In his book 'SUBTERRANEAN WORLDS...DRAGONS, DWARFS, THE DEAD,
LOST RACES & UFOS FROM INSIDE THE EARTH' (Loompanics Unlimited,
Port Town, Washington.  1989), researcher Walter Kafton-Minkel in
his chapter 9--'THE SECRET WAR WITH THE SNAKE PEOPLE'--relates
some interesting though somewhat metaphysical accounts concerning
the ancient 'war' between an ancient race of human giants and the
serpent beings who were said to be their deadly enemies.  Kafton-
Minkel begins with the description of the beliefs of Maurice
Doreal, who believes that there are underground 'Atlantean'
cities below the western as well as the eastern seaboard, once
abandoned at the destruction of the ancient world and now re-
inhabited by more modern races.  He even goes so far as to say
that one of the 'entrances' to these subterranean cities is the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.  Interestingly
enough, New Age expositor Constance Cumbey singles out this
Cathedral as being a major focal point of the movement for a One
World Order and particularly for various One World Religious
groups such as Catholics, Masons, New Agers, Theosophists and
others.  Is this more than coincidence?  Kafton-Minkel writes:

     "...Among the many warnings AMAZING STORIES received in the
early days of the Shaver Mystery about the dangers of probing too
deeply into the secrets of the cosmos was a letter from on Dr. M.
Doreal of the Brotherhood of the White Temple in Denver.  Doreal
claimed intimate knowledge of the subterranean realms, and he
cautioned against trying to find and explore the caves of the
dero:
     "'Like Mr. Shaver, I have had personal contact with the Dero
and even visited their underground caverns.  In the outer world
they are represented by an organization known loosely as the
'Black Brotherhood,' whose purpose is the destruction of the good
principle in man....  The underground cities are, in the most
part, protected by space-warps, a science known to the ancients,
but only touched on by modern science.... I note that many are
wanting to enter these caves.  For one who has not developed a
protective screen this would be suicide and one who revealed
their location would be a murderer.
     "FROM SHASTA TO TIBET... Maurice Doreal was born Claude
Doggins of Sulfer Springs, Oklahoma in 1898 (or so I have heard).
He looked more like a feed-store owner or small-town banker than
the guru he became to his thousand or so followers.  He founded
his 'Brotherhood of the White Temple' in 1929, naming it after a
group of 'Masters' of the same name often invoked by Helena P.
Blavatsky's successor Annie Besant (the 'New Age' Theosophical
leader - Branton).  He claimed that after serving in the First
World War, he traveled to Tibet and spent eight years studying
there with the Dalai Lama.  Doreal amassed one of the world's
largest and finest occult and science-fiction libraries--over
thirty thousand volumes--but all he seemed to distill out of his
studies was a long series of repetitive and poorly-written, but
highly imaginative, booklets on occult subjects, written between
about 1940 and his death in 1963.  It is still possible at this
writing, though, to send away for 'Mysteries of Mt. Shasta,'
'Mysteries of the Gobi,' 'Polar Paradise,' and similar booklets
for a few dollars each from the Brotherhood of the White Temple
Inc. in Sedalia, Colorado.
     "In the late 1940s Doreal became convinced that an atomic
war was to strike in May 1953 and gathered his followers to build
'Shamballa Ashrama,' an 'atom-proof' city in a mountainous valley
thirty-five miles southwest of Denver.  With spiritual help,
reported the newspapers, and because the surrounding mountains
contained deposits of lead, Doreal and the other members of the
Brotherhood of the White Temple believed they would 'ride out the
atomic attack safely.'  In February 1953 the Denver POST reported
that.
     "'Doreal, who presides in heavy gold robes from his throne
over meetings of the cult and is known to his followers as 'The
Voice,' has issued orders that 'no outsiders are permitted to
enter the valley except necessary workmen.'
     "...Doreal calls the retreat 'Western Shamballa, or Shangri-
La-in-the-Rockies.'  He said in a speech last week that the
atomic refuge is now completely stocked and ready for "the end."'
     "In a 1946 interview with a reporter from the ROCKY MOUNTAIN
NEWS, Doreal said, 'I had predicted atomic war years before it
came.  I saw atomic energy at work several years ago when the
Dalai Lama of Tibet ushered me into the Great White Lodge 75
miles under the Himalayas.' (If by any chance this is true, he is
probably referring to a tunnel 75 miles LONG - Branton)
     "In his writings, Doreal claimed to have visited many of the
retreats of the Masters.  In 'Mysteries of Mt. Shasta,' Doreal
revealed that he was privileged to pay a visit 'in the flesh' to
the Atlantean--not Lemurian, he wrote, as is commonly believed--
colony inside Mount Shasta.  As he told it, while he was in Los
Angeles delivering a series of occult lectures, two of the Shasta
Masters walked up to him after one lecture and introduced
themselves.  They had been attending his talks for a week, they
said, and were impressed with Doreal's knowledge.  Would he like
to visit their home inside Shasta that evening?  Doreal demurred
at first, since he had another lecture in just a few hours, but
the Masters insisted; they could easily reach Shasta and return
in time.
     "They drove up to Topanga Canyon (a favorite locale for
paranormal activities in Los Angeles), parked the car, climbed a
hill, and the Masters took strange belts and cellophane masks
from their pockets, giving Doreal one of each.  He put on the
mask and was instructed to push certain buttons on the belt. 
