THE SWORD AND SICKLE

PART ONE: REVELATION

CHAPTER ONE

WHISPERED WORDS

The Secretary of State, Claire McDowell from Missouri spoke up. "Gentlemen, I know Levi Jackson and I know he hints about this in his book on Dreams. I would suggest we get him out of hiding and bring him in to help us. He may be an invaluable help to understanding this phenomenon."

Wright interjected, "Good idea. Get him in here so we can control things. Mr. President, how do you feel about bringing this character in?"

Jovian thought for a moment and said, "Can we control him? What if we make the situation worse and the movement seeks him out? We will be making him a prophet or perhaps a Messiah if the public learns we are turning to him. Government sponsorship of this man might not be the right thing to do. If the public hears of his aid, he could become the most powerful human on Earth, and then where will the government stand?"

Claire replied, "Mr. President, I know Levi and he is very reluctant to start a new religious movement, in fact it is that fear of starting a new religious movement that has resulted in his social isolation."

"Exactly," said Walter. "We will have a reluctant martyr on our hands, and then we have lost control of the masses. Who knows what this thing is in space, or if it's nothing more than an alien spacecraft that has come to observe us from a safe distance. We had them in the past, and we managed not to alert the people. Perhaps, it is just monitoring our broadcasts from afar and is using our religious beliefs to frighten us before it comes in and decimates us. We should just present it to the people as mass hysteria and leave it at that. My concern is to keep the scientific community quiet about this object in the sky."

Hammett responded, "We could easily calm the nation about this..." he waves his right hand above his head, "Err...thing, by having NASA state that it is a new moon captured by Jupiter's gravity, and then back it up with the images from the Cassini-2 spacecraft. That should work, and then they won't draw a correlation between the object and this shared auditory dream. Hopefully, this will also calm the rest of the world in different time zones, as we have the only means of getting a close-up picture of it; all we need is another UFO scandal."

Secretary McDowell said, "That is well, Mr. President, but astrologers will draw a connection, as will the Sons and Daughters of Levi; those new-agers, and even some eastern types of religions; plus you have those nuts standing on the corners preaching doomsday, and then we won't have control of the scenario that unfolds. Everyone on Earth heard that message; everyone...even the deaf. The UFO part is just a part of our problem, because that message is an end of time message. We need to get out in front of this thing before it runs us over, and we will have riots in every major city. I still make the point we need Levi, and I think I can convince him to help us. He will calm the people and will make a connection with the masses. Who knows what that object will do or say next? We can tell the masses all we want that it is a new moon of Jupiter, but we know better, and we'll need Levi's knowledge to help calm his people. If he is on our side, then we can control him, but if we just leave him out there for some group to seek, or for some redneck to murder, then it is we who will be the worse for it. We haven't had a living American prophet living in America since Joseph Smith. It is your decision, Mr. President, but I believe we must find him, it would help to have a living prophet on our side."

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Hammett stopped the meeting and asked the following to be off the record and no one take notes. The President made comments to the Council for the Pleiadians. He looked at the twelve, and they were all women, pale-skinned and had hair blonde or brown. They seem to be in their 40s, but he knew better than that. These beings were ancient and some of them had played gods in the past or at least allowed humans to believe they were gods. He wondered how much he could trust such a group. What was their agenda? If it was the agenda written about in books, then they were looking for change in society that did not necessarily have the best interest of the government or of the Christian religion. Mostly they observed and never made their presence known except to the President. They had no modesty and usually appeared without clothes, but today they came in white robes. Today they were not phantasms, they were flesh and blood, and they wore concern on their faces.

Jovian had no idea as to which of the alien women to address, so he addressed them all. "My fellow council members, I would like to introduce to you the Council of Twelve, our Pleiadian Advisory. The Security Council turned to see them. They had heard about them, but none of them had ever witnessed them in the flesh. The Counsel knew that they were higher dimensional beings from beyond the fifth dimension and some of them reached the top levels of the universe.

