A LETTER

1111 CAHLAN DRIVE LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89102 JANUARY 1976

TERRY SANFORD OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA 27706

BELOVED FRIEND AND CHILD IN EARTH,

WE ARE A CO-OPERATIVELY INTERDEPENDENT GROUP OF NATIVE AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE DESTINY OF OUR HOMELAND. WE HAVE ALL BEEN BROUGHT UP TO BELIEVE THAT THE AMERICAN LAND HAS A GREAT SPIRIT AND THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE A GREAT DREAM AND THAT THE SPIRIT AND DREAM OF AMERICA ARE LIVING TREASURES THAT MUST BE SHARED GENEROUSLY WITH ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE WHOLE EARTH, THROUGH THE EXPERIENCING OF LIBERTY, THE REALIZATION OF UNITY, AND THE EXPRESSION OF HUMANITY.

BUT OUR LEADERS HAVE SO FAR DEPARTED FROM THE GREAT SPIRIT OR THE AMERICAN DREAM THAT THEY NOW STAND POISED TO COMMIT THE SUPREME FOLLY OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY -- THE WILLFUL REJECTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS AS HUMANITY'S INSTRUMENT FOR FORGING THE GREAT PLANETARY UNION THAT WILL ONE DAY UNITE ALL THE PEOPLE OF ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WHOLE EARTH.

AND IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DO PERMIT THEIR LEADERS TO COMMIT THIS ULTIMATE FOLLY, THEN THE GREAT SPIRIT AND DREAM THAT WE CLAIM AS AMERICANS WILL BE GIVEN OVER TO OTHER PEOPLES, AND THE NEXT TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF OUR HISTORY WILL BE YEARS OF DESOLATION, DESTRUCTION, AND DECAY.

BELOVED FRIEND, WE ARE WRITING YOU, NOT AS PROPHETS OF DOOM, BUT AS MESSENGERS OF HOPE; FOR IN YOUR PUBLIC WORDS AND PUBLIC DEEDS WE HAVE SEEN THE SEEDS OF HOPE -- SEEDS THAT HAVE POTENTIAL FOR GERMINATING IN A REBIRTH OF THE UNIVERSAL SPIRIT OF AMERICA AS A HERALD OF LIBERTY, ARCHITECT OF UNITY, AND SERVER OF ALL HUMANITY.

WE WHO SEND THIS MESSAGE ARE SERVANTS OF THIS GREAT SPIRIT, THE VERY SPIRIT FATHER WHO BECAME FLESH TWO MILLENNIA AGO IN THE HUMAN PERSONALITY OF OUR LORD JESUS OF NAZARETH; AND WE HAVE SOLEMNLY COVENANTED WITH OUR COMMON FATHER TO MAKE OUR LIFE ENERGY AVAILABLE TO WHOSOEVER CAN BEST USE AND LEAD US IN DOING THE FATHER'S WILL ON EARTH.

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DEARLY BELOVED, WE DO NOT YET KNOW YOU IN FULLNESS, BUT WE HAVE SEEN NO OTHER CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF OUR NATION WHO HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR CREATIVE AND INSPIRED LEADERSHIP THAT YOU HAVE DEMONSTRATED THUS FAR IN YOUR PUBLIC CAREER. IF YOU TRULY SHARE OUR DREAM AND SINCERELY WORSHIP THE SAME GREAT SPIRIT WHO IS OUR LORD, THEN YOU WILL BE OUR PRESIDENT AND WE WILL DO ALL THAT IS IN OUR POWER TO LIFT YOU UP AS A LEADER AND REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE OF OUR NATIVE LAND AND WORLD.

BEFORE YOU CAN RESPOND IN GOOD FAITH TO OUR OFFER OF SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT, YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THE KIND OF NATION AND WORLD WE ARE WORKING TOWARDS; AND FOR THIS PURPOSE WE ARE HEREIN SHARING WITH YOU A FEW WORDS OF OUR PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL COMMENTARY.

TWO CENTURIES AGO, A SMALL BAND OF GOD-KNOWING VISIONARIES LAUNCHED A GREAT EXPERIMENT, AND EXPERIMENT TO DETERMINE WHETHER MEN AND WOMEN FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE AND FROM ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE WHOLE EARTH COULD LIVE TOGETHER IN PEACE AND UNITY, GOVERNING THEMSELVES ACCORDING TO A NEW AND LIVING LAW OF LIBERTY, JUSTICE, AND EQUALITY. AND JUST ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO OUR FOREFATHERS OFFERED UP THE BLOOD SACRIFICE OF A BITTER CIVIL WAR IN ORDER THAT THE CURSE OF HUMAN SLAVERY MIGHT BE FOREVER BANISHED FROM THIS BROAD AND BOUNTIFUL LAND OF PROMISE.

