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IntroductionThe United Nations is a hotbed of anti-Christian, NewAge mysticism. With its one-world ambitions,humanistic philosophy, anti-Semitism, and syncretisticambitions, it is an institution that is unwittingly makingpreparations for the coming of the Antichrist. It is an endtimeTower of Babel.Many have criticized the United Nations and documentedits failures, but typically they fail to see the underlyingspiritual issues.Conservative Americans have long warned about theUnited Nations.In the early 1980s, the Heritage Foundation, whichadvised the Reagan administration, published a studyconcluding that “a world without the U.N. would be abetter world.” Authored by Burton Pines, vice presidentof the foundation, the study accused the U.N. of beingexceedingly anti-U.S., anti-West and anti-free enterpriseand claimed that its characteristics were inefficiency,cronyism, high pay, lavish expense accounts, corruption,and illiteracy (Stanley Meisler, United Nations: The FirstFifty Years, p. 219).15

In 1983, the British newsmagazine The Economistdescribed UNESCO staff as “trampled by a mixture ofnepotism, maladministration, reverse racism, and anapparently incorrigible tilt toward the hardliners of theThird World.”In September 2008, Republican Congressman TomTancredo introduced legislation to kick the UnitedNations out of the United States. He said:“The U.N. has coddled brutal dictators, anti-Semites,state sponsors of terrorism, and nuclear proliferators--while excluding democratic countries from membershipand turning a blind eye to humanitarian tragedies andgross violations of human rights around the globe. Irefuse to sit idly by while Americans are forced to hostIslamofascist dictators, like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sothey can spew anti-American rhetoric just blocks fromGround Zero. ... If the U.N. is so keen to accommodatethe foreign policy demands of rogue nations anddictatorships, perhaps the world body might be morecomfortable relocating to one. I’m sure Ban Ki-Moon willhave no trouble securing a new location in downtownPyongyang or Tehran” (“Bill Would Boot U.N. from U.S.”WorldNetDaily, Sept. 24, 2008).Recently, some have warned that the United Nations hasabused science for the sake of its agenda. Art Robinson,co-founder of the Oregon Institute of Science andMedicine, says:16

“[Nowhere is science] more abused than in the UnitedNations, where institutionalized mob rule is called‘science.’ In its headlong drive to gain the power to taxand ration world energy (and thereby control worldtechnology--sharing taxation authority with othergovernments in return for their support) the UnitedNations has created a ‘process,’ which it calls‘science’” (“U.N. Scaring Planet Earth into Global Taxfor Climate,” WorldNetDaily, June 19, 2008).17

the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, stood anddelivered the following words of defiance:“The United States rises to declare before the GeneralAssembly of the United Nations, and before the world,that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it willnever acquiesce in this infamous act” (Meisler, p. 215).One of the U.N. Secretary-Generals, Kurt Waldheim, wasa former Nazi German officer who committed crimesagainst the Jews and was listed by the War CrimesCommission as a war criminal. The information about hispast did not become public until after his term asSecretary-General, but it is not surprising that Waldheimcondemned Israel’s dramatic rescue of Jewish hostages inEntebbe in 1976. He also was at the helm when theUnited Nations passed the “Zionism Is Racism”resolution.HypocrisyThe United Nation’s gross hypocrisy has also beendocumented many times. For example, throughout the1970s and 1980s, it issued annual resolutionscondemning South Africa for its apartheid policies, whilecompletely ignoring Burundi’s official slaughter ofbetween one hundred thousand and two hundredthousand Hutus and Uganda’s brutality toward Ugandans19

and Asians. Uganda’s Idi Amin deported every man,woman, and child of Asian descent, amounting to almosttwo hundred thousand (Meisler, United Nations, p. 211).The U.N.’s hypocrisy is also evident in that nearly half ofthe members of the United Nations Human RightsCommission are human rights abusers, including some ofthe worst abusers on the planet. The current Commissionfeatures freedom-loving nations like Libya, Uganda,Angola, China, Cuba, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia (“Many‘Free” Countries Voted for Libya to Join,”CNSNews.com, May 14, 2010). Past members of theCommission include Russia, Vietnam, and Syria. TheUnited States had wisely refused to join the HumanRights Commission or even to participate as an observeruntil President Obama changed that policy last year.Another area of hypocrisy is in the UN’s disarmamentprogram. Their vehicles carry stickers promotingpacifism and disarmament (a gun inside a blue circlewith a slash across it), but their “peace keepers” are wellarmed and their workers are quick to call for armedprotection if they are attacked. They only want to disarmeveryone else!20

Tower of BabelAll of this and much more is true of the United Nations,but it is does not get to the heart of the issue for the Biblebeliever, which is that the United Nations is one of theforemost incarnations of the end-time Tower of Babel.The UN was preceded by the League of Nations, whichwas formed in 1920 following World War I. The Leagueaimed to preserve world peace through internationalcooperation, but it was not able to stop a second worldwar.The name “United Nations” was devised by U.S.President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II andwas first used on January 1, 1942, when 26 nationspledged to fight against the Axis Powers led by NaziGermany. In 1944, representatives of China, England,America, and the Soviet Union met to prepare a blueprintfor the UN. In 1945, representatives of dozens ofcountries met in San Francisco from April 25 to June 26to hammer out the United Nations Charter. It was ratifiedon October 24 of that year by the original 51 memberstates.21

There are currently 192 members. The UN headquartersis in New York City, but its land and buildings areinternational territory. It has its own flag, post office, andpostage stamps. Its six official languages are Arabic,Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. TheUN’s European headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland.Growing InfluenceWith its stated aim to stop war, develop friendly relationsbetween nations, help people live better lives, stopenvironmental destruction, and encourage respect foreach other’s rights and freedoms, the United Nations hasgrown into a very powerful global force. It has programsdealing with every aspect of life on earth and reachingeven to the solar system. There is the International LaborOrganization, World Health Organization, World Bank,International Monetary Fund, World Court, Food andAgriculture Organization, International Atomic EnergyAgency, U.N. Industrial Organization, U.N. Children’sFund, U.N. Development Program, U.N. EnvironmentalProgram, U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange, and countless other programs and internationalbodies that have risen in connection with the UN.22

