March 2005 |
Bloody Utopian
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“Ideas grow out of history; they also
shape history.” Stuart R. Schram, The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung [1].“Power kills; absolute Power kills absolutely.”
R.J. Rummel, Death By Government [2].Author’s Note: This is the first article in a multi-part series on New Age
thought and political utopianism.Part 2:
The Enigma of the Third Reich |
Part 3: The Politics and Religion
of Population Control
Ever since humanity was ushered out of the Garden of Eden for rebellion against
God (Genesis 3), we have been constantly scheming and working towards unifying
Man with some system of Paradise. From the mystical doctrines of the Egyptian
mystery religions to the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union, from Plato’s
Republic and council of wise men to the dreams and aspirations of a globally
enhanced United Nations – mankind has sought to create the “perfect utopian”
society shaped in Man’s image.The New Age Movement fits in nicely with this concept, envisioning a spiritually
evolved humanity coupled with a complete global social, political, and economic
system [3]. It’s a world where cosmic harmony and attunement motivates and
permeates each group and individual, and where every nation and culture can come
together in solidarity and equity. If you’re thinking that all of this sounds
like a blend of Karl Marx’s communism and H.P. Blavatsky’s Theosophical
mysticism, you’re not far off.
Spiritually Endorsing the Great Atheist-Experiment
Marx, the founder of communism, postulated a model for state control of all
economic production [4]. His ideas, interpreted and carried forward by V.I.
Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Tse-tung, were an attempt to achieve the utopian
atheist political and economic regime. The results of this experiment in
paradise-building; over 100 million dead, millions more imprisoned, vast regions
depopulated, and suffering such as the world has never before seen [for a
statistical analysis of government sponsored mass murder, see R.J. Rummel, Death
By Government, Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917, and
China’s Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900.)But never mind the mountain range of corpses, the New Age Movement and the
spiritual masters behind New Age thought have somehow managed to transcended the
biggest bloodbath in history.Consider the following quotes from the New Age spirit master, Maitreya the
Christ, as channeled to Benjamin Crème – keep in mind, these words were
transmitted during the height of the Cold War,“Man is One. That, essentially, is what Marx is saying. Man is One, Humanity is
One. Eventually, all social systems will tend towards a system which encourages
that brotherhood or Oneness of man which Marx senses, as a spiritual Being.”
[5]
(Author’s note: Maitreya then tells Crème that the fault in the theory was how
it was imposed!)“In the future, the not too distant future, we will come
to see that all political systems are divine expressions. There is more in
common between true Democracy and true Communism than there would seem to be
today. What is called communism today as it exists in Russia, China and the
Communist world, is in no sense true Communism, but it is an evolving
structure, moving towards a more perfect expression of the thought-form as
it exists in the Divine Mind; likewise with Democracy.”[6]
In another series of New Age messages channeled during the Cold War, the spirit
being calling itself “I AM” transmitted an extensive plan for a worker’s world
communist paradise.“The old world has come to its end. You know that the end only happens once. It
has been prophesied all through history, and the end of fantasies comes now.
Everyone waited for the end. Even the Communists who said they were Communists
waited for the end. They taught that Capitalism and Socialism could coexist
together. Yes, they can coexist together until the end; but Communism must begin
now. Actually, everyone wants Universal Communism, which is the same as real
Communism.
“All the things I channeled through Karl Marx follow the same social science and
economics I taught in the Bible and am teaching here….
