| Episode number | MB31 (Part 31 of 42) |
|---|---|
| Original air date | December 3, 1993 |
| Broadcast | Hour of the Time, WWCR shortwave |
| Chapter title | Ice: The Ultimate Disaster (Tom Valentine) |
| Format | Rebroadcast with commentary; includes an interview reading and a letter from A. Ralph Epperson |
| Primary text read on air | Interview transcript from 5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster by Richard W. Noone (1982); also Albert Pike, Legenda (1888) via an Epperson letter |
| Listen | Stream the series on archive.org |
Episode Summary
Episode 31, aired December 3, 1993, is a rebroadcast of a program that originally ran June 23, 1993. Cooper explains that it is being rerun because he wants listeners to hear it again following what he describes as disinformation broadcast on Radio Free America immediately before this program. The episode serves a polemical purpose: it identifies Tom Valentine, a prominent figure on Radio Free America and the Liberty Lobby network, as a member of the Stelle Group, an organization Cooper describes as a Mystery School.
The broadcast’s structure is unusual. Cooper reads an extended interview from Richard W. Noone’s book 5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster, deliberately withholding the identity of the person being interviewed until the end. He labels the interviewer Number 1 and the interviewee Number 2 throughout, asking listeners to guess who Number 2 is. The technique is designed to allow the interviewee’s philosophy to speak for itself before listeners know whose views they are hearing.
Number 2’s statements form the bulk of the broadcast. He describes the Great Pyramid of Giza as not a tomb but a monument to human perfection and the oldest artifact of an ancient religious belief system. He traces the pyramid’s builders to a group he calls the Hyksos, who he argues were a remnant of a far more ancient civilization. Cooper interrupts to identify this framework as the myth of ancient Atlantis or Mu and as, in his reading, the esoteric root of the Nazi concept of the master race. Number 2 states that Freemasonry is an offshoot of the Hyksos group, which became the Brotherhood of secret keepers who have preserved ancient wisdom underground through the centuries.
The interviewee then describes his own religious journey: from atheism through anthropology to an acceptance of reincarnation, human perfectibility, and what he calls esoteric information from the Stelle Group. He recounts a formative experience in which his son, who nearly drowned in 1960, was revived after forty-five minutes of unconsciousness and described the events of his own rescue as if watching from outside his body. This experience led Number 2 to accept the existence of the human mind as a discrete bundle of mental energy distinct from the body. He goes on to describe the Hyksos philosophy as the belief that human beings can become perfect if they work toward that end, which Cooper identifies as the heart and soul of Mystery Babylon: the doctrine that man himself will become God.
Cooper’s most pointed commentary comes when Number 2 describes the argument between Lucifer and Jehovah in his esoteric cosmology. Number 2 presents it as follows: Jehovah believed humans could advance in a perfect Edenic environment, but they stagnated, so Lucifer argued they needed problems to overcome and removed Eden to force growth. Cooper uses this passage to underscore the series’ central thesis about the Luciferian doctrine examined in earlier episodes.
At the end of the rebroadcast, Cooper reveals that Number 2 is Tom Valentine. He then reads a letter received the same day from A. Ralph Epperson, which quotes Albert Pike’s Legenda of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, a work Pike wrote in 1888. Epperson cites page 109 of the 28th-degree section, where Pike writes that nothing is produced from nothing and that the claim that the world came from nothing is a monstrous absurdity. Cooper reads this as Pike explicitly rejecting the God of the Bible in favor of a material deity who creates nothing, and identifies this as the god of Freemasonry, the Stelle Group, the Knights Templar, the Knights of Malta, and the Rose Cross.
The closing section is among the most direct in the series. Cooper addresses the priests of Mystery Babylon directly, stating that their goal of a thousand years of earthly peace is a lie because they are human beings subject to the same failings they attribute to the masses. He identifies the Hegelian method, controlling both sides of a conflict, as the operational strategy of the secret societies, and charges that Tom Valentine never discussed Freemasonry on Radio Free America until Cooper’s broadcasts forced the subject onto the network.
Key Claims Made in This Episode
Documented from the broadcast. The site records these claims; it does not endorse them. Dated claims also appear in the series timeline.
- Cooper claims that Tom Valentine was a member of the Stelle Group for most of his life, that the Stelle Group teaches a Luciferian philosophy of human perfectibility, and that Valentine’s membership makes his journalism on Radio Free America a form of esoteric propaganda.
- Cooper claims the Great Pyramid of Giza was never a tomb for a pharaoh but is a monument to human perfection and the oldest artifact of the ancient religious belief system he calls Mystery Babylon, and that its builders encoded a 6,000-year calendar beginning in 4000 BC.
- Cooper claims the builders of the Great Pyramid were the Hyksos, a remnant of a destroyed pre-Egyptian civilization, and that Freemasonry is a direct descendant of the secret Brotherhoods the Hyksos established.
- Cooper claims the Stelle Group, as stated in its own publications through its leader Eklal Kueshana, teaches that Lucifer is the head of a secret Brotherhood of Spirits who abolished Eden to force human spiritual advancement.
