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To all of those who have spent long and unthanked hours in pursuit ofthe truth, whoever they may be.And my thanks, of course, to Elizabeth.AVON BOOKSAn Imprint ofHarperCollinsPublishers10 East 53rd StreetNew York, New York 10022-5299CONTENTSCopyright 1989, 1990 by the Dahlin Family PressPublished by arrangement with the Dahlin Family PressLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number: 89-1148ISBN: 0-380-71807-3All rights reserved, which includes the right to reproduce this book orportions thereof in any form whatsoever except as provided by theU.S. Copyright Law. For information address Avon Books.The Dahlin Family Press edition contains the following Library ofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data: Bramley, William The Godsof Eden.Includes index.1. World History2. Unidentified Flying Objects.3. Bramley, William.I. Title.D24.5.B73 "198990989-1148First Avon Books Printing: March 1993Avon Trademark Reg. U.S. Pat Off. and in Other Countries, MarcaRegistrada, Hecho en U.S.A.HarperCollins is a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.Printed in the U.S.A.WCD 10 9If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware thatthis book is stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and destroyed"to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has receivedany payment for this "stripped .19.20.21.22.23.The Search BeginsOrientationUFOs: Truth or Fiction?The Gods of EdenBrotherhood of the SnakeThe Pyramid BuildersJehovahMelchizedek's ApronGods and AryansThe Maverick ReligionsDoom ProphetsThe Jesus MinistryApocalypse of JohnThe Plagues of JustinianMohammedMessiahs and MeansFlying Gods Over AmericaThe Black DeathLuther and the RoseA New AristocracyFunny MoneyMarching SaintsWilliam and Mary Have a 209213221227

40.41.William BramleyKnights' New DawnThe "King Rats"The Count of St. GermainHere a Knight, There a Knight. . .American PhoenixThe World AfireMaster Smith and the AngelApocalypse of MarxFunny Money Goes InternationalThe Workers' ParadiseRobo-SapiensSt. Germain ReturnsUniverse of StoneModern "Ezekiels"The New EdenEscape from EdenThe Nature of a Supreme BeingTo the 554674831The Search BeginsWHEN I FIRST began researching the origins of humanwarfare, certainly the furthest thing from my mind wereUnidentified Flying Objects, better known as "UFOs."The many flying saucer magazines which once gracedthe newsstands were, in my opinion, not worthy of seriousconsideration.* I also did not feel that the UFO phenomenonwas terribly important even if it was evidence of anextraterrestrial race. Solving the down-to-earth problemsof war and human suffering seemed so much more importantthan arguing over whether or not "little green men fromMars" might occasionally be visiting Earth.I began researching this book in 1979; however, mydesire to see an end to war arose much earlier in life, atjust about the age of eight. Back then, war movies were*A recent exception is UFO magazine, which I recommend. It is presently published in Los Angeles, California by Vicki Cooper and SherieStark.1

