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K5S 'ijr ^ i - *0-: , 1 drifts. ■r» -'•OK^'-wr; How to Live Life with Courage, Wisdom, and Enduring Peace of Mind through Soulcraft V olumeI NOBLESVILLE, INDIANA, JULY 4, 1951 y N umber 10 July 4th, Birthday of Free America, ees Valor a Weekly . . *3* w -1 OULCRAFT, starting this date of July 4th, In- dependence Day, acquires a weekly publication. It will be a 16-page journal, published every Wednesday. The terms of its subscription will be $5 a year, $3 for' six months. This first issue under the new policy will be sent to the full Soulcraft mailing list. The issue of July 11th will be sent to those who have manifested the desire to have it come to them regularly. Soulcraft from its inception has needed this weekly publi- cation. Students of Soulcraft, not to mention Chaplains, require regular weekly intelligence out of Headquarters, not only ap- prising them of the national gains which Soulcraft is making, but enlightening them in ail phases of spirituality, psychics, esoteric history and prophecy— particularly prophecy. America is living through great times, and with ten thousand copies of The Golden Scripts being circulated as Christmas gifts to the outstanding spiritual leaders of the nation, this steady weekly visitor will keep its reader list advised of every late de- velopment in this electrifying religious project. Read V alor. Hand it about to your friends. Make it the chief publicity organ for Soulcraft as a timely enlightenment to those frantic with concernment about the future of America. It is fitting that V alor and the nation have the same birthday. Get the V alor habit and keep your files complete! Let's go! i2 ss L-S sgTr-~

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How to Live Life with Courage, Wisdom, and Enduring Peace of Mind through Soulcraft VolumeI N O BLESV IL LE, IN D IA N A , J U L Y 4, 1951 y N umber 10

Ju ly 4 th , B irth d a y of Free A m erica,

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O U LC R A FT, starting this date o f July 4th, In­dependence D ay, acquires a weekly publication. It will be a 16-page journal, published every Wednesday. The terms o f its subscription will be $5 a year, $3 for' six months. This first

issue under the new policy will be sent to the full Soulcraft mailing list. The issue of July 11th will be sent to those who have manifested the desire to have it come to them regularly.

Soulcraft from its inception has needed this weekly publi­cation. Students o f Soulcraft, not to mention Chaplains, require regular weekly intelligence out o f Headquarters, not only ap­prising them of the national gains which Soulcraft is making, but enlightening them in ail phases o f spirituality, psychics, esoteric history and prophecy— particularly prophecy.

America is living through great times, and with ten thousand copies of The Golden Scripts being circulated as Christmas gifts to the outstanding spiritual leaders o f the nation, this steady weekly visitor will keep its reader list advised of every late de­velopment in this electrifying religious project.

Read Valor. Hand it about to your friends. Make it the chief publicity organ for Soulcraft as a timely enlightenment to those frantic with concernment about the future of America.

It is fitting that Valor and the nation have the same birthday.Get the Valor habit and keep your files complete! Let's go!

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Page 2 V A L O R

STRANGEEXPERIENCESWas She Dead?

B y a N e w E n g la n d M o rtic ia n

ACK at the turn of the century I was working as an apprentice mor­tician in a city in north­ern Massachusetts. In those days we were called

plain "undertakers” and the new man learned the business by rolling up his sleeves and aiding his boss under prac­tical working conditions. I had arrived at the state of competency where in my employer’s absence I was supposed to handle any emergency funeralistic job that turned up.

One morning I received something of a shock to be summoned to a home where a young woman had died whom I not only knew but had escorted home from a high school dance some three or four nights previously. I had known of her illness from a cold she had contracted on leaving that dance in an overheated condition and going home through cold night air. Pneumonia had developed and her sudden death had followed.

But the moment I saw the remains, I felt more upset than I cared to admit to her relatives or my own self. The at­tending doctor had signed the death certificate and there was no doubt her pulse had stopped. But was she actually dead? I had my doubts. And yet I was supposed to transport the body down to our funeral home and embalm it.

Well, I removed the body and got it down to our "parlors”. Here was a girl I had known closely and even danced with, and I was supposed to proceed to her embalming, because my boss had left me in charge of the business while he at­tended an embalmers’ convention in Bos­ton.

The strange part about her was, that her rigor mortis did not seem natural to me, and her color was certainly not that of the usual dead person. I called the physician and asked him to come down to the parlors to make sure the embalm­

ing operations wouldn’t be the real cause of her death and not the pneumonia at all.

We had quite an argument when he did so, and to settle the matter he called in two brother physicians, who confirmed his decision that the girl was dead. That settled it, and I was supposed to go ahead with preparing the remains for the funeral.

But I couldn’t do it. Myrtle’s face had not lost its natural life-color, there was no "waxy” appearance to her, and while bodily heat had departed, she had not stiffened in the manner of the customary corpse.

I consulted instead with her mother, who was a widow with another child, a son in Australia. Regardless of the State regulations in such matters, we de­cided to prepare Myrtle for burial to all outward appearances but not to mar her body by the customary embalming pro­cess. We even did more. We made ar­rangements that she should not be at once interred when the church services were over. I had access to a mausoleum vault in the city’s largest cemetery and we planned to lay away the girl in this vault but without the casket cover fas­tened down.

Frankly, I believe Myrtle was in a state of suspended animation of some sort, although all her physical processes seemed to have stopped. If she suddenly returned to life, we didn’t want her to find herself buried alive.

YV/ELL, the services were held over a” Myrtle still unembalmed. Friends

attending the funeral remarked on how lifelike she looked, "laid out”. Then we took the body to the vault and I made all the arrangements for her return to life and chances for her escape from both coffin and vault if the miraculous hap­pened. Thereafter, every night for a week I personally visited the vault and checked on Myrtle, opening the casket by merely raising its loose lid where it was standing on wooden horses in the mausoleum. And night after night, I

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found Myrtle looking exactly the same— no bodily decomposition.

To make a long story short, we kept her so, checking on her constantly until her brother had time to come all the way home from Australia and view her. He agreed with us that his sister was un­doubtedly in some state of suspended animation but how to arouse her? The family was not wealthy and could not afford to either buy the mausoleum or build one like it. The casket containing the girl couldn’t be left standing on horses in that vault over a period of months or years.

I was becoming so obsessed by this time with the case that I took it upon myself to arrange matters with another mausoleum owner who was let in on the mystery, and put Myrtle away in a crypt where there was room enough for the casket cover to be raised in the compart­ment, and I fitted a screen over the front of the compartment instead of a sealed slab, which Myrtle could easily have knocked out if she aroused. The brother paid the bill for this, and for weeks that ran into months we made periodic visits to the cemetery to check on the sister’s condition. Always it was the same. Her color stayed life-like and there was little or no decomposition. We did notice, however, that the body was gradually shrinking in size, evidently as its water content began to evaporate.

Well, finally, when it became necessary for both the brother and myself to leave the city on account of taking up new and bigger jobs elsewhere, it was agreed between us and the mother that Myrtle must be permanently thought of as dead. Her body was what I could call mummi­fying to a point where it looked impos­sible for her to come back into a living condition and use it. You’ve seen peo­ple shrink in size and weight in disuses like typhoid. That was Myrtle’s condi­tion when we finally paid our last visit to her crypt and called the case closed.

I haven’t been near the cemetery in years now, and Myrtle has never returned to living animation, I suppose she’s still lying in the place as we left her when we finally gave the matter up.

Still, I’m glad I acted as I did, and would behave the same way all over again under similar conditions.

It has remained all of my life my strangest undertaking case in all my ex­periences as a mortician.

G. B., Massachusetts.

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name of the man who would apprehend King Louis XVI and turn him back to Paris and the guillotine when he was seeking to flee the revolutionaries into Bavaria.

r 1 'HE RISE of Napoleon, die growth and decline of British sea-power, the

development of the United Sates, the outbreak of the Hist World War, the sequence of Hitler, the decline and dis­appearance of the First League of Na­tions, the War of the Spanish revolu­tionaries under Franco—whom he men­tions by name—and finally the emerg­ence of Russia after World War II and her ultimate destruction after ransmg the final phase of die Great War Period between 1914 and 1953, was all chron­icled so accurately that even bade in 1914 French war crowds stormed the Paris bookshops to obtain reprints of his quat­rains at the outbreak of hostilities.

The appearance of aircraft, tanks, ra­dio, radar and finally the atomic bomb and atomic energy, were all "seen” by Nostradamus and chronicled in 1555. All Soulcrafters are proficient in his pre­dictions, particularly from the electronic discourses that have been circulated con­cerning him.

Russia and China together, so Nostra­damus forecasts, are going to push west­wards toward the Mediterranean through the Persian oil fields, over-running Tur­key, and assailing Italy and France. But both shall meet their Waterloo in the vicinity of Yugo-Slavia and the Adriatic

In the aftermath of the final war, a great ruler to be named Henry b indi­cated as uniting Europe, and the peace which follows lasts for 1,000 years.

These prophecies all accord with the Great Pyramid significances in Egvpc, and the words of clairvoyant and char-

Page 2 VALOR July 4, 1951

STRANGE EXPERIENCES..W as She Dead?

By a New England Mo9 m 2Q gA C K at the t FromI

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plain "undertakers'’ and thi learned the business by roll sleeves and aiding his boss tical working conditions. I at the state o f com petency \ employer’s absence I was < handle any em ergency fun that turned up.

O ne m orning I received s a shock to be sum m oned to a a young woman had died ' only knew but had escorted a high school dance som e t nights previously. I had kt illness from a cold she h A il 1 u m a ■» »■■

on leaving that dance in an overheated condition and go ing hom e through cold night air. Pneum onia had developed and her sudden death had follow ed.

B ut the m om ent I saw the rem ains, I fe lt more upset than I cared to adm it to her relatives or m y own self. T h e at­tending doctor had signed the death certificate and there was no doubt her pulse had stopped. B ut was she actually dead? I had m y doubts. A nd yet I was supposed to transport the body dow n to our funeral hom e and em balm i t

W ell, I removed the body and g o t it down to our "parlors’’. H ere was a girl I had known closely and even danced with, and I was supposed to proceed to her em balm ing, because m y boss had le ft me in charge o f the business w hile he at­tended an embalmers’ convention in B os­ton.

T h e strange part about her was, that her rigor mortis d id not seem natural to me, and her color was certainly not that o f the usual dead person. I called the physician and asked him to com e dow n to the parlors to m ake sure the em balm ­

ing operations w ou ld n 't be the real cause o f her death and n o t the pneum onia a t a l l

once interred when the church se r v ic e s ' were over. I had access to a m ausoleum vau lt in the city’s largest cem etery and we planned to lay aw ay the girl in this v au lt but w ithout the casket cover fa s­tened dow n.

F rankly, I believe M y rtle w as in a state o f suspended a n im ation o f som e sort, although all her physical processes seem ed to have stop ped . I f she su dd en ly returned to life , we d id n ’t w ant her to find herself buried alive.

Y Y /E L L , the services were held over a ” M yrtle still unem balm ed. F riends

attending the funeral rem arked o n how life lik e she looked, " laid o u t” . T h e n we took the body to the v a u lt and I m ade all the arrangem ents fo r her return to life and chances fo r her escape from both coffin and vault i f the m iraculous h a p ­pened. T hereafter , every n ig h t fo r a week I personally v isited the v a u lt and checked on M yrtle, o p en in g the ca sk et by m erely raising its loose lid w here it was standing on w ood en horses in the m ausoleum . A n d n ig h t a fter n ig h t, I

found Myrtle looking exactly the same— no bodily decomposition.

