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Of God's vengeance and providence

Now listen, all right-minded men, and take note how God acts: He has a case against all flesh and exacts satisfaction from all who spurn Him.

Whenever Israel broke faith and renounced Him, He hid His face both from it and from His sanctuary and con-signed them to the sword. But whenever He called to mind the covenant which He had made with their forbears, He spared them a remnant and did not consign them to utter extinction.

So, in the Era of Anger, that era of the three hundred and ninety years,1 when He delivered them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, He took care of them and brought to blossom alike out of the priesthood and out of the laity that root which had been planted of old, allowing it once more to possess the land and to grow fat in the richness of its soil. Then they realized their iniquity

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* From earlier copies found at Qumran it is now known that when this document was first published, in 1910, from medieval copies discovered in the Cairo Genaaah, the pages were arranged in the wrong order. The correct sequence is here added in square brackets after the numeration of each major part. Parts I, III and V of the original text are missing from the Cairo manuscripts, but are preserved in fragments from Qumran These, however, have not yet been fully published.

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and knew that they had been at fault. For twenty years, however, they remained like blind men groping their way,2 until at last God took note of their deeds, how that they were seeking Him sincerely, and He raised up for them one who would teach the Law correctly,8 to guide them in the way of His heart and to demonstrate to future ages what He does to a generation that incurs His anger, that is, to the congregation of those that betray Him and turn aside from His way.

The period in question was that whereof it is written, like a stubborn heifer, Israel was stubborn' [Hos. 4.16J. It was the time when a certain scoffer arose to distil upon Israel the waters deceptive4 and to lead them astray in a trackless waste, bringing low whatsoever had once been high, diverting them from the proper paths and removing the landmarks which their forbears had set up, to the end that through his efforts those curses cleaved to them which had been prescribed when the Covenant was concluded, and they were delivered to the sword. Thus was avenged that breach of the Covenant which they had committed in seeking smooth things and in preferring delusion and in being constantly on the watch to breach the faith and in choosing to walk proudly and in justifying the wicked and condemning the righteous, and in abrogating the Covenant and annulling the pact, and in assailing the life of the righteous and abhorring all whose conduct was blameless, and in pursuing them with the sword, and in raising a general clamor against them. God then grew angry with their horde and utterly destroyed all their throng and treated all their works as an abominable thing unclean.

Of God's judgment on the wicked and His clemency to the righteous (ii, 2-13)


And now, listen to me, all who have entered the Covenant, and I will open your ears to the fate which attends the wicked.

God loves knowledge. Wisdom and sound sense has He posted before Him. Prudence and knowledge minister to Him.5 Patience attends on him and abundant forgiveness, so that He may shrive the repentant But also with Him are might and power and great wrath, along with flames of fire and all the angels of destruction8-appointed for them that turn aside from His way and treat His ordinance as a thing to be shunned, to the end that they shall be left without remnant or survival.

Never, from the very beginning of the world, has God approved such men. He has always known what their actions would be, even before the foundations of them were laid. He has anathematized whole generations on account of bloodshed, hiding His face from the land. Their end has always been pre-determined. He has always foreknown how long they would endure and the exact and precise extent of their continuance; yea, all that has happened in their several epochs throughout history, and likewise all that was to befall them.

Nevertheless, in all of their generations He has ever raised up for Himself duly designated men, so that He might provide survival for the earth and fill the face of the world with their seed. And to these has He ever revealed His holy spirit at the hands of His anointed7 and has ever disclosed the truth; and He has clearly specified who they were. But those whom He hated He has always left to wander astray.

Of ancient sinners (ii, l4-iii, 12)

And now, children, listen to me, and I will open your eyes to see and understand how God acts, so that you may choose what He has desired and reject what He has hated, walking blamelessly in all His ways and not straying after thoughts of guilty lust or after whoring eyes. For many there be that have strayed thereby from olden times until now, and even strong heroes have stumbled thereby.


Because they walked in the stubbornness of their hearts, the Watchers of heaven fell;8 yea, they were caught thereby because they kept not the commandments of God.