NOW, WE, THE CHILDREN OF THE AMERICAN LAND, STAND AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE THIRD CENTURY OF THIS GREAT EXPERIMENT; AND, AS WE SURVEY THE STATE OF OUR NATION, WE ARE CONFRONTED BY THE DISHEARTENING SPECTACLE OF A FEARFUL AND DISUNITED PEOPLE WHO ARE AT PEACE NEITHER WITH THEMSELVES, NOR WITH THEIR LAND, NOR WITH THE OTHER PEOPLES OF EARTH. ALL ABOUT US WE OBSERVE DESPERATION, DISILLUSIONMENT, DEATH AND DECAY; AND WE FIND THAT THE LIBERTY AND JUSTICE AND EQUALITY PROMISED IN THE AMERICAN DREAM HAVE BEEN SUBVERTED AND ERODED BY FORMS OF ECONOMIC SLAVERY AND POLITICAL DESPOTISM FAR MORE VIRULENT AND INSIDIOUS THAN WHICH EVER CONFRONTED OUR ANCESTORS.

IN THE FORMER DAYS DESPOTS COULD BE IDENTIFIED BY THEIR OPULENT COURTS AND MERCILESS ARMIES, EVEN AS SLAVES WERE IDENTIFIED BY THEIR BRANDED FLESH AND FETTERED LIMBS. BUT TODAY DESPOTISM IS SHROUDED BY THE ANONYMITY OF ECONOMIC POWER; AND MOST OF THE ONCE FREE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH HAVE BECOME UNWITTING SLAVES TO THE FACELESS MASTER OF AN INHUMAN SYSTEM THAT FEEDS ON THE LIFE AND SOULS OF THIS PLANET IN THE PURSUIT OF EVIL PURPOSES THAT ARE NOT OF OR FOR OUR HUMAN WORLD.

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HOW DIFFICULT IT IS FOR US TO ACCEPT THE TRUTH OF OUR OWN CONDITION OF SERVITUDE WHEN WE ARE PROGRAMMED FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE TO BELIEVE THAT WE ARE FREE! YET THE SAD TRUTH IS THAT MOST OF US ARE INDEED SLAVES: SLAVES TO GREED, ANGER, AMBITION, COVETOUSNESS, JEALOUSY, HATRED, AND DOUBT, AND TO A MYRIAD OTHER SO-CALLED NATURAL ASPECTS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION; SLAVES TO OBSOLETE LEGAL AND MORAL CODES THAT WE HAD NO PART IN FRAMING AND HAVE NEVER BEEN ALLOWED FREELY TO CHOOSE OR REJECT FOR OURSELVES IN FULL CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE VITAL ALTERNATIVES; SLAVES TO GOVERNMENTS AND CORPORATIONS AND WORLDLY CHURCHES AND TO THE POWERFUL AND PRIVILEGED FEW THAT WE HAVE BEEN COMPELLED TO ACCEPT AS THE PILLARS OF HUMAN SOCIETY AND THE VERY FOUNDATION STONES OF THE WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE.

GENTLE-HEARTED PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL AND PEACE AND LOVE ARE SURROUNDED AND MANIPULATED BY BUCK- PASSING KNAVES WHO WILL TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR OWN CHOSEN ACTIONS, WHO SPEND MOST OF THEIR TIME -- AND FORTUNES FROM THE PUBLIC TREASURIES -- TRYING TO LAY BLAME FOR THIS SCANDAL OR THAT MALFEASANCE OR THE OTHER CRISIS ON ANYONE BUT THEMSELVES -- RATHER THAN SIMPLY ACCEPTING THE TRUTH OF THE WORLD THEY HAVE CREATED AND HENCEFORTH WORKING DILIGENTLY TO MAKE THIS WORLD BETTER FOR ALL PEOPLE.

AND THE WORLD THAT WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH, HAVE MADE IS IN TRUTH A WORLD OF SLAVES! MANY OF US HAVE TRAVELED THE WIDTH AND BREADTH OF THIS LAND -- AND OF MANY OTHER LANDS AS WELL -- WITHOUT FINDING MORE THAN A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE WHO WE CAN CALL TRULY LIBERATED AND WHOLEHEARTEDLY FREE. EVERYWHERE WE GO SEEKING GENUINE COMPASSION AND SIMPLE JUSTICE WE FIND OURSELVES FACING FREE- BORN MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE MADE THEMSELVES SLAVES TO MASTER WHO WILL NOT PERMIT THEM TO LIVE THEIR LIVES IN THE MANNER THEY KNOW IN THEIR OWN HEARTS TO BE RIGHTEOUS AND JUST.