One of the Leading women looked forward to speaking for the group. She introduced herself, "I am Aphrodite. The Goddess of Love. I tell you that your future depends on your ability to learn love as a tool. This tool will free you from your oppression. We will not interfere more than we have already in your history. I will tell you that there is dissension among us. Some wish to interfere more than we are now. They felt that to preserve the species we must act, however all agree we will not interfere. In the past, we allowed humans to think we were gods and worship us. Then one of us arose to change this playful actions; his name is Adonai, or Adonis. We are also the Starseed that lives among you. Adonis was one of them; he is my Pleiadian mate. He gathered a group of people from around the city of Ur and made people of his choosing. From them sprang three of your monotheistic religions: Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Of the later--Adonai chose to become flesh again and enter into the process of birth and rebirth. The name of the man he became was Jesus and when he died, he ascended and later became flesh again. My mate, Adonis, does not remember his true self, but he is special and his powers grow daily. Adonai's interference in the lives of humans causes us to reevaluate our motives while the rest of us withdraw from your lives. Still, many worship us to this day. We are not gods and Adonai is not God. The prime creator is God, and not even we know that, and it certainly doesn't need us. We created life on this planet; we are your so-called gods. Adonai grows in strength, and he will come to gather his people; the rest he will spit their remains from his mouth. How the world is today is not what Adonai wants or desires. When he returns, he will destroy everything on this planet just as a farmer tills under a non-productive crop. It will not be much longer that I can keep him from knowing who he is in the flesh, and beware that when he does become self-aware, he will be nearly unstoppable. Already the eternal beings of his shining city have sensed his presence and have returned to this solar system.

We have awakened as many people as possible. I do not control my spouse. It is not our way, and he will do as he pleases, and changes will come about one way or another. Either Adonai will destroy you or you will destroy yourself. The time has passed for you to change yourself; I am afraid. Whatever, Adonai does to you, the Council of Aliens will not interfere, and won't speak to you again in this manner. It is time for you to make your decisions, and do so with care. I beg you to choose love, peace and freedom." With those words, the Pleiadian Council vanished.

President Hammett asked for advice from the former President, "President Wright, what would you precede?"

"You hear her; we do as we please. I am not leaving it up to a group of aliens to tell us what to do if they are unwilling to help us. We must apprehend Levi, Mr. President, and we will need those images as soon as NASA processes them, and then we must review them before we release them to the public. Meanwhile, we need to get in touch with all the ambassadors of the world and make our story consistent."

"Make it so, if the images we get from Cassini-2 are of a spacecraft, have them doctored to look like a new moon orbiting Jupiter. I want to brief Mr. Jackson to get a feel of what he knows. I don't want anyone to put him on the defensive, because I need him to feel as though he is a vital part of our nation's security. Hell, tell him it is a matter of world security. Just get him in here and make him a part of the team. After he leaves his home, I want his home searched and everything of importance brought here, especially his computer. Read everything and have the best minds interpret it. If he asks about going home remind him he is a part of the Security Council, and the Nation's Security comes first. Set him up in the best hotel we can get and assign him a guard. Register him under John J. Smith or something. Give him a makeover, and change his appearance so people do not recognize him. As of this moment, he is in our protection, and if he needs anything; find it for him."

Secretary of State McDowell answered, "Yes, Mr. President, I understand, and I will use all resources available to secure Levi and his family.

General Abrams asked, "What about the cover story for the spaceship orbiting Jupiter?"

"As soon as it is finished, bring it to me. Consider this meeting adjourned. Oh, I reiterate, absolutely do not mention anything and do not talk about this, even to yourselves where someone might be listening. If the press gets curious, and let's hope they don't, refer them to me."

Speaking to the group, Hammett concluded, "We will convene again; at 9:00 a.m. Until then, keep your mouths shut. Good day." With those words, the President left the room with his advisor, while the others looked at each other in silence as they gathered their things.