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What makes New Age religion so attractive to our would-be global overlords
at the UN?
It takes away individuality and makes us subservient slaves to the NWO..
New Age Roots
by Steve Bonta
http://thenewamerican.com/tna//1999/03-01-99/newage.htm
Dark foundations of the New World Order
On the southern edge of Madras, India’s fourth largest city, nestled between
the sea and one of the city’s busiest boulevards, is a sprawling,
well-wooded compound known locally as Adyar. For more than 100 years, Adyar
has been the international headquarters of the Theosophical Society, a
worldwide organization dedicated to the promotion of Eastern religious
thought and the occult.
Nowadays, Adyar is chiefly famous among Madrassis for its large banyan tree,
reputedly the world’s largest. But more than a century ago, this quiet park
witnessed the beginning of a movement that today claims tens of thousands of
adherents worldwide, and enjoys the attention of the world’s power elite at
the United Nations, the World Bank, and other centers of political and
financial power in the United States and Europe. Its influence is felt in
America’s public school classrooms, public and private universities,
thousands upon thousands of misguided churches and synogogues, and in the
varied outlets of our nation’s popular culture. Collectively, the worldwide
movement born at Adyar is called New Age, and its insidious roots now cling
tenaciously to the fabric of our society.
Mother of this devilish creation was the Russian occultist Helena Petrovna
Blavatsky. Born Helena Petrovna in Ekaterinoslav, Russia in 1831, the girl
who was to become the most famous occultist of the 19th century showed an
early interest in magic and the supernatural. At the age of 18, following an
impetuous marriage to Nikifor Blavatsky, a government official more than
twice her age, Helena Blavatsky ran away from her husband and embarked on a
series of worldwide wanderings. Her travels apparently took her across
Europe to the New World, where she wandered through Latin America as well as
Canada and the United States.
Eventually her travels led her to the Indian Subcontinent, where pagan and
occult religion in every conceivable form flourished like nowhere else. For
a number of years, she traveled about India in obscurity. She later claimed
that she spent a significant time in Tibet at a secret monastery where she
received arduous training in the magic arts. At the same time, she later
wrote, she was initiated into a worldwide network of adepts who practiced
what she called "the secret doctrine" or "the wisdom religion."
She also claimed to have been contacted and given direction by two "Ascended
Masters," superhuman beings belonging to an exalted hierarchy of demigods
who secretly guided the affairs of humanity. According to Blavatsky, these
Ascended Masters worked in concert with certain human adepts — individuals
with highly developed occult powers, who generally nurtured their secret
arts in the world’s remotest places, unknown to the rest of humanity.
Blavatsky related that she was first contacted by the "Masters" in London by
a dashing Indian prince dressed in the garb of a Rajput warrior, who called
himself "Morya." Morya told Blavatsky that she had been selected to play a
part in the revival and public promotion of the secret occult tradition,
which had lain hidden for centuries in secret monasteries and libraries in
the remotest reaches of the Himalayas. Accordingly, Blavatsky spent a number
of years in the Himalayas, interacting with both mortals and "Masters," who
(she wrote) instructed her in the ways of the occult and taught her the keys
to unlocking the mysteries of the secret doctrine.
Finally, her training completed, according to her account, Blavatsky
traveled back to Europe, including her native Russia, where she quickly
acquired celebrity for her alleged supernatural powers. She claimed to have
the ability to converse with unseen beings, to read sealed letters, to cause
objects to become unnaturally heavy, to conjure objects out of thin air, to
know of distant events taking place, and so forth. While she apparently made
believers out of her family, friends, and many others, her public life was
dogged by controversy. She was accused of charlatanism and immoral conduct.
It was alleged that she had fabricated her stories of travel in India and
Tibet, having instead spent years in the Parisian demimonde, where she had
gradually developed the idea of passing herself off as a mystic.
Whatever the truth of these allegations, Helena Blavatsky threw herself into
promoting an interest in the occult with missionary zeal. She traveled to
America, where she found a particularly receptive climate for her claims of
occult powers.
America in the 1870s was undergoing a surge of public interest in occult
phenomena, such as "spirit rappings" and seances. Taking up residence in New
York City, Blavatsky quickly established a circle of fellow occult devotees.
Among them were Colonel H.S. Olcott, who would become the first president of
the Theosophical Society and Blavatsky’s alter ego, and W.Q. Judge, a New
York attorney who would be responsible for the explosive growth of the
Society in America in later years.
While in America, Blavatsky produced the two-volume Isis Unveiled, a
rambling work on the role that the occult tradition allegedly played in all
the world’s major religions.