When he did, all three rose into the air (into a waiting UFO, or
were they supposedly wearing some type of antigravity belt? -
Branton) and fifteen minutes or so later they landed on the side
of Shasta.  They entered a small concealed stone building which
carried them like a trolley to the top of the mountain, where
they stepped out onto a great flat rock.  The rack was a hidden
elevator, and it began descending rapidly until it reached a
point FIVE MILES WITHIN THE MOUNTAIN AND FAR BELOW SEA LEVEL. 
They left the elevator, passed through two great pillars made of
orichalcum, the shining white metal known only to the Atlanteans,
entered another elevator, and descended two more miles.  At last
Doreal found himself in an enormous cavern 'ABOUT TWENTY MILES
LONG AND FIFTEEN MILES WIDE AND IT WAS AS LIGHT AS A BRIGHT
SUMMER DAY, BECAUSE SUSPENDED, ALMOST IN THE CENTER OF THAT GREAT
CAVERN OF SPACE WAS A GIANT GLOWING MASS OF LIGHT.... They told
me later that it was condensed from a blending of the rays of the
sun and moon and that it had all of the harmful rays (no doubt
referring to the 'radiation' rays - Branton) in it extracted and
only the life-giving and beneficial energies left.' (Note: The
city of 'Telos' is said to be only one mile below the surface of
Mt. Shasta and not nearly as large as the ones Doreal describes. 
However UFOlogist Lucius Farish tells of a strange old sea hermit
he knew of who claimed to have met human-like beings while on the
peak of Mt. Shasta, beings who claimed to live in huge caverns in
the lower crust, deep below sea level, which can be entered via
openings along the edge of the so-called Pacific 'ring of fire'
region of which Mt. Shasta and the Cascade range is a part.  This
man, who went by the nickname 'Harmonious'--being the fisherman
that he was--claimed that these 'people' took him on rides to
other planets in 'clam-shell' shaped vessels.  He also learned
that like many native African, Islandic and South American tribes
these people went about naked in their underground habitat, most
likely due to the stable and warm environment which negated the
need for protective clothing - Branton)
     "This light was collected by three power houses hidden on
the mountain which purified the light and expelled the waste
matter as colored rays.  So when Larkin and Lanser (two well-
known early California astronomers who actually claimed that they
had seen pearly domed structures hidden among the foliage and
cliffs high up the slope of Shasta - Branton) saw those
mysterious lights emanating from the mountain just before
sunrise, they were seeing the Shasta Masters ridding themselves
of the harmful solar and lunar rays.
     "Doreal described the 'Atlantean' city inside Shasta as one
of beautiful homes of white marble surrounded by gardens of
flowers, vegetables, and fruits--the forebears of many had been
saved from the sinking of Atlantis (Or a similar POST-diluvian
island-continent which sank?  It is interesting that Plato was
familiar with the location and destruction of 'Atlantis'. 
Although it is usually regarded as having been antediluvian,
could parts of the island-continent have existed past the deluge?
- Branton) and existed nowhere else.  The Atlanteans knew how to
turn sand into gold, and how to make clothing by simply drawing a
picture of the garment they desired; the drawing was placed in a
'projecto-scope' which displayed the actual garment on the
screen.  When it fell to the floor, it was ready to wear."
     (Note: Obviously, many of the claims of occultists like
Maurice Doreal, Raymond Bernard, Robert Dickhoff, the Hefferlins,
et al--the latter of which are mentioned later in this chapter--
are highly influenced and embroidered by their own wishful
thinking and imagination.  It is common for people who claim to
have encountered alien realms--not discounting the possibility
that such encounters have occurred--to 'fill in' certain
unanswered areas of their stories with answers of their own
devising, and their own pet theories of supernatural beliefs
which they pass off as information gathered from the 'others'. 
Often they rely on information 'channeled' from supernatural
sources, which usually leads them deeper into confusion, self-
contradiction and ridicule and away from tangible and provable
facts.  Whether this description of the TRANSMUTER device is such
an 'elaboration' is uncertain.  Erich Von Daniken has confessed
that he has elaborated and taken some liberties--in his book 'THE
GOLD OF THE GODS' for instance--when attempting to tie-in ancient
archeological discoveries with his own pet theories that the
earth was 'seeded' by extraterrestrials when in fact others
believe that the scenario depicted in many STAR TREK episodes,
which depict the humanoid form widely spread throughout this part
of the galaxy, as being correct.  That is that ancient
Terrans--whether humanoid, android or saurian--in fact colonized
this section of the galaxy and became the modern
'extraterrestrials'.  Speaking of STAR TREK, Doreal's description
sounds similar to the 'Transmuter' depicted in the series, which
theoretically is capable of breaking down molecular matter and
restructuring it into various forms such as tools, foods, and so
on through a process similar to the breakdown and restructuring
of matter used in the theoretical 'transporter'.  In fact, the
Swiss contactee Eduard 'Billy' Meier claims that his Nordic
'Pleiadean' contacts have the ability to 'transport' a person
aboard their craft in a similar fashion as depicted in STAR TREK,
and also possess androids of a sentient nature and awareness
similar to that of 'DATA' in the STAR TREK series, although
rather then being 'individuals' these androids like 'Data' would
actually be 'extensions' of the minds and personalities of those
who created them - Branton)
     "He concluded his description of the subterranean city by
reminding his readers that one could enter Shasta only when
invited.  The seeker who was not 'ready,' but who tried to find
the city anyway, might step into a space warp and find himself
five miles away from where he wanted to be.  But the Masters knew
instantly of anyone approaching who is in the 'right state of
conscious, and... they can pass into the inner temples.'