So too their sons, whose height was like the lofty cedars and whose bodies were as mountains.9 They also fell.

So too 'all flesh that was upon the dry land'.10 They also perished These became as though they had never been, because they did their own pleasure and kept not the commandments of their Maker. In the end His anger was kindled against them In the same way, too, the sons of Noah went astray,11 and thereby they and their families were cut off.

Abraham, however, did not walk in this way. Therefore, because he kept the commandments of God and did not prefer the desires of his own spirit, he was accounted the Friend of God12 and transmitted this status in turn to Isaac and Jacob. They too kept the commandments, and they too were recorded as Friends of God and as partners in His everlasting Covenant

But the sons of Jacob strayed in that way and they were punished for their aberration.

Their sons, too, when they were in Egypt, walked in the stubbornness of their hearts, plotting against the commandments of God and doing each what was right in his own eyes. Because they ate blood all their males were cut off in the wilderness. God said to them at Kadesh: 'Go up and possess the land' [Deut. 9.23), (but they followed the desire of] their own spirits and hearkened not to the voice of their Maker neither to the orders of their leader, but kept murmuring in their tents. So the anger of God was kindled against their horde.13

Their sons too perished by such conduct. Their kings were cut off through it, and their heroes perished through it, and their land was laid waste through it.

Thus, whenever in ancient times those who had entered the Covenant became guilty on this account, forsaking that Covenant of God, preferring their own pleasure and going astray after the stubbornness of their hearts, doing each man as he pleased, they were invariably delivered to the sword.

Of the righteous remnant (iii, 12-iv, 6)

Howbeit, with the rest of them-that is, with those that held fast to His commandments-God ever made good His everlasting Covenant with Israel, revealing to them the hidden things concerning which Israel in general had gone astray-even His holy sabbaths and His glorious festivals, His righteous ordinances, the ways of His truth and the purposes of His will, 'the which, if a man do, he shall live' [Lev. 18.5]. He opened for them a well with water abounding,14 which they might dig. But them that spurned those waters He did not permit to live. And though they kept sullying themselves with human transgression and with filthy ways, and kept saying, "Tis our own concern', yet did God with His mysterious power shrive their iniquity and forgive their transgression and build for them in Israel a firmly established House the like of which has not existed from ancient times until this day.

They that hold fast unto Him are destined for life eternal, and theirs is all mortal glory, even as God has sworn unto them by the hand of the prophet Ezekiel, saying: vibe priests and the levites and the sons of Zadok that kept the charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, these it is that shall offer unto Me the fat and the blood' [Ezek. 44.15]. By 'priests' is meant those in Israel that repented and departed from the land of Judah. [By 'levites'] is meant those that associated themselves15 with them. By 'sons of Zadok' is meant those elect of Israel that have been designated by name and that shall go on functioning in the last days. Behold, their names have been specified, the families into which they are to be born, the epochs in which they are to function, the full tale of their tribulations, the length of their sojourn in exile, and the precise nature of their deeds.

Of the reward of the faithful (iv, 612)

These were the 'holy men'16 of former times-the men whose sins God pardoned, who knew right for right and wrong for wrong. But all who up to the present time have succeeded them in carrying out explicitly the Law from which those ancients drew their lessons, them too will God forgive, in accordance with the Covenant which He made with those ancients to forgive their iniquities. And when the present era is completed, there will be no more express affiliation with the house of Judah; every man will 'mount guard' for himself. 'The fence will be rebuilt, and the bounds be far-flung' [cf. Mic. 7.11]17 .

Of the works of Belial (iv, 12-v, 17)

Meanwhile, however, Belial will be rampant in Israel, even as God has said through the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz: 'Terror and the pit and the trap shall be upon thee, 0 inhabitant of the land!' [Isa. 24.17]. The reference is to those three snares, viz. (a) whoredom, (b) lucre, and (c) desecration, concerning which Levi the son of Jacob sald18 that by making them look like three kinds of righteousness Belial ensnares Israel in them. He who escapes the one gets caught in the other, and he who escapes the other gets caught in the third.

