"And therefore I say, humanity can well tremble this night, for the hour is coming when they must give the accounting for the expenditure of every jot and tittle of the energies of the Law. I say, O humanity, watch out! watch out! watch out! For Nature will thrust off the impurities that have bowed her down.

"And this is one of the decisions of the Lords of Karma that has been made as the result of the judgment of mankind over the past six months. Mankind have sought solutions to the problems of ecology, but they have not sought the Holy Spirit. They have neglected the recommendations of the Hierarchy at the International Resource Conference.

"They have taken the roundabout method. They have dallied and complained that they could
not remake their vehicles, when they have had on the drawing boards for years inventions that would eliminate the internal combustion engine entirely, eliminating the entire pollution of the air element and the poisoning of mankind. Mankind kill one another when they could do better.
They have not tried hard enough, and so they must receive the judgments of the Almighty.

"Do you think that the Holy Spirit will stand by and watch as the people in the cities are destroyed by the fumes of the automobiles, as little children must play in the streets and breathe the air, the poisons of the exhaust? Do you think that Heaven will forever wait? I tell you nay!

"It is time for mankind to rise up and to tear down the authority of those individuals who are at the head of such industries as the automobile industry, the oil industry, those who are money-mad for power and greed, who refuse to first consider the souls of mankind and the very life of their physical forms. I tell you Heaven will not wait any longer. They shall have their reward. And those who fail to challenge the oppressors by the power of the spoken Word will also have their reward.

"I say, you are the authority for the plane of fire! You are the authority for the plane of air! You are the authority for the plane of water! You, O mankind, are the authority for the plane of earth! You and you and you! And you must challenge, if by no other means than by application to the Sacred Fire, this encroachment upon the dominions of the earth and of the Body of the Mother. The time has come when the oppressors of mankind shall come face to face with their karma, and they shall give the accounting.

"Take care then that you are not counted among them, that your investments are not in those industries that serve to tear down the life of mankind. You have been warned before about placing your supply and your abundance in those industrial firms that serve to poison the youth of the world in all manner and all forms. I say, examine what is done with your funds, for in the day of judgment you will be held accountable for the place where you have invested those funds."

"I would speak to you now of the rising tide of crisis being precipitated on the very soil of America this very day by the Luciferians, by the dark plotters, by those who have arranged the gasoline shortage as the beginning of the cutting-off of communications and the supply lines. Do you realize that this very day gasoline has reached a premium price in Colorado Springs of over ninety cents a gallon? Do you realize, precious hearts, that this could very well be the beginning of woes if you do not give your very blood and life in decrees for the staying of the hand, the dark hand and the dark shadow that moves across America?

"Do you understand what it will mean when there is no more gasoline? When those who desire to pull the ripcord of depression desire to make that move, all they have to do is withdraw the gasoline—and there will be no food, no water, no supplies. You will not be able to go to your grocery stores in a moment’s notice to get some article that might be lacking in your dinner menu.

"Do you realize that one of the greatest miracles that occurs in America each day is the transport of food from coast to coast, from the center north and south to feed America’s people? Do you realize that when there is no more gasoline all industry must cease? And then you have the
mass panic for which the only antidote is the Secret Place of the Most High, the place of preparedness, the place of the secret rays of the Fire of God’s Being.

"I tell you, precious hearts, it does not suit their designs to create panic in this hour. But it may very well suit their designs to create it within a fortnight, within a month, within three months. Bear well in mind the anniversary of the 1929 crash in the end of October. For as you have studied the law of cycles, so you will observe that when those cycles come full circle mankind must either manifest the victory or repeat the cycle by going down into the same spirals that have already been etched upon akasha as the voice of infamy, as the voice of the plotters who created in toto the entire 1929 depression.

"As I have told you, as Saint Germain has told you, that depression was entirely contrived. It was not necessary. And it was used to gain greater and greater control over the American people through the introduction of the New Deal and greater and greater socialism, which is as water upon the fire that is the damper against mankind's evolving Christ Consciousness.

"That which you do for the individual which he cannot, is not allowed to do for himself, always deprives him of self-mastery. Man has all that he requires within his heart, with the assistance of the Holy Spirit and the elementals, to forge his victory out of the four elements. And so long as mankind insist on doing this for others, they make them slaves of a welfare state, and they deprive them of their solar awareness, their initiative, their free will. And with the welfare comes control—control of education, control of ideas, control of concepts, control of religion . . . "

"Realize, then, that when power was at their hand OPEC would use the price of oil to nearly destroy the free economies of the earth. And now you must realize that with the sudden drop in the price of oil internationally, the balance of payments, the loans to Third World nations become even more burdensome, as they are not able to pay back their debts to the
international banks.

"The sign of the descent of the price of oil must be noted by the soul, your own soul. For you must realize that you have known for millennia that the manipulation of the oil and the wheat, commodities that are fundamental to life, would signal the beginning of the end of a world economy or even the beginning of world cataclysm."

