Clarion Call.
We Are Called to Advance into the Glories of the New Space Age -- through the Door of Universal Peace / Flying Saucers Are Friendly
1960--1960 Quarterly
Prescott, AZ.
Editor: A. Culverwell.
1/1, March 1960-2/4, Winter 1960.
50 cents a copy, $2.00 a year, 8-12 pp.

Annabell (or Anna Belle) Krebs Culverwell (1902-1998) was a cartoonist and symbolist artist with roots in New Age and Neo-Theosophy. In the late 1930s she was active in the social-gospel "Christian Socialist" groups in New York City, for which she wrote and illustrated a proto science-fiction graphic novel/cartoon for children, The Adventures of Skuddabud, which related the tale of Mother Skuddabud and her 27 children who were forced to leave their dying planet and travel to earth. After trying and failing to throw herself off the George Washington Bridge in 1950 she moved to California and moved easily into the UFO-contactee movements around George Van Tassel at Joshua Tree. She herself was said to have had a UFO contact in 1955. In 1961 she published The Moon is Inhabited, which combines science fiction, catastrophism, pacifism and Theosophy with a science-fiction voyage from an earth doomed by nuclear testing to the moon, where the benevolent lunarians teach mankind the wonders of universal peace, and help rebuild the earth. She herself This journal appeared in Prescott, Arizona, in a short interlude before Culverwell took up residence in the Ozarks of Missouri, where she died in 1998. The journal was a largely unfocused compilation of New Age nostrums, advice on preparedness for the catastrophy of a shift in the earth’s magnetic axis, androgeny, "New-Age Electro-Magnetics," theories of UFOs, etc. The journal contained excerpts from Hilton Hotema, Raymond Bernard, L. Ron Hubbard, "Sanat Kumara" and the Brotherhood of Seven Rays, Gerald Heard, George Van Tassel, and others, many with Culverwell’s comments. Most of the journal was written by Culverwell herself under variants of her names or as "Editor," and most frequently as "Columba," the pseudonym she had used for her paintings since the 1930s. The covers of this journal featured art by Culverwell, color copies of which ("framed, with an explanation of meaning on the back") could be obtained for $5.00. The journal also carried fund-raising advertisements for Culverwell’s planned Cosmic Arts Shrine in the Ozarks. It was to be "the 9th Wonder of the World, because of its novel design (Never before seen) and its effect of raising consciousness to higher levels, with increased magnetism," and was to have featured symbolic art, presumably by Columba, and a New Age Health Bar (with uncooked Rose Elixir and unbaked Sunshine Balls, etc.). Investors were promised life-long, secure and perpetually profitable returns from what was touted as a "great tourist attraction of unusual beauty and edification," but when Columba died almost 40 years later the project was still incomplete.

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