"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." - David Rockefeller
”We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
- David Rockefeller speaking at a UN Business Conference, Sept.
14, 1994
"Some even believe we (the
Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as
'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
~ DAVID ROCKEFELLER
- The Plan for the New Age
It is interesting to note that 1975, the year that Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future came out, was a banner year for the “new religious consciousness.” This was the year which the deceased occultist Alice Bailey (1880–1949) — one of the major builders of the present-day New Age movement and an avowed enemy of orthodox Christianity — had designated for her disciples to publicly disseminate hitherto secret teachings to all available media. During that year David Spangler and a host of other New Age spokesmen and organizations began their public work.
The goals of today’s New Age movement were mapped out well in advance in the writings of occultist and medium Helen Blavatsky, who founded the Theosophical Society in 1875,49 and later by Alice Bailey, Nicholas Roerich (author of the Agni Yoga writings), Teilhard de Chardin (the evolutionary thinker and paleontologist mentioned in chapter 2 above), and H. G. Wells. In the words of Teilhard, these goals include a “convergence of religions” in tandem with a “confluence” of political and economic forces toward World Government.50 Today, some New Age circles speak of “The Plan” for a “New World Order,” which would include a universal credit system, a universal tax, a global police force, and an international authority that would control the world’s food supply and transportation systems. In this utopian scheme, wars, disease, hunger, pollution, and poverty will end. All forms of discrimination will cease, and people’s allegiance to tribe or nation will be replaced by a planetary consciousness.
According to some of the major architects of the New Age movement, this “Plan” can be traced back to the fall of Lucifer and his angels from heaven. Alice Bailey wrote that the revolt of the angels against God was part of “the divine plan of evolution,” for by it the fallen angels “descended from their sinless and free state of existence in order to develop full divine awareness on earth.”51 In this total reversal of Christian theology, the Fall of man was really an ascent to knowledge, for by it man’s “eyes were opened” to good and evil.52 Thus, wrote Helen Blavatsky: “It is but natural ... to view Satan, the Serpent of Genesis, as the real creator and benefactor, the Father of Spiritual mankind. For it is he who was the ‘Harbinger of Light,’ bright radiant Lucifer, who opened the eyes of the automaton created by Jehovah.... Indeed, [mankind] was taught wisdom and the hidden knowledge by the ‘Fallen Angel.’”53 As man’s “benefactor,” Lucifer continues to assist man’s evolution. In the words of David Spangler, a disciple of the writings of Blavatsky and Bailey, Lucifer is “the angel of man’s evolution.”54
Within New Age esoteric societies it is taught that, for the furtherance of “The Plan,” mass “planetary initiations” will occur. According to Benjamin Creme — another follower of Blavatsky and Bailey — “revitalized” Christian churches and Masonic lodges will be used for the purpose of giving these initiations. And as we have seen, David Spangler has stated that these initiations will be “Luciferic” at their esoteric core. Reiterating the teachings of Alice Bailey, who “channeled” them from a discarnate entity called “Djwhal Khul,” Spangler writes: “Lucifer works within each of us to bring us to wholeness as we move into the New Age...each of us is brought to that point which I term the Luciferic initiation.... Lucifer comes to give us the final ... Luciferic initiations... that many people in the days ahead will be facing, for it is an initiation into the New Age.”55
As “The Plan” approaches fulfillment, the one-world religion acquires its final shape. “The day is dawning,” wrote Alice Bailey, “when all religions will be regarded as emanating from one great spiritual source; all will be seen as unitedly providing the one root out of which the universal world religion will inevitably emerge.”56Helen Blavatsky said that this universal religion was “the religion of the ancients,” the memory of which was “the origin of the Satanic myth” of Christians. “The religion of the ancients,” Blavatsky wrote, “is the religion of the future.”57
“The Plan” reaches its apotheosis with the coming of the New Age Messiah: the so-called “Maitreya — the Christ.” David Spangler speaks in anticipation of this event: “From the depths of the race a call is rising for the emergence of a saviour, an avatar, a father-figure ... who can be for the race what the ancient priest-kings were in the dawn of human history.”58 According to Alice Bailey, “angels” will appear with this false Christ in order to convince people that they should follow him. Thus, the final stage of the “New Age” reversal of Christianity will be the worship of the antichrist, whose coming is after the power of satan with all power and signs and lying wonders (II Thes. 2:9).
