George King

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George King was an English taxi driver and practitioner of yoga before he became the founder of a new religious movement built around contact with beings he described as living beyond Earth. He said that in May 1959 an inner voice, which he later identified as belonging to a being he called Cosmic Master Aetherius, told him to prepare himself as the voice of an Interplanetary Parliament on Earth.

King had already founded The Aetherius Society in London in 1955 to spread the teachings he said he received from Aetherius and other Cosmic Masters. The organization he built blended his own background in yogic spiritual practice with a UFO centered cosmology holding that advanced extraterrestrial beings actively guide humanity's spiritual development from beyond the planet.

That combination, a taxi driver's personal yoga discipline joined to claimed direct contact with cosmic intelligences, gave The Aetherius Society a distinctive founding identity among the new religious movements of postwar Britain, one built less on inherited scripture than on King's own reported communications with beings he held to be watching over human development from elsewhere in the wider cosmos, a claim central to the Society's founding message from its earliest days in London.

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George King led The Aetherius Society, the organization he founded in London in 1955, for the rest of his life, building branches in several countries before his death in 1997. Across more than four decades of leadership he expanded the movement's UFO centered cosmology and its practice of yogic spiritual discipline into a following that reached well beyond Britain and its original London base.

Alongside that leadership, King used a number of self styled ecclesiastical and honorific titles, including Doctor and Sir, drawn from unaccredited institutions and unofficial orders rather than from any state or recognized academic body. Those titles accompanied him publicly throughout his decades as the Society's founder and leader, presented as markers of standing alongside his claimed role as the voice of an Interplanetary Parliament on Earth.

The combination of an international branch network, a durable cosmology centered on contact with Cosmic Masters, and titles King awarded himself rather than received from any outside authority, together define how outside sources describe his decades long leadership of the movement he built from a single reported voice heard in London one evening in May 1959.