|
|
|
DUBROOM LIBRARY AND BOOK REVIEWS
MENU |
|
In
the download area, you can find books in PDF
format for you to download and print for
yourself. From ancient books to more recent
material, this is definitely a section which
you want to check out. All books in this
section can be downloaded for free, but you
do need to download the free Adobe Acrobat
PDF reader in order to be able to
read/print. Usually, that piece of software
will already be installed on your computer,
but there are also links right here in the
library actually taking you to the Adobe
website from where you can download the
reader for free.
|
|
LIBRARY
MAIN PAGE
|
BOOK
REVIEWS
|
DOWNLOAD
BOOKS
|
READ
BOOKS
|
GET
PDF READER
|
|
|
HANNAH NEWMAN - THE RAINBOW
SWASTIKA |
|
|
CHAPTER 2: HUMAN
HISTORY ACCORDING TO THE NEW AGE
|
"All
societies believe nonsense....
As in cell replication, any given
society sooner or later hits on a
chunk of lethal nonsense, and
collapses. In a world of many
independent societies, this does not
matter much. But once communication
technology has formed a single global
society,
the time must come when everyone
believes the same lethal nonsense
simultaneously. Civilization then
collapses globally, leaving no seed
from which it could rise again."
(David Jones, quoted by Richard
Crews, "CPU Review", April
1993, p.44)
In spite of cautions like the above,
NAers are supremely confident that
their society is free of "lethal
nonsense". On the contrary, they
are convinced that the very survival
of civilization depends on their
success in reshaping mankind's
understanding of its own origins and
destiny. In their view, any
"lethal nonsense" that
exists is to be found in those who do
not accept any of the doctrines that
follow.
1. Mankind as a whole is continually
evolving upward, physically and/or
spiritually. There is no meaningful
difference between material and
spiritual in this evolution - what we
consider physical "reality"
is maya [Hindu term for illusion], no
different from dreams or imagination.
In fact, once men's minds are released
from accepting the
"illusion" of physical
limitations, anything and everything
is possible for humanity. Therefore,
the material (physical) world is
actually an evil, in that it holds us
back from developing our full
potential. Bailey identified the
"Dark Forces" in part as
materialism and the persistence in
relating to matter as real
("Externalisation of the
Hierarchy" Section II, p.74-75).
Hindu yogis devote their lives to
escaping the "maya" of this
life through physical deprivation and
self-inflicted suffering. So do
Theosophists, in keeping with the
Gnostic tradition (see Blavatsky,
"The Secret Doctrine" I,
p.70) Tibetan Buddhists try to escape
it through prolonged isolation and
silent meditation. Inevitably, all who
accept such a view of earthly
existence see death as a welcome
escape and a helping hand in human
evolution - as did Bailey
("Externalisation" II,
p.75).
The NA doctrines most familiar to us
are tailored to Western demands for a
quicker and less painful path, but
their offer of "personal
transformation" sets the same
goal for the initiate: escape from the
limitations of this life, at least
mentally if one is not ready for the
physical step. [A quick survey of
popular movies of recent years will
show how energetically we are being
indoctrinated to free ourselves from
"the physical plane", or the
material world. An especially powerful
apologetic is "The Matrix",
which a gnostic acquaintance
recommended to me as a good
presentation of his belief system. And
lest viewers miss the fact that they
are being preached at, in the final
moments of the flick, the main
character - "Neo" (Greek for
"new man"), in league with
"Morpheus" (Greek for
"change", also the god of
dreams) - turns into a combination of
Superman and messiah and takes over
the dialog. All sense of fictional
plot dissolves as he directs an
old-fashioned altar call straight at
the viewing audience, inviting them to
join him in this kind of
"freedom... where everything is
possible". The same tactic was
used with more subtletly in "The
Truman Show", where Truman
("true man") finally catches
on to his illusory "life",
defies his manipulative
"creator" Christoff (also
named deliberately) and steps right
out of his "existence" - to
the cheers of his vast audience
waiting for him on the
"outside".]
We have evolved through several
"root-races" (the 1st was
the "Lemurian", and the 2nd
the "Atlantean", the latter
dated by NA mythology as ending 26,000
years ago). We are nearing the end of
the 3rd, the "Aryan
root-race" [Yes, it's the same
Aryan race found in Nazi doctrine -
except they identified the location
not as Atlantis but Hyperborea]. Each
root-race goes through stages which
produce "subraces",
representing stair-steps upward toward
the next race in which mankind
acquires new attributes and abilities.
According to Alice Bailey, these ages
change every 2000 years, and are
reflected in the astrological signs.
We are currently at a transition stage
between two ages in our
"planetary evolution": about
to enter the "6th subrace"
of the Aryan root. [This is only one
example of the strange math which
plagues New Age history - to pass
through 5 ages of Aryan race-history
since Atlantis would only take 10,000
years, leaving another 16,000
unaccounted for....] To complicate
human history even further,
Theosophist G. de Purucker claims that
we are witnessing the birth of
"the 6th subrace of our present
5th [rather than 3rd] root-race";
according to him, the Lemurian and
Atlantean are the 3rd and 4th;
root-races 1 and 2 are unidentified.
He names the Aryan race as "one
of the very first subraces of our own
5th root-race" [not the root-race
itself, which remains nameless],
noting that the Aryan race is
declining but will rise again [revived
subraces are not mentioned by Bailey].
Meanwhile, our current subrace won't
die out for another 427,000 years, and
by his "Brahmanical"
calculations, a single root-race lasts
not 26,000 years but "8.6 million
years"! (See "The
Fountain-Source of Occultism",
published by the Theosophical
Society.) [Before we laugh, we must
remember that these histories - both
versions, in fact - are not attributed
by NAers to confused humans, but to
disembodied spirit beings who propose
to guide mankind to higher wisdom. In
view of their track record on
"wisdom" so far, I wouldn't
trust them with my personal bank
account, let alone mankind's
future....]