The Theosophical Society was set up in 1875 in New York City, but
personality conflicts and lack of initiative prompted Blavatsky to return to
India to transplant the headquarters to more fertile soil. Before leaving
the U.S. for the last time, however, she became an American citizen, for
reasons that remain obscure. She clearly nurtured no great love for the
United States, as evidenced by her bitter parting words in 1878 to a
reporter from the New York Daily Graphic: "I am glad to get away from your
country. You have liberty, but that is all."
Accompanied by Colonel Olcott and several other friends, Blavatsky sailed to
British India to start afresh. After several problematic years in Calcutta,
she and Olcott found their way to Madras, where they acquired the estate at
Adyar. However, the ferocious heat of south India and various tropical
ailments soon began to take their toll on Blavatsky’s health.
By this time, Colonel Olcott had become thoroughly steeped in the occult as
well, traveling about India and Ceylon, and trafficking with Blavatsky’s
"Ascended Masters" himself. Blavatsky therefore decided to leave
administration of the Society in Olcott’s now-experienced hands, and return
to Europe. In following years, the Society prospered at Adyar as it never
had in New York, attracting the interest of a number of notable British
Indians. Moreover, under Olcott’s direction, the American branch was not
only revived by W.Q. Judge, but grew and flourished.
Helena Blavatsky, in the meantime, ended up in London, where she attracted
the patronage of English aristocrats, radicals, and assorted crackpots.
Realizing that she was near the end of her life, she worked feverishly to
produce her magnum opus, The Secret Doctrine, a much lengthier treatment of
the same themes and occult mythology set forth in Isis Unveiled.
While much of Blavatsky’s life was a mystery, her ideas are not. Both Isis
Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine evince an unholy fascination with
demonology, racist mythology, and secret societies. Though claiming broad
interest in all religions, Blavatsky clearly and unmistakably pitched the
superiority of Eastern religions and shamanic traditions over Christianity.
She entertained a peculiar animus for Catholicism, and her writings are
suffused with rants against the Pope and against most of the doctrines of
the Catholic faith.
Blavatsky was also fascinated with Lucifer/Satan, whom she viewed not as an
enemy, but as a wise being who brought enlightenment to humanity. Not only
that, but she declared, in open contradiction of Holy Scripture, that the
Christian Apostles worshiped Satan: "If we compare the doctrine of Paul with
[that of] Peter and Jude, we find that, not only did they worship Michael,
the Archangel, but that also they reverenced Satan, because the latter was
also, before his fall, an angel! This they do quite openly...."
In Blavatsky’s twisted worldview, all orthodox religions grew out of the
secret occult tradition. Some religions, notably Hinduism and Buddhism,
still actively foster aspects of this tradition, and so meet with her
approval. Orthodox Christianity, on the other hand, has suppressed the
occult teachings she insists are part of its roots, and so stands condemned.
Blavatsky charges that the Apostle Peter was a shameless usurper, that the
Virgin Mary is but a thinly disguised fertility goddess, that Christian
churches are full of obscene and phallic imagery, and that Jesus, far from
being the Son of God, was merely an enlightened mortal who was
"overshadowed" by one of Blavatsky’s "Masters."
Near the end of her life, Blavatsky became acquainted with the woman who was
to become her spiritual heir, the socialist revolutionary Annie Besant.
Besant had been an atheist for many years, following a spiritual crisis
precipitated by a failed marriage. However, when she read a copy of The
Secret Doctrine for the purpose of writing a review, she was converted to
the occultist cause. Seeking out Blavatsky in person, Besant studied under
her for a short time prior to Blavatsky’s death in 1891.
Annie Besant took up the mantle of occult leadership in England after
Blavatsky’s passing, eventually following her mentor’s footsteps to India,
where she studied Eastern mysticism. She also became president of the
Theosophical Society after the death of Colonel Olcott.
Besant was well-known for her leadership in radical political causes, such
as the anti-vivisection movement (the equivalent of modern-day animal rights
activism), the promotion of birth and population control, and various
episodes of union unrest. As a Fabian Socialist, she was personally
acquainted with a number of influential leftists of the day, and was largely
responsible for bringing Theosophy into favor in radical political circles
in Europe.
