The World Before: Arthur Ford and the Spirit Guides Reveal Earth’s Secret Past and Future!

176 Pages·1995·0.88 MB·English

by  Ruth Montgomery

Copyright © 1976 by Ruth Montgomery
All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be
reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the

publisher. Published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York Published on the same

day in Canada by Longman Canada Limited, Toronto.
ISBN: 698-10749-7
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Montgomery, Ruth Shick, 1912–The world before.
1. Spirit writings. 2. Lost continents. I. Title. BF1290.M67 1976 001.9 76-16789
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To my nieces and nephews
Marcia, Peter, Steven, Judy, and Jane
CONTENTS

Foreword
I In the Beginning 3
II Man in the Earth 13
III Land of Lemuria 23
IV Descent from the Angels 33
V Airships of Antiquity 45
VI Evidence of Atlantis 55
VII Life-style on Atlantis 65
VIII Shift of the Axis 83
IX Mystery of the Sargasso Sea 91
X A Prehistoric World-Tour 105
XI Those Biblical Angels 123
XII Cycles of Rebirth 137
XIII Planetary Visits 159
XIV Prognostications 181
XV Afterthoughts 201
Foreword

This book marks the culmination of the most ambitious project that my spirit
Guides have yet undertaken.
Commencing with creation they trace the evolvement of Planet Earth from its
gaseous beginnings, describe the advent of homo sapiens first in shadowy form
and then in physical body, and recount his struggles with the elements, with
gargantuan creatures of past ages, and with his own imperfect nature. They
record man's loves, foibles, vicissitudes, and eternal reach for God, climaxing
with a kaleidoscopic view of the coming decades leading into the twenty-first
century and the Second Coming of Christ.
I have been extremely reluctant to undertake a project of such sweep and
magnitude, and were it not that the Guides refused to take no for an answer, this
book would never have been written. But their stick-to-itiveness puts my own to
shame, and for the past several years, unless I had specific questions ready for
them at the morning session, my spirit pen pals would invariably launch into a
recital of earthly beginnings. I referred fleetingly to this fact in Companions
Along the Way, commenting that as soon as the Guides finished their dictation
of material for A World Beyond they "began writing about creation, the advent
of man on the earth, and the hierarchy of angels."
In that instance I was able to steer them away from their favorite subject by
asking about previous lives that the famous medium Arthur Ford and I have
shared. But after writing finis to that joint endeavor in Companions, they
promptly reverted to creation, angels, Lemuria, and Atlantis. I groaned. I
protested. I kept putting their material aside, but the Guides are incredibly
persistent. They even dangled a carrot by promising to provide glimpses into the
future if I would agree to write the story of a prehistoric past, "which
desperately needs to be told."
Since I am only vaguely aware of the subject matter, the Guides were able to
fill scores of pages with material as it came through during the automatic
writing sessions each morning, material that I might otherwise have rejected. At
last, reluctantly, I began sorting them into consecutive order, and soon became
fired with something of their own enthusiasm as I discovered so much scientific
evidence to support their startling assertions.
When the Guides would make a seemingly absurd statement about the lush
tropical growth in a geographical area I know to be frigid, I would find in the
Encyclopedia Britannica or other source-book that remnants of magnolia or fig
trees have indeed been unearthed there under tons of ice, along with the bodies
of warm-blooded animals that had been instantaneously frozen to death in some
cataclysm of the remote past. When they described a landmass where there is
now ocean, or a sea in what is now dry land, I would invariably run across a
geophysical report providing proof for their claims. It was almost as if the
Guides were arranging for such material to fall into my hands.
For instance, my spirit penpals have been in conflict with the scientific
community by placing the advent of homo sapiens on earth from five to seven
million years ago. The age assigned to Peking Man, a direct ancestor of homo
sapiens, was only five hundred thousand years. But just before this manuscript
went to the printers, an event occurred that pushes back the curtain of man's
existence on earth three to six times that of earlier estimates. Director Richard
Leakey of the National Museums of Kenya and Dr. Donald Johanson of Case
Western Reserve University in Cleveland and Curator of Physical Anthropology
at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History held an electrifying press
conference at the National Geographic Society to disclose the discoveries of
three-million-year-old three-million-year-old human hands and a million-and-a-
half-year-old human skull in the fossil-rich sediments of eastern Africa. Because
the skull is a near-duplicate of Peking Man, Mr. Leakey said the latter's age
would have to be re-evaluated. Dr. Johanson said three dozen hand and wrist
bones found scattered about a hillside were capable of the kinds of movements
made by humans today, and bore no evidence of the type of knuckle-walking
that chimpanzees and gorillas employ. This would seem to dispel the scientific
