Ruth Montgomery - The World Before: Arthur Ford and the Spirit Guides Reveal Earth’s Secret Past and Future!

Copyright 1976 by Ruth Montgomery

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reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the

publisher. Published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York

Published on the same day in Canada by Longman Canada

Limited, Toronto.

I SBN: 698-10749-7

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Montgomery, Ruth Shick, 1912The world before.

1. Spirit writings. 2. Lost c ontinents. I. Title. BF1290.M67 1976 001.9 76-16789

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To my nieces and nephews

Marcia, Peter, Steven, Judy, and Jane

CONTENTS

Foreword

IIn the Beginning 3

IIMan in the Earth 13

IIILand of Lemuria

IVDescent from the Angels 33

V Airships of Antiquity 45

VIEvidence of Atlantis 55

VIILife-style on Atlantis 65

VIIIShift of the Axis 83

IXMystery of the Sargasso Sea

XA Prehistoric World-Tour 105

XIThose Biblical Angels 123

XIICycles of Rebirth 137

XIII Planetary Visits 159

XIVPrognostications 181

XVAfterthoughts

This book marks the culmination of the most ambitious project that my spirit Guides have yet undertaken.

Commencing with creation they trace the evolvement of Planet Earth from its gaseous beginnings, describe the advent of homo sapiens first in shadowy form and then in physical body, and recount his struggles with the elements, with gargantuan creatures of past ages, and with his own imperfect nature. They record man's loves, foibles, vicissitudes, and eternal reach for God, climaxing with a kaleidoscopic view of the coming decades leading into the twenty-first century and the Second Coming of Christ.

I have been extremely reluctant to undertake a project of such sweep and magnitude, and were it not that the Guides refused to take no for an answer, this book would never have been written. But their stick-to-itiveness puts my own to shame, and for the past several years, unless I had specific questions ready for them at the morning session, my spirit pen pals would invariably launch into a recital of earthly beginnings. I referred fleetingly to this fact in Companions Along the Way, commenting that as soon as the Guides finished their dictation of material for A World Beyond they "began writing about creation, the advent of man on the earth, and the hierarchy of angels."

In that instance I was able to steer them away from their favorite subject by asking about previous lives that the famous medium Arthur Ford and I have shared. But after writing finis to that joint endeavor in Companions, they promptly reverted to creation, angels, Lemuria, and Atlantis. I groaned. I protested. I kept putting their material aside, but t he Guides are incredibly persistent. They even dangled a carrot by promising to provide glimpses into the future if I would agree to write the story of a prehistoric past, "which desperately needs to be told."

Since I am only vaguely aware of the subject matter, the Guides were able to fill scores of pages with material as it came through during the automatic writing sessions each morning, material that I might otherwise have rejected. At last, reluctantly, I began sorting them into consecutive order, and soon became fired with something of their own enthusiasm as I discovered so much scientific evidence to support their startling assertions.

When the Guides would make a seemingly absurd statement about the lush tropical growth in a geographical area I know to be frigid, I would find in the Encyclopedia Britannica or other source-book that remnants of magnolia or fig trees have indeed been unearthed there under tons of ice, along with the bodies of warm-blooded animals that had been instantaneously frozen to death in some cataclysm of the remote past. When they described a landmass where there is now ocean, o r a sea in what is now dry land, I would invariably run across a geophysical report providing proof for their claims. It was almost as if the Guides were arranging for such material to fall into my hands.

For instance, my spirit penpals have been in conflict with the scientific community by placing the advent of homo sapiens on earth from five to seven million years ago. The age assigned to Peking Man, a direct ancestor of homo sapiens, was only five hundred thousand years. But just before this manuscript went to the printers, an event occurred that pushes back the curtain of man's existence on earth three to six times that of earlier estimates. Director Richard Leakey of the National Museums of Kenya and Dr. Donald Johanson of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and Curator of Physical Anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History held an electrifying press conference at the National Geographic Society to disclose the discoveries of three-million-year-old three-million-year-old human hands and a million-and-a-half-year-old human skull in the fossil-rich sediments of eastern Africa. Because the skull is a near-duplicate of Peking Man, Mr. Leakey said the latter's age would have to be re-evaluated. Dr. Johanson said three dozen hand and wrist bones found scattered about a hillside were capable of the kinds of movements made by humans today, and bore no evidence of the type of knuckle-walking that chimpanzees and gorillas employ. This would seem to dispel the scientific theory that man and ape descended from a common ancestor, and in fact supports the Guides' frequent assertion that man was a separate and individual creation who walked the earth far earlier than we had yet realized.

An equally timely event for this book occurred in California when Dr. Duane T. Gish, associate director of the San Diego-based Institute of Creation Research told a seminar that mounting scientific evidence supports creationism over Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Dr. Gish, who has worked in research laboratories of Cornell University Medical School, the University of California at Berkeley, and the pharmaceutical firm of Upjohn Company said scientific evidences are far more in line with a created universe than they are with evolution. Among his numerous examples were documented evidence of human footprints imbedded in stone underlying a Texas riverbed side-by-side with dinosaur printsproof that such behemoths did not die out thousands of years before man's advent, as previously argued by scientists. The Guides have repeatedly asserted that these giant behemoths, during their millions of years of coexistence with homo sapiens, were one of the most terrifying problems with which early man had to cope.

In this book the Guides vividly describe three cataclysms, including a shift of the earth's axis that reportedly caused a vast continent called Lemuria to sink beneath the Pacific Ocean, simultaneously causing the extinction of dinosaurs. I scoffed at the idea that an orbiting planet like earth could survive such a catastrophic event, until I learned that modern scientists say the North and South Poles have switched positions numerous times during the past billion years. The Guides agree with Edgar Cayce that another shift will occur near the close of this century, and that we may as well accustom ourselves to the idea, since there is nothing we can do to prevent it. On the brighter side, they say this awesome event will usher in an era of peace, "since man will be confronted with enough problems of reconstruction to keep his covetous mind off others' territory."

Although still hesitant about venturing into a subject on which some Orthodox feel strongly, I was somewhat reassured to know that there is a respected tradition for this type of reporting, not only in the utterances of Edgar Cayce and other prominent psychics, but also in the Bible, in ancient Oriental documents, and in writings by James Churchward, Erich von Dniken, an increasing number of modern geologists and scientists, and even that revered Athenian, Plato.