These are among the multitudes of concepts that are important in the development of a New Age culture shift. Here is an explanation (or an excuse for such) of some of the post-modernist spin-offs of New Age philosophy. First understand that New Age is far too extensive in a comprehensive undertaking to do it justice in under a few thousand pages. So we are left with crass generalizations. Hopefully we do it adequately so as not to incorrectly characterize any particular facets of the movement. If you are already familiar with the terms, you can save time by glossing over the definitions.

I like to think of new agers in two camps; social new agers who simply go along with the drift of social change, and true disciples of "light", the New Age Proper, or students of the "Ageless Wisdom" taught by Alice Bailey. Yes, there are other students of arcana that are not initiates of Baileyism, but they mysteriously agree at a fundamental level, on the compatibility of their common "light." Oftentimes, all that is necessary to sympathize divergent occultists is to simply alter their focus slightly, and voila, it is the same stuff in a different package.

Without trying to trace the teleology of these multitudinous beliefs, let's for now just identify the general facets of New Age belief.

Social New Agers can generally be identified by some kind of adherence to the following doctrines:

In addition to these concepts, the New Age Proper, composed of a dense Theosophical tradition, promotes a naturalistic universal "Plan" of the unfolding of divine consciousness, through the evolving multi-dimensional material world. The kingdoms of life progress in a heirarchy from minerals to plants to animals to man to masters, devas, angels and pure spirit. So, you see, animism, or the divine spark in all things, is infused in the ageless wisdom of Alice Bailey. So is immanent divinity, or personal godhood. But these concepts didn't begin and end with Bailey. They go back thousands of years. Theosophists just systematized them into a cosmology that is antithetical to the Bible. Those who are eager to escape from the face of our God often run into the waiting jaws of Theosophists. But I digress.

Important to Theosophy are two other concepts that often seem shocking to Christians and "normal" thinking Americans. The idea of hierarchy in nature, from minerals to divine bliss, gives credence to the hidden Masters, who are supposedly working throughout history to nurture our collective evolution, toward the outworking of this grand Plan of the Ages, the collective self-realization of nature, where spirit and matter are bridged and all life becomes one. Through evolution, the acquisition of knowledge and many lives of occult training, the Masters have supposedly acheived mastery over the physical and spiritual dimensions of nature and now run around like the "Q," helping "enlightened" humans who have begun to discover their own latent divinity and are willing to give themselves to the higher beings, in service to the Plan. This is supposed to lead to the establishment of a world-wide brotherhood of disciples who are completely sold out to the masters, in service to humanity and and ultimately to all life. Key words in this scenario are service, goodwill, and world-brotherhood, which has always been the agenda of the New Age Proper, Freemasonry, which founded it, and Rosicricianism, which founded it. Tolerance, which is the middle name of Freemasonry, is another reference to universalism.

One of the scarier doctrines of both camps of new agers is called "integration" or the Rainbow Bridge to Antahkarana. Under the guise of psychology, integration amounts to finding the real person within the vanier of those various influences that make up our personalities. Supposedly, the true person or identity for each person is a genius, pure and all-powerful, omniscient, who can help us to find our particular trail or path in life and in such, work out karmaic debt that inhibits evolutionary progress. In other words, if we find this true person and learn to follow it, we can master our lives, clean up the karma that traps us into the reincarnation cycle, and get on with evolutionary progress to become a full-bown master in short order. (Who is this original person who is suppposedly the fundamental construct of collective identity? Well I think his initial is L. and he loves to be the center of EVERYBODY'S being.) The psychologist who founded the most direct form of this discovery "process" was Dr. Roberto Assagioli, the father of Transpersonal Psychology, and he was a personal emissary of Alice Bailey in Europe. Abraham Maslow, the father of Psychosynthesis, was influenced by Assagioli and Swami Rama, one of the missionaries of collective consciousness to America and Europe. This school of thought is classic psychology in Hinduism. I believe that the eyes on the cover of Maslow's main book on psychosynthesis belong to Swami Rama. Now transpersonal psychologists are running around everywhere and they have their sites set on public education. Today the teachers, tomorrow....

In order to reach their aims of world unity and thus engage the whole world in service to The Plan, "enlightened" Freemasons and New Agers have been pushing for collectivist motifs that promote monistic pantheism and unity. This is why the chief instigators to the globalistic League of Nations and United Nations have been Theosophists, trying to work out the Plan. This is why the verbiage and aims of the UN is for world peace and brotherhood. It is a "spiritual" undertaking in a secular world. Lucis Trust has had three think-tanks located at the UN Plaza in New York for around fifty years. No wonder the former Assistant Secretary General to the UN, Robert Muller, is a devoted disciple of Alice Bailey, whose book, A Treatise on White Magic, forms the basis for the Robert Muller schools. Remember, this is the guy who developed the highly touted World Core Curriculum. His mentors included the Buddhist and Secretary General U-Thant, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, an apostle of New Age collectivism and the friend of UNESCO founder and grandson of Thomas Huxley, Sir Julian Huxley. Other loud noteworthies are savante musician Pablo Cassals, resident swami and meditation leader, Sri Chimnoy, and his own boss, Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold.

