The Key

by Whitley Strieber

  You will be the aliens one day, to these others. Bear in mind that, if you do not survive, then they will never receive your help. Your welfare is essential to theirs, just as you depended, without knowing it, upon those who are here for you.

  Have you traveled to other worlds?

  I belong to many worlds.

  Are you from another planet that is like ours?

  I am human.

  What’s it like, going to another planet?

  Other worlds exist on many different levels, and contain beings of many different levels and appearances. The details from world to world can be very different. But the basic laws of reality remain the same.

  Which is why the visitors communicate with me in Masonic terms? Precisely. Three is three and seven is seven. The craft is God’s plan for freedom.

  You are endorsing Masonry?

  I am endorsing the craft in its most impeccable form. Where the craft is secret, there is danger of corruption.

  It’s become a charitable and social group in the United States. Not entirely.

  Why is it secret?

  It was the government of the world in early times. But the world fell. After humanity ceased to be surrendered to the law of God, the craft had to become secret in order to stay alive.

  How do you travel to other planets?

  You must learn to manipulate mass.

  Manipulate mass?

  The mass of bodies can be controlled by those who know the secret.

  Will we learn it?

  When it is time, all will come to you. But remember, it is you who will choose the time. You exist on many levels, the living in their levels and the dead in their levels. Man is governed from the radiant level.

  But our world is dying and falling into chaos? How can we be governed poorly from such a high level?

  Man is a child. Children govern children with the wisdom of children.

  There are aliens here?

  Using you and guiding you.

  We’re being exploited?

  You are, but also helped. You are being guided to your place as guides of another world.

  What will we do for this other world?

  You will draw it toward ecstasy just as your mentors draw you toward ecstasy. Right now, there are brilliant creatures there looking at the sky and devouring the flesh of their own children, just as you did. Unless you help them, they will not make their evolutionary leap in time, and will go extinct.

  Whose responsibility would that be?

  All are responsible for all.

  How many worlds are there like ours, like theirs?

  The planets that can sustain complex elemental bodies are not many. However, the elements of which they are made occur in various patterns, and the form of evolution depends upon the chemical makeup of the planet upon which it occurs. So there are worlds where creatures look very much like us. There are worlds where they are quite different.

  Could aliens walk among us without our noticing?

  By bending light, they can be invisible, and walk here to some extent, and also by using means to prevent you from looking at them by influencing your mind from a distance. But there are also those patterned on the same template as you, and they walk freely here. It is their job to enforce secrecy. This is the source of all the confusion about this. They appear, for example, to be part of your government, but they only use it as camouflage and as a source of power. Human institutions do not control the secrecy. It is controlled from a higher level.

  Are you on that level?

  Yes.

  Another world is in control of this one?

  Yes.

  What about all the horrors that happen here?

  Remember that man has two sides, light and dark. To see the light, you must bear the darkness.

  How do they control this world?

  By planning, and they use mind control.

  Am I under mind control?

  The opposite. The technological intervention that has occurred in your case has been done to make certain that general fields of control will not affect you.

  General fields of control?

  Directional suggestion that is applied to all who are enhanced electrically. This is the means of control of military and government.

  Telepathy?

  Radio frequencies. Extremely sensitive circuits can pick up and decode thought. Microwaves can be used to project thought into the brain. But the fields of which I speak are much more general. They create tendencies. The desire is to preserve the maximum amount of freedom in the maximum number of individuals.

  Have any people from earth ever gone to other worlds?

  A whole world of human beings has been evolved artificially off the planet, and they come and go freely.

  What are you talking about?

  Human beings are being born and raised off the earth. You can find their habitations if you look. They live in this solar system.

  My God. How many?

  Thousands.

  What do they do here?

  They enforce mankind’s blindness by preventing science from exploring the key mysteries of the past and discovering a practical means of expanding into the universe, and they maintain the official secrecy that keeps the question of whether or not aliens are here from being answered.

  Why do they harm us so terribly?

  The objective of resistance is to make you strong. The weight lifter puts more and more weight to himself, so that he’ll be able to lift more and more.

  If he puts too much?

  He breaks his back. He fails by overreaching himself.

  Or his trainer fails him by pressing him to do more than he is able. Then he was not meant to be a champion, and we know that is not true of mankind. Mankind is meant to ascend.

  Will we ever be strong enough?

  Surrender to God and your enemies will become your friends.