- Cooper claims that the philosophy attributed to Mystery Babylon across the series, that man can become God through self-perfection, is identical to the philosophy articulated by Number 2 in the Noone interview and to the philosophy underlying National Socialism.
- Cooper claims that Albert Pike, in his 1888 book Legenda, explicitly states that the claim the world was created from nothing is a monstrous absurdity, thereby rejecting the God of the Bible and confirming that the deity of Freemasonry is not the Creator God.
- Cooper claims that the Sun Radio Network, which carries Radio Free America, is named for the sun god, and that Pike’s Morals and Dogma identifies the supreme being of the Egyptians, Ammon, as the sun god who created nothing, making the network’s name an occult signal.
- Cooper claims that the Mystery Babylon 6,000-year calendar, which begins in 4000 BC and ends in the year 2000, is encoded in the Great Pyramid’s system of passages and chambers as a chronological graph, as described in a book called The Ultimate Frontier.
- Cooper claims that the Age of Aquarius began on August 23, 1953, as stated by Number 2 drawing on Stelle Group chronology.
Primary Sources Cited in This Episode
| Source | Status | Where to find it |
|---|---|---|
| Richard W. Noone, 5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster (1982), interview transcript | Not public domain; read at length on air, treated here under quotation only | Library copies; see sources hub |
| Albert Pike, Legenda of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States (1888) | Public domain | Search archive.org for reprints |
| Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871) | Public domain | Search archive.org for scans |
| A. Ralph Epperson, The New World Order (1990), quoted in Epperson’s letter to Cooper | Not public domain; brief extract quoted | Library copies; see sources hub |
| Richard Kieninger (writing as Eklal Kueshana), The Ultimate Frontier (1963), referenced by Number 2 | Not public domain; referenced not quoted | Library copies; see sources hub |
| Rex Hutchins, A Bridge to Light (Masonic publication quoting Pike’s Legenda; referenced in Epperson letter) | Not public domain | Library copies; see sources hub |
Notable Quotes
Nothing is produced from nothing, because existence can no more cease to be than nothing can cease not to be. To say that the world came forth from nothing is to propose a monstrous absurdity.
Cooper, MB31, December 3, 1993, reading from A. Ralph Epperson’s letter quoting Albert Pike’s Legenda (1888), page 109, 28th degree section
Historians’ View
Tom Valentine’s membership in the Stelle Group is not independently documented in mainstream biographical sources, and Cooper’s presentation of the 1976 interview from Noone’s book as definitive proof relies on Valentine’s statements about the group in that context being continuous with his views in 1993. The Stelle Group is a documented New Age communal organization founded by Richard Kieninger, and the quote from Kieninger’s writings about Lucifer as head of a Brotherhood is accurately sourced to Epperson’s book. The identification of the Hyksos with the builders of the Great Pyramid is an interpretive framework associated with popular esoteric literature rather than mainstream archaeology; the current scholarly consensus dates the Great Pyramid’s construction to the reign of Khufu, around 2560 BC, and traces it to documented Egyptian engineering traditions. The Pike quotation from Legenda is accurately presented as genuine and was confirmed by Epperson’s letter; the claim that it constitutes a rejection of the biblical Creator God is Epperson’s and Cooper’s reading of what is technically a statement about cosmological philosophy. We record all claims as broadcast; we do not endorse them.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Mystery Babylon episode 31 about?
Episode 31 is a rebroadcast from June 1993 in which Cooper reads an extended interview from Richard W. Noone’s book 5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster, concealing the identity of the interviewee until the end. He then reveals the speaker as Tom Valentine, a radio host on Radio Free America, and uses the interview to document Valentine’s connection to the Stelle Group and its Luciferian philosophy. The episode closes with a new letter from A. Ralph Epperson quoting Albert Pike’s Legenda on the nature of the Masonic god. Related material is on the Luciferian Doctrine and New Age hub.
Who was Tom Valentine and why does Cooper target him?
Tom Valentine was a journalist and broadcaster associated with Willis Carto’s Liberty Lobby network and its Radio Free America program. Cooper identifies him as a longtime member of the Stelle Group, a New Age organization teaching Mystery Religion philosophy, and argues that Valentine’s attacks on Cooper as a CIA disinformation agent are motivated by his role as a priest of Mystery Babylon seeking to suppress exposure of the network.
What is the Stelle Group?
The Stelle Group was a communal New Age organization founded by Richard Kieninger, who wrote under the name Eklal Kueshana. Cooper identifies it as a Mystery School teaching the Luciferian doctrine that humans can become gods through self-perfection, and connects it to the broader network of secret societies examined throughout the series. The Stelle Group quote about Lucifer as head of a Brotherhood first appeared in episode 18.
Where can I listen to episode 31?
The series is preserved at archive.org. The site never hosts or distributes the audio; see our content policy.
Continue the Series
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- Next: MB32: Letter by a Humanist Police Chief
- Topic hub: Luciferian Doctrine and New Age
- Related hub: Mystery Schools and Ancient Religion
- Lucifer worship episode: MB18: Lucifer Worship
- Albert Pike sources: Mystery Babylon sources hub
- Every dated claim from this episode: series timeline
- Full index: Mystery Babylon complete episode guide