     "The Atlanteans, like the other groups of Masters, served
the cosmic plan by protecting us from forces we were not yet
ready to use.  Near the end of his letter to Palmer, Doreal
emphasized, 'I do know that the race Mr. Shaver calls 'Dero'
exists, although I know them under another name.'  Perhaps he was
referring to a group of Lemurian priest-kings and nobles whom he
later wrote were kept prisoners in huge cities they had built
beneath what is now the Caroline Islands.  These evil Lemurians
were held underground by a special team of 353 Atlanteans--who
traveled back and forth from their Shasta headquarters by space
ship--because the Lemurians had discovered a destructive force
far worse then the atomic bomb, one that would mean the end of
the human race if it was revealed to us." (Note: A man by the
name of 'Galahadian' once wrote in to 'ESOTERIC WORLD NEWS' in
the mid-1980's and stated that the people below Mt. Shasta were
'Dero', whereas those who inhabited the so-called 'Atlantean'
caverns below the eastern coast are often referred to in the same
derogatory way by the so-called 'Lemurians' at Shasta and
elsewhere, as if there are two underground groups attempting to
label each other as being members of this degenerate
classification - Branton)
     "Doreal did believe that although the ultimate headquarters
of the Great White Brotherhood 'is on the star 'Antares' of the
Pleiades,' (Whatever the Masters taught Doreal, they neglected
astronomy.  Antares is a star in the constellation Scorpio, NOT
the Pleiades - Kafton-Minkel) there are seven subterranean
'places of retreat' for the Masters in this world.  Six of them
are located 1) in the Gobi Desert, 2) in the Atlas Mountains of
North Africa, 3) in the Northwest Territories of Canada, 4)
beneath the ruins of a Mayan city in Yucatan, 5) in the Hartz
Mountains of Germany, and 6) within Shasta.  The seventh and most
important of these retreats if Shamballa, located beneath Lhasa,
the capital of Tibet (The same name is also given by Asian
occultists to a supposed 'astral' or aerial city ABOVE the Gobi
Desert, although 'Shamballa' or 'Shambhala' is also supposed to
be the name of the capital city of the kingdom of 'Agharta' or
'Agharti' according to Nicholas Roerich and others - Branton). 
Some seventy-five miles beneath (75 mile long tunnel? - Branton)
the Himalayas, Shamballa is protected fro curious and malicious
outsiders by a space warp...
     "In the 1946 ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS interview, Doreal called
Shamballa (the) 'center of all the occult lore of this planet'
and said that in the cavern housing Shamballa, as in the cavern
that housed the Shasta colony, 'suspended, without apparent
support, above the temple is a mighty globe of radio-active
material.  Around it shimmers a mist of opalescent light allowing
only the life-saving and life-bearing rays to emanate.'  Seeing
the might of these rays was Doreal's introduction to atomic
power.
     "Doreal's Shamballa, like Blavatsky and Ballard's (Guy
Ballard that is, the former leader of the Mt. Shasta based 'I AM'
cult - Branton) underground retreats, contained a library of
'everything mankind ever did' or ever would do.  Like the spools
of golden ribbon 'St. Germain' (allegedly) showed Ballard, the
'books' in Shamballa's library consisted of spools of fine wire--
each spool 'no larger than my little finger'--and each was
supplied with a tiny motor the size of a fingernail.  By pushing
certain buttons, the wire would flow past a crystal very slowly,
and when the user looked into the crystal, pictures of the past
would appear, like a videotape in miniature.  When another button
was pushed, the sound or narration came on, and if the spool was
turned sideways, a three-dimensional image appeared in space
about ten feet away."
     Kafton-Minkel then describes one supposed series of recorded
events which the ancient crystalographic computers revealed:
     "...what is now Antarctica was the home of the Serpent
People, a vaguely humanoid race with heads 'like a great snake
and their bodies faintly scaled as [with] the scales of a
serpent.'  Since the two races (the serpent race and the human
'giants' that is, according to Doreal--although it was not
specified whether these alleged events were supposed to have
taken place in antediluvian or post-diluvian times - Branton)
were utterly different in mind as well as in form, they did not
understand each other at all.  War broke out between them.  The
Serpent People possessed hypnotic powers which allowed them to
appear human to the 'Sons of God' and their other human allies,
and they frequently passed among them as spies. 
     (Note: this term 'Sons of God' is interpreted by some
theologians as being a reference to the righteous sons of Seth as
opposed to the corrupted daughters of Cain in antediluvian times,
even though some have mistakenly referred to the 'Sons of God'
who lived on earth before the flood as being either angels or
giants.  Actually there are no indications in the Holy Bible that
angelic spirits can physically re-produce themselves, and as for
the giants the book of Genesis says they did exist before the
flood--many believing they lived on 'Lemuria', which may have
connected at the time with the Western part of North America--but
these 'Sons of God' gave BIRTH to the race of 'giants', although
it is not certain whether they were giants themselves.  Some have
supposed that the original 'Adamic' race was much taller in
stature than modern man, perhaps twicemore so, though even of
this there are few indications in the Judeo-Christian writings
whether this was so - Branton)
     "...the humans developed a trick that could identify a
serpent person immediately; the guards in the human cities and
fortifications required all those entering to pronounce the word
KININIGIN.  Doreal didn't say what Kininigin meant, but it was a
serpent person's undoing, for that word 'could only be
pronounced by human vocal cords.'
