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AVON BOOKS An Imprint ofHarperCollinsPublishers 10 East 53rd Street New York, New York 10022-5299 Copyright © 1989, 1990 by the Dahlin Family Press CONTENTS Published by arrangement with the Dahlin Family Press Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 89-1148 ISBN: 0-380-71807-3 All rights reserved, which includes the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever except as provided by the 1. The Search Begins 1 U.S. Copyright Law. For information address Avon Books. 2. Orientation 5 3. UFOs: Truth or Fiction? 10 The Dahlin Family Press edition contains the following Library of 4. The Gods of Eden 36 Congress Cataloging in Publication Data: Bramley, William The Gods 5. Brotherhood of the Snake 53 of Eden. 6. The Pyramid Builders 57 Includes index. 7. Jehovah 73 1. World History 2. Unidentified Flying Objects. 8. Melchizedek's Apron 89 3. Bramley, William. I. Title. 9. Gods and Aryans 94 D24.5.B73 " 1989 909 89-1148 10. The Maverick Religions 103 11. Doom Prophets 111 First Avon Books Printing: March 1993 12. The Jesus Ministry 120 13. Apocalypse of John 135 Avon Trademark Reg. U.S. Pat Off. and in Other Countries, Marca 14. The Plagues of Justinian 144 Registrada, Hecho en U.S.A. 15. Mohammed 151 HarperCollins® is a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers Inc. 16. Messiahs and Means 168 17. Flying Gods Over America 172 Printed in the U.S.A. 18. The Black Death 179 19. Luther and the Rose 196 WCD 10 9 20. A New Aristocracy 209 21. Funny Money 213 If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that 22. Marching Saints 221 this book is stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and destroyed" 23. William and Mary Have a War 227 to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this "stripped book." v vi William Bramley 24. Knights' New Dawn 233 25. The "King Rats" 244 26. The Count of St. Germain 259 27. Here a Knight, There a Knight. 271 28. American Phoenix 275 29. The World Afire 294 30. Master Smith and the Angel 302 1 31. Apocalypse of Marx 323 32. Funny Money Goes International 328 33. The Workers' Paradise 335 34. Robo-Sapiens 351 The Search Begins 35. St. Germain Returns 364 36. Universe of Stone 375 37. Modern "Ezekiels" 393 38. The New Eden 397 39. Escape from Eden 431 40. The Nature of a Supreme Being 435 41. To the Researcher 444 Invitation 454 Notes 455 WHEN I FIRST began researching the origins of human Bibliography 467 warfare, certainly the furthest thing from my mind were Index 483 Unidentified Flying Objects, better known as "UFOs." The many flying saucer magazines which once graced the newsstands were, in my opinion, not worthy of serious consideration.* I also did not feel that the UFO phenomenon was terribly important even if it was evidence of an extraterrestrial race. Solving the down-to-earth problems of war and human suffering seemed so much more important than arguing over whether or not "little green men from Mars" might occasionally be visiting Earth. I began researching this book in 1979; however, my desire to see an end to war arose much earlier in life, at just about the age of eight. Back then, war movies were *A recent exception is UFO magazine, which I recommend. It is pres- ently published in Los Angeles, California by Vicki Cooper and Sherie Stark. 1 2 William Bramley THE GODS OF EDEN 3 very popular in my circle of friends. Our favorite game I began this study as the result of a single idea I had was playing "army." I usually commanded one squad of encountered. The concept is certainly not a new one, and kids and my friend David led the opposition. We filled our at first it seems narrow in scope. The idea is nevertheless imaginary battles with the same glamor and altruism we saw quite important because it addresses a motivation which can on television. We had no greater hero than the late actor Vic only be formulated by creatures of high intelligence: Morrow who would gallantly lead his army squad to victory War can be its own valuable commodity. every week on the television series, Combat!. The simple existence of violent conflict between groups of One Saturday afternoon I was watching a Hollywood war people can, in itself, be valuable to someone regardless of the movie on television. It was like any other war movie except issues over which people are fighting. An obvious example that it contained a short piece of numbing realism. For the is an armaments manufacturer selling military hardware to first time in my life, I found myself looking at documentary warring nations, or a lending institution making loans to film footage of an actual Nazi concentration camp. Long governments during wartime. Both can achieve an economic after the images vanished off the television screen, I was benefit from the mere existence of war as long as the violence haunted by the pictures of skeleton-like bodies being thrown does not directly touch them. into large pits. Like so many other people, I had trouble The value of war as a commodity extends well beyond fathoming the souls of the Nazis who could shove human monetary gain: beings into brick ovens like loaves of bread and moments War can be an effective tool for maintaining social and later pulled out the charred remains. Within a minute, those political control over a large population. grainy black-and-white images presented a true picture of In the sixteenth century, Italy consisted of numerous war. Behind the curt salutes and stirring oratory, war is little independent principalities which were often at war with but a degraded psychosis. While war movies and games can one another. When a prince conquered a neighboring sometimes be fun, the real thing is unconscionable. city, he would sometimes breed internal conflicts among For centuries, scientists and thinkers have attempted the vanquished citizens. This was an effective way to to solve the riddle of why people go to war. They maintain political control over the people because the have observed that nearly all of Earth's creatures fight endless squabbling prevented the vanquished people from among themselves at one time or another, usually over engaging in unified action against the conqueror. It did food, territory, or mating. Aggression seems to be a not greatly matter over what issues the people bickered so universal behavior related to survival. Other factors also long as they valiantly struggled against one another and not contribute to the creation of wars. The analyst must take against the conquering prince. into consideration such variables as human psychology, A state of war can also be used to encourage populations sociology, political leadership, economic conditions, and to think in ways that they would not otherwise do, and the natural surroundings. Many thinkers, however, have to accept the formation of institutions that they would erroneously equated all human motives with motives found normally reject The longer a nation involves itself in in the animal kingdom. This is a mistake because intelligence wars, the more entrenched those, institutions and ways of breeds complexity. As creatures rise in intelligence, then- thinking will become. motivations tend to become more elaborate. It is easy to Most comprehensive history books contain brief refer- understand the mental stimuli in two alley cats squabbling ences to this type of manipulative third party activity. It is over a scrap of food, but it would be a mistake to attribute no secret, for example, that prior to the American Revolution, as simple a state of mind to a terrorist planting a bomb in France had sent intelligence agents to America to stir up an airport. colonial discontent against the British Crown. It is also no 4 William Bramley secret that the German military had aided Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the Russian revolution of 1917. Throughout all of history, people and nations have benefited from, and have contributed to, the existence of other people's conflicts. Intrigued by these concepts, I resolved to do a study to determine just how important the third party factor has been in human history. I wanted to discover what common 2 threads, if any, may have existed between various third party influences in history. It was my hope that this study would offer added insights into how and by whom history Orientation has been made. What resulted from this modest goal was one of the most extraordinary odysseys I have ever taken. The trail of investigation wove through a complex labyrinth of remark- able facts, startling theories and everything in between. As I dug ever deeper, a common thread did emerge. To my chagrin, it was a thread so bizarre that on at least two occasions I terminated my research in disgust. As I pondered my predicament, I realized something important: Rational minds tend to seek rational causes to explain Husband to wife: Look at this, honey.