The Fatima Message 227
moon to be born. It's happened before, to Atlantis and
Lemuria. It's what caused the birth of your present
moon. Each of these events took place when Hercolubus
completed one of its 6,666 terrestrial year cycles."
"You know, Rama, there's a movie out about what
you're saying. It's called the Restless Earth, and it illus
trates the volcanic belt called the Ring of Fire.
Tell me about California being knocked into the ocean.
You said I could get scientific facts on this."
"Get a copy of the book, The jupiter Effect, by John
Gribbin and Stephen Plageman, Walker & Co., New
York, 1974. It's a new book, just released. That's the one
you should read in order to get the benefits of what
you're going to learn today. The work is a series of
geological and scientific studies around the San Andreas
fault in California. It will give you further reading
suggestions.
If you look at a map of North America, you'll see that
the long strip of Baja California is moving northwest."
"Are you saying it was once a part of the main land?"
"That's right."
"How did it separate?"
"Imagine a piece of bread with some jelly on it. The
jelly would be the land, and the bread the continental
shelf. Half of it is covered with water, which is the Pacific
Ocean. Now, pull your piece of bread down to the right
with one hand, and up to the left with the other. You're
going to break the bread and separate the jelly. Some of
it will break from the main mass on the right, and will
start floating on the left. Whatever strip of jelly moves
away from the main mass would be the equivalent of the
Baja California strip, opening the Gulf of California.
The crack on your piece of bread would be the
continuation of the San Andreas fault, eventually tear
ing apart from the mass of jelly. Los Angeles is only 420
miles away from the tip of the water in the Gulf. In