Time of the Quickening: Prophecies for the Coming Utopian Age

INTRODUCTION

CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT

The last day of the Lord is near, cried William Miller, self-proclaimed prophet of the American sect of Millerites (Second Aventists) in May 1844. Issuing the midnight cry, Miller felt the crowning crisis of the ages at hand. He even gave the last day a date: October 23 of that year. But when that dreaded day arrived, and the next and the next, the Millerites bewailed—still in the cold world!

Fig. I-1. Catastrophes marked the end times in Millerite literature and illustrations.

Oh well, end times, if nothing else, are good box office and grist for the mill among cults of despair, perhaps represented today by such groups as Aum Shirin Kyo, the terrorist Buddhist sect that released the lethal chemical sarin on the Tokyo subways in 1995. Those fanatics embraced the apocalyptic notion that the world would end sometime between 1997 and 2000.

But again, it didn’t. It just kept on spinning, spinning. . . .

The world was also supposed to expire in 1936, on September 16, to be exact, according to a pyramid-related prophecy that quite a lot of people took seriously. One journalist, reporting on the upcoming event and the believers thereof, reported that the latter (a religious group in New Jersey) thought it was high time for the antichrist, Mr. 666, to appear. To [their] way of thinking, several modern dictators might easily fit the role.¹

We’ll be hearing more about Mr. 666 in these pages.

Actually, soberly, our world is not scheduled to expire for quite some time (see chapter 4). And we might as well note the considerable difference between the end of a civilization and the end of the world (i.e., the planet). If we can move on from attention-grabbing hysterics, paranoia, and the misguided calculations of overwrought end-time soothsayers, the only remaining danger is the end of civilization as we know it.

That is a distinct possibility in the years now unfolding and is the subject of this book.

Thousands of ordinary people have expressed that they felt the end of things breathing down their necks. Many sense an awesome destiny for the latter days of the world. And these are the latter days (see chapter 6). While the cynics shrug off our civilization as toast, others only vaguely feel that modern society is at a dead end, that it has no future. . . .

We are losing control of our future.

ROBERT ORNSTEIN AND PAUL EHRLICH, NEW WORLD NEW MIND

There are so many people who have given up hope for a better tomorrow, lamented my friend Shaka, a product of devastated Detroit (see chapter 8). Another African American who finally got to make a trip to Mother Africa was deeply disillusioned at what he saw of contemporary life there. Keith B. Richburg, in his book Out of Africa: A Black Man Confronts Africa, wrote, The best and brightest minds languishing in dank prison cells . . . ruthless warlord[s] . . . teenagers terrorizing and looting . . . mass hunger . . . poets hanged by soldiers. . . . I tried to see some slivers of light . . . but all I can see is more darkness.²

Yes, the darkness is almost more than we can stand, and with ancient prophecies pointing to 1998 as the end of an Earth cycle, it is almost as if we in the twenty-first century are living on borrowed time. Many psychic visions entail a combination of natural and man-made disasters before the end of the twenty-second century, wiping out large numbers of people and leaving the planet severely depopulated. It would certainly solve the population problem. Think of it, after the Black Death in Europe (see chapter 4), the entire world population was reduced to 375 million. That’s about 6 percent of today’s population. But then postwar growth in the twentieth century was so explosive and unprecedented, it became natural to regard our present status as the height, the peak of, of . . . this civilization.

PEAKED OUT?

Humanity, thought Edward Bellamy’s narrator in his popular futuristic novel Looking Backward, 2000–2087, had made a sad mess of society, and having climbed to the top rung of the ladder of civilization, was about to take a header into chaos. . . . The race, he went on, making a comparison to the parabola of a comet, attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward to the regions of chaos. Underneath today’s talk of peak oil rumbles an uneasy sense of peak culture, Bellamy’s perihelion of civilization.

Her boundaries may be large, and her people increasing, but she hath a canker worm within, that soon or late will let her down suddenly.