Such men may be described as 'builders of a rickety wall' [Ezek. 13.10], or as persons that have 'walked after filth' [Hos. 5.11]. The 'filth' in question is the babbling preacher of whom God said, 'Babble-babble shall they preach' [Mic. 2.6]; while the fact that two words [viz. 'pit' and 'trap'] are used to describe the net in which they will be caught alludes to the whorish practice of taking two wives at the same time, the true basis of nature being the pairing of one male with one female, even as it is said (of Adam and Eve), 'A male and a female created He them' [Gen. 1.27], and of those that went into the ark, 'In pairs they entered' [Gen. 7.9]. Similarly, too, it is said concerning a prince: 'He shall not take more than one wife' [Deut 17.17].* 19.

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* David, however, had never read the Book of Law, for it was sealed up in the ark and remained unopened in Israel from the day when Eleazar and Joshua and the Elders were gathered to their rest. The people worshiped Ashtoreth, while the ark remained hidden and unopened until indeed a Zadokite entered into office [in the person of Hilkiah the priest]. Accordingly, David's actions were not punished, save the spilling of the blood of Urian, but God remitted the penalty for them.

This is part of the original text, but is here relegated to a footnote, as it would have been in a modern work, in order not to interrupt the sequence of thought.

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Such persons commit [desecration] inasmuch as they lie with women in their periods and do not put them aside, as enjoined in the Law.20 Moreover, they marry the daughters of their brothers and sisters, whereas Moses has said:

'Thou shalt not enter into intimate relations with the sister of thy mother; she is thy mother's kin' [cf. Lev. 18.13]. (The laws of forbidden degrees are written, to be sure, with reference to males, but they hold good equally for females. A niece, for instance, who indulges in carnal intercourse with her paternal uncle is equally to be regarded as his kin.)

Furthermore, such men have desecrated the holy spirit within them, and with mocking tongue have opened their mouths against the statutes of God's Covenant, declaring, 'They have no foundation'. They have spoken disgracefully about them.

All such men may be described as persons that 'kindle a fire and set firebrands alight' [Isa. 50.11]. Of them it may be said that 'their webs are spiders' webs and their eggs basilisks' eggs' [Isa. 59.5]. None that have contact with them shall go unscathed; the more one does so, the more guilty he becomes-unless, of course, he does so under compulsion.

Throughout antiquity, however, God has always taken note of the deeds of such men, and His anger has always been kindled against their acts. Always, in fact, they have proved to be 'a witless folk' [Isa. 27.11), 'a nation void of sense' [Deut. 32.28] in that they lacked discernment.

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Are calculators allowed and watsup wt the issue of no mobile phones?

Tanx bro........anybody else wanna contribute??

for those writing today, best of luck. Do feel us in on how it went. Thank you

I call it Dognapping

am appalled by the mentality of the majority of nairalanders.....if the stuff works for u, fine! if it doesnt, fine! no need to be out here thrash talking about how many data u got or not. Damn!

Ogene Dom: I printed that one. But the one they are requesting now is for the aptitude test thou am yet to print mine as the site is not opening

log on to employment.nitda.gov.ng to check

Ganys: Hmmmmmm.....She gat swaggs even in Death...
The Maggot and Termites must be dancing azonto now...
This is a Great lesson for all of US, Create impact, have impact amd Impact on people's live..You will always be celebrated in life and Death
RIP Goldie

be human for once

@luluosas, after encouraging people to feel free n contact u on twitter which i did, to my utter dismay u are yet to acknowledge receipt or even reply am resending the tweet tho

@luluosas I sent you a tweet....awaiting a DM from u. Thanks

Anybody with the g-bam stuff pls send to my mail kennytrice2000@yahoo.com

luluosas: Please, tweet at them on twitter. Thank you.

May I have their twitter handle pls?

I don't know why my g-bam doesn't seem to work at all.....am on the package already buh I can't even see the 5mb. I checked by sending info to 127 but it says i have no data.....somebody help!!!!!