To make a long story short, we kept her so, checking on her constantly until her brother had time to come all the way home from Australia and view her. He agreed with us that his sister was un­doubtedly in some state of suspended animation but how to arouse her? The family was not wealthy and could not afford to either buy the mausoleum or build one like it. The casket containing

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for both the brother and myself to leave the city on account of taking up new and bigger jobs elsewhere, it w a s agreed between us and the mother that Myrtle must be permanently thought of as dead. Her body was what I could call mummi­fying to a point where it looked impos­sible for her to come back into a living condition and use it. You’ve seen peo­ple shrink in size and weight in diseases like typhoid. That was Myrtle’s condi­tion when we finally paid our last visit to her crypt and called the case dosed.

I haven’t been near the cemetery in years now, and Myrtle has never returned to living animation, I suppose she’s still lying in th e place as we left her when we finally gave the matter up.

Still, Fm glad I acted as I did, and would behave the same way all over again under similar conditions.

It has remained all of my life my strangest undertaking case in all my ex­periences as a mortician.

G. B., Massachusetts.

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THIS issue of V a l o r is the first number as a Weekly. Hereafter it will appear every Wednesday, containing 16 pages filled with many kinds of fascinating material along Esoteric and Psychical lines, and news and comment of par­ticular interest to Soul craft students. You will want your files complete from this initial number, and the only way to make certain of it is to get your name on the paid sub­scription list. The additional revenue from conducting this publication goes into the general Soulcraft activity. The cost of production is no small item, and at least 5,000 paid readers must be secured to make the project profitable. The cost is £5 for the year of 52 numbers, £3 for six months of 26 numbers. Merely write your name and address on the lines below and mail back with your remittance—

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Enclosed please find . . . for which send meV alor every Wednesday for .........................................

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Revolution, forecast the arrival of the 500 men from Marseilles who would raze the Tuilleries prison, even gave the sur­name of the man who would apprehend King Louis XVI and turn him back to Paris and the guillotine when he was seeking to flee the revolutionaries into Bavaria.

' I 'HE RISE of Napoleon, the growth and decline of British sea-power, the

development of the United States, the outbreak of the First World War, the sequence of Hitler, the decline and dis­appearance of the First League of Na­tions, the War. of the Spanish revolu­tionaries under Franco—whom he men­tions by name—and finally the emerg­ence of Russia after World War II and her ultimate destruction after causing the final phase of the Great War Period between 1914 and 1953, was all chron­icled so accurately that even back in 1914 French war crowds stormed the Paris bookshops to obtain reprints of his quat­rains at the outbreak of hostilities.

The appearance of aircraft, tanks, ra­dio, radar and finally the atomic bomb and atomic energy, were all "seen” by Nostradamus and chronicled in 1555. All Soulcrafters are proficient in his pre­dictions, particularly from the electronic discourses that have been circulated con­cerning him.

Russia and China together, so Nostra­damus forecasts, are going to push west­wards toward the Mediterranean through the Persian oil fields, over-running Tur­key, and assailing Italy and France. But both shall meet their Waterloo in the vicinity of Yugo-Slavia and the Adriatic

In the aftermath of the final war, a great ruler to be named Henry is indi­cated as uniting Europe, and the peace which follows lasts for 1,000 years.

These prophecies all accord with the Great Pyramid significances in Egypt, and the words of .clairvoyant and dair-

STRANGE EX PER IEN CES. .Was She Dead?

By a New England MorticianIACK at the turn of the

K~ wjgj jj a century I was working f* "V as an apprentice mor­

tician in a city in north­ern Massachusetts. In

|V* those days we were calledplain "undertakers” and the new man learned the business by rolling up his sleeves and aiding his boss under prac­tical working conditions. I had arrived at the state of competency where in my employer’s absence I was supposed to handle any emergency funeralistic job that turned up.

One morning I received something of a shock to be summoned to a home where a young woman had died whom I not only knew but had escorted home from a high school dance tome three or four nights previously. I had known of her illness from a cold she had contracted on leaving that dance in an overheated condition and going home through cold night air. Pneumonia had developed and her sudden death had followed.

But the moment I saw the remains, I felt more upset than I cared to admit to her relatives or my own self. The at­tending doctor had signed the death certificate and there was no doubt her pulse had stopped. But was she actually dead? I had my doubts. And yet I was supposed to transport the body down to our funeral home and embalm it.

Well, I removed the body and got it down to our "parlors”. Here was a girl I had known closely and even danced with, and I was supposed to proceed to her embalming, because my boss had left me in charge of the business while he at­tended an embalmers’ convention in Bos­ton.

The strange part about her was, that her rigor mortis did not seem natural to me, and her color was certainly not that of the usual dead person. I called the physician and asked him to come down to the parlors to make sure the embalm­

ing operations wouldn’t be the real cause of her death and not the pneumonia at alL

We had quite an argument when he did so, and to settle the matter he called in two brother physicians, who confirmed his decision that the girl was dead. That settled it, and I was supposed to go ahead with preparing the remains foe the funeral.

But I couldn’t do it. Myrtle’s face had not lost its natural life-color, there was no "waxy” appearance to her, and while bodily heat had departed, she had not stiffened in the manner of the customary corpse.

I consulted instead with her mother, who was a widow with another child, a son in Australia. Regardless of the State regulations in such matters, we de­cided to prepare Myrtle for burial to all outward appearances but not to mar her body by the customary embalming pro­cess. We even did more. We made ar­rangements that she should not be at once interred when the church services were over. I had access to a mausoleum vault in the city’s largest cemetery and we planned to lay away the girl in this vault but without the casket cover fas­tened down.

Frankly, I believe Myrtle was in a state of suspended animation of some sort, although all her physical processes seemed to have stopped. If she suddenly returned to life, we didn’t want her to find herself buried alive.

YY/ELL, the services were held over a ** Myrtle still unembalmed. Friends

attending the funeral remarked on how lifelike she looked, "laid out”. Then we took the body to the vault and I made all the arrangements for her return to life and chances for her escape from both coffin and vault if the miraculous hap­pened. Thereafter, every night for a week I personally visited the vault and checked on Myrtle, opening the casket by merely raising its loose lid where it was standing on wooden horses in the mausoleum. And night after night, I

found Myrtle looking exactly the same- no bodily decomposition.

To make a long story short, we kept her so, checking on her constantly until her brother had time to come all the way home from Australia and view her. He agreed with us that his sister was un­doubtedly in some state of suspended animation but how to arouse her? The family was not wealthy and could not afford to either buy the mausoleum or build one like it. The casket containing the girl couldn’t be left standing on horses in that vault over a period of months or years.

I was becoming so obsessed by this time with the case that I took it upon myself to arrange matters with another mausoleum owner who was let in on the mystery, and put Myrtle away in a crypt where there was room enough for the casket cover to be raised in the compart­ment, and I fitted a screen over the front of the compartment instead of a sealed slab, which Myrtle could easily have knocked out if she aroused. The brother paid the bill for this, and for weeks that ran into months we made periodic visits to the cemetery to check on the sister’s condition. Always it was the same. Her color stayed life-like and there was little or no decomposition. We did notice, however, that the body was gradually shrinking in size, evidently as its water content began to evaporate.

Well, finally, when it became necessary for both the brother and myself to leave the city on account of taking up new and bigger jobs elsewhere, it was agreed between us and the mother that Myrtle must be permanently thought of as dead. Her body was what I could call mummi­fying to a point where it looked impos­sible for her to come back into a living condition and use it. You’ve seen peo­ple shrink in size and weight in diseases like typhoid. That was Myrtle’s condi­tion when we finally paid our last visit to her crypt and called the case closed.

I haven’t been near the cemetery in years now, and Myrtle has never returned to living animation, I suppose she’s still lying in the place as we left her when we finally gave the matter up.

Still, I’m glad I acted as I did, and would behave the same way all over again under similar conditions.

It has remained all of my life my strangest undertaking case in all my ex­periences as a mortician.

G. B., Massachusetts.

Ju ly 4 , 1951 V A L O R P age 3

Stop Being Afraid! America Is Not Due

to Be Liquidated!T O P being afraid ! Amer­

ica isn’t slated for liqui­dation! H o w d o we kn ow ? S o u lcra ft peop le , through their higher esoteric teach­in g , have access to sources

o f in form ation th a t m ake disclosures about the fu tu re the m ost com m onplace o f their sp iritual en ligh ten m en ts. Sou l- cra ft people have had revealed to them n o t on ly how m an as a d iv ine species orig inally cam e to earth , and w hat he is d o in g here, b u t w h at his earth ly agenda o f experience com prises. T h e y kn ow w hat the sign ifican ce happens to be, o f the tim es through w hich th e w orld is passing . T h e y k n o w the probable se­quence o f even ts w hich the M a n in the S treet doesn’t know .

T h e y k n ow th a t a war betw een Russia an d the rest o f the w orld is co m in g , b u t th ey k n o w o f its ex ten t and som eth in g o f its a fterm ath . T h e y k n o w th a t the m illion s o f C h in a , h av in g n o other oc ­cu p ation than the m ilitary, are g o in g to fare fo r th and strive to im prove their lo t b y jo in in g R ussia in conqu est. B u t th ey k n o w th at both countries are g o in g to be conquered, slash ed to ribbons, and a ll b u t ann ih ila ted .

A m erica is n o t g o in g to k n o w C o m ­m unism — n o t as C om m u nism is practiced abroad.

T h e U n ite d S ta te s in particu lar, a fter an unprecedented m ilitary test, is slated on d ie B o o k s o f C osm os to becom e M en ­tor to the earth .

T h e b ook s o f these d isclosures, sacred­ly d a irv o y a n tly in natu re, reveal the U n ite d S ta te s as d o m in a tin g the w orld , w ith a pop u la tion expanded over the next tw o generations to 3 0 0 m illion s o f p eo ­p le , and a territorial area th at extends from M ex ico to the A rctic C ircle.

H e r free govern m en t, o u t o f the to ils an d ordeals o f the final phase o f the one G reat W a r th a t b egan in 1914 , is to em erge renovated and regenerated.

A n d w hen it is trium phantly fo u g h t and w on, the last major war for a thou­sand years will have become a thing of history!

O O U L C R A F T doesn’t acquire such ^ disclosures "out o f the air” or a s d ie result o f conjecture or w ish fu l th in k in g .

N o strad am u s, the in im itab le 16th C en ­tury m ystic and seer, saw the ou tcom e o f th is period four hundred years back in tim e. I f w e had no other sou rce for the even ts o f the im m ediate fu tu re than the N o strad am u s Q uatra in s, w e sh ou ld have a gu id e to the nature o f w h at’s to happen that’s proved itse lf as w ell n igh in fa llib le over the four cen turies since th ey were penned.

N o stra d a m u s— in case y o u ’ve never heard o f the gentlem an— w as a native o f F rance, born in 1503, and court physi­c ian to the reign ing m onarch. H e lived to be 63 years o ld . L osin g h is w ife and ch ildren in an epidem ic o f p la g u e, he w ent w andering fo r h a lf a d ozen years in the countries o f the E ast. C o m in g back to L yons, he rented an obscure a ttic in a side street and w ent in to seclu sion , where by m ystical psych ic processes know n on ly to adepts in th e H ig h e r W isd o m , he had revelation a fte r revela­tion m ade him as to the fu tu re . C a th ­erine D e M ed ic i becam e his patroness. T h e b o o k w hich he published in 1555 , original copies o f which are s till in exist­ence, contained over 1,0 0 0 pred ictions, runn ing as far ahead as th e year 3 ,0 0 0 A . D .

