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The Race for SpaceAmerica, Accept the Challenge to Master Time and Space for Saint Germain!
What is uppermost in our minds concerning the survival of freedom upon earth is the race for space. Whoever gains control of space will have a decisive military advantage for 50 years and perhaps indefinitely.1
Saint Germain has called for 50 years of peace,2 and with those 50 years he is convinced that he can bring the planet and her people into a golden age. Yet moment by moment, as we are gathered here at this conference, the Soviets are racing to dominate space.
Their purpose is to gain enough of a military advantage to deny the United States access to space. They are putting in place their own version of Star Wars - a ground-and space-based missile defense system that will have the capability to intercept ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and aircraft, destroy satellites in orbit, and prevent other nations from deploying satellites. It may also have an offensive military capability.
The Soviet Union is winning the race for space. On December 29, 1987, the Feast Day of Saint Thomas Becket,3 NASA reported that the test of the space shuttle's booster on December 23, which was thought to have been a success, turned out to be a failure. As a result, the space shuttle's next mission, scheduled for June 2, 1988, will be delayed until August 4, 1988. In contrast, also on December 29, 1987, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko broke the endurance record for space flight by remaining aboard the Mir space station for 326 days.
On October 5, 1987, Time's cover headline read "Moscow Takes the Lead." Their story was called "Surging Ahead: The Soviets Overtake the U.S. as the No. 1 Spacefaring Nation." There is considerable evidence of Soviet leadership in space. Moscow has become the space capital of the world. Seminars once given at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are now given in Moscow. Every year since 1967 the Soviets have launched more vehicles into space than the United States. For example, in 1986 the Soviets conducted 91 launches with only one failure. The United States was successful in only six of nine launches.
The great discrepancy in the number of launches reflects, in part, different space philosophies. The United States tends to launch a small number of state-of-the-art satellites. The Soviets launch many more satellites using less-advanced technologies.
The United States, for instance, has chosen to launch a small number of technically sophisticated reconnaissance satellites with long operational lives. The Soviets have been able to achieve comparable and in some cases superior peacetime reconnaissance using larger numbers of cheaper, less-sophisticated satellites with shorter operational lives. Thus, they tend to launch more missions.
But even after allowing for the Soviets' need to carry out more launches to perform comparable missions, it is clear that the Soviets have maintained a much more aggressive space program than the United States for at least a decade and that the U.S. program is in a serious slump.
Soviet cosmonauts have logged 14 man-years in space; U.S. astronauts less than five. The Soviets have two permanent space stations in orbit - the Salyut 7 and the Mir. They will launch two new modules for the Mir in 1988 and intend to build larger stations. NASA isn't even planning to launch a space station until the mid-1990s. Even then its value will be questionable unless the United States develops a coherent space policy and a well-defined mission for it.
NASA had a space station called Skylab in orbit from 1973 until 1979 but never quite knew what to do with it. As a result, it was often unoccupied and Skylab II, a duplicate, was donated to the Smithsonian Institution rather than being launched because, as T. A. Heppenheimer, a space reporter and member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, points out, "NASA could not find work enough for its space crews to justify launching [it] and supporting it with astronaut-carrying flights."4
As we know, the projections of world karma being delivered by the Four Horsemen as well as the astrology for America and the Soviet Union do not allow us the indulgence to wait until the 1990s to put up a space station. Our people are afflicted with euphoria and euphemisms, procrastination and psychic nonsense. And we have assembled at this conference for the breaking of the spine of that astral beast of national suicide and the downward beat of rock music and drugs that has lulled the people to sleep as though they were in the last days of Atlantis, unaware of what was coming upon them.
The Soviets are undertaking more missions and more complex missions than the United States. In July of this year they are planning an ambitious launch of two spacecraft to Mars. One will fly above the Martian moon Phobos, then drop a lander vehicle to collect data on the moon's soil. If it is successful, the second spacecraft may take off to explore Mars' second moon, Diemos. In 1992 the Soviets plan to launch a spacecraft to analyze soil from Mars and by the late 1990s they want to follow up with a robot probe that will walk the planet's surface over a year's time to gather soil samples.
We know that Martians embodied on this planet today carry the consciousness of war. The ancient warlords of Japan are an example of those who descended from the false hierarchy of Mars. Not only does the exploration of Mars advance the technology of the Soviets but it also probes the astral belt and opens up the astral records of war that spill out into the solar system and pollute Earth. Each time we have had an encounter with Mars through space exploration we have seen the increase on Earth of Martian consciousness and Martian misuses of the base chakra of the Divine Mother, turning the sacred fire to war - thus the appearance of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons that have been used in past ages in rival wars of the gods on Mars, Maldek, Hedron and Earth.5
I submit that the real reason the Soviets are going to Mars (not necessarily consciously) is to link up vibrationally with the false hierarchy of that planet on the physical as well as on the astral plane, much of that false hierarchy already being on Earth. I believe that there are aliens who assist the Soviets in their space program - aiding and abetting the cause of World Communism to maintain control of the Lightbearers of Earth - and that some of these are also connected with the Martian evolution, who, after rendering their own planet uninhabitable, reincarnated on Earth and other dense spheres bearing the contaminating karma of war.
The Soviets now have an enormous advantage in "lift capacity" - the amount of weight a vehicle can carry into space. Lift capacity is a critical index of a space program's vitality. A nation with a large lift capacity can undertake more complex missions because it can launch a larger payload. It can also deploy systems faster and more cheaply.
For example, with their large lift capacity the Soviets could in a single launch deploy numerous satellites. The United States has a smaller lift capacity and therefore it would take much longer to deploy a comparable number of satellites. The ability to launch large numbers of satellites is a crucial element in a strategic defense system.
The Soviets' heavy-lift capacity will enable them to launch not only satellites for strategic defense but also powerful space-based laser platforms. The United States is not expected to have a comparable capability until large rockets now being developed come on line sometime between 1995 and 2000.
The Energia, pictured in Time's story on space, is the largest of the Soviets' heavy-lift vehicles. It can lift a 100-ton payload. It is similar but not identical to the old U.S. Saturn 5 rocket, which was developed for the Apollo program that put man on the moon in the 1960s. The Saturn 5 was capable of lifting 90 tons into space. The U.S. program has slipped so badly since the Apollo program ended in 1972 that the shuttle booster, which can only lift a 30-ton payload, is now our largest lift vehicle. It has been grounded since the Challenger exploded.