     "In a lush kingdom that is now the Gobi Desert, however,
there lives at that time a blond, blue-eyed race of humans who
had developed a super-weapon to use against the Serpent People, a
weapon so powerful they did not know its full potential.  But
they pointed it at the land of the Serpent People and set it off,
unleashing a catastrophe that almost destroyed the world.  'The
earth toppled to one side,' Doreal wrote, 'came out of balance,
began to wobble and as it did so, great volcanoes broke,
mountains were pushed up, [and] other land masses sank beneath
the waters.'  The Serpent People were wiped out.  Those at home
in Antarctica quickly froze to death, for they suddenly found
themselves at the South Pole; the few remaining in other parts of
the world were slaughtered by the more numerous remnants of the
human race. (Note: There are vague sources who tell of 'rumors'
that scientists, in an almost similar scenario as given in the
movie 'The Thing', discovered some 'Reptilian' hominoids at the
South Pole under the ice pack in a state of suspended animation,
that some of these were revived and disaster resulted, although
the accounts weren't specific.  Because of the fact that almost
no documentation of the incident at all has appeared to
mainstream UFOlogists suggests that this particular story might
be a hoax - Branton)
     "The blond, blue-eyed Gobians were the only group of humans
to survive in large numbers, and Doreal's story of their
subsequent career gives us suspicions about what the name Great
WHITE Brotherhood really meant.  He wrote that the wisest of the
Gobians journeyed first to Atlantis, where they grew great in
knowledge and power.  They letter fled the sinking of the
continent to establish the 'mystery schools' of ancient Egypt. 
They also became, he wrote, the priests of the Jews.  'To the
ancients,' he continued, the Gobians 'were known as Hebrews, not
Jews.... The Hebrews were fair-skinned, blue-eyed and red-haired.

Of such was the line of David; of such was Solomon; of such was
Moses and of such was Jesus who became the Christ.  Jesus was not
of the Jewish race.'  There will, unfortunately (Kafton-Minkel
states - Branton), be more of this sort of anti-Semitic occultism
in the chapters to come. 
     (Note: Of course there is more than one genealogy in the New
Testament linking Jesus of Nazareth with King David's Jewish
lineage, both through Mary and Joseph, indicating that the 'Son
of God' was also the legal 'Son of Man', legally descended from
Abraham.  Whether Abraham's ancestors were 'Gobians' is difficult
to say, however one must realize that in the face of the 'Grand
Deception', many actual facts from human sources inevitably lose
much of their purity when they finally reach modern man after
having passed through ancient occult societies and such--Doreal's
own organization included--who tended to bend the historical
facts in favor of their own peculiar spiritual or political
belief systems in a type of mixture between self-contradicting
historical facts and allegorical mythology, or allowed these
histories to be corrupted by psychically 'channeled' negative
paraphysical know-it-alls who had their own agenda for the human
race, which included more than a little propaganda--virulent lies
such as the claim that the serpent race genetically 'created' the
human race and therefore humanity must give up, bow down, and
worship them as gods.  One should realize that when eating
'meat', whether of the physical, intellectual or spiritual
variety, one must learn how to eat the meat and spit out the
bones.  One should not completely disregard every detail of such
accounts even when they come from occultic sources which have
been passed down and corrupted over the centuries, but instead
search for the weavings of truth which are mixed in with the
threads of error.  The truth, naturally, will NOT contradict
itself in ANY way whatsoever, and this is the KEY to discerning
fact from fiction - Branton)
     "The other white Gobians remained in their homeland until
'there came an influx of barbarous races from the Mongolian
countries,' causing them to abandon the Gobi and migrate to
Scandinavia (the so-called 'Nordics'? - Branton) where they have
remained to this day.  Doreal noted that while 'most of the other
races of the world today are admixtures of many races,' the
Scandinavians are 'one of the few remaining pure races.'
     "But he also revealed the existence of more races, of
undreamed-of colors, dwelling INSIDE the earth.  One of them was
the Blue Race, which had once lived in Atlantis, but moved
underground when that continent began sinking.  For thousands of
years, said Doreal, they have inhabited an enormous maze of
caverns honeycombing the entire planet...
     "The Blue Race, Doreal warned, are deadly serious about
their work and are not to be trifled with.  He cited the case of
Floyd Collins, the doomed spelunker who died after being trapped
for weeks in a limestone cavern in Kentucky in 1925.  A rescue
party kept Collins alive by handing food to him through a hole in
the collapsed cavern, but they were never able to free him. 
Doreal reported that Collin's first words when they reached the
spot where he was trapped were, 'I have seen the most wonderful
things that man has ever dreamed of.  I have seen something that
the world would not dream of unless they saw it themselves.' 
(These were NOT Collins's actual first words when found;
according to the most reliable sources, they were 'Help Me!' or
something very similar. - Kafton-Minkel)  The rescuers asked
Collins what he saw, Doreal continued, but he refused to tell
them until he was released.  What did Collins see?  That cavern,
said Doreal, was one of the entrances to the cave world inhabited
by the Blue Race.  The Blue folk 'had no desire to harm him, but
knowledge of their secret was inviolate.'  Collins promised not
to reveal what he had seen, but 'when he got almost to the
surface he changed his mind and when he changed his mind the rock
closed in on him.  Why?  Because that race has mastery of the
rock and of metals and of the earth.'
     
     RAINBOW CITY AND THE HEFFERLIN MANUSCRIPT...
