April 3, 1970, the first time the voice was recorded
And a discussion of what was said.
“The first time ever I saw Your face….”
When Ray Elkins stumbled to the sofa, barely making it before he collapsed into an unconscious seizure, his wife grabbed the hand-held tape recorder her mother had lent her. Maybe Ray’s neurologist would want to hear? Only recently had he begun mumbling during these coma-like seizures, which he’d had for five years after being found unconscious, almost dead in his truck that dangled precariously on a cliff. Before, she hadn’t been able to understand what he was saying. This time the voice grew stronger.
HERE IS A TRANSCRIPT OF THE FIRST RECORDED WORDS –
on April 3, 1970, Globe, Arizona. (You can listen to the recording here and read along, if you’d like.)
“Not Ray! Who then?” Ray’s wife asked him.
“Body — spirit — soul — God! — many worlds — many universes — many galaxies, like pebbles on a beach, so vast. Each galaxy set up for man[‘s] expansion.”
“Which is most important?”
“God!”
“Who is God?”
“God is everything.”
“Not one thing?”
“Not one thing, but everything. God is………….is God!”
“[Who] do you want to tell me about?”
“In the beginning — in the beginning God gave man[‘s] spirit because He was lonely. Then [man’s] spirit was not enough, because spirit always knew of God — in spirit — so many spirits — so many, many spirits.
“Then God thought, “I SHOULD [MAKE] MAN, FOR I HAVE USE [FOR, OF] THIS [MAN].” Before, before there were many gods, like our God, before [the two] worlds, many worlds….” [Listen here.]
Editor’s note: An account of the Creation appears in most religions and traditions throughout the world. Those of Judeo-Christian tradition may be reminded of some of these words in Genesis 1:26–29 below:
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds:the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animalsaccording to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
Note: At this point, part of the recording from which these words were transcribed was erased and recorded over. The short tape on which these words were recorded had run out by the time Ray’s wife was given instructions on how to awaken him. So she rewound the tape to this point and recorded her instructions. They have been moved to the end of this transcript.
Throughout this conversation, their television set is playing in the background. It gets louder as her two children seem to be watching a show. His wife appears to have left it on when Ray fell onto the sofa in a seizure. When she saw he was safe, she’d quickly grabbed the tape recorder. In the five years since his 1965 brain injuries, Ray had never spoken during the coma-like seizures, nor had he ever been awakened.
The part of the recorded message that wasn’t recorded over continues here, with her question:
“Where can we prove this?”
“Cairo. In Egypt (cough), in Egypt. I was there. And he came and he said, ‘Form thy a church for one God.’ I built Him a temple.”
“What was your name; do you know? We can find out later,” she said after a very long silence. Had the presence who was speaking stopped to pass on through lifetimes of many in spirit who spoke as one, looking through several thousand years, as it may have been trying to bring the answer forward into English in this time?
“I built Him a temple, and God, God sends him [to me.]”
“What did God say?”
Again, perhaps the long silence was as spirit God had sent was reaching through time and into communion with Conciouness to answer directly, as is done in Spirit and in truth.
We are reminded how spirit sent from the Father speaks by these words Jesus spoke (in John 16:13): “But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.” See other descriptions of how spirit sent from God speaks too (Click here.) This has been described by many, and in many faiths, and in many places throughout time.
“Can you hear me?…Ray?”
“Not Ray.”
“Why can’t I call you, Ray?”
“Ray is of this plane. I, by my name, who speaks through him — who’ve taken possessions of his body and soul, there to guide him, that others may learn through him — that they may learn [the] way to God.”
“What can Ray do to help you?”
“For Ray is I, and I am Ray.”
“Can you help him?”
“Yes.” [said lovingly.]
“How?”
“Every day, in his walk, in his speech, sometimes he grows irritable with people. The reason is because in his conscious state his mind projects such force, and he does not understand it all.”
“How can we help him understand it?”
“Love, understanding, and listen to him.”
“Don’t I?” [she said, sounding a little defensive.]
“Sometime.
“His missions and my mission are to bring man back to God — for when he awakens he will have new knowledge that he has not had before, for he will be able to speak of things I have thought of, and to think knowledge — [He] will be closer to God. Closer to God.”
“How will he know when you want to come again?”
“He will know. I have told him once before that the key — “
“Where is the key?”
“There are other interfering powers.”
“Should Ray wake up now?”
“No. There are other — there are other things which you should ask: one of yourself, one of your mother, one of your aunt, one of your father. I am not permitted to give information about personal souls without consent of souls; only if you ask.
“The key can be opened by yourself. You must relax him; make him rest. He shall have this knowledge; therefore, placing him into a trance state.”
“Should he place himself or should I, and how should he?”
“It would be easier for him if you did this for him.”
“How often?”
“The time or [how] often does not matter — only should he have proper rest in between. When he becomes weak, it is easy for me to come through, but this could kill his body.”
“How can we help his body?”
“Rest. Rest, relaxing of his nervous system.”
“How?”
“Massaging the lower and upper part of his back and neck, using vibration, not as has been used before — the vitamins….”
Editor’s note: Margaret didn’t realize she was leaning against the little reel as the tape recorder turned, so the words became warbly at this point. Also, as these words were spoken, the tape ran out on the small recorder. She rewound the tape to the middle, recording over some of the message to get these instructions on how to wake Ray up.
“…He can awaken, but they are very weakened. You should tell him he will feel better, but tell him how he will feel better — both body and mind. Tell him to remember all things he has heard and seen, and therefore, he will gain a knowledge of my voice. Tell him that his body, all parts, and detail them, will feel better when he awakens, that he will feel completely rested.
Now I am growing very weak, very weak.”
“Then you rest and I will waken Ray.
“Ray — Ray? It’s time to….”
[At this point the recorder was turned off.]
Ray didn’t know what the gift was for a long time. But the voice would speak through his unconscious body each time he left it (to alleviate his severe headaches) and would go to stand with God, as he had done weeks before when he’d died.
Read what happened three days later, here.
As time passed, the voice began to explain more about who it was and why the Father had sent it to speak to men and woman. We recorded Aka, the spiritual messengers of God, speaking through Ray for the next 19 years.
Their words were transcribed and can be found here.
You may also enjoy reading some of their words on Facebook at the Association of Universal Philosophy page.
Learn more about how it happened here.
