The Stargate Conspiracy (29 page)

In fact, the Nine reveal a marked, if sometimes ambiguous, positive discrimination. According to them, the Jewish race was created by Hoova, as was Jesus, whom they call — rather inadvisedly, as it turns out - the ‘Nazarene’. The Jews are ‘the saviours of the planet’ and, directly descended from Hoova, are truly the ‘Chosen People’, with special powers and a momentous role in Earth’s history. They made a grave mistake in not accepting Jesus as their Messiah (who was sent from Hoova), though, so to rectify this and regain their rightful place in the scheme of things, they must first come ‘to acceptance’ - presumably of Jesus the Nazarene.
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According to Tom, Jesus and Jehovah are one and the same, and have a special relationship with the Nine. Jesus was ‘the last of us to visit planet Earth’.
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The Second Coming will take place as part of the mass landing, when Jesus will arrive as the Jewish Messiah. There are, it is claimed, secret records of Jesus, hidden in Egypt and Israel: ‘At the proper time there will be a correlation of finding these records within six months of each other.’
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The seeding of Earth was an experiment by the Nine to see how ‘the originals’ (the black races) would evolve in comparison with ’those that colonized’. This was hardly a smooth or peaceable process, for mankind’s genetic evolution has also been interfered with by the dark forces, usually said to hail from the Pleiades and often described simply as the ‘Others’, although they are also, more melodramatically, described as the followers of Satan — ‘the Beast’.
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The Nine claim that the first colonisation from Hoova began in the Tarim Basin in Tibet, in 32,400 BCE. Atlantis was founded by colonists from Altea and existed for some 15,000 years in the region of the Caribbean/Yucatan/southern Mexico, roughly where Edgar Cayce placed the lost continent or island. This story is different, though: it was the Nine who destroyed Atlantis out of rage in 10,850 BCE — very close to the date so favoured by Cayce, Bauval and Hancock.
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Hurtak gives the end of Atlantis as 12,000 BCE, which disagrees with Tom’s date but has its own significance.

After the destruction of Atlantis, the survivors became the founders of the civilisations of Egypt and Central and South America. As in the Cayce version, the Great Pyramid was built by these survivors, starting around 10,700 BCE, although for some reason it was not completed until 5000 BCE.
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Significantly, many popular theories about the building of the Great Pyramid, such as those of Hancock and Bauval, state the case for a similar two-stage construction.
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Undoubtedly the Great Pyramid is central to the Nine. They claim it is used to bring to Earth ‘energy’ from other civilisations, as well as to regenerate the cells in the human body. Tom says it has other uses, but, tantalisingly, refuses to elaborate on them. And as we have seen, he told Puharich that there were ‘undiscovered chambers’ under the Great Pyramid that could be reached via an ‘entrance from the Sphinx’.

Myers and Percy claim the Altean colonists not only built the Great Pyramid, but also the Sphinx, which they call the Ark Hur, from — they claim — two Altean words meaning ‘the shining beginning-ending’. And according to Hurtak, the Great Pyramid was built by the Nine as a physical stargate. He says:

And according to Hurtak the pyramids — including those on Mars — are devices for channelling energy that comes from space. In 1973, the Nine explained to him that the shafts in the Great Pyramid aligned with Orion’s Belt
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— which had been theorised by some astronomers - but they failed to take it further and make Bauval’s extrapolation of the pyramid — star correlations. The theme of hidden chambers in the Great Pyramid also surfaces in Hurtak’s
The Keys of Enoch,
where he describes the ‘Chamber of the Son’ between the King’s and Queen’s Chambers.
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According to Tom, the Earth was created as a battleground, to enable the Nine to confront the Others (the Pleiadean followers of the Beast) on a physical level. Interestingly, this is reminiscent of the Gnostic battle between light and darkness, which seems to be similar to the imminent conflict now being predicted by Graham Hancock. Every being in the universe has to be incarnated on Earth at some point, in order to experience the delights, responsibilities and drawbacks of free will, which, Tom says, exist nowhere else in the universe - hence the book title
The Only Planet of Choice.
All other civilisations are subject to the government of higher intelligences, such as the Nine. The various races of the Earth were, it seems, created as an experiment in free will, with the black race, apparently, serving as a kind of ‘control’. As the Nine claim that the black races are Earth’s only indigenous people, they are not — like all other races — essentially part space-god. Tom says that this experiment was ‘to see in which manner the originals, that were not seeded, would evolve in comparison with those that colonized’.
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(But what happens if the experiment is judged a failure ... ?)

The most complex and thought-provoking connection between the Nine and religion on Earth is found in
The Keys of Enoch.
Between its quasi-Biblical covers, it simmers with a Hellfire-and-damnation Old Testament zeal, besides containing strong messianic and apocalyptic elements. For example:

This is rather worrying. The assumption that there are ‘fallen spiritual races’ with whom the righteous should not breed is insidious and, in such a seminal book, seems to us to be more than a little disquieting. The very concept of whole races being somehow genetically unworthy and of not measuring up to the standard of the ‘righteous’ is, surely, the thin end of a wedge with which recent history is only too familiar. The religious scheme of
The Keys of Enoch
is very interesting in that it is calculated to embrace all the major religions of the USA - or rather, of the white United States. It is a mixture of Old Testament Judaism and Christianity, and also speaks approvingly of Mormonism (which Hurtak regards as the direct heir of the Heliopolitan priesthood — an exceptionally unlikely scenario). Hurtak says very little directly about Islam, although it is one of the dominant religions among African-Americans. He refers to Muslims obliquely — perhaps not unexpectedly - as ‘the Children of Darkness’,
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which perhaps reveals what is, for him, the identity of the villains in the imminent battle for the Earth. (Tom is fairly evasive about the Muslims but conveys a negative attitude based on their treatment of women, and says that Islam has - unfortunately, of course — been influenced by the ‘Fallen One’.
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Also rather disturbing is the Nine’s attitude to the Holocaust. They uphold the Jews as the Chosen People, but remonstrate with them for not accepting Jesus — ‘the last one of us’ — as Messiah. Tom speaks of the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were exterminated by Hitler, with huge sorrow, yet claims it was an act of self-sacrifice and salvation:

Tom also explained that the atrocity of the Holocaust was necessary for the creation of the state of Israel, an important part of the plan for Earth. Essentially the victims chose to be incarnated at this time and place and to be victims of the Holocaust as a selfless act of sacrifice to make us all aware that evil people existed ... At this point the thought occurs that Tom may represent the gods of our solar system but in this case surely our own morality has the edge? Aren’t we already aware of the existence of evil? Did we really need the horrible deaths of 6 million people to bring it home to us? (And Tom shares with many the misconception that the Holocaust only involved Jews. Of course, many thousands of others were killed by the Nazis, including members of specific groups such as gypsies, homosexuals and Jehovah’s Witnesses.) In any case, are we alone in finding Tom’s sweeping pronouncement about the Holocaust deeply offensive?

The Nine think in sweeping global terms that lend themselves to Hurtak’s quasi-Biblical prose and apocalyptic ideas. They have explained in detail their plans for the future of mankind to their faithful, the apostles of the new world order. As Sir John Whitmore wrote in his foreword to
The Only Planet of Choice:

The Nine’s basic message, and the reason they have made contact with certain humans recently, is that something has gone wrong with mankind’s genetic programming. This is causing problems, not only for Earth, but also for other civilisations who have to pass through incarnations here, so the Nine have to step in to put things right.

Unsurprisingly this matches Hurtak’s system: he claims that something has gone wrong with humanity’s ‘programming’ and that, over the thirty-year-period that will end in 2003, the intelligences that rule the universe are coming to repair it by upgrading human intelligence. We have failed the program and, through Hurtak and the others, the ‘White Brotherhood’ (to which the Nine are subordinate) are trying to rectify the situation.
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We have seen how the Nine spoke of the imminent mass landings on Earth: that was in the 1970s, and the failure of this momentous event to materialise means that they are now claiming the need for it has diminished. When communicating with the Puharich-Whitmore-Schlemmer group in the mid-1970s, Tom also spoke of the Nine interfering with radio and television transmissions in order to communicate directly with the people of Earth and prepare them for the landings. This did not happen either because, Tom said, the landings were no longer necessary.

In April 1976, James Hurtak told Jacques Vallée that he and Puharich, along with others who had access to ‘confidential and secret information’, were working to make the public aware that Earth was to be contacted by ‘highly evolved beings’ within the next eighteen months, that is, by the end of 1978.
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Right from the start, the Nine pushed the idea of preparing for an imminent global upheaval, a purging or final showdown between the forces of light and darkness, something close to fundamentalists’ hearts as the great battle of Armageddon. At first, this was the Nine’s mission statement (1974):

As usual, it is Hurtak who uses the most blood-curdling words to describe this future upheaval: there is a ‘galactic war and housecleaning that is being completed throughout the universe’,
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a war that will also be manifested on Earth, with the coming apocalypse, followed by a golden age, in which a new form of government will arise. The ‘lesser brotherhoods’ of light who work with the ‘younger spiritual teachers’ of Earth are now being ‘forced out of their positions of power’ so that the ’greater forces of Light will externalize on the earth plane’.
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(The use of force is interesting here: could these ‘younger spiritual teachers’ not be persuaded to surrender their positions of power for the greater good rather than having to be forced out of them? This seems a somewhat unspiritual, if not downright totalitarian, approach.) Hurtak goes on to warn that ‘materialists who seek to destroy the world ... will be as desiccated mud when the foundations of the earth are removed’.
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Hurtak is nothing if not patriotic, declaring that the centre of the new ‘Spiritual Administration’ will arise in America, the heir to Atlantis, which he refers to as Altea-America.
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He also often indulges in a serious pun when mentioning the rise of the New JerUSAlem ...

The scene is set for a final showdown between the forces of good and evil, one that will affect the entire galaxy. (Myers and Percy indicate that the countdown began in October 1991.
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) No doubt the many thousands of the followers of the Nine are hanging on to every channelled word with bated breath, waiting to play their part in some supremely satisfying drama, in which they are, of course, on the side of the righteous. After all, the West has not really been totally involved in a good war for half a century - how exciting it will be when the great ‘housecleaning’ finally arrives! The Millennium, the Apocalypse, and Armageddon are all balm to the souls of unhappy, bored and frustrated people who see themselves as knights in shining armour on the side of the righteous in the coming battle. It would, of course, be a terrible thing if none of it ever happened, and life just went on as usual; that would be their truly nightmare scenario.

The more this investigation proceeded, the more the full impact and influence of the Nine began to dawn on us. They have changed the way people think — ordinary people and not-so-ordinary people - including, as we will see, some of the world’s most talented and daring scientists and thinkers. But one area in which their power is supreme is that of the New Age, that much derided — and seriously underestimated — international community of semi-mystical self-improvers. While it is easy to dismiss their fads and crazes as harmless, they are in their own way a serious force to be reckoned with.