In order to reach each new subrace,
the highest form of mankind must make
a collective "quantum leap"
across an evolutionary gap; other
inferior strains are left behind and
eventually die out as the newly
empowered root (sometimes called the
new "starseed") takes over.
[Anyone who remembers the classic
movie, "2001: A Space
Odyssey", will recall the
unexplained scenes with the obelisk
that mysteriously appears, and the
sudden leap of higher consciousness in
those who touched it. This was one of
the earliest media efforts to
introduce the NA "quantum-leap
evolution" doctrine to Western
society at large. But at that time
(1970) New Age "change
agents" were still under orders
by the "Hierarchy" to keep a
low profile; thus viewers were shown
nothing but a visual riddle, the keys
to which were shared only with the
initiated.]
The new subrace is considered
literally a new, "mutated"
species of man. John White
("International Cooperation
Council Directory", 1979,
p.13-15) coined the name homo noeticus
which is "a newer and higher form
of humanity taking control of the
planet... while the older species
[homo sapien] dies out from a massive
dose of irrationalism." This
concept of the old species dying out
to make way for the new was also held
by Hitler (see him quoted in
"Spear of Destiny", Trevor
Ravenscroft, p.250). White continues,
"Outwardly these mutant humans
resemble the earlier forms. The
difference is inward, in their changed
mentality, in their
consciousness." In de Puruker's
words, "Its forerunners are very
few; they are strange people... freaks
of nature." [The idea of humans
mutating upward is also being sold
nonstop to our society through
entertainment, especially for children
- you will be hard-pressed to find a
kiddie cartoon, computer game, toy or
popular movie where the
"hero" is not some mutant
blend of human/non-human elements,
either visibly or
"spiritually" or both. This,
of course, flies in the face of real
life on our planet; all branches of
science have shown that mutations are
never an advantage to a species and
always die out quickly. Positive
mutations simply do not exist on earth
- let alone a single extra-terrestrial
composite remotely like the "Star
Trek" or "Star Wars"
heroes we all grew to know and love.
But hard evidence is no barrier to NA
thought, which holds the imaginary to
be as valid as the real.]
2. The term "New Age" refers
to the (astrological) Age of Aquarius
which is about to begin, as soon as
there is a "critical mass"
of "initiates" or
enlightened ones ready to make this
leap to the next subrace. The pop
group Fifth Dimension released their
hit, "Age of Aquarius"
around 1970, whose lyrics explain in
detail the astrological signs of its
arrival. [The 40-something crowd will
remember the seemingly unrelated song
that was awkwardly tacked onto the end
of this song, urging us all to
"let the sunshine in" -
another clear indoctrination effort.]
The term "fifth dimension"
itself is a code phrase referring to
"the plane of the spirit
guides". (See NAer Jose
Arguelles, interviewed by The
Intergroup for Planetary Oneness,
"Meditation Magazine" Summer
1987.) The "old age" being
replaced is named by Alice Bailey as
the "Age of Pisces", which
ushered in the "Christian
dispensation". Conservative
Christians are creating an obstacle to
mankind reaching this critical mass,
since they are unreasonably attached
to their old dispensation, and their
influence must be neutralized. The
Jews, who refused even to leave their
"Age of Aries" (the time of
the Torah) to enter the Age of Pisces,
(to merge with Christianity) are
doubly behind in their evolutionary
development (Bailey,
"Reappearance of the
Christ", p.81) - and as a result,
double trouble is caused by the
lingering influence the Jewish
religion has on society. [Enacting a
solution to this is central to the NA
Plan]
3. This 'evolutionary progress'
depends on four major concepts, handed
down, it is taught, mainly from
Babylonian and Hindu religion:
reincarnation, karma, human eugenics,
and balance with the Earth.
3a. Reincarnation (each soul returning
many times into different bodies).
This concept is so popular that not
much needs to be explained here.
[However, note that the
"evidence" for reincarnation
is problematic: it is always
subjective (based on someone's
narrative which cannot be verified or
falsified); and it is always
self-serving. Everyone's
"past-life memory" is
fascinating, rather than mundane as we
might expect billions of lives to be.
And a past life invariably justifies
what one already wants to do in this
life.] We are encouraged to embrace
our past lives, to build upon them
rather than regret them - no matter
how unsavory we "were". The
one exception is the Jews. Only Jews
are expected to reject their present
identity as Jews, which is the
unfortunate result of a shameful past
incarnation as... what else?... Jews
again. (See
"Externalisation" II,
p.78).]
Classic reincarnation holds that there
is a limited number of souls being
recycled over eons through thousands
of lives. Obviously there is a problem
with this theory, as there are far too
many people on earth today to tally
with the smaller number of
reincarnated souls from the past. To
resolve this, one theory holds that
souls have had to "split" in
order for each person on earth to
carry a "spark" of something
human. Jewish proponents of
reincarnation usually hold this view.
[The very idea of one soul being
shared by many people clashes with the
central Jewish doctrine of the
resurrection of the dead at the End of
Days, when each soul is restored to
its original body. Who will be
resurrected with which body, and from
which life? As a doctrine which no one
can find clearly spelled out in the
Torah or Prophets, reincarnation
enjoys an undeserved reputation as a
pillar of Judaism.] But the more
popular explanation is that there must
be subhumans walking around, bodies
without viable souls inhabiting them.
[Compare with Nazi propagandist
Rosenberg's statement.] As de Purucker
of the Theosophical Society explains
it: "All the stronger, more
advanced egos [or, reincarnating
souls]... take embodiment in the new
race, whereas the bodies of the
decaying race are given over to less
developed egos which enter them...
[until they will] finally be the
vehicles for only the least developed
egos of the human stock."
("Fountain", "Racial
Cycles and Yugas") At the bottom
of de Purucker's soul-barrel are a
"few Lemurian bodies still going
on and on - so-called because they are
of direct Lemurian descent - [which]
offer vehicles to the very lowest
class of the human stock."
(Bailey identified the Lemurian race
as the Jews.) The lack in certain
circles of "openness to the
light" of NA teaching is
explained as one clue that these are
the ones lacking developed souls.
