Nostradamus Volume 1 of 17: And Explanations of Afterlife Experiences

By William Dudley Pelley and Sister Thedra

This series of books entitled "Nostradamus" is a publication of William Dudley Pelley’s original "Soulcraft Fellowship, Letters from Home, The Nine O’clock Sessions, Survey of Probabilities, Purposes of the Infinite, Letters from the Heavenly Home and Halls of Light Illumination" representing over 1500 legal-sized, single-spaced typewritten pages originally written in 1955 but never published in its entirety before now.

This material, thought to be unique in Pelley’s writings, was channelled by him and mailed weekly to his subscribers in five-page sets. One unknown individual in Washington State assembled these sets (minus issue #1) and bound them into the manuscripts. We at TNT Publishing obtained the manuscripts, digitized them and are publishing them herein, beginning with Letter Number 2.

While the majority of this material was received psychically from Nostradamus, other Steller historical personalities also "tuned in" to provide (absolutely awesome!) knowledge and valuable communication while Pelley was in contact with Nostradamus, Democritus, Henry Ford, Benjamin
Franklin, Thomas Edison and others...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Dec 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781716146732

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LETTER No. 2

Some of the Fundamental Steps to the Conduct of a Fellowship

Dear Soulcraft Student:

I am gravely aware that what I am now about to make of record in fifty-two weekly communications to you comprises material as vital and practicable as anything I have ever expressed under the aegis of Soulcraft. The proposal of turning the whole illumination into the design of a Fellowship is meeting with an acclaim this week that augurs well for what I have in mind. It's something more than merely selling Soulcraft as a philosophy to the mass American populace. What I aspire to do from here on out is concentrate all my efforts on 10,000 individuals who have now acquired a fairly comprehensive view of what Soulcraft is about, and work through them to reach the populace, perfecting them in the tenets of the Illumination to such a degree that they stand head and shoulders above their fellows and create an interest in the philosophy by reason of what it makes of those who give themselves over to it unreservedly. To draw a somewhat presumptuous comparison, put it if you like that whereas our Elder Brother called twelve fishermen to be receivers of His advanced and specialized wisdom, which subsequently they were supposed to pass along to society, I see the same format being embraced in this later day through the instrumentalities of ten thousand. It is, of course, the great American postal service that makes this possible.

You, like thousands of other serious-minded people, have perchance wondered how a scant dozen of mediocre Galileans, solicited to abandon their nets and follow the Great Teacher, should in a matter of some thirty months have become altered temperamentally and intellectually to show themselves the remarkable characters they subsequently displayed following the Resurrection and Ascension. My explanation has it that by and through the intimacy of their association He caused them to catch the vision of a vaster and sweeter aspect of life than was common to the times about them, as well as fetch forth latent attributes in their own characters causing them to personify the ideals He would impart to humankind up the centuries to come. These two objectives, of course, He succeeded in achieving simultaneously. It was by helping them to the vision of vaster and sweeter concepts for all society that the personal metamorphoses were worked. Suppose we never forget this analogy throughout the weeks and letters that are ahead. In respect to the possibilities in Soulcraft, I'm not essaying to propose myself as repeating on the Great Galilean's role; what I'm doing is taking a page from the technique of His methods. I know that in my own right I'm not going to be forever able to function as the Recorder and supervisor of what's been entrusted to us. I feel it incumbent on myself to pass along to a more or less selected group my highest, and widest, and deepest concepts of Soulcraft, leaving it to such successors to become the real leaven spiritually and intellectually of the days which must come. Though this selected group number as high as 10,000 for the present, I feel that I can render those fellow-members so outstandingly and notably adept in most of those matter's pertaining to the higher and finer nuances of life that they spread a desire among whomsoever they move to know as much about Soulcraft as those group-members themselves. I'm coming back again and again to this format and formula of training a crack team of 10,000 Soulcrafters, giving it all I've got, then seeing what they do with such training when I'm no longer about to furnish counsel. Proceeding upon such technique from the very start, therefore, how would I view the Wisdom in its progressing phases of personal application?

