THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

Reich; Hitler's failure was due to his disobedience to "his Masters". High-ranking members
are taught that the "Manu" [who Bailey identifies with Sanat Kumara] will aid them in
destroying undesirable races. [One ex-member commented that he couldn't make sense of
this kind of talk, but for my readers who have persevered this far these references will need no
explanation.] They also report that special areas of the Acropolis schools had Nazi literature
available, among them _Mein Kampf_ and _Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts_ (The Myth of the
Twentieth Century_). Other required reading for the Inner Circle is Miguel Serrano's _Adolf
Hitler, el Ultimo Avatar_ which presents Hitler as a sun god. [Compare this with Savitri
Devi's Hindu version of the same.] Higher-ranking members are taught the Nazi salute, as
evidenced in the members-only magazine for the "New Acropolis Security Forces" [sic].
New Acropolis is not a newcomer to Israel; the group has been free to attract Israelis to its
ranks for more than a decade. One former leader reports that the New Acropolis International
Conference held in Rome in 1990 included Israelis, all of them dressed in black shirts and
saluting an imperial Roman eagle, legionnaire style. Courses are regularly held in Israel on
"The Key to Inner Wisdom" (all in Hebrew). The "Eastern Wisdom" category is Hinduism,
Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism; "Western Wisdom" is largely Greek Platonic and Stoic
philosophy. "History" combines Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Hindu thought. Only in
"Sources of Wisdom" does one find a brief pass at Judaism via Kabbalah, in the company of
Greek mythology and New Age principles.
6c. The Theosophical Society: Tel Aviv.
That Helena Blavatsky has an Israeli following is remarkable, not only because of her
antisemitic writings, but also because of her vast ignorance of Jewish history: "The name
YHVH was unknown to Moses or any Jew before David. Neither David nor Solomon
recognized the Law of Moses; they built temples [sic] along the lines of Venus worship... The
Hebrew Bible exists no more. There is much dishonesty surrounding even the writing of the
Septuagint (the original Tenach, from which all Hebrew copies are made); yet people persist
in talking of the ancient Hebrew as if one man alive knows one word of it!.... Scholars do not
carry the now-known Hebrew letters beyond the 4th century AD." (from a collection of
quotes sent to me by a NA acquaintance, unreferenced) [Madame HPB could be forgiven for
her 19th-century ignorance, but what possesses modern Israelis to accept her as a teacher of
wisdom? And what kind of wisdom did her spirit Guides display here?]
6d. Association for Jewish Renewal: Kibbutz Lotan, Sinai (temporarily).
Over the last two years or more, JR leaders have been fostering a nascent community of
Israelis, with direct involvement by American JR Rabbi Shefa Gold and local leader Yoram
Getzler. Devotees include mostly Israeli seekers just back from India, who gather for spiritual
encounters in the desert. A band called "Sheva" plays trance music from India and Sufi
tradition. (See "The New Believers", _The Jerusalem Report_, Apr.2, 1998)
Other Jewish Renewal activity is not official or centralized, but consists mostly of seminars
offered by visiting JR teachers from the States. [For an overview of JR beliefs and activities,
see the entry above.] The most obvious involvement is through the large number of Elat
Chayyim teachers who conduct seminars in Israel on a regular basis: Moshe Budmor, Lynn
Gottlieb, Blu and Yitz Greenberg, Eve Ilsen, Carol Kestler, Leah Novick, Gershon Winkler.
A few Elat Chayyim faculty are based in Israel: David Friedman (Tsefat), Mordechai Gafni
(unspecified), Menachem Kallus (Jerusalem), David Zeller (Jerusalem). Only Zeller has his
own organization, "Yakar", which he describes (in a personal letter to me) as "orthodox
renewal, still within the bounds of halacha with the most liberal and loving applications". He
matches the Blu Greenberg strategy in this self-definition as well as his associations. While he