Organization receives world-wide weather and climatedata from satellites; the International MaritimeOrganization has an international satellite which servesall ships and navigators around the world; the Food andAgriculture Organization receives outer spaceinformation on weather, crop outlooks, floods and plantepidemics; UNESCO is testing educational systems bymeans of satellites, and the UN held another outerspace conference in 1982.“Yes, the UN is dealing with the gaseous layersurrounding our globe, the atmosphere with itscomponents, the troposphere, stratosphere andionosphere. Under the auspices of the WorldMeteorological Organization, governments arecooperating in a Global Atmospheric ResearchProgram. The United Nations Environment Program(UNEP) is keeping a check on the state and the qualityof the atmosphere and the ionosphere. It convened in1978 a world conference on the ozonosphere. TheInternational Civil Aviation Organization is dealing withair safety, international air traffic and a legal order forworld air transport.“Yes, the UN is concerned with our globe’s climate,including the possible reoccurrence of ice ages: theWorld Meteorological Organization held a first worldclimate conference in 1979.‘Yes, the UN is concerned with the total biospherethrough project Earthwatch, the global EnvironmentProgram of UNEP and UNESCO’s program, ‘Man andthe Biosphere.’“Yes, the UN is dealing with our planet’s seas andoceans through the Law of the Sea Conference,UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic24

Commission, FAO’s work on world fisheries, IMCO’sconcern with maritime transport, UNEP’s work andtreaties on the sea environment, etc.“Yes, the UN is dealing with the world’s deserts throughFAO, UNESCO and NEP. A world conference ondesertification was held in 1977.“Yes, the UN is dealing with the world’s water resourcesand cycles: UNESCO has a World HydrologicalDecade, the UN held a world water conference in 1978and established a map of our globe’s undergroundwater resources.“Yes, the UN is dealing with the continental plates,international rivers, underdeveloped nations, thecultures, races, religions, languages, cities, infants,adolescents, women, malnourished, workers, farmers,professionals, corporations and ALMOST ANY OTHERCONCEIVABLE GROUP OR GLOBAL PROBLEM OFTHIS PLANET.“Yes, the UN is dealing with the human person, thatalpha and omega of our efforts, the basic unit of all thisgigantic Copernican tapestry. THE PERSON’S BASICRIGHTS, JUSTICE, HEALTH, PROGRESS ANDPEACE ARE BEING DEALT WITH FROM THE FETUSTO THE TIME OF DEATH.“Yes, the UN is dealing with the atom in theInternational Atomic Energy Agency, and withmicrobiology and genetics in UNESCO, the WorldHealth Organization and FAO.“Yes, the UN is dealing with art, folklore, nature, thepreservation of species, germ banks, labor, handicrafts,literature, industry, trade, tourism, energy, finance, birth25

defects, sicknesses, pollution, politics, the prevention ofaccidents, of war and conflicts, the building of peace,the eradication of armaments, atomic radiation, thesettlement of disputes, the development of world-widecooperation, the aspiration of East and West, North andSouth, black and white, rich and poor, etc.” (Muller, NewGenesis, pp. 27, 28).Muller sees this all-encompassing United Nations as “theresponse to a prodigious evolutionary march by thehuman species towards total consciousness ... a realturning point in evolution, the beginning of an entirelynew era” (New Genesis, p. 28).26

One-World AgendaWorld PeaceThe United Nations seeks to establish world peace in theface of the Bible’s testimony that “there is no peace tothe wicked” (Isaiah 48:22; 57:21). It has exchanged thePrince of Peace for a pathetic attempt to bring salvationto mankind through human effort and occultic power.The preamble to the U.N. Charter says that “we thepeoples of the United Nations” are “determined to savesucceeding generations from the scourge of war.”When UNESCO (the United Nations Educational,Scientific, and Cultural Organization) was formed in1945, its constitution opened with these words:“Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the mindsof men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.”It was seen as the key for unlocking “the great dream ofpeace through understanding” (Stanley Meisler, UnitedNations: The First Fifty Years, p. 223).27

Thus, UNESCO determined to bring peace througheducation. As we will see, this education is based on themind of man rather than the mind of God.The United Nations has no ability to correct the root ofworld turmoil, and that is man’s fallen heart. The LordJesus said:“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evilthoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, anevil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evilthings come from within, and defile the man” (Mark7:21-23).The UN’s symbol is the earth held between two olivebranches of peace. On a wall across the street from theUN headquarters is the quotation from Isaiah 2:4:“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and theirspears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up swordagainst nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”In the UN garden overlooking the East River is a statueof a man beating a sword into a plowshare. Anotherstatue near the public entrance to the UN depicts ahandgun with its barrel tied in a knot, signifying nonviolence.28

Martin Luther King, Jr., said, “The UN is a gesture in thedirection of non-violence on a world scale” (Muller, NewGenesis, p. 43).The United Nations sees the sovereignty of nations asone of the obstacles to world peace. Former assistant tothe UN Secretary General Robert Muller says:“Life on this planet requires a certain number offundamental obligations of states. One of these is not toendanger life and the planet with cataclysmic antihumanarmaments. The whole concept of human rightsmust evolve with THE PROBLEM OFNATIONHOOD” (New Genesis, p. 67).Muller says that “‘my religion, right or wrong,’ and ‘mynation, right or wrong’ must be abandoned forever in theplanetary age” (New Genesis, p. 183).The UN does not make a clear distinction betweenarming oneself for protection and arming oneself foraggression, between aggressor states and non-aggressors.This has been evident in its decades-old wrong-headedtreatment of Israel and the Islamic nations that want todestroy her. The UN attempts to see a “moralequivalence” between its member states, which ispatently ludicrous.29

