The Early Days of Unarius, Science of Life
"So far as Dr. Norman's personal life is concerned, there is to the casual observer, no reason to suspect that here is a person with a vast and infinite understanding of life and that he can, at any moment--just as he has done many countless thousands of times transcend all known barriers of time and space, go into the past or future, talk fluently on all known aspects of life and, even though he has an incomplete formal education, is equally conversant with the physicist, the astronomer, the philosopher, the doctor or the nuclear scientist. While this has caused many learned savants, as well as many other people to be dumbfounded and amazed, yet he, in himself, is a very modest and unpretentious individual, dresses and lives simply and shuns public life. " -from Preface to 1961 edition, Voice of Venus
Ernest Norman claimed to be a genius child prodigy, who at age 5 constructed his first microscope using spare parts from his fathers telescope, at age 6 he built a rabbit hutch that was of superior quality than the one built by his neighbor, and around that same time he moved a half ton coal shed using the Archimedes principle of fulcrum.He also claims to have won an argument with his father when he was 8 years old that concerns the nature of magnetic flux. At age 17, he and his family moved to California where he took evening classes at an unnamed school. At age 23 he married his first wife with whom he had his first child. It was during this time where Ernest Norman began to experiment with clairvoyance, palmstry, and fortune telling. A short time before World War II started, Norman and his first wife divorced. Ernest Norman married a second time sometime afterwards, but the marriage didn't last. Ernest L. Norman and Ruth E. Norman, circa 1970, provided by courtesy of Unarius Academy of Science
In February 1954 in Los Angeles, California Ernest Norman met his third wife, Ruth E. Norman (1900-1993). They met at a spiritualist convention, where they say a clairvoyant noticed three white bearded men following Ernest Norman with massive books. Ernest and Ruth Norman claimed these were the spirits of Elisha, Ezra, and Enoch carrying the books that Ernest was going to write in his current lifetime. After their initial meeting at the convention, Ernest Norman "channeled" and wrote a book on poetry and prose called The Elysium (published in 1956), which would later be followed by its sequel, The Anthenium (published in 1964). With Ruth Norman's assistance, Ernest Norman gave a 12-week lecture in California called "Pathway to the Stars" in Los Angeles, California, where he described in detail how energy functions, what he saw in the celestial worlds, psychic protection, and parapsychology. In this lecture, Ernest Norman stated that the people of planet Earth are being guided and watched over by a large fraternal brotherhood called Unarius, which was formerly known as Shamballah or the White Brotherhood on Earth, and that any human being could make contact with these "Higher Beings" (sometimes also called Space Brothers, "Brothers", or "Brothers of the Light")because everyone is capable of using psychic abilities. Eventually, the Pathway to the Stars lecture course was compiled with further articles and printed as a book entitled the Infinite Concept of Cosmic Creation. The new articles, which included an advanced course based on the initial Pathway to the Stars lecture, further detailed the interdimensional science that Ernest Norman was trying to convey during his lecture series. It was during this time he took on the moniker of the Unarius Moderator, or simply the Moderator. Unarius was officially formed as an nonprofit corporation in the state of California in 1957, as the Unarius Educational Foundation.
During the 1960's a student presented Ernest Norman with an out of print book called The Occult Life of Jesus of Nazareth (1860), a book channeled by a Spiritist medium named Alexander Smyth (not to be confused for the politician of the same name), to which Norman said to be the true story of the life of Jesus. In this book, Jesus of Nazareth (called "Jose" by those who loved him) was not the "son of God" as he was portrayed in other religious stories, but rather a brilliant ethical humanist who was attempting to bring a more intelligent and philosophical way to approaching God that did not include the overseeing authorities of the church. Also, in this book that man who would be known Paul the Apostle, formerly Saul of Tarsus, was a grand conspirator who was using the wise teachings of Jesus for to gain power for himself. Not long after, the book the Crucifixion, by An Eye-Witness was also found by Ernest Norman and both books were combined and published into the book The True Life of Jesus of Nazareth (nicknamed the "Jose Book" by some students).
Ernest Norman, Ruth Norman and their students put together a series of testimonials of various past-life relivings and spiritual healing that they themselves claimed to have occurred because of their tutelage under Ernest Norman, and made a sequel to the "The True Life of Jesus of Nazareth" called The Little Red Box. They claim that they were all in a re-living of their past-lives together when Ernest Norman was on Earth in ancient Jerusalem as Jesus, and they were his followers and enemies reincarnated once more to heal themselves of the karma they accumulated in that life-time. There were numerous claims of miraculous healing from even students who studied Ernest Norman's methods in other states.
The passing of Ernest Norman and the future of Unarius
In 1971, Ernest Norman passed away. The cause of death was bilateral viral pneumonia, as a consequence of influenza. Because Unarius students do not believe in death only "transition" to other worlds or dimensions, many students believe that Ernest Norman has made further contact with them through Unarius student psychic channels and relayed messages and further teachings to them. These teachings could be directly from him, or his various supposed incarnations.
A good number Unarius students also believe that Ernest Norman was overshadowed by an Archangel named Raphiel[3] in his earthly incarnations on Earth and in previous lifetimes in other worlds. Archangel Raphiel should not be confused with the biblical Archangel Raphael, as the title of "Archangel" within the vernacular of Unarius means something close to "Supreme Master", and the name Raphiel is an acronym for ""Radiant Absolute Pure Healing Infinite Eternal Light". The Unariun Archangel Raphiel is part of a Hierarchy of Higher Beings who oversee the development of the universe, but do not surpass God (called the Infinite Creative Intelligence by Ernest Norman). The revelations of the Archangels came about when Ruth E. Norman took over as leader of Unarius after Ernest Norman passed away.
The Meaning of "Unarius"
Although not initially stated outright by Ernest Norman, during his lectures and through his books we learn the various meanings of the word "Unarius":
The first is an acronym which is Universal Articulate Interdimensional Understanding of Science
The second meaning is a definition in which he states that Unarius means "Love in Action"
The third appears as a synonym for "Infinity"
Unarius is synonymous with "Leadership" as it is the name of one of the of the 7-celestial centers Ernest Norman visited in the books from the "Voice Of..." series, "The Pulse of Creation"
According to Ernest Norman, Unarius is now the current name of of the celestial kingdom of formerly known as Shamballah