  What is being done to us? What was done to me?

  The body of man is being altered so that the barrier that presently prevents you from knowing one another’s thoughts will fall. You are being put under pressure in order to increase the speed of your evolution. An attempt is being made to induce an evolutionary leap. Only desperation will do this. There will come a time when your planet is dying and you are dying, and you will see these aliens all around you. But they will not help you, no matter how hard you beg, and you will beg, believe me. Their inaction, however, is their help. As agonizing as it is for them to see you suffer, they do it out of compassion, for without it you will not succeed in the mission of this age, which is to open the elemental body to ecstasy. Mankind, over the next two thousand years, is destined either to go extinct or ascend. The elemental body will become transparent to the radiant body, which will shine with the light of God.

  So how are we to approach God? What is the nature of this infinite being that resides in every grain of sand?

  When you say God, you think of somebody outside of yourself. You think as the age of worship thinks. Over the last age, that of Pisces, the elemental body was changed by this process of worship. It is not the same as it was two thousand years ago. Now the receptacle is larger. Now each of you can contain all of the universe. That was not true then. Now this is a species of sacred beings. But you are babies, and so still ignorant of your powers. The last age was the age of the external God. This is the age of God within.

  What about our religions? Do they offer us a path back to God? You have no religions. Religions don’t have victims. There is a new path.

  What is it?

  Religion must be brought inside you. No longer look to gods without, look to God within. Unless you bear the kingdom within you, the kingdom will perish from the earth, and if that happens, there will be long ages of darkness and suffering, at the end of which man will once again be only an intelligent animal. You will lose everything, every trace of memory, of history, science, technology, mathematics, all of it. If you do not find the kingdom, human consciousness will die. You w
ill revert to your animal nature, which is already happening all around you. People who are debased have lost their humanity. They have become brilliant animals.

  Why do our religions have victims?

  Because they demand belief, and belief is always a lie, for the essence of reality is not fact but question. There are no facts, only truths. So love of God has nothing to do with belief. Belief rejects God. Communion with God is a science, the science of self-discovery and self-knowledge. Among you, though, this is a lost science, the science of faith.

  How can we regain it? Is something like the Eucharist part of this science?

  Christ gave the Eucharist to mankind. But the Eucharistic feast was enacted from time immemorial. It began when you still lived in the forest. When the strong died, you ate their flesh to gain their strength.

  Did it work?

  Don’t joke with me. It was pitiful.

  Is there a record of the Eucharist before Christ?

  There is.

  What is it?

  I’m not interested in answering. You will find the science of ascension in the dancing of the Sufis, the meditations of the Yogi, the prayer of the Christian monastics. This science is lost as a science, but it can be regained.

  Was Christ God?

  The promise of resurrection is the essential promise of being. Rebirth is not a literal reconstitution of the elemental body. It is, rather, awakening from the sleep of being. Resurrection can take place in you right now. You are Lazarus in the tomb, all of you. And Christ is always knocking upon the door, calling you to come out. Soon, the tomb will be torn down around you, and you must come out.

  Did Christ rise?

  Most die by nature. Christ died by intention.

  What is the process of resurrection?

  The energetic body detaches from the elemental body when it can no longer sustain its attachments. Christ’s energetic body was radiant. But it left its elemental body just like yours will and everybody’s does. The work of the demon among you is to deceive you into believing that Christ was better than you. Christ said it: I am the son of man. Christ is all. All are Christ.

  What about the ancient faiths? Wicca, for example?

  Modern Wicca is not an ancient faith. It is a new faith that recognizes an ancient practice. The earth is worthy of worship, for it gave you all that you are and have. It offers an impeccable path.

  What religion doesn’t offer an impeccable path?

  Hidden in the ruins are diamonds. Remember, a diamond is forever. (Laughs.)

  But what about the rebirth of the body? This is a powerful strain in our religious traditions, that the body will rise again.

  It is a memory from the last civilization that the ignorance of the survivors has drawn into myth. The simple people were allowed to know nothing of science in that age, and so they saw its action as a miracle and thought that the dead were being made to rise. But the science of the soul is just another science. There is no supernatural, only physics. But the physics and electronics involved in communicating with intelligent energy is very subtle. Nothing, however, that you are not capable of now. The devices needed to make your beginning are already sold in stores.

  What devices do you refer to?