The UN’s objective is to have the power to control thenations and to enforce its edicts. Robert Muller bemoansthe fact that “ancient religious codes” are followed insome nations more than “the recommendations of theUnited Nations” (New Genesis, p. 68). He and his fellowone-worlders want to do away with the national “escapeclauses” and to see “forceful implementation” (p. 69). Hewants the UN’s World Court to have real enforcementpower. He wants the UN to be the world lawmaker,world judge, and world police beyond which is noappeal.Muller says:“The UN should never be by-passed by any nation orgroup of nations as humanity’s peacekeepingforce” (New Genesis, p. 175).Muller says:“As we approach the new global age of humanity, wemust unequivocally proclaim and ENFORCE thisfundamental, sacred and inalienable right and obligationof all human beings on our planet: THOU SHALT NOTKILL, NOT EVEN IN THE NAME OF A NATION” (NewGenesis, p. 75).Observe the hypocrisy here. He wants to deny nations theright of self-defense and to make it illegal for police andarmies to kill under any circumstance, but he wants this30

policy to be ENFORCED. How else can such a thing beenforced apart from armed power? Thus, it is fine if theUN wields weapons to enforce its edicts, but it is notright if this is done by nations and individual citizens.Muller quotes Pope Paul VI as saying that “armamentskill, even if they are not used: they kill scores of childrenand people who could have been saved from hunger,malnutrition and malady” (p. 103). This ignorantstatement fails to take into consideration the fact that ifpeaceful nations were not properly armed, there would beno peaceful nations! If America had not been capable ofarming herself and her allies to the teeth during WorldWar II, all nations would be slaves today to Nazis andJapanese Imperialists, and there would be no “UnitedNations” -- and no Jews.The muddled thinking of UN one-worlders is worse thanwrong and ridiculous; it is dangerous.One-World GovernmentThe United Nations has sought for a one-worldgovernment since its inception.At the founding of UNESCO, Julian Huxley wrote,31

"The general philosophy of UNESCO should be ascientific world humanism, global in extent andevolutionary in background.. in its education program itcan stress the ultimate need for world political unity andfamiliarize all peoples with the implications of thetransfer of full sovereignty FROM separate nations to aWORLD ORGANIZATION. Political unification in somesort of WORLD GOVERNMENT will be required.”“... must envision some form of world political unity,whether through a single world government orotherwise, as the only certain means for avoiding war.”A New Age WorldSince the 1960s the emphasis of the UN has increasinglybeen on the creation of a New Age world, and mysticismhas played a large role in this.In 1968 the United Nations started a program to accreditNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS(NGOs). These are related to the UN’s Department ofPublic Information. Through its relationship with NGOsthe United Nations seeks to educate people in variousparts of the world about its work and aims and in turn tobe educated by the NGOs. There are weekly NGObriefings, regular workshops, and an annual NGOconference. Currently there are 1664 NGOs.Since the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, UNconferences have become forums for the participation not32

only of its member states but also of the NGOs. Thus, theNGOs have a real affect upon UN policy decisions. TheUN’s web site says, “With the moral weight ofinternational conferences and the pressures of media andNGOs, Member States are more likely to endorse theagreements and put them into effect” (http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/unintro/unintro5.htm).The Crime of IntoleranceThe Commission for Global Governance (CGG), whichwas established in 1992 with the full support of the U.N.Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali, calls for“global governance, cultural diversity, a one-worldeconomy, the new world order, and a global rule oflaw” (“A Beginning of Global Governance,” ContenderMinistries, May 20, 2002).On April 4, 1997, the CGG issued the Milano Charter,which called for a worldwide struggle against intolerance“against culture, civilization, religion, and ethnicity.” Itcalled intolerance “the new enemy.” The CGG urged thenations to “empower the U.N. to confront” this and other“enemies.”33

One response to this plea was the formation of the WorldCourt in 2002 to prosecute “human rights abuses.” Itdefines these as “injury to a population’s mental health.”Thus, when the United Nations has its way and has thepower to enforce its will, the “intolerance” of a BiblebelievingChristian toward those beliefs and actions thatare contrary to the Scripture will be considered a veryevil thing.34

New Age PersonalitiesRobert MullerRobert Muller (b. 1923) joined the United Nations in1951, soon after its birth. He was the assistant to threeSecretary-Generals. He was director of the Secretary-General’s Office and director of the UN Economic andSocial Council (UNESCO).Muller, who was the keynote speaker at the Parliament ofWorld Religions in 1993, advocates a one-world religionand one-world government. He claims to communicatewith spirits (John Ankerberg, “Who are the LeadingVoices of the New Age Movement,” http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/new-age/NA1101W3.htm).Speaking at the 20th anniversary of the U.N. MeditationRoom in 1977, Muller said:“For me the tall building of the U.N. is an edifice ofhuman hope and dream jutting into the universe andreceiving from that universe increasingly clearermessages. Perhaps we have reached a time of cosmicevolution. Little by little, a planetary prayer book isbeing composed by an increasingly united humanityseeking its oneness, its happiness, its consciousness35

and its full participation in the continuous process ofcreation” (http://www.aquaac.org/un/medatun.html).In his book New Genesis: Shaping a Global Spirituality(1984), Muller said that he is looking for “the advent of anew age.” Muller described the United Nations as “TheNew Genesis.” He wrote:“And God saw that all nations of the earth, black andwhite, rich and poor, from North or South, from East andWest, and of all creeds were sending their emissaries toa tall glass house on the shores of the River of theRising Sun, on the Island of Manhattan, to standtogether, to think together, and to care together for theworld and all its people. And God said: ‘That is good.’And it was the first day of the New Age of theEarth” (The Desire to be Human: A GlobalReconnaissance of Human Perspectives in an Age ofTransformation, 1983, p. 17).Muller says the world must prepare for “aninterdependent, safe, prosperous, friendly, loving, happyplanetary age as has been heralded by all greatprophets” (p. 8). He believes that the “great period ofhuman fulfillment on planet Earth is only now about tobegin” (p. 8).“I firmly believe that humanity will be able to elevatehuman life ot unprecedented levels and achieve ahappy society on earth” (New Genesis, p. 23).36

“Humanity is finding its right way, slowly but surely” (p.53).“The United Nations is much more than a politicalorganization, it is a paradigm, the expression of a deep,evolutionary change which in the long run will transformthe world for the best” (p. 122).“There is no reason why our planet should not be afloating cathedral in the universe, a vast temple to Godor a monastery” (p. 132).“The supreme unity of the human family, universal andinterdependent, as seen by all great religions must nowbecome a political reality; the hour has struck for theimplementation of a spiritual vision of world affairs; thenext great task of humanity will be to determine thedivine or cosmic laws which must rule our behavior ofthis planet” (p. 184).He believes the man, the earth, and God are one:"Once again, but this time on a universal scale,humankind is seeking no less than its reunion with the‘divine,’ its transcendence into ever higher forms of life.Hindus call our earth Brahma, or God, for they rightlysee no difference between our earth and the divine.This ancient simple truth is slowly dawning again uponhumanity. Its full flowering be the real, great new storyof humanity as we are about to enter our cosmicage” (New Genesis, p. 49).In his 1986 book Decide to Be, Muller said that man isGod:37