The problems we have in space are not technological. They are political and conceptual. According to Dr. Robin Ranger, Bradley Resident Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, U.S. space policy suffers from a "curious disconnect."
The problem is twofold. First, he says, U.S. space policy "has suffered from a lack of realistic strategic goals, that is to say, a set of objectives that make military or commercial or scientific sense. There's been a tendency to define the space program as putting a man on the moon or building a manned space shuttle." But, he points out, "we haven't said, `What do we need? We need access to space the same way you want to access the sea for oceanographic research and for naval purposes, both in peace-time and in conflict situations."'
"Paradoxically," says Dr. Ranger, "the other failure has really been at a more mundane level where we have simply failed to ask, `What kinds of things should we be building to get the kind of access to space we want?"'
The turning point in the race for space came in the early seventies as the Apollo program began to wind down. At the urging of NASA, the United States decided to cut back on its existing launch vehicles, cancel development of almost all of its new class of expendable launch vehicles, and put all of its resources into the space shuttle program.
"NASA was an agency in search of a mission to preserve its budget and work force after the end of the Apollo program," says Dr. Ranger. It had a big budget and payroll and wanted to preserve them. So it began to promote the concept of the space shuttle and overestimated the shuttle's capabilities and underestimated its costs. But in order to insure the viability of the shuttle program, they went a step further and, according to Dr. Ranger, said, "What we must do is destroy anything that could possibly compete with the shuttle program."6 So they destroyed the Saturn system and with it our heavy-lift capability. This, as we shall see, would have profound consequences in the race for space - especially in the near-term military sphere.
The United States still leads the Soviets in a number of key technologies needed for space missions, including computers and data processing, but we are in danger of losing even that lead. Assuming it will take the Soviets some time to overcome weaknesses in these areas, they can still gain complete military dominance of space in the mid-1990s - primarily due to four capabilities that the U.S. lacks: a heavy-lift capacity, an ability to launch numerous missions in a short period of time (known as surge capacity), an anti-satellite capability, and a coherent military doctrine which guides the Soviets toward their goals.
Today the U.S. space program is disorganized, demoralized, underfunded, torn by power struggles within NASA and between the military services and, worst of all, without a mission.
That description fits the stumbling blocks we find on the six o'clock line as we chart our national astrology and psychology on the Cosmic Clock.7 Disorder, disorganization, demoralization, absence of supply, power struggles, infighting, as well as a loss of vision, direction, the sense of mission, a lack of goals, goal-fittedness, the will to be, to win and to survive - all of these are a perversion of the attributes of God-harmony and God-integration, the Law of the Abundant Life and the cosmic honor flame which demonstrates the power of the hierarchy of Cancer and of individuals and states who pass their initiations of Christhood under that sign on the six o'clock line.
These perversions of the Divine Mother are embodied by the false hierarchy of Cancer and are amplified by today's full moon in Cancer.
The six o'clock line of the Cosmic Clock is the position not only of the Divine Mother but also of the Great Guru Sanat Kumara, who by ancient tradition in the Far East appears as the leader of the armies of heaven under the name Karttikeya. Our rela-tionship to the Great Guru Sanat Kumara on the six o'clock line is directly related to our ability to raise the sacred fire of the base-of-the-spine chakra (i.e., the Kundalini) to the point of the third eye (nourishing each chakra on the way) for the vision that we need.
We are in a profound dilemma at this moment and we have met our nemesis on the six o'clock line with the initiations which our souls are facing. The six o'clock line is the line of the base chakra, and the base chakra of the people is afflicted in this nation. America is a nation reincarnated from the land of Lemuria and of the Divine Mother. It is because of the absence of our adoration of the Divine Mother in our body temples, in our beings, in our lives that we are being overtaken by an enemy who is misusing the light, the science, and the technology of the Divine Mother.
In addition to our weakness on the six o'clock line, the second opposition to our space program is that in order to master space one must have the mind of the Buddha. In achieving the mind of the Buddha, we manifest a mastery of space. In achieving the mind of the Divine Mother who is Guru, we achieve the mastery of time. We have demonstrated the mastery of time and space in our space program for over 25 years now. But our dharma mandates that we dominate space first, and we are allowing the Soviets to undermine in the physical plane the protection of Archangel Michael and the hosts of the LORD that we invoke.
Once upon a time we had vision and a decisive purpose in space. In October 1960, in the midst of his campaign for the presidency, John F. Kennedy declared, "We are in a strategic space race with the Russians and we have been losing. ... Control of space will be decided in the next decade. If the Soviets control space they can control Earth, as in the past centuries the nations that controlled the seas dominated the continents."8
As it turns out, it will be the 1990s, not the 1960s, which will probably decide the race for space. We did not lose in the 1960s because President Kennedy determined we would not. He also determined that we would land on the moon and we became the first to do so. As a result, by the late 1960s the United States had a clear lead in space. No president since has determined to make our leadership in space a national priority, placing all else subordinate to it.
If the Soviets achieve military dominance of space, they will be able to use that advantage to keep us from putting up our space-based missile defense system. What's more, they will be able to keep us from deploying new satellites in space and could destroy those that are already in orbit. They will be able to shoot down any ballistic missile fired at them from anywhere on the planet. Therefore, all nuclear arsenals but theirs will be obsolete. They will be able to attack anyone with impunity and will enjoy global military dominance. They could then control the political, social, economic and cultural life of every nation on earth.
Therefore, we the citizens of the United States of America could very well see within 10 years a totalitarian power with weapons in the sky dictating to us the terms of our everyday life, our military and our economy unless we can find a president who will win the race for space.
People get the type of leader they deserve; El Morya was saying this to us in his New Year's Eve dictation.9 According to that concept, if we want better leaders, we must change ourselves. If we raise up the living Christ within us, then we deserve to have an anointed one for our president. If we desire to have Sanat Kumara champion us in the battle of Armageddon, then we must bend the knee before him, not merely in an outer demonstration or ritual but truly in our heart of hearts in a fearless surrender to God and to his will, knowing that this is the only way out of the human dilemma.
