This book is dedicated to my loving wife Christina, my two children Jaklynn and Nathan, and my brother Cody.
I have a lot of people to thank for this book. First and foremost I thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I also want to thank my wonderful family: my wife, children, and brother. Outside of the Peck home, I have many people who have been there for us and the ministry in various ways. For more reasons than I can count, Id like to thank S. Douglas Woodward, Mark Flynn, Perelandra Kilns, Derek and Sharon Gilbert, Gonz Shimura, Basil, John and Pam Haller, Doug Krieger, Jim Wilhelmsen, Cris Putnam, Dr. Michael Lake, Dr. Michael Heiser, Ray Gano, Dan Duval, Natalina, Brian Godawa, Peter Goodgame, David Lowe, Parker J. Cole, Chris White, Dr. Ken Johnson, Shoshana Reynolds, and the many, many others who have supported us, encouraged us, and kept us in prayer.
Foreword
Written by Mark A. Flynn
http://www.markaflynn.com
T he information suddenly and freely available to the public because of the Internet allowed for progress toward a greater discernment of the UFO phenomenon. Gradually the perception of UFO and encounter researchers as being eccentric or worse, delusional, has waned. Today the study of the phenomenon has become more common and UFO related terms have become a part of popular culture.
Those who describe themselves as UFO believers generally fall into two categories. The first group elucidates that the appearance of UFOs and human interaction with the beings that control them occurs because our planet is being visited by aliens from outside our solar system and has been for thousands of years.
The second group would theorize that the beings are not extra-terrestrial, but extra or intra - dimensional entities. These beings do not originate from outside our solar system but have always been near us (as far as this is understandable in the intra-dimensional sense) since the beginning of human creation. Some in this group would describe the visitors as angelic.
If true, the second category begs further questions. Who created the non-human entities that seem to exist outside of our perception and why? Are the beings restrained somehow from freely inhabiting the human realm? Are there laws that must be followed in order to communicate with us and us with them? Finally, (and this is discussed in Cherubim Chariots ) what is the physical nature of angelic beings and the realm that they inhabit?
From a Judeo-Christian worldview, the statements listed below are fundamental in continuing this discussion from the position that the UFO phenomenon is likely intra-dimensional. They establish a starting foundation, just as a description of the function of an integrated circuit would first require a basic knowledge of electricity, circuit design and Boolean logic.
1. God exists.
2. God created the universe but is not restricted to it.
3. God created angelic beings.
4. God created human beings.
While some people today would not accept these statements as axiomatic as I do, they lead us to a position where we can identify the visitors and understand that they have been interacting with men since the entities described as Watchers first came down from their realm to earth at Mount Hermon. (David Flynns Watcher Website was the first on the Internet to explore these questions and provide answers in the light of the Old Testament.)
Human, angelic/alien interaction continues today and not necessarily in the manner of man being a merely passive visitee . It appears likely that human beings can initiate contact by helping to create passageways from the angelic (or demonic) realm into ours. An example of a purposeful effort to accomplish this occurred in the late 1940s.
Described as a charismatic genius, as well as an eccentric mystic, Jack Whiteside Parsons endeavored to create a passageway or window into our world in 1946. He was a key founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The inventor of Hitlers V-2 revenge weapon and leader of the Operation Paperclip rocket development team, Wernher von Braun, referred to him as the father of modern rocketry. As a boy Parsons studied classical literature, later becoming interested in esotericism through his reading of The Golden Bough , by the Scottish anthropologist, Sir James George Frazer. Destined to become a talented chemical engineer and inventor, he was expelled from a military academy for blowing up toilets and claimed to have successfully invoked Satan to appear to him at the age of 13.
Parsons became a member of the Aleister Crowley headed, Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), in 1941 and joined the California based branch, known as The Church of Thelema. (Crowley defined Thelema as: The science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.) Crowley, also known as the Great Beast or Frater Perdurabo, admired Parsons alchemic skill and dedication to the god Pan so much that he considered him to be the most valued member in all of the order. While practicing magic rituals as the head of the church of Thelema, Parsons acquired a mansion in South Pasadena that he developed into a bohemian commune, and welcomed any exotic types to join. The commune later became known as the Parsonage.
Stepping aside a bit from all of the Parsons-Hubbard-Crowley history, I often think of Montana when considering the question of the nature of the UFO phenomenon. There is also a surreptitious link between Montana, my home town of Helena, and Jack Parsons. Malmstrom air force base near Great Falls was a hotspot of UFO activity during the 1970s while my brothers and I were growing up in the nearby town of Helena. The late Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr. practiced as an ear, nose, and throat specialist there. He and our father discussed his experience viewing artifacts from a crashed UFO as a young boy in Roswell, New Mexico, which was where we first heard of the Roswell incident from our Dad sometime in the late 70s. This occurred well before knowledge of the event became mainstream after Philip J. Corsos and Stanton T. Friedmans work. The founder of Scientology, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, also grew up in Helena. Besides creating his own religion, Hubbard, a Science fiction writer and U.S. Navy officer, moved into the Parsonage around 1945 where he and Parsons eventually became close friends. Parsons was impressed with Hubbard and thought he was the most Thelemic person he had ever met, and mentioned this to his mentor, Crowley.
Through his association with Crowley and work in the OTO, Parsons came to believe in the reality of magic (spelled magick according to Crowley) as a force that could be explained through quantum physics. He believed that he could bring about the incarnation of a Thelemite goddess that he called Babalon onto Earth by altering the constraints of normal space-time through his will via the practice of Thelema.