Well, first it seems that it devolves upon me to give those 10,000 new apostolic fathers (and mothers) a comprehensive working concept of the profounder esoteric universe in which they discover themselves operating than is common to average organic mankind. In other words, I've got to get them to take a different viewpoint on the material universe, and come to know it for something other than is commonly held by purblind society. This would, of course, permanently put an end to all things savoring of supernaturalism. More than that, it should equip them to gain transcendent knowledge of Nature's forces and do their reasoning in regard to the natural universe and life by formula more common to souls who've completed the mortal sojourn and discovered how much there is to Consciousness than manifests strictly through the human vehicle. Using more popular language to describe it, it means training a given set of minds to consider and treat with Life from a position behind or above it instead of upon its mortal level or inside it as robot-participant. We've got to get as near as possible to knowing the natural universe as our Elder Brother knew it and treated with it, which of course means regarding it by an entirely different set of values. So much for the broader background phases of what confronts us . .

Department Number Two of the whole instruction brings us to what I might describe as the motivating and supervising entities that actually make the wheels of the natural as well as the spiritual universe turn 'round. If anything in the world lifts us out of physical phlegmatism, it's gaining to a comprehensive knowledge of the great factors and forces that repose behind Events. The average man or woman today imagines that things just happen either in the natural world or the world of human society constituted as it is. People run berserk, due to the leadership activities of malignant characters, and work this or that destruction blindly. What the adept Soulcrafter must recognize is, that such a thing in any given instance couldn't happen. When all is known in advance, so that prophets and clairvoyants can see it by a process very like remembering forward, it postulates that such events or even the behavior of individuals must have been arranged to occur in a given way, else all would be hit-or-miss. Taking such attitude, the thing the adept student seeks to establish is the nature of the spiritual lesson being imparted to society by having that particular thing happen.

At any rate, the second big thing in which students must be instructed is the nature of the supervising overlordship that directs earthly society, so that they know in advance what the problems and complications are, which are being worked out to progressive solutions. Actually, this involves the whole problem of Deity, what it is and how it functions. This means, of course, that the Bible interpretations of Deity have to be set on the shelf for the moment, as archaic concepts that no longer check up with the latest findings of scientific psychical research. The Ten Thousand Apostles of the New Enlightenment must be courageous enough to examine Deity as the latest findings of Extra-Sensory Perception portray It. As and when they do, they discover that they have checkable proofs of Deity's nature and methods of operation. And without such knowledge they seem to be lost. Taking things on faith is one thing; taking things on a premise that gives identical results for every set of conditions accurately complied with, is quite another. When the real basis is learned, the student has a foundation of unassailable fact on which to build, and when he had thus built, nothing can shake him from it.

We have to learn the unassailable nature of Deity, I say, presumptuous though it may seem in printed lines. From it we must proceed to the third category of logical inquiry: What then is the true nature of the human unit, and its potentialities, that has to suffer all this for some indescribable purpose, and what are its potentialities of personal development? This is precisely the point where the individual psychical faculties or their development enter in. The apostles of the New Age must be prepared for a tremendous advance in Consciousness when the role of the individual is brought into prominence. And yet the dilemma is unassailable. Unless certain psychical faculties are cultivated, how is the adept going to be able to confront the predicaments he is unerringly bound to face in solving the psychical dilemmas of others?

The apostle of this new age that is coming in, must be expert in all the quandaries and contradictions that the new student is bound to confront in essaying psychical converse and its potent reactions. I realize that it devolves upon me to administer to whomsoever elects to begin this great study a complete course in the evils and profits from psychical Research. It is by no means enough to talk vaguely of Dark Forces and Mischief-makers that intrude upon the most sancrosanct of communications. The pupil must be given a specific training in what to watch out for and avoid. Even in attendance upon the most commonplace psychical seance, he must be prepared in advance for what he may be led to expect, and how to react to what does happen, so that he knows how to receive that which he witnesses. This last point is all important and can't be too emphatically stressed.

Soulcrafters must know themselves, and their potentialities and spiritual attributes in every instance of human conduct . . otherwise they are babes in the woods of global society, with no language but a cry. Can I bring out all those potentialities in a few months of lessons? It remains to be seen. There are, however, some fundamentals of mortal deployment that command prime attention.