EVERY GENERATION OF THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY MUST CONFRONT THE EVIL OF HUMAN BONDAGE AS IT EXISTS AND MANIFESTS IN THEIR OWN TIME AND IN THEIR OWN EXPERIENCE. THE REALITY OF HUMAN SLAVERY IN OUR OWN TIME IS NEITHER AN ACCIDENT OF HISTORY NOR AN UNDIRECTED PERVERSION OF HUMAN; RATHER IT IS THE DETERMINED OUTWORKING OF A PERSONAL SPIRITUAL ADVERSARY, THE SPIRIT OF ANTI-LIFE, THE RAVAGING BEAST THAT ALL PROPHESY REVEALS AS COMING INTO THE WORLD TO RAGE AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PLANETARY PEACE AND EVERLASTING PROSPERITY.

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THE PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAN LAND, AND INDEED THE PEOPLES OF ALL THE LANDS OF THE EARTH, HAVE NO HUMAN ENEMIES -- EITHER FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC -- SAVE FOR THEIR BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO HAVE PERMITTED THEMSELVES TO BECOME SLAVES OF THE BEAST, WHO HAVE FORSAKEN THE PATH OF BROTHERLY LOVE AND UNIVERSAL FELLOWSHIP FOR THE TRANSIENT REWARDS PROFFERED THEM BY THE SPIRIT OF THE BEAST. WHEN THE SPIRIT OF THE BEAST REIGNS IN THE HEART OF A MAN OR WOMAN, THAT PERSON BECOMES A BEAST. AND WHEN THE SPIRIT OF THE BEAST REIGNS IN THE HEART OF A NATION, THAT NATION BECOMES A BEAST. AND UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE GREAT SPIRIT OF LOVE HAS FULLY DEFEATED THE SPIRIT OF THE BEAST -- UNTIL LOVE REIGNS SUPREME IN THE HEARTS OF ALL PEOPLES AND NATIONS -- THESE RAMPAGING BEASTS, BOTH HUMAN ANIMALS AND BEASTLY NATIONS, MUST BE UTTERLY ISOLATED FROM PEACEFUL SOCIETY AND FROM ACCESS TO THE REIGNS AND INSTRUMENTS OF WORLDLY POWER.

WHEN THE EVILS OF HUMAN BONDAGE ONCE BEFORE CONFRONTED THE CONSCIENCE OF AMERICA, A COURAGEOUS WRITER, WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, BEGAN PUBLISHING A NEWSPAPER CALLED THE LIBERATOR; AND IN THE FIRST ISSUE OF THIS CRUSADING PAPER, IN 1831, HE WROTE:

'I AM AWARE THAT MANY OBJECT TO THE SEVERITY OF MY LANGUAGE; BUT IS THERE NOT CAUSE FOR SEVERITY? I WILL BE AS HARSH AS TRUTH, AND AS UNCOMPROMISING AS JUSTICE. ON THIS SUBJECT, I DO NOT WISH TO THINK, OR SPEAK, OR WRITE, WITH MODERATION. NO! NO! TELL A MAN WHOSE HOUSE IS ON FIRE TO GIVE A MODERATE ALARM; TELL HIM TO MODERATELY RESCUE HIS WIFE FROM THE HANDS OF THE RAVISHER; TELL THE MOTHER TO GRADUALLY EXTRICATE HER BABE FROM THE FIRE INTO WHICH IT HAS FALLEN -- BUT URGE ME NOT TO USE MODERATION IN A CAUSE LIKE THE PRESENT! I AM IN EARNEST -- I WILL NOT EQUIVOCATE -- I WILL NOT EXCUSE -- I WILL NOT RETREAT A SINGLE INCH -- AND I WILL BE HEARD!'

FOR THOSE OF US WHO NEED TO BE REMINDED WHAT AMERICA ONCE REPRESENTED TO THE WHOLE WORLD, WE WOULD LIKE TO REVIVE A FEW OF THE NOBLE WORDS OF TOM PAINE, THE SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHER OF THE AMERICAN AND FRENCH REVOLUTIONS:

'MY LANGUAGE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT OF LIBERTY AND HUMANITY, AND I KNOW THAT NOTHING SO EXALTS A NATION AS THE UNION OF THESE TWO PRINCIPLES.

