By the time it dissipated on September 18th, Hurricane Gilbert had taken 318 lives – largely in Mexico. All told, the storm’s damages amounted to nearly $3 billion. Thirty-three years later, the category-five hurricane remains one of the most powerful on record for the region. But things, it seems, it could have been much worse.
The Aetherius Society cites the natural disaster among its great success stories – one of the dozens of times it successfully harnessed prayer hours to avoid further human suffering. The group discharged 300 of its own prayers, with an additional 12,900 arising from additional Masters around the world.
“Despite forecasts that this hurricane would move northward through Texas, it did not, but instead travelled into a relatively uninhabited area and gradually reduced in power,” the Society claims. “There were many reports of heroic deeds and a massive relief effort was mounted.”
There are similar stories ranging from the aftermaths of earthquakes to narrowly avoided international conflicts. In some instances, tragedy was altogether averted – and when it did occur, matters were sufficiently mitigated from the worst case scenario.
While it seems the Society is incapable of helping everyone – owing likely to its relatively small ranks – it does what it can. Every Tuesday and Thursday night at 7:30PM, the group gathers in at its pink stucco Los Angeles headquarters, donning ceremonial robes. Operation Prayer Power is, with little question, the group’s calling card. For four 20 minute sessions, three members stand in front of a spiritual power battery, praying out loud into the device. It’s a practice the Society has performed largely interrupted since the 70s.
The ceremony is opened by pre-recorded audio instructions from a reel to reel, mantras designed to orient the initiated. “Now this is a metaphysical breakthrough,” the battery’s inventor explains. “For the first time on the physical levels of Earth, we can actually store prayer power. As you know, prayer is a tremendous energy and can be invoked by anyone who virtually believes in the power of prayer.”
In a video of the explanation recorded in 1973, a man in his mid-50s addresses the camera. His close-cropped hair is complemented by a black and white polka dotted tie beneath a double-breasted gray suit. To the left is an early version of battery, strapped to a metal tripod. He motions to the object, as he speaks of the crystals contained within. This wide shot is the best look we get of the battery during the five minute video.
“This is the Aquarian age,” George King concludes his monologue. “It’s the age of brotherhood. And more than ever before, we should cooperate in this great prayer mission, in order to give healing and harmony to a sick world. It needs it, you know. It really does.”
The “physical radionic apparatus” was, in many ways, the culmination of hundreds of messages that began out of the blue one Saturday morning in 1956, when the then-cab driver was as home washing dishes. "Prepare yourself!” a voice telepathically instructed King. “You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament.”
A week later, the legend goes, an anonymous religious leader entered King’s locked London flat to deliver instructions for beginning his own religion designed to heal a sick planet.
Over the next four decades, he received around 600 messages. The masters deemed King their “Primary Terrestrial Mental Channel." He was a veritable cosmic antenna, serving the same group that had sent Jesus and Buddha from Venus and Krishna from Saturn. They had, King explained, traveled to Earth at various times over the millennia in UFOs that blinked with a frequency that betrayed their high levels of vibration.
Most famously they arrived in a craft the bible would immortalize as the Star of Bethlehem.
“How subtle is egotism,” King would later write of the skepticism around on the Society’s claims of extraterrestrial life. “It builds the dictators. It makes the materialist say that we are alone in the system and the highest form of life in the universe. Where does it spring from? Where else but from a hidden inferiority complex inherent within those who are incapable of lasting accomplishment.”
Sources:
Operation Prayer Power Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_R2lIjo5iI
The King Who Came To Earth https://www.aetherius.org/shop/the-king-who-came-to-earth/
Aetherius Society's American Headquarters https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/aetherius-society