CHINE, A PROPHET, BOOK OF THE ARC OF BON

Fig. I-2. World population growth

In his extensive study of societal collapses, Jared Diamond finds several civilizations "collapsing swiftly after attaining peak [emphasis added] population numbers and power. . . . This author observes, Crashes can befall the most advanced and creative societies."³ Advancement and wealth, in fact, can be the very achievements that forerun imminent downfall, and speaking of peak oil, an intriguing example may be found in the Koran, where the Prophet foresaw that the earth will vomit forth great wealth for Arab lands just before the end of the world. If this is accurate, reasons veteran author John W. White, the recent Near Eastern fortunes built upon oil . . . may be [a] signpost that a pole shift is near.⁴ Shift, yes, but pole shift? I don’t think so. It is a paradigm shift we are looking at. No, it is neither the end of the world nor some huge conflagration or disaster resulting from the sudden shifting of the poles that we are up against. The likeliest scenarios give us social upheavals, with obsolete, even wicked, institutions collapsing from within. Imploding. The old is crumbling from its own activities,⁵ says Chet Snow in his book Mass Dreams of the Future. Isn’t this the pattern already established by today’s failed states: Russia, Somalia, the Solomon Islands, Haiti, Ruanda, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and so on? The World Bank estimates that there are at least twenty-six failing states in the world today.

THE FUTURE IS NOW

The destruction of the world, as depicted, for example, at the end of Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr. Strangelove, is simply a metaphor. The mushroom clouds let us know that only a complete collapse of the system . . . can make possible a new appraisal of life, says J. F. Martel, a Canadian filmmaker.⁶ This is the bona fide meaning of the Change, that no matter how sweeping the calamities that may befall, there will be a portion of the population saved so that a better, more spiritual society might be constructed, as White says.⁷ On the embers, declare the oracles, a new civilization, the longed-for brotherhood of man, will arise. There is no doubt that the far-flung prophecies of the world and of all ages dovetail on this point. The kingdom of God, the reign of man, the golden age, Satya Yuga, the Kosmon era, call it what you will, that’s what the fireworks are all about: clearing the way for a new dispensation, and a new and improved way of life.

I would suggest, wrote an Australian colleague of mine, Mr. David Pitman in a group e-mail, "that we are currently in the most profound 50 years of change that the world will ever see. . . . The future is now, we are it. This is Kosmon [the new era]—we are already there! Armageddon?? I don’t see us in the midst of a great battle—How can darkness battle light?? No, we are not in a period of darkness . . . all that is dark and corrupt is simply being stirred up by the Light. . . . [Let us] realize that we are right now, here, in the midst of that Big Change."

Beginnings and endings can and do occur simultaneously! This explains the seeming paradox, felt by so many, that things are getting better and worse at the same time!

You are within the dawning, even as you are on the threshold of the destruction.

WILLIAM JAMES-X, FROM WING ANDERSON, PROPHETIC YEARS 1947–1953*1

Although some of the prophetic verses of sixteenth-century England’s great seeress Mother Shipton spell doom and gloom, the ultimate outcome, we see, is a fresh new beginning. She wrote, When men, outstripping birds, can soar the sky / Then half the world, deep drenched in blood, shall die. . . . For storms shall rage and oceans roar / When Gabriel stands on sea and shore / And as he blows his wondrous horn / Old worlds shall die and new be born.

SIGNS

In olden time, the signs of desolation were read in strange, unusual events in the land, skies, animals, bones, waters, and elsewhere, as when Montezuma, starting in 1505, saw the coming ruin to himself and the Aztec Empire in the ominous portents of a famine, an eclipse, a three-headed comet, and the unbidden images of weird conquerors reflected in the mirror-like crest of a crane. By 1520, the omens all materialized with the invasion of the helmeted Spaniards on their odd mounts, their big deer (horses).

Fig. I-3. Mother Shipton’s most remarkable prophecies were those predicting the world wars.

But that was in the olden days. I won’t be harping on the auguries of the ancients too much, for in so doing, we might lose track of today’s signs that are hiding in plain sight.