“Decide to open yourself to God, to the Universe, to allyour brethren and sisters, to your inner self ... to thepotential of the human race, to the infinity of your innerself, and you will become the universe ... you willbecome infinity, and you will be at long last your real,divine, stupendous self” (Muller, Decide to Be, 1986, p.2; published by the British New Age journal Global Link-Up; quoted from Alan Morrison, The Occult Character ofthe United Nations).In 1989 in Costa Rica, Muller preached that man is onewith the universe and the third millennium will witnessman’s reconciliation “with creation, with nature, with theplanet, with the cosmos, and with eternity”:“Now we’re learning that perhaps this planet has notbeen created for humans, but that humans have beencreated for the planet. We hear now of the Gaiahypothesis, of the interdependence of all inert and livingmatter, that we are part and parcel of a living planetaryorganism. We are temporary living manifestations orincarnations of this Earth. We are living Earth. Each ofus is a cell, a perceptive nervous unit of the Earth. Theliving consciousness of the Earth is beginning tooperate through us. You as cosmic and earth cells, arepart of a vast biological and evolutionary phenomenonwhich is of first importance at this stage, namelyhumanity as a whole, the whole human species, hasbecome the brain, the heart, the soul, the expressionand the action of the Earth. We have now a world brainwhich determines what can be dangerous or mortal forthe planet: the United Nations and its agencies, andinnumerable groups and networks around the world, arepart of the brain. This is our newly discoveredmeaning. ... we are a global family living in a global38

home. We are in the process of becoming a globalcivilization. I hope that religious leaders will get togetherand define before the end of this century the cosmiclaws which are common to all their faiths. The thirdmillennium should be a spiritual millennium, amillennium which will see the integration and harmonyof humanity with creation, with nature, with the planet,with the cosmos and with eternity” (Muller, “ACosmological Vision of the Future,” World GoodwillOccasional Paper, October 1989).Speaking at the University of Denver in March 1995,Muller said that we need to have a global heart and mind:“We are beginning to have a global heart, be it only ourlove for nature, to preserve this earth--this planet ofours--and we will also see the birth of a global soul.Whoever will understand that we are a part of theuniverse and of evolution--that we are cells of a totalhumanity. We should replace the word politics byplanetics. We need the planetary management,planetary caretakers. We need global sciences. Weneed a science of a global psychology, a globalsociology, a global anthropology” (Muller, “UnitedNations at 50: Achievements and Challenges,” TheWisconsin Report, vol. xx, no. 32, Aug. 24, 1995).Muller believes that man is evolving ever upward,impelled by cosmic forces, and if we fail to respond wedie.“I have come to the conclusion that our planet, all life onit and in particular human life, is a manifestation ofcosmic or divine forces of the universe. Within us39

therefore resides a basic cosmic force that impels us torespond to our evolutionary duties and to be in favor oflife and of our further ascent. If we don’t, we areabandoned by this central, all-pervading force and wedie individually or collectively. Faith in life and in ourfuture is therefore the most vital force we must rely onto continue successfully on our strange, unfathomablejourney in the universe. This is what the Christ andmany other messengers from the outer heavens havetold us...” (New Genesis, p. 136).Muller interprets Genesis 3 as a parable that actuallyteaches that man was wise to choose to eat the fruit of thetree of the knowledge of good and evil.“... as vividly described in the story of the Tree ofKnowledge, having decided to become like God throughknowledge and our attempt to understand the heavensand the earth, we have also become masters in decidedbetween good and bad...” (New Genesis, p. 145).Muller believes that the creation of a new world requiresinterfaith harmony, tolerance, ecumenism, and bridgebuilding.“... to build bridges ... is one of the fundamental andhistorical tasks of the United Nations” (New Genesis, p.17).“Ecumenism is a major phenomenon of our time: it is anew philosophy which helps religions to stop hating andfighting each other in the name of God” (New Genesis,p. 18).40

Hammarskjöld believed not only that man can achieveunion with God, but also that man is God. Following isanother quote from his diary:“To ‘believe in God’ is to believe in yourself, as selfevident,as ‘illogical’, and as impossibleto explain: if I can be, then God is.”Hammarskjöld believed that “something” was leading hislife. He wrote in his diary in 1961:“I don’t know Who--or what--put the question, I don’tknow when it was put. I don’t even rememberanswering. But at some moment I did answer Yes toSomeone--or Something--and from that hour I wascertain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore,my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.”It is obvious that Hammarskjöld was not surrendered tothe God of the Bible. He was blindly surrendered to the“god of this world.”U ThantU Thant*, who was UN Secretary General from 1961 to1971, was a Buddhist who meditated every morningbefore driving to the headquarters building. His objectivewas to achieve metta (goodwill), karuna (compassion),mudita (sympathetic joy), and upekka (equilibrium). U43

Thant also believed in astrology. (* U means “Mister” inthe Burmese language.)In his memoirs, which were published in 1978, he said:“Buddhist meditation aims at cleansing the mind ofimpurities, such as ill will, hatred and restlessness; itaims at cultivating such qualities as concentration,awareness, intelligence, confidence, and tranquility,leading finally to the attainment of the highestwisdom” (View from the UN, p. 454).U Thant said that he was greatly influenced by the NewAge Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.U Thant believed that man can learn to exercise “the lawof love” by a process of education, so that “wars andconflicts will become a thing of the past” (quote fromMuller, New Genesis, p. 7).U Thant believed in the law of karma, the principle thatevery action has a reaction, good or evil (New Genesis, p.54). He hoped that good karma would spread throughoutthe world so that “humanity could progress and lift itselfupwards towards a total communion with God, theuniverse and eternity” (p. 54).In his farewell address to the UN in December 1971, UThant exalted “tolerance, the philosophy of ‘live and let44

live’” as the key to fashioning a new world (NewGenesis, p. 8).Javier Perez de CuellarJavier Perez de Cuellar (b. 1920), who was U.N.Secretary-General from 1982 to 1991, was reputed tohave been abducted by aliens on November 30, 1989(The Independent, London, Jan. 2, 1994; quoted fromAlan Morrison, The Occult Character of the UnitedNations). The Independent reported that though Perez deCuellar has refused to speak about this experience, inresponse to an enquiry about the matter from the Princeof Liechtenstein, who is a leading world authority onUFOs, “he did not deny that it had occurred.Maurice StrongMaurice Strong was the first director of the UnitedNations Environment Program (UNEP). He was theSecretary-General of Earth Summit I in 1972 and EarthSummit II in 1992. He is the founder of the EarthCouncil, co-chair of the World Economic Forum, amember of the UN-funded Commission on GlobalGovernance, and a member of the New Age LindesfarneFellowship.45