Other "symptoms" mentioned
by Theosophical Society co-founder
W.Q. Judge are genetic, physical or
mental deformities, anti-social
behavior and Chinese nationality
[sic]; egos may even
"desert" their bodies,
leaving functioning but soul-less
shells. ("Why Races Die
Out", "Path", Oct.
1891) For Anthroposophist (former
Theosophist) Rudolf Steiner, the
under-developed souls were found in
dark-skinned bodies (taught in all
Waldorf Schools under "Racial
Ethnography").
What then would be the most humane
response, given our
"overcrowded" planet and the
beneficial effect of physical death?
The benevolent NA program is already
underway.
3b. Karma [Hindu term] means that this
life contains rewards or punishments
for good or bad deeds done in your
previous lives, meted out by an
impersonal mechanism called "the
universal law of harmony, which
unerringly maintains equilibrium in
the cosmos" (William Q. Judge,
"The Ocean of Theosophy").
Not only individuals, butraces and
even planets are affected by karma, as
Alice Bailey discusses in
"Initiation, Human and
Solar" (p.41). It is not
explained how the punishment for a
certain individual's actions can be
passed on to another (innocent)
individual through genetics, nor is it
explained how that would be fair, but
anyone who inherits a genetic defect
is assumed to merit the punishment.
Similar rules apply to
"racial" karma and to
explain the suffering of the Jews. In
other words, descendents inherit the
payment for their ancestors' behavior
as well as for their own.
This "cosmic law of nature"
literally never makes a mistake.
"There is no such thing as pure
innocence, even in a tiny babe. Every
soul carries within it the scars of
centuries of wrong thinking and wrong
doing." (Dr. Rodney Romney,
"Journey to Inner Space",
p.127) Past lives which are lived
wrongly bring about karma which must
be worked off without complaint.
Flying in the face of all New Age
social activism, the purist
interpretation of karma logically
concludes that no one should try to
alleviate their own or another's
suffering, lest we interfere with the
outworking of their karma, upset the
balance of cosmic justice, and prolong
someone's dreary journey through
future lives. [This rationale has long
been followed in India, where sick and
starving people 'of low caste' are
left to die in the streets.] W.Q.
Judge taught extensively on this theme
("The Ocean of Theosophy")
and commented on its application to
the Jews. The cosmic balance
maintained by karma is alternately
described in Oriental terms of
"yin-yang" where light and
darkness (good and evil) are needed in
equal portions for a person, an ethnic
race or the cosmos to be whole. [Like
its twin doctrine, reincarnation, the
"evidence" for karma is
always subjective, and it is always
self-serving for those already living
well. The iron rule that
"everyone has got exactly what
they deserve" cannot help but
legitimize the status quo for those
who like things as they are: a classic
example of circular reasoning.]
3c. Eugenics (improving the race
through breeding): It is agreed that
theoretically it is
"immoral" for spiritually or
physically inferior creatures to use
up space and limited resources on our
"overpopulated Spaceship
Earth", which should be used to
nurture the people who are better
equipped to carry the human race to
higher levels. Moreover, the purity of
the human race becomes downgraded as
such "lower egos" reproduce
and interbreed with the "better
stock"; this in turn jeopardizes
the success of the next quantum leap
to a new subrace. In such a context,
eugenicists see themselves not as
racists, but responsible leaders
working for the good of humanity,
undertaking a noble and necessary (but
misunderstood) task - even a holy
task: "There is now no reasonable
excuse for refusing to face the fact
that nothing but a eugenics religion
can save our civilization from the
fate that has overtaken all previous
civilizations." (George Bernard
Shaw quoted by Mark Haller,
"Eugenics", p.19)
The outer defects which are taken to
be outworkings of negative karma make
it easier to identify the spiritually
"inferior" strains of
humanity which will
"endanger" human progress.
Two strategies can then be employed:
to strictly segregate the superior
humanity from contact and mingling
with inferior strains, and to hasten
the demise of the undesired strains by
preventing reproduction and by cutting
short their natural lifespans wherever
possible. Both strategies have been
institutionalized in this century on a
nationwide level, most notably in the
Hindu caste system and in the Nazi
racial purity laws. [Theosophy was the
conduit from the former to the latter
- more in the Nazism section]
A look at the history of "Planned
Parenthood" (until 1942 called
"The American Birth Control
League") will reveal that its
founders, Margaret Sanger, Madison
Grant and Dr. Lothrop Stoddard,
advocated a strong eugenicist
worldview, proclaimed on the masthead
of the "Birth Control
Review" as "Creating a Race
of Thoroughbreds". [Americans of
that era were quite receptive to
racial purity ideas, and the masthead
did not create the furor it
undoubtedly would today.] "For
race betterment is such an intensely
practical matter: when peoples come to
realize that the quality of the
population is the source of all their
prosperity, progress, security and
even existence; we shall see
much-abused 'eugenics' actually
moulding social programmes and
political policies... we or the next
generation..." (Stoddard,
"The Rising Tide of Color against
White World Supremacy", 1930)
Sanger advocated not only the
"elimination of human weeds"
in a social context, but approved of
the "sterilization of genetically
inferior races." ("The Pivot
of Civilization", p.101,108,123)
Although she proposed a peaceful path
to "racial purification," in
which people would be educated and
paid to foster "more children
from the fit, fewer from the
unfit", Sanger had no quarrel
with the Nazis' compulsory
sterilization program. Another BC
League member, Harry Laughlin,
received an honorary MD degree from
the University of Heidelberg, in
appreciation of his
"contributions to the Third
Reich". (Richard Hertz,
"Chance and Symbol", p.107)
In return, a number of American
eugenicists urged the Eugenics Record
Office (a BC League enterprise) to
make Adolf Hitler an honorary member.
(see Robert Proctor, "Racial
Hygiene", p.103) Although this
was not done, Nazi articles were
printed and Nazi sterilization
policies were praised in the
"Birth Control Review", even
after American eugenicists were
invited to witness their coercive and
often brutal methods. [see more under
Nazism section].