There is no secret Truth, only truth we refuse to acknowledge.

REB YERACHMIEL BEN YISRAEL, OPEN SECRETS

Today’s signs of the time include wars, violence, rapid change, unrest, things breaking up, unemployment and bankruptcy, the implosion of social and family structures, crime, drugs, pornography, suicide, addictive lifestyles, ugly litigation, incessant commercialism,*2 loss of identity and respect, and rootlessness. It is a diabolically confused era, writes Pablo Neruda in Memoirs. There is the ever-expanding politicization and bureaucratization of things. There is wastefulness, not only of vital resources, but also of talent and intelligence, of time, and of lives in wars, in prisons, in ghettos, and in other places. French writer Robert Charroux’s laundry list of these Apocalyptic Times includes murders, robberies and immorality, deadening of the sense of duty, work, and good citizenship . . . frantic pursuit of pleasure, miscarriages of justice, inequality based on racism and outrageous privilege, selfishness . . . the dictatorship of money, the stultifying effect of the mass media . . . politicians and businessmen concerned only with their own personal advantage, with the more or less conscious assistance of scientists.⁸

Fig. I-4. The wolf as an icon enters the imagery of dangerous times, even the end of an age. The wolf’s mouth is a traditional phrase for danger, while keeping the wolf from the door meant forestalling starvation. In Scandinavian myth, at the end of the world, the giant wolf called Fenrir will devour the moon and blood will pour over the earth. Painting by Jason Three Wolves (Othoyuni) of the Oneida Nation.

Nothing is holy anymore.

CARL JUNG, MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS

Man has lost his soul.

THOMAS CARLYLE

THE ONCE AND FUTURE ARMAGEDDON: (1848 + 66 = 1914)

A prophecy that came through to a small group of utopians a few minutes before the end of the nineteenth century (close to midnight on December 31, 1899) warned, In the years to come, the sufferings of man shall increase in malignity until he is forced to shatter the mold and seek the Light. . . . Before this new century passes its first quarter, tyrants will rise across the sea and triumph briefly as they slaughter men by the millions.

The vision came late at night near a monument built in New Mexico by Dr. John Ballou Newbrough, founder of the modern Faithist movement (see p. 15, A Book of Prophecy: Oahspe). Later, in 1938, a granddaughter of this great American adept and seer had a vision in which Armageddon started in a part of Iran called Yzed.⁹ *3 This is funny, because Y and zed are the last two letters of the English alphabet! But the more I study this thing called Armageddon (referenced in Revelations 16, Ezekiel 38, and Zechariah 14), the more it appears like shorthand for the twentieth century itself! Is the following scenario biblical enough for you? Shortly after the outbreak of World War I the Ottoman Empire’s treatment of Palestine was extremely rigid and harsh, matched only by the treatment of nature—widespread drought, a locust plague, and famine all across the region! As Snow argues, the much touted Battle of Armageddon has been underway for several decades.¹⁰

The founder of Jehovah’s Witnesses foretold in the nineteenth century that the end of the world would come in 1914. I have no reason to doubt that if there is such a thing as the Battle of Armageddon, it began right then, in 1914, with the outbreak of the Great War. Writer Charles Todd describes the war as the sheer bloody senselessness of throwing lives away . . . guns and carnage and nightmares . . . death and pain . . . shell shock and some of the most hideous battles fought by mankind.¹¹ And its flower? That was Armageddon, part two, none but the cataclysmic A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Neruda, in Hong Kong between the wars, in 1928, sensed the death throes of a world beginning to smell like a corpse.¹² And as given in Hopi prophecy, when a gourd of ashes (i.e., atomic bomb fallout) tumbles from the sky, boiling rivers, spreading awful disease, and burning the land, the end of the materialist way of life would soon follow.

The materialist delusion has run its course.

JOHN MAJOR JENKINS, MAYA COSMOGENESIS 2012

Even Albert Einstein, one of the bomb’s enablers (who, incidentally, signed on with the government the day I was born), saw in the A-bomb the specter of unparalleled catastrophe.

