The Armageddon Script: Prophecy in Action

Peter LeMesurier finished his THE ARMAGEDDON SCRIPT in 1981, the year I discovered the existence of the New Age Movement and started my own work of sounding the alarms against same. He wrote it when the New Agers were making BIG PLANS for their hoped for immediate future and at a time when they thought they were lacking critical observation. Being watched changed EVERYTHING for them and LeMesurier's time table for a staged fake second coming was somewhat delayed. It was not, however, cancelled. LeMesurier wrote that "their script is now written, subject only to last minute editing and stage directions . . . down in the pit the subterranean orchestra is already tuning up . . . the time for action will have come." Well, the players LeMesurier wrote about are still out and about. They are all now much longer in the tooth and for most part lacking a sense of humor about their unhoped for career delays. LeMesurier noted in that book an alternative scenario just in case their "New David" did encounter opposition to his encapsulated New Age agenda about "the New Age mission to the youth of the world" -- it was that the "New David" may have to pursue his mission amidst a "time of turmoil such as the world has ever seen." Curiously,on September 11, 2001, eleven years to the very day after United States President George Bush (the elder) gave his first major speech on "the New World Order" employing that long time Rosicrucian/Alice Bailey language in public life for the first time, all that ran through my head was "the Armageddon Script." I don't know if it was staged or opportunistic. The folded USA $20 bill with an obvious "Pentagon burning" on one side and "Twin Towers burning" with the other ("google" it for yourself, makes me suspect the former; however, since the New Age community also employs the slogan, "crisis = opportunity," it could as well be the latter. It certainly has not escaped my radar that Bin Laden once worked for the USA's CIA. Nor did I fail to notice the woman FBI agent who came forward seeking whistleblower protection, who said she had advance notice of the planned airstrikes and that her superiors seemed desperate to stop her from taking steps that would stop them. And certainly, I did not fail to notice that the very agents who suppressed advance governmental action against the hijackers were subsequently promoted! At any rate, the crisis certainly did equal opportunity and now civil liberties here and abroad are coming to a crashing halt while simultaneously the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has approved human implantable computer chips and INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) is openly planning use of biometric identifiers for passports. Now, the scene of LeMesurier's planned action is for the most part in flames. It appears to be a near match for both apocalyptic biblical prophecies and New Ager Peter LeMesurier's scenarios. LeMesurier's book should be read with extreme caution for it is full of t

The scope of this book is ambitious. Peter Lemesurier attempts nothing less than a grand theory of how prophecy works in the social context. This is not a supernatural explantation of prophecy. One of his axioms is that prophecy is self fulfilling. People committed to the Judeo Christian religious belief will find this book disturbing and may even be angered by it. In sum Lemesurier attempts to explain how Christianity came about. He examines Biblical prophecy and the Dead Sea Scrolls material in a reconstruction of a failed attempt to fulfil prophecy. Moreover his theory suggests that unfulfilled prophecies can in effect 'lie around' waiting for someone to re-activate them. His suggestion is that the religion of two thousand years ago - created to explain the Roman conquest of the holy land and ultimately destroy the foreign invaders - is still around, buried in the foundation of our civilisation - like a slowly ticking time bomb; relentlessly driving believers to follow a script that they neither own nor understand. This is not a 'conspiracy theory'. There is no sinister group, no secret society, no 'Priory of Sion' lurking in the wings waiting to force their Machievelian scheme on the rest of us. Lemesurier is more subtle than that. His theory suggests that people are being driven to act out the Armageddon Script by forces beyond their control. It is almost as if when the Jews were driven out of Palestine they left behind a kind of Pandora's box that the Romans took with them and opened and loosed the prophecy on the world. It is still with us and we have to deal with that legacy - before it deals with us! The only problem is that if Lemesurier is right then how do we deal with it? This book does what it sets out to do and on those terms at least it should be counted a success. Whether the reader agrees or disagrees is a different matter. Ignore it at your peril!