BUILDERS OF THE NATION

 

Grand Lodge

                                                                                                  P.O. Box 473032

                                                                                                  Garland, Texas 75047

 

November 24, 1987

 

Dear <Friend of The Ultimate Frontier>,

 

      Thank you for all the interesting information and the book. I value the insights and the special research you provide to me. I’m sorry to say that I didn’t receive all the things you sent me in October and November until today. The problem is that the address you used is obsolete. It belongs to someone else who hadn’t visited it since September since it rarely had anything in it. Please use my address above for prompt pickup. Just substitute my name for the lodge name but use the same box number and city.

      I too am sorry to have missed visiting with you while you were in Dallas. My name isn’t in the telephone directory; but if one calls information, they will give my number out since it isn’t “unlisted.” Incidentally, my personal phone number is the same as on this letterhead.

      The hollow earth hypothesis is a topic I’ve investigated at some length in the past, and I have come to the conclusion it is not founded in fact. As a matter of fact, Admiral Byrd and his family deny that he ever said anything that could be construed to support the hollow earth concept. Polar-orbited weather satellites, which pass over both poles a dozen times a day and can be monitored by anyone, simply do not support the goofy idea that there are huge holes at each pole where a ship or aircraft could pass into the earth’s interior. Seismologists who track the passage of earthquake vibrations around the surface, the mantle, and through the earth’s core refute the idea of the earth being hollow. The whole idea of people living in the center of our planet is reminiscent of the strange Nazi teachings of fifty years ago.

      Your conversation with Malcolm seems very consistent with the position he has stated to others. Half the Affiliates stopped tithing after the newsletter announcement that I was leaving the group under pressure. Many of them stated that my book had changed their life and that they were interested in helping to promote my work to achieve the Brotherhoods’ goals. If I was no longer to be associated with TSG, then they saw no point in contributing to the group. Malcolm has instituted a lawsuit to get a permanent injunction to keep me from contacting anyone through the group’s mailing list. This hopefully will prevent people who tithed to TSG from finding out what I’m doing or where I can be reached lest they start tithing to Builders of the Nation or to a fund to buy the island in the Pacific. The Trustees believe in discrediting me in order to prevent people from listening to me or the other members who oppose Malcolm’s flock. The tactic has been to call me a liar, fraud, and lecher who is mentally unbalanced, but this keeps backfiring when they try to promote my book as a means for recruiting new donors. People are smart enough to wonder why they sell a book of an author who the Trustees say is crazy. My book is their only real asset to attract new participants; so in order to counteract the book’s strangeness, the New Stelle Group’s mission statement eliminates my work as the basis of the group’s activities and doesn’t mention the Great Plan of the Brotherhoods or any effort on the part of TSG to fulfill that plan. The new direction eliminates virtually all the former goals of the group’s activities except to continue to underwrite the school for the children in the community of Stelle, Illinois, and provide a self-help psychological growth program for dues payers and tithers of a certain minimum amount of money. But these changes reflect Carnahan’s and Wilhelm’s views on distancing themselves from what has personally seemed to them an embarrassing philosophical position vis-à-vis people of science and the newsmedia. Henceforth, the TSG’s program will have virtually nothing to distinguish it from hundreds of other sellers of human-potential materials, But I suspect this will be a financial disaster since TSG people do not have the marketing skills to be competitive, and they don’t have the liquidity to advertise and develop such marketing.

      Everything that Robert Machiz and Malcolm have done during the last year and a half has served to further dismantle the group and waste its assets. As they laid off the workers on the staff to save money, the trustee-officers—Malcolm, Robert and Tim Wilhelm—maintained their salaries, which amount to a combined wage package of $104,000 per year. Malcolm’s wage package comes to $821 dollars a week, which is twice the tithes of all the Members and Resident Associates put together. I’ve had many members concede to me that the only thing that seems to keep the group together is Malcolm’s whipping up hatred of me as their common enemy. Attendance at the regular monthly TSG business meetings here in Dallas have dropped to 14 people and in Stelle to 5. Only the staunchest of Malcolm’s followers express interest in TSG as it is now headed. So I believe your evaluation of TSG as a dying entity facing bank­ruptcy is correct. The principal operational activity of TSG at this time is pouring thousands of dollars into legal fees every month in hopes of perman­ently muzzling me.

      I guess the thing everyone needs to concern themselves with in the world is the imminent financial collapse. I look forward to your analyses along this line. No one wants to be caught unaware. Thanks again for your assist­ance in this respect.

      I’m sorry that your mail was delayed in getting to me. Its arrival gave me lots of interesting reading all at once.

 

Sincerely,

 

Richard

 

 

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