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Novus Spiritus: Follow-up II to "An Aramaic Prayer?"

Sylvia Browne's Story Changes Yet Again.

Published: Apr 09, 2008
Written by: Robert S. Lancaster

The prayer

The prayer.

Background

This article adds to the story told in "Novus Spiritus: An Aramaic Prayer? and "Novus Spiritus: Followup to An Aramaic Prayer?

If you have not read these articles, I suggest you do so before reading this one.

However, to sum up, Browne has been teaching the above prayer to her followers for years, but the story about its origins has changed several times now. Here is the sequence of events so far:

1. The prayer was said to be in ancient Aramaic.

2. An article was published here, with quotes from a linguistics professor that the prayer was not Aramaic (ancient nor modern).

3. Linda Rossi (Browne's business manager) contacted me, stating that no matter what any professor said, the prayer was in some unknown version of Aramaic.

4. The linguistics professor stated this was not possible.

5. Rossi contacted me again, stating that now, Browne was claiming that the prayer was not in Aramaic, but that those who first spoke the prayer were speaking "in tongues" when they said it.

6. In September of 2007, another article was published on this site detailing all of this, including the fact that Browne herself says that people who "speak in tongues" are actually speaking a language of Atlantis.

Four months after that article was published, Browne put yet another spin on the origins of the "prayer." This article details that new spin.

Temples on the Other Side

Temples on the Other Side

Temples on the Other Side.

On page 68 of the hardcover edition of her January 2008 book Temples on the Other Side, Browne says the following (emphasis mine):

After Francine presented information on the Temple of Meditation in the infamous salon, we received several letters and emails reporting that people were able to go to this hall and that their subsequent meditations were much more successful than normal. Many of them had also used our Gnostic chant "Arem, Shem, Beth, Sedal, Sacravalian, Ahad," which means "Blessed be this Queen on high, Who is sacred to all that come to Her."

Francine gave me this chant many years ago, and when I asked her what language it was in, she said, "None that is known now." Apparently it's an archaic combination of words or sounds that describe and give homage to the Mother God, and they go so far back into antiquity that researchers on the Other Side have charted them to be thousands of years old and have determined that they came through an early prophet.

Analysis

After her claims of this "prayer" being in ancient Aramaic were proven to be false, Browne (again) changed her story, saying that it is simply "words and sounds" from an unknown language.

So far, the explanation has gone from the "prayer" being in Ancient Aramaic, to an "unknown" Aramaic, to speaking in tongues (Atlantean), to simply "words and sounds" in an unknown and unspecified language.

Conclusion

After reading all three of the articles here about "Arem, Shem...", I hope that the reader does further research and comes to his or her own conclusion.

My personal conclusion is that this "prayer" was something Browne simply made up in what she thought sounded like Aramaic, assuming (incorrectly) that this would never be checked. Ever since that explanation was proven to be false, she and her staff have scrambled through several different explanations, this simply being the latest.

If Browne or her staff wishes to email this site with their explanation as to why this story has changed so many times, I would be glad to publish it, in its entirety, on this web site.

My thanks to those, including former Novus Spiritus minister Nancy Williams, who brought Browne's latest explanation to my attention.

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