At the beginning of the book „Outside the Circles of Time”, Kenneth Grant made an interesting connection between the year of 1947, as the year when Aleister Crowley died, and the beginning of mass reports of eyewitnesses of the phenomenon called UFO. A couple of years before, atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki took place, and the city of Dresden was firebombed proving the destructive force of man which is today hanging over the civilization. Grant compared that threat of nuclear holocaust to the destiny of the mythical Atlantis. Never before, that is, never before the assumed cataclysm of Atlantis, has humanity found in such general and tangible danger as in the time of nuclear threat. The fall of Atlantis, which theoretically could be said to be God’s will or Gods’ will, nevertheless, was caused by its ruling caste’s degeneracy. The threatening nuclear catastrophe is also the expression of the current elite’s degeneracy. So, we have the threat of destruction by the element of fire (on which he wrote in The Apocalypse), caused by the elite’s madness; we have visible inexplicable atmospheric phenomena; and the most important, we have a change in the imagination of the masses caused by the popular culture which reflects phantasmal shapes invoked or shaped by great artists, writers, and occultists who act as some sort of prophets or mediums. Their sensitive minds have brought pictures of alien destinations, some unknown and often frightening worlds into imagination of the masses.
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