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The Rainbow Swastika - The Gods of the New Age
4a. Lucifer and "Christ": One of the earliest outspoken promoters of Lucifer is David Spangler, one of the original leaders of Findhorn (in
Scotland) and now a lecturer and author in the U.S. The back cover of one of his books promotes him as "the shaman of the New Age
Movement". (_Emergence: The Rebirth of the Sacred_, 1984) Spangler, a staunch Bailey disciple, is noteworthy for his articulate weaving
of the various NA concepts of Lucifer into a single presentation, a 1977 book with the interesting title, _Reflections on the Christ_. The title,
far from indicating confusion, emphasizes Spangler's conviction that Lucifer and the Christ are "twin sides" of the same "power" (see
Spangler's recent book, co-authored with Professor William Irwin Thompson, _The Reimagination of the World_); therefore, Lucifer is to be
considered literally a "reflection of the Christ", and vice versa. This energy may or may not be personified, as the situation demands. In
_Reflections_ Lucifer is variously described (all in the same sentence) as "an angel, a being, a great and mighty planetary
consciousness." (p.38) According to Spangler, "the light that reveals to us the path to the Christ come from Lucifer. He is the light giver." His
task is to "prepare man in all ways for the experience of Christhood." (p.43) Conversely, "Christ is the same force as Lucifer but moving in
seemingly the opposite direction." (p.38) [I would caution Jews not to apply this understanding to the Christian "Christ". Spangler would be
the first to agree that his "Christ" is not a Jew from the 1st century.]
4b. Lucifer, aka Satan, aka "Jehovah": Blavatsky, unlike later Theosophists, has no difficulty in reconciling Lucifer and Satan as the same
being: "Lucifer is the LOGOS in his highest, and the "Adversary" [Satan] in his lowest aspect - both of which are reflected in our
Ego." (_The Secret Doctrine_, II, p.162) About Satan himself, HPB (_SD_ II, p.388-389) sets aside her contempt of orthodox Judaism long
enough to cite the "Rabbins" [sic] and the Talmud which records that "'the evil Spirit, Satan, and Samael, the angel of Death, are the same' -
(Babba Battra [sic], 16a)." She also relies on "the Rabbins [sic] teaching that 'Kin [sic] (Cain), the Evil, was the Son of Eve by Samael, the
devil who took Adam's place'". These two rabbinic quotes are [somehow] seen by her to support a revised, "correct reading of verse 1
(chapter iv, Genesis) in the original Hebrew text" which proves that "Cain is identical with Jehovah". HPB refers here to Eve's declaration,
"Kaniti ish et Hashem", translated as, "I obtained a man with G-d".
[For the real rabbinic interpretation, see Rashi's simple comment, "b'zeh shutafim anu imo" - "in this [act of creation] we [Adam and Eve] are
partners with Him [G-d]." At any rate, it's strange that HPB should fuss over the "original Hebrew" when she writes, "The Hebrew Bible
exists no more [except as] garbled falsifications." Stranger still that the all-knowing "Masters" related to her that the "square letters Jews rely
on are characters of an unknown, dead language" which cannot be traced farther back than "the fourth century A.D." The discovery of the
Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah must have come as a nasty shock to the enlightened ones. Yet HPB has Israeli disciples studying at the
Theosophical Society center in Tel Aviv.]
Confident of her line of reasoning, HPB then forms the following conclusion (_Doctrine_ II, p.389): "It becomes easy to see that Jehovah
(mankind, or 'Jah-hovah') [sic - a sample of HPB's Hebrew proficiency] and Satan (therefore the tempting Serpent) are one and the same in
every particular." [a sample of her blatant contradictions - or shall we say, those of the "Masters" who dictated to her. For her other
comments on "Jehovah", see below.] She goes on: "Satan represents metaphysically simply the reverse or the polar opposite of everything in
nature. He is the 'adversary', allegorically, the 'murderer', and the great Enemy of all, because there is nothing in the whole universe that has
not two sides... But in that case, light, goodness, beauty, etc., may be called Satan with as much propriety as the Devil, since they are the
adversaries of darkness, badness, and ugliness." Elsewhere, she neatly sums up: "Lucifer is divine and terrestrial light, the 'Holy Ghost' and
'Satan', at one and the same time." (p.513) Interestingly, Blavatsky repeatedly quotes Jewish "Kabalists" who support the idea that Satan is to
be honored as the "cosmic reflection of God". (p.234) [See more under Kabbalah in the Missionizing section.] However, she dismisses any
enlightenment on the part of the Jews; they merely learned it "from the Chaldeans and Egyptians". (p.240)
In the end (p.513), however, HPB clings to a sort of monotheism of her own: "Satan is the god ofour planet, andthe only god." (p.234,
emphasis hers) She also resorts to the same labels later used by Alice Bailey: "And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery
Dragon... and Lucifer, or 'Light-Bearer,' is in us: it is our Mind... the emanation of the very essence of the pure divine principal Mahat
(Intelligence), which radiates direct from the Divine mind."
