to the great casting [conditions to be fulfilled] of the lake seething and the great destruction of the tall buildings of the local city — the cast that the lake bed is sinking to the degree that it will be as a great scoop of wind from the bottom of the lake throughout the countryside. You shall tell the world that this is to be, for such it is given. To you the date only is secret, for the panic of men knows no bounds.”
This startling information was considerably expanded in a long communique from Sananda on August 15, which read in part:
“And the scenes of the day will be as mad. The grosser ones will be as mad. And the ones of the light will be as the sibets [students] of teachers who have drilled them for this day. . . . In the carting [plan] it is cast [conditions to be fulfilled] that the event will begin at dawn and end swiftly as a passing cloud — in the seen.
“When the resurrected have been resurrected or taken up — it will be as a great burst of light . . . the ground in the earth to a depth of thirty feet will be bright . . . for the earth will be purified.
“In the midst of this it is to be recorded that a great wave rushes into the rocky mountains — the ones of the covered area will be as the com [group] of the newly dead. The slopes of the side to the east will be the beginning of a new civilization upon which will be the new order, in the light. As it is recorded the three mountain ranges to stand at the cast of the guards, are the Alleghenies, the Catskills, the Rocky Mts.
“Yet the land will be as yet not submerged, but as a washing of the top to the sea, for the purpose of purifying it of the earth-ling, and the creating the new order. Yet will it be of the light, for all things must first be likened unto the housecleaning, in which the chaos reigns first, second the order.
“THIS IS DATED NOT IN SYMBOLOGY . . . THE REAL! OF REAL — REALITY YET.”
Ten days later came the third great message which made explicit the further ramifications of the great events:
“This is not limited to the local area, for the cast of the country of the U.S.A. is that it is to break in twain. In the area of the Mississippi, in the region of the Canada, Great Lakes and the Mississippi, to the Gulf of Mexico, into the Central America will be as changed. The great tilting of the land of the U.S. to the East will throw up mountains along the Central States, along the Great New Sea, along North and South—to the South. The new mountain range shall be called The Argone Range, which will signify the ones who have been there are gone — the old has gone past — the new is. This will be as a monument to the old races; to the new will be the Altar of the Rockies and the Alleghenies.”
On August 27, Sananda filled out the picture of world-wide upheaval and change in a long, elaborate message that specifically forecast that Egypt would be remade and the desert would become a fertile valley; Mu would rise from the Pacific; the “uprising of the Atlantic bottom” would “submerge the land of the Atlantic seaboard”; France would sink to the bottom of the Atlantic, as would England; and Russia would become one great sea.
We can only imagine the awe, the reverence, with which the Armstrongs and Mrs. Keech received these momentous pronouncements. Here, in the hands of three fairly ordinary people (by the world’s standards) had been placed the most important news of our time, if not of all recorded history. A grave responsibility, an incomparable privilege had been thrust upon them.
It was Dr. Armstrong who saw his duty clearly and promptly did it. On August 30, he dispatched more than fifty copies of a seven-page mimeographed “Open Letter to American Editors and Publishers.” In it he proclaimed the coming catastrophe, cited precedents from the submersion of Mu, and Christian parallels from chapters of Luke, and gave an account, with examples, of Mrs. Keech’s “ESP lessons.” The body of the letter did not mention the specific date predicted but stated in several places that the cataclysm was “very, very near.” Copies of the release that we saw in October carried a handwritten addendum: “latest release — Date of evacuation Dec. 20.” Some of the releases actually sent to the press may have also borne this legend.
The mailing of this press release marks the end of the first phase of Mrs. Keech’s and the Armstrongs’ activities. Up till now, the “lessons” had been virtually a private matter among Mrs. Keech and her friends. Dr. Armstrong’s action changed things. In one gesture, he made the news of the flood public property, he committed himself and his reputation to a specific prediction of world-wide cataclysm, and he took the first step toward the organization of a movement.
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