     "The Masters took another guise in a new alternative-reality
scenario which was first revealed to the public by Ray Palmer
during the Shaver Mystery craze (Palmer was the one Shaver
himself accused of 'bending' his stories to fit Palmer's own pet
occult and historical theories - Branton).  The September 1946
issue of AMAZING STORIES contained four short articles written by
a W. C. Hefferlin.  Each described a wonderful new invention
which had come to the author, in Palmer's words, 'from Tibet by
mental telepathy.'  One of them was a 'circle-winged airplane'
which sounded like a cross between a conventional airplane, a
donut, and a dinner plate.  Another was the GHYT--for Gas
HYdraulic Turbine--motor, which Hefferlin implied was decades
ahead of the internal combustion engine without being too
specific about how it worked; he fetchingly introduced it with
the phrase 'Speed, "Speed", and more SPEED!'  Still another was a
method for burning water for fuel by releasing its hydrogen and
oxygen through electrolysis (unfortunately the electrolysis
required the burning of some other fuel; Hefferlin neglected to
mention this).  The final invention was a spiral power beam which
today sounds vaguely like a laser, but just as vaguely like a
science-fiction ray gun.  It was described as if anyone with good
mechanical sense could build it from Hefferlin's ambiguous
instructions, yet it was clear that he had never built the beam
device itself.  The article ended in a gaseous climax:  'POWER! 
Blasting material destruction!  Or, 'building blocks' for the
expansion of all mankind!... It is yours, now.  What are you
going to do with it?  Build or destroy?  God help you!'  In the
October 1946 AMAZING STORIES, Hefferlin claimed that he had
invented a wonderful method to eliminate static from the radio,
although he made some major factual errors--stating, for example,
that lightning is 'of direct current nature,' when in fact it
oscillates.
     "Palmer was suspicious of Hefferlin's claims.  he hinted
that although 'there are many people who 'say' they are
recipients of unusual information from Tibet,' they might be
unfortunates MISLED by the telaug whisperings of the dero.  But
whatever their origin, the Hefferlin's article could not inspire
much confidence in the reader who studied them carefully, and it
appears that Palmer enjoyed having readers take potshots at
Hefferlin.  One reader wrote that after reading Hefferlin's
article on static, he could only 'heartily suggest that Mr.
Hefferlin buy a good book on radio and electricity and learn a
little about the subject before he writes any more articles.... I
honestly cannot see how anyone with a high school education could
read Mr. Hefferlin's article without laughing.'
     "hefferlin had given a few specific directions for building
the circle-winged plane or the GHYT motor or the POWER! beam, but
in each of the articles he left out several essential details,
and without them the instructions were useless.  When a doctor
wrote Palmer and pointed out it would be impossible to build the
POWER! beam device with the information Hefferlin had supplied
('Never in my life have I seen or heard of such a poor set of
instructions'), Hefferlin replied in the next issue that 'full
construction information' could not be placed in the hands 'of
the GENERAL public,' and that 'we must consider the seriousness
of the International Situation.'  He also made the ambiguous
statement that the articles were 'but a brief schematic of the
entertainment field pertaining to the Rainbow City, its contents,
etc.'  What was 'the Rainbow City'?  Palmer tacked on the
titillating line that Rainbow City 'is the headquarters, a
deserted city of... (the Elder Race) under the ice of the [South]
Pole, where all the gadgets mentioned and thousands more are
perfectly preserved for thousands of years.'  Palmer also
suggested that Rainbow City be given a seat in the then-new
United Nations, but with those teasers, Rainbow City and William
C. Hefferlin disappeared from the pages of AMAZING.
     "In 1947 and 1948, however, the Borderland Sciences Research
Foundation, an alternative-reality group based in Vista,
California, began issuing bits and pieces of a document called
'The Hefferlin Manuscript,' written by W.C. and his wife Gladys
at their home in Livingston, Montana.  In her introduction to the
Manuscript, Gladys Hefferlin denied that their story had anything
to do with the Shaver Mystery.  'In our correspondence with Mr.
Raymond A. Palmer,' she began, 'we requested him to keep our
material separate from the Shaver Mystery.... Mr. Palmer ignored
our request and has deliberately distorted our statements for his
own purpose.'  Here in the Hefferlin Manuscript, she wrote, those
distortions would be corrected and the real story would be told:
     "In 1927, according to Gladys, the Hefferlins were a young,
mystically-minded couple living in San Francisco, and there they
met and became friendly with a man named Emery (The identity of
'Emery' was long a controversy in Borderland Sciences and Shaver
Mystery circles.  Many thought he was Emery Deutsch, one a well-
known radio violinist; Deutsch denied it. - Kafton-Minkel) who
shared their interest.  They soon moved and lost track of Emery
until 1935; but while in Elwood, Indiana, the Hefferlins learned
that Emery was in New York 'in radio circles.'  They wrote to him
and it wasn't long before the three of them had begun working on
a sort of psychic telephone they called 'Controlled Mental
Communication.'  Gladys Hefferlin acted as the 'mental link'--a
conscious medium--on the Elwood end, while Emery, who was a
powerful psychic, sent and received messages in New York.  'Our
communication,' Gladys wrote, 'is as fast as ordinary, open
conversation.'  She would receive Emery's messages telepathically
and speak them about to W.C. and if W.C. wanted to say anything
to Emery, he merely had to speak it AT his wife.  Emery 'hears
all that is said if one speaks loud enough.  It is not necessary
to shout--only to speak clearly.  Street noises from here go
through to him.  There is no mystery about this channel, only a
definite use of vibrational focus.'
