King, George (1919-1997)

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King, George (1919-1997)

George King, a prominent flying saucer contactee of the 1950s and founder of the Aetherius Society, was born in Shropshire, England, on January 23, 1919. He was raised in the Church of England but was attracted to the study of psychic phenomena and Spiritualism as a young man. He was able to demonstrate his own psychic abilities and also launched into the practice of yoga. As he matured, he found himself most interested in spiritual healing. Then in May of 1954 he heard a voice speak to him, "Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of the Interplanetary Parliament."

King claimed to have come into telepathic contact with an extraterrestrial entity named Master Aetherius, who in 1955 named him the primary terrestrial mental channel. Out of his regular contacts (by what is currently termed "channeling") with Masters Aetherius and the Master Jesus, he founded the Aetherius Society. He also began a magazine, Cosmic Voice. He maintained regular contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the group of evolved beings charged with guiding Earth's evolution. King came to understand that the Earth was in the midst of a cosmic war between a set of "black magicians" seeking to enslave humanity and the brotherhood who opposed them. He and the members of the society participated in this battle by channeling spiritual energy to particular purposes.

Through the next two decades, King channeled more than 600 transmissions from the masters of the Great White Brotherhood, including a 1958 book from the Master Jesus, believed to be a Venusian. The Twelve Blessings is thought of as a continuation of the Sermon on the Mount. He also began Operation Starlight, which took him around the world to 18 mountainous locations. At each site he was directed to charge the mountain with spiritual power that could then be accessed by anyone visiting the site. Operation Starlight lasted for three years.

On the heels of Operation Starlight, King concentrated on methods of involving members in the cosmic war. A student of radionics, he created several radionic devices, which are believed to be especially efficient in receiving, storing, and transmitting spiritual and cosmic energy. The use of these devices, which have been improved steadily over the years, is ongoing, but at particular times during King's life, he directed members to concentrate on particular targets. These efforts, termed missions, were designed to win a particular battle in the cosmic war. Operation Bluewater, for example, was directed to the healing of the Earth along the California coast and is seen as having prevented a major West Coast earthquake. Operation Prayer Tower, inaugurated in 1973, established a system for directing prayer energy to any place on Earth where a natural catastrophe had occurred.

In the 1980s, King accepted consecration as a bishop from Richard Earl Quinn of the Independent Liberal Catholic Church, a theosophically oriented jurisdiction, and was from that time considered the archbishop of the Aetherius churches. He also received a number of titles from various chivalric organizations. The aging archbishop led the society until his death on July 12, 1997.