Has Planned Parenthood distanced
themselves from the unsavory history
of their organization? Not if their
Annual Report of 1985 is the last
word: "Proud of our past, and
planning for our future." The
"planning" has included
birth control and/or sterilization of
the "mentally retarded"
[Project 3], the "physically
handicapped" [Project 4] and
"psychiatric patients, criminals,
and prisoners" [Project 6].
(Planned Parenthood Federation of
America, "A Five Year Plan
1976-1980")
[While it is true that PP circulated a
statement in Feb. 1998 ("The
Truth About Margaret Sanger", see
the PPFA on-line Library &
Resource Center) to "refute"
Sanger's "alleged racism",
their efforts are embarrassing. For
example, Sanger is exonerated from the
racist masthead of the "Birth
Control Review" because she did
not personally invent the slogan; and
then for "proof" they quote
her assessment of "the raising of
human thoroughbreds" as "the
noblest and most difficult art".
There are also cases of outright
denial. One example: claiming that the
review by Havelock Ellis of Stoddard's
"Rising Tide" was published
by Sanger in order to denounce
Stoddard's racism, while ignoring the
fact that Stoddard remained a
co-leader in good standing at the BC
League. Another: refuting Sanger's
motto, "More children from the
fit, less from the unfit" by
attributing it to the editors of
"American Medicine" who were
summarizing her article published
therein, omitting the fact that Sanger
reprinted this line in the May 1919
"BCR" alongside her
article.) In some cases, unsavory
Sanger quotes are denounced as
nonexistent, whereas other sources
have cited book and page for them -
the Sanger statement cited above from
"Pivot" about "human
weeds" and "genetically
inferior races" is specifically
dismissed as an "allegation"
by "anonymous anti-family
planning activists"). I know of
no other attempt by PP to deal with
Margaret Sanger's eugenics.]
Did Planned Parenthood target only
poor black communities for eugenic
control, as most people believe? Not
if the locations of their birth
control clinics are any indication.
Sanger herself opened one in the
Brownsville section of New York - not
a neighborhood of poor Afro-Americans,
but immigrant Slavs, Hispanics,
Italians... and Jews. [In the 1998
statement, the PPFA
"refutes" the fact that
Sanger targeted these groups for
population control by saying that she
was not promoting "abortion"
among them, only "birth
control"....] Were Sanger's
"undesirables" limited to
the socially unproductive and
genetically dysfunctional? Not if we
consider her own declaration that
"dysgenic races" should
rightly include "Fundamentalists
and Catholics" - a purely
religious consideration. (see
"Woman's Body, Woman's
Right", Linda Gordon, p.229-334.)
We will see later that, according to
Bailey's New World Order, religious
conviction does indeed affect one's
fitness for the new human subrace.
[Some sources claim that Margaret
Sanger was indeed a Theosophy devotee,
which would explain many of her
convictions, but I have not yet found
documentation for this claim.]
Nazi Germany was not the first country
with racial purity laws. The US
Supreme Court sanctioned forced
sterilization of
"undesirables" for over 40
years - the only difference being that
racial desirability was evaluated by
social/health criteria rather than by
ethnic/religious background. Following
the Supreme Court ruling on "Buck
v. Bell" (1927), in which Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes upheld the
"Eugenics Laws" of several
states, these laws were adopted by a
total of 30 American states between
1927 and 1933. Before the landmark
case, 17 states had already enacted
compulsory sterilization laws,
beginning with Indiana in 1907. These
laws followed the "Model
Eugenical Sterilization Law" of
the Eugenics Record Office, (founded
in 1910 and directed by BC League's
Harry Laughlin) which called for
forcibly sterilizing "criminal
mental patients, retarded, blind,
deaf, diseased, alcoholics, and
dependents on society"; these
laws also required segregation of the
physically and mentally disabled in
state-run institutions (where
sterilization took place routinely).
The State of Virginia added
"unwed mothers, prostitutes,
petty criminals and children with
disciplinary problems" to their
list. [As we know, Hitler rounded up
the Jews only after legislating forced
sterilizations and abortions,
euthanasia, elimination of the
physically and mentally disabled, and
disposal of social misfits. The U.S.
legal system must therefore be held
responsible for encouraging Nazi
eugenic policy, having enacted similar
laws before Hitler even came to power.
The Nazi Law for the Prevention of
Progeny with Hereditary Disease did
not come into being until 1933.] The
U.S. eugenics laws were repealed by
the Supreme Court only in 1972. [see
the "Pro-Life Activist's
Encyclopedia", The American Life
League, Chapters 53 and 105, on line
via the Web]
After the Nazis took eugenics to its
logical and horrifying conclusions,
American eugenics saw the wisdom of
going "underground",
promoting what their British
counterparts admiringly called
"crypto-eugenics": working
through gradual, incremental education
and media exposure to increase public
tolerance (and with it legal sanction)
for selection programs. It is part of
the crypto-eugenics strategy to
educate people that "quality of
life" takes priority over life
itself. "Society legalizes
abortion to enhance the quality of
human life." (Dr. H.G.
Whittington, writing on abortion
counseling strategy) "Upon the
quality of human life all else
depends." (Stoddard, "Rising
Tide" p.i) [Today, we are so
accustomed to the mantra "Quality
of Life" that many fail to notice
the growing list of conditions that
supposedly "threaten quality of
life" - or the fact that most of
them are less a threat to a fulfilled
existence than to society's bank
accounts. Evaluating "quality of
life" by monetary cost is one of
the most insulting, dehumanizing,
materialistic travesties of our
society... and not a word of protest
from the NA philosophers who loudly
denounce materialism as a global evil!
So much for New Age integrity.]
The first resistance to selection
which the crypto-eugenicists tackled
was abortion, which after decades of
effort has finally resulted in the
fetus being accepted as an
unresponsive subhuman by most sectors
of society - except for the deeply
religious Jew or Christian, the
informed anatomy student, and the
reasonably alert pregnant woman.