     "Soon after the three of them had established to their
satisfaction that the telepathic messages were being accurately
received on both ends, Emery began disappearing on mysterious
errands around the United States and the rest of the world. 
Every so often he would send a psychic message to the Hefferlins
to let them know where he was, but the reasons for his travels
remained a mystery.
     "At about the beginning of the Second World War, however,
Emery revealed to them he had been 'working under orders' from a
community of 'Masters' BENEATH Tibet.  It had begun back in the
early thirties, when W.C. had been experimenting with a few ideas
that had 'come to him'--the circle-winged plane, the POWER! beam,
and so forth--on a small scale, but he had been unable to find a
backer with the capital to allow construction of full-scale
working models.  After being turned down by the U.S. Government,
W.C. had sent a complete set of his plans to Emery to show to any
potential backer he might encounter.  While on vacation in the
Far East, Emery somehow met and became friendly with 'the Grand
Lama, head of the temple in the Valley of Harmonious Peace...
which we call Shangri-La.'  Emery showed W.C.'s plans to the
Grand Lama, who was so impressed he ushered Emery into the secret
underground lodge of the mysterious Masters of Human Destiny,
'the Ancient Three...' 
     (Note: The Hefferlins no doubt learned of this through the
'telepathic' link, although some might assume that it was all
subconscious wishful thinking that the 'Grand Lama' of Tibet
would personally praise his plans.  Take note that all of this
information since their last meeting with 'Emery' supposedly came
through encephalographically focused brain-waves or telepathy. 
It goes without saying that the chances of being deceived through
such an uncertain form of 'communication', by ones own
subconscious mind or by malevolent paraphysical impostors, is
very high and the opportunities to PROVE such allegations are
almost non-existent when compared with face to face communication
and substantiation, and in fact many, many accounts allegedly
given through psychic channels from 'aliens' have later PROVEN to
be false.  Because of this one must take the following with a
grain of salt - Branton)
     "The Ancient Three...immediately ordered construction of a
fleet of 350 circle-winged planes, powered by GHYT motors burning
water for fuel, and using POWER! beams weapons (supposedly after
the blueprint provided to 'Emery' by the Hefferlins - Branton). 
Under the direction of the Three, work progressed rapidly, and
when the fleet stood ready at last, an expedition was ordered to
search the wastes of Antarctica for signs of Rainbow City... it
was critical that the city be repopulated and brought to life if
the cosmic plan was to be fulfilled.  Every was assigned to the
search, and he spent painstaking months flying over the
Antarctic, looking for clues that none but the initiated could
detect.  But on Thanksgiving of 1942, Emery sent a joyful message
to the Hefferlins.  Rainbow City had been found.
     "The Hefferlins were understandably anxious to learn more
about the Ancient Three, and little by little, in their psychic
conversations with Emery, they heard the story of the Three and
the concealed history of the human race.  Countless millions of
years ago, 'Emery' told them, humanity ruled an empire of planets
stretching over A HUNDRED GALAXIES.  (Note: Even the most liberal
theorist would suggest that an inter-GALACTIC 'empire' would not
be very feasible, because of the enormous distances involved and
the fact that the average galaxy already possesses well over 100
BILLION stars and would probably be more than enough space for
such a supposed 'empire'.  Add to this the enormous difficulty of
holding such an empire together without the individual 'galaxies'
revolting, not to mention the fact that the human race itself can
be genetically traced back to a single small group.  If the earth
was 'seeded' by an already existing human race these genetic
'lines' would most likely end at various different points around
the globe.  Is it possible that 'Emery' was still communicating? 
Or, as in the case of Richard Shaver himself--when he was shut
off from PHYSICAL contact with the 'Teros' he claimed to have
encountered--could this 'new' information have been nothing more
than paraphysical impostors stepping in with Draconian propaganda
mixed with bits and pieces of truth designed to lead people
astray in an attempt to CONFUSE the true history of human-
reptilian conflict? - Branton)
     "But at some point in their conquests, the ancient humans
encountered the race which was to become their deadly enemy, the
Snake People.  The Snake People and the ancients battled for a
thousand years, with the advantage passing first to one side,
then to the other.  But it became clear that the Snake People had
won.  They chased the human race from planet to planet (and
through the hundred or so galaxies which supposedly made up their
empire?  One might suppose that a human empire powerful enough to
travel between galaxies would be able to defend themselves from
such an enemy - Branton), scattering the remnants of the Human
Empire to a few lonely, inconsequential worlds.  One of them was
Mars, and the Red Planet was for hundreds of generations of the
ancients a hospitable home.  But as time passed the ancients
realized Mars was dying--its oxygen and water were slowly dying.
     "The Great Ruler of Mars sent a fleet of spaceships to
earth... They settled in Antarctica and built seven great cities
there, modeled after the cities on Mars; each had a distinctive
color and was called the Green City or the Blue City or the Red
City.  But the greatest of all was Rainbow City, so named because
it was constructed entirely of plastic of all colors of the
rainbow... Under their guidance (of the Ancient Three) the colony
flourished mightily.
     "It was humanity's golden age, but it was not to last
forever.  A great catastrophe, probably a surprise attack by the
Snake People, struck the earth and tipped it over on its axis. 
As in Doreal's history--but with the parties REVERSED--the people
of Antarctica quickly found their paradise icy and uninhabitable.

