Miracles & Angels I: Mother Mary Of Fatima
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org,
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“In the last analysis magic, religion, and science are nothing but theories of thought; and as science has supplanted its predecessors, so it may hereafter be itself superseded by some more perfect hypothesis, perhaps by some totally different way of looking at the phenomena—of registering the shadows on the screen—of which this generation can form no idea.”
—Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough
The modern era of religious revelation entered the mass consciousness in 1917, when 70,000 or more people witnessed a glowing apparition in the sky near Fatima, Portugal. This apparition was called “Mother Mary” by some, who perceived a Lady made of light, while others saw only a spinning disc of many colors descending from the sky. On at least one occasion, the apparition described itself to those who could hear its voice as “the Angel of Peace.” This Angel appeared many times, first to a small group of young girls to whom She spoke directly. Later the Angel of Mary showed Herself before successively larger crowds and communicated prophetic messages to the girls and the boy who had first drawn attention to the phenomenon. She had first revealed herself to two girls: Lucia and Jacinta, and one boy: Francisco.
The reality of these inexplicable events was so indisputable that authorities of the Catholic Church felt compelled to admit the verity of the miracles in an official statement. Jacques Vallee recounts this statement in his book, The Invisible College (1975): “In its decision of 1930, arrived at after thirteen years of painstaking investigations by many scholars, the Church stated that: ‘The solar phenomenon of the 13th of October 1917, described in the press of the time, was most marvelous, and caused the greatest impression on those who had the happiness of witnessing it… This phenomenon, which no astronomical observatory has registered and which therefore was not natural, was witnessed by persons of all categories and of all social classes, believers and unbelievers, journalists of the principal Portuguese newspapers and even by persons some miles away: facts which annul any explanation of collective illusion.’” So much for the universal hallucination theory.
According to The Invisible College (1975), the visible events at Fatima included “luminous spheres,” “strange colors,” and “heat waves,” all of which are physical phenomena “commonly associated with UFO’s.” The “psychic component of UFO sightings” was also present in the form of “healing and prophecy and a loss of ordinary consciousness on the part of witnesses,” some of whom fell to their knees and began confessing their sins in the presence of the Angel. The “Mary” apparition also displayed precognitive powers. On July 13, 1917, before 4500 witnesses, the Angel communicated a prophecy to the young girls and boy with whom she had first made contact. The prophecy, recorded in The Invisible College (1975), reads as follows: “The war is going to end, but if people do not stop offending God another and worse one will begin during the reign of Pius XI. When you see a night illuminated by an unknown light know that this is the great sign that God is giving you that He is going to punish the world for its crimes by means of war, famine, and persecution of the Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia... If they heed my requests, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will spread her errors throughout the world.” Note that Pius XI did indeed reign at the beginning of World War II in 1939. Even more surprising, and something that even Vallee could not have understood, is the Angel’s allusion to the ongoing reconversion of Russia to Christianity. This development would seem to indicate that World War III might still be prevented if the Angel’s prophecy continues to prove correct.