Second on the list is euthanasia, or
"assisted suicide", which is
only now beginning to show fruit. The
next "selection" process to
be introduced is infanticide. Moving
gradually from early-stage
permissiveness, legislation in the
U.S. has been steadily pushing
abortion limits which have now reached
to the very moment of birth;
"partial-birth abortion" was
recently (Aug. 2000) sanctioned by the
Supreme Court in a controversial 5-4
decision (which incidently invalidates
contrary laws in 30 states and the
sensitivities of 2/3 of the American
public). From there, it is a short
step to the proposal which seemed
lunatic less than 3 decades ago:
"Most birth defects are not
discovered until birth. If a child
were not declared alive until 3 days
after birth, the doctor could allow
the child to die if the parents so
choose, and save a lot of misery and
suffering. I believe this view is the
only rational, compassionate attitude
to have." (Nobel Prize winner and
ethicist Dr. James D. Watson, 1973,
emphasis mine.) Margaret Sanger, more
than a generation before Watson,
already saw cases where even perfectly
healthy babies should be spared the
"misery" of life: "The
most merciful thing a large family can
do to one of its infant members is to
kill it." (Sanger, "Women
and the New Race", 1920, p.67)
And her colleague, Madison Grant, saw
infanticide as a natural process which
could aid the "preservation of
the species", if it weren't for
the "sentimental beliefs"
inherited from Judaism and
Christianity. As could be expected,
"quality of life" was cited
when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the
"euthanasia" of "Baby
Doe" of Bloomington, Indiana
(1982-3), which in fact was
premeditated infanticide (death by
starvation) of an unwanted child.
In fact, some would like to go even
farther, equating the "quality of
life" which merits being born at
all with a genetic forecast of good
health for one's entire life: "If
we could tell what fetuses are going
to be affected with cancer in their
40s and 50s, I would be for aborting
them now." (Dr. Cecil B.
Jacobson, Chief of the Reproductive
Genetics Unit, George Washington
University Hospital, quoted in
"Psychology Today", Sep.
1975, p.22) This will likely be the
first application of the famous Genome
Project, which is endeavoring to
identify and "map" as many
as possible of the 10,000+ human
genes: "It is highly likely that
within a decade [from 1990], tests for
a variety of aberrant genes [those
which show a higher-than-average
chance of developing a disease or
disorder] will be cheap and easy
enough to permit testing of large
numbers of people.... As the list of
known defective genes grows, there
will be mounting pressure for mass
screening of the population, at least
of the newborn population.... As
prenatal genetic diagnosis becomes
simpler and easier, the temptation
will arise to use it for less severe
genetic aberrations...." (Jerry
Bishop and Michael Waldholz,
"Genome". See pp.17-20, 278,
308). [To put things in perspective,
ponder the fact that The Genome
Project is a multi-billion-dollar
effort, mostly financed by the US
government. Why aren't the champions
of humanism protesting about the many
social needs that could be alleviated
with those billions? Why should an
academic research project rate such an
outrageous budget? Because it's the
eugenicist's spiral stairway to
heaven, promising a powerful shortcut
to "creating a race of
thoroughbreds"; or in NA terms,
it provides micro-screening for the
"starseed" quality needed to
populate the coming Age of Aquarius.]
Most assume that abortion and
euthanasia laws uphold
"pro-choice", ie, that such
"selections" are explicitly
left up to the affected individual or
family. Isn't the abortion credo
summed up in "My body, my
choice..."? A less-publicized
element in landmark abortion laws,
such as "Roe v. Wade" (1973)
and the American Law Institute Model
Penal Code (1962), is that the doctors
- not the parents - are given
"the basic responsibility"
for deciding abortions. Could abortion
legislation ever be interpreted to
force certain women to abort their
babies for the "good of
society"? The sacred assumption
of "woman's right to choose"
was suspended years ago in China,
where a nationwide forced-abortion
program is funded by the UN "Fund
for Population Assistance" [sic].
What about the newer movement for
assisted suicide, respecting an
individual's "right to die with
dignity"? The World Health
Organization reported that at least 50
million "missing" Chinese
women are possible euthanasia victims
in a country that chooses to place
higher value on its males. (WHO
Regional Committee for the Western
Pacific, in a UN report released Sept.
26, 1997) How could this take place
with the knowledge and approval - and
assistance - of that global champion
of Human Rights, the United Nations?
The answer is alarmingly simple. In
the New Age Plan to which the UN is
dedicated,"quality of life"
is a collective value, not to be
interpreted by the selfish desires of
an individual or group. Certain
forward-looking global figures have
been telling us for decades that the
individual's "quality of
life" is secondary to that of the
community: "Life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness are basic rights.
But they are the rights of the
individual and were listed [in the
Declaration of Independence] at such a
time when the literatures of freedom
and dignity were concerned with the
aggrandizement of the individual. They
have only a minor bearing on the
survival of a culture." (B.F.
Skinner, prominent Harvard
psychologist and writer). "The
ill-conceived 'love of neighbor' has
to disappear, especially in relation
to inferior or asocial creatures... in
order to secure the maintenance of a
hereditarily sound and racially pure
people.... The life of an individual
has meaning only in the light of that
ultimate aim." (Dr. Arthur Guett,
Nazi Director of Public Health)
"We have seen more than once that
the public welfare may call upon the
best citizens for their lives. It
would be strange if it could not call
upon those who already sap the
strength of the State for these lesser
sacrifices." (U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Buck
v. Bell) "Society as the trustee
of life is responsible to [collective]
life for every botched [individual]
life that comes into existence...
[therefore society should] make it
impossible for them ever to see the
light of day." (Friedreich
Nietzsche) [in all of the above,
emphasis is mine to show parallels]
3d. Balance with the Earth is a NA
principle which reminds mankind that
in the midst of all his advances, he
must not forget that he is also part
of a Bigger Design in the cosmos. We
might assume that this is meant to
offset the eugenic mentality of
omnipotence and impart a humbler
perspective of man's position - and so
it is at the grassroots level.
