THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

urdensome lives, to a guilt-trip laid on those who are not discouraged, castigating them as
"luxury lovers" for not sacrificing their bodily rights for the Cause.] The "Guides" also
predicted that the then-President Jimmy Carter would be succeeded by another Democratic
president who would try to right things, "but this will come too late, as war will already have
broken out." (p.195) Although there was still no mass recruitment for the homeless walk-ins,
1987 came and went without World War III, and the White House did not see another
Democratic president for the next three terms. [Perhaps this statement was not meant to be a
prediction, but rather an attempt to instruct enlightened voters in America. If so, it revealed
both a misunderstanding of voter priorities and a powerlessness to influence human
decisions. If they cannot "guide the little wills of men" in such a minor issue, how can they
be trusted to steer a safe global course?]
9c. The Masters' handling of the "Master Jesus" is of special interest to Jews, since their
most famous son is the only Jew honored with the title of "Master of the Wisdom". He is
identified by Bailey as a 5th degree initiate. In _From Bethlehem to Calvary_, she claims he
attained it at his death, resulting in his release from physical restraints (what onlookers
interpreted as a "resurrection"). For reasons unspecified, however, he was found unworthy of
this level and was returned to the 4th degree, as evidenced by his later reincarnation in a
teacher Bailey calls "Appollonius of Tyana" where he [again] received the 5th degree.
(_Initiation_ VI, p.56-57) But even then, Bailey's (that is, Djwahl Kuhl's) description of him
in the "The Lodge of Masters" marks him as something of a failure, in that "his pupils are
frequently distinguished by... fanaticism". [Summary: Jesus is the only "master" known to
have been demoted from the 5th degree, and certainly the only "master" whose service is
described with disapproval, be it ever so faint. This implies a grave error of judgment by the
Masters who are responsible for promoting souls to a "Teacher" level. Or it implies open
prejudice against the only "master" with a Jewish background. Neither possibility speaks well
of the Hierarchy.]
9d. The War on Evil - Since all is god, this includes good and evil, which are merely
different sides of the Divine. David Spangler (_Reflections on the Christ_) labels them the
"light side" and the "dark side," or "the Christ side" and the "Lucifer side," which are equally
necessary for wholeness. Spangler calls this union "the Luciferic initiation" (p.43). (The
negative feedback Spangler received for being so outspoken back in 1977 apparently caused
him to later downplay this comment, saying he had meant the Lucifer label "as a joke, really";
but he reaffirmed the need to unite with one's "shadowy side" to attain "balanced energies".
See _Reimagination of the World_, David Spangler and William Irwin Thompson, p.7)
Bailey wrote that the Atlantean war against the Black Lodge was in reality the Hierarchy's
attempt to lead humanity into union of the cosmic opposites: spirit/matter, good/evil,
light/dark, right/wrong. (See _Initiation, Human and Solar_, IV, p.35) Yet the Hierarchy has
been carrying on a cosmic war with the "Black Lodge" for ages, and has every intention of
continuing. [But why declare eternal war on an entity - and in _Externalisation_ (p.76) even
order their disciples to avoid any contact with the "efforts" of that entity - when by their own
doctrines such an entity must be as much "God" as the Hierarchy are? It appears that there is
a place for the unforgivable cosmic sins of "fear" and "separation", when it suits the
Hierarchy. What or Who could trigger such a fit of spiritual regression in these "perfect
beings"?]
[We can understand it best in this way: In NA reality, "evil" is clearly not a problem to
eradicate if it is merely the "dark side" of the cosmos. As we have seen, the "evil" which
must be eliminated in the New Age is identified as "separation". It is no accident that the
Jewish concept of holiness means to "separate oneself" or "turn away" from evil deeds and