A Call To Arms : Sister Thedra c 1992 [ Dorothy Martin , UFOs ]

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Scarce Posthumous Collection of Channeled Writings of Early UFO Cult Leader Sister Thedra AKA Dorothy Martin

 

Sister Thedra [Martin, Dorothy]. A Call To Arms: Compiled Communiques. Association of Sananda and Sanat Kumara. Sedona, Arizona. N.D. [Post 1992]

“A compilation of communications and spiritual teachings given by ‘The Elder Brothers’ and teachers of the Higher Realms of Light and recorded by Sister Thedra” over the final years of her life from 1989 to 1992, originally published in her newsletter A Call To Arms in volumes 47 through 64.

Thedra, born Dorothy Martin, was the leader of The Seekers, also called The Brotherhood of the Seven Rays, arguably the first UFO cult founded in 1953, who claimed psychic communications from aliens from the planet Clarion had warned her of the impending destruction of the United States by an Earthquake the following year. Her followers believed that a UFO would arrive to save them and take them to Clarion in December of 1954. These events were covered in the 1956 book When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, where Martin is given the pseudonym “Marian Keech”. In the book, Festinger developed the theory of cognitive dissonance to describe the reactions and coping mechanisms of disappointed members.

Following these events, a warrant was issued for Martin’s arrest and involuntary confinement, after which she fled Chicago, leaving the United States for several years before establishing herself at Mount Shasta in California before eventually moving to Sedona, Arizona. Despite the well publicized failure of her original prophecies, Martin remained an active channeler via automatic writing, developing an eclectic and fluid theology incorporating elements of Scientology, and founding the Association of Sananda and Sanat Kumara, as well as continuing to publish messages from “The Elder Brothers”, including Jesus Christ under the name Sananda until her death in 1992.

According to the short biography provided in this text (which skips the events of the 1950s entirely), the ASSK claims that she spent the time outside the United States undergoing spiritual training in Central and South America with Sananda appearing to her in a tangible form, allowing himself to be photographed. This image is republished as the frontispiece for the collection.

1 copy found in OCLC as of June 2025.

153pp. Coil bound. Minor wear to edges. Some highlighting. Very good.

 

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