The United States must achieve military dominance in space. Not in order to act aggressively, but in order to develop enough strength and mobility to prevent any aggressor from attacking - and if they do attack, to insure that our nation will suffer as little damage as possible and a minimum loss of life.
The lessons of history, even in our own lifetime (witness Hitler's attack on Britain in World War II), tell us that a nation unprepared to defend itself will be attacked; if seriously unprepared (like Poland in 1939), it will be defeated, plundered and enslaved.
Twenty-four hundred years ago, the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu wrote, "When the enemy's envoys speak in humble terms but he continues his preparations, he will advance." This is happening before our very eyes as the Soviets continue their preparations for war while signing the INF Treaty - and there is much more happening behind the Iron Curtain that our government knows and isn't telling, as we will see later in this lecture.
We cannot ignore reality. If we want peace, we must objectively assess the world as it is (not the world as we would like it to be) and be prepared to deploy the necessary military forces in space and on the ground to defend our homeland.
Countering the Soviet threat should be the primary objective of our space program. But it's not. One reason is that Pentagon bureaucrats, like all other bureaucrats, have their pet projects.
The military doesn't have a greater role in space because the intense competition for defense budget dollars would require reallocation of money from existing weapons systems - such as fighter aircraft or tanks - into space systems. The various departments in the Pentagon don't want to see resources taken from any of the existing programs - whether or not they are more important than the race for space. In addition, each military service wants to keep the other services from getting the power and prestige that would come with manning a space defense program.
The power struggles between the military services are like the power struggles that come about through sibling rivalry for the affection and approval of the Mother. They also remind me of the power struggles between the fallen ones who long ago extinguished the divine spark within and so they are fierce competitors and vie for territorial supremacy one over the other. Name and fame, money and power are their game. Treating the common people as chattel, they use them as an expendable means to their ends.
We, therefore, must look to this new year with a profound commitment to establish through our hearts the figure-eight flow here of the Buddha and the Mother. What do we find that has been given to us? The Western Shamballa of Gautama over the Heart of the Inner Retreat and the Retreat of the Divine Mother over the entire Royal Teton Ranch.10 But are we actually drawing down the Light and becoming that Buddha and that Mother in action?
My perception is that our performance is wanting, and the leadership that has been called for by the Brotherhood is not rising up as it could - even in the day-to-day details of running an organization. Too often people passively wait for someone else to tell them what to do instead of exercising the Christed intelligence of the heart. Such passivity derives from the absence of alignment with the Divine Mother, who is intensely active in the defense of her little ones and out of her fiery love arrives at ingenious solutions to their plight.
Leadership comes by the descent of the Christ within you. That Christ within you is the Buddhic mind. We, therefore, focusing the flame of the Divine Mother and the Buddha, raising up the true Shepherd within us, the Holy Christ Self, can demand of cosmos that co-measurement, that co-equality in our leadership. That is why El Morya told us that he is running for the office of president of the United States of America. He is running through his chelas, who must raise up the standard of leadership and show that "profile of courage," as he said in his dictation.
He wants us to understand that as far as our leaders are concerned, we get what we deserve. And if we know we deserve better, then we will have to be better and we will have to show it in the day-by-day application of our joint heirship with Christ.11 Then we have to call for the judgment of the interlopers who have stolen the seats of power, calling to the LORD as Mary did to "put down the mighty from their seats"12 and exalt the Christ and the humble whose inner God Flame is their divine right to rule.
And on the home front we have to enter into such an uncompromising dedication and service to Saint Germain to prepare this headquarters, this Community for Keepers of the Flame, for our staff and for all who are to be a part of it whom El Morya will send us. And this will only happen because people from the field come and help us and are willing to do what is necessary for this headquarters to be established.
Remember the Macedonian cry, "Come over into Macedonia and help us!" and Paul's immediate response when he went to preach the true teachings of Jesus to the Macedonians.13 As I have and shall continue to answer the call of Keepers of the Flame to stump your cities, so I also give the Macedonian cry to you to come over to the ranch and help build our "Camelot Montana" on the Spring Creek site. Now is the time to start making plans since our EIS is out and the state is close to giving us the green light to move forward with our construction projects.
Thus far Keepers of the Flame from the field have not come forth in sufficient numbers to enable us to do the job that Saint Germain has asked us to do; and many times those who are qualified are the last to volunteer and those least qualified are up front. When jobs require a certain sophistication of training and preparedness, it delays and complicates matters to work with untrained labor.
My awareness of the Soviet threat in space - and of the failure of our government to show us that they have the strength, the will, the wisdom, the vision, and the energy to keep the flame of Life and Liberty in America - is ongoing. I perceive that the American leadership is not committed to a true Master/disciple relationship to Jesus Christ or to Maitreya, nor to Lord Gautama or to their own Holy Christ Self or Saint Germain. When this divine allegiance is wanting at the national level and a people have committed the actions that we have committed and made the karma we have made, then the nation is truly vulnerable to the enemy within and without and to the karma of the age.
The American people are vulnerable today because we have abdicated our responsibility to defend life. We do not defend life in the womb, nor have we as a nation effectively protected our children against those who would destroy their minds and bodies through drugs, violence, child abuse and child pornography.
Since the January 22, 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, the opportunity for 20 million souls to fulfill their destiny in the New Age has been aborted in the United States - 1.5 million every year, one every 21 seconds. This is the genius and creative potential of Aquarians who are simply not here! Passport to planet earth denied! By a people desensitized to the signs of the times - and the mandate of cosmic law to care for and defend Life that is God in manifestation.
We are also vulnerable because we have neglected our responsibility to defend life and freedom abroad by failing to give substantial support to freedom fighters who are resisting totalitarian encroachments upon their lives and nations by the Soviet Union and the agents of World Communism.
The Challenger disaster brought our karmic vulnerability into sharp focus, but the problem has been developing for years because our people have been inattentive to the call of Saint Germain, the Spirit of Freedom which gave our nation birth. When a people do not individually or collectively deal with their karma, it builds up. The density of karma is ongoing, the weight of our sins is cumulative and it is intensifying. This is reflected in the crises we face today in every area of life - from education to the economy to the space program.
There is no question that the Soviet space program is designed to achieve the military control of space. They say it is for peace, for scientific advancement, for the union of East and West - America and the Soviets in the exploration of space, et cetera, et cetera. This propaganda is just part of the Big Lie. They are racing to achieve that military superiority, to get their weapons into space so that when all is set and in readiness, they can do what they will - launch a first strike or blackmail the West or both.