T h e celebrated Q uatrains o f N o s tr a ­dam u s, m any o f them expressed in cryp ­tic form to save him from p o litica l and relig ious persecution , foreto ld the even ts o f E urope for the tw o hundred years fo l­low in g his death w ith uncanny accuracy, even sp ec ify in g in cases how m any o f its m onarch*— som e o f them still unborn w hen N o strad am u s wrote— w o u ld perish. H e fo reto ld the happening o f the French

R evolution , forecast the arrival o f the 5 0 0 m en from M arseilles who w ould raze the T u iller ies prison, even gore the sur­name o f the man who would apprehend King Louis X V I and turn him back to Paris and the guillotine when he was seeking to flee the revolutionaries into Bavaria.

1 1 JH E R IS E o f N ap o leo n , the growth and decline o f British sea-power, the

develop m en t o f the U n ited States, the outbreak o f the F irst W o rld W ar, the sequence o f H itler , the decline and dis­appearance o f the First League o f N a ­tions, the W a r o f the Spanish revolu­tionaries under Franco— whom he men­tions by nam e— and finally the emerg­ence o f Russia a fter W o rld W a r I I and her u ltim ate destruction after causing the final phase o f the G reat W ar Period betw een 1914 and 1953, was all chron­icled so accurately that even back in 1914 French war crowds storm ed the Paris bookshops to obtain reprints o f his quat­rains a t the outbreak o f hostilities.

T h e appearance o f aircraft, tanks, ra­d io , radar and finally the atom ic bomb and atom ic energy, were all "seen” by N o stra d a m u s and chronicled in 1555. AH Sou lcrafters are proficient in his pre­d iction s, particularly from the electronic discourses that have been circulated con­cern ing him .

R ussia and C hina together, so N ostra­dam us forecasts, are g o in g to push west­w ards toward the M editerranean through the Persian oil fields, over-running T ur­k ey , and assailing Ita ly and France. B u t both shall m eet their W aterloo in the vicin ity o f Y u go-S lav ia and the Adriatic.

In the afterm ath o f the final war, a great ruler to be nam ed H en ry is indi­cated as un itin g E urope, and the peace w hich fo llow s lasts for 1,0 0 0 years.

T h ese prophecies a ll accord w ith the G reat Pyram id significances in E gypt, and the words o f .clairvoyant and clair-

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109000 Golden Scripts to Be Presented to 10,000 Clergym en • •

NOBLES VILLE, IND.—A bombshell is due to drop in Ameri­can religious circles on or about January 1st.

Ten thousand copies of an epochal agenda of sacred psychical transcripts are to be published, in $5 Bible format, bound in limp leather covers, and dispatched to an equal number of Protestant pastors, clergymen, bishops, Professors of Theology, and out­standing laymen, as a wholesale Yuletide gift.

This collection of sacred transcripts, known as the "Golden Scripts” appears to cut back through all the ritualism and hair- splitting of dogmatic theology, and expound the real Christian religion in its original and pure form again.

It is time that America’s spiritual leaders had opportunity for knowing about this majestic compilation of sacred utterings and addressings, and a fund of $50,000 is being raised to defer the expense of producing and circulating them.

Giving away 10,000 books costing $5 each, is something new under the sun—in this day of cynicism and skepticism—but the donors are sincere in their campaign to combat Communism in our religious denominations with TRUTH 1

audient utterings that have distinguished the Liberation-Soulcraft Scripts from their beginnings in 1928.

T he point is, those who know what is due to happen, and that the U n ited States is slated to come out triumphant and dom inant in the struggle, carry no fear about in heads or hearts as to ma­turing events leading up to the contest as o f the present.

Russia is obviously behind the current struggle to nationalize the oil industry o f Iran and eject the British, and the situa­tion grows uglier by the hour.

I t’s all in Nostradam us and Soulcraft.W h y not begin exam ination o f this

teaching and proceed about your affairs equipped with definite knowledge?

Anyway, the sooner we get it over with, the quicker comes the Reign o f Universal Peace.

T his doesn’t mean, as some super­ficially-minded persons m ight at once con­clude, that we fo lk here in the U n ited States "have nothing to worry about.” W e have plenty to worry about. T h e war over Russia isn’t going to be won by sending out defeatest thoughts to combat the Bolshevik enemy. A n d the saboteur menace is going to be a grave one.

B ut it should, and does, afford the overly worried individual some measure o f confidence to have prophecy indicate to him that looked at from the long throw o f the years, the U n ited States is going to survive all her conspiracies and assailments and endure for m any gen­erations.

Remember, no more vicious saying was ever uttered than, "W hat you don’t know won’t hurt you.” It’s what you don’t know that Joes hurt you.

Become educated the Sou lcraft way and reasonable peace o f m ind follow s you. A nd at any rate, you don’t con­cede the fight to the enemy in advance merely because he’s been responsible for some clever and benum bing propaganda.

Chins up and eyes forward.L ift the eyes a little.There’s lots to see Upstairs!

O U T O F T H E M A IL"The Golden Scripts is the greatest book

ever printed, bar none!” . .Rev. J. R. K„ C al

"Enclosed please find check for $1,000 on the Golden Script publication fund . . ”

F. L ., Georgia

ERE IS one o f the m ost pretentious publicity cam ­paigns o f sacred m aterial ever undertaken. T hese Scripts, com piled under the m ost devout auspices,

over a 20-year period, present aspects and phases o f Christianity to which there is no answer. T h e on ly conclu sion that can be drawn from them is that certain individuals have been selected to relay the assurances and adjurations from H ig h er Dim ensions o f C onsciousness to bedeviled hum ankind in the present torm ented gen­eration. N o preposterous claim s other­wise are made for them . T h e A g e o f M iracles may not ye t have d o sed , how­ever. I f you have n ot done so , you w ould have to read the Golden Scripls and deride for yourself.

H ere are life fundam entals, cosm ic

fundam entals, religious fu n d am en ta ls, prophetic utterances o f gravest tenor, the m ost com passionate adjurations fo r the successfu l liv in g o f l ife , wrapped u p in the m ost beauteous o f pronouncem ents for fo llo w in g the true C hristian fa ith de­vo id o f sectarianism or ism s th a t m an has had uttered since the Serm on on the M o u n t. T o p u t 8 4 4 p ages o f such m a­terial in the hands o f A m erica’s sp iritual leaders can m ean the b eg in n in gs o f a N e w R eform ation in the relig ion o f the present. A Sp iritua l R eform ation m eans an E conom ic and P o litica l R eform ation . T o revise an d bring u p to d a te our re­lig ious ideas, a lig n in g them w ith E v o lu ­tion , Science, and P sy ch o logy— an d par­ticu larly Psychical Research— m eans g iv ­in g d ie nation a new birth o f sou l and national idealism .

T h e Golden Scripts are sacred E xtra-

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S ensory R ecordings o f the grav­est and m ost sign ifican t nature. T h e y deserve to be brough t to th e a tten tio n o f the nation and le t those w h o are ready fo r the prod ig iou s tru ths th ey expound accep t them a n d live by them . C op ies o f the or ig in a l ed ition , pu blished in 1941 , have brough t as h igh as $ 4 0 each , a t private sale. N o on e w h o ow n s a copy w ill part w ith it .

N o w th is stu p en d o u s b o o k is to have 10 ,0 0 0 cop ies p laced in khe han ds o f A m erica ’s sp ir­itu a l leaders. From B o sto n to S a n D ie g o , a n d from S ea ttle to M ia m i, A m erica ’s m en o f G o d w ill have a sa cred text offered them th a t w ill e lectr ify and revita lize them .

I t is the p eop le a lready fa ­m iliar w ith T he Golden Scripts w h o are g o in g to p a y fo r th is co lossa l g i f t to th e pastors o f A m erica . T h e b o o k has already g o n e in to p rodu ction a n d first copies w ill beg in app earing around D ecem b er 1st.

T h e g o l d e n s c r i p t swere first pu b lish ed in Bible

form at ten years a g o . D u r in g th a t d ecad e th ey have asto u n d ­ed and co n fo u n d ed a ll to w h om th ey have com e. A n y m ortal w o u ld be required to possess a greater in te llect a n d com m an d o f w ords th an S h akesp eare to orig in ate or fabricate them . T h e la n gu age and tex t convinces a n y op en -m in d ed scho lar or critic th a t so m eth in g o f a su ­pernatural nature has occurred to g iv e h u m an k in d su ch com ­m un ications in th is generation . B reath in g the m o st b eauteous p iety an d a ltru ism , th ey p o in t the w ay o u t o f th is present d i­lem m a o f th e R epublic a n d the nations— besides d isc lo sin g the real tenets o n w hich early C hris­tian ity w as based.

T h e se sublim e S cr ip ts are a classical a d d ition to th e litera­ture o f ou r a g e . T h e y w ere n o t received, nor are th ey being cir­cu la ted , under the auspices o f an y creed, denom ination or cu lt. T h e y are offered o n their meriks a s a stu p en d ou s ch a l­len ge to m odern atheism .

The Declaration that Started the Project:

W A N T TO FIND FIFTY PERSONS . .

who will m a k e a con tribu tion o f $1,000 each to underwrite th e g i f t presen ta tion o f one c o p y o f th e G olden S cripts to each o f the ten thousand P ro testan t p a s to rs a n d c lergym en throughout one hundred lead in g cities o f the U n ite d S ta te s th is com ing C hristm as.

I w an t to m ake th is g i f t p resen ta tion as a constructive inspiration in th e invaluable w ork these p a sto rs a n d c lergym en are do in g a t shaping the sp ir itu a l lives and th in kin gs o f a p p ro x im a te ly 500,000 t\p 1,000,000 be­w ildered C hristian people.

T e n thou san d P ro testa n t pa sto rs a n d clergym en becom ing acquainted w ith th e tex t o f the Golden Scripts can e lec tr ify the nation as they m ust in ev ita b ly relay their reactions to th e E tern a l V erities therein to their com ­m unican ts, g iv in g them a rev ita lized con cep t o f C h rist, the E lder Brother.

T h e w ork w ill be s tr ic tly a labor o f love , a n d require tw o hundred and th ree fu ll- tim e w orking d a y s a t th e H ea d q u a rte rs p lan t a fte r the roster o f don ors has been com pleted .

N o th in g m ore is in ten d ed than to p lace th is lim p-leather volum e as a Y u le tid e g i f t in the hands o f these A m erican sp iritu a l leaders, fo r the effect i t m u st have on a rev ita lized C h ristian fa ith .

T h e tim e is ripe fo r it.

I f in d th a t am ple p a p er can b e p rocu red i f I order it in a special half­car fo r th e purpose. W ith Road into Sunrise com ple ted , the whole p lan t is n ow available fo r th is g rea t w ork .

In no oth er w ay can Soulcraft be b rou gh t to the a tten tion o f so m an y fo r so li ttle , because th e p a sto rs o f A m erica , once apprised o f the G olden Scripts, can scarcely refrain fro m discussing them . T h is m ust brin g these superb .Scripts to th e a tten tio n o f com m unicants. L ikewise it m u st have an influence on th e ir ow n serm ons. A n entirely new concept o f th e E ld er B roth er m ay b e f la sh e d across th e lan d— hastening a spiritual regeneration , the sam e as th e incom parable M a c A r th u r s hom ecom ing gives indication o f heralding a p o litica l regeneration.

W il l yo u help m e com ple te the lis t o f th e F i f t y Persons who w ill m ake th is na tional gesture possible?

L e t’s g ive Christian A m erica a new sp iritu a l inspiration to carry it th rou gh th e d ifficu lties ahead o f it!

— T H E R E C O R D E R

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THE FOURTH in a series of articles on the World’s religions and sectarian faiths . . .

W hat You Should Know about th e H istory of th e B aptists . .

H ERE are more Baptists DkU in the U nited States—

Northern and Southern computed— then those o f communicants o f any oth-

_ J e r Protestant denomina­tion. World Almanac for 1950 lists them at 15,484,718. T he M ethodists come next with 10,494,029. T he Roman Catholics number 26,718,343. So the Baptists and M ethodists just about bal­ance the number o f Roman Catholics, with the preponderance in favor o f Prot­estantism o f all other denominations.

