THE LOCUST YEARS — alter 1940 — by LJ. JENSEN AUREAU OF ECONUMIC RESEARCH Le West Ninth Street, Kansas City, Mo. Copyright 1940 By Lt JENSEN"and there came out of the smoke locusts upon the eurth: and unto them ws given power, as the scorpions of the earth have powe: REVELATION 925‘TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Page foreword. see eee 8 4. Forekmowledge Sourcee se ee eee es 8 2. The Gront Pyramid sss eee eee cere 8 5. The Bible im Modern Thought 4. Biblical Propheoy for Our Time 5, Revelation im Current Trends see ees 28 6. Cyolica) Data cn america ee ee ee 8 7. The Looust Years se eee ete ts 86 Other titles by L. J. Jensen Yajor Trends in Anerican Beonomics Market Charts Astro-Eeononic Interpretation Individual Income and the 1940's Inflation - Ite American PortentFOREWORD Bee. s1o0kly complacent age of individual freodom and pragmetion? Ss5. and better tomorrows is shattered. Within less than « decude the in- Septual erosion in popular viewpoints has jigsed from blind faith to fiiusion, from feqr to hope, and from enthusiasm to doubt. The world Btsige cook-cyed! At leust there is something hsy-wires or the platform of Seeition, established so vohomontly in the 1920's, promising thet e121 the nyths for the gullible who refused to got in step Gy the nen onlightesnents of science, is weakened. And to find our pooh- SOE yenoor, our ineoe illusion of unlimited prosperity, and the premise fe everything is essentislly good, turned upside down, has jarred to the This is no pliant of honey and, goo to enssthetize for another dose no uplift. Self-confidence and self-preservation in the pursuit of hap- js require ore than hope and optimism. The cheering and the gab-fosts, ys flag waving and the publio witei-hunte, are good theatre; but when we Pygi asked by the let-dovn of the finn) curtain which almsyo follows the 1et- opiate the spooelypse of misery and fear strikes another orescendo.jnere “Ins plegue of enelavoment and outrage against tradition leading us? iy oes the tide go oh} and whon will assurances of stability appoar? = ‘There are anny answers to those questions. Virtually every field 2 ‘pf tuwan ingenuity is making an offort to eschew the mess,with chost thump- SiS ings of egocentrio power thrests,or the oily bait of profit dreams bused on Sq gulaxy of compromise porunas. Ono thing is sure: fex are they who appear rasp the significance of the current unraveling of tho skein of events. Zshere is a destiny; and it is marching! Conventionality may jeer; wiseseres Aeride; for the self-anointed,who presune to direct hon messes of people So are to think, aro ic a rago at the slightest suggestion that it is en cavith ‘that "nan ie master of his fate and captain of his coul". For all that “ERs work had to be attempted; act as the addition of another voice to add Gg tlio bedlam, and not as an exouse to ink up more good paper, but as a co- Srdination of ancient signe and wonders with modern events, condensed into ‘Ofu WKASH presents a means of practical application. se In ay twenty-five years of diversified study and research rang- Gi ing from professional theology to radio-dynamies, with the keys to econ- ‘mis phenomena as the goal, the confusion of what is truth has been a con~ timous and ever increasing observation. Relatively, Pontius Pilate was “gorvect in asking the prosecutors at tho trial of Jesus "Whet is truth?" © For, in any attempt ut a philosophy, "whet is truth" is a variable, large dependent on geographical, hereditary and environnental circumstances. Our = individual, and group, thinking is persistently slightly or enormously dif “Ferent. A Taoist cannot accept the idea of trinity the Hindu embraces; the ‘inoore Marxist views askance the viowpoint of the Capitalist; and the ma~ terielist is forever in a battle with those who attempt to define the Spiritual. Perhaps the fundamental issue in the modern babel of viewpoints ts on the apparent disagreement between what is called science and whatFe seligion. Wo think of sefonce us an exact statenent of knowledge Pe terme con Groupe of subjects ~ 2 particular technique or a certain Gears orHiCE Son eform of thoughe~ Actually, soieuse 0 8 eysteaatio exnsias- siandardt ie grprevavion of experience; subject aatter cannot be restriat- SP Oo cioel and obealsel things, of £9 Bonta) und spéricu netters. To Be 222° Pine tee procedure in sho aoquisition of dats, plus a humnistie Ge act, Selene He gporionve; aot a set of bland yardsticks of concepts. Religion is eny system of faith and worship which binds the Sips} anture of man to a supernatural being, This involves dopants, itunl ablishnect of opinionated and positive assortion. Theology, the ee ont of religious dostrine, is not religion but soience; just es phi2- ey ie the search for wisdon, comothing different then either soisnoe or religion. our