Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01373)

From: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 
5th ed. Gale Group, 2001

GEORGE KING

Birth: January 23, 1919 in Shorpshire, England 
Death: July 12, 1997 
Nationality: British 
Occupation: UFO contactee, archbishop 

BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
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.

FURTHER READINGS
Sources:

Aetherius Society. http://www.aetherius.org/ April 1, 2000. 

King, George. The Nine Freedoms. Los Angeles: Aetherius Society, 
1963. 

------. The Practices of Aetherius. Hollywood, Calif.: Aetherius 
Society, 1964. 

------. The Twelve Blessings. London: Aetherius Press, 1958. 

------, and Kevin Avery. The Age of Aetherius. Hollywood, Calif.: 
Aetherius Society, 1982.