Y ou don’t hear much about the Bap­tist church in the newspaper headlines. It doesn’t engage in publicity stunts. Its heads aren’t notorious in cases for being fellow travelers with the Communists— because the Baptist Church has no "heads.” Each congregation, since the days o f Roger W illiam s, the founder o f Bapdstism in the N ew W orld, is suffi­cient unto itself. And yet the difference between the Baptists and their fellow Protestants is chiefly one o f a few small points o f dogma.

Outside o f each congregation being an independent unit, much like the Congre- gationalists, the Baptists fundamentally "believe” in baptism by immersion for adults or persons old enough to renounce worldly ways o f their own volition and let baptism stand as an initiation cere­mony for consecration to the higher life.

In other words, from back in the Six­teenth Century, the Baptists have held to the distinctive view, common and peculiar to all o f diem, that baptism should be administered to believers only. T he mode o f administration o f the ordinance has not always been the same, and some Bap­tists—such as the Mennonites— still prac­tice baptism by pouring or sprinkling.

B ut among m odem Baptists, taken by and large, the ceremony is one o f com­plete immersion. A s described in the fourth broadcast on the Com ing o f the Elder Brother, in the Soulcraft Electronic Discourses, the baptismal rite was the symbol o f going down into the grave with Christ and rising purified in a personal resurrection, water being the symbol o f the earth that supplied the entombment.

However, the very early history o f the Baptist faith is interesting and Soul- crafters should know the history o f this particular church . .

’ I 'H E O R IG IN o f the Baptist denom- ination was in Germany, and it was

as Teutonic as Lutheranism.Communicants were at first designated

as Anabaptists. "Ana” means "again” , or "those who are baptized again.” T he name was given them by their enemies in other sects because on the occasion o f Luther’s revolt from Romanism they de­nied the validity o f infant baptism and therefore rebaptized those whom they quite logically regarded as not having re­ceived any Christian initiation at all.

O n the 27th o f Decem ber, 1521 three "prophets” appeared in W ittenberg from Zwickau, Thom as M unzer, N ik o las Storch, and M ark T hom as Stubner. Luther’s reform wasn’t thorough enough for them. They professed to rest all Prot- estism on Scripture, yet accepted from the Babylon o f Rome a baptism neither scriptural nor primitive, nor fu lfilling the chief conditions o f admission into a visible brotherhood o f saints, to w it, re­pentance, faith, spiritual illum ination, and free surrender o f se lf to Christ.

M elanchthon, powerless against the en­thusiasts with whom his co-reform er Carl- stadt sym pathized, appealed to Luther, still concealed in the W artburg. H e ’d written to the W aldenses that it is bet­ter not to be baptized a t a ll than to bap­tize little children; now he was cautious wouldn’t condem n the new prophecy off hand, but advised M elanchthon to treat them gently and to prove their spirits, lest they be o f G od.

There was confusion in W ittenberg where schools and university sided w ith the prophets and were closed. H ence the charge that A nabaptists were ene­mies o f learning, which is sufficiently re­butted by the fact that the first German translation o f the H ebrew prophets was made and printed by tw o o f them , H et- zer and D en k , in 1527.

T h e first leaders o f the m ovem ent in Zurich— Grebel, M anz, B laurock and Hubm aier— were m en learned in Greek, Latin and H ebrew . O n the 6 th of M arch Luther returned, interviewed ths prophets, scorned their "spirits” , forbade them the city, and had their adherents ejected from Z w ickau and Erfurt.

D enied access to the churches, the la t­ter preached and celebrated the sacra­ment in private houses. D riven from the cities, thev swarmed over the countryside.

Com pelled to leave Z w ickau, M unzer visited Bohemia, resided two years a t A ll- steadt in T huringia, and in 1524 spent some time in Switzerland. D u rin g this period he proclaim ed his revolutionary doctrines in religion and politics w ith growing vehemence and increasing suc­cess.

1 I 'H E CRISTS came in the so-called Peasant’s W ar in South G erm any in

1525. In its origin a revolt against feud­al oppression, it became under the leader­ship o f M unzer, a war against all con­stituted authorities and an attem pt to establish bv force his ideal Christian com m onwealth, with absolute equality and com m unity o f goods.

T h e total defeat o f the insurgents a t Frankenhausen in M ay o f 1525, follow ed as it was by the execution o f M unzer and several lesser leaders, proved only a tem p­orary check, however, to the A nabaptist M ovem ent. H ere and there throughout Germ any, Sw itzerland and the N eth er­lands there were zealous propagandists whose teachings m any were prepared to fo llow as soon as another leader arose.

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A second and more determ ined attem pt to establish a theocracy was m ade at M unster, in W estphalia , between 1532 and 1535. H ere the sect had gained con­siderable influence through the adhesion o f one Rothm ann, the Lutheran pastor, and several citizens o f prominence. T he town was taken and the authorities de­posed, the idea being that from M unster they should proceed to the conquest o f the world.

T h e tow n being beseiged by Francis o f W ald eck , its expelled bishop— M et- thiesen, w ho was first in com mand— m ade a sally w ith on ly thirty follow ers, under the fanatical idea that he was a second G ideon , and was cu t o ff with his entire band. B ockhold t, better know n in history as John o f L eiden, was now su­preme. G iv ing h im self o u t as the succes­sor to D a v id , he claim ed royal honors and absolute power in the new "Zion” . H e justified the m ost arbitrary and m ost extravagant o f measures by the authority o f visions from heaven. W ith this pre­tended sanction he legalized polygam y and h im self took four wives, one o f whom he beheaded w ith his ow n hand in the m arket place in a fit o f frenzy.

A s a natural consequence o f such li­cense, M unster was for twelve m onths a scene o f unbridled profligacy. A fter an obstinate resistance, the town was taken by the beseigers on the 24th o f June, 1535, and in January o f 1536 B ockholdt and som e o f his m ore prom inent fo llow ­ers, a fter being cruelly tortured, were executed in the m arket-place

' | 'H E O U T B R E A K a t M unster was the clim ax o f the A nabaptist m ove­

m ent. I t never again had the opportuni­ty o f asstim ing political im portance, the civil powers naturally adopting the m ost stringent m easures to suppress an agita­tion whose avowed object was to suppress them.

G erm an follow ers o f the executed men fled all over E urope and to E ngland from the N etherlands. T h e word "A na” was dropped from the official nam e for them and they becam e sim ply "Baptists” . .

I t was from those o f the sect who founded independent congregations in E ngland that the devotees and com m uni­cants cam e to A m erica, their m ost out­standing divine being Roger W illiam s, the exile from the Puritan colony o f B oston and Salem , w ho founded Provi­dence, R. I . A n ne H utch inson , also o f the M assachusetts C olony, helped spread the fa ith in N e w E ngland.

M unzer, the progenitor o f the denom­ination, had originally derived his ideas and inspirations from clairaudient com ­munications, as almost every Christian sect has done if the truth could be known. N o t being adept in psychical research, however, he supposed all form o f clair­audient converse was the direct V oice o f G od and by no means som e discarnate divine who m ight have gotten his ear without revealing his true identity. M un­zer called such tutelage "the Inner W ord”. D ivine revelation, he said, was not received from the church nor from preaching, least o f all from "the dead

letter o f the Bible.” I t was received solely and directly from the Spirit o f G od.

A nd all the sad doings and losses o f life at M unster arose from the ceremoni­al controversy as to whether people who weren’t old enough to know what was happening to them, could profit from baptism.

A s i f it truly mattered.

N E X T WEEK: The history of the Bap­tist faith in America and the persecution and renunciations of the baptismal be­lief by Roger Williams.

Pelley D efends His C areer a t In v ita tio n of M erchants

C .ENTIM ENT in Pelley*s home town seems to be changing respecting his

late imprisonment for being a Red Baiter. On Monday, June 18th, an invitation was extended to him to speak before the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The news agencies at once seized upon the ad­dress and broadcast it all over America. The local newspaper, the Noblesville Evening Ledger, reported the talk as follows—

R O P H E S Y IN G the fall o f Russia and 1,000 years o f peace as expounded in the writings o f a 16th century physician and as- trologist, W illiam D udley

Pelley last night addressed the N obles- ville Junior Chamber o f Commerce, spic­ing his talk with biographical sketches and occasional jabs at the forces that put him behind bars in N orth Carolina and Indiana. »

Restricted in what he could say by the terms o f his parole from the Federal Penitentiary at Terre H a u te , Pelley, neatly goateed and recovered from his long imprisonment, delved into the m eta­physical on his own when he was not cit­ing the prophetic writings o f N ostra ­damus.

A lithe group o f Jaycees stirred rest­lessly as Pelley pounding repeatedly on the table, discussed his research into field o f psycho-research, the fourth dim ension and the molecular structure o f the hu­m an body, but listened intently when he predicted events to come.

A w illing talker who obviously fe lt the restrictions placed upon him warmed quickly to his subject as he briefed the Jaycees on his hectic career which found him as a newspaper publisher, magazine writer, H ollyw ood script writer and American "spy” in Siberia.

Pelley warned his audience when he quoted W illiam Allen W hite, " ‘W hen the world has been upset a lot o f queer things float to the top.’ I seem to have been one o f the queer things W hite was speaking about.” Pelley said.

(Continued on Page 10)

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VALORA Journal of Applied Spirituality, pub­

lished every Wednesday in the national interests of American Soulcraft, by—

SO U L C R A F T C H A PE L S B ox 192 N oblbsvillb, I ndiana

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V ol. I J uly 4, 1951 N o . 10

Valiant DoctrineI H E N E W Valor W eek-

ly is committed to a pol­icy. It proposes to work for a Cult o f Courage in this nation. Courage is the thing, apparently, that

this nation needs most, considering its cur­rent epidemic o f heebie-jeebies.

Matters look bad enough for the coun­try and the world, but proclaiming doom to the point o f the grotesque serves no­body’s ends but those of the adversary’s. There can be a point reached where the certainty o f doom goes into reverse. It enters the realms o f untruth and fantasy.

V alor doesn’t see the country going to hell in a hack— or any other kind of vehicle from a B-36 to a 1916 Ford— or the Soviet sycophants getting away with their lycanthrophies, or the war that’s in prospect spelling any wheezy "end o f civilization”, or our institutions collapsing like a punctured accordion. T he Korean war isn’t going to mean the bloody exhaustion o f all American man­power. The fact that we’ve only just begun to scorch the small-fry Commies doesn’t mean we’re not going to cook the Big Boys before the Situation climaxes.

I f the international propagandist can only get the tax-dizzy American to be­lieve that "matters have gone too far to ever turn back,” the cold war can be won without using any more expensive ammunition than chewed-up pellets made from Congressional Records.

It’s not only a matter o f commonsense but a matter o f fact that there are forces and influences in the nation o f so re­actionary a character that it’s time to take note o f them.

I f the Red torpedo boys were well enough organized, or ever had been well

enough organized, to pull a revolution Trotsky style, they’d long since have pulled it.

I f our much criticized State Depart­ment ever had been secretly and officially sold out to Stalin, it would have seen that the whole atomic bomb set-up had been transmitted to the Kremlin without need for the isolated and dangerous an­tics o f the Fuchs and Greenglasses and Dark Glasses and Cocktail Glasses.