“Among Strong’s world-wide holdings is a 63,000 acreColorado ranch called the Baca Grande. It is a mecca formystics. The ranch is home to a group called Disciples ofthe XVI Gyalwa Karmapa, a strain of Tibetan Buddhism.Shirley MacLaine planned to build her New Age Centerat Baca, but locals resisted the idea of a resort. A groupof Carmelites built the Spiritual Life Institute, a co-edmonastery for silent contemplation. The Disciples ofBabaji, an Indian Guru, celebrate Hindu rituals in a$175,000 solar-powered, gold-domed, adobe templewhich features an alabaster statue of Murti, the DivineMother, built by the Lindesfarne Fellowship. There is atemple for Sufis, and another for Taoists. Still anothergroup was blocked by county officials who quicklyenacted a building height restriction when it was learnedthat the group intended to build a 46-story pink granitepyramid in compliance with instructions received froman intergalactic leader named Commander Kuthumi whowas channeling from the planet Arturus. Strong and wifeHanne see the Baca Grande as the ‘Vatican City’ of thenew world order” (Henry Lamb, The Rise of GlobalGreen Religion, EcoLogic Special Report, 1996, http://freedom.org/reports/ggreligion.htm).46

Jean HoustonNew Ager Jean Houston has worked as an Advisor toUNICEF and chaired the 1975 Temple of Understandingconference at the United Nations (http://www.dailywriting.net/Houston.htm).Houston arranged the publication of Robert Muller’sNew Age book Most of All They Taught Me Happiness.Houston is a prolific teacher and author within theHuman Potential field. She is said to have “lectured atmore than 1,000 colleges, universities, schools, churches,hospitals, mental health agencies, corporations (such asAT&T, General Electric, Shell Oil, General Motors,Xerox, IBM)” and been “a featured speaker orchairperson for many major academic, scientific andgovernment meetings, which she described assymposiums for policy makers and U.N. conferences”(Craig Branch, “Jean Houston,” http://www.watchman.org/profile/hustnpro.htm).Houston served for two years in an advisory capacity toPresident and Mrs. Clinton as well as helping Mrs.Clinton write, “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child.” She47

has also worked with President and Mrs. Carter andcounseled leaders in similar positions in many countriesand cultures.She claims to have had many psychic experiences, suchas contact with the Hindu goddess Saraswati while shewas meditating on the Ganges River in India.Houston teaches the New Age myths of the “theunderlying unity of life,” the goodness and divinity ofman, the collective consciousness, evolutionaryreincarnation, and man’s ability to create reality. She is abig promoter of the New Age practice of guided imagery.Houston is the founder of the Mystery School, which sheadmits is based on the teaching of ancient mysteryschools in Egypt, China, India, Japan, and elsewhere.This refers to such things as Gnosticism, goddessworship, Hinduism, Rosicrucianism, Rumi, and otherancient idolatrous religions.She promises to teach the individual how to “go beyondthe limits and create a reality in which the horizon of thelimits is great expandable and More becomes possible.”This is allegedly achieved by enabling the student to gobeyond his “local self” to align with the higher Self“where the immanent God resides.” Houston says, “You48

are the mystery, and the job of the Mystery School is toschool you in your own depths.”The Mystery School uses guided imagery to bring thestudents into direct connection with ancient gods,goddesses, and religious teachers.Houston claims that Jesus was a “symbolic myth”, and inher book The Possible Human, she describes a guidedimagery session whereby the dead body of Jesus wasdiscovered (p. 174). She says that the Bible’s “ethicalsystem” is passé.49

New Age EducationMuller believes that New Age education is a major keyto preparing children for world citizenship. He mentionsthis repeatedly in his book New Genesis, callingeducation “the key to our future” (p. 22).“If we give the right education to the fifteen thousandchildren born every hour and make them feel part of thebeautiful human family and its mysterious physical,mental, moral and spiritual interdependencies, then wewill obtain a better world. We must give a globaleducation to all the world’s children...” (p. 58).Muller says that this education must make the childrensee that they are one with the universe and teach them“how they should relate to the skies, to the stars, to thesun, to the infinite, to time, to the human family, to theirplanet and to all their human brethren and sisters” (NewGenesis, p. 22).This, of course, is the heresy of panentheism.He says that each child must be made to “feel like a kingin the universe, an expanded being aggrandized by thevastness of our knowledge” (p. 153).In such a program there is no room for the Bible, whichteaches that man is God’s creature and that he is50

separated from God because of sin and can be reconciledonly through the atonement of Jesus Christ. This is 180degrees contrary to the UN’s New Age philosophy.Muller tells how that UN Secretary General U Thantenvisioned a United Nations University that “would giveall other universities the global views, inspiration andcurricula needed for a peaceful society and right humanrelations” (New Genesis, p. 22). Thus, he wanted the UNto have the power to influence all higher educationthroughout the planet.This global education is intended to produce “worldmanagers” (New Genesis, p. 23).New Age mysticism is to be at the very heart of thecurriculum. The world students are to be nurtured in their“faith” by “spiritual exercises of interiority, meditation,prayer and communion with God, the universe andeternity” (p. 153). They are to make positive confessionslike the following:“Act like a king or queen unto Death“Feel God in your body, mind, heart, and soulAnd be convinced of eternal life and resurrection” (NewGenesis, p. 154).51

Another of Muller’s New Age mantras is called “Decideto Be Happy.” Consider an excerpt:“Render others happy; proclaim your joy; lovepassionately your miraculous life; do not listen topromises; do not wait for a better world ... Meditate -Smile - Laugh Whistle - Sing - Dance ... Be yourselffully and immensely; act like a king or queen untoDeath; feel God in you body, mind, heart, and soul; andbe convinced of eternal life and resurrection.”In 1984, Muller founded the Robert Muller School inArlington, Texas, which is certified by the UnitedNations Educational, Scientific and CulturalOrganization (UNESCO). The school is a “participatinginstitution in the UNESCO Associated Schools Project inEducation for International Co-operation and Peace.”His educational curriculum is called the World CoreCurriculum and the Global Peace Curriculum.Muller’s educational curriculum is based on AliceBailey’s occultic teachings. The believes in the divinityof man and the coming of the cosmic christ and theestablishment of the Age of Aquarius.The Robert Muller School World Core CurriculumManual (1986) was published by the Lucis PublishingCompany. The preface says,52

