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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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January 5, 1999: America's Secret Destiny - William Henry

Jan 5, 1999
2h 45m
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Art Bell interviews author William Henry about his provocative thesis that Jesus visited America 2,000 years ago to hide a powerful device and spread secret teachings, and that he will return in July 1999 in fulfillment of Nostradamus's King of Terror prophecy. Henry draws connections between Essene traditions, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Sumerian mythology, and Mayan calendars to argue that a golden pillar called the Pillar of Osiris served as a gateway between dimensions and a channel for souls to enter the Earth plane.

The discussion traces this device through Egypt, France, Mexico, and Mongolia. Henry reveals that President Franklin Roosevelt sent agents to Mongolia in 1934 searching for this artifact after his Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Wallace, became convinced that Jesus had reincarnated there. He connects the placement of the Great Seal on the dollar bill in 1935 to the possible recovery of the device. Henry also links the word "terror" to Jesus through medieval Grail legends and the Hebrew linguistic connection between moon, mother, and terror.

Art presses Henry on how a returning messianic figure could be taken seriously in modern cynical America and how his theories reconcile with traditional Christian theology. Henry argues that America is the prophesied New Jerusalem where a temple school will be constructed, initiating a thousand years of peace. He also hints at discovering a substance on the periodic table with cancer-curing properties through his decoding of a French parchment.

Key Moments

  1. The 45-foot solid-gold pillar at Abydos: Henry describes a 45-foot solid-gold pillar - 'the Tower' - that he says was originally housed at Abydos, Egypt, atop an Ark-of-the-Covenant-style base, designed as a frequency-emitting antenna to open gateways into other dimensions.

  2. Linking the ancient pillar to HAARP: Henry argues that the HAARP transmitter array in Alaska is the modern recreation of the ancient golden pillar archetype - a frequency-emitting device intended to 'slay the dragon' described in Revelation by lifting the ionospheric sphere of souls.

  3. Henry breaks with Sitchin on why the Anunnaki came: Henry openly disagrees with Zecharia Sitchin: the Anunnaki did not come to mine gold for an atmospheric crisis, he says, but to rescue souls embedded in Earth from the destroyed planet Tiamat, with gold required to power the soul-lifting pillar.