weshanistic age of avid rationalization,we have Perhaps, Gorgotten basic prenisos of life itcelf, its motivating instincts, and ite tengeuental reasons for being. Truly whet wo hold up ss scientific fact io, SoG many oosec, no moro than @ conventions] prejudice. What we accept as rel Fo ibion often azo s0 gore than philosozhioal coneepis of duty, patriotism and = ized standard of morality. This mix-up reflects much of the disorder Eck p current thought in the efforts to unscramble not only an individual cre- «cp existence but = basis for unity in national attitudes. For example,we Soreist in terming the United States a desccracy when it is a republics we Pei) ourselves © Christian nation whon the mjority of citisons either ques- {Son or deny the Bible ac God's Revelation, the Virgin Birth, and the Res- urrection. Behind the welter and cross-curronts of prejudices, misconcep- ‘pions in terminology, and the diffusion of the basic premises which brought She vestern worlé (0 its present state, rests an enormous fund of data that Difers many apparent keys to current enignas. It is true thet much of this material ig tho source of wide-spread controversy extending back for many years in some instances. Yet it is true as woll thet many of the world's Best scholars have devoted their entire lives to but susil phases of the ef- forte, Nevertheless, so much of the duta is veiled in such deluges of words, Go mich muno-jumbo of metaphysical hosus-poous, and prejudicial anachronisme, that 2 satisfactory co-ordination for prastioal use seems to have been view= ed as an interpretative impossibility. At any rete, such an attitude is sug- © gested even though I cannot agree. If there are obvicus criteria, establish- ed through tests of time and events, which may offer no more than mincr clues to the trend of the future, an effort at examination is mndatory. and if the date encompasses definitions of the future which are more than minor it becomes of transcendental inportanes. Little onthusiasm rocompanied the production of this work. Tt ie a chore done out of a sense of duty and obligation. During the first halt of the pact decade my published work stressed the signs of world wide cheos, unprecedented in conturies of history, which were expected to converge in the peried starting in 1932-1939 and not end until 1950-1953. Up to now the Linetable of mjor prospects has boon realized with distressing sonfirmtion. With the greater period of difficulty apparently yet to come, it is deemed neoessary to present the fundamental factors used os a basis for much of the interpretation After all,the individual desires self-preservaticn these days aeChapter One FOREKNGHLEDGE SOURCES ‘This is an experinent in the interpretation of prophetical ations of the next several yours. In countless centuries of the past, sneiee as far bask as $522 3. C. whon the Ghinose holy book of divination, eee, firot appeared, mankind persists in efforts to probe the future. In i Oipeords of sll civilisations, from the Hindu and Chinese, the Beyptian, ie Creidean aid the Hobrev, through the Moslem and Christian, religious and the fer sebolars trace humanity's interest in prophesy.But the pust is dead. ato dnd today the past engenders more derision than respect. We hoot the horse and bugay days of a few dooades agot Bravott! Nothiag is te nockacred with the exception of cortain ideas or ‘mowledge no elder than Be ber Hill or the deer old tux busting Boston Too Party? Hasn't every pub- Punktluthority” on antters solentific realized the greatest popularity by do- ting the pest with all its worke and all its ways? A few yoars ago it was Siiy conceded thot wo must work for what wo are to get} we must ears to seer and gave to mltiply and succead. Bub the popular belief in this view shined, A iot of people ound that it wasn’t how hard you werked, but hon fed’you yelled,that governed what you got. And we sre still toying with the Rita Ghat the wore you borrow and spend the better off everything will be. genere Yes, the past is a dead horas. That is, it ise dead horse for most people who prefer the blinding light of sone sort of a new promised jand. To othere,who are in the minority, events of recent years continue to dive Jolte of questioning scrutiny, trepidation and apprehension. The trond Gvpvonts marks # world felling apart. Nothing to equel it has occurred in SGnturies of tine. The unthinkable and the impossible -- the destruction of Shuvind's countless efforts of centuries crash into ruins within hours. ALL these strange things have been propheeied. and more are aus to follow. But in this enlightened age of aochanistic attainments the jast majority of people will have no truck with prophetic Inbele. At least publiely.all the "right-thialeing" grooves of educational goose-stepping see ae it thet thinking i confined to