“The underlying philosophy upon which the RobertMuller School is based will be found in the teachings setforth in the books of Alice A. Bailey, by the Tibetanteacher, Djwhal Khul.”Djwhal Khul was the alleged Tibetan Ascended Master(aka demon) who communicated through Bailey.In her book Brave New Schools, Bjrit Kjos described a1992 visit to Muller’s school:During a visit to Arlington, Texas, some years ago, afriend took me to see the original Robert Muller school.While she waited in the car, I walked past a littleBuddha, climbed the steps to the front door, and rangthe bell. Gloria Crook, the Director opened the door andasked why I had come. I listed my credentials: I wasinterested in global education, was concerned about theenvironment, and was an immigrant from Norway--acountry well known for its global concerns andadmiration for the United Nations.[18] I must havepassed the test, because she invited me in and led meinto a massive hallway. Looking to the left, I saw a roomfull of young mothers and pregnant women in yogaposition. On a table next to the doorway, I noticed astack of papers. The title startled me: ‘OccultMeditation.’To those who don't know God, the occult seems good,not bad, I thought to myself.“Are you familiar with Alice Bailey?” she asked me aswe entered a large cluttered office.53

“Yes.” I nodded, well aware of her links to Theosophyand the occult messages she channeled from herfavorite spirit guide. “Didn't she write books full ofmessages she received from the Tibetan Master,Djwhal Khul?”“Yes,” answered Ms Crook. “Here, sit down and look atsome of them.” She pulled down several of Bailey'sbooks from a shelf and put them in my lap. I silentlythanked God for His spiritual protection as I flippedthrough the pages of the first one, Education in the NewAge. ...Finally Ms Crook pulled two large golden frames fromthe wall and showed them to me. I shivered when Ilooked at the first. It pictured a beautiful calligraphiedrendition of “The Great Invocation,” an occult prayerused around the world to invoke a global outpouring ofspiritual light and power (Brave New Schools).Muller addressed the Lucis Trust’s Arcane SchoolConference in New York City on August 12, 1979. TheLucis Trust was originally founded by Alice Bailey as theLucifer Trust to establish a new world order. Because ofcontroversy over the name, it was changed to LucisTrust. Bailey’s guru, Madame Blavatsky, named hermagazine Lucifer and believed that Lucifer is a mysticalagent of light and spiritual knowledge who is bringingenlightenment to mankind. Blavatsky and Baileybelieved that Lucifer is the true God whereas the God ofthe Bible is the imposter! Bailey’s god was not onlycalled Lucifer but also Sanat, which is a thinly disguised54

form of Satan. She called him Sanat Kumara or the Lordof the World. In The Rays of the Initiations, Baileydescribed the “seven aspects of divine purpose” asdelivered by her spirit guide, and the first of these was“the unknown, unseen, and unheard purpose of SanatKumara.” It is supposedly “the secret of life itself ...known only to Him.”At the Arcane School Conference, Muller made thefollowing statements:“... each human being is a unique, unrepeatable child ofGod and embodiment of the universe” (New Genesis, p.125).Muller denies the fall and salvation only through faith inJesus Christ. To him, every person is already a child ofGod.“This was the Christ one hundred per cent, to the pointthat He let himself be killed to prove that He wouldnever utilize the methods of darkness, brutality, andevil” (New Genesis, p. 125).According to Muller, Christ did not die to makeatonement for man’s sins but he came as a way-showerwho refused to compromise his principles.“There is nothing we need more in today’s world thanfaith, the belief that goodness and peace can win, the55

efusal to give up under any circumstance, the moldingof every defeat into a victory, of every darkness intolight. ... The Hindus call it prana, ‘the vital.’ It is indeed avital principle, the energy, the motor of the upward pathof human civilization, of our broadening into ever largerdiscoveries, of our elevation and metamorphosis into anever greater understanding of the universe and of thedivine” (New Genesis, p. 125).True faith is not a blind belief that everything is going towork out right. True faith is believing the Bible (Romans10:17), and the Bible says that every man that dieswithout faith in Christ will perish (John 3:18, 36).“We will be resurrected materially in other life forms onthis planet and ultimately into atoms of other stars, butmost of all, we will continue to live by the contributionwe have made to humanity’s improvement through ourdeeds, thoughts, love and reverence for life during ourown incarnations” (p. 126).Muller believes in some sort of reincarnation, but hedoesn’t believe in the Bible’s testimony about bodilyresurrection.“There is a famous painting and poster which showsChrist knocking at the tall United Nations building,wanting to enter it. I often visualize in my mind anothereven more accurate painting: that of a United Nationswhich would be the body of Christ. I would also like tosee published someday a Bible which would show howthe United Nations is a modern biblical institution, bent56

on implementing world-wide the wise precepts anddivine commandments of the Bible”” (pp. 126, 127).Muller is also a disciple of PIERRE TEILHARD DECHARDIN. He mentions him often in New Genesis andhas an entire chapter called “My Five TeilhardianEnlightenments.” Muller says, “... after a third of acentury of service with the UN I can say unequivocallythat much of what I have observed in the world bears outthe all-encompassing, global, forward-lookingphilosophy of Teilhard de Chardin” (p. 160).Teilhard was a Jesuit priest who believed that man is aproduct of evolution, that we have reached a new stage inthat evolution, and that man is destined to be united withGod.Muller says that Teilhard taught him that since he ishuman,“I could seek, know and feel in myself the entireuniverse and Godhead, for I was part of them and theywere part of me ... I was the master of my cosmos” (p.166).Muller believes that NEW AGE MYSTICISM is at theheart of the struggle for a new world. He mentionsmeditation often in New Genesis. He promotes thecontemplative mysticism of Thomas Merton, John of the57

Cross, Mother Teresa, and Thomas à Kempis. Mullerdescribes the mystical approach in the following prayer:“O God, I cannot define You, I cannot see You, I cannotperceive You, I cannot understand You, I cannotembrace You, but I can most definitely feel You, loveYou and know that You are” (New Genesis, p. 189).58