Back in 1915, one commentator remarked that Armageddon had now become a household word. No, this was not a normal war; World War I, directly and indirectly, took tens of millions of lives! Its extension, World War II, took more than twice that phenomenal amount! If ever there was a tribulation for the whole of mankind, the conflagration of worldwide war in the twentieth century surely fits the bill. As author, publisher, and Faithist Wing Anderson said, When the war of 1914 started, many thought World War I was Armageddon.¹³ The two world wars in the first half of the twentieth century were but one grand, albeit interrupted, fight, according to Anderson. He wrote, In the intermission between the first and second session of Europe’s part in the war of Armageddon, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Cuba, Chile and Mexico—almost fifty million persons have been in revolt. The year 1940 finds two-thirds of the earth’s population living in nations at war. Three-fourths of the earth’s surface is inhabited by people engaged in killing each other. He noted more crowns fallen and thrones vacated in twenty years than in the preceding twenty centuries.¹⁴

Egypt’s Great Pyramid seems to confirm Anderson’s sense that the theater of global war that began in 1914 easily qualifies as Armageddon: pyramidologists have noted that within this great calendar in stone the most important passage, the Grand Gallery, ends at the year 1914. As we explore the prophetic numbers (see chapter 1), we will see that 1914 fell just one beast (sixty-six years) after the Dawn Year of 1848 ushered in the new era named kosmon, after the cosmos, (see chapters 6 and 7), and one wave (ninety-nine years) after Napoleon’s Waterloo and the end of the War of 1812.

Considered the broken century by the great Jewish scholar and bard Chaim Potok, the 1900s have elsewhere been proudly hailed as the American century. Nonetheless, the tremendous social upheavals of the past hundred years have, against the long scroll of checkered history, played out in peculiarly nightmarish accents and atrocities, led by the twentieth century’s unparalleled crimes against humanity. It was the century of a Hitler, a Mussolini, a Stalin, and the crassly inhuman horrors of China’s Cultural Revolution. The great historian Eric Hobsbawm called it the most murderous century in recorded history.

WHY WAIT FOR APOCALYPSE?

Nation is against nation; king against king; merchant against merchant; consumer against producer; yes, man against man, in all things upon the earth!

OAHSPE, VOICE OF MAN 36*4

In 1790, a Polish monk wrote extraordinary prophecies stating that the twentieth century was destined to be the most remarkable of all [times]. All which is appalling and terrible will befall the human race . . . princes will revolt against their fathers . . . children against their parents, and the whole human race against each other. The prophecies said that a universal war, moreover, would begin in 1938 (only one year off for World War II). Devastation . . . will overtake whole countries . . . destroyed will be the greatest and most respected cities.¹⁵ (And such cities were destroyed, like Dresden, which Kurt Vonnegut eulogized so poignantly in Slaughterhouse-Five.)

At last count, more than thirty-five countries are at war today. This great new era of science, invention, industry, and laborsaving conveniences has simultaneously hatched a litter of Fascist regimes, violent coups, military dictatorships, invasions, and civil wars around the world. As the twentieth century progressed, so did the staggering number of refugees and disenfranchised people. As a result of recent conflicts, much of the third-world landscape is dotted with land mines, some of them disguised to look like children’s toys, the better to maim and mutilate the coming generation of the enemy, demonstrating conclusively the singular viciousness, according to Newsweek, of the 20th century.¹⁶

This is apocalypse.

The same years that saw the advent of thermonuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles also saw the Jewish Holocaust in Germany, followed by other genocidal sweeps, especially in Africa. Multinational monopolies, made possible by an American-born brand of hedonistic consumerism, took command of the planet in lockstep with the military-industrial complex, the prison-industrial complex, and quite a few other complexes, including unprecedented mental ones, singularly bred by the twentieth-century disfigurement of so much that is human and natural, decent and sane, rational and good . . .