However, it is a two-tiered philosophy
which further serves the eugenics
policy with regard to the upper ranks
of NA leadership.
Part of man's enlightenment is to
realize his responsibilities to care
for the Earth. [Please note that New
Agers are not speaking here about
ecology, although they use genuine
ecology to attract caring, responsible
people. We are now examining a
religion in which man serves the
Earth, capital "E", as a
goddess/mother.] While man is
certainly obligated to take better
care of the planet's resources, in the
NA value system the Earth does not
exist to serve and sustain man; nor is
man, for all his uniqueness in nature,
to be regarded as superior to nature
in any way. Both concepts, derived
from Judaism, are arrogant and wrong.
"To give preference to the life
of a being simply because it is a
member of our species would put us in
the same position as racists."
("bioethicist" Peter Singer,
"Animal Liberation".
Significantly, Professor Singer is now
Chairman of Princeton University's
"Center for Human Values".)
In the same spirit, U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
(champion of compulsory sterilization
laws as noted in the eugenics section)
commented, "I see no reason for
attributing to man a significance
different in kind from that which
belongs to a baboon or a grain of
sand."
But it is not enough that man is no
longer to be considered the crowning
achievement in creation, or even that
"Mother Earth's needs" must
come before those of global humanity.
By some peculiar reverse logic, man in
his newly-found godhood begins his
divine "at-one-ment" with
Nature by admitting that he is an
alien, an intruder, a blight on
Nature: "Human happiness and
certainly human fecundity are not as
important as a wild and healthy
planet. I know social scientists who
remind me that people are part of
nature, but it isn't true.... We have
become a plague upon ourselves and
upon the Earth.... Until such time as
homo sapiens should decide to rejoin
nature, some of us can only hope for
the right virus to come along."
(U.S. National Park Service biologist
David Graber, reviewing Bill
McKibben's "The End of
Nature" in "The Los Angeles
Times", Oct. 22, 1989) "The
real enemy [which humanity must unite
to fight] is humanity itself."
("The First Global
Revolution", Club of Rome, p.115)
"[Mankind is] the cancer of the
planet." (U.S. Department of
State Bulletin, Jan. 31, 1966, p.176)
Accordingly, the U.S. government is
currently setting aside huge tracts of
American land which will be off-limits
to human beings, including locations
where forcible population transfer
will be necessary. Clearly the
much-publicized NA creed of
"returning to Nature" can
mean something not anticipated by many
who have jumped on the "Earth
First" bandwagon.
To deal with this "cancer"
which is humanity, not only is the
quality of human life to be strictly
controlled, but the quantity as well.
Drastic reduction of the human
"plague" is a NA mandate of
the highest order, and therefore
(human) over-population is sold by the
Western media and government as the
greatest menace facing the Earth
today, beginning with the landmark
book, "The Population Bomb",
by Paul Ehrlich: "We must cut out
the cancer of population growth.
Coercion? Perhaps, but coercion in a
good cause." (p.11) The Georgia
Guidestones, a tourist site dubbed
"America's Stonehenge", is a
monument to New Age priorities, and
over-population gets attention from
first to last - literally. Engraved on
huge granite slabs in 12 different
languages (including Hebrew) are a NA
equivalent to the Ten Commandments,
said to be dictated by anonymous
"guides". Guideline Number
One specifies that earth's population
must be reduced to 1/2 billion in
order to "balance with
Nature", implying that at least
80% of humanity must be eliminated.
Guideline Number Ten reads: "Be
not a cancer on the earth - leave room
for nature, leave room for
nature." While the Guidestones
were erected by an anonymous group
which cannot claim to represent NA
leadership worldwide, prominent
figures concur that catastrophic
population reductions are necessary
for humanity's advancement: "The
total world population should be not
more than 2 billion, rather than the
current 5.6 billion [in 1994]."
(Cornell University professor David
Pimentel, speaking at the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science) The UN was even more
specific: "A reasonable estimate
for an industrialized world society at
the present North American material
standard of living would be 1 billion.
At the more frugal European standard,
2 to 3 billion would be
possible." ("UNEP Global
Assessment Report", Phase One
Draft, sec.9) [According to the UN
Population Census table, its 1 billion
limit would take us back to the global
population of the year 1804, and 2
billion to 1927.] At the "State
of the World Forum", sponsored by
the Gorbachev Foundation and attended
by many world leaders (San Francisco,
1995), Dr. Sam Keen, a respected NA
philosopher, proposed the more
stringent Georgia Guidestones level of
1/2 billion: "Cut the population
[of roughly 5.8 billion that year] by
90% and there aren't enough people
left to do a great deal of ecological
damage." (William Jasper,
"Global Gorby", "The
New American", Oct. 30, 1995) Al
Gore, U.S. Vice President at the time,
went so far as to blame
over-population in Third World
countries for global warming.
("Washington Times",
"Third World Birth Control Tops
Gore's List of 'Global Warming'
Cures", Oct. 1997) [How an
abundance of dark-skinned babies can
affect global temperatures more than
an abundance of American cars, power
plants, shopping malls and air
conditioners is a mystery I'm still
pondering. The fact that the man
wasn't laughed out of office provides
yet more food for thought.]
[Note: Reputable scientists have been
offering proof that the earth is not
overpopulated at all, but that the
available land, food and populations
are not being managed efficiently.
Consider Colin Clark, former Director
of the Oxford University Agricultural
Economic Institute, who determined
that with today's technology enough
food can be produced to feed 35.1
billion people with "an
American-type diet" using only
50% of the earth's land mass. Or Roger
Revelle, former Director of the
Harvard Center of Population Studies,
who came up with a figure providing a
2500-calorie diet for 40 billion,
using only 25% of land - and having
enough left over for growing fiber,
rubber, coffee/tea, and even tobacco!
One would think that New Agers would
be delighted with this display of
"unlimited human potential"
to manage life on the planet. But such
research (by "former"
directors) is carefully ignored by
colleagues, the U.S. government, the
UN and the media. This curious fact
points to an ulterior motive in
perpetuating an "over-population
crisis". The NA mandate for
eugenics identifies the true agenda.]