I use to check the status on my iphone just like I do on my bb buh ryt nw its tellin me the command is invalid meaning it finally detected am nt usin d sim on a bb.........will insert it in my bb and attempt to browse wt it...............give u feedback soon.

luluosas: Na waoh. Why is my location different na?

In Okene, kogi state.............its stil down and out

tumababa: how i wish some people's dream can come true on this one. IT HAS BEEN BLOCKED. dont u get it? y will u put d sim on a bb and it works,put it back on a non-bb and doesnt work, and u still think it's a network problem? Na wahoo.

Same thing happened a week ago or more.......workin on bb and not on other devices. Stil worked in the long run. *fingers crossed*

specco: Hello guys I need help on how to use this GLO bis on my ipad. I have subscribed for the Somonth plan and got this reply 'Your subscription is pending activation. kindly remove your battery and re-insert to connect...' I did as requested and changed the APN to 'blackberry.net' leaving the username and password vacant. But when I tried to connect to the Internet I got this message 'PDP authentication failure' Is there more that I needed to do to connect? Any IPAD user can help out on how it worked for him. Thanks

We all have been experiencing same since the early hours of today.........u have to be patient, I feel ur pain wt the fact dat u just subscribed

Today is the longest day ever................hoping on a quck resolution.
@luluosa, big ups to u man........appreciate ur efforts

Let's just hope its a network problem sha.......cos my iphone has been lyin around like a piece of broken toy

luluosas: I woke up this morning to connect, only to see that my BB plan was not showing internet signal on my Galaxy phone. Up till now, no show. Should Glo ever block this BB plans from working on other devices, na them go lose.

They will surely be the one to lose cos ppl wtout a BB were opting for the BIS services and they made more money in the process............buh why can't they just crash their intenet data plan prices once and for all

Got the text as well for examination at unilorin, don't tink I'll make der on d said date......damn shame

It's back what a relief

Mine stopped working
today on PC and iphone.....too bad it has been blocked

If memory serves me right, it was gej that challenged her to ask anybody in the streets of either Abuja, Lagos or any other city in nigeria and she chose Lagos! U get wat u ask for in life u knw!

Delusions of grandeur

somebody please help cos am freaking out right now....i did a restore on my iphone 3G and had to jailbreak all over again buh it cant recognise any of my sims any more means its displaying no service and also my itunes keeps displaying error 0xE8000003. cant access it either thru iexplorer,diskaid and i-funbox. what do i do?

a lot of topics on nairaland these days are appalling

For as long as anyone can remember philosophers, scientists and religious men have pondered what happens after death.

Is there life after death, or do we just vanish into the great unknown?

There is also a possibility there is no such thing as what we usually define as death.

A new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.

A while ago, scientists reported they found the first evidence of parallel universe.

This discovery lead us to a thought-provoking subject called "Biocentrism"

Robert Lanza, M.D, scientist, theoretician and author of "Biocentrism" - How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe thinks there are many reasons why we won't die.

To him death is not the end, as so many of us think. We believe we will die, because that is what we have been taught, Robert Lanza says in his book.

Will You Continue To Live In A Parallel Universe?

There are many scientific experiments that seriously question the term death, as we know it.

According to quantum physics certain observations cannot be predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

The "many-worlds" interpretation, states that each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe, what is generally called the "multiverse".

Robert Lanza has taken these theories even further.
He believes that "there are an infinite number of universes, and everything that could possibly happen occurs in some universe.

Your Energy Never Dies

Death does not exist in any real sense in these scenarios. All possible universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them.

Although individual bodies are destined to self-destruct, the alive feeling - the 'Who am I?'- is just a 20-watt fountain of energy operating in the brain. But this energy doesn't go away at death. One of the surest axioms of science is that energy never dies; it can neither be created nor destroyed."

This energy can transcend from one world to another.

The Importance Of Consciousness

"Consider the uncertainty principle, one of the most famous and important aspects of quantum mechanics. Experiments confirm it's built into the fabric of reality, but it only makes sense from a biocentric perspective.

If there's really a world out there with particles just bouncing around, then we should be able to measure all their properties. But we can't. Why should it matter to a particle what you decide to measure?