2Wil lia m Br aml eyvery popular in my circle of friends. Our favorite gamewas playing "army." I usually commanded one squad ofkids and my friend David led the opposition. We filled ourimaginary battles with the same glamor and altruism we sawon television. We had no greater hero than the late actor VicMorrow who would gallantly lead his army squad to victoryevery week on the television series, Combat!.One Saturday afternoon I was watching a Hollywood warmovie on television. It was like any other war movie exceptthat it contained a short piece of numbing realism. For thefirst time in my life, I found myself looking at documentaryfilm footage of an actual Nazi concentration camp. Longafter the images vanished off the television screen, I washaunted by the pictures of skeleton-like bodies being throwninto large pits. Like so many other people, I had troublefathoming the souls of the Nazis who could shove humanbeings into brick ovens like loaves of bread and momentslater pulled out the charred remains. Within a minute, thosegrainy black-and-white images presented a true picture ofwar. Behind the curt salutes and stirring oratory, war is littlebut a degraded psychosis. While war movies and games cansometimes be fun, the real thing is unconscionable.For centuries, scientists and thinkers have attemptedto solve the riddle of why people go to war. Theyhave observed that nearly all of Earth's creatures fightamong themselves at one time or another, usually overfood, territory, or mating. Aggression seems to be auniversal behavior related to survival. Other factors alsocontribute to the creation of wars. The analyst must takeinto consideration such variables as human psychology,sociology, political leadership, economic conditions, andthe natural surroundings. Many thinkers, however, haveerroneously equated all human motives with motives foundin the animal kingdom. This is a mistake because intelligencebreeds complexity. As creatures rise in intelligence, thenmotivations tend to become more elaborate. It is easy tounderstand the mental stimuli in two alley cats squabblingover a scrap of food, but it would be a mistake to attributeas simple a state of mind to a terrorist planting a bomb inan airport.THE GODS OF EDEN3I began this study as the result of a single idea I hadencountered. The concept is certainly not a new one, andat first it seems narrow in scope. The idea is neverthelessquite important because it addresses a motivation which canonly be formulated by creatures of high intelligence:War can be its own valuable commodity.The simple existence of violent conflict between groups ofpeople can, in itself, be valuable to someone regardless of theissues over which people are fighting. An obvious exampleis an armaments manufacturer selling military hardware towarring nations, or a lending institution making loans togovernments during wartime. Both can achieve an economicbenefit from the mere existence of war as long as the violencedoes not directly touch them.The value of war as a commodity extends well beyondmonetary gain:War can be an effective tool for maintaining social andpolitical control over a large population.In the sixteenth century, Italy consisted of numerousindependent principalities which were often at war withone another. When a prince conquered a neighboringcity, he would sometimes breed internal conflicts amongthe vanquished citizens. This was an effective way tomaintain political control over the people because theendless squabbling prevented the vanquished people fromengaging in unified action against the conqueror. It didnot greatly matter over what issues the people bickered solong as they valiantly struggled against one another and notagainst the conquering prince.A state of war can also be used to encourage populationsto think in ways that they would not otherwise do, andto accept the formation of institutions that they wouldnormally reject The longer a nation involves itself inwars, the more entrenched those, institutions and ways ofthinking will become.Most comprehensive history books contain brief references to this type of manipulative third party activity. It isno secret, for example, that prior to the American Revolution,France had sent intelligence agents to America to stir upcolonial discontent against the British Crown. It is also no

4William Bramleysecret that the German military had aided Lenin and theBolsheviks in the Russian revolution of 1917. Throughout allof history, people and nations have benefited from, and havecontributed to, the existence of other people's conflicts.Intrigued by these concepts, I resolved to do a study todetermine just how important the third party factor hasbeen in human history. I wanted to discover what commonthreads, if any, may have existed between various thirdparty influences in history. It was my hope that this studywould offer added insights into how and by whom historyhas been made.What resulted from this modest goal was one of themost extraordinary odysseys I have ever taken. The trail ofinvestigation wove through a complex labyrinth of remarkable facts, startling theories and everything in between.As I dug ever deeper, a common thread did emerge. Tomy chagrin, it was a thread so bizarre that on at leasttwo occasions I terminated my research in disgust. As Ipondered my predicament, I realized something important:Rational minds tend to seek rational causes to explainhuman problems.As I probed deeper, however, I was compelled to face thepossibility that some human problems may be rooted in someof the most utterly bizarre realities imaginable. Because suchrealities are rarely acknowledged, let alone understood, theyare not dealt with. As a result, the problems those realitiesgenerate are rarely resolved, and so the world seems tostumble from one calamity to the next.I will admit that when I began my research I had abias about what I was expecting to find: a human profitmotive as the common thread which links various thirdparty influences in mankind's violent history. What I foundinstead was the UFO.Nothing could have been more unwelcome.2OrientationHusband to wife: Look at this, honey. It says herethat the Earth travels 595 million miles around thesun every year at a speed of 66,000 miles per hour.At the same time, the Earth is rotating around thecenter of the galaxy. The galaxy is traveling endlesslythrough space and is pulling the Earth along with it.Now how can you say we never go anywhere?HELLO, AND WELCOME. This is our planet Earth. Beforestarting our journey through history, let us take a brief lookat our little space orb from the vantage point of newcomersundergoing a brief orientation."Spaceship Earth," as some people like to call it, is arelatively small celestial body. The American space shuttlecan completely orbit the Earth in only ninety minutes. Inmodern aircraft, the crossing of once-formidable oceanshas become little more than a dull routine for many anairborne businessperson plying his or her trade betweencontinents. By merely picking up a telephone and dialing,5