“The major religions are facing Socialism as a force they can build my Kingdom
with, and they will take the initiative and introduce Communism into it. No
sermon preached of any world religion that leaves out Marxism-Leninism can face
the immediate reality.” [7]This is only one small portion of I AM’s message. In fact, the entire text,
titled God – Ultimate Unlimited Mind – Speaks, is over 450 pages in length and
has, as a central theme, the literal establishment of a “New World Government”
through a planetary form of “true” Communism.One particular Ascended Master, the
Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul [in the New Age
an Ascended Master is a highly evolved spiritual entity], channeled the raisons de’être for the despots and tyrants of the last two hundred years, ascribing to
them a high and beneficial role in the development of human spiritual
enlightenment. Alice Bailey, one of the more prominent leaders of the
Theosophical movement [Theosophy has been a key factor in the creation of
today’s modern New Age Movement], recorded the Tibetan’s words in her book, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy,“They [France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal] have…reacted to that force
[Shamballa Force] through the medium of certain great and outstanding
personalities who were peculiarly sensitive to the will-to-power and the
will-to-change and who…have altered the character of their national life, and
emphasised increasingly the wider human values. The men who inspired the
French revolution; the conqueror, Napoleon; Bismarck, the creator of
a nation; Mussolini, the regenerator of his people; Hitler, who lifted a
distressed people upon his shoulders; Lenin, the idealist; Stalin and Franco are
all expressions of the Shamballa force and of certain little understood
energies. These have wrought significant changes in their day and generation…
“We call these people dictators, demagogues, inspired leaders, or just and wise
men, according to our particular ideology, tradition, attitudes to our fellowmen
and our particular political, economic and religious training. But all these
leaders are…in the last analysis, highly developed personalities. They are
being used to engineer great and needed changes and to alter the face of
civilization…
“Blame not the personalities involved or the men
who produce these events before which we stand today bewildered and
appalled. They are only the product of the past and the victims of the
present. At the same time, they are the agents of destiny, the creators of
the new order and the initiators of the new civilization; they are the
destroyers of what must be destroyed before humanity can go forward along
the Lighted Way.”[8]“…They are the destroyers of what must be destroyed…” Think about it! This
section of The Externalisation of the Hierarchy was written in 1939, the year
World War II began. Hitler’s atrocities against his own people – particularly
the infirmed and incurables – was known by 1939, as was his treatment of German
Jews [9]. Mussolini’s tactics were also known, as was the executions by Franco’s
Nationalists Spain [10].
Lenin and Stalin’s crushing of their own people, soaking the Russian motherland
with the blood of its citizens, was known too
[11]. And the
French Revolution, with its forests of guillotines, had kick started
revolutionary ideologies that had bled Europe and other parts of the world over
and over again [12].But remember, it was the master Djwhal Khul, a spiritual entity that can
supposedly transcend time and space [hence, ignorance cannot be used as an
excuse], that basically proclaimed all of this death and destruction as good and
necessary. Why? So that “humanity can go forward along the Lighted Way.”Welcome to the real New Age
Now please understand, not every New Age leader, author, or medium speaks highly
of communism or despotism. Most of the time the word “communism,” or the names
of Marx or Lenin, never enters into the New Age lexicon. But there is a
remarkably shared vision between the New Age “global society” – the ideal of a
centralist system with a completely transformed humanity – and the centralist
utopian visions of political tyrants, complete with their various concepts of
human social transformation.How so? The New Age Movement, like the political utopians of the twentieth
century, seeks a “perfect world” balanced by economic, political, and spiritual
unity and harmony. It’s the World State, where global citizenship and planetary
spirituality merges into the “perfect centralized” system.In this mystical paradise society, nature, man, and God are placed on the same
plane. Mankind, once spiritually evolved and recognizing its collective
consciousness, is God. Likewise, the despot rulers of our immediate past
exhibited the same ego-mania: the atheist state, a product of evolved man, was
touted as God – and the Party and its leaders were the voice of this
despotic-state deity.Both ideologies, in their various forms and conceptions, sought and seek to
re-create the Garden of Eden. But this Garden, be it built by Leninism or
constructed by men and women who follow the teachings of other-worldly voices,
cannot escape the facts of human nature – greed, arrogance, and a never ending
focus on self. Scarier yet, the spirit masters forwarding this centralist New
Age society exhibit qualities that parallel human fallacies. What would these
channeled entities like to see destroyed so that “humanity can go forward along
the Lighted Way”?A utopian New Age united world, where tolerance is enforced in the name of
diversity, and mankind steered down the path of social and spiritual
transformation; would it be any different than the Communist system, where the
hammer crushed indiscriminately and the sickle reaped were it did not sow?
See also Part 2: The
Enigma of the Third ReichPart 3: The Politics
and Religion of Population Control
Endnotes:
1. Stuart R. Schram, The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung (Praeger Publishing,
1963/67), p.15.2. R.J. Rummel, Death By Government (Transaction Publishers, 1994), p.1.
3. For some examples of this type of thinking, see Marilyn Ferbuson’s book, The
Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s (J.P.
Tarcher Inc., 1980), Desmond E. Berghofer, The Visioneers (Creative Learning
International Press,1992), Robert Muller, New Genesis: Shaping a Global
Spirituality (World Happiness and Cooperation, 1982/1993), Alice Bailey, The
Rays and the Initiation (Lucis Publishing Company, 1960), Lucile W. Green,
Journey to a Governed World: Thru 50 Years in the Peace Movement (The Uniquest
Foundation, 1991), John Randolph Price, The Super Beings (The Quartus
Foundation, 1981), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man (Harper & Row,
1959/1969), Peter Russell, The Global Brain: Speculations on the Evolutionary
Leap to Planetary Consciousness (J.P. Tarcher, 1983), William D. Hitt, The
Global Citizen (Battelle Press, 1998), and the works of Barbara Marx Hubbard.