It should be pointed out that many New Agers today would not be aware of, much less subscribe to, all the points of “The Plan.” As we have seen, the movement incorporates a diverse array of groups, ideas and practices. If it can be called a “conspiracy,” this is certainly not because all New Agers are working together secretly, on an organizational level, toward fulfillment of “The Plan.” Ultimately, “The Plan” is being orchestrated not on a human but on a demonic level, and the architects of the New Age movement are, to a large degree, only mouthpieces of ideas that are not their own.
- Globalism
The New Age movement is only the “spiritual” side of a much broader movement which has mushroomed in the decades since Fr. Seraphim’s death. This is the multi-faceted movement toward “globalism,” which is very much in the interest of those whose goals may not be religious at all.
In recent years international investment bankers and corporations have made enormous strides toward their goal of a hegemony of world finance and a global economic system. In 1980 the following warning was issued by Admiral Charles Ward, a former member of the elite Council on Foreign Relations, which includes major government figures, heads of multinational corporations, and representatives of the largest banking firms in the world: “The most powerful cliques in these elitist groups have an objective in common — they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the United States. A second clique of international members in the CFR ... comprises the Wall Street International bankers and their key agents. Primarily, they want the world banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in the control of global government.”59 More recently, in 1993, the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Les Gelb, announced on television: “You had me on [before] to talk about the New World Order.... I talk about it all the time.... It’s one world now....Willing or not, ready or not, we are all involved.... The competition is about who will establish the first one-world system of government that has ever existed in the society of nations. It is control over each of us as individuals and over all of us together as a community.”60
This vision of the future has been shaping the foreign policy of many governments, not least that of the United States. A clear declaration of the globalist agenda was made in 1992 by Strobe Talbott, longtime personal friend of President Bill Clinton, Deputy Secretary of State during the Clinton administration, and one of the chief architects of the U.S.-led military intervention in the Balkans: “Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority.” In Talbott’s view, nations are nothing more than social arrangements: “No matter how permanent and sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary....It has taken the events in our own wondrous and terrible [20th] century to clinch the case for world government.”61
With the establishment and expansion of the European Union, the creation of the Euro currency, the advances toward a cashless society, the control of former Eastern-bloc countries by Western financial interests, the formation of an international criminal tribunal by the United Nations, and the consolidation of state armies as “peacekeeping” forces under the United Nations and NATO, we see what appear to be the forerunners of such a one- world system. Some of these developments are not necessarily evil in themselves. Taken together, however, they help to set up a global apparatus which can make way for the rising “religion of the future.” Such was the expectation of Alice Bailey, who in the 1940s wrote: “The expressed aims and efforts of the United Nations will be eventually brought to fruition, and a new church of God, gathered out of all religions and spiritual groups, will unitedly bring to an end the great heresy of separateness.”62 Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, expressed the same belief on the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations in 1995: “At the beginning the United Nations was only a hope. Today it is a political reality. Tomorrow it will be the world’s religion.”63 A proponent of the teaching of both Alice Bailey and Teilhard de Chardin, Muller says that mankind’s goal should be “to see the religions globalize themselves urgently in order to give us a universal, cosmic meaning of life on Earth and give birth to the first global, cosmic, universal civilization.”64
Today, those with a globalist agenda in the political and financial sectors work alongside globalists in the religious sector, particularly with “interfaith” organizations such as the United Religions Initiative (founded as a religious counterpart to the United Nations), the Temple of Understanding (an official consultant of the United Nations Economic and Social Council), and the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions (a revival of the World’s Parliament of Religions, mentioned in chapter 2 above, which first convened in Chicago in 1893).65
Although “interfaith” organizations usually affirm that their only aim is to promote “understanding” and “dialogue” among religions, it is apparent that in some cases this aim is only a first step in a larger program: the “convergence of religions” in the New Age. As William Swing, Episcopal Bishop of California and founder/director of the United Religions Initiative, expressed it in his book The Coming United Religions: “The time comes ... when common language and a common purpose for all religions and spiritual movements must be discerned and agreed upon. Merely respecting and understanding other religions is not enough.”66 Bishop Swing imagines all the world’s religions as paths up a mountain, converging from below on a single point, a “unity that transcends the world.” At the top of the mountain, the esoteric believers from each faith would “intuit that they were ultimately in unity with people from other religions because all come together at the apex, in the Divine. Everyone below the line would be identified as exoteric.”67 Like Blavatsky, Bailey and Teilhard before him, Bishop Swing looks to this convergence of religions with messianic expectancy. In his opening address to the 1997 summit conference of the United Religions Initiative, he proclaimed: “If you have come here because a spirit of colossal energy is being born in the loins of the earth, then come here and be a midwife. Assist, in awe, at the birth of new hope.”