Consider the double-slit experiment: if one "watches" a subatomic particle or a bit of light pass through slits on a barrier, it behaves like a particle and creates solid-looking hits behind the individual slits on the final barrier that measures the impacts.

Like a tiny bullet, it logically passes through one or the other hole.

But if the scientists do not observe the trajectory of the particle, then it exhibits the behavior of waves that allow it pass through both holes at the same time.

Why does our observation change what happens? Answer: Because reality is a process that requires our consciousness," Lanza says.

You would not exist without a consciousness. One of the reasons Robert Lanza thinks you will not die, is because you are not a object. You're a special being. According to biocentrism, nothing could exist without consciousness. Remember you can't see through the bone surrounding your brain.

Space and time are not hard objects, but rather the tools our mind uses to weave everything together
Everything you see and experience right now is a whirl of information occurring in your mind. Space and time are simply the tools for putting everything together.

Lanzer points out that death does not exists in a timeless, spaceless world.

There is no distinction between past, present, and future. It is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Immortality doesn't mean a perpetual existence in time without end, but rather resides outside of time altogether.

Albert Einstein once said: " Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one."

How can we tell what is real and not? How can we with certainty know that our brain is not giving us the illusion of a physical world?

This raises another intriguing questions - Is our Universe a gigantic holographic illusion?

What happens after death? Is there really an afterlife? Is death just and illusion and do we continue our existence in a parallel Universe?

These questions have been debated since the dawn of our own existence. A majority of all ancient philosophers, pagans and Christians alike, agreed that death is the separation of a soul and a body. But happens to your soul once your body ceased to function?

Modern scientists have so far been unable to offer anything than speculation on the subject of near-death experience. The "other side" remains unknown.

Perhaps it is necessary to have an out-of-body experience in order to learn more about what happens to us when we die?

Dr Eben Alexander, a Harvard-educated neurosurgeon was skeptical to the idea of an afterlife. However, an accident forced him to reevaluate his views and he became convinced there is a heaven.

In 2008 Dr. Alexander fell into coma for seven days. What happened to him changed his entire life.

"As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences. I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

I followed my father's path and became an academic neurosurgeon, teaching at Harvard Medical School and other universities.

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death," Dr. Alexander an essay for American magazine Newsweek.

As a scientist Dr. Alexander did not put much, if any faith in God. And he would hardly describe himself as a believer.

In 2008 during his coma, Dr.Alexander's brain was inactivated and he says that he experienced something so profound that it gave him a scientific reason to believe in consciousness after death.

"I know how pronouncements like mine sound to skeptics, so I will tell my story with the logic and language of the scientist I am.

Very early one morning four years ago, I awoke with an extremely intense headache. Within hours, my entire cortex-the part of the brain that controls thought and emotion and that in essence makes us human-had shut down.

Doctors at Lynchburg General Hospital in Virginia, a hospital where I myself worked as a neurosurgeon, determined that I had somehow contracted a very rare bacterial meningitis that mostly attacks newborns. E. coli bacteria had penetrated my cerebrospinal fluid and were eating my brain.

When I entered the emergency room that morning, my chances of survival in anything beyond a vegetative state were already low. They soon sank to near nonexistent. For seven days I lay in a deep coma, my body unresponsive, my higher-order brain functions totally offline.

Then, on the morning of my seventh day in the hospital, as my doctors weighed whether to discontinue treatment, my eyes popped open.
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind-my conscious, inner self-was alive and well. While the neurons of my cortex were stunned to complete inactivity by the bacteria that had attacked them, my brain-free consciousness journeyed to another, larger dimension of the universe: a dimension I'd never dreamed existed and which the old, pre-coma me would have been more than happy to explain was a simple impossibility.

But that dimension-in rough outline, the same one described by countless subjects of near-death experiences and other mystical states-is there. It exists, and what I saw and learned there has placed me quite literally in a new world: a world where we are much more than our brains and bodies, and where death is not the end of consciousness but rather a chapter in a vast, and incalculably positive, journey.
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history. But as far as I know, no one before me has ever traveled to this dimension (a) while their cortex was completely shut down, and (b) while their body was under minute medical observation, as mine was for the full seven days of my coma," Dr. Alexander says.