  Devices that detect magnetic fields and electromagnetic plasmas. You will find living energetic beings in this way. They will not be very richly alive, but they will be there. You may also detect simple energetic beings that have little intelligence. They are all around you.

  What do we do once we’ve detected them?

  Then you must be physically able to communicate. After a time, you will not need instruments to detect them, once you become attuned to their presence around you. But don’t expect them to offer you endless wisdom. Many of the dead who wait in the world have less than you do, by a very great deal. But not all. Some are exceedingly rich, and can report to you even about the true past and the logical future, and can share themselves with you in ways that you can hardly imagine now.

  What practice would make us physically able to communicate? Over the course of our discussion, everything you need to learn how to objectively communicate with these beings will be given, just as all information necessary for your science to begin to detect living energy, which is trying now to communicate with you.

  How?

  An example would be the much maligned crop circles. These are two-dimensional portraits of these beings, self-created. They are trying to introduce themselves to this age.

  The crop circles are not hoaxes?

  No.

  Why doesn’t anybody believe in them?

  To face the return of the dead is to face the change of the age. For those souls who are yet incomplete, this is terrifying, because they fear two things: first, that this portends that the time during which they can grow and develop is ending; second, that they will, if they conjoin the world of the dead, also see as the dead see, and thus become unable to change even if the earth remains able to support elemental bodies. So they pretend that it’s all false. There are many other reasons to conceal such things, but these are the strongest.

  What has this all got to do with resurrection?

  The resurrected man is a consistent theme of the mythology that developed out of observations of a certain type of being, beginning with Osiris and ending with Christ. Fully conscious beings adept in this science can enable the radiant body to appear as an elemental body, so perfectly imprinted are its sensations on their energetic being.

  Is your body, right now, radiant?

  You look for facts in a place where there is only truth. All bodies are one body.

  But I thought you said that the elemental and energetic bodies were separate, and that the energetic body could become radiant, which I take to mean self-sustaining.

  The radiant body is the part of you that is conscious in the energetic world. It is in every cell of the elemental body, and indeed, is its life. There is nothing mysterious about the soul, or even about its eternal life. Energy is eternal, so the part of you that is energy is eternal. What has been hard for you to understand is that the speed at which these electrons move carries the taste of your being and the memory of your lives. Each one carries a different fraction of the whole. There are trillions of electrons in a single elemental body, and they contain a detailed memory of every second of life. This is why, for example, when certain areas of the brain are probed, the physical buffering mechanism can be paralyzed, causing the memories stored in this way to flood into the chemical cells. The person then has stunningly detailed recall of past events, as if the moments were being lived again. Nothing of your life is forgotten, or of all your lives. When you are dead, you are your whole self, in every detail. You know yourself entirely. The things about yourself that you cannot bear and suppress now are entirely and completely present to you and to all others. The dead have no privacy, and the living have no privacy from them. The dead see everything that you do. It is part of their task to bear the errors and enjoy the triumphs of the living.

  What is real religion?

  From outside of time, man’s effort to know God appears as a single form, a work of art that has evolved across history. You have created it in three phases. The first is negative, the age of sacrifice. This is why the Old Testament God is so terrible. The moment that God tells Abraham not to kill Isaac is a record of one of the most sacred of all human moments, for it sets the stage for the next age.

  The second age is positive, the age of worship. This is why the God of the New Testament is full of compassion. Your present age is when man and God become one. You find in yourself Christ, Buddha, Allah, Krishna. In this age, the elemental body has evolved to the point that it has the potential to reflect divine ecstasy. It is happening already, in the secret lives of your own children. I am here to bring you a promise from on high: if you surrender yourselves to God, you and the earth will be saved. Otherwise, you will be extinct before the end of the age.

  You describe our historical effort
to know God as a work of art. What do you mean?

  You are weaving a tapestry of living memories. This is what the body of man is—a great weave of shimmering, living cloth. It is full of all the hopes, failures, fears and attainments of the ages. Every detail is there, every step taken by every foot upon every path, not just the acts of Buddha or Christ or the great leaders. Nothing has been forgotten, not the single drawing of a single breath. All lives are all completely present in this work of art.

  What about the gas chambers? Are they part of it?

  High deliverance has a dark foundation. There were extraordinary instances of resurrection in those terrible places. Life was lived at transformational intensity during the gassing. They transformed the evil of their deaths into the glory of God. Those who died with rage and terror in their hearts also died with courage and compassion in their hearts. God was their rabbi.