This is apocalypse.

Within a brief twenty-year period (1948–1968) five of the most promising and charismatic leaders of the century (indeed, of the new era), starting with Mohandas Gandhi, were shot down by assassins’ bullets. Today, anarchists and terrorists only continue to escalate their activities, creatively deploying our most recent lethal inventions and technology. It is a known fact that Osama bin Laden masterminded and coordinated the 9/11 attack largely by means of satellite phones and fax machines. The American century was capped by his apocalyptic personality and his statement that Jihad will go on until the day of Judgment. He became the embodiment of all that can go wrong when the world is in the hands of a single superpower.

This is apocalypse.

Back in 1995, the horrendous nerve-gas attack in the Tokyo subway (mentioned on p. 5) used the deadly substance called sarin, developed by Nazi scientists during World War II. The Buddhist extremist group behind the gas attack managed to kill seven people and sicken one thousand. Radio host Art Bell compared the attack to those of other groups such as November 17 (Greece), the Corsican National Liberation Front, the Red Brigades (Italy), and neo-Nazis throughout Europe. As he says, What is disturbing is that these activities are now occurring in countries such as Japan which historically have not had these problems. Clearly this is a trend of the Quickening. Each of these groups have resorted to terror . . . [demonstrating] how powerless the people of the world are to defend themselves. . . . No one—in any society in the world . . . can ever feel completely safe.

No, a world of shock and awe is not a safe world—for anyone, nor is a world of AIDS, of car bombs, school shootings, street gangs, satanic cults, serial killers, burning oil fields, South American death squads and the disappeared—all of which carry the distinct flavor of the American century. What other era could have seen shockers such as the Jonestown mass suicide of 1978, the Chernobyl disaster, or the unparalleled 9/11 event?

None of those things could have happened if modern man had possessed a genuine moral sense or harmonious mind. As Nobel Prize–winning physiologist Alexis Carrel saw it, Most civilized men manifest only an elementary form of consciousness. . . . They produce, they consume, they satisfy their physiological appetites. They also take pleasure in watching, among great crowds, athletic spectacles, in seeing childish and vulgar moving pictures. . . . They are soft, sentimental, lascivious, and violent. They have no moral, esthetic, or religious sense. . . . [Their] intelligence remains rudimentary.¹⁷

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN

Out of all things comes some good.

OAHSPE, BOOK OF SAPHAH, QADETH IZ 5:8

I am convinced there will be mutual understanding among human beings . . . in spite of all the suffering, the blood, the broken glass.

PABLO NERUDA, MEMOIRS

At the very same time, the American century—side by side with its insults and horrors—gave birth to a new prospect for mankind, an estate it could only inherit upon the death and demise of its predecessor. Heir apparent to a golden age, humanity in the third millennium stands at the threshold of its cosmic legacy. This is no dream. It is the reality given to all men. Graduation day for the human race has arrived (though commencement may take a few centuries). Many began to understand this new beginning when the Berlin Wall came down, soon followed by the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. We could and should expect from this time forth the inevitable collapse of tyranny and oppression of every kind.

But this emancipating process, this steady climb toward the elimination of false and mean barriers, was already more than a century old, beginning with the extraordinary global revolutions of 1848 that marked the birth year of the era called Kosmon (see chapters 1, 6, and 7). The missing factor of prophecy, Anderson wrote has been found in the year 1848, for this date gives us a known point in time from which to work. Application of the cycles used by the ancients in their time-tables of prophecy . . . [give us] this date as being the first year of the new age.¹⁸ It was a new age with new standards and new values. Then, barely fifteen years into Kosmon (Anno Kosmon [AK] 15), on January 1, 1863, came the Emancipation Proclamation, which paved the way for the thirteenth amendment in 1865, wherein slavery, an institution that was thousands of years old in the world, was overthrown in the United States.