While being in coma, Dr. Alexander says he visited heaven where he met beautiful blue-eyed woman in a "place of clouds, big fluffy pink-white ones" and "shimmering beings".

"It took me months to come to terms with what happened to me. Not just the medical impossibility that I had been conscious during my coma, but-more importantly-the things that happened during that time. Toward the beginning of my adventure, I was in a place of clouds."
He continues: "Birds? Angels? These words registered later, when I was writing down my recollections. But neither of these words do justice to the beings themselves, which were quite simply different from anything I have known on this planet. They were more advanced. Higher forms."

The doctor adds that a "huge and booming like a glorious chant, came down from above, and I wondered if the winged beings were producing it. The sound was palpable and almost material, like a rain that you can feel on your skin but doesn't get you wet."

"Seeing and hearing were not separate in this place where I now was. I could hear the visual beauty of the silvery bodies of those scintillating beings above, and I could see the surging, joyful perfection of what they sang," Dr. Alexander explains.

"I know full well how extraordinary, how frankly unbelievable, all this sounds. Had someone-even a doctor-told me a story like this in the old days, I would have been quite certain that they were under the spell of some delusion. But what happened to me was, far from being delusional, as real or more real than any event in my life. That includes my wedding day and the birth of my two sons.

What happened to me demands explanation.

Modern physics tells us that the universe is a unity-that it is undivided. Though we seem to live in a world of separation and difference, physics tells us that beneath the surface, every object and event in the universe is completely woven up with every other object and event. There is no true separation," Dr. Alexander says and he is now more convinced than ever that there is an afterlife and heaven is real.

In When Prophecy Fails, Leon Festinger formulated the theory of cognitive dissonance to explain this human fallibility, based on the Dorothy Martin case.

Cognitive dissonance is the distressing mental state that people feel when they hold two conflicting cognitions simultaneously, and "find themselves doing things that don't fit with what they know."

Festinger observes:

"A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point." We have all experienced the futility of trying to change a strong conviction, especially if the convinced person has some investment in his belief.

We are familiar with the variety of ingenious defenses with which people protect their convictions, managing to keep them unscathed through the most devastating attacks.

"But man's resourcefulness goes beyond simply protecting a belief.

Suppose an individual believes something with his whole heart; suppose further that he has a commitment to this belief, that he has taken irrevocable actions because of it; finally, suppose that he is presented with evidence, unequivocal and undeniable evidence, that his belief is wrong: what will happen?

The individual will frequently emerge, not only unshaken, but even more convinced of the truth of his beliefs than ever before. Indeed, he may even show a new fervor about convincing and converting other people to his view. "

Cognitive dissonance is one of the most influential and extensively studied theories in social psychology all over the world today.

After Dorothy's repeated predictions failed, her group of believers eventually drifted away and broke up, and her channelings became more rambling and incomprehensible.

After being threatened with arrest in Chicago, and having barely escaped being committed to a mental institution, Dorothy fled to Peru where she claimed to have met and photographed Jesus Christ, and was receiving initiation and instruction by some mysterious organization called the Brotherhood of the Seven Rays.

After the Clarion debacle, common sense would suggest that Dorothy would abandon her ministry of the spacemen after the failed prophecies, and get on with her life.

But common sense would be wrong. Dorothy was just getting warmed up.

A couple of years later she turned up in Los Angeles, California, and joined a cult lead by a man who claimed to be the Second Coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ himDorothy's guru's name was Francis H. Pencovic, and he lead the kind of debauched lifestyle which would inspire a young psychopath growing up at the time named Charles Manson . . .

Mount Shasta's never been a popular celebrity resort town like Jackson Hole, Wyoming, or Park City, Utah - the kind of place where you might bump into somebody famous or a prominent public figure (Bigfoot notwithstanding). This is more of the kind of town where people unwittingly become famous for all the wrong reasons.