One aspect of Besant’s newfound religion, which she learned from The Secret
Doctrine and must have taught to her radical friends, is of particular
interest: her bizarre notions of race. From Blavatsky she learned that the
Aryan race (i.e., the progenitors of the various so-called "Indo-European"
language speakers and other "caucasian" groups) was the most highly evolved
human stock, the so-called "Fifth Race." To the Aryans the "Masters" had
supposedly vouchsafed not only the most complete version of the "true"
occult religion, but the purest language as well. The closest surviving
language and religion to that original pure Aryan bequest were the ancient
Vedic texts of India and the archaic form of Sanskrit in which they were
written. Accordingly, in a series of lectures tellingly entitled The Inner
Government of the World, Besant laid out an elaborate taxonomy of races and
sub-races. According to her, east Asians, who are "predominantly emotional
and passional," belong mostly to the Fourth Race. The more highly evolved
"Fifth Race" is the Aryan race, of which, Besant declared, "India is the
common motherland." The various European nationalities Besant catalogued
under numerous "sub-races" which emigrated in prehistorical times from their
central Asian/Indian homeland.
So important was the emphasis on Aryan supremacy that Besant, in a letter to
fellow socialist agitator Charles Bradlaugh, listed as one of the three
objects of the Theosophical Society "to forward the study of Aryan
literature and philosophy." While the modern Society has now substituted for
this object "the study of comparative religion, philosophy, and science,"
the early Society’s obsession with race was to reap a bitter harvest.
The Nazi interest in Aryan supremacy was a direct outgrowth of the inclusion
of that doctrine in Blavatsky’s and Besant’s occult theology. The dreadful
Thule Gesellschaft, the German occult society that shaped the careers of
Adolph Hitler and his inner circle of confidants, borrowed heavily from
Blavatsky’s teachings in its own perverse worldview. In his fascination with
German paganism, Hitler concluded that the Germans were in fact the purest
representatives of the Aryan race, with apocalyptic consequences that need
not be rehashed here.
Although the Theosophical Society remains a force in the occult/New Age
camp, its influence today seems to be confined to the education (or
re-education) of those seeking alternatives to Western religion. The Society
at Adyar parted ways with European and American power elites back in the
1920s, with the expulsion from the Society in America of Alice Bailey and
her husband Foster Bailey. The Baileys inaugurated the Lucis Trust, a New
York-based organization responsible for giving the New Age movement most of
its modern organization and political trappings.
Like Helena Blavatsky, Alice Bailey claimed to have been overshadowed on
various occasions by an "Ascended Master" (named Djwhal Khul), and to have
penned many volumes of occult writing under his influence. The Lucis Trust,
like the Theosophical Society, claims as one of its purposes the advancement
of interest in occult and arcane religion. It runs a number of non-profit
"arcane schools" designed to teach various occult doctrines and practices.
The Lucis Trust is also aggressively involved in promoting a globalist
ideology, which it refers to as "goodwill." Its World Goodwill organization
is closely connected to international elitist circles. Authors and
participants in its various conferences read like a Who’s Who of the
globalist Insiders. Featured on its website, for example, is the Universal
Declaration of Human Responsibilities, put forth in April 1998 as a
companion document to the notorious UN Universal Declaration on Human
Rights. Signatories to the World Goodwill document include: Helmut Schmidt,
former chancellor of West Germany; Malcolm Fraser, former Australian prime
minister; Oscar Arias Sanchez, former prime minister of Costa Rica; Shimon
Peres; Robert McNamara; Paul Volcker; and Jimmy Carter.
Indeed, the Lucis Trust enjoys consultant status at the United Nations and,
judging from the political writings appearing in its publications, it is as
much a political organization as an occult religious one.
If Alice Bailey’s epiphanies of the 1920s and ’30s were the incubating phase
of the New Age movement in its modern form, then the experiences of English
painter Benjamin Creme represent the birth of the most dominant strain of
present-day New Age eschatological religion.
Creme’s story has a familiar ring: Beginning in 1959, he was contacted by
one of the "Ascended Masters," who told him he had a mission to perform for
the advancement of the Masters’ plan for humanity. Creme was instructed to
prepare the way for the coming of one Lord Maitreya, a Master who would
assume human form and begin preparing humanity for the advent of the Age of
Aquarius — a sort of New Age millennium. The Aquarian Age would be a time of
peace, plenty, perfect equality, and global governance under the Masters,
via the United Nations.
Creme claims that on July 1977, Lord Maitreya took a human form and
descended from his hidden redoubt in the Himalayas. He now resides incognito
in the South Asian neighborhood of London, making miraculous appearances
from time to time at religious gatherings all over the world. At some time
in the near future, declares Creme, a global crisis will bring about
conditions for the so-called "Day of Declaration." At that time, Lord
Maitreya will announce his presence on worldwide television, at the same
time "overshadowing" every human being in such a way that all mankind will
recognize him as Master. Thus will the Aquarian Age of peace and prosperity
be ushered in.
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