The survivors of the disaster abandoned the great cities to
settle in the wilds of the north, and after thousands of years of
adversity they lost their technological knowledge.  Memories of
the glorious days of the ancients became myths and legends.  But
even after all that time the great cities of the Antarctic still
existed, buried now under thousands of feet of ice. 
     (Walter Kafton-Minkel comments: "The circumstances
surrounding the discovery of Rainbow City in the Hefferlins'
story are reminiscent of H.P. Lovecraft's horror story 'AT THE
MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS' [1963].  In the tale, a scientific
expedition bored a hole into the Antarctic ice crust and
discovers a tunnel filled with the well-preserved corpses of
alien life forms.  Nearer the South Pole, the expedition
discovers a great deserted city hidden behind mountains higher
than the Himalayas and finds carvings telling the story of a race
of 'Elder Things' which settled at the Pole nearly a thousand
million years ago... When the 'great cold' came, the Old Ones
settled first in the oceans, and then traveled down to a sea in
the interior of the earth."  H.P. Lovecraft was a fantasy-fiction
writer, it might be added - Branton)
     "Rainbow City sat deserted for a million years.  it alone of
the seven cities was free of ice, for hot springs beneath the
city kept it and the surrounding valley at room temperature. 
Encircled by walls of ice ten thousand feet high, Rainbow City
has remained hidden from Antarctic explorers to this day--except
for Emery and his band.  They occupied the city and found it
consisted of six levels, one on the surface and five beneath it. 
Since the technology of the ancients was infinitely superior to
our own, the city was found with all its incredible machinery
running as well as it had when the city was built two and a half
million years ago (quite an accomplishment, although one might
wonder just where the power for such machines could have come
from during all that time, and IF humans were living on earth for
the past two and a half million years why did no subsequent
civilizations discover the ancient city in all that time?  If the
human race was descended from these supposed refugees from the
stars who the Hefferlin's claim came to earth two and a half
MILLION years ago, then there must have been times in the past
when the wandering poles would have alternatively made Antarctica
tropical and frozen and therefore accessible to human exploration
- Branton).
     "Almost everything in Rainbow City was built of plastic. 
W.C. wrote that the roads leading into the city 'are paved with
plastic.'  The clothing Emery and his colleagues found hanging in
the ancient closets 'is woven of a plastic thread softer than the
finest modern silks, lighter in weight, and... fire proof.'  All
of their jewelry was of a plastic so hard 'the surface of a
diamond is cut and powdered as if it were ordinary glass.'  W.C.
also wrote that Rainbow city is filled with gardens of 'great
shade trees and flowering plants, luxurious beyond belief, whose
individual blooms often measure three feet in diameter.'  They
are visited by enormous butterflies with wingspreads of seven or
eight feet; their bodies would 'fill a large sized turkey
platter.... They are as large as full sized eagles and are
beautiful beyond words.'  W.C. didn't mention anything about the
four- or five-foot caterpillars such butterflies imply, but
perhaps the people of Rainbow City didn't mind encountering huge,
hungry larvae in their gardens (which had somehow maintained
themselves for over 2 MILLION years - Branton) because they were
larger themselves.  Emery estimated, after looking at the clothes
and furniture the ancients left behind, that they averaged about
eight feet tall.
     "While preparing Rainbow City for resettlement by the
Ancient Three (who were supposedly still around after 2 1/2
million years! - Branton) and their specially-selected followers,
Emery and the others discovered many incredible devices abandoned
by the ancients.  Like Saint Germain's magical dishwasher,
'vibratory flames' kept the plastic clothes, carpets, and dishes
of the city eternally spotless.  Other vibrations supplied the
artificial sunlight for the underground gardens.  Ancient books
read themselves aloud when a button was pushed.
     "The ancients surpassed themselves, however, as
transportation engineers.  One of their most remarkable
inventions was the 'portal,' a closet-like room with two doors
that would warp space and deliver people or cargo to any point on
the globe when the user merely concentrated on the destination. 
According to W.C., one of Emery's comrades was Kilroy, 'a red
headed Irishman with a puckish sense of humor.'  Kilroy was
overjoyed when he learned to work the portal, and in his spare
moments he would trip from place to place all over the world,
appearing just long enough to scrawl 'Kilroy was here' on a
convenient wall.
     "The explorers also found and tested the ancients' enormous
subway system.  It was the NE PLUS ULTRA of subways, with
hundreds of thousands of miles of tunnels from the Central
Terminal beneath Rainbow City and snaking under all the
continents and oceans.  Enormous trains a hundred feet in
diameter had flown through the centers of the tubes, held in
place by vibrational power; the cruising speed of the trains was
a touch over two thousand miles an hour.  Emery's group explored
a few of the nearby tunnels, and took one of the ancient trains
on a short run beneath Antarctica, but the majority of the
worldwide tube system was sitting unexplored and empty, as it had
since the great disaster struck a million years ago.
     "There is something in W.C.'s description of the tunnels to
tickle the scalp of any science fiction lover--an incredibly old
network of huge tunnels under our feet, silent and sealed off
into thousand-mile sections behind impervious steel doors, their
entrances long buried by earthquakes and landslides.  Emery
located a few of the great sub-terminals of the system under
Asia, Africa, and the Americas using the portals, and he found
them filled with cashes of unused atomic weapons--mostly personal
'blaster types.'  The Hefferlins themselves discovered the end of
one of the subterranean branch lines near their home, 'some two
hundred feet or more up the side of a mountain' west of Sheridan,
Wyoming.  'This tunnel seems to have been twisted and sheared
off.'  Was this the work of the Snake People?  'When we have
time,' W.C. wrote, 'we shall use the portals to find the answer.'
