people think” (Beckley,
1989).
Further Reading
Beckley, Timothy Green, 1989. Psychic and UFO
Revelations in the Last Days. New Brunswick, NJ:
Inner Light Publications.
Ascended Masters
Ascended Masters are human beings who
achieved pure spiritual enlightenment before
their deaths. Along with that enlightenment,
they attained mystical powers that set them
apart from their fellows. When their physical
bodies died (“ascended”), they continued to
oversee the affairs of humanity. They channel
wisdom to those who will listen to them.
One source observes, “It is important for
students and people to come to realize that all
Ascended Beings are Real, Tangible Beings.
Their Bodies are not physical but They can
make them as tangible as our physical bodies
are” (“Ascended Masters”). The Great White
Brotherhood, a spiritual council that exists in
the supernatural realm, consists of Ascended
Masters.
Further Reading
“Ascended Masters.” http://www.ascension-research.
org/masters.html.
Ashtar
Ashtar is among the most popular and most
powerfully positioned of all channeling entities.
As (according to most contactees who
have dealings with him) head of the Ashtar
Command he is, in the words of his sponsor
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Lord Michael, “Supreme Director in charge of
all of the Spiritual program” for Earth. From
his giant starship in Earth’s general vicinity he
gives orders to millions of extraterrestrial and
inter-dimensional beings who are trying to reform
and enlighten earthlings. His home is in
the etheric realm, which means that to visit
our physical universe he must descend the vibratory
scale, or we would not be able to hear
or perceive him at all. He explains his mission
thus:
“We have come to fulfill the destiny of this
p l a n e t , which is to experience a short period of
‘c l e a n s i n g’ and then to usher in a N E W
G O L D E N AG E O F L I G H T. We are here to lift
off the s u rf a c e , . . . during this period of cleansing,
those souls who are walking in the Light on
the Ea rt h . . . . The souls of Li g h t a re you people
of Earth who have lived according to unive r s a l
t ruths and have put the concerns of others bef
o re your ow n . . . . The short period of cleansing
the planet is I M M I N E N T—E V E N T H E
M I D N I G H T H O U R! ” (Tuella, 1989).
Officially, Ashtar came into the world on
July 18, 1952, when George W. Van Tassel, an
early and influential contactee from southern
California, took a telepathic message from
“Portla, 712th projection, 16th wave, realms
of Schare” (pronounced Share-ee). Portla pronounced,
“Approaching your solar system is a
ventla [spaceship] with our chief aboard, commander
of the station Schare in charge of the
first four sectors. . . . We are waiting here at
72,000 miles above you to welcome our chief,
who will be entering this solar system for the
first time.” Soon the chief spoke, introducing
himself with—“Ashtar, commandant quadra
sector, patrol section Schare, all projections,
all waves.” He addressed an emerging concern
among occultists of the period: that the hydrogen
bomb, then in development, would
set off a chain reaction that would destroy the
planet. Ashtar warned that if scientists did not
stop their work on the device immediately,
“we shall eliminate all projects connected with
such” (Van Tassel, 1952).
Though Van Tassel would claim contacts
with many other curiously named other-