The UN Meditation RoomIn 1956-57 Hammarskjöld completely remodeled the UNchapel. It had been opened in 1952 as a nondenominationalprayer room, the brainchild of aChristian lay organization whose members included thedepartment store millionaire J.C. Penney. Hammarskjoldturned it into a New Age Meditation Room. The armchairs, flags of the nations, draperies, and potted plantswere removed, and a six-and-a-half ton block of iron orewas deposited in the center of the room, the polished topof which is lit by a single beam of light from the ceiling.The light depicts “divine wisdom,” and the block depictsan empty altar representing “God worshipped in manyforms” (http://www.aquaac.org/un/sprtatun.html).Hammarskjöld said, “It is the altar to the God of all” (“ARoom of Quiet,” http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/dag/meditationroom.htm). The iron ore also represents themetal from which weapons are made and the New Agehope that through the power of meditation world peacecan be achieved. Hammarskjöld said, “... we thought wecould bless by our thoughts the very material out ofwhich arms are made.” This is the New Age concept ofthe power of thinking.Hammarskjöld said the Meditation Room is “for thosewho come here to fill the void with what they find in59

their center of stillness.” It is “dedicated to the Godwhom man worships under many names and in manyforms” (Emery Kelen, Dag Hammarskjold, p. 35).The mural at the back of the room, composed ofinterlocking geometric patterns, is supposed “to evoke afeeling of the essential oneness of God.” It was paintedby Hammarskjöld’s artist friend Bo Beskow. Itsprominence and strange disjointed nature helps producean altered state of consciousness. It also depicts the unityof all religions. Hammarskjöld’s biographer says, “... butif you look closely at Beskow’s shapes you might discernin the mural almost any religious symbol. There is across, a crescent, a sun and triangles, the elements of theStar of David; but al are interwoven and are broken up incolor and shade” (Emery Kelen, Dag Hammarskjold, p.34).The UN Meditation Room has been the focus of NewAge mysticism since its opening in 1957.Hammarskjöld visited the meditation room two or threetimes a week and “never went on a journey withoutvisiting it” (Kelen, p. 37).Pope Paul VI and Secretary-General U Thant spent timetogether in the meditation room in 1965.60

Secretary-General Kofi Annan was married in theMeditation Room.Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar began the firstday of his term by visiting the Meditation Room.Hindu guru Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007) led twice-a-weekmeditations at the United Nations for more than threedecades, putting participants into a trance state withHindu music. Many people participated. Chinmoy said:“My heart tells me that the United Nations has a divineIdeal. My soul tells me that this Ideal is going to betransferred into the supreme Reality. Soulful concern isthe essence of the United Nations’ Ideal. ... Today’sUnited Nations feels truth, Light and Delight in its lovingheart. Tomorrow’s United Nations will manifest Truth,Light and Delight with its all-embracing soul. ... Themessage that the soul of the United Nations offers tothe world at large is for Eternity. Its message is thattoday’s imperfect and unfulfilled man is tomorrow’sabsolutely fulfilled and supremely manifestedGod” (http://www.aquaac.org/un/sprtatun.html).“At the end of its voyage, there is every possibility thatthe United Nations will be the last word in humanperfection. And then the United Nations can easilybloom in excellence and stand as the pinnacle of divineenlightenment” (Muller, New Genesis, p. 44).61

Miscellaneous New AgeOrganizations and ProgramsPeace Meditation DaysIn 1986, the United Nations sponsored two PeaceMeditation days. The first was called “The MillionMinutes of Peace Appeal,” while the second was entitled“The World Instant of Cooperation” (Morrison). Theobjective is to change the world through such New Agetools as meditation, positive confession, and channeling.Peace Meditation is the brainchild of New Agers such asJohn Randolph Price and Barbara Marx Hubbard. Bothof these individuals advocate communication with spirits.Price is the founder of the Quartus Foundation forSpiritual Research, which is dedicated to “research andcommunications on the divinity of man” and to“document the truth that man is indeed Godindividualized, and that as man realizes his truth identity,he becomes a Mastyer Mind with dominion over thematerial world” (Price, The Planetary Commission, 1980,p. 173).62

Other sponsors of the events included the Dalai Lama,Mother Teresa, Paul McCartney, the World SpiritualUniversity (Hindu), the Human Unity Institute, and theGandhi Foundation.ChannelingThere have been several occasions when New Agershave actually channeled spirits at the United Nations.For example, this occurred in May 1999, at the ViennaInternational Center, which houses the United Nationsand the Atomic Energy Agency. Steve Rother channeledspirits that he calls “the Group” to an assembly of peoplefrom these two organizations. He said that he found thatmost of the attendees had been reading the Beacons ofLight Meditations, which are supposed communicationsfrom spirits, and that these are “passed around in theinternal e-mail system of the UN” (“Lightworkers at theUnited Nations,” May 20, 1999, Lightworker.com).Those who believe in the New Age philosophy are called“lightworkers” in this report.Rother told the UN crowd that a Universal Energy isflowing toward changing the world and creating Heavenon earth, that it began flowing after the death of Hitler,and that individuals should move with the flow and assist63

it. He warned against resisting and threatened that “ifever the majority of the planet began misdirecting energythen the Mother would end the Game and the cataclysmicend times would be visited upon the earth.” Rother saidthe Euro currency is an example of how the UniversalEnergy is blending and erasing imaginary lines so that allmen can become “citizens of the Universe.” He said thatadvanced beings are coming to the aid of the earth.UN Environmental SabbathThe U.N. has an earth-worshiping program entitled “TheUnited Nations Environmental Sabbath Service.” Firstpublished in 1990, it is a call to prayer to an unknownand unidentified entity for the salvation of the earth. Itdescribes this entity as “the energy that moves allthings.” It is a call for all people “to join with the earthand with each other” for “the healing of the earth and therenewal of all life.” It urges the world to chant, “We livein all things; all things live in us. We live by the sun; wemove with the stars.” This is the pagan pantheism thatlies at the heart of the United Nations New Ageobjectives.64

UN and RomeThere is a close association between the Roman CatholicChurch and the United Nations. The RCC is representedin many NGOs, and the Catholic popes are honored bythe UN.Dag Hammarskjöld said that there are two popes onearth, a spiritual pope in Rome and a civilian pope inNew York, the Secretary General of the UN (NewGenesis, p. 101).U Thant was in “constant spiritual communion” withPope Paul VI (p. 101).In 1965, history was made when Pope Paul VI visited theUnited Nations and spoke to the General Assembly.When the pope was shown a reproduction of the paintingThe Prince of Peace, which depicts Jesus knocking at theUN building, he said: “Jesus is already inside the UNbuilding” (New Genesis, p. 113).Pope John Paul II addressed the United Nations twice,first in 1979 and again in 1995, on the occasion of its50th anniversary.65