Orthodoxy and The Religion of The Future by Hieromonk Seraphim Rose of Platina †
Leo Taxil writes; “Masonry is Gnosticism beyond a shadow of a doubt.” This is most clear. It is not surprising then that ancient Gnostics worshipped Cain and the ancient serpent. So today’s contemporary Masons (whether they realize it or not) worship Satan. This is not surprising. Let the Masons come and prove us wrong. They worship Satan, and Christ reveals this to us. According to Leo Taxil, the Gnostics, along with today’s Masons, recognize as the beginning of good, Lucifer, the devil, and as beginning of all evil, Sabaoth. Therefore, the God of the Old Testament is the bad god. He introduced evil by creating matter. The devil Lucifer is the good spirit, the good god. Isn't this shocking?
Thus, they have this prayer for the devil:
Come Lucifer, come. You who the priests slander, come. Come so we can embrace you to hold you tight in our arms. We have known you for a long time and you have known us for a long time as well. In the darkened eyes of the plain masses, your works do not always look beautiful, your works do not always look good, O, you blessed of our hearts. Only these can explain the laws of the universe. Without your works, O Satan, the universe would be nonsensical. Only you revitalize, only you produce work, only you refine the commonwealth. You seal virtue, to you belongs the beginning, to you belongs the throne.
You, O Adonai (Adonai is our God, the God of the Old Testament, and they turn against Him.) you, O Adonai, God of plunder and God of injustice, we deny you; you hate science, but we have prevailed and possessed science in spite of you. You hate happiness, but we will earn it through science in spite of you. Each one of our progresses is a triumph under which your divinity is pulverized. Spirit of lies and delusion, your kingdom is over. Seek victims among the animals. You already have been destroyed and crushed, Your name, which until now was the last word of the wise, the authority of the judge (through the oaths), the power of the rulers, the hope of the poor, the refuge of the penitent, your name which is unutterable for us from now on, will bring the scorn and the anathema from men. It will be erased and it will be progressively forgotten.
You will remain as the synonym of hypocrisy, lies, superstition, tyranny, and misery.
Note, only the devil can talk like this. “As you can see, these people are really demon possessed.
As long as humanity continues to bow down before your terrible, monstrous statutes, humanity will be the slave of kings and priests; humanity will suffer and wither.” (This is why the motto of the French Revolution: Liberty, Equality and Brotherhood, has been said to be of Masonic origin). “As long as men will swear in your hateful name, the breaking of the oaths will be the foundation of society. Go away, vanish, O executioner of our logic, menace of our conscience.”
Here, Leo Taxil adds, “The Masons of the thirty-third degree kneel in front of Bathomet, a statue of Satan who is raised above the altar, and he is none other than the great architect of the universe.” So, the great architect of the universe, Bathomet,” is the devil. This is whom the Masons worship. By the way, pay attention here, this is not revealed immediately. As the disciples of Masonry advance, little by little they approach the gates of the thirty-third degree, which is the final degree. Then they will become participants of the great secret of Masonry and that is exactly what we are talking about; the great secret of Masonry is that the great architect of the universe is the devil That is whom the Masons worship, and not the God of the Christians, Who the Masons need to destroy at all costs.
‘This, my friends, encompasses the deep secrets of Masonry.
Freemasonry — The Depths of Satan