And one can dominate the world from space. It's no longer a question of half-slave and half-free. It's simply all slave, and when the day comes that the Soviets fully dominate space militarily, it will be very difficult to unseat them. It would take infiltration and sabotage right up to their space stations. We couldn't attack them from the ground because anything that attacks from the ground would be shot down before it even got going.
If the Soviets dominated space, they could greatly increase their surveillance capacity. It is terrible to think about planetary surveillance from space. Just think of it - being monitored in everything you do 24 hours a day from space. It becomes the fulfillment of Orwell's 1984 and far beyond, even beyond our imagination.
Almost all Soviet launches are for military purposes. Their space stations and launch capacity are essential to their military warfare capabilities. The Department of Defense publishes an assessment of Soviet military capabilities called Soviet Military Power. It says that "at least 90 percent of [Soviet] launches and satellites are military related and support both offensive and defensive operations. The USSR tries to mask the true nature of most of its space missions by declaring them as scientific."14
Thomas Krebs, former Pentagon expert on Soviet space warfare capabilities, whom we interviewed at our Fourth of July conference in the Heart of the Inner Retreat last summer, estimates that only 30 percent of U.S. space launches are for military purposes.
The major media seldom, if ever, explain what the Soviets are doing in space. According to Krebs, their immediate goal is to put up a space-based missile defense system like the one proposed for the United States by High Frontier, an organization headed by retired Lt. Gen. Daniel O. Graham. The system High Frontier proposes has three layers. The first two are ground-based, the third is space-based. The third layer consists of a network of satellites armed with conventional rockets to kill warheads at several phases of their flight, especially during the boost and post-boost phases as they travel through space
In order to deploy such a system, you need a number of components. First, you need a heavy-lift vehicle like the Energia to launch satellites cheaply. You need a large, manned space station like the Mir to service the satellite network. You also need a spaceplane to fly out from the space station to service individual satellites. (The Soviets have already tested a subscale version of a spaceplane of this type and are expected to deploy it by 1990.) And last, you need a military doctrine and a strategy for deployment, which, as I pointed out earlier, the Soviets have had for years.
If the Soviets put up their space-based missile defense system before we do, they will be able to keep us from getting into space. It's as simple as that. They will be able to shoot down anything we put up and we will not be able to do anything about it. The Soviets will have the ultimate checkmate. And they know it. And they're working furiously to make it happen before the West rouses itself from its soft slumber in the euphoria of peace talks, INF talks, disarmament talks, START talks!
Krebs points out that the Soviets are not more technically advanced than the United States. He says the Soviets' superior position comes from "an awful lot of persistence" and "what their vision is for space."
"Way back in the mid-sixties the Soviets set a space doctrine [which] was to gain preeminence in space in order to achieve victory in war," says Krebs. "We, however, have not had an objective in space. We do scientific experiments. We build transportation systems. We went to the moon. ... But we do not have a military objective in space. ...
"We haven't decided that space is a military environment - even though we spend billions of dollars on space and even though our forces - ground, sea and air forces - are heavily dependent upon [our space capabilities]. We have not set it as our goal or our mission to defend space and to make sure that we will prevail if there's a war. The Soviets did set that goal."15
In essence, the U.S./Soviet space race is the classic case of the tortoise chasing the hare - and then surpassing him. And now the tortoise is about to take a quantum leap that will make it very difficult for the hare to catch up.
Does the hare wish to catch up? On February 11, 1988, President Reagan announced a National Space Policy that for the first time committed the United States government to a long-term program of manned exploration of the solar system. Part of the new policy is the development of "Pathfinder" technologies that will make it possible for U.S. astronauts to return to the moon at the turn of the century, establish a permanent base there, and then fly to Mars. The new policy is also designed to spur commercial space exploration.
Does this mean the U.S. space program will now be organized and directed by a sharply defined goal? Not really.
First, President Reagan has announced the policy too late in his second term for it to be institutionalized. And there is no guarantee that the next president will embrace the goals of the new policy. Second, from a military point of view, the program is a case of doing too little too late. It takes a long time to bring space programs from conception to reality. The advances envisioned by the new National Space Policy will take about a decade to come to fruition. And these are primarily civilian programs - not military programs.
In the meantime, the Soviets are poised to gain military dominance. The authoritative Jane's Spaceflight Directory says the current Soviet lead is "almost frightening."16
As I have said, one of the factors that could give the Soviets the edge in time of crisis is their surge capacity. They have stockpiled large numbers of satellites as well as the vehicles they need to launch them.
They also have a proven anti-satellite weapons capability - i.e., they can destroy our satellites in orbit. Gen. John L. Piotrowski, commander in chief of the U.S. Space Command, told the Air Force Association's national space symposium on May 22, 1987, "In a crisis the Soviets could significantly increase their launch rate while ... simultaneously reducing our own on-orbit forces" with "their operational anti-satellite [ASAT] weapon."17 That makes the Soviets the only power that can deny others access to space, he said.
Furthermore, Piotrowski announced on October 23, 1987, that Soviet ground-based lasers can now destroy U.S. satellites in low Earth orbit and even damage sensors on satellites in geostationary orbits 22,300 miles from the Earth.18 In fact, the Soviets' ground-based lasers have already been reported to have blinded U.S. satellites in orbit.
Moreover, satellite radar images from the French space agency "confirm that a massive Soviet strategic defense program is under way to develop lasers for both antiballistic missile defense and antisatellite operations," Aviation Week and Space Technology reported in October 1987.
The Soviets have two complexes where the lasers are being developed - Nurek and Sary Shagan. These sites "form two elements of an array of Soviet antisatellite capabilities that includes directed energy weapons sites at Semipalatinsk and the antisatellite spacecraft launch sites at Tyuratam. These facilities are positioned longitudinally across the USSR so that virtually all U.S. low-altitude military spacecraft are within the attack range of at least one of the sites daily.