And when it comes to Mount Shasta, there is probably nobody who fills that role more brilliantly than a former resident and channeler named Dorothy Martin.

Dorothy Martin's strange journey begins as a bored housewife living in a Chicago, Illinois suburb during the 1950's; she had an abiding interest in theosophy, and had read the works of Godfre Ray King, also known as Guy Ballard, who founded the I AM religion after meeting the Ascended Master Saint Germain on the slopes of Mount Shasta.

Dorothy began experimenting with 'automatic writing' (a form of spirit channeling), and was soon in touch with Space Beings from a planet called 'Clarion', who warned her that an imminent disaster was due to fall upon humanity.
Through her channeled writings, Dorothy attracted an odd group of spiritual seekers around her, and a weird UFO Contactee cult evolved out of it.

Unbeknownst to Dorothy, a couple of scientists seeking to study the kind of fanaticism that pervades religious cults infiltrated her group after a local newspaper published one of her doomsday screeds.

The messages from the Space Beings, who Dorothy began to refer to as the 'Guardians', indicated that the world would end by a flood on December 21st, 1954--but the faithful (meaning anyone gullible enough to believe her) would be lifted up off the planet to safety in an alien mothership.

As the fateful date approached, Dorothy's circle of spiritual seekers were unshaken in their faith of the Space Beings warnings, and had left jobs, college, spouses, and some had even given away money and possessions in advance of their departure aboard the flying saucer.

On December 21st, the group expected that a saucer would land in Dorothy's backyard to pick them all up at four o-clock, just before the world ended.

So they gathered inside her house and waited.

The prophecy was well publicized by the local press, and outside Dorothy's house, a curious crowd of strangers and journalists began arriving to see just what would happen.
The tension must have been palpable as the minutes ticked off. Dorothy had previously channeled a message that everyone was to remove all the metal from their clothing, including buckles, jewelry, buttons, zippers, bobby-pins, and clasps, and so everyone was put through a metal-removal screening process to ensure that they would be ready to board the flying saucer when it landed.

The local press was eagerly interested in information about the groups status throughout the day, and pestered them with repeated phone calls. One of the members was deputized to handle the calls, and always responded with a terse "No comment," and shut off further questioning by hanging up the phone.

Dorothy was described as being in a manic and ecstatic state, dashing from room to room and looking out the windows, scanning the skies. But by 5:30 p.m. no flying saucer had landed, and the mood in the house was beginning to look glum . . . an uneasy silence fell over the crowd of believers. So Dorothy turned on the television and instructed everyone to watch carefully for any secret coded messages that might be being transmitted to them from planet Clarion--but nobody could make anything out.

The question on everyone's mind that nobody wanted to talk about but was unavoidable had to be asked. Why hadn't the aliens landed? Several suggestions were cautiously voiced to explain the failure of the saucer's arrival.

One possibility discussed was that the presence of strangers around the house might have caused the spacemen to veer off. A few other suggestions were floated, but in the end, the most satisfying one that the group came up with was that this afternoon had just been meant as a training "alert", so that when the Clarions finally arrived the group would know the drill and be ready. The Space Beings were testing the group's 'readiness'.

Dorothy, undeterred, channeled another message saying that following the 'alert', at half past midnight, the flying saucer would really appear this time-- it was still on its way to pick up the believers, and it would not wait for anyone who was not ready. So all those who remained excitedly went out into the backyard to hold a vigil, joyous again in anticipation, and spent a cold, bitter, freezing winter night shivering and waiting for the UFO to land.

By 3 a.m., when the spaceship still had not arrived, everyone pretty much retired to bed in disappointment. Dorothy broke down and began crying.

Around 4:45 a.m. another telepathic message was channeled to Dorothy from the Space Beings, in effect, explaining that the 'God of Earth' had decided in the last minute to spare the planet from destruction: "The little group, sitting up all night long, had so much light that God had saved the world from destruction."

And that is the story how the world was saved from an impending apocalypse one wintery night in Chicago on December 21st, 1954.

the country "nigeria" is something else what a shame
16billion for a house o! haba!! what manner of creatures are these?