     "...There were seven temples scattered across Asia, Africa,
and South America, all provided with special vibratory jewels, or
'thought machines;' from these temples the Ancient Three had for
several decades broadcast their wishes to the minds of the non-
Western world.  Their message was that 'each people, country,
nation must earn its independence from the European Empire
Nations.'  In the future, 'no nation will exploit another nation,
put burdensome taxes upon them, nor enslave then in any way.  And
war will be abolished.'  All races would be equal.
     "Under the guidance of the Ancient Three, ALL NATIONS would
merge into a WORLD GOVERNMENT on the model of the United
States... (Note: Do we have a contradiction here from the earlier
statement?  How can World Government protect a nation's
INDEPENDENCE?  And also, just WHERE will the center of power be
for this World Government - Branton)
     "The Three were sending squadrons of circle-winged planes
into the skies of every continent to search for more traces of
ancient cities that might be revived; when people saw the strange
craft, they mistook them for alien spaceships and called them
'flying saucers.'
     "When the Hefferlins first announced the existence of
Rainbow City, they were deluged with questions from the
alternative-reality community:  Where, exactly, WAS Rainbow City?

How can I contact the Ancient Three?  Can I go to Rainbow City
and work for the New Age?  Gladys Hefferlin cautioned her readers
that such people were doomed to disappointment (just like those
seeking tangible PROOF of their claims? - Branton)  Only certain
individuals had been chosen by the Three to go to Rainbow City--
not because they were 'worthy,' but because they were needed
there.  Rainbow City was not open to the curious.  'No one can
buy his way into Rainbow City,' she wrote; adding, 'We ourselves,
who are the North American spokesmen, cannot enter Rainbow City
at this time.  Therefore we cannot promise entry to anyone else.'
     "The Hefferlins faded into obscurity in the early 1950s, but
Rainbow City was not forgotten.  In 1960, UFO writer Michael
Barton, known to his readers as Michael X, published a small book
titled RAINBOW CITY AND THE INNER EARTH PEOPLE, a curious
mishmash of the holes-in-the-poles hollow-earth idea, the
Hefferlin Manuscript, and the Shaver Mystery.  Here we learn that
the Inner Earth people are far from a homogenous group; some are
Masters, some are dero, and some are ordinary humans.  But since
the New Age is coming, the Masters--with the help of 'Guardians,'
their friends from Venus--are slowly 'removing' the dero and
other destructive beings from the planet.  'Both the astral and
physical levels of the inner ear,' Barton wrote. 'are being
cleaned out in preparation for the coming Golden Age.' (another
title for the so-called 'New Age' of TECHNOLOGICAL salvation -
Branton)  The Masters and the Guardians used Rainbow City as
their way-station when passing in and out of the South Polar
Opening.  (As one can see, this whole account has a rather 'New
Age' slant to it, as do most 'revelations' which come through
mediumistic, occult or psychic 'channels'.  This very fact should
cause one to have caution - Branton)
     "Barton claimed to have discovered these facts in psychic
conversations with a number of astral entities through a channel
he called 'Telethot.'
     "...There was another writer who kept Rainbow City alive as
well--a man who proposed that the hidden war between planets,
between the human race and the Snake People, continues secretly
to THIS DAY... Robert Dickhoff told us that the day was not far
off when it might be necessary to choose between Mars and Venus
in an interplanetary Armageddon."
     (Note: Dickhoff supposes that the interior of Venus is
largely inhabited by Reptilians--although others claim that some
humans also live there--whereas the interior of Mars is largely
populated by the human species.  Dickhoff was the one who wrote,
in his book 'AGHARTA' (Health Research Publications., Mokelumne
Hill, Ca), that an early Asian prince learned of an even more
ancient cavern system below the Himalayas.  This might be the one
below the Potala shrine in Lhasa Tibet within which according to
other sources there are also supposed to be perfectly preserved
'caskets' containing the remains of a race of ancient human
giants.  However the caverns below central Asia were found by
this prince to be the abode of the 'serpent people' according to
Dickhoff, large lizardian hominoids which it was discovered were
trying to psychically attack and control minds on the surface
through a sinister form of black witchcraft and sorcery.  Leading
an army of warriors into the caverns, Dickhoff's Buddhist sources
told him, this Asian prince managed to drive out the reptilians
and apprehend the prehistoric underground city for themselves. 
The reptilians from that point on supposedly began using the
spelling 'Aghartha' rather than 'Agharta' in their propagandial
psychic messages delivered to their occult human pawns who were
oblivious to the fact that the so-called Ascended 'Masters'
behind such messages whom they trusted were actually reptilians. 
This was a type of signal that these reptilian sorcerers,
according to Dickhoff, used.  Presumably, the serpent race
intended to take back Agharta for themselves one day.  However,
as in Doreal's and the Hefferlin's accounts, even though some of
the information seems to support the 'Grand Scenario' as it is
laid out in the mutually corroborating COSCON files and
elsewhere, other allegations seem to be embellishments resulting
from the occult leanings of the sources, and because of the
largely paraphysical origin of many of these ideas it is very
likely that such 'revelations' are nothing more than psychic
propaganda designed to throw humanity off track from the REAL and
documentable historical truths - Branton)