But in addition to the stars of the early days at the UN, the associations and unseen think tanks are alarming. Lucis Trust has an educational curricula dedicated to training students in the ageless wisdom, primarily through correspondence. By 1954(?) Bailey had boasted 20,000 graduates from the Arcane School, or as it may fairly be referred to, Occult University. Muller himself was likely an alumnus as he spoke to their graduation ceremony on more than one occasion. (See a Planned Deception by Constance Cumbey).

Now, I'm a little fuzzy on the following material, but the general concepts should be adequate. Among a number of frightening tenets of hard core new agers is the notion of the universal "Christ Consciousness" which supposedly incarnates on the earth periodically to enlighten mankind with a new flavor from the Seven Rays of universal wisdom. The vehicles for this message are the avatars, like Buddha, Jesus and Krishna, each one bringing the earth family up to speed to the current level of universal revelation and psychic mastery. The previous stage of consciousness was the fish or Pisces, characterized by certain necessary qualities. The next stage we are about to embark on will be Aquarius, the Water-Bearer, bringing it's own consciousness-perfecting qualities as well.

According to Benjamin Creme, the Masters live in a dimension that hovers over the Gopi Desert, and are led by Sanat Kumara, which Theosphist Dane Rudyar refered to as "King Satan." (Blavatsky explained that Satan is just as necessary as Lucifer in a dualistic universe and thus we needn't be ashamed of the image.) The world has been continually infiltrated by Theosophists, with what they believe to be consciousness-altering "light" in order to prepare us for the unity necessary to receive Sanat Kumara as our world leader and true spiritual identity. The next expected avatar who will bridge the gap between western rationalism and eastern mysticism will supposedly be Maitreya, who is one of the higher Kumaras, who will usher in the wide reception of Sanat Kumara. (Did somebody say, Delusion?)

So, in summary to this section, we see the motive of New Age Disciples to leaven (change) the world in preparation for the coming of their Christ, Maitreya, in preparation for the final stage of the earth's evolution, to become one divine being. Our beliefs, social structure, politics, religion and self-concept and mastery of magic are all very important steps to the fulfillment of the "Aquarian Conspiracy" (Marylin Ferguson's words, not mine)

Now here is a smattering of disciplines and beliefs that I see are important elements to this "universal conspiracy" (Barbara Marx Hubbard's words, not mine). I am not sure how it is to be organized, because I am not that familiar with world history and contemporary knowledge. In many cases they have multiple trails that link to other trans-disciplines, so it is a messy chart to attempt to illustrate completely. These may not all directly relate to each other, but they do seem to be important enough to the New Age Movement for us to at least be familiar with:

Remember, at the top levels, it is a spiritual recruitment of the world to mass-possession and discipleship to their demons and their demonic "Plan." But the bait can be transformed into secularized gimmicks that pull anti-religious people and organizations into their game plan, as well. Often the bigger pictures are identical but focus out into the different sub-plots, whether religious, atheistic, sensual, philosophical, training, team-building or whatever. Habitat for Humanity, for example, comes in the guise of Evangelical Christianity, helping poor people. How nice! How can anyone badmouth charity? But when the facilitators come in and train the workers at the initial session, it is made very clear, leave your doctrines, Bibles, and denominations at home. This is the place for unity and tolerance, not strife. As soon as someone stands for truth to the point of dissention, he will be asked to leave. The point of the activity is not housing the poor, but team-building interdenominationally, or ecumenical unity, a hallmark of Jimmy Carter's career and new age psycho-salvation faith. Remember, he was a convert of his sister, the inner healer, Ruth Carter Stapleton, who could as easily reach Buddhists, Hindis and Muslims with her avatar-based visualization into a watered-down humanistic kingdom. Jimmy is a disciple of the Plan, whether he is a hard-core Baileyite or not. And he is now successfully ram-rodding fundamentalists into a radical "spiritual" movement that they would never have considered joining if it were so identified. And he is leading them into it voluntarily, another unique hallmark of the Plan.

Excerpts Based On "The Leavening"
By Willy Peterson
Copyright © 1995
Willy Peterson, Linwood, KS
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