Aetherius Society
Aetherius Society ( Aetherius Society ) is an organization that is assigned to the New Religious Movements and UFO Faith . It was founded in 1955, making it one of the earliest religious groups to include extraterrestrial contact in their teaching. The number of members of the Aetherius Society goes according to its own information "in the thousands, but not in the tens of thousands". The society is particularly widespread in its country of origin, the United Kingdom , as well as in the United States , Ghana and Nigeria .
history
George King, the group's founder, was born in Shropshire on January 23, 1919 . He worked as a taxi driver and has been a member of various theosophical and occult groups in London since the 1930s and became a yoga practitioner. He reported hearing a voice in May 1954 telling him to prepare to become the spokesman for an interplanetary council based on Saturn. He should represent the powers of spirituality against the destructive influences of materialism. He was then visited by a swami who instructed him to start a group. At public meetings, King began to relay messages that he had received telepathically from cosmic masters on the planet Venus. The messages, with their portrayal of aliens who were benevolent and protective of mankind, contrasted with the notions of hostile aliens that emerged in the course of the US UFO sightings at the time. A small following joined him so that in 1955 he was able to found the Aetherius Society . In 1956 he gave up his job as a taxi driver and devoted himself entirely to his organization.
The group's activities included Operation Starlight between 1958 and 1961. It was the first of the so-called cosmic missions . George King and members of the Aetherius Society climbed 19 mountain peaks in Europe, Africa, Oceania and the USA in order to charge them with spiritual energy. These mountain peaks are recommended as pilgrimage sites by the organization today.
In June 1959, George King moved to the United States. From there he traveled all over the world to spread his message, mostly in English-speaking countries. Over the years he acquired several religious, chivalrous and academic-sounding titles and was ordained bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church . For two decades he was the recipient of over six hundred cosmic messages and led various “cosmic missions”. King died on July 12, 1997 in Santa Barbara, California .
After his death, the group is headed by three bishops and five senior engineering officers each in the United Kingdom and the USA. The seat of the board is in Los Angeles . Society continues King's teachings.
Teaching
The influence of the theosophists is evident in the Aetherius Society's adoption of Asian ideas of karma and rebirth . Each person can decide for himself through his actions to ascend to a higher level in the next life. Whoever climbs high enough on earth will start again on another planet in our solar system, following on from the previous cycle, until he finally becomes a master. Among the cosmic masters are people like Jesus and Buddha , who come from Venus or Krishna , who comes from Saturn, and other religious teachers who are members of the Great White Brotherhood . In the theosophical context, this expression is translated in German as the Great White Lodge .
The Aetherius Society sees its task in supporting the cosmic masters in their fight against the evil forces in order to protect the earth as a living, breathing entity and its inhabitants. One of the practices used for this is that through prayer and meditation, the spiritual energy called prana is hurled onto the earth from a spaceship that is circling the earth. The spiritual energy of prayers and chantings can also be channeled into batteries by specially trained people, where it can be released again in times of crisis to help victims of wars and disasters.
swell
- Peter B. Clarke: Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements . Routledge, 2006
- Christopher Partridge: UFO Religions . Routledge, 2003
- Eric Carlton: Politeia: Visions of the Just Society . Rosemont Publishing, 2006