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... WHEN IT SHALL BE SAID IN ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD: MY POOR ARE HAPPY; NEITHER IGNORANCE NOR DISTRESS IS TO BE FOUND AMONG THEM; MY JAILS ARE EMPTY OF PRISONERS, MY STREETS OF BEGGARS; THE AGED ARE NOT IN WANT, THE TAXES ARE NOT OPPRESSIVE; THE RATIONAL WORLD IS MY FRIEND, BECAUSE I AM THE FRIEND OF ITS HAPPINESS: WHEN THESE THINGS CAN BE SAID, THEN MAY THAT COUNTRY BOAST OF ITS CONSTITUTION AND ITS GOVERNMENT.'

THIS IS THE KIND OF CONSTITUTION AND THE KIND OF GOVERNMENT THAT WE OF THE FAMILY MELCHIZEDEK SEED TO RE-VIVE, RE-FORM, AND RE-CREATE IN THIS AMERICAN LAND -- AND THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH! WE HAVE A DREAM, AND THE SPIRIT OF THIS DREAM, THE GREAT SPIRIT OF UNIVERSAL UNITY, IS THE GOD OF ALL OUR FATHERS AND EVEN OF ALL THE GRAND UNIVERSE OF UNIVERSES! WE BELIEVE THAT IT IS TIME FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA, AND ESPECIALLY FOR ALL THE LEADERS OF AMERICA, TO HONOR AND LOVINGLY MANIFEST THE GREAT SPIRIT OF THE MOTTO THAT APPEARS ON ALL OUR COINS AND CURRENCY: IN GOD WE TRUST!

THE ONLY KIND OF POLITICS THAT AN BE CONDUCTED WITHOUT GOD IS GODLESS POLITICS. AND THE ONLY KIND OF NATIONS THAT CAN EXIST APART FROM THE GREAT SPIRIT OF GOD ARE GODLESS NATIONS. AND WE KNOW FROM OUR OWN EXPERIENCE THAT NO GODLESS NATION IS LONG PERMITTED TO STAND IN ISOLATION FROM THE UNIVERSAL CREATION OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER.

BELOVED FRIEND, THERE IS MUCH MORE THAT WE WOULD COMMUNICATE TO YOU -- AND MUCH THAT WE WOULD DO FOR AND WITH YOU -- BUT WE MUST FIRST KNOW YOUR HEART AND WILL. OUR HEARTS AND MINDS AND HOMES NOW STAND OPEN TO YOU, AND WE WAIT PATIENTLY FOR YOUR WORD.

MAY THIS LETTER FIND YOU IN THE OMNIPRESENT LIGHT OF OUR LORD'S WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, FAITH, AND LOVE, AS WE GROW TOGETHER IN OUR ABILITY TO LOVE ONE, LOVE ALL, AND LOVE GOD!

THE MELCHIZEDEKS'

[SIGNATURES FOLLOWED BY]

SUNSHINE BURNETT MATIA MELCHIZEDEK DAY-AHN-NA MELCHIZEDEK MICHAEL VALENTINE LUKUS MELCHIZEDEK TZOKAN MELCHIZEDEK DERRON MELCHIZEDEK JEKUM MELCHIZEDEK NABON MELCHIZEDEK SATKI MELCHIZEDEK

THE PRECEEDING LETTER WAS CO-AUTHORED BY MATIA MELCHIZEDEK AND WALT BASS A.K.A. MICHALE VALENTINE AND SUBSCRIBED TO BY SEVERAL RESIDENTS OF THE CAHLAN HOUSE (LAS VEGAS, NV) AT THAT TIME. MICHALE V. WAS AN INTERESTING CHARACTER. HE GRADUATED FROM MIT WITH A DEGREE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, WORKED FOR THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT, THEN DROPPED OUT OF SOCIETY TO LIVE IN A REMOTE AND SPARTAN CAMP IN THE SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS. MICHALE V. APPRECIATED AND DISSEMINATED TEACHINGS OF THE URANTIA BOOK PRIOR TO MEETING MEMBERS OF EOOM AND SUBSEQUENTLY JOINING THE ORDER. HE MYSTERIOUSLY DIED ALLEGEDLY FROM AN OVERDOSE OF BELLADONNA WEED WHILE HIKING IN THE DESERT SURROUNDING LAKE MEAD, NEVADA; APPROXIMATELY 1-2 YEARS AFTER THE LETTER WAS POSTMARKED.