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(Narrator: Dame Judi Dench) With the development of the atom bomb science had the power to
destroy life on Earth.
In the cold war years the end of the world seemed closer than at any time in history.
Under the shadow of the bomb Britain's found hope in a new kind of spiritual belief.
In the 1950's the idea grew that God's from outer space might help save the planet.
(Ray Nielsen) Mankind is not alone.
We think that we are alone....
we think that we are in this almost helpless mess.....
but, there are Beings far, far greater than us who are there to help.
(Narrator: Dame Judi Dench) In the 50's there were also attempts to develop a more scientific
approach to raising supernatural powers.
This was shaped by a growing interest in science-fiction, space travel and UFO sightings.
Ray Nielsen is a member of The Aetherius Society....
formed in 1955.
They believe that the human race can only be saved by using the power of prayer to call
on assistance from Interplanetary Beings.
(Ray Nielsen gives a demonstration of Prayer) Oh, mighty God.
Who is the Creator of All things,
We pray that Your Light may shine through us all,
So that we may transmit this unto the world.
(Narrator: Dame Judi Dench) The founder of The Aetherius Society was George King,
a London taxi driver.
In the 50's he claimed to have received messages from the planet Venus coming from the Cosmic
Master, Aetherius....
a superior Being who could travel through time and space.
These Cosmic Transmissions, which began in 1954, were tape recorded by the society.
Blessed is the Solar Logos....
For upon This you and I depend.....
(Ray Nielsen) The Master Aetherius instructed George King to go to a place in North Devonshire....
called Combe Martin....
and he was instructed to be at a certain place at a certain time.....
namely, midnight.
So, he turned up at 12 midnight and he was contacted mentally by an advanced Interplanetary
Master who directed him.....
to a certain lane, at the top of a hill called Holdstone Down.
And there he was told to go into a certain yogic position on top of this Holdstone Down
and to pray for world peace.
And he did this....
and it was whilst he was doing this that a spacecraft appeared and a Being manifested
in front of him....
whom he recognised immediately as being the Master Jesus.
And the Master Jesus sent through George King's body a charge of spiritual power.
Part of that charge went through the body - out to the world.
And the other part of that charge when through George King's body into the mountain.
(Dame Judi Dench) George King believed that he had been chosen by the Cosmic Masters to
turn religion into an all-embracing science in order to save the world.
(Ray Nielsen) Another message, or Transmission, was given stating that the action of the energy
going into the mountain was the beginning of a Mission....
that the Cosmic Intelligences intended to perform throughout the world, with the assistance
of George King and The Aetherius Society....
whereby certain mountains around the world would be chosen as New Age Power Centres...
where people would be able to go to these centres...
and once the mountain had been charged...
tap into this energy and send it out through prayer to the world, as a whole.
(Dame Judi Dench) In 1958 George King and The Aetherius Society began Operation Starlight...
charging 19 mountains in different countries to turn them into New Age Power Centres.
(Ray Nielsen) I remember very, very distinctly going onto one of these mountains with George
King and a group....
and we'd had this service...
I mean the power was just unbelievable...
I mean there was no question about whether it's a Holy Mountain....
you can feel this energy coming up through you and send it out.
Some people have seen it.
A lot of clairvoyant people have actually seen the energy coming out.
And after the service I was instructed to help one of the members down,
she was quite an elderly lady...
and all of a sudden I felt this tingling at the back of my neck...
and I thought, ''My God, what on Earth is that!''
And I turned round and there about 400 feet up from the top of the mountain was this beautiful
space craft.
It was pure gold.
(Dame Judi Dench) There was a growing awareness of the danger of nuclear radiation in the
early 1960's.
The Aetherius Society believed that it was being used by the God's from outer space to
help save the planet from disaster.
(Ray Nielsen) It was well known that after certain nuclear bombs that were exploded in
the Nevada Desert and other places...
that there were a lot of Flying Saucer seen immediately after the explosions.
And a lot of what appeared to be green fireballs were seen...
and the Master Aetherius. and the other Cosmic Masters, gave an explanation as to what these
were...
and these were devices that were actually released into the atmosphere to...
nullify the radia-activity that had been released into out atmosphere...
because this was something that mankind just cannot control.
(Dame Judi Dench) In the early 1970's there were a number of predictions about the imminent
end of the world.
The Aetherius Society, Britain's most influential millennial movement, performed prayer rituals
on Holy Mountain tops...
in order to make effective use of the Cosmic Energies, supposedly generated during these
rituals.
George King invented a Prayer Battery.
Richard Lawrence joined the The Aetherius Society whilst a University student in 1971.
He was heavily involved in Operation Prayer Power...
the charging and releasing of Prayer Energy to save the world from distruction.
Blessed are they who Love,
For they are the disciples of God.
Oh, Mighty God,
Who is the Creator of All things,
We prayer that Your Light may shine through us all,
So that we may transmit this unto the world.