"The Watchers have created this international debt bomb. These archdeceivers of mankind have done it, and they have thereby brought us to the brink of nuclear war. Their karma will fall due and it will come upon them in their citadels of money and power that they have stolen from the people —on Wall Street, in the markets, in the banking houses. That karma will come upon them as surely as the Night turns into Day and the Day turns into Night.

"Therefore we must hearken unto the ancient cry of Joshua, 'Come apart and be a separate people.' Because when their world economic order comes tumbling down, if you are tied to it
—because in your greed you have been lured by their illusions, lured by your ungodly desires instead of being satisfied with the soul's true inner desiring for her God—then you will lose not only your fortunes but your life with them.

"From the beginning the fallen angels have manipulated the children of God into taking the rap for their karma. And this is why when Jesus was crucified he said of the people who shouted, 'Crucify him! Crucify him!' 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.' They were tricked into taking upon themselves the karma for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ when it was actually the Watchers of Rome and Jerusalem who plotted the death not only of the Christ in Jesus, but also of the Christ in all sons and daughters of God who would follow in his footsteps.

"The fallen angels have infiltrated all peoples, all races, all governments, all institutions. They are not unique to any race. And the way they divide and conquer is that they incarnate in this or that race or group or religion. Then the people associate either their 'evil' behavior or their 'good' behavior with the group or cause and become pro this and anti that. And the people become tools of the fallen angels' hatred of the Christ within the people! This is why the people need true shepherds, true Christs and true prophets to lead them.

" . . . The fallen angels are behind the karma of both the black horse and the red horse. They know the cycles of karma and they use them in their war against the Lightbearers. In fact, they have set up the collapse of the economies through their abuse of the money supply. They have loaned our savings deposited in New York banks to Third World nations who, they should have had a pretty good idea, would not be able to properly manage that money or ever pay it back.

"Of course, because oil prices had been artificially high, they thought they would remain high
and that oil-producing nations such as Mexico and Venezuela would be able to repay the loans because of their income from oil. Then oil dropped, again as part of descending karma, and
it became apparent that the nations, both those who produced oil and those who imported it,
would never be able to pay back their debt.

"It is an hour, then, when little by little the pieces in this puzzle are coming together. We saw the atrocities in Vietnam. We saw a no-win war where our soldiers went to battle and were killed or maimed for life and then rejected by their countrymen. We see the outrage in nations around the world where freedom fighters will fight for freedom without the necessary backing from the United States to win a decisive victory. And then we have the media cooperating with World Communism in its effort to put on a human face."

Between 1971 and 1981 oil prices drastically increased over 1,800 percent in a market largely controlled by the powerful Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cartel. “Over the past decade,” reported Newsweek on March 7, 1983, “OPEC engineered the largest transfer of wealth in history. It threw the economies of the industrialized countries into chaos, and brought some Third World nations to the brink of ruin. It contributed to the unmaking of two U.S. presidents, and left deep scars on an American psyche that took pride in self-reliance.”

OPEC was formed in 1960 by five nations—accounting for almost two-thirds of the world’s proven oil reserves and 85% of its petroleum trade—whose stated goal was to stabilize prices through controlling oil production. Today OPEC consists of 13 nations (Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Qatar, Algeria, Indonesia, Libya, Ecuador, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates and Gabon).

The first major price increase came in 1971 when 23 oil companies signed an agreement with OPEC raising the price from $1.80 to $2.18 a barrel. Shortly after the start of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, OPEC raised oil prices to $5.12 and Arab producers imposed an embargo against the U.S. for supporting Israel. In January 1974, OPEC capitalized on the crisis and more than doubled prices to $11.65 a barrel.

A gas shortage ensued—although some observers, such as Christopher Rand, have claimed that there never was a shortage and that the oil industry, despite public displays to the contrary, actually welcomed the embargo and profited from it (see Rand, Making Democracy Safe for Oil [Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1975]).

Following the 1979 Iranian revolution and resulting gas shortages, OPEC raised prices to an average of $14.59 a barrel. By May 1981 the average price was up to nearly $35. Steadily increasing oil prices had a number of negative economic consequences, including higher consumer prices and unemployment, and were a factor in the economic recession of the early ‘80s.

Cartel prices are notoriously unstable, and by 1981 several factors—principally conservation, energy efficiency, use of alternative energy sources, and a global recession—combined to decrease demand, creating a surplus and gradually lowering prices. In 1983, Nigeria, burdened by heavy debt and other domestic problems, became the first nation to break ranks with OPEC and dropped its price $5.50 to $30 a barrel.

OPEC then agreed to set prices at $29 per barrel, its first official price cut. Between December 1985 and February 1986, oil prices plummeted 51 percent from $27.06 to $13.26 a barrel. Oil producers competed for shares of a declining oil market and by 1986 all efforts to control the falling oil price deteriorated into an all-out price war.