I f our Department o f Justice were ac­tually as crooked as some o f our Scream­ing Sarahs make out, John Rogge wouldn’t have had to take a job overseas as counsel to T ito, Gerhardt Eisler would not have scrammed N ew Y ork Harbor in the dark o f the moon, and the Coplin girl would have had something o f more value in her reticule than a lot o f screw­ball mush letters to a rubber-eyed V olga borsch-hound. Furthermore, nobody as big as Alger H iss would have gotten a second fry in the M anhattan law courts, and a man named Pelley wouldn’t be walking the streets as a free and law- abiding citizen, making speeches by invi­tation before Chambers o f Commerce and being hailed as a prophet who prophesied too correctly ten years ahead o f season. But that’s only the beginning o f it.

I f the tax situation in our country were utterly hopeless and a squanderbust policy didn’t hold repercussions, why should 26 State legislatures have ratified a measure to abolish the 16th Am end­ment to the Constitution, giving the Fed­eral government the right to collect in­come taxes? D o you know that only six more states similarly ratify and U n cle Sam is out on a limb in this matter o f grabbing everything over 25 percent that the private citizen or business corpora­tion makes? T hen where’s the money coming from to Soviedze America?

' i ’ H E F A C T is, this American Scene A jg turning up bulldozer scoops o f

evidence that it’s entirely possible and probable that Americans haven’t yet lost the capacity for getting their backs up and rallying under leaders who can start a renovation.

But to throw up the flipper with a wail o f despair and adm it the "reds” have "got everything” and "the situation’s hopeless,” is to play exactly the game the radical fringe wants played.

A pestilence on the whole o f it!Yes, we’re going through "the times

that try men’s souls” , but the important thing is, we’re going through them— and

com ing out successfully on the Other Side.

There are still D ou glas M acArthurs in the crazy picture o f the caterwauling.

I f you think the morale o f the Am er­ican army has become a pretzel with de­lirium tremens, live awhile in Indianap­olis, the national home o f T h e American Legion.

I T ’S T IM E to start a C u lt o f Cour- * age in this nation and declare that what man has messed up, man can un­mess, that nothing is ever quite so black as it’s painted, and that maybe there’s just as much panic and uncertainty and backbiting and all-around frenzy in the camps o f the mischief-workers as there ever was in the camps o f the professional crusaders.

Sacred prophecy and clairvoyant pre­diction— not to overlook the seer N ostra­damus— all concur in the attestm ent that the U n ited States if coming out of this stramash sitting on top of the world, the Kremlin is due to become a second T uil- leries and be razed to the ground, and a thousand year reign o f international peace makes its advent.

N o t that we don’t have plenty to worry about before it happens.

B ut V alor intends to show from week to week that dauntless courage and initi­ative, along with keeping the head screwed on tight, will see us through the business— and the men in charge o f it aren’t wishful thinkers. T hey were first on the ground in exposing the Red men­ace, and ate still first on the ground pro­claiming a tide that is turning in N ew - D ay favor.

T he moment’s not far distant when Rational America can turn the eye o f consuming scorn on the whole ragtag and bobtailed mob o f the erstwhile revolu­tion-makers, deny their invincibility, snicker at their insinuations tha.t their plannings were infallible, hoot at the claim that they were always able to turn on the Revolution— like a sp igot o f hot water arty time th ey fancied— and see Sense, Stam ina, and Sobriety emerge in the American Scene, which die cru­saders have sought to achieve from the beginning.

Do the crusaders have the intellect, not to mention the disposition, to see vic­tory when it looms for them?

A t any rate, V alor declares there’s no place in the developing picture for the jittery chowderhead who argues that

things have gone too far toward perdi-

June 15, 1951 V A L O R P age 9

tion to turn them back "at this late day” and that seeing w e’re all headed for hell in the aforesaid hack, we should m ake the trip w ith the radio scream ing as loud as possible and a picture o f Roosevelt banging from rear axles, affixed to the vehicle w ith one o f A cheson’s neckties.

T h e place is being reached where the Reds have begun to G et the Business.

O kay, le t i t roll.V alor will keep you posted in every

phase o f it.I t ’s been a lon g tim e delayed.

Project Begun-IE G olden S cript pre­sentation project, to pas­tors and prom inent church laym en, has been ac­claim ed am ong Sou lcraft- ers from coast to coast.

S o im m ediate and substantial was the re­sponse that the necessary 13 tons o f Bible paper were ordered on June 15th and are now being m ade in H am ilton , O hio. B u t from paper procurable a t the local paper house, the first "signature” o f the new Golden Scripts started on June 22nd.

T h e new books w ill appear in a d if ­ferent form at than the Golden Scripts published in 1941. T h e page size w ill be 5%x7% inches and the type w ill be larger, blacker, and easier to read. In fact, the sam e sty le and size o f type will be used that the w eekly Soulcraft Scripts are set in. A s the C loister type-tty le runs line for line as to characters w ith the O ld sty le type face used in the 1941 Golden Scripts, there w ill be precisely the same num ber o f pages— 844— in the en­tire work, a n d the C oncordance com ­piled by L illie M a y Jenson o f Seattle, containing a lm ost 50 ,000 cross-references, will app ly to both editions.

I t is planned, i f the proper leatherette can be secured, to g ive these new vol­um es th e conventional B ible bindings: round com ers w ith w idely overlapping edges. T h e suggestion has been made that these new Golden Scripts be bound in a golden color as to m aterial, bu t no lim p serviceable fabrics can be procured in that color. I t sim ply isn’t m anufac­tured.

I t has been estim ated, from the trial run on the presses already m ade, that a m inim um o f 80 days w ill be required to com plete the presswork, the rem ainder o f the m anu factu ring tim e g iven over to fo ld ing , assem bling and binding.

T h e fears so w idely expressed that

copies o f so expensive a book m ight be cast into waste baskets or le f t unread on library shelves, if sent gratis through the m ails to clergymen a t random , are truly groundless. In every instance o f each pastor receiving a copy , it is being ar­ranged to have it presented in person by a local Soulcraft representative, w ho w ill acquaint him with som eth ing o f its con­tents and secure his prom ise that i f he has no use for the volum e a fter reading it, or even exam ining it, he p u t in a phone call to the local S o u lcra ft R eading Room that it be called for and picked up. T h is to the end that it m ay be sen t in­stead to one o f h is m ost influential parishioners.

I t is to be doubted th at under such cir­cumstances it will be shoved to gather dust on ministerial shelves.

Blessed EventjORN: M a y 20th , M ark

W illiam P elley , to the C hief’s only son , W illia m Ernest and M rs. Pelley. W eigh t, seven and three- quarter pounds. D isp osi­

tion, aggressive. Lungs, adequate. T h u s the Recorder o f the Soulcraft Scripts now has four grandchildren, P am ela and W inkie— A delaide’s and M el’s progeny — and Johanna ("Joady” ) , W illia m Jr’s, first child, now aged three.

T h e Pelley fam ily groweth!M ark W illiam is the sixth generation

in the line o f male Pelleys to bear the nam e W illiam . T h e original W illia m was the Recorder’s great-grandfather, Charles W illiam , bom in N ew fo u n d la n d back near the close o f the 18th Century. T h e Recorder’s grandfather was nam ed Frederick W illiam and his father W il­liam G eorge. H e was nam ed W illiam D u dley , and his son W illia m Ernest. Sm all M ark will d o his best to sustain the tradition for letting the world know that new W illiam P elleys add up to som ething more than mere nam es in the phone book.

B ill is supervising g eo lo g ist for a b ig national oil com pany. A t the current m om ent he reports being im plicated in drilling four wells a t once. D u r in g W o r ld W a r II he served briefly in the A ir Corps.

H is father is drilling for another k ind o f oil. Contrary to his critics, it doesn’t com e from bananas.

A nyhow , sm all M ark is w ith us from now on. Splendid!,

H ow ya, B ig Boy?

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THERE was a reason for due over­whelming success. Critics called It die moat scathing indictment o f parental stupidity ever penned. "How not to bring up children" described its theme in a phrase. Thousands read into the experiences o f Nathan Forge their own quandaries and harassment!. And k offered a picture of small-town Ameri­can life that can never come again.

THERE art 500 closely printed pages in The Fog, and the author bought the original plates and struck off a reprint edition in 1940. O f this edition 125 copies on white paper in grey doth cov­ert now remain. There are no esoteria in the theme of this book. It is purely and unabashedly a novel, but its up­lift in its dimaxes is tremendous.

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Ptlley SpeechIt was while he was working for die

Crowell Publishing Co, that he first saw the effects o f Communism. H e spent about 10 months in Siberia in 1917 tak­ing pictures for the U nited States Gov­ernment and "I saw Communism taking over with my own eyes,” he said.

A fter returning these pictures to U . S. officials the American Counsel General in, Japan told him, ’’you'll never know how much you have done for your coun­try.” Pelley told the Jaycees that this part o f his career was never permitted to be offered as evidence in his sedition trial in Indianapolis in 1942.

After the war and after working on 21 motion pictures for Lon Chaney, Pel- ley met CoL Robert Sharpe, head o f the secret service, ixV W ashington and re ­mained his friend until his death.

It was at this time o f his life that he first became acquainted with the writings of Nostradamus which were to direct his thinking and his actions in his "fight to tell the American people what was go­ing on in their government.”

Pelley then read at length from the Frenchman’s works, giving example after (sam ple o f past events that had corre­sponded with the writings done years and centuries before.

Although Pelley stated these prophesies were not his own he indicated he had complete faith in their outcome. "W e've got nothing to worry about. America is destined to rule the world. W e will have a 1,000 year reign o f real peace. T he Armageddon will be fought in and around the Persian oil fields and the Adriatic Sea. This thing is coming. There will be the worst massacre in and around the Kremlin the world has ever seen.” So Pelley said.

H e also startled the Jaycees when he said Nostradamus had predicted H itler’s fall "when he reaches the doors o f M os­cow.” H e then asked, "Is H itler dead?” And told his listeners that words writ­ten in die 1500’s said this man (H itler) would be found again seven years after his fall which would be in 1952. "W e will have to wait and see,” Pelley said.

T he ex-Silver Shirt leader then pre­dicted tremendous developments in die field o f electronics as he attempted to picture the world at peace following the third W orld W ar and the second com­ing o f Christ.

Still not wanting to stop his talk, Pel- ley told the group that his time in prison had not been idle. "It was one o f the most interesting and profitable experi­ences I ever had. I wasn’t ashamed. I hadn’t done anything criminal. I t hasn’t left a single mark on me.”

"I’ve heard people say, 'W e’re just rid

o f D . C . Stephenson and now we’ve g o t Pelley.’ N ob lesv ille is a w onderful litd e town. W e hope to so condition our en­deavor that in years to com e it w ill be said that N o r th Carolina’s loss is N o ­bles viile’s gain.”

Pelley is the publisher o f the Sou lcraft Press on W est P leasant Street.

Popular PsychicsThe Famous Case of Emilie Sargee

E H 5 3 N V IE W o f the fact that Valor purposes, this summer and fa ll, to pre­sent a lengthy agenda o f

i f i S M fam ous psychical phenom- ena that wouldena that would seem to

authenticate many o f the tenets o f Soul- craft, we find at the top o f the list the outstanding case o f M adem oiselle Sargee, the data on which is 105 years old. M a­demoiselle Sargee’s case, upon being in­vestigated, was found to be so valid and unique that it has com e down to us in detail after a century has elapsed.

T he girl came to notice in Livonia, 58 kilometers from Riga, in 1845. There in the small town o f Volm ar was located a school for young daughters o f the no­bility, called the N euw elcke academy. T he pupils, almost all from aristocratic Livonian families, numbered 42. A m ong the instructors was a young French­woman, Mademoiselle Em ilie Sargee, born in D ijon.

Em ilie was a Northern blonde, w ith very beautiful complexion, clear blue eyes, slender build and a little above mid­dle height. H er disposition was sweet, gay, and lovable. She was intelligent and possessed an excellent education. H er health was reported to be good. T he superintendents were satisfied with her as a teacher. A t the time that the phe­nomena respecting her was first reported, she was approximately 32.