"U.S. officials believe the Nurek site, about 25 miles southeast of the city of Dushanabe, near the Soviet border with Afghanistan, is being developed as one of the USSR's first operational antisatellite laser systems that could counter future U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative spacecraft and other key U.S. military satellites. Intelligence data indicate that microwave weapons [which can disable a satellite's or missile's electronics] could also be based at Nurek."19
In addition, former intelligence official Steven Trevino says that the Soviets will also soon be able to deny the U.S. access to space with "some radically new technologies that will be coming out in the press in the next few years."20
One of the key reasons the Soviets are ahead in space is sabotage. And our people, our government and our media are absolutely unwilling to see or to do anything about it when it parades before their wondering eyes. It's like the monkeys, "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil," and that's the prevailing metaphysics of this country: pretend it isn't there, see nothing of war, hear nothing of war, speak nothing of war. Don't look at what the enemy is doing, don't listen to what he's really saying, just think peace, think it hard, see peace, see it with all your mental might, and enter into dialogues of peace - citizen-to-citizen via satellite - and believe with metaphysical faith that peace will come because you have willed it so.
And when you talk about negotiating with the enemy who has vowed to bury you21 be sure you use that Soviet euphemism for defeating you without a rocket ever being fired - "the peace process." Let this cliché be repeated enough times and all that the Soviets want will be in their pocket and your pocket will be hanging out empty!
Look at the record and tell me what the odds are. Between August 28, 1985, and March 26, 1987, the U.S. lost eight launches, including the space shuttle Challenger.
- August 28, 1985: an Air Force Titan 34D exploded a few seconds after lift-off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- January 28, 1986: the space shuttle Challenger blew up 73 seconds after launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
- April 18, 1986: Titan 34D exploded five seconds after launch. (Notice they're all exploding just after lift-off.)
- April 25, 1986: a Nike-Orion "sounding rocket" misfired at the White Sands, New Mexico, missile range.
- May 3, 1986: a Delta rocket suffered an electrical failure 71 seconds into launch, causing the rocket to tumble, and was destroyed by ground controllers at Cape Canaveral.
- August 23, 1986: an Aries rocket mysteriously veered off course and was destroyed 50 seconds after launch by ground controllers at White Sands, New Mexico.
- August 28, 1986: a Minuteman III missile launched from an underground silo at Vandenberg was destroyed shortly after launch by ground controllers when it malfunctioned for unknown reasons.
- March 26, 1987: an Atlas-Centaur rocket went out of control 51 seconds after lift-off when it was hit by lightning and was then blown up by range safety officers. It was carrying an $83 million military communications satellite which would have linked the president with the U.S. armed forces abroad.
Let us look at the following videoclips taken from several news sources so you can take notes on these space disasters. They begin with an excerpt from High Frontier's promotional video, "A Defense That Defends."
Narrator: The space shuttle offers us an opportunity to step off the nuclear treadmill and out into the new high frontier of space. Commander John Young.
Comdr. John Young: The space shuttle will be able to do in five to 10 years what it would have taken us 20 to 30 years to do otherwise. We couldn't do it if we didn't have the space shuttle and that payload capability. It will immeasurably improve the defensive capability of the country.
Narrator: If we utilize the extraordinary capabilities of the space shuttle to deploy the system known as High Frontier, America for the first time will be able to defend herself against a Soviet missile attack.
Following is ABC's "Nightline" from January 28, 1986:
Narrator: Lift-off of the 25th space shuttle mission and it has cleared the tower.
Technician #1: Engines beginning throttling down now. Engines at 65 percent, three engines running normally, three good fuel cells, three good APUs. Engines throttling up, three engines now at 104 percent.
Technician #2: Challenger, go with throttle up.
Challenger Astronaut: Roger. Go to throttle up. [Space shuttle Challenger explodes; spectators scream.]
This is CBS News from April 18, 1986:
Dan Rather: The prime unmanned backup now used for putting big U.S. military payloads into space since the Challenger disaster today exploded on takeoff. It was the second straight failure in eight months of a launch of an unmanned Titan 34D rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California; and CBS News was told tonight that, in effect, the United States now has no system for putting big, sophisticated military reconnaissance satellites into orbit.
Here's NBC News of May 3, 1986:
Connie Chung: Good evening. At Cape Canaveral tonight an unmanned Delta rocket exploded just a minute after lift-off. It was the second explosion of a U.S. spacecraft since the Challenger disaster last January. Last month an Air Force Titan rocket exploded. Jay Barbree is at Cape Canaveral and watched as the Delta rocket broke up in flames.
Jay Barbree: NASA's most reliable rocket, an unmanned Delta, blew up shortly after what appeared to be a successful lift-off. The slender rocket climbed into the sky with a $57 million weather satellite in its nose. It flew as it should for one minute and its first set of solid rocket boosters fell away as scheduled. Then it happened. The rocket appeared to swing out of control and debris streamed from the nose of the Delta. The rocket flipped over, breaking up into a fireball.
Now we'll see ABC News from March 26, 1987:
Narrator: The launch had been delayed 14 minutes because of stormy skies accompanied by lightning, but NASA weather experts gave a green light.
Engineer #1: Main engine sequence start ignition -
Narrator: The 137-foot rocket roared off the pad with a backdrop of gray clouds. On board the Atlas-Centaur was an $83 million navy communications satellite called the FLTSATCOM. Lightning is reported to have struck the launch pad 35 seconds after lift-off. The rocket disappeared into the dark clouds and at 51 seconds all communications went dead. The range safety officer then destroyed the vehicle.
This is ABC's "Nightline" from June 9, 1986:
Ted Koppel: The one impetus that we have not been talking about, the one force that hasn't come into this conversation yet is our competition with the Soviet Union. Where do we stand in that competition and what effect is that going to have on the future?
Sen. John Glenn, Former Astronaut: Ted, I think we're dangerously close to being in a perilous situation there because last year, for instance, in 1985, I believe, the Soviets had 97 total launches, that's of all kinds. At the same time we had 22.
Our final clip is CNN News taken from April 4, 1987:
Commentator: Pentagon sources say the Soviets are ready to begin manned testing of two reusable spaceplanes. That closes the only major gap remaining between the Soviet space program and NASA's. CNN's John Holliman has more.
John Holliman: Defense Department sources say the Soviet spaceplane, which has successfully been launched and recovered from orbit four times, will be ready for full-scale manned testing by the end of the decade. These same officials say it will be used to defend the Soviet space station or to attack satellites. Some nonmilitary analysts aren't so sure.