variations of reading writing and arith- netio.We have descme ohained in the meshes of materialism, with little gen- grel ingerest in anything but gain; and means to forget the cnewings of un- rest and the air of psyohologioal defent. Tt is possible thet centuries of human experience offers us a way out of current dilemes. Porbeps the past offers more than heredity. Tt [le possible oven that the past has forgotten moh more than we can ever re— goin. In particular, the fields of ancient esoteric Imowledge hold fruitful Prospects of approach. These sources have always byen with-held from the ma- jority of course, but relatively resent new findings and scholarship have feth wlarified hazy points end added to the veracity of the tenots involved. Sir John Herschel commented that anyone who enters into the study of @ subject new to them will find not only thet he has much to learn, but also much to unlearn. The first step is the noed for a desire to loosen eli hold on crude and hastily formed notions in order to allow unprejudiced fanieeion cf eny conclusion which appaars to be supported by observation. oeIndividuality, for all ite highly touted atteinmests, remains ceetions rather then reason. Any effort to learn is a elicetual discipline which forms one of the most im- webu it seems very 2iffioult to move further t. The emotions, end those persist lnginess. Tb is moh ms encomont stege in tho offor coame, are forever popping in to enovurege, our Fee ee sein ney idea or premio without examiaovion, Sse 5° 6¢ ee eeoras of omasination. For ali that there 1s e aincrity sm phos Innate prajudices a7 y deep respect for th diseiplined and many sovrees ous ie ogval only to a ge hidden within the pact. ritage of prophesy which is enormous. jus and seouler history is oluost a history of prophesy. Te “he mad sory, with thelr mitivde of creeds and sects; in fra; or im the oyeles of nictursl phon- 2 persistent accompaniment « ‘The past holds a human he: 5 figions of workd he Glue ond political trends of affs rophooy and uethods of prophesy are out of the stream of history stand three civilisations which ourselves. Vid wre pars of one of them id, through the Hebrew hold a strong influence #298 the Egyptial seep orale. mechanios, and art foras. From the third, +h Oriental, we je reseived auch in economies, mechanical ingenui t's esophy. And Terie, we have roseived much from them e]] rete ting ‘ The achievements and attainments of is p Pheconing significant to us in our day. Research, sew ions, end the mon- eratel efforts of numerous soholers have opened stursiing naterisl before Spe. Porhaps the great: rc us moesags ae firet of the wet most closely with nosext Bey we have ass .4 some of the vast store giem’ simes of Figh spiritual at- rongly of the brotherhood of man philosophy iments. Our Chrietian doctrine cavers st erent winduism, while the Hindu Brahna, Yisnu and Shiva correaponde, to He firistion Trinity doctrine. However, from the Orient, of Bhudde, Tibet < [at China, wwe have como only recently to grasp the philcscpyiea? principles of dunlity, principally becuse they seomsd so contrary $0 ‘Srinkterian ten- ete ond postulates in an older doguatiem. qhe besic premise of duality is an effort to approach Ultiae ate Reality as the Creative Basis ‘and First Cause of 1] things. in nature ‘this duality is reflected in opposite poles:-north ‘and south, positive and hozative, masouline and feminine, good end evil, night and day ete. The fen ifestations, or laws, of Nature are viewed as the expressions of the Infin- ite. Ab the heart of the Sayptian and Chaldean philosophies rests virtually / Adentioal approcohes. The keys, or the ‘Goais” of moesuring Nature's Laws,are youn up"in celestial pheiouene, popularly misunderstood in the Western Par ee cer eines us Astrology. Honever, the general misoonooption of 4his field of observation is due to m found in hs ‘one of the most asuse and superficial prejudice. Actu- x i iGur own Christian civilizetion has an extraordinarily full aa of prophetic literature. Its principal source, of course, centers in MM oly Bible, end the broad background of Hebraic writings from which Chris ION gre. Honovor, it ip uot soparete or distinct from either the Beyptian he Oriental influences. Hebrew literature reflects distinct effects of tian, particularly in the Old Testament; while the New Toctament par~ Mele Ancient Oriental precepts. In fact, there are numerous verses in the S sronot’ that are word for word pareilels to verses in holy bocks of To the observer, the galexy of material ~ Christian, Exyp- and Oriontal - intertwined and paralleled as it is, presents more than vo coineidence. Things of such mgnitude cannot morely happen. It follows Ge tnore is conteined in these combined works the manifestation of a Sup- ge Intelligence who is not only the God of the Hebrews, or the Methodists, fhe Roman Catholios, or the Tacists, or the Hindus; but the Divine Ruler The Universe. 