A F E W weeks after she had com e to the school to instruct in the French

language, strange rumors about her be­gan to spread among the girls. W hen one o f them declared she had seen M iss

Sargee in such and such a place in the building, another contradicted it, claim ­ing she too had seen M iss Sargee quite somewhere else.

A t first such reports were laid to m is­takes, but instead o f ceasing the pupils began to talk about them . Com plica­tions were not long in com ing.

O ne day, when Em ilie was g iv in g a lesson to thirteen young girls, and when in order to m ake them understand bet­ter w hat she was showing them she wrote upon the blackboard the passage to be explained, the students saw suddenly— to their no little terror—two Demoiselle Sargee, one beside the other.

T h ey were exactly alike and both g o ­ing through the same movements!

B ut the real person had a piece o f chalk in her right hand and was w riting, while her duplicate, or phantasm , had no chalk and seemed content to im itate the movements o f the real person’s hand. T h e two postures, however, were noted to be identical.

T his caused a great sensation in the classroom and throughout the establish­ment, because all the young girls, w ithout an exception, had seen the second form and agreed perfectly in their description o f the phenomenon.

B ut a still more remarkable th ing hap­pened the day follow ing—

A I.L T H E pupils, forty-tw o in num - her. were gathered in the sam e room ,

bnsilv embroidering. I t was a large room on the ground floor, with four large w in­dows. T h e nnpils were all seated before a central table and could behold any­thing taking place outside in the garden.

July 4 , 1951 V A L O R Page 11A s they were w orking, they saw E m ilie

Sargee p ick ing flowers, n o t far from the w indow s. A t the end o f the cen­tral table w as another teacher, m ain­tain ing discip line, seated in a m orocco- covered arm chair. P resently this teacher arose and w ent aw ay, leav ing the arm ­chair em pty . B u t th is endured on ly a m atter o f m inutes.

S u d d en ly the stupefied y o u n g girls saw the form o f E m ilie S argee seated in the chair. G la n cin g o u t in to the garden, in the natural gesture o f w on dering how she could have transferred h erself inside so abruptly, they saw the duplicate Emilie Sargee still picking flowers!

H er m ovem ents, how ever, had slow ed dow n and seem ed langu id— lik e those o f one overcom e w ith sleep or exhausted by fatigue.

A ga in th ey look ed tow ard the arm ­chair, where the phantasm w as seated , m otionless and silen t. M o re or less used to such strange m anifesta tions o f their French teacher b y th is tim e, tw o o f the m ost courageous o f the g irls approached the chair, and , to u ch in g th e apparition, thought they encountered a resistance comparable to that which a light tissue o f muslin or crepe m ight offer. O n e o f them even dared to pass in fro n t o f the chair, in fa c t to step through part o f the form .

Tt lasted o n ly a sh ort tim e, then grad­ually vanished . H o w ev er , as th is fa d ­in g aw ay to o k p lace, the E m ilie Sargee in the garden started to p ick flowers again w ith her usual anim ation.

A ll forty-tw o p u p ils described the phe­nom ena the sam e w ay.

T T M A Y be im agin ed th a t such a stateo f th ings cou ld n o t ex ist fo r lo n g w ith­

o u t consequences in a y o u n g girls’ school. T h e parents heard a b ou t the strange d i­vision o f the s e l f o f the French teacher and began to w ithdraw their daughters. B y the end o f e igh teen m onth s o n ly ten or tw elve pu p ils rem ained. P arents o f the girls were hearing the reports.

T h e fa cu lty o f the school w as fina lly obliged to dism iss the hapless F rench girl, despite her professional va lu e and perfect record o f con d u ct otherw ise. M adem oi­selle de G uldenstubbe, on e o f the older pupils rem aining, overheard E m ilie ex­claim in a sort o f despair—

"T h is is the n ineteen th tim e F v e been obliged to g ive u p a g o o d teach in g posi­tion in the p ast fifteen years because o f this se lf-d iv ision which / can’t help!”

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The Story of a Quest for Proofs of Survival

“WHY I BELIEVE THE DEAD ARE ALIVE!”

DO Y O U B E L IE V E IN G H O S T S ! H ave you ever had any experience with m anifestations o f disembodied intelligence? I f you are skeptical o f survival o f the human personality, w hat

evidence would you require to be submitted to you, convincin g you that human souls are more alive after shedding their bodies than they were while occupying them? A rt you optn to convictiont

E V E R since boyhood, the man who later was to project the great doctrine o f Soulckaft had encountered supernatural experiences in his life that could not be accounted for by rational explanations. W ith maturity these increased. The strangest o f coincidences happened in his affairs. W ith the opening o f W orld W ar I, he got h is first irrefu­table evidence o f survival o f a soul after death o f body, w hen h is de­ceased brother-in-law "communicated” with him after lo sin g h is life in the American armed forces. Since that episode, supernatural ev i­dence o f Survival has been constant and overwhelm ing— culm inating in 1940 with the full-grown and substantial materialization o f h is old­est daughter Harriet, attesting to her identity by her know ledge o f h is life and intimate fam ily affairs.

303 Paget of Manifest EvidenceF IN A L L Y , in 19 4a, the author put the whole uncanny story be­

tween one pair o f covers. Starting from his own skeptical begin­nings in psychical matters he traced his progress in m aking h im self fam iliar with all phases o f the supernatural, not overlooking the culti­vation o f his ow n dairaudient powers that resulted in h is recordings o f the transcendent Scripts o f Soulckaft. H e called th is frank and startling book: W hy l Believe the Dead A r t Alive I It is a book that belongs in the hands o f every student o f Soulckaft, that he m ay be thoroughly conversant w ith the m ystical happenings that brought the Soulckaft doctrine into present-day human thought. Ign ore its find­ings you cannot It shares honors w ith Flammarion’s Haunted Houses for its incontestable evidence and wealth of detail.

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T h is odd exam ple o f se lf duplication was published in 1849 by Robert D ale O w en, who had had it as a narrative first hand from the m other o f the de Guldenstubbe girl. Charles du Prel com ­mented upon it in his work, La Mart et FAudela, in 1905, but spelled the nam e Saget.

"Emilie’s astral body,” he wrote, "was seen by an entire girl’s school during the course o f her stay in that institution.”

W hatever became o f her after leaving V olm ar was never determ ined. Rumors came o f her having gone first to Russia and then to Germ any. T h e case brought considerable investigation back in the m iddle o f the 19th Century.

For som e queer reason apparently, the girl could project thought-form s o f her real se lf outside her physical pattern, and gather such an etheric coagulation around them that such thought-form became visible. T h a t it was her astral se lf, con­sidered technically, is h igh ly improbable — at least i f the astral se lf is transposed in term inology w ith the L ight B ody. H a d the L ight B ody withdrawn! from the girl’s physical body, she w ould un­doubtedly have dropped dead, for that seems to be the process that occurs a t anv normal demise.

T h e case o f Em ilie Sargee is treated at length in the Sou lcraft Script N o . 46 , on Death and Discamation. Read it and learn many things about the operation o f the Pattern B ody not generally know n to psychologists and physiologists.

W h y be ignorant?

City SlickeredA B O Y le f t the farm and g o t a job

in the city. H e wrote a letter to his brother who had elected to stick to the farm, telling o f the joys o f c ity life , in which he said:

"Thursday we autoed o u t to d ie coun­try club where we go lfed until dark. T h en we motored to the Beach and w eek­ended.”

T h e brother on the farm wrote bade—"Yesterday we buggied to tow n and

base balled all the afternoon . T h en we went to N e d ’s and pokered until m orn­ing. T od ay we m uled o u t to d ie corn­field and gee-hawed until sundow n. T h en we suppered and piped fo r a while. A fte r that we staircased up to the second floor and bedsteaded until the c lock lived.”

June 15, 1951 V A L O R P a g e 13

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as any d o g can, as He has so m uch free­dom and room th a t he d o esn ’t know w hat to d o w ith either. H e g e ts p len ty o f bones fresh o u t o f the refrigerator and cornbread baked w ith m eat scraps to season it. W e were friends from the

l g ok a y . *ler b y a isg u sted , ew pu p . W h e n I e C reek h o w lin g :r a lo n e , o cross. i i s new

to the , com es ites th e E m m a ’s

m d erfu l .11s h im d o f it . i ly a n d n e n ea r

>eek a n dpretty and a go o d w a tch d o g .”

S o she ca lled him D u d le y , eh ? T h e B oss M a n w ou ld n’t w ish i t o n a p o o ch . H o w ever , he’s g lad som eb od y can p u t i t to use. W h y is it th a t a ll p eo p le seem to have a t least one nam e th ey d is lik e ?

S p ik e a n d G a iters are l e f t in th e d a w g - run , a n d ha v e b een p ite o u s ly l e f t s in c e b a ck in th e sp r in g . S p ik e h a s h o p es o f a lo ca l S o u le ra fte r ta k in g h im t o F lo r id a b y th e first o f th e m o n th , w h ere tw o o f his b rothers h a v e resid ed s in ce M a rc h . B u t y o u k n o w h o w it is w ith a d a w g . I f h e d o esn ’t m a k e th e g ra d e th ere’s n o t m u ch h e c a n d o a b o u t it .

P a m a n d W in k ie w a n ted to ta k e B u tc h to N e w E n g la n d fo r th e ir su m m er h o li­d a y , b u t A d e la id e h a d h a d q u ite e n o u g h d a w g fo r o n e sea so n , th a n k y o u . S h e w a n ted a vacation. S o B u tc h , fo u r fe e t fr o m the B o ss M a n a t th e m o m en t, is stre tch ed o u t w ith o n e c ro o k ed fr o n t p a w crossed over th e o th er a n d m o n k e y in g w ith th e ca n in e b u zz-saw in th e sh a p e o f a g r ea tly harassed w a sp th a t’s g o t te n in a n d d o es a m a lic io u s je t-d iv e p e r io d ica lly across th e fr o n t o f B u tc h ’s p o r tcu llis . O n e o f th o se tim es h e’s g o in g to c h o p to o su c c e ss fu lly a t th a t ira te h o rn e t a n d th e B o ss M a n m a y b e req uired to sh a k e h im b y th e ta il t o g e t i t o u t .

B u t B u tc h s t i l l s t ic k s . H e ’s a lw a y s read y to sp r in g to arm s— o r m aybe i t ’s fe e t— to e sco rt th e B o ss M a n fro m stu d io to p r in tin g h o u se a b o u t tw o paces in a d -

nen

Pag? >2July 4, 1951V A L O R

The Story of a Quest for Proofs

“WHY I BELIEVE THE DEAD ARE ALIVE!”

DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? Have you ever had any experience with manifestations of disembodied intelligence? If you are skeptical of survival of the human personality, what

evidence would you require to be submitted to you, convincing you that human souls are more alive after shedding their bodies than they were while occupying them ? A r t you open to conviction f

EVER since boyhood, the man who later was to project the great doctrine of Soulcraft had encountered supernatural experiences in his Kfe that could not be accounted for by rational explanations. With maturity these increased. The strangest of coincidences happened in his affairs. With the opening of World War I, he got his first irrefu­table evidence of survival of a soul after death of body, when his de­ceased brother-in-law “communicated” with him after losing his life in the American arpied forces. Since that episode, supernatural evi­dence of Survival has been constant and overwhelming—culminating in 1940 with the full-grown and substantial materialization of his old­est daughter Harriet, attesting to her identity by her knowledge of his life and intimate family affairs.

