The last of the Over Here scans were delivered for processing and the originals were shipped. This routine will carry over to the next big publication project… Valor weekly (and later monthly). What can I say about Valor? I love it. It is very much like a weekly small town paper, finding Pelley back at the typewriter cranking out fresh editorials on his favorite metaphysical topics and some current events. There’s not much overt politics, but knowing how to read Pelley, it’s there. Thinly veiled and a bit subdued.
Valor tends to run on themes. Just thumbing a few issues this morning, there was a run of essays on Atlantis covering several weeks. The flying saucers take over at some point, giving lots of coverage to early and neglected UFO content for months running.
The pages of Valor are, of course, filled with advertisements for Pelley’s other books and projects, which brings us to our weekly Lecture podcasts.
The Valor Lectures are done. I managed to get them out to you every Tuesday for the last few months and I hope you enjoyed them. There are a few loose lectures from the Roads Courageous series which I think I will share next. Then we will start with what was finally called the Elder Brother series, being chapters from the life of Christ, according to Pelley. These will be of particular interest from the perspective of Christian metaphysics and you already know that it will be rather unorthodox. Two main points that you will take away from Pelley’s Christianity are that there is no Hell or judgement waiting for us immediately after death, and that repeat existence, that is reincarnation, is a fact.
I have never been much interested in past life regression, etc. and Soulcraft takes the position that in most cases there is good reason that the “veil” remains between incursions into flesh. I do like Pelley’s take on reincarnation. It doesn’t go against scripture the way I see it, only against the popular interpretation of scripture. It doesn’t suggest that you will come back as a dung beetle if you are a bad person. It suggests, as does mainstream Christianity, that the soul carries on after death. Only, it doesn’t give your parents credit for creating your soul at conception or offer you the prospect of playing harp on a cloud for eternity.
Soulcraft, as many of you at least somewhat get, teaches that each of us are in this life to attend a course of lessons and experiences, work out some karma, hopefully do good deeds for our fellows and then move on to the next grade… matriculate up!
The spirituality in such a belief is good for people. I believe that. It isn’t any “new-fangled” Christianity, but it does upset a lot of traditional notions. It certainly doesn’t destroy faith or salvation if considered seriously.
Probably the hardest part of Soulcraft to stomach for fundamentalists is Pelley’s belief that he was having new scriptures dictated to him by Holy Spirit. These collected messages given the title Golden Scripts are probably as “of the Devil” as the Book of Mormon or other modern sacred literature, the writings of Baháʼu'lláh, teachings of Sai Baba, etc. I don’t think he ever intended for the Golden Scripts to displace The New Testament. They are sometimes refered to as a New Sermon on the Mount, alleged to be modern speakings of Jesus, known as the Elder Brother in Soulcraft.
Is Jesus relegated to a position as just another Ascended Master alongside St. Germain? No. He remains the one true Son of God and he may be speaking to many others even now.
Pelley finally described the Golden Scripts as communications from Christ first addressed to him personally, as I dare say many Christians have heard the voice of Holy Spirit speak to them in some fashion. Only after he had recorded many such private messages did he ask if they might be published. The messages were edited, references adjusted to reflect on all who would read them. Do they hold merit? I believe they do. They could be the supplemental literature needed to bring many wayward Christians back into the fold. I see no more harm in them than the many modern Bible translations.
If you could hear a daily monologue from Jesus in answer to your prayers, you might feel that it was too personal to share. Pelley probably wrote down every thought that ever crossed his mind… and, as you will see in the pages of Valor, published most of it… sacred, profound or mere observations of his dogs.
So, that’s what’s on the agenda here at AA for the next little while. Not very much of the political stuff just now. You will have a chance to own some original Pelley publications again in the near future, however.
Stay Tuned!
AND for the Free Subscribers… to encourage you to sign up for a $20 paid monthly subscription, even if only for a month, that paid subscription will allow you to access all the archives including past podcasts, hours of Pelley’s Valor lectures in his own voice for download and safe-keeping. Heck, I would gladly pay $20 for the backlog of content here. Think about it. I could use the income.