Some leading personalities are uneasy
about what amounts to a global purge,
although they recognize its necessity:
"This is a terrible thing to say:
In order to stabilize world
population, we must eliminate 350,000
people per day. It is a horrible thing
to say, but it's just as bad not to
say it." (Jacques Cousteau,
"UNESCO Courier", Nov. 1991)
Others have been quite matter-of-fact
about it: "I do not pretend that
birth control is the only way in which
population can be kept from
increasing. There are others... If a
Black Death could be spread throughout
the world once in every generation,
survivors could procreate freely
without making the world too full....
The state of affairs might be somewhat
unpleasant, but what of it? Really
high-minded peole are indifferent to
suffering, especially that of
others." (Bertrand Russell,
"The Impact of Science on
Society", p.xv)
[According to some scientists, there
is evidence that Russell's suggestion
above - written in 1953 - is being
followed today, with global epidemics
being encouraged both actively and
passively (by withholding cures), as a
method of world population reduction.
Dr. J. Gordon Edwards, a biologist who
fought the 1960s ban on DDT, asserts
the ecological damage attributed to
this pesticide was fabricated; the
real "problem" with DDT was
that it had prevented 500 million
malaria-related deaths since its
introduction in the 1950s, a result
which the then-President of the Club
of Rome, Alexander King, termed
"my chief quarrel with DDT... In
Guyana, within two years, it had
almost eliminated malaria.... It has
greatly added to the population
problem." See these and other
quotes in "Remembering
"Silent Spring" and its
Consequences", a monograph by
Gordon. A similar claim is made by Dr.
Leonard Horowitz; see "Gulf War
Syndrome: The Spreading Epidemic
Coverup", and "Emerging
Viruses: AIDS and Ebola".]
In summary, we see that the guiding
principle for NA human evolution is
"survival of the fittest",
also known as "social
Darwinism". [Here is a clue to
the inexplicable force-feeding to
schoolchildren of the obsolete theory
of Darwinist evolution. This
hypothesis has become so hard to
support that it has many prominent
scientists squirming, while NA groups
like World Goodwill continue to
trumpet it as "proven scientific
fact". See another SearchLight
article for choice quotes from
scientists. See also my forecast of a
new "mutation" in store for
Darwinism.] A necessary preparation
for the leap upward is the isolation,
refinement and preservation of the top
10% of humanity as the new
"seed". The major NA efforts
at indoctrination are therefore
designed to get the other 90% of
humanity to accept this elitist
selection as necessary and just, and
if possible to secure their
cooperation in the purge. [To the
extent that the masses rely on the
"truths" of karma and
reincarnation, they can be persuaded
to accept billions of deaths,
including their own, with attitudes
ranging from resignation to serenity
to anticipation. In the near future,
as many as possible among the 90% will
probably be encouraged to voluntarily
take their own lives, choosing from a
variety of pleasant ways to "go
on to the next life". It is no
accident that a whole genre of
apocalyptic movies has sprung up
recently, whose heroes are ordinary
characters (usually from the over-40
generation) who can prevent the end of
human life only by accepting their own
deaths. Examples:
"Armageddon", "Deep
Impact", "Independence
Day", "End of Days"....
Is this a subliminal preparation for
many of the "old order" to
adopt an imaginary "messiah"
role by sacrificing their lives for
the future of the "new"
humanity? See more on "death by
choice" as a preparation for the
global purge, in the "Plan"
section.]
High on the list of those 90% which
must be eliminated are the Jews who
insist on Jewish identity: "When
humanity has solved the Jewish problem
(with the understanding and
cooperation of the Jew)... it will do
so by fusing the problem in one vast
humanitarian situation. When that
happens [the dissolution of the
"Jewish race"], the problem
[the presence of
"separation" and
"hate" in the world] will be
rapidly solved and one of the major
difficulties will disappear off the
face of the earth. Racial fusion will
then be possible... and then there
will be peace on earth." (Alice
Bailey, "Externalisation"
II, p.77) In other words, the entire
fusion process which is to further
human evolution is on hold until the
Jews disappear as a group. She named
this as one of four major "world
problems" that must be solved
within "the next two
centuries" (the other three are
humanity's attachment to old-age
notions of national territory, sex and
death). When Jews forget that they are
Jews, "we shall see a very
different world." ("The
Destiny of Nations" p.34-35)
And what of Jews who have concluded
that their offense to humanity is
simply the ancient Jewish religion?
Their solution is to exchange the
Sinai-covenant-based identity for one
based on the Holocaust legacy, or
Zionism, or Jewish culture and ethics,
in the conviction that the
"family of man" will have no
objection to a non-religious
Jewishness. [Such "progressive
Jews" are advised to wake up and
smell the coffee: each one of these
substitute identity-anchors is being
attacked today with the same vigor,
and with the same objections, as the
"outmoded" religion they
discarded. It is clear that NO basis
for Jewish consciousness will be
allowed in the New Humanity -
religious or secular. See more details
in the Views on Jews section.]
Actually, the possibility of a secular
Jewish identity independent of the
Jewish religion is debated among Jews,
but not among New Age philosophers.
Bailey distinguishes between two
subgroups, "the Jews and the
narrow-minded religious
devotees", acknowledging that
secular and religious Jews have
different reasons for
"regard[ing] themselves as the
Chosen People"; yet she
concludes: "The world problem [of
Jewish identity] is essentially a
religious problem." ("The
Destiny..." p.35) We may
logically conclude that for Bailey
disciples, any kind of Jewish identity
whatsoever will be considered a
religious obstacle to human evolution,
a matter to be resolved in the planned
global purge.
4. The "rebirth" process in
human evolution, Nature's destructive
purge: Each time a new subrace is
about to begin, there are great
upheavals in human society, with
corresponding "birth pangs"
in "Mother Earth" (also
addressed by the goddess-name
"Gaia"). Since mankind and
nature are spiritually
"interdependent" and
interconnected, one expresses the
turmoil of the other, also a
foundational belief of pantheism.
