Remember getting your hands dirty? I’m not talking about picking up germs at the grocery store only to drizzle them with hand sanitizer. I refer to both figuratively and physically committing your bare hands to some deed or other.
This digital distance is not good for our mental health. I was a relic at seventeen. I grew up with the first generation of video games. Wasn’t it always just about amusing ourselves? Wasting time? Not to say that the digital age hasn’t made things more convenient… given us more free time… but for what? Time spent in getting things done right is better for the soul than all the modern leisure, most of it consumed absorbing propaganda.
I wrote a short essay here about Walter B. Pitkin some time ago. His book “The Art of Learning” refers to what he calls the “New Leisure.” A 40-hour workweek was becoming a reality. What wonders of learning could the men and women of 1931 look forward to? Come 2023 we know everything and understand nothing.
I was recently jarred out of my digital complacency by the anonymous finger of judgement. As mentioned in a recent letter, I was able to determine, to my satisfaction, who the troublemaker/s are and reach out to them individually and IRL (as the kids say, in real life). So, I’m not merely a thought criminal, apparently. Responding in analog fashion to digital threats is apparently cause enough for concern that federal employees are ordered to exhaust tax-paid boot leather in making sense of the whole mess. Quite amusing in some ways and perhaps worthy of its own chapter at some point.
Here’s the point I would make in drawing this back to our guy Pelley. There is a legacy of contact tracing, to borrow a very familiar modern expression, in following the trail of Pelley’s influence. The communists figured out which issue of Liberation, and even which article, it was which first infected Ezra Pound.
When everything was ink on paper, every copy of every piece of Pelley’s writing was absorbed in hand and with eyes on. Even cases where certain items were preserved as photo-stat copies, there are government receipts and memos to this effect! It is a genuine and legitimate paper trail.
Every letter from headquarters was licked or sponged shut by someone. Every copy of one of Pelley’s books was handled by a devotee at some level, even if only an employee in the printing plant. I love running across a copy of a book with an inscription to someone I know of… or someone I don’t but would like to. Just saw a somewhat tattered copy of Seven Minutes on eBay, for instance, with a gift dedication to some ethereal couple dated Christmas, 1931. I’m intrigued by this. Perhaps it’s this faint trace evidence which keeps me interested. There is psychometry in all of it.
Ages ago, and I haven’t pinned it down just now, *edit: find Mike Beach interview* someone shared an article with me which contained quotes from Mike Beach about his encounters with Pelley. Beach was one of the early organizers of the Sheriff’s Posse Comitatus of Oregon, predecessor of the modern sovereign mentality shared by many of the militia-minded.
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/posse_comitatus/#.Y7W3XXbMJPY
In a few lines he explained that Pelley had taught him to see beyond the veil. Specifically, Pelley had given Beach a crash course in psychometry, teaching him how to hold a ring in his hand and know something of the history and personality of its wearer.
I never spent time in a room with Chief Pelley, but I have rarely heard him described as a promoter of cheap parlor tricks. He was convinced by the materializing mediumship of Bertie Lilly Candler, for instance, and describes early séances and automatic writing sessions while developing his own clairaudience, but as much as he relied on the profound wisdom of his channeled messages, he didn’t seem prone to circus stunts. Finally, Pelley’s spiritual believers must find merit in his words or, rather, the words he took down.
I might take this cue to begin an exercise described more than once in pages of Valor magazine, the psychometric application of the Golden Scripts. It’s nothing novel. Bible readers have often said that when they open the book they often find just the right passage. Soulcrafters said the same about the Golden Scripts.
I genuinely prayed for divine guidance from the Golden Scripts only on one occasion.
In the context of recent public smearing by local anarchists, I was referred to as a Pelley acolyte. I was mostly offended by the dismissive tone of the term acolyte. If by this they intended to say that I am a candle-lighter for the Pelley ministry, well and good. However, I think they would apply the term much as they did the expression “fan boi” as if to suggest I am but a dabbler, a childish admirer. Back to the Golden Script I asked for.
“I Say You Are Adept,” was the chapter heading *edit: find citation*
This very term adept was very important to me. I was a good 15 years along in my studies. Just as Mike Beach stated that Pelley had taught him something about psychometry, at that point in my training I believed I had reached some level of acquiring my own inspiration. I had learned which dominoes to flick, which pebbles to cast into the pond to cause the correct ripples. I was setting wheels in motion, in other words. To what end? That is yet to be decided, but I was getting results, gradually, often quietly.
Many of you have exchanged letters with me. We have held the same piece of paper in our hands.
I haven’t buried many silver dimes at midnight by the light of a full moon at the graves of conjurers in payment for their magic dust, but the hoodoo is just as real. Pelley’s dark charisma has long transcended his most recent mortal foray.
Maybe next time we can talk about other dissident political figures either reputed to have been Silver Shirts or mightily inspired by them.
-tbc-
I see a direct link from Pelley to The Mighty I Am and into all the latter day ascended masters groups especially The Church Universal and Triumphant. BTW I managed to wangle my way into the ADL library in NYC and look at their very extensive Pelley collection. They had many agents inside the Silver Shirts and Soulcraft. Their membership cards and reports were on file.