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The Rainbow Swastika - The Gods of the New Age
3. The god who represents the Hierarchy to man: Maitreya the Christ. At the crucial times of new ages, such as the advent of a
"subrace" [see Human History section], a spirit known as "Maitreya" or "World Teacher" - the most "highly evolved being" known to man -
descends from a hidden high place or "power vortex" (variously identified as the Himalayas or outer space) and "overshadows" a chosen
spokesman, who then relays his "transmissions", which are instructions from the Hierarchy to guide the human race into the next cycle of
"evolution". Five times previously at a key "transition time" (one for each subrace), Bailey relates (through Djwhal Kuhl) that Maitreya chose
Buddha, Hermes, Zoraster, Orpheus, and Jesus as his vehicles. [in spite of the Jews starring in the 4th subrace of Aries, there is no mention of
Maitreya meeting Moses...] In the early 1900s, it was predicted by Theosophical Society leader Annie Besant that Maitreya would inhabit a
physical body this century; a young Hindu named Jiddu Krishnamurti was chosen in the 1920s as the vehicle. Although the "overshadowing"
was reported to have taken place for a few moments (_The Theosophist_ 47/4, Jan. 1926), conveying a message from the "Brotherhood", it
failed to become permanent. But the "descent" of Maitreya has been consistently expected by Theosophists and other NAers since those
days.
More recently, Maitreya has chosen the British disciple of Bailey, Benjamin Creme, NA teacher and the figurehead of World Goodwill and
Share International, to occasionally channel his instructions - or so Creme has been claiming since 1981. [Creme was the first since
Krishnamurti to claim overshadowing from Maitreya, but he now has competition - the Lord Maitreya being entertained at the UN is not
apparently channeled by Creme.] Maitreya, according to Creme, has held the "office of Christ" for the last 2600 years. [Aha! that's why he
never mentioned Moses - he missed him by about 1000 years... but then that means he also missed the earlier subraces which Bailey said he
was supposed to guide...] Although the Christian title is used often, Creme and other NA spokesmen insist that Maitreya is the one all the
world faiths are waiting for, including Jews who await the Messiah. At some point, Maitreya (by then in a physical body) will allow Lucifer
to enter the human vehicle as well, when all are "freed from the unreasoning fear" of that latter name - an event which will usher in the
"Luciferic initiation" [see in The Plan section]
4. The god who brings inner Light to man: Lucifer.
Lucifer is a Latin word meaning "light bringer", according to the Theosophical Society (Ina Belderis, "Some Light on Lucifer", _Sunrise
Magazine_, Oct/Nov. 1996). Bailey and her disciple Creme both identified him with the one the Jews called "helel ben shahar" (Isaiah
14:12), which they translate as "shining one, son of the morning" (_The Beacon_, vol. XLVII, no 9, 1978, pub by Lucis Trust). This is
directly taken from Bailey's own title for Lucifer (_Esoteric Psychology I_, p.395), where she acknowledges that he led a "war in Heaven"
when "some of the sons of God fell from their high estate." However, she dismisses the event as "a trifling incident" in cosmic terms, and
urges us to "readjust your sense of values". Belderis concurs that people have overreacted to this being's fall: "And yet it is this lucifer, the
bright one or lightbearer, that came to be understood by so many as the name for Satan, Lord of Darkness." Due to Christian tradition -
originally drawn from Jewish tradition of course - Lucifer's activity and intentions have come to be deliberately slandered, whereby he was
renamed "Satan", from the Hebrew "hasatan" or "the enemy". [This other name, however, didn't bother Helena Blavatsky in the least. See
below.] Lucifer is also identified by New Agers as "the anointed cherub who was in the Garden of Eden" (see Ezekiel 28:12-15), and
honored for being the first "god" to offer to share godhood with mankind (appearing to Adam and Eve as the serpent).