Marsha Smith, Soviet Space Analyst, Congressional Research Service: I think that they do have several more steps to go through before they'll have a functional spaceplane, and whether they plan to use that as a ferry craft for taking crews back and forth to space stations or if they plan to outfit it for military reconnaissance roles, I think it's really up in the air.
John Holliman: In addition to the two-person spaceplane, the Soviets are developing a large shuttle similar to the U.S. version. The Pentagon expects a manned flight by next year, but Smith says it probably won't be operational till 1990. Even though there's disagreement about specifics, there is a general sense among U.S. observers this country is losing the space race to the Soviets.
Narrator: The Soviets have launched seven space stations since 1971. They've kept Salyut 6 continually manned by alternating crews of cosmonauts that remain aloft in excess of 200 days at a time. An entire city, Star Town, exists solely for the training of their strategic rocket forces personnel. The Soviets launch five times as many rockets and place 10 times as much equipment into space as we do. Their commitment is clear, constant and determined.
Marsha Smith: But right now they do have a tremendous lead over the U.S. in this one area of space activities, which is manned Earth orbital operations.
Charles Walker, Former Astronaut: In terms of permanent habitation, permanent capability on orbit, I guess we're at least eight years behind.
Pete Conrad, Former Astronaut: They're working on much larger boosters. They're working on a reusable vehicle and, as best we can tell, they have sort of indicated that they are in fact on their way to Mars.
John Holliman: Conrad said it's up to the president to get America's act together in space, but it's not going to be easy. The U.S. space program is beset with problems, from the Challenger disaster a year ago to last month's Atlas rocket failure. Some space agency supporters in Congress say lack of action by the administration has weakened support for NASA almost to the breaking point.
When I interviewed General Graham at Summit University Forum, he told us that "the odds of a chance succession of [launch] failures [like the one the U.S. experienced], are one in 250 million. You either have to suspect sabotage or you have to believe that one chance in 250 million came about."22 As former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, General Graham is highly qualified to make this estimate.
During the same interview, Dr. Dmitry Mikheyev, a Soviet physicist who was expelled from his country, told why he believes the KGB could have destroyed the rockets with a microwave gun. "A microwave creates a beam which penetrates through the skin of a rocket" and scrambles the electronic equipment inside, he said. All the rockets failed within 74 seconds of launch. Mikheyev says that this is during the boost phase when the rockets move slowly and are therefore easy targets.
The Soviets could have easily fired microwave guns at the rockets, he said. After they shoot the rocket, "there is no hole in it. It malfunctions and falls by itself because [its] mechanisms don't function." It is impossible to tell that the circuits were destroyed by microwave because the evidence burns up in the explosion.23 The microwave guns may have been on Soviet ships or they may have been fired from elsewhere.
Professor Antony Sutton has cited the same figures as Graham. When I interviewed him last summer he said, "Statistically that succession of failures would come about - knowing what we do about the reliability of these rockets - at one in 250 million. Now, if you want to believe that one in 250 million chances is acceptable, then go ahead. I believe fully, and I wrote it within a week of the Challenger going down, that this was clearly sabotage."
An interesting side note is that two Soviet-bloc citizens and a Soviet scientist were working at NASA in 1985, which is the year the string of failures started. The scientist was working in the Aeronautics division on projects involving engine sensor systems and instrumentation control. The Pentagon said their presence there was intended as a gesture of goodwill toward the Soviets.24 Could they have had anything to do with the sabotage?
Sutton continues: "The second point is that the Soviets always monitor launches from Cape Canaveral from so-called `fishing' vessels, which are actually electronic espionage vessels. They have these vessels offshore which regularly monitor [launch] communications. About two hours before Challenger left the launchpad, the Soviet vessels took off at flank speed. They left the launch area - that's the first time they've ever done this.
"So that's subsidiary evidence that the Soviets knew that the Challenger launch was going to be a failure. And thirdly, I understand from sources that the KGB had a big party in Moscow the night the Challenger went down."25
You realize that the leadership of this nation suffers from fear and spinelessness. Fear enters the psyche on the six o'clock line as it trines with the two o'clock line, the line of Pisces initiations in God-mastery, which may be thwarted by fear, doubt, human questioning, and records of death. Fear enters the psyche on the six o'clock line as it and the two o'clock line also trine with the ten o'clock line, the line of Scorpio initiations in God-vision, which may be thwarted by human selfishness and self-love, including all sensual indulgences and perversions.
The United States is wallowing in the 2/6/10 astrological initiations of Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio. The people perish for want of vision because all of their energy is tied up in their pleasure cult. They cannot see because they will not see. By free will they squander their light and their life-force. Thus their inner sight, or "insight," is nonfunctioning in the third eye, for the energy of the Divine Mother is not raised upon the spinal altar to nourish the upper chakras.
So our leadership is afraid that if they expose the sabotage of our space program to the American people, who would raise a hue and cry, it would ruin their negotiations with the Soviets and they might have to take stern measures against them.
They might have to finally admit that we are in a state of undeclared war, sever diplomatic relations with the Soviets, send their diplomats packing, put an end to Soviet spying and technology theft, and demand that their subs and "fishing" vessels operating off our coasts go home.
They might even have to declare the Soviets in violation of the United Nations Charter (which commits its members to the cause of peace) and kick the UN and all of its East bloc spies out of the country.
And our leaders might have to withdraw from the ABM Treaty and face up to the equation of realpolitik: that the Soviet Union is at war with the United States (whether or not we are fighting back) and that we are in a state of national emergency. And our president ought to declare it!
The fact of the matter is that the Soviets have been quietly breaking out of the ABM Treaty for years by deploying a dual-capable air-defense system that can shoot down ballistic missiles as well as defend against aircraft. One of the most blatant violations of the treaty is the construction of a large phased-array radar in Siberia at Krasnoyarsk, which completed the circle of battle management radar coverage of the USSR.
Battle management radars take the longest of any component of a nationwide ABM system to produce - as much as 10 years. The other components - including small, mobile radars such as the Flat Twin and Pawn Shop radars - can be produced quickly once the factories are built and the assembly lines are going.