4leo, that in Infinite Wisdom the strange phenomena on the Sof che Earth, known as man, with the body of an animsl bwt an intelli- 0° Nniike any othor form of anita] life, is evolving a clear plan of Des- fg._or purpose. He is working out the skein of Divine Will, e Wi11 which Ghiy has a purpose long conceived, but is reverled to those of His poople Swill hear and seo. ‘ But, as every action must have @ rescticn in Nature's Lew, so sp destiny ip a combination of the positive ana negative, the good and the y the pure and the debased. As fine steel is impossible without the Ffarging of ren iroa, so man connot attsin his Ultimve Reality witil life is Garged of ovil, of debasenont, the selfish, the negative, ote. And it seems aroxt that uanlind's evoluéion hes been a surge between the forces of the putive end the power of the positive - Good versus vil; Infinite \isdoa fous Satanic brute force. To trace man's destiny we com only attempt to arch for the keys ia any possible Divine Revelation and Nature} Laws. Our exaninstion is now confined, not, to personal hopes, or the rom [ préjudioes, but to these apparent keys wi and Celestis? pheriomena. They are = (a) The Great Pyramia in the light of its mthomatical co- x Fiination with astronomical date and historical events. (b) Those prophotical sections of the Holy Bible which appear 0 co-ordinate completely with the current epoch in which we live. = (e) Celestial phenomena and its peculierly consistent co- sGieinesion with eajor evente and shanges in political-sovial-ccononic aftaire® the World. For our present purpose much theory must be avoided in all £4f these departuonts. However, there is a vast fund of published miteriel at hand for the reader who desires to go further for himself into really ex- hhnistive study. Our object here will bo to merely exeuine the deta which hes S-Pesulted from a long period of selection, in en effort to-form-a basis for a /practioal interpretation of the prospects which ere converging upon us. aechapter To ‘THE GREAT PYRAMID the enormous amount of details invumerable scholars offer ES concerning the Grent Pyramid comands the rospect of everyone; for ooreadives prove tho veracity of most of the opinions. Today, or- mp fiinieh mike a virtua) religion out of Pyramid study, flourish; Serie, Rosterusian and zany mete-physioal Groups heve recognized the repioant doteils of the Pyramid sinoo tho Middle Ares. vamid_heid significance in the winds of the a2 the United Statse of America is reflected by an adaptetion of it de of the Gront Seal of the Republic ceeeabe is stressed in several plnces in the Bible. One statonent is Eownted: "In that day shell there be an altar to the Lord ip the midst Tier of the border thereof to the Lord: And “and of Egypt, and « pil: The for e sign and for @ witness unto tho Lord of Hosts in the Land fpjot". Isaiah 19:19-20. And there ere other striking references. Ge cbeen placed on the reverse 63 e The exact date of building is not uniformly scvepted by = x ESciable authoritios. Te ws hardly started prior to SS44 3. 0- besnuse setronomice! amen it reveeis. The generally assorted dete when the was started is 2644 B. C., al’ hough Others insist thet 2200 B. C. 170 B. C. or B14e B.C ooation is very P-ene pero depres of tHe sign Taurus in @ Zedine (not Constellations of the present day). In terms ce Tatitude 29° 58° si" Korth; Longitude 21° .09' Bast, on Gbyan Desert adjoining the Sahara. It is one Of 36 GS yost of the Nale River which were eveoted bebresn 2700 B. C. and cr tae Great Fyranid was tho fret and grestest to be built. Tt le entirely of stone. Tt was built ie in relation to It is a veritable ! 1 library rather than merely & T puilt as a toad modern opinion bolieves that it was never intended for hurdal looele but that its design was used as a method of cemoufleg- Pits nessace to posterity. At any rate its entire structure in laid out iva quthemmtical precision which gives new moaning to history und pro- S Of the more importent and seholarly works on the subject “The Great XK yD. Davidson, M. C. is outstanding. Others of stone" by Joseph A. Sioss, D. D-, “The Mystery by Charles S. Knight, and the triclogy Ex viorton sigar “The Great Pyramid, Its Sclentific Features! "the Gross Fyre BAj Its Tine Feetures" and "The Grest Fyranid. Its Spiritus) Symbolicn EG the yein of the latter is the extraordinary work by Paul Brunton fitted féareh in Sooret Deyp+", which hus been reprinted recently by Dutton's, le cannot take the spsce to reiterate ell of the fectuel Ge surrounding the design or plan of the Grest Pyranid: However; a fen of roan pented by Potrie, Devidson, Suyth and Senior beer repoti- Ein part, Phe cbaervacions to follow depend much on their deta, It Le Be