First of all, take note that Soulcraft is the only doctrine offered the human race today that embraces the complete agenda of factors from the cradle to the grave, so to speak, covering every agency and contingency of natural life in the rational and quasi-scientific manner. There is scarcely one situation that baffles the human intellect in the earthly sojourn that does not have profound explanation somewhere in its literature or in the Golden Scripts. To line up the wisdom intelligently, however, and present it in progressive and constructive fashion, so it may be absorbed point by point is the whole purpose of this current Fellowship. To come to see the universe through new eyes, and as it really is, is the first segment of instruction. To know authoritatively of the governing powers that order the comings and goings of nations, how they function and what their immediate objectives -- as well as the vicissitudes that afflict the average individual -- is the second segment. To know what one's own destiny and karmic responsibilities are for any given life, where one really sits in the vast cosmic drama that is developing, what one is expected to do and how he is to do it, is the third segment. To keep 10,000 such inquiring persons intrigued with such higher inside wisdom while at the same time developing them to assume later responsibilities of highest tenor in the approaching body politic, is the task challenging me during the remaining months of 1955 and the first six months of 1956. With all the Soulcraft text books written that I care to write for the present, I want to give over the coming twelve months to little else than counselling and developing the capabilities of individuals who are drawn to it, as they may feel inclined to cooperate with me.

Every Wednesday or Thursday morning throughout the balance of 1955, therefore, you're going to get a three or four page closely-typed letter from me, gradually bringing the Soulcraft illuminations into one symmetrical whole. Understand, these letters are being written for the entire body of the Fellowship; if I have private things to say to you personally, I'll put them in separate communications, which I hope to be able to get to you as often as the press of work here permits. But so long as you're connected with the Fellowship, you will get some sort of letter from us weekly.

What I have in mind to do in respect to this Fellowship Project is to so slant Soulcraft that it equips you to be a mentor to others concerning it as the weeks and months run along toward the time of the Great Speaking. It may be that several letters may be received and read by you before you catch the real drift of the intelligence I'm conveying to you. I want to make it a teacher-to-special-pupil relationship. After all, the whole program doesn't begin officially until July 1st. Until then I'm getting the machinery oiled for it.

My closest felicitations to you . .

LETTER No. 3

Why Teacher-Mentors Should Regard the Earth-Scene from Altered Viewpoint

Dear Fellow Soulcrafter:

I have just finished reading the most glorious compilation of personal data that has ever fallen beneath my attention. It has been the answers to the questions asked Charter Members of the new Soulcraft Fellowship on what we call the Blue Charts. For a week now they have been coming back to us in a flood. Nothing has equaled it since I've been engaged in this work of spiritual illumination. This is where Soulcraft meshes into high! is the universal sentiment. The desire to see some sort of national organization perfected for the work is more intense than I remotely dreamed. It is a revelation to me, how deeply Soulcraft has been scoring throughout the nation, particularly the past two years. The answers to the query: I have been attracted to Soulcraft for the following reasons? have been especially revealing. It makes articulate something I have always felt intuitively, is one of the commonest. Another has been: It's what society needs most at present to restore its faith in things spiritual on a rational basis.

I could fill this third membership-letter to you with the most inspirational excerpts of the highest and finest tenor, attesting to the fact that we represent in Soulcraft the very highest spiritual echalon of minds in the nation, a fact which is bound to make itself felt in the social scene as time moves along. But underrunning all the expressions is this insistent demand: Show us how to approach the skeptical or indifferent person with these truths, so to reach the hearts who are truly hungrier for them than they realize until they get into your expositions of them. This is the very crux of the Soulcraft message, and I cannot get into it too early in this year of membership-letters to you. It not only involves the highest form of applied psychology but it likewise is an approach to our own deeper personal investigations of these sacred matters we have to examine. We need to break down the factors in which we're dealing, and understand with a deeper appreciation the nature of the soil which we would plow and seed. Mayhap this goes for ourselves as well as the man next door or at the next work-bench.

Nine out of ten Soulcrafters writing to Headquarters eventually express this thought: "The smug complacency of the average churchgoer not only irks me, but people seem to be so incredibly ignorant of the higher life processes that they're ready to believe anyone who tries to enlighten them is well-nigh psychopathic. Christ said, 'The wonders I do, ye shall do, yea even greater wonders than I do ye shall do, if ye but believe on Me.' What church-member, however, actually believes it? Christ came back from the dead and even ate with certain of the Disciples after His crucifixion, thereby proving that postmortem materialization was physically possible.