While the Soviets' dual-capable air-defense system and massive radar capacity are alarming, that's not the whole story. On February 25, 1988, The Wall Street Journal said in an editorial, "We hear that Air Force Intelligence has officially concluded the Soviets have rolled production lines to break out of the ABM treaty and deploy a nationwide anti-missile system, which possibly could be in place by next year. That Maj. Gen. Schuyler Bissell, head of Air Force Intelligence, briefed the CIA on this conclusion late last week." (emphasis added)
The Journal said this Air Force finding is based on two new pieces of evidence:
"First, the Soviets are `internetting' their early-warning radars. ... They have conducted `hand-off exercises' in which the large phased-array radars like the controversial one at Krasnoyarsk pick up targets and alert the Flat Twin and Pawn Shop mobile radars that guide their [ABMs]. This is the key `battle management' function of an anti-missile system.
"Second, the Soviets are mass producing the Flat Twin and Pawn Shop radars, though the ABM treaty limits them to two locations. Similarly, they are mass producing the SH-08, a relatively new supersonic [anti-ballistic] missile that intercepts warheads within the atmosphere, with 500 such missiles already produced and 3,000 ultimately projected. The ABM treaty limits each side to only 100 interceptors of all types, and the Soviets also have the SH-04 [ABM], which intercepts above the atmosphere, as well as other interceptors with both anti-aircraft and anti-missile capability."26
A seasoned defense expert with access to highly classified information confirmed to us the accuracy of this report and said that further classified information on the subject that was not leaked is more serious still. But even with what we do know, it is now quite obvious that the Soviets are in the final stages of covertly deploying a nationwide ABM system. It is only a matter of time before they get enough mobile radars and anti-ballistic missiles off the assembly line to give them the defensive capability to launch a first strike against the United States without being annihilated in a counterstrike.
It may be difficult to understand how a defense system could be a threat. Defenses are not inherently threatening but they became so in the context of our nuclear strategy. Our strategy is guided by the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which says that war is deterred when both sides believe they will be destroyed if either attacks.
According to MAD, defenses which stop nuclear warheads are "destabilizing" - that is, likely to cause nuclear war - since the side that has them can attack without fear of being annihilated in retaliation. This argument has been used against the deployment of strategic defense in the United States for 20 years.
But the Soviets never agreed to abide by the principles of MAD. Rather than live in mutual terror with us, they decided to covertly build themselves a defense system - and talk us out of building our own. When the Soviet system is complete, it will mean they are more likely to launch a nuclear attack against us since they will be able to stop most of our retaliatory missiles. It will also mean they can force political concessions from us and the rest of the world by threatening to use their advantage.
The Soviet ABM system will not be able to stop 100 percent of our missiles. But it will doubtless protect most Soviet military and industrial targets and key civilian areas, which is what they really care about. In combination with their countrywide civil defense already in place, it will give them a decisive advantage. It could make the difference in their decision to launch a nuclear first strike.
The president must issue a mandate to install an ABM defense for the United States. He must realize that MAD was a faulty theory to begin with and that it is no longer applicable to the realities of today. Our scientists and engineers know how to defend the United States, but President Reagan continues to adhere to the outdated, outgrown and outrageous ABM Treaty that has never stopped the Soviets from doing anything they wanted to do!
Nevertheless, it's a good bet Reagan will continue with business as usual. We've seen over the years, in this and past administrations, that no matter what would be the obvious step to take to stop the Soviet advance, if it interferes with the goals of the international bankers, the establishment and the International Capitalist/Communist Conspiracy, you can be certain that step won't be taken.
In fact, the Soviets owe the success of their space program not only to the ironclad commitment of their top leadership to dominate space but also to the transfer of Western technology and money. Yes, they owe it to the "capitalists" and the international bankers. They would never have had the power or the resources to make it on their own. Therefore I desire to deliver to you my lecture on the subject of the International Capitalist/Communist Conspiracy and America's abdication of her role as a Christed nation in history.27
The Soviets have been able to buy or steal high technology from the United States. Their space program, says Professor Sutton, "to a great extent started off with German technology" that they acquired when they captured German scientists at the end of World War II. They have gotten a number of important technologies from the United States since then, such as the docking mechanism for the Soyuz space vehicle, semiconductor technology that is critical to electronic guidance systems, and carbon-carbon technology which can be used to make missiles more accurate. Some of this was acquired legally, some of it illegally.
But, says Sutton, if we had not built their technological base - including steel, chemical, and truck factories - patiently over several decades, "they would have no space capacity at all."28 And I must add, Saint Germain would have his 50 years and more to bring in a golden age of Aquarius.
Did any of the common people give the industrialists and bankers permission to sell our technologies? Did any of us say it was OK? No, not us; the power elite gave them the green light. And these gods respect no bounds either of nation-states or of morality and they have no relationship of trust with the people of America or of any nation upon whose backs they have built their corporate empires! Yes, the embodied fallen angels of the United States and Western Europe played a major role in building the Soviet military-industrial complex that forms the backbone of the Soviet space program today!
Our government is willing to underwrite loans to the Soviet bloc but it is not willing to do the same for our national security. Congress just trimmed $1.8 billion off the administration's budget request for strategic defense. This seriously hampers a number of strategic defense programs. Furthermore, Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci is asking the Pentagon to cut about $33 billion from the next defense budget. As a result, two aircraft carriers, additional MX missiles, and the new Midgetman missile might be cut.
As long as the U.S. government is controlled by the betrayers of the living Word in the people, they will continue to support the Soviet Union with our money, our grain, our technology and our light. How long are we going to stand for it?
Well, we're not going to stand for it today because we're going to leap to our feet and give our calls, and call and call and call to Almighty God and his Christ and the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood for the defeat of that International Capitalist/Communist Conspiracy of the alien gods who have for too long enslaved humanity.
Therefore remember, when their house of cards comes tumbling down, you need to be in your right place - the "Place Prepared" for you. The only reason I can see for the judgment not having fallen already is that the Lightbearers are not prepared and God's hand of mercy is raised in your defense. Therefore, I am asking for your help to build the Inner Retreat and for your vision to carry out a twofold measure and path: to secure your place in "the wilderness"29 where you desire to be and to make the calls in the name JESUS CHRIST to see to it that this judgment descends only according to God's will.
