Unveiled Mysteries

This is the first book written by Guy Ballard, founder of the "I AM" Activity, onetime mining engineer, student of , and alleged stock swindler. Although most of his later work was properly renewed at the US copyright office, and is hence still under copyright, someone neglected to file the renewal paperwork for this book, so it has entered the public domain.

Unveiled Mysteries describes an encounter with St. Germain (see also ), here described as an Ascended Master, virtually a God, and able to manipulate the fabric of reality. Ballard describes a series of astral trips in time and space with St. Germain, to lost civilizations in South America and the Sahara, as well as well-stocked bunkers of the ancients in the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, and Mount Shasta. Ballard and St. Germain revisit past lives as citizens of and , and they turn out to be relatives. A final chapter mentions encounters with entities from Venus, a theme of later of the 1950s. Connoisseurs of this genre will appreciate Unveiled Mysteries. The book is written in a breathless style with a more than liberal amount of em-dashes, Inappropriate Capitalization, and melodramatic plot-points which resemble golden-age pulp sci-fi. There are incoherent, surreal rants which would not be out of place at a Church of the Subgenius rally.

The book has obvious similarities with , including passages which were probably lifted directly. And much of Ballard's metaphysics, history of lost continents, 'Great White Brotherhood' spiel, and so on, is derivative from Theosophy. However, according to some of Ballard's ex-disciples, plagiarism was probably the least of his spiritual shenanigans.

One notable successor of the "I AM" Activity is the Church Universal and Triumphant of Elizabeth Clare Prophet, which also reveres St. Germain, and also attempted to hole up in the Rocky Mountain area in the 1980s against the threat of nuclear war.

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Title Page and Front Matter
Tribute
Foreword
The Ascension
Contents
Chapter I. Meeting the Master
Chapter II. The Sahara Desert
Chapter III. The Royal Teton
Chapter IV. Mysteries of the Yellowstone
Chapter V. Inca Memories
Chapter VI. Buried Cities of the Amazon
Chapter VII. The Secret Valley
Chapter VIII. God's Omnipresent Power
Chapter IX. Venus Visits the Royal Teton