303 Pages of Manifest EvidenceFINALLY, in 1943, the author put the whole uncanny story be­

tween one pair of covers. Starting from his own skeptical begin­nings in psychical matters he traced his progress in making himself familiar with all phases of the supernatural, not overlooking the culti­vation of his own elairaudient powers that resulted in his recordings of the transcendent Scripts of Soulcraft. H« called this frank and startling book: W h y l Believe the D ead A re A live I It is a book that belongs in the hands of every student of Soulcraft, that he may be thoroughly conversant with the mystical happenings that brought the Soulcraft doctrine into present-day human thought. Ignore its find­ings you cannot It shares honors with Flammarion’s H au n ted H ou ses for its incontestable evidence and wealth of detail.

(] WE HAVE 164 oopioe of this book in deluxe leatherette bind­ing for sale at $4 the copy, and 644 copies of the clothbound edition on white paper stock at $2.50 the copy. Address—SOULCRAFT PRESS, INC, Box 192, NobksviDe, Indiana

mn

This odd example of self duplication was published in 1849 by Robert Dale Owen, who had had it as a narrative first hand from the mother of the de Guldens tubbe girl. Charles du Prel com­mented upon it in his work, L a M o r t e t I’A u d e la , in 1905, but spelled the name Saget.

"Emilie’s astral body,” he wrote, "was seen by an entire girl’s school during the course of her stay in that institution.”

Whatever became of her after leaving Volmar was never determined. Rumors came of her having gone first to Russia and then to Germany. The case brought considerable investigation back in the middle of the 19th Century.

For some queer reason apparently, the girl could project thought-forms of her real self outside her physical pattern, and gather such an etheric coagulation around them that such thought-form became visible. That it was her astral self, con­sidered technically, is highly improbable —at least if the astral self is transposed in terminology with the Light Body. Had the Light Body withdraw]* from the girl’s physical body, she would un­doubtedly have dropped dead, for that seems to be the process that occurs at anv normal demise.

The case of Emilie Sargee is treated at length in the Soulcraft Script No. 46, on D ea th a n d D iscam ation . Read it and learn many things about the operation of the Pattern Body not generally known to psychologists and physiologists.

Why be ignorant?

City SlickeredA BOY left the farm and got a job

■* *■ in the city. He wrote a letter to his brother who had elected to stick to the farm, telling of the joys of city life, in which he said:

"Thursday we autoed out to the coun­try club where we golfed until dark. Then we motored to the Beach and week­ended.”

The brother on the farm wrote back—"Yesterday we buggied to town and

base balled all the afternoon. Then we went to Ned’s and pokered until morn­ing. Today we muled out to die corn­field and gee-hawed until sundown. Then we suppered and piped for a while. After that we staircased up to the second floor and bedsteaded until the clock fived.”

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D aw gNE HESITATES to write it in cold type, but Em­ma has by no means con­formed to all the regula­tions of propriety that Headquarters lately hoped

and expected of her. Emma, in other words, has lent herself to supra-matri- monial alliances and machinations and must again pay the penalty, presumably in August. The yellar hound is due to have her third litter in eighteen months, and your Recorder can’t seem to do any­thing about it. Isn’t there enough trou­ble in the world that a German Shep­herd canine has to go forth and solicit more of it. Probably six more of it.

Lock her up? You don’t know Emma. Her whimperings break the cardiac pumpus. She looks up at the Boss Man with eyes of seal-brown reproach and wants to know why she should be thus disciplined merely because, in her own cir­cles, she’s a neat number. The Boss Man can’t inform her. He can only charge it up to Nature—more prolific than won­derful. It’s all so unnecessary.

Here’s Headquarters with the Boss Man’s dawg population successfully re­duced from thirteen to five, and now an­other Blessed Event smacks him in the face. Goliath went the day after his publicity in V alor. T ux was sent for by a Soulcrafter in Colorado. He writes under date of yesterday—

"Well, the cats about town have got­ten their backs down to normal again (except at times when the pup Tux wants to have a little fun chasing them up a Rocky Mountain or two), as well as their tails which aren’t quite so fluffy as at first. Tux is enjoying himself as much as any dog can, as he has so much free­dom and room that he doesn't know what to do with either. He gets plenty of bones fresh out of the refrigerator and combread baked with meat scraps to season it. We were friends from the

start and everything is going along okay. Prince, my other dog, who is older by a few years, was surprised, then disgusted, later chagrined as I petted the new pup. But now he plays with Tux. When I first crossed the foot-log over the Creek with Tux, he put up a lot of howling until he managed to make it over alone. Now it’s duck soup for him to cross. Anyhow, Tux seems to like his new home . . ”

A NOTHER testimonial as to the Soulcraft quality of Dawg, comes

in from Pocatello, Idaho. Writes the dear lady who took the third of Emma’s second family—

"Must tell you about the wonderful dog you sent us. Everybody calls him Dudley, and he seems to be proud of it. And is he smart! He learns easily and fights for his rights, when cats come near his dish. He has grown and is sleek and pretty and a good watchdog.”

So she called him Dudley, eh? The Boss Man wouldn’t wish it on a pooch. However, he’s glad somebody can put it to use. Why is it that all people seem to have at least one name they dislike?

Spike and Gaiters are left in the dawg- run, and have bees piteously left anir back in the spring. Spike has hopes of a local Soulcrafter taking him to Florida by the first of the month, where two of his brothers have resided since Match. But you know how it is with a dawg. If he doesn’t make the grade there’s not much he can do about it.

Pam and Winkie wanted to take Butch to New England for their summer hob- day, but Adelaide had had quite enough dawg for one season, thank you. She wanted a vacation. So Butch, four feet from the Boss Man at the moment, is stretched out with one crooked front paw crossed over the other and monkeying with the canine buzx-saw in the shape of a greatly harassed wasp that’s gotten in and does a malicious jet-dive periodically across the front of Buoch’s portcuffis. One of those times he’s going to chop too successfully at that irate hornet and the Boss Man may be required to shake him by the tail to get it out.

But Butch still sticks. He’s always ready to spring to aims—or maybe itV feet—to escort the Boss Man from studio to prindnghouse about two paces in ad-

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TheComing oS the Elder Brother . .

^ A Series of Broadcasts

Starting Sunday night, April 2lit, die Recorder of the Soulcraft Seriftt began a »erie» of Electronic Broadcasts on the Life of the Christ. The first one was a eulogy of die Elder Brother, sitting on the hilltop across from Jerusalem and crying, "Jerusalem, Jerusa­lem, how oft would I have gathered you as a hen gathers her chicks beneath her wings, but ye would nod" It was an introductory dis­course on Christ as Soulcrafters have come to conceive of Him . . These broadcasts on die Elder Brother will continue, one every other Sabbath night, throughout the imminent spring and summer of 1951. They will present a Christ that the world knows not at present, the Christ of the Golden Scripts!

Get an Electronic Recorderand hear these matchless expositions of the Great Lawgiver, that will run for fifteen recordings. They are extraneous to the regular Sou lcroft Scripts. No other character in history is having so many lectures delivered about Him, so many treatises of His life and doc­trine offered the world in its present hectic turmoil Nineteen cen­turies after His death, He stands forth as the most resplendent character k either ancient or modem history. There must be a reason for this! And yet, can it be poesible that all is not known that exists to be known about the true speakings of Jesus?

T ht Reels Are Loaned for What You Decide They Are Worth to You, No More

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v a n ce , tu r n in g h ea d b a ck fr o m s id e to sid e to k n o w th a t a ll is b r in g in g u p w ell in th e rear.

F ritz? O h , th a t o ld m u g is s t i l l stretch ed a ro u n d som ew h ere w a it in g fo r th e L ord to c a ll h im h o m e . T h e L o r d a lm o st c a lle d h im h o m e a c o u p le n ig h ts b ack w h en E d b a ck ed h is F o rd fro m th e g a ra g e a n d F ritz d id n 't hear h im c o m in g , th e F o rd h a v in g rubb er tires o n it .

H o -h u m . D a w g s . S ix m ore o n th e w ay. C a n ’t th e y s to p o v e rd o in g a g o o d th in g a n d rea lize th e d a y m a y co m e w h en th e co u n try ru n s o u t o f S o u lc r a fte r s w h o w a n t ca n in e p r o g e n y ?

O n e d o u b ts it .H o w e v e r , th e d o g c o lo n y d o e s seem to

fu rn ish g o o d sto r ies th a t th e n a tio n 's S o u lc r a fte r s l ik e . A t lea s t th ey sa y so in their letters .

P . S . N o te le g ra m s w ill b e d esp a tch ed anyw h ere w h en th e B le sse d E v e n t occu rs. I f it co m es in th e n ig h t , th e B o ss M a n w o n ’t ev en g e t o u t o f b ed . P h o o ie to E m m a! O n e b e g in s to c o n c lu d e sh e’s m a k in g a ra ck et o u t o f it .

O r su m p in . .

Sunrise Comes InD E A D E R S o f th e first v o lu m e o f Road

into Sunrise w h o h a v e b een s ix ty d a y s w o n d e r in g w h a t h a p p en ed to S o p h ie B lick er , lea rn ed th e w o rst th is p a s t w eek w h en th e seco n d v o lu m e , c o m p le t in g th e sto ry , w as m a iled o u t to p u rchasers.

D e la y in m a k in g d e liv er ie s w a s ch iefly d u e to b in d ery w ork . T h e S o u lc r a f t b in d ­in g is d o n e in B r o o k ly n , N . Y . T h e H ea d q u a rte rs tru ck m a k es th e 75 0 -m lie trip w ith a lo a d o f n ew v o lu m e s to be b o u n d a n d b r in g s b a ck th o se fin ish ed . A tem p orary sh o rta g e o f lea th erette in th e b in d ery to co m p lete th e seco n d v o l­u m e o f Road, a lso h e ld u p a fresh d e­livery o f Thresholds to Tom orrow .. Road into Sunrise m u st b e read as a co m p lete sto ry o f i t s e lf a n d n o t a s a n y f ic tio n a l b io g ra p h y o f S o p h ie . I t 's the story o f N o r v a l’s q u est fo r th e fo u r th d iscovery m an m ak es in th is w o r ld , a fter d iscoverin g the un iverse , G o d , a n d h im ­se lf . S o p h ie is m erely in c id en ta l to it , o r rather, th e m ed iu m th ro u g h w h ich N o r v a l G ran e d eterm in es it .

M elissa , a ll to ld , is th e real hero in e o f th e story . H o w e v er , as o n e early reader rem arked , " It’s a narrative w r itten fo r w o m en th a t o n ly m en w ill un d erstan d .’’

W o m e n w o n ’t un d erstan d h o w a m an co u ld have tw o w ives a n d love b o th a lik e.

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Fund BeginsT IS one of the current ironies of the spiritual situation in America that two states of the ortho* dox South were among the first to make their

quotas in the donations to T h e Golden Scripts Ministerial Book Fund begun on June 22nd. Georgia was the first dis-

cause he had faith that the project was divinely inspired and being divinely spon­sored, therefore he couldn’t lose by it.

One man in Florida offered to make up whatever Florida lacked for its quota if a shortage appeared in that State when all pledges were in.

V alor will repo rt weekly on the grow th o f this fund .

Only a fifth of the necessary money is so far arranged for, but Headquarters has started the work, believing that Soul- crafters will see the project finished.