Tell the man at the next office desk to you that your Aunt Jane did the same thing at a seance Tuesday evening and he'll whisper to the boss that perchance his accounts are being handled by a party giving signs of belonging in the State mental institution. Things that don't happen commonly to everybody, so that the man in the street is as familiar with them as with the ball scores, exist in one's mind merely as hallucinations. Back in biblical times they were even harsher, giving it out that 'Joseph's son hath a devil.' So complaints go on, implying that the whole world is divided into just two classes, the ignorant and the balmy. Yet despite a constant program of it, Soulcraft does move along, publish and sell its books in ever increasing quantities, managing to locate three enthusiastic espousers out of every hundred church members or heretics approached. The trouble seems to be that such percentage is not enough. As one woman wrote recently from Illinois, Why there hasn't been a religious eruption throughout Christendom in result of the publication of the Golden Scripts, is beyond me to explain." Utterly rationalizing and making semi-scientific the basic principles of Christianity as Soulcraft does, the conviction is automatic that it ought to sweep orthodoxy like a prairie fire. Yet apparently it doesn't. Where then does the blame lie, in orthodoxy or in Soulcraft?

As a matter of fact, it doesn't lie in either. Soulcraft isn't a competitive creed, seeking to win converts to unusual doctrines from other creeds; that's an entirely erroneous way of regarding it, although so many of its converts do. Soulcraft is sacred psychical research into spiritual fundamentals, confirming that which is true, exposing that which is false. It settles nothing to adopt the attitude that so much is false about orthodox faith that the true might as well be regarded as competitive denomination. If the man in the pew is satisfied with what he's receiving religiously, why in the world plow him up? Bona fide Soulcrafters should regard themselves as a caste of philosophic scholars called into consequence to service would-be Christians who decidedly are NOT satisfied with what they are obtaining from their faith.

More than that, we have it to remember that 40 percent of the American populace, take it as it comes, has neither faith not interest in any creed. Only three to four percent, by the latest polls, are outright atheists. Something like 36 to 37 percent see nothing to religious fundamentalism worth a tuppence of interest anyhow, although in all other respects they are normal and law-abiding human beings.

I know that in my own promotional work of Soulcraft for the past twenty-five years, I've tried to sidestep the prejudices of both elements by treating them as normal human beings and regarding their religious inclinations as secondary. This, I maintain, should be followed as a policy by every voluntary representative of Soulcraft in the nation. Forget or ignore absolutely whether a man be Romanist, Protestant or Hottentot. Consider him as a mortal soul who meets up in the run of a given year with all the mysteries, ordeals, bereavements, mishaps and spiritual perplexities common to any other two-legged exhibit on the planet, and when a particularly baffling one comes along, seek to get it through his noggin that any such thing wouldn't bother you in the slightest because you've had the answers for a considerable period. Don't throw it up to him that they're especially religious answers.

Try to convey they're based on new facts found out about life as modern as nuclear fission. Has he ever heard about the experiments in Extra-Sensory Perception carried on by Dr. Rhine at Duke University? Suppose there were persons who had gone far beyond what Rhine had discovered . . A normal degree of human curiosity gets him interested in the very essence of Soulcraft before you've had. converse with him ten minutes. What you do with that curiosity, how you follow it up, depends on your cleverness as a student of human nature. But keeping Soulcraft out of the religious field as the religious field, should be one's prime charge and interest. The only reason it seems to be allied with the religious field is because ecclesiastics up history have presumed to set up a theologic monopoly on such fundamentals until the public mixes them up and considers them as one. The big success of My Seven Minutes in Eternity lay in the fact that it mentioned almost nothing about religion. It treated with whether or not human consciousness could operate apart from the mortal body, and that was a sheer challenge in supernaturalism. The person scarcely lived who shouldn't be interested in that.

Many a Soulcrafter goes after a new colleague by making him belligerent or disconcerted with a polite harangue about the nature or origin of the Golden Scripts. It offends the man in the street subconsciously to have it implied that the Elder Brother would converse in any form with any mere mortal in the current modern scene, and the irrationality of that constitutes two strikes against the expounder before he has been in the house ten minutes. Leave the Golden Scripts as literary marvel for later discussion.

Take note that Soulcraft's extraordinary book-selling program up the past few years has been premised on the collection of outstanding supernatural experiences, Why I Believe the Dead Are Alive. The very title is controversial. Some may not believe it, that the dead are alive, but what if they don't? It's their constitutional privilege. It so happens that I believe it and I submit my evidence which the reader can accept or reject and no hard feelings. He starts reading and can't control his reactions. Something on page seventy-one, the third paragraph down, incites his yen to know