Pluralism, diversity, tolerance, these became the passwords of the new era, right along with woman’s liberation and equal opportunity. Then, on the first centennial of Kosmon, AK 100, after seven long cycles (seven solar years, see chapter 1), the Jews were restored to their homeland, inspiring the world with the humble but daring experiment, the kibbutz. At the same historic moment, India was liberated and the United Nations was established, proving that the comity of nations and the yearning for brotherhood were strong in the heart of the world.

Then, in the last quarter of the twentieth century, more than thirty countries abandoned authoritarianism for democracy. That generation also saw the conquest of space. With a future of interplanetary space travel . . . the present is the most exciting and wonderful time to live, of all the ages since the beginning of the world, wrote author Og Mandino.¹⁹ Liberation, exploration, space science, radio, television, telecommunications, the Internet, technology, revolutionary inventions, all identify this chapter in the life of man as the culmination and end of a grand cycle of the ages. But it’s also a beginning.

A BOOK OF PROPHECY: OAHSPE

The stage is being set for the next cosmological revolution in our way of thinking . . . reawakening interest in the relation of man to the Universe as a whole . . . The new Cosmology may come to affect the whole organization of society.

ASTRONOMER FRED HOYLE

Give ear, O earth, and be attentive to the words of your God. . . . The time shall surely come when all things shall be revealed to the inhabitants of the earth. . . . The multitude of my Kingdoms shall be opened up to your understanding.

OAHSPE, GOD’S BOOK OF ESKRA 2

Of course, Hoyle’s prediction will come to pass! But first we need to come to terms with who we are and what we are.

In search of prophecy for the third millennium (which we are also calling the new era), I began to see two different meanings for the word prophet. On the one hand, the term signifies a foreteller of the future, a person with foreknowledge or prescience, someone who is able to divine the shape of things to come like a soothsayer of old or today’s clairvoyant fortune teller or the prophetic dreamer who unexpectedly sees what has not yet come to pass, but will.

Yet we have also long used the word prophet simply to denote the wise men or sages of their time, whose genius is not necessarily in predicting anything, but merely in interpreting (correctly) the currents of their day. They are, in a word, the mouthpieces of the times. They are the enlightened ones. Farseeing, they may have glimpses of tomorrow, and as such, they are always admonishers, warning the people what is best to do and what is best to avoid.

There is an irrepressible aura of saintliness around these men and women, and often, an aura of martyrdom. In my view, this new era in which we live has, so far, been blessed with three outstanding (political) prophets: President Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi, and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.*5 Yes, sadly, each one was indeed martyred by the Beast he fought to subdue. These are hard times for the prophet of man and will remain so. As author Lewis Spence says in Will Europe Follow Atlantis?, Until man recognizes that he is an immortal spirit and possesses all the equipment of a spirit—an intelligence that the great majority never even suspect in themselves, a divinity, a genius of the angelic. . . . Until he develops this to the utmost, he will remain as he now is—the most advanced among the higher animals, combative, acquisitive, the slave of himself, the sport of circumstance and of evil forces.

Fig. I-5.

In these pages, we will dip into both kinds of prophecy: the future kind and the wisdom kind. In a way, they are inseparable. Trekking across this howling wilderness called prophecy, exhausted and discouraged by the number of detours set up by false teachings, I often lean on the staff of knowledge embodied in the Oahspe bible, which is a large set of scriptures only recently (relatively speaking) brought into the world, through the seership of Newbrough.²⁰

Oahspe offers a new source of information that we can work with, deeply embedded in its copious verses, for it reveals the lost science of numbers and how to become a prophet oneself. Breaking the silence of the taciturn Faithist community (Faithist is the group name for those, past and present, who worship the Great Spirit and practice His commands), I now present the Tables of Prophecy, used in antiquity by priests and mathematicians for the benefit of the commonwealth and revealed for modern times within the pages of Oahspe. This system is mathematical, numerical, and historical. Based on the primary unit of eleven years (an ode), these Winter Tables, as they were called, contained all the prophetic numbers needed to see—and head off—coming events and disasters. What impresses me most is that this kind of prophecy is a method. It is not psychic foreseeing; it is not any of the psychomancies that seek the future in the random toss of pieces or parts; it is not random at all. It is a method, based simply on a science of numbers and cycles. It is systematic, not a crapshoot.