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But since many from the "old paradigm" are not able to accept his proper name, Lucifer allows men to call him "Krishna", "Buddha", or even
"Christ/Messiah", and to honor him in a veiled symbolic form. This being and his mission are indeed already symbolized in many cultures,
say NAers. Astrologically he is represented by the planet Venus, known as the Morning Star, "the first radiant beam that does away with the
darkness of night. It is a symbol of the development of the divine light in man." (Belderis) Accordingly, "Morning Star" is the name of one of
the more popular pieces by occultist composer Richard Wagner. The Grail legend, a tale full of Luciferic symbolism, was the theme for
another of Wagner's works, "Parsifal" (see _Wagner's Parsifal_ by Rolf May, where the Grail itself is "the stone which fell from Lucifer's
crown as he plunged to earth [bringing] the mental principle to evolving humanity," or "as Wagner remarked, 'Grail consciousness'".) [For
more on the Grail, see the Nazism section.] The Greeks presented him as Prometheus, the gnostics as Ophiomorphos, the Norse legends as
Loki, the Chinese as the Dragon. Egyptians and Hindus worship the cobra, and many others the serpent, as forms which Lucifer has taken on
to bring wisdom to man. Witches worship Lucifer in the form of a goat-man, known in nature cults as "Pan" (the deity honored at Findhorn
and credited with their miraculous agricultural methods; see _The Magic of Findhorn_ by Paul Hawken). Findhorn leader Robert Ogilvie
Crombie (or "Roc") claims that Pan appeared to him and "sadly" confessed that he is "the devil" of the Jewish-Christian tradition; concerning
this "giant faun" Roc says: "For his purpose he had to find someone who showed no fear of him.... It is important for the future of mankind
that belief in the Nature Spirits and their god Pan is reestablished and that they are seen in their true light." (_The Magic of Findhorn_, p.217)
Lucifer is personally in charge of human evolution [see below]. As such, he presides over the coming "planetary initiation", the ultimate goal
in the New Age "Plan". He, with the intermediary help of Maitreya, is credited by Creme (in various essays, interviews and lectures) as
having "nourished" all the genius which humankind has produced, including Freud, Jung, Picasso, Mahatma Gandhi, Karl Marx and Einstein
(all of these reaching a "2nd level" initiation). Lucifer arrived here 18-1/2 million years ago from the planet Venus, which became known by
one of his names, "The Morning Star".
The number 666, revered by many occultists as Lucifer's sacred number, is to be used wherever possible to hasten his appearance.
According to Creme (see his radio interview with Art Bell, July 10, 1998), this number represents "the beast" or the "Antichrist energy",
which is not to be feared but simply accepted and even welcomed as the "destructive aspect" of God himself. This energy is "deliberately
released" to destroy the old and make way for the new. Creme also repeated Bailey's teaching that this destructive energy is "the Will aspect"
of the Divine which worked through both the Roman emperor Nero and Hitler. [Creme gets a bit befuddled here as he tries to point out the
beneficial service rendered by Hitler in destroying evil, while remaining politically correct in keeping Hitler on the side of evil.] Among the
other informative bits, Creme notes in his interview that this eradication of the "old conceptions" will hit Bible-based faith in particular: "The
people who will find it probably hardest of all to accept Maitreya are the leaders of the Christian and - uh - the Jewish organizations." In the
same breath, though, he makes it clear that he really means the Jews: "They had the same problem 2000 years ago when Jesus was there
among them and they didn't recognize him." [It is standard NA tactic to fault the Jews for rejecting Christ, which both Jews and Christians
fail to recognize as manipulation. Unfortunately, interviewer Bell chose not to pick up on the clear implications for how the Jews will fare in
Maitreya's kingdom. His only reply was, "Yep, yep, I know."]
[This number 666 is not meaningful to Jews, but early Christian tradition, while still close to its Jewish roots, called it "the number of the
beast", an evil being empowered by "the dragon" to make war against the Jews and Christians who refuse to worship him - see New
Testament, Revelation 13. This creature corresponds to numerous Jewish aggadot (legends) describing "Armilus", an idol that Satan brings to
life and that is accepted by the nations as "god" and "messiah"; he also makes war against Israel when they refuse to acknowledge him. As
for Satan himself, the Jewish tradition refers to "Samael", which HPB inexplicably endorses. See below.]
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