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plateaus. We are at present on a rising level. The 1890's experienced a rise, and the following fifty years was a
plateau of leveling off time. The movement began before the nineteenth century, of course, but in a small way.
Emanuel Swedenborg, scientist and mystic, brought great new truths to the spiritually hungry world in the
1700's . . . and there were other men, like Wesley and before him Spinoza; however the great mystic, Father
Jakob Lorber, was born in 1800; Nikola Tesla, inventor, was born in 1857; Steinmetz, electrical wizard, was
born in 1865; Charles Hay Fort, writer and researcher, was born in 1874; Charles Fillmore of Unity, was born
in 1854; H. P. Blavatsky brought the great knowledge of Theosophy to the world in the 1800's; H. W. Percival
gave the world his knowledge, and later, _Thinking And Destiny_; Dr. John B. Newbrough, in 1882, released
his monumental work, _Oahspe_; Camille Flammarion, great French astronomer, was born in 1842; and
among many others, P. D. Ouspensky, Lecomte du Nouy, etc.
Thus, in the last half of the nineteenth century, Universal Truth made a valiant attempt to penetrate the mind
of Man before the Great Age of Materialism set in with the advent of the colossal Machine Age. Men like
Brown Landone, and Flournoy, who wrote From India To The Planet Mars, contributed greatly to this
expanding program under the influence of space intelligences. Even John Jacob Astor got in the plan and
wrote about the coining electrically governed world and interplanetary travel in 1897.
Besides a Great Influx of Universal Truth coming to the minds of Man, there was a definite pro-grain
instituted on the physical plane and on the surface of Earth, itself. Space visitors were actually deposited and
left on our world to mix, mate, and marry with us. The new ideas and theories first came out in book form,
and this was the prelude to the appearance of spacecraft in the skies of Earth. In our present century, first
came the science-fiction tales of space travel, then came the actual space visitation.
In Paris, France, in 1892, Flammarion said: "We dare to hope that the day will come when scientific methods
yet unknown to us will give us direct evidence of the existence of the inhabitants of other worlds, and at the
same time, also, will put us in communication with our brothers in space. What marvels does not the science
of the future reserve for our successors, and who would dare to say that Martian humanity and terrestrial
(Earth) humanity will not some day enter into communication with each other?" Then in 1896, Flammarion
wrote Uranie, and in 1897 things really began to happen. Here's the report as taken directly from the old
records:
Chicago Record, Friday, April 2, 1897: "_See Great Airship!_ Kansas City, Missouri people excited . . .
mystical black object casting before it red light startled whole city for the last two weeks! At last descended . .
. ten-thousand people swear they have no hallucinations! Scoffers and disbelievers claim the people have been
seeing the planet Venus or the Evening Star, even though according to the almanac this planet should have set
below the horizon at least an hour before! Object appeared very swiftly, then appeared to stop and hover over
the city for ten minutes at a time, then after flashing its green-blue and white lights, shot upwards into space . .
. light gradually twinkling away and looking like a bright star. Time: 8:15 p. m.
"Everest, Kansas has sighted a strange airship, Competent reporters state that this must be the air-ship that was
built in Oakland, California and which broke away at launching time . . . this giant air-ship hovered one half
hour at a time and descended at regular intervals very close to the Earth. A giant searchlight flooded the whole
city with light from this aerial monster which with the velocity of an eagle darted up and away. Power source
must have been attached to the light for it dimmed as the ship went up and away. On observer states that there
seemed to be a basket or car beneath a great dark object thought to be a gas bag overhead . . . car was shaped
like a canoe and had four wings, two on each side, fore and aft . . . light was greenish or blue against the light
of a locomotive in the rail yard that was yellowish. Colored lights seemed to be all around the car."
This unusual craft showed up later in Michigan, but before quoting from the record, let's analyze the above
report. First of all, the authorities passed off the entire incident by calling the spacecraft the planet Venus.
That same thing has happened in our present Saucer saga. They called the object Captain Mantell was chasing
Venus, when it couldn't possibly have been that planet. This craft over Kansas City flashed blue-green lights
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