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The Rainbow Swastika - Human History According to the New Age
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THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA
A REPORT TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE
ABOUT NEW AGE ANTISEMITISM
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"All societies believe nonsense....
As in cell replication, any given society
sooner or later hits on a chunk of lethal nonsense, and collapses.
In a world of many independent societies, this does not matter much.
But once communication technology has formed a single global society,
the time must come when everyone believes the same lethal nonsense simultaneously.
Civilization then collapses globally, leaving no seed from which it could rise again."
(David Jones, quoted by Richard Crews, _CPU Review_, April 1993, p.44)
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In spite of cautions like the above, NAers are supremely confident that their society is free of "lethal nonsense". On the contrary, they are
convinced that the very survival of civilization depends on their success in reshaping mankind's understanding of its own origins and destiny.
In their view, any "lethal nonsense" that exists is to be found in those who do not accept any of the doctrines that follow.
1. Mankind as a whole is continually evolving upward, physically and/or spiritually. There is no meaningful difference between material
and spiritual in this evolution - what we consider physical "reality" is maya [Hindu term for illusion], no different from dreams or
imagination. In fact, once men's minds are released from accepting the "illusion" of physical limitations, anything and everything is possible
for humanity. Therefore, the material (physical) world is actually an evil, in that it holds us back from developing our full potential. Bailey
identified the "Dark Forces" in part as materialism and the persistence in relating to matter as real (_Externalisation of the Hierarchy_ Section
II, p.74-75). Hindu yogis devote their lives to escaping the "maya" of this life through physical deprivation and self-inflicted suffering. So do
Theosophists, in keeping with the Gnostic tradition (see Blavatsky, _The Secret Doctrine_ I, p.70) Tibetan Buddhists try to escape it through
prolonged isolation and silent meditation. Inevitably, all who accept such a view of earthly existence see death as a welcome escape and a
helping hand in human evolution - as did Bailey (_Externalisation_ II, p.75).
The NA doctrines most familiar to us are tailored to Western demands for a quicker and less painful path, but their offer of "personal
transformation" sets the same goal for the initiate: escape from the limitations of this life, at least mentally if one is not ready for the physical
step. [A quick survey of popular movies of recent years will show how energetically we are being indoctrinated to free ourselves from "the
physical plane", or the material world. An especially powerful apologetic is _The Matrix_, which a gnostic acquaintance recommended to me
as a good presentation of his belief system. And lest viewers miss the fact that they are being preached at, in the final moments of the flick,
the main character - "Neo" (Greek for "new man"), in league with "Morpheus" (Greek for "change", also the god of dreams) - turns into a
combination of Superman and messiah and takes over the dialog. All sense of fictional plot dissolves as he directs an old-fashioned altar call
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