THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

New Age references to Hitler are sometimes veiled in positive generalities. Examples are
Alice's husband Foster Bailey, and David Spangler, a Findhorn leader (a NA community in
Scotland where the goat-god Pan is worshiped). F. Bailey tactfully does not name Hitler but
describes a disciple who tried to put the Plan of the New Age gods into action "on a regional
scale in the Rhine River valley" (_Running God's Plan_, p.14). Spangler, dedicated to
"anchor the Plan on earth" by establishing other NA communities like Findhorn, distances the
New Age Aryans from Nazi Aryans only in that the "blond, blue-eyed Germanic race which
Hitler spoke of" was unnecessarily narrow - the Aryans "are actually a more wide-ranging and
ancient super-race". (quoted by Constance Cumbey, _Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow_,
p.107) As an avowed disciple of Bailey and Blavatsky, he can be assumed to hold the same
views about need to safeguard the "purity" of the Aryan race.
Then there is the schizoid response to Hitler - condemning his brutality while justifying his
philosophical premises. This describes Alice Bailey (_The Externalisation of the Hierarchy_
II, p.122-127), who called Nazism a "peculiarly distorted blend of Fascism and Communism",
yet included it in "the great world ideologies" birthed by the "Shamballa force" (a flow of
energy from the Hierarchy directed at the world). Says Alice, "The objective [of the
Hierarchy] was to stimulate the free will of the masses; the result upon them has been
relatively good." And what prompted the "masters" to trigger these beneficial ideologies,
including Nazism? "It was the acuteness of the situation and the wide extent of the
cleavage." Which cleavage is that? "The cleavage between the two groups... the forces of
materialism and... the energy of light." The forces of materialism are known to Bailey as the
"Dark Forces", which "work to preserve that which is ancient and material... and feed...
separateness." The Jews' insistance on retaining their chosen-people identity "made it
possible for the forces of separativeness and hate to use the Jewish race"; therefore, the Jews
are the tools of the Dark Forces. (_Externalisation_ II, p.76-77) Here it took a bit of effort to
piece the picture together, but later Bailey is more outspoken: "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.... We call these people dictators,
demagogues.... But all these leaders are... being used to engineer great and needed changes
and to alter the face of civilisation." (_Externalisation_ II, p.134-5) So then, according to this
channeler whose teaching is energetically promoted by the UN, Hitler was empowered by the
Hierarchy to continue the ancient and honorable War against Darkness, personified by the
Jews -- precisely what Hitler himself claimed. [See more Bailey comments on the "beauty" of
World War II in general, in the "Views on Jews" section.]
It is no wonder, then, to find New Age factions which openly applaud the Third
Reich. Savitri Devi Mukherjee, a French convert to Hindusim who became an influential
mystical leader in the West, firmly believed that Hitler was an "avatar" (divine manifestation),
a being in natural harmony with the Hindu tradition. She considered him the embodiment of
twin mystical light sources, "the sun and the lightning." [See _Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi,
the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism_, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke] Devi's book about her
human idol (_The Lightning and the Sun_) bears the dedication: "To the god-like Individual
of our times; the Man against Time; the greatest European of all times; both Sun and
Lightning: ADOLPH HITLER, as a tribute of unfailing love and loyalty, for ever and ever."
[capitals in original. It is likely that the tribute, "the Man against Time", referred to Hitler's
reversal of the swastika's direction from the Hindu orientation which symbolized harmonic
movement with the sun, to the opposite direction, that is, against time.] Devi, now deceased,
still has a following in India, known as the "Hindutva" movement.