Indeed, all of this is a lost science, yet much of it can be recovered. Some of it has been recovered in these chapters, and for the interested reader who would like to become a prophet, this book provides a blueprint, teaches you how to prophesy by applying the prophetic numbers: eleven and its key multiples, namely, twenty-two, thirty-three, sixty-six, ninety-nine, 121, and 363. And it is not just prophetic numbers that we are putting to work. This is the only system of prophecy (besides that of the Mayas) that uses history, that uses the past to foretell that which has yet to unfold.

The late Wing Anderson, publisher of the Oahspe bible from 1935 to 1955²¹, authored several popular books in which he grappled with the prophetic numbers and predicted various outcomes for our war-torn world. Wing once described Oahspe as giving not only a history of the rise and fall of races from the beginning of the world to the present, but [also] predicting the final outcome of things in general and of many lesser situations in particular. . . . It is in this miraculous book that we find the explanation of what is occurring throughout the world . . . when the institutions of the old 3,000 year cycle, which ended in 1848, are destroyed to make way for those of the Kosmon Age.²² To the alarmist who thinks that prophecy ineluctably means we will end in a blazing apocalypse, Anderson, always gallant, did say, This is not the end. It is only the beginning.²³ The facts are straightforward, he said. A new world is in the making. The institutions that grew up in the three thousand year cycle that ended in 1848 have played their parts in the evolution of mankind. It is now time for their exit.

Fig. I-6. The title page of Oahspe

Much of this book is a footnote to Anderson’s claims. It is time to move on; it is time to break the silence of the Faithist inner circle and come forward with the prophetic numbers, to bring history and future history into focus. Only then can we claim to be in control of our lives, the masters of our fate! Thus is it said in Oahspe:

That man may begin to comprehend these things, and learn to classify them so as to rise in wisdom and virtue, and thus overcome these epidemic seasons of cycles, these revelations are chiefly made.

OAHSPE, BOOK OF COSMOGONY AND PROPHECY 7:9

Fig. I-7. Wing Anderson, author of popular wartime (World War II) prophecy books

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THE PROPHETIC NUMBERS

It has been said that the sacred Calendar of the Mayas is a means of tracking . . . information through knowledge of the sunspot cycles.¹ And just as the well-known sunspot cycle runs 11 years but can vary from 9 to 13 years, the prophetic numbers can also vary from the mean. The 3,000-year cycle, for example, can run as long as 3,600 years or as short as 2,400. Similarly, the phases of Professor Raymond H. Wheeler’s 100-year weather cycle (found under The Third Rule of Prophecy: Wave; see p. 62), are not of precisely equal duration. The cycle can contract to 70 years or expand to 120. The following is an example of the spell (33-year rhythm) running from 32 to 34 years. In regard to milestones in the history of slavery legislation, the Ordinance of 1787 forbade the extension of slavery in the Northwest Territories (1787 + 33 = 1820). The Missouri Compromise of 1820 stipulated that all land north of latitude 36°30' remain free, with Missouri (a slave state) and Maine (a free state) both admitted to the Union. Continuing with the spell, add 34 (not 33) to 1820, and we have 1854, the year of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which again threw the country into conflict (the act allowed each state to decide for itself on slavery by popular vote). In 1865 (an 11-year ode after 1854), the slavery question was once again decided on a spell year (1833 + 32 [not 33] = 1865). In 1833, England abolished slavery in its colonies; 32 years later, with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, the United States abolished slavery in all states.

TABLE 1.1. THE PROPHETIC NUMBERS (IN YEARS)

This table was calculated using the older calendar (anywhere between 360–363 days per year; see chapter 4).

THE CAUSE OF CAUSES

In the work of the Spirit of the Earth . . . in all this welter of life and tempest of action, we can hear the beat of an elemental