In the previous upheaval heralding a
new subrace, the "brilliant and
spiritually advanced"
civilization of Atlantis was destroyed
in a great Flood (an event that Bailey
acknowledged was recorded in the Torah
book of Genesis, but with
"distortions"). However, New
Agers run into three major
difficulties here:
(1) They cannot explain why the
advanced spiritual state of Atlantis
did not qualify them to make the
quantum leap to the Aryan subroot, and
Bailey herself does not attempt it.
There are conflicting theories among
NAers on what the Atlanteans did to
merit their destruction, most agreeing
only that it was karma which overtook
these pre-Flood peoples. An alternate
story is that the "ascended
masters" themselves sank
Atlantis, considering it a failed
experiment due to human unfaithfulness
to The Plan. Still another teaching is
that they lost a war with the
"Lemurians", survivors of an
older race (Bailey identifies that
race with today's Jews:
"Externalisation", p.77).
However Bailey (or more accurately,
her guide the "Tibetan
Master"), unwilling to attribute
failure to the Hierarchy, says
elsewhere that the Atlantean war was
caused by the Hierarchy's decision to
lead humanity into union of the
opposites: spirit/matter, good/evil,
light/dark, right/wrong. (See
"Initiation, Human and
Solar", IV, p.35) The only
explanation universally shunned by
NAers is that the disaster was
judgment on a corrupt humanity, dealt
out by a transcendent Judge as stated
in the Jewish tradition.
(2) There is no explanation for how
the law of human evolution was defied
- not once but twice - with the race
of Jews managing to outlive both the
destruction that wiped out Atlantis
(the "superior race") and
the preceding cataclysm in which
Atlantis was to replace their
"dying race". Or, if we
switch to Bailey's short-age scenario,
there is no explanation for why the
Jews did not die out when their Aries
Age ended and the new Piscean
(Christian) Age commenced 2000 years
ago, as the law of human evolution
says must happen. [Besides the puzzle
of the Jews' staying power, I have yet
to grasp how Bailey reconciles the
Jews having an age of dominance in two
mutually exclusive eras, Lemuria and
Aries. To my knowledge, the Jews were
the only "race" she named as
leading humanity more than once in
history. I dunno... maybe the cosmos
called for an encore?]
(3) To make matters worse, Bailey
turns the whole evolutionary theory
upside-down by assigning the losers of
humanity the privilege of starting the
new race: "At the close of this
solar system, a certain percentage of
the human family will fail to make the
grade and will then be held in
pralaya, or in solution, until the
time for the manifestation of the next
and third solar system comes around.
Then they will constitute the advanced
guard and the symbol of the coming
humanity of that system. The same
thing occurred in the system before
this one [involving] those whom we now
call the Jews."
("Externalisation" II p.76)
[Sounds promising - since the Jews are
once more identified as "not
making the grade", will they lead
the Aquarian Age as well?]
No matter - the problematic Jews are
still here, and by all calculations
they've worn out their cosmic welcome
for this age. This verdict and its
implications are what concern us at
present.
Since we are now on the verge of a new
subrace, we can expect to see great
upheavals again, both in society and
in "Mother Earth", in the
form of famines, storms, earthquakes,
plagues, chaos, social breakdown,
violence and crime, disease, despair,
insanity, etc., increasing until the
new age is "birthed". Some
of the destruction will be managed by
deliberate wars as well. Barbara Marx
Hubbard, a founder of the
"Congressional Clearinghouse for
the Future" and one-time
Democratic nominee for Vice President
[she lost and went on to better things
as a prime channeler] describes this
stage of history as "the time of
the silence in Heaven. This is the
cosmic instant immediately preceding
the onslaught of the intensified
selection process [note the recycled
Nazi term], or tribulations. What the
angels are waiting for, dearly
beloved, is you of my New Order of the
Future. [clearly Hubbard is not
speaking here, but her spirit guide]
You represent the possibility of the
avoidance of the painful process of
selection, which means the destruction
of the self-centered who cannot
inherit the powers of
co-creation." ("The
Revelation: Our Crisis is a
Birth", p.162. Previously
published under the title, "The
Book of Co-Creation") John
Randolph Price, architect of World
Healing Day and World Instant of
Cooperation, and founder of the
Quartus Foundation, relays what his
spirit guide "Asher" told
him: "Nature will soon enter her
cleansing cycle. These individuals
[two billion people who have no
"ring of protection" around
them] with their lower vibratory rates
will be removed during the next two
decades." (quoted in "Like
Lambs to the Slaughter", Johanna
Michaelson, p.307-310) It was actually
Price's spirit guide,
"Asher", who dictated this
information and more in a book,
"Practical Spirituality".
His "World Healing
Meditation", written in 1984,
must be read with Price's/Asher's
definition of "healing" and
"cleansing" in mind. [See
more such quotes in the
"Plan" section.]
These cataclysmic events are not to be
resisted or remedied; they are the
"cosmic birth" process,
which like all birth tends to get
messy for a time. It is "a
passing away of the old
framework" with "the Light
beginning to expose and correct
malfunctions in the created order...
not an age to fear, but to
rejoice." (Romney,
"Journey") Global disasters
have the benefit of weeding out the
inferior seeds of humanity, whose bad
karma was coming due anyhow. In spite
of this, many NA groups focus on
relief projects for both humanity and
nature. [Critics have charged that
very little money is actually used to
relieve suffering among the people
they are claiming to help. Given this
observation, which dovetails well with
the attitude expressed throughout this
section, the only logical motive for
NA relief projects is to draw sincere
social activists into their orbit to
indoctrinate them with NA
"enlightenment."]
The two purging processes - natural
disasters and organized
"population assistance"
programs driven by eugenicist
philosophy - help the evolutionary
progress by purging the human race of
residue from inferior races, which
will increase the "purity of the
root stock" as all "natural
selection" tends to do. With a
little help, of course. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