theory that man and ape descended from a common ancestor, and in fact
supports the Guides' frequent assertion that man was a separate and individual
creation who walked the earth far earlier than we had yet realized.
An equally timely event for this book occurred in California when Dr. Duane
T. Gish, associate director of the San Diego-based Institute of Creation Research
told a seminar that mounting scientific evidence supports creationism over
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Dr. Gish, who has worked in research
laboratories of Cornell University Medical School, the University of California
at Berkeley, and the pharmaceutical firm of Upjohn Company said scientific
evidences are far more in line with a created universe than they are with
evolution. Among his numerous examples were documented evidence of human
footprints imbedded in stone underlying a Texas riverbed side-by-side with
dinosaur prints—proof that such behemoths did not die out thousands of years
before man's advent, as previously argued by scientists. The Guides have
repeatedly asserted that these giant behemoths, during their millions of years of
coexistence with homo sapiens, were one of the most terrifying problems with
which early man had to cope.
In this book the Guides vividly describe three cataclysms, including a shift of
the earth's axis that reportedly caused a vast continent called Lemuria to sink
beneath the Pacific Ocean, simultaneously causing the extinction of dinosaurs. I
scoffed at the idea that an orbiting planet like earth could survive such a
catastrophic event, until I learned that modern scientists say the North and South
Poles have switched positions numerous times during the past billion years. The
Guides agree with Edgar Cayce that another shift will occur near the close of
this century, and that we may as well accustom ourselves to the idea, since there
is nothing we can do to prevent it. On the brighter side, they say this awesome
event will usher in an era of peace, "since man will be confronted with enough
problems of reconstruction to keep his covetous mind off others' territory."
Although still hesitant about venturing into a subject on which some
Orthodox feel strongly, I was somewhat reassured to know that there is a
respected tradition for this type of reporting, not only in the utterances of Edgar
Cayce and other prominent psychics, but also in the Bible, in ancient Oriental
documents, and in writings by James Churchward, Erich von Däniken, an
increasing number of modern geologists and scientists, and even that revered
Athenian, Plato.
The Guides, like Edgar Cayce, refer to the half-human beings who were the
result of cohabitation between homo sapiens and other life forms as Things.
This choice of words concerned my editor, Patricia Soliman, who wondered if
there was a more compassionate term, and when I asked the Guides they
amiably suggested "split beings," "entrapped ones," "encumbered souls,"
"manators," or "half-beings." But then they added, "Why not Things? They were
so regarded. 'Things' best denotes them. Look up the word in your dictionary."
This had not occurred to me, but on doing so I was startled to find two
definitions I had not known for 'thing': "Some entity, object, or creature which is
not or cannot be specifically designated or precisely described," and "a living
being or creature." As usual, the Guides' knowledge had ranged far beyond my
own, just as it continues to outdistance the scientific community.
The Guides say that planets, like people, are affected by zodiacal changes, and
that we are now at the threshold of the Aquarian Age, a period of enlightenment
when men's minds will be opened to the reality of communication between the
living and the so-called dead. This will be a vastly different period from the
Piscean Age of the past two thousand years, which saw the persecution of Jesus
and the division of his followers into militant sects who war on each other in the
name of religion. The Guides insist that the shifting of the earth's axis in this
new age should be welcomed rather than feared, because on the smoldering
embers of our present civilization will arise a better one cleansed of strife and
class hatreds. They therefore believe it is vital to have this wide-lens view of the
ancient world, "in order to put all into proper perspective, reestablishing the
purposes for which man entered the earth, and providing a glimpse of the future
as influenced by the past."
It is customary in a Foreword to express appreciation for those who have been
most helpful in amassing the material. I should therefore like to express my
thanks to Lily, the faithful Guide who has directed my automatic writing these
past sixteen years, resignedly bearing with my whims and slothful ways; and to
Arthur Ford, my long time friend who joined "Lily and the Group" at this
typewriter after his demise in 1971. Moralistic, high-minded Lily is sometimes
an irritant, impatiently pushing me toward the goal of perfection that I am too
earth-bound to achieve; but Arthur, with his dry wit and more understanding
attitude toward my feet of clay has brought a chattier, more human dimension to
these daily sessions. Readers of my previous books on psychic subjects are
aware that after meditating each morning, I rest my fingers lightly on the
typewriter keys, while still in that so-called Alpha state, and with eyes closed