In April 2008 Pope Benedict XVI addressed the UN’sGeneral Assembly.Many Catholic priests have been influential within theUnited Nations. For example, the author of theDeclaration of a Global Ethic is Roman Catholictheologian Hans Kung. The Declaration is intended tomerge the moral principles of the world’s religions andphilosophies to form the basis for world unity. It is theOne World Morality.Temple of UnderstandingThe Temple of Understanding (TOU) was established in1960 by Juliet Hollister (1916-2000). Its mission is to“create a more just and peaceful world” by achieving“peaceful coexistence among individuals, communities,and societies.” The tools for reaching this objective areinterfaith education and dialogue, New Age mysticism,fostering mutual appreciation and tolerance, andpromoting the contempt of global citizenship.Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of U.S. president TheodoreRoosevelt, was a strong supporter of the cause and wroteintroductions to religious and political leaders urgingthem to meet with Hollister when she made a trip around66

the world. Mrs. Roosevelt called the vision a “SpiritualUnited Nations.” Many world leaders got behind it,including Indian President Nehru, Egyptian PresidentAnwar Sadat, Pope John XXIII, United Nations GeneralSecretary U Thant, the Dalai Lama, and liberal Protestantmissionary Albert Schweitzer, who denied the deity ofChrist. The TOU was given impetus when it was featuredin the December 1962 issue of Life magazine. It held itsfirst Spiritual Summit in Calcutta in 1968, with Catholic-Buddhist mystic Thomas Merton in attendance. Merton’swritings have been a major influence in the spread ofcontemplative practices among evangelicals.The Temple of Understanding is closely affiliated withthe United Nations. It is accredited as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and has consultativestatus with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).The TOU’s fifth Spiritual Summit was held in New YorkCity (at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine) and was thefirst UN interfaith conference. Mother Teresa, whoprivately called herself the “saint of darkness” because ofthe dark nature of her contemplative practices, was oneof the representatives of the Roman Catholic Church.The Temple of Understanding hosted the UN’s 50thanniversary celebration in 1995. Its literature says thatthe Temple sponsors monthly roundtables at the UNheadquarters.67

World Peace Prayer SocietyThe World Peace Prayer Society, which is affiliated withthe United Nations’ Department of Public Information,uses New Age techniques to “support peace, harmony,and goodwill among all citizens.” Its web site describestwo of these (positive thinking and positive confession):The Power of Thought: Thought forms create anenergetic field strong enough to empower the course ofplanetary destiny.The Power of Words: Words carry vibrations strongenough to inspire, heal and transform the human heartas well as the Kingdom of plants, animals and allcreation.The World Peace Prayer Society operates a 154-acreWorld Peace Sanctuary in Wassaic, New York, twohours’ drive north of New York City. The facility is usedto conduct World Peace festivals, Earth Day peace fairs,Thanksgiving for the earth programs, and Planet PeaceDays to indoctrinate public school children.Lucis TrustThe Lucis Trust, which was founded by Alice Bailey, ison the roster of the United Nations Economic and Social68

Council (ECOSOC) and maintains the meditation roomat the UN building in New York City. The Lucis Trustheadquarters is on Wall Street, and it claims to have over6,000 members worldwide who are working toward theestablishment of its new occultic order.Alice Bailey (1880-1949) claimed to channel a Tibetan“Ascended Master” named Djwhal Khul.As we have seen, the original name for the Lucis Trustwas the Lucifer Trust. Because of controversy over thename, it was later changed to Lucis Trust. Baileybelieved that Lucifer is the true God whereas the God ofthe Bible is the imposter! She believed that Lucifer is amystical agent of spiritual knowledge that is bringingenlightenment to mankind.Bailey’s god was not only called Lucifer but also Sanat,which is a thinly disguised form of Satan. She called himSanat Kumara or the Lord of the World.Bailey believed that the Age of Aquarius is dawning andthat old dogmatic religions and all divisiveness had to beput aside to make way for the New Age. She said:“The New Age is upon us and we are witnessing thebirth pangs of the new culture and the new civilization.This is now in progress. That which is old and69

undesirable must go and of these undesirable things,hatred and the spirit of separation must be the first togo” (The Externalization of the Hierarchy, p. 62).Bailey taught that all existence is composed of energy,and this energy is God. She believed in the divinity ofman, reincarnation, and the evolutionary perfection of thesoul. She held that there is a brotherhood of enlightenedones called “Masters of Wisdom” (called the SpiritualHierarchy and The Great White Brotherhood) who assisthumanity in its spiritual journey. They allegedly live in aplace called Shambhala, which was founded 18 millionyears ago and is located in “higher ethers.”She taught against nationalism and said that it wascontrary to the goal of human brotherhood and worldharmony. She specifically mentioned the new nation ofIsrael as a “great difficulty for those who are seeking topromote world peace” (Bailey, The Rays and theInitiations, p. 429). She did not believe that Israel has aright to the land of “Palestine” and criticized their use offorce. She wrote, “The menace to world freedom todaylies in the known policies of the rulers of the U.S.S.R.and in the devious and lying machinations of theZionists” (The Rays and the Initiations, p. 680).She claimed that eventually there would be a “new worldorder” and a “universal world religion” composed of70

“one great body of believers.” These will allegedlycooperate with the divine Plan revealed by the spiritualMasters.Radically anti-Christian, Bailey said:“Another fear which induces mankind to regard deathas a calamity, is one which theological religion hasinculcated, particularly the Protestant fundamentalistsand the Roman Catholic Church, the fear of hell, theimposition of penalties, usually out of all proportion tothe efforts of a lifetime, and the terrors imposed by anangry God. To these, man is told he will have to submit,and from them there is no escape, except through thevicarious atonement. THERE IS, AS YOU WELLKNOW, NO ANGRY GOD, NO HELL, AND NOVICARIOUS ATONEMENT... As the erroneous ideas dieout, the concept of hell will fade from man’srecollection” (Esoteric Healing, p. 393).Bailey also taught that there would eventually be a“regeneration of the churches” and they would embraceNew Age concepts and bring “illumination” to the world.This is exactly what is happening today in the interfaithdialogue and the Catholic contemplative movement.She taught