What was ‘the Rainbow City’?
Palmer tacked on the titillating line that Rainbow City, ‘is the headquarters, a deserted city of… (the Elder Race) under the ice of the [South] Pole, where all the gadgets mentioned and thousands more are perfectly preserved for thousands of years.’
Palmer also suggested that Rainbow City be given a seat in the then-new United Nations, but with those teasers, Rainbow City and William C. Hefferlin disappeared from the pages of AMAZING.
“In 1947 and 1948, however, the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, an alternative-reality group based in Vista, California, began issuing bits and pieces of a document called ‘The Hefferlin Manuscript,’ written by W.C. and his wife Gladys at their home in Livingston, Montana. In her introduction to the Manuscript, Gladys Hefferlin denied that their story had anything to do with the Shaver Mystery.
‘In our correspondence with Mr. Raymond A. Palmer,’ she began, ‘we requested him to keep our material separate from the Shaver Mystery… Mr. Palmer ignored our request and has deliberately distorted our statements for his own purpose.’
Here in the Hefferlin Manuscript, she wrote, those distortions would be corrected and the real story would be told.
“In 1927, according to Gladys, the Hefferlins were a young, mystically-minded couple living in San Francisco, and there they met and became friendly with a man named Emery (The identity of ‘Emery’ was long controversy in Borderland Sciences and Shaver Mystery circles. Many thought he was Emery Deutsch, one a well-known radio violinist; Deutsch denied it. – Kafton-Minkel) who shared their interest.
They soon moved and lost track of Emery until 1935; but while in Elwood, Indiana, the Hefferlins learned that Emery was in New York ‘in radio circles.’
They wrote to him and it wasn’t long before the three of them had begun working on a sort of psychic telephone they called ‘Controlled Mental Communication.’ Gladys Hefferlin acted as the ‘mental link’—a conscious medium—on the Elwood end, while Emery, who was a powerful psychic, sent and received messages in New York. ‘Our communication,’ Gladys wrote, ‘is as fast as an ordinary, open conversation.’
She would receive Emery’s messages telepathically and speak them about to W.C. and if W.C. wanted to say anything to Emery, he merely had to speak it AT his wife. Emery hears all that is said if one speaks loud enough. It is not necessary to shout—only to speak clearly. Street noises from here go through to him. There is no mystery about this channel, only a definite use of vibrational focus.’
“Soon after the three of them had established to their satisfaction that the telepathic messages were being accurately received on both ends, Emery began disappearing on mysterious errands around the United States and the rest of the world. Every so often he would send a psychic message to the Hefferlins to let them know where he was, but the reasons for his travels remained a mystery.
“At about the beginning of the Second World War, however, Emery revealed to them he had been ‘working under orders’ from a community of ‘Masters’ BENEATH Tibet. It had begun back in the early thirties when W.C. had been experimenting with a few ideas that had ‘come to him’—the circle-winged plane, the POWER! beam, and so forth—on a small scale, but he had been unable to find a backer with the capital to allow construction of full-scale working models.
After being turned down by the U.S. Government, W.C. had sent a complete set of his plans to Emery to show to any potential backer he might encounter. While on vacation in the Far East, Emery somehow met and became friendly with, ‘the Grand Lama, head of the temple in the Valley of Harmonious Peace… which we call Shangri-La.’
Emery showed W.C.’s plans to the Grand Lama, who was so impressed he ushered Emery into the secret underground lodge of the mysterious Masters of Human Destiny, ‘the Ancient Three…’
(Note: The Hefferlins no doubt learned of this through the ‘telepathic’ link, although some might assume that it was all subconscious wishful thinking that the ‘Grand Lama’ of Tibet would personally praise his plans. Take note that all of this information since their last meeting with ‘Emery’ supposedly came through encephalographically focused brain-waves or telepathy.
It goes without saying that the chances of being deceived through such an uncertain form of ‘communication’, by ones own subconscious mind or by malevolent paraphysical impostors, is very high and the opportunities to PROVE such allegations are almost non-existent when compared with face to face communication and substantiation, and in fact, many, many accounts allegedly given through psychic channels from ‘aliens’ have later PROVEN to be false. Because of this, one must take the following with a grain of salt – Branton)
“The Ancient Three… immediately ordered the construction of a fleet of 350 circle-winged planes, powered by GHYT motors burning water for fuel, and using POWER! beams weapons. (supposedly after the blueprint provided to ‘Emery’ by the Hefferlins – Branton).
Under the direction of the Three, work progressed rapidly, and when the fleet stood ready at last, an expedition was ordered to search the wastes of Antarctica for signs of Rainbow City… it was critical that the city be repopulated and brought to life if the cosmic plan was to be fulfilled. Everyone was assigned to the search, and he spent painstaking months flying over the Antarctic, looking for clues that none but the initiated could detect. But on Thanksgiving of 1942, Emery sent a joyful message to the Hefferlins.
Rainbow City had been found.
“The Hefferlins were understandably anxious to learn more about the Ancient Three, and little by little, in their psychic conversations with Emery, they heard the story of The Three and the concealed history of the human race. Countless millions of years ago, ‘Emery’ told them, humanity ruled an empire of planets stretching over A HUNDRED GALAXIES.
(Note: Even the most liberal theorist would suggest that an inter-GALACTIC ‘empire’ would not be very feasible, because of the enormous distances involved and the fact that the average galaxy already possesses well over 100 BILLION stars and would probably be more than enough space for such a supposed ‘empire’. Add to this the enormous difficulty of holding such an empire together without the individual ‘galaxies’ revolting, not to mention the fact that the human race itself can be genetically traced back to a single small group.