SoulcraftRevelation • •

Titles of First 26 Scripts:The Eight Points of Soulcraft DoctrineThe Real Sin of Adam in the Sodomic EraOur Unseen Friends; How the Departed Aid UsChrist’s Awakening to His Divine MinistryThe Process of Earth-Life in an Upward SpiralThe Expansion of Consciousness by OppositionWhy all Souls Do Not Make the Same Worldly ProgressThe Deep Sleep on Adam and Enigma of SexWhy Russia is Permitted in a World Ruled by ProvidenceMeaning of Finding One’s Life by Losing It SCounsel from Higher Realms on Experience of DyingWhere the Higher Planes of Thought are LocatedHow Souls in Barth-Life Disclose their Cosmic AgeWhy the Departed Give So Few Evidences of SurvivalThe Difference between God and Holy SpiritWhy We Are Admonished to Shun Familiar SpiritsHow the Mystics of all Ages Have Done MiraclesHow the Correct Use of Love Fed the Five ThousandHow Far Arc We Obligated to Aid the Spiritually Indolent?When Christ Returns, How Will He Assume His Leadership?Incentive: What It Is and Why We Require ItWho, or What Is Antichrist and H u It Already Arrived?What Is Sin, and How Does It Differ from Crime or Vice?The Legend of Lucifer and How the Devil H u EvolvedThe Plan of Life, from the Antediluvian Up to the DivineHow New Worlds Are Made in Cosmos through Spirit Development

INTEREST IS SPREADING RAPIDLYTHE NUMBERS of spiritually perplexed people finding consolation and inspire don in the Soulcraft Disclosures in Sacred Psychical Research is swelling to a great multitude. Week after week they are getting 24-page Scripts, averaging 8,000 words per Script, that make the above topes clear and understandable to them. The whole instruction is woven aBbut the supernal Personality of The Christ. You will discover something ab­solutely new in religious thinking u you become erudite in the contents of these Transcripts, most of them dairaudiendy received.

THEY COST you £1.00 per month for the four weekly mailings, ar £12.00 per year for the 32 numbers in the first year’s Enlightenment. Send in £1.00 for the first month’s mailings and prepare for something special in the way of spiritual revelation and instruction , .

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TheComing cS the Elder Brother. •

ft A Series of Broadcasts

Sttrdbg Sunday sight, April 21tt, the Recorder of the Soulcraft Seriftt began a (erica of Electronic Broadcast* on the L ife o f the Christ. The fine one was a eulogy of the Elder Brother, sitting on the hilltop across from Jerusalem and crying, "Jerusalem, Jerusa­lem, how oft would I have gathered you as a ben gathers her chicks beneath her wings, but ye would not!" It was an introductory dis­course on Christ as Soulcraften have come to conceive of Him . . These broadcasts on the Elder Brother will continue, one every other Sabbath night, throughout the imminent spring and summer of 1991. They will present a Christ that the world knows not at present, the Christ o f the G olden Scripts!

Get an Electronic Recorderand hear these matchless expositions of the Great Lawgiver, that will run for fifteen recordings. They are extraneous to the regular Soulcraft Scripts. No other character in history is having so many lectures delivered about Him, so many treatises of His life and doc­trine of end the world in its present hectic turmoiL Nineteen cen­turies after His death, He stands forth as the most resplendent character in either ancient or modem history. There must be a reason for this! And yet, can it be possible that all is not known that exists to be known about the true speakings of Jesus?T ht Reels Are Loaned for What You Decide

They Are Worth to You, No MoreWrite Soulcraft Headquarters for Particulars

n n a , turning head back from ride to ride to know that all is bringing up well in the rear.

Fritz? Oh, that old mug is still stretched around somewhere waiting for the Lord to call him home. The Lord almost called him home a couple nights back when Ed backed his Ford from the garage and Fritz didn’t hear him coming, the Ford having rubber tires on it.

Ho-hum. Dawgs. Six more on the way. Can’t they stop overdoing a good thing and realize the day may come when the country runs out of Soulcraften who want canine progeny?

One doubts it.However, the dog colony does seem to

furnish good stories that the nation’s Soulcraften like. At least they say so in their letters.

P. S. No telegrams will be despatched anywhere when the Blessed Event occurs. If it comes in the night, the Boss Man won’t even get out of bed. Phooie to Emma! One begins to conclude she’s making a racket out of it.

Or sum pin . .

Sunrise Comes InD EADERS of the first volume of Road

' in to Sunrise who have been sixty days wondering what happened to Sophie Biicker, learned the wont this past week when the second volume, completing the story, was mailed out to purchasers.

Delay in making deliveries was chiefly due to bindery work. The Soulcraft bind­ing is done in Brooklyn, N. Y. The Headquarters truck makes the 750-mlie trip with a load of new volumes to be bound and brings back those finished. A temporary shortage of leatherette in the bindery to complete the second vol­ume of R oad, also held up a fresh de­livery of Thresholds to Tom orrow .. . Road into Sunrise must be read as a complete story of itself and not as any fictional biography of Sophie. It’s the story of Norval’s quest for the fourth discovery man makes in this world, after discovering the universe, God, and him­self. Sophie is merely incidental to it, or rather, the medium through which Norval Grane determines it.

Melissa, all told, is the real heroine of the story. However, as one early reader remarked, "It’s a narrative written for women that only men will understand.”

Women won’t understand how a man could have two wives and love both alike.

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Fund BeginsT IS one of the current ironies of the spiritual situation in America that two states of the ortho­dox South were among the first to make their

donations to The Golden Scripts Ministerial Book Fund begun on June 22nd. Georgia was the first dis­trict to make its quota, the donation coming back within 24 hours of the an­nouncement of the project arriving in that territory by mail. Alabama’s pledge was equally timely.

In the North where cities are the basis of quota allocations, Spokane contributed $1,000, Milwaukee came next, and in the West, Long Beach, California, followed suit.

Pledges for the raising of the required quota in their dries have been received from Soul era ft groups in Seattle, Everett, and Centralia, Washington; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Cleveland, Ohio.

Something like 4,000 broadsides, giv­ing complete information on the project and its purpose will have been mailed from Noblesville Headquarters by the rime this first issue of the Weekly V alor reaches subscribers.

If you haven’t heard The Recorder’s spedal electronic reel on this project, you should arrange to do so.

The letters have been generous from writers who have declared, "I can’t swing $1,000 at this rime as an outright gift to the project, but you can put me down for $500” . . or $250, or $100.

One Soulcraft leader in northern Cal­ifornia sent a $300 check folded in the mailing box in which he returned his weekly electronic reel to Headquarters. He announced that it represented his savings, which he was contributing be­cause he had faith that the project was divinely inspired and being divinely spon­sored, therefore he couldn’t lose by it.

One man in Florida offered to make up whatever Florida lacked for its quota if a shortage appeared in that State when all pledges were in.

V alor will rep o rt weekly on the grow th o f th is fu n d .

Only a fifth of the necessary money is so far arranged for, but Headquarters has started the work, believing that Soul- crafters will see the project finished.

SoulcraftRevelation • •

Titles of First 26 Scripts:1. The Eight Points of Soulcraft Doctrine2. The Real Sin of Adam in the Sodomic Era3. Our Unseen Friends; How the Departed Aid Us4. Christ’s Awakening to His Divine Ministry3. The Process of Earth-Life in an Upward Spiral6. The Expansion of Consciousness by Opposition7. Why all Souls Do Not Make the Same Worldly Progress8. The Deep Sleep on Adam and Enigma of Sex,9. Why Russia is Permitted in a World Ruled by Providence10. Meaning of Finding One’s Life by Losing It N11. Counsel from Higher Realms on Experience of Dying12. Where the Higher Planes of Thought are Located13. How Souls in Barth-Life Disclose their Cosmic Age14. Why the Departed Give So Few Evidences of Survival15. The Difference between God and Holy Spirit16. Why We Are Admonished to Shun Familiar Spirits17. How the Mystics of all Ages Have Done Miracles18. How the Correct Use of Love Fed the Five Thousand19. How Far Arc We Obligated to Aid the Spiritually Indolent?20. When Christ Returns, How Will He Assume His Leadership!21. Incentive: What It Is and Why We Require It22. Who, or What Is Antichrist and Has It Already Arrived?23. What Is Sin, and How Does It Differ from Crime or Vice?24. T he Legend o f Lucifer and H ow the D evil H as Evolved25. The Plan of Life, from the Antediluvian Up to the Divine26. How New Worlds Are Made in Cosmos through Spirit Development

INTEREST IS SPREADING RAPIDLYTHE NUMBERS of spiritually perplexed people finding consolation and inspiration in the Soulcraft Disclosures in Sacred Psychical Research is swelling to a great multitude. Week after week they are getting 24-page Scripts, averaging 8,000 words per Script, that make the above topics clear and understandable to them. The whole instruction is woven aBbut the supernal Personality of The Christ. You will discover something ab­solutely new in religious thinking as you become erudite in the contents of these Transcripts, most of them dairaudiendy received.

THEY COST you $1.00 per month for the four weekly mailings, ar $12.00 per year for the 52 numbers in the first year’s Enlightenment Send in $1.00 for the first month’s mailings and prepare for something spedal in the way of spiritual revelation and instruction . .

Every W ednesday V A L O R July 4,1951

“ Thresholds to Tomorrow”\X 7E HAVE reprinted in condensation most * * of the futuristic material that has been

presented throughout the past winter on the electronic broadcasts under the tide of . .

“M A G IC CASEOpening on Vistas of Tomorrow's Achievements

YJT^E HAVE in the bindery, ready for early delivery, one thousand new volumes containing most of the pro­

phetic material that Soulcrafters have been hearing this past winter and spring in the electronic discourses. The printed discourses are not complete as Soulcrafters heard them an the broadcasts, but the America we are going to have to­morrow after this Communist headache is laid, is described.

I H I S M O ST recent printing from Soulcraft Press runs to 385 pages, done on India-tinted paper in the usual

burgundy covers d is n n g m d it n g all deluxe volumes in the Soulcraft library. I f you didn’t bear the M a g ic C a s e m e n t

series o f broadcasts, here is your opportunity to get the meat o f them. T his thousand copies won’t last long, so get your order on record at once. PRICE PER COPY: $5

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THE PAYOFFA MAN went into a restaurant and

*• • ordered **a sizzling platter of sole.” On his way to the cashier’s desk he hap­pened to glance at his cheek.

It tend, "1 sizzling soul, 30 cents.”

A MASSACHUSETTS teacher asked * * a class in American History, “What did the Puritans come to this country foe?"

The small girl answered correctly, “To worship in their own way and see to it rW ocher people did the same ”

P IE TRAIN came to a sudden jarr­ing halt, causing the passengers to

be shaken from their seats."What’s happened, conductor?” asked

• nervous old lady."Nothing much, ma’am. We tan

over a cow.""Was it an the track?”*TMo,” ca lied back the disgusted con­

ductor, "we chased it into the bam.”

A MAN in Chicago was grumbling about the heat. Said another, who

had just returned from a trip through the South—

“Hoc? You don’t know the meaning of heat. One day last week I saw a dog chasing a cat down in Mississippi, and both of ’em were walking.”

A GUIDE, showing an old lady through the zoo, took her to a

cage occupied by a kangeroo."Here, Madam," he said, "we have a

native of Australia ”The old lady looked startled."To think,” she exclaimed, "my young­

est sister married one of them!”

* ‘W H A T church do you belong to?” ' a certain man was asked.

"None,” he grunted.“Well, what church do you go to when

you do go?”"If you must know, the church I stay

away from most of the rime when I don’t go, is the Baptist.”

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A STEAMBOAT stopped at the -**• mouth of a tributary stream on the Mississippi and an inquisitive passenger queried the captain about the cause of the delay.

"Can’t see up the river,” was the lacon­ic reply.

"But I can see the stars overhead,” the passenger argued sharply.

"Yeah,” came back the captain, "but unless two boilers bust, we ain’t goin’ in that direction.”

A MINISTER of the gospel was con- a * ducting divine services at an asylum for the insane. His discourse interrupted by one of the inmates crying wildly, "How long do we have to listen to this tommyrot? How long?”

Surprised and confused, the parson turned to the keeper and adzed, “Do you think I should stop talking?”

"No, no,” said the guard. "Go right ahead. It won't happen again. This jezziboo only has one sane moment every seven years.”