As I look into the face of God and the hierarchies of heaven, I know that God has said, "No longer will I allow it." The days are short and we must use them wisely. For the opportunity to turn around the race for space in favor of America and world peace and freedom is fast slipping through our fingers. It takes time to install the defense we need. And time, like the sands in the hourglass, is running out. And the end of the LORD's "striving with flesh" may soon come to pass.
Following is an eight-point agenda of what we must do in space and on the ground right now to give Saint Germain his 50 years of peace.
1) First and foremost, we must protect our military forces against the Soviet threat of a first strike against the United States. As I have established in my book and lectures on Saint Germain On Prophecy and the Defense of Freedom and on Summit University Forums, the centerpiece of Soviet military strategy is to be able to launch a first strike against our military targets30 - and this is the main reason they want to dominate space. Therefore, we must protect these targets immediately since it will take at least five years to catch up to the Soviets in space.
The best way to do that right now is with low-tech ground-based defenses - the first of a three-layered defense system. We can deploy this layer to defend our ICBMs, submarine and bomber bases, launching pads and command, control and communications facilities within 24 months.
These defense systems, such as swarmjets and high-speed GAU-8 Gatling-type machine guns, would use off-the-shelf technology. The swarmjet fires a cloud of one-inch rockets to destroy a warhead three-fifths of a mile from its target. It is 90 percent effective against the first three warheads coming into range. The GAU-8 Gatling-type machine gun has already been tested successfully against a simulated Soviet warhead.
2) We must deploy a second layer of ground-based defenses for larger areas, including our military bases and cities - and we can do it within three to five years.
These would be sophisticated ABM systems that would use nearly available technology like the Exoatmospheric Reentry Vehicle Interceptor Subsystem (ERIS) and the High Endoatmospheric Defense Interceptor (HEDI). ERIS could use the site at Grand Forks, North Dakota, where we built the Safeguard ABM system, which was dismantled in 1976, and would consist of 10,000 interceptor missiles. These non-nuclear interceptors would be fired into space to destroy a warhead outside the atmosphere. Since ERIS has such a long reach, it could defend much of North America from a single site.
We need 3,000 HEDI interceptors which can be deployed on trucks together with radar and power generators. These would be positioned around key targets. HEDI interceptors are non-nuclear missiles which fly at more than six times the speed of sound to destroy warheads after they enter the atmosphere. Your city could have its own HEDI system defending it. Since HEDI interceptors can be launched directly from their trucks and the Soviets couldn't target them, they would make the Soviets think twice about launching a first strike.
3) In order to neutralize the effect of a Soviet Star Wars system, we can and should deploy a non-nuclear, space-based kinetic kill vehicle (KKV) system consisting of 2,000 satellites. The system could be deployed in five to seven years and would be 50 to 70 percent effective against a full-scale attack of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). It could stop an accidental launch fired either by us, the Soviets, any of the other members of the nuclear club, a Qaddafi-like madman or a terrorist.
It is irresponsible in the extreme not to be protected against an accident. The military forces of all nations frequently make mistakes. By the laws of probability, an accidental nuclear attack - a military Chernobyl - is likely to happen sooner or later. While the superpowers have developed elaborate safeguards to prevent an accidental or unauthorized use of nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons accidents actually happen frequently.
Between 1958 and 1966, for instance, the U.S. Air Force had 13 accidents involving nuclear weapons. And from 1965 through 1977, the Navy had 381 - about two accidents per month. The details of many of these accidents are unknown today because most of the information is classified.
I would like to underscore that the KKV system is non-nuclear and has a primarily defensive capability. It cannot attack targets on the earth from space, as the Soviets often charge. Each satellite in the system carries anti-missile rockets and a gun which fires a cloud of pellets into the path of an ICBM or a warhead and destroys them by the force of the impact. The only place KKV satellites could attack is in space. They could not penetrate the atmosphere to harm anyone on the ground or attack a missile before it entered space. The KKV system could attack satellites but this capability can hardly be called destabilizing since the Soviets already have a system which can destroy satellites.
As I've already noted, we don't have the proper lift capacity to deploy these satellites quickly. But we can begin deploying them a few at a time with our best available lift vehicles - the space shuttle and the MX booster. Then we must begin immediate development of the ideal systems we need to deploy and maintain the space-based defense system: a fleet of heavy-lift launch vehicles, a large space station, and several spaceplanes and space cruisers to service the satellites and defend them against Soviet spaceplanes and anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons.
4) By 1994, we can and must deploy the three-layered low-tech strategic defense system. According to a study by the George C. Marshall Institute, the ground-and space-based layers working together would be 93 percent effective against a Soviet attack of 10,000 warheads and 100,000 decoys and could be deployed at a cost of $121 billion.
5) In order for a strategic defense system to be legal under existing agreements with the Soviet Union, the United States must immediately:
a. announce its intention to withdraw from the 1972 ABM Treaty within the prescribed six-month time limit due to repeated Soviet violations of its spirit and letter, and
b. repudiate the understanding between United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, announced on September 18, 1987, that the United States would abide by the ABM Treaty for an undisclosed period of time, probably seven years.
6) In order to deter a Soviet attack we must install civil defense for every American. The Soviets are more likely to attack us because they have civil defense for their population and we have none. An American civil defense system will decrease their confidence in their ability to successfully carry out a first-strike attack. The cost of civil defense for America is approximately $75 billion - about one quarter of our annual defense budget.
7) We must not only establish a presence in space to stop Soviet weapons but we must also develop the means to defend our satellites against Soviet anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons. We must develop our own ASAT weapons to deter the Soviets from using theirs. We already have the know-how, we just need to build them.
8) Finally and most importantly, the president must declare a doctrine for the domination of space, develop a strategy to attain it, and authorize and fund a National Space Force, separate from the other branches of the military, whose sole purpose is to occupy and defend space.
We must act now to fulfill this agenda and take advantage of the window of opportunity that yet exists. Time is running out to win the race for space.
Let us prepare for Archangel Michael's dictation. I am asking you to sing "Glory and Praise" to the music of "The Soldiers' Chorus" from Faust, the keynote of his retreat, and to stand and welcome him.
["Glory and Praise," song 45 from The Summit Lighthouse Book of Songs, sung]
Based on a lecture by Elizabeth Clare Prophet delivered on January 3, 1988, at the Royal Teton Ranch, Montana, updated for print as this week's Pearl.