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5. The god who "created" man: Sanat Kumara.
NA messages to the public encourage "faith in the loving Creator" or "thanksgiving to the Lord of Creation", phrased to allow everyone his
own interpretation. For themselves, however, the Creator is the head of the Hierarchy, known as Sanat Kumara [SK]. He has other titles as
well: "Ancient of Days", "Lord of the World", "Youth of Endless Summers" and "The One Initiator" (ie, the one who initiates mankind to
higher evolutionary levels). Bailey calls his "Council Chamber" by the term found in the Jewish book of Psalms, "the secret place of the
Most High". (_Education in the New Age_, p.62) SK is credited as the "founder and initiator of all the most important movements." Bailey
claims (_Externalisation_, p.465) that both Christians and Jews are actually worshiping him in their attempts to identify "God". [This shows
her ignorance of Judaism; even while calling him "the Most High", she place SK far below the Ultimate God on her charts, automatically
eliminating from him the central attribute of the G-d of Israel. On the other hand, it shows her intent to deceive, since elsewhere she writes
that her "Lord of the World" is "totally otherwise" compared to the Adon Olam of the Jews - see _Externalisation_, p.551] Although SK's
level of enlightenment earned him the right to enter into "Nirvana", he instead made the "supreme sacrifice" of turning back to creation and
taking the responsibility to create us into gods. Bailey relates that he "came down" to earth in the middle of the Lemurian age, taking physical
form, and although he later returned to the spirit plane, he "has remained with us ever since." (_Initiation_, p.28-29) [As we saw above,
Bailey disciple Benjamin Creme makes identical claims for Lucifer, but this is not accidental, as we will see.]
6. The New Age Trinity, or Logos.
Sanat Kumara [SK], Maitreya the Christ [M], and Lucifer [L] are presented to the world as a trinity. Known as the Planetary Logos, they
administer 3 spiritual Energies: respectively, [SK] Shamballa, the planetary Head, with the principles of Will-Power-Plan; [M] Hierarchy,
the planetary Heart, Love-Wisdom-Unity; and [L] Humanity, the planetary Throat, Intelligence- Self-Conciousness- Creativity. Elsewhere
(p.109) Bailey calls them "The Departmental Heads... three great Beings", using Hindu terms and assigning to them 3 respective spheres of
activity: "Manu" (SK - matter, form, body, not-self; relating to governments and races), "Bodhisattva" (M- spirit, life, self; realized in
religions and beliefs) and "Mahachohan" (L - intelligence, mind, soul; expressed in science, civilization and education). Notice that matter is
equated with "not-self"; this follows the ancient gnostic idea that the physical must be destroyed to bring forth the true "self". Bailey affirms
that Sanat Kumara's job is indeed to destroy, using the Shamballa energy, to make room for the new (_Externalisation_ II, p.89). She saw
the devastation of the Nazis as an outworking of this destructive Shamballa force, calling it "right and good, provided we understand why it is
taking place and by what it should be succeeded." (_From Bethlehem to Calvary_ p.463) Lucis Trust, the organization dedicated to
distributing Bailey's writings, considers the Shamballa force to be "a demonstration of the beneficent will of God", in that it "tends to destroy
all forms that hinder the emergence of a new and better world [especially in] the political field." (from Lucis Trust essay explaining
Shamballa, Sept. 1999. They also expected a "release of the Shamballa force" in the year 2000.) [I would assume that if it happens, this
would be triggered by a "new" UN. But since the "new UN" is way behind schedule, we needn't set our watches.]
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