(Richard Lawrence) The first lecture I ever went to...
of the Aetherius Society....
somebody taught us to pray.
And I went home, back to my University digs and tried this...
and I had the most incredible sensation of tingling right through through my body and
it wouldn't stop!
When I was at Operation Prayer Power...
I've often felt tingling,
heat in the palms of the hands,
a cold surged of energy,
pressure on the head,
a great mystical feeling,
but, as I must stress, we're not there, at Operation Prayer Power, and never have been
there at Operation Prayer Power, to have personal experiences...
so therefore I've always tried to detach from those things and go about the job at hand
which is putting energy into that battery.
(Dr George King) It took about 750 man-hours to charge out little battery..
750 man-hours....
that energy was released in 47 minutes.
(Richard Lawrence) If you have hundreds of hours of Prayer Energy stored,
when a crisis strikes
you are able to target that crisis immediately.
With all this power.
Whereas if you didn't have the battery you'd have to call together hundreds of people at
that exact moment,
and they would have to be at the peak of their preparedness to send out energy because sending
out energy is a science.
It's not just a religion.
As a matter of fact, in it's highest sense, there is no difference between religion and
science.
They come together.
And it's encapsulated, I think, in Operation Prayer Power, where you have this device so
that you can...
it's an emergency situation device really, at a spiritual level.
(Dr George King) This is the antenna.
The last stage of the Spiritual Energy Radiator.
The energies are radiated out through these little wire brushes into the atmosphere..
and wherever the Prayer Energy is directed.
(Ray Nielsen) We're talking about a very scientific approach to prayer...
we believe prayer is a science.
And in those days, George King, proved it to us.
The energy was so powerful in that battery that several of us, in those days, who were
handling it,
if we were not careful in how we handled the battery, we use to get spiritual burns...
we use to get actual marks on our hands, just like you would get burns, say, from a hot
iron, or from a fire which would cause a red inflammation...
well, the burns that we use to get from this Prayer Power Energy were white.
We upon Mars now realise that there cometh a New Age to Terra.....
(Dame Judi Dench) George King and The Aetherius Society were also predicting the end of the
world and the coming of the master of the universe that would herald the birth of a
New Age.
(Ray Nielsen) George King was given a very definite cosmic message about the second coming
as people have prophesied it.
Only the description that was very specific...
and it indicted, without any shadow of a doubt, that the second coming would be very different
from the other Masters who have come to the Earth...
in as-much as next Master would land on this Earth.
Which means he would use a vehicle of some description.
(Richard Lawrence) People's reactions will be, if you like, a sorting of the wheat from
the chaff, depending on how we all react to that event.
Those people who go with it,
who change with the Great Change,
the Great Spiritual Change, will inherit a glorious new age.
Those people who don't want to do this,
aren't ready to do this,
resisting, even after having had absolute proof and evidence and still wish to engage
in war,
in selfishness,
in greed,
in things that really de-tune everybody on this planet,
those people will be given every opportunity carry on their chosen way,
because God and the Law of Karma isn't about changing people against their will,
They'll carry on but elsewhere, on another planet.
(Dame Judi Dench) By the late 70's George King and The Aetherius Society had an international
following of several thousand.
(Commentary) However ancient the red walls of this canyon....they have never seen anything
to equal this in spiritual power.
(Dame Judi Dench) The Aetherius Society predicted 1999 as a possible date for the second coming.
But it's spokesman now claim that the success of Operation Prayer Power has postponed the
end of the world...
at least for the time being.
(Richard Lawrence) All the prophecies point to the fact that, by now, in 1999, we would
have been in a situation of dire catastrophe....
floods,
earthquakes,
possibly a third world war,
nuclear holocaust,
and this may have precipitated....
even as Nostradamus said, 'In 1999, in the seventh month', this may have precipitated
the need for the Lord from heaven we call the next Master....
from another planet, to come, because the situation could have been so dire,
so dangerous, that it would have been a last ditch thing to save as many people as possible.
The whole work of Dr George King and The Aetherius Society and all the Missions that we do...
things like Operation Prayer Power...
has been to alleviate this.
To make this world a safer place and it may well be that this has postponed the need for
the next Master to come into that catastrophic situation.
And hopefully it will come into a much smoother situation then it would otherwise have been.
(Dame Judi Dench) George King died in 1997 but the faith in the imminent arrival of a
Master from outer space remains unquestioned.
His coming will, according to The Aetherius Society, ushering in a New Age of Spiritual
Enlightenment.
(Richard Lawrence) We haven't been told exactly what will happen in the New Age on a day-to-day
basis.
But we know certain things.
We know that all the people on this planet will recognise, what we might now call, the
paranormal.
That which is beyond the physical - the metaphysical.
The Spiritual Aspects of Life, as well as the purely physical.
So, there will be spiritually scientific culture.
(Dame Judi Dench) The millennium has long been a focus for the Dawning of a New Age.
Though predictions about the imminent end of the world have come and gone.
New Age thinking has become an established feature of the spiritual landscape.