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The Rainbow Swastika - The Gods of the New Age
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the past we have had to withdraw our support from those who were given the opportunity to represent us. The one who for a time had the
opportunity of representing the master Djwal Kuhl soon lost that authority through intellectual pride and the brittleness of the lower mental
body, which can never be the channel of the mind of God. Thus I expose to you the false teachings subtly woven into the work of Alice
Bailey, whose failure to surrender totally rendered her unfit as an instrument of the Tibetan Master." ("Master Kuthumi", "An Expose of
False Teachings", _Pearls of Wisdom_ 19/5, Feb. 1, 1976, p.28) [This is a warning to NA channels everywhere to expect no thanks for their
years of service if they should fall from favor for any reason. It also represents a crisis of confidence for those who base their lives on
"transmissions from the Masters". If Bailey's works are shot through with "false teaching", then the Hierarchy did not show a basic level of
responsibility by stopping the UN, Lucis Trust, Robert Muller and all the other NA missionaries now spreading Bailey's teachings in their
entirety. On the other hand, if Bailey teachings are still valid, then there must be false Masters roaming about, feeding disinformation to
gullible NA audiences... in which case one might ask why all transmissions and "Masters" should not be considered suspect.]
9b. Judging Human Development - The "Masters" have an iffy track record in prediction as well, even when they blame humans in advance
for any potential error. Ruth Montgomery relayed from her "Guides" the warning that a nuclear World War III would take place in 1987,
unless enlightened humanity banded together to "send forth the energies toward peace." They gloomily predicted, however, that this war was
"unlikely to be averted." (_Strangers..._ p.191) "Were there millions of Walk-ins working in unison, that catastrophe could perhaps be
prevented, but in this present age of prosperity how many luxury lovers are likely to say to a disincarnate, 'Take my place.'" (p.53-54) [Here,
compared to only 10 pages earlier, we see an abrupt switch from the compassionate offer to relieve discouraged individuals of their
burdensome 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 acosmic 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 evil men; as the Vilna Gaon and other sages pointed out,
the ceremonial laws of separation in the Torah are symbolic of the spiritual separation which is the essence of holiness (see commentaries on
Parashat Kedoshim). The NA path to personal godhood requires the direct opposite: spiritual union with evil. So it is actually holiness
which is the evil targeted for elimination.]
9e. Ethics and Justice - Because karma has taken over the dispensing of reward and punishment, morality and victims are obsolete concepts
from the old "dualist dispensation". All injury and suffering is merited, whether the sufferer is aware of his offense or not. On the other
hand, since good and evil are both necessary for spiritual perfection, those who injure or wrong others need only to be taught that man is his
own satan just as man is his own salvation, and that evil is not moral guilt but spiritual imbalance. Evil energies, as Spangler says, are simply
energies used out of timing or out of place, or just not suited to the needs of evolution. In accordance with this idea, prisons and mental
hospitals are investing heavily in "higher consciousness" training as rehabilitation. Due to reincarnation, there is also no such thing as
murder, so in the New Age no one can be prosecuted for being the instrument of karma in sending someone on to their next life; on the
contrary, it can be counted a service. [All this being established NA doctrine, what of the NA groups working for "human rights"? See the
Humanity section which shows that "human rights" is interpreted as the rights of "humanity", not individual human rights.]
10. The "other" creator: the G-d of the Jews.
Gnosticism forms the base of Theosophical belief about the G-d of the Jewish Bible (discussed at length by HPB, _The Secret Doctrine_, II
p.243-244) She identifies him as a gnostic "Demiurgos" (a minor deity) named "Ilda-Baoth, whom several sects regarded as the God of
Moses." Curiously, she goes out of her way to add that Ilda-Baoth is the "Demiurge of the Nazarenes" as well. [This is the historical term for
the earliest disciples of Jesus, who were all Jews.] She describes him as "not a pure spirit, he was ambitious and proud, and rejecting the
spiritual light of the middle space offered him by his mother Sophia-Achamoth, he set himself to create a world of his own." He successfully
"created" the physical universe, but only with help from "Sophia", who immediately regretted her part in the endeavor. HPB goes on to
describe his creation of man as "a failure", resulting in "a monster, soulless, ignorant and crawling on all fours." Sophia steps in again, and
endows man with a soul, which fills Ilda-Baoth with "rage and envy" as he watches his creature set out to follow the divine ray within,
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