See also the various speeches from the 1893, 1993, 1999, and 2004 Parliament of
the World’s Religions.4. See Karl Marx’s books and tracts, particularly Das Kapital, The Communist
Manifesto (co-authored by Friedrich Engles), and Wage-Labour and Capital.5. Benjamin Crème, The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom
(London, England, The Tara Press, 1980), p.181.6. Ibid., p.176.
7. Channeled through and penned by Allen Michael, GOD – Ultimate Unlimited Mind
– Speaks (Stockton, CA: Starmast Publications, 1982), pp.245-246.8. Alice Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy (New York, NY: Lucis
Trust, 1957), pp.133-135.9. Keep in mind that Djwhal Khul, a spiritual entity that supposedly works
beyond our time/space dimension, would have been well aware of the incredible
bloodshed caused by the leaders Khul endorsed. Moreover, Khul tells his readers
that these tyrants “are all expressions of the Shamballa force.” This tells us
two things about Khul; 1) this entity cannot hide behind the excuse of
ignorance, or any other excuse, for crowning these men with a cosmic mantle, 2.
Khul is an entity of cruelty and coldness, and cares not whether mankind
suffers.
But Khul wasn’t the only one to know of Hitler’s racial cleansing ideology.
Certainly some segments of the Western world knew of the Nazi party’s eugenics
and racial purity program, as did many German citizens (and many Germans who
fought against this ideology, such as the pastor and theologian Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, died as a result).
See Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, published years before Hitler came to power. See
also, Hermann Rauschning’s The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West
(Alliance Book Corporation, 1939) and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s A Testament to
Freedom: The Essential Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (HarperCollins,
1990/1995). Other books of interest; Yisrael Gutman and Livia Rothkirchen
(editors), The Catastrophe of European Jewry (Yad Vashem, 1976), Anton Gill, An
Honourable Defeat: A History of German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945 (Henry
Holt and Company, 1994), Stefan Kuhl, The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American
Racism, and German National Socialism (Oxford University Press, 1994), Richard
Breitman, Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and
Americans Knew (Hill and Wang, 1998), Charles Higham, Trading With The Enemy (Delacorte
Press, 1983), Robert Jay Lifton, The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the
Psychology of Genocide (Basic Books, 1986), Marc Hillel and Clarissa Henry, Of
Pure Blood (Pocket Books, 1975/76), John Loftus and Mark Aarons, The Secret War
Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People (St. Martin’s
Press, 1994), Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary
Germans and the Holocaust (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, and Dave Hunt, A Cup of
Trembling (Harvest House, 1995).10. For a short and interesting read on Italy under Mussolini, see Francesco
Nitti’s book, Bolshevism, Fascism and Democracy (George Allen & Unwin Ltd.,
1927). For a longer work, see Ernst Nolte, Three Faces of Fascism (Mentor,
1963/69). Regarding Franco and his Nationalists, see Hugh Thomas, The Spanish
Civil War (Harper and Row, 1961).11. The works on Lenin and Stalin’s Soviet Russia are extensive. See
Sozhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago series; Eugene Lyons, Workers’ Paradise Lost
(Paperback Library, 1967), R.J. Rummel, Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and
Mass Murder Since 1917 (Transaction Publishers, 1990), Robert Conquest, The
Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror – Famine (Oxford
University Press, 1986), Richard Pipes (editor), The Unknown Lenin: From the
Secret Archives (Yale University Press, 1996), Robert Conquest (editor), The
Soviet Police System (Frederick A. Praeger, 1968), F. Back and W. Godin, Russian
Purge and the Extraction of Confession (The Viking Press, 1951), Robert C.
Tucker, Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941 (Norton, 1990),
and Edvard Radzinsky, Stalin (Anchor Books, 1996).12. For some interesting analysis of the larger implications of the French
Revolution, and totalitarian government in general, see Erik von
Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse
(Arlington House, 1974). For works that focus specifically on the French
Revolution, see Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
(Knopf, 1989) and R.R. Palmer, Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the
French Revolution (Atheneum, 1965 – originally published by Princeton University
Press, 1941).
For another interesting work on totalitarian rule, see Totalitarian Dictatorship
and Autocracy (Harvard University Press, 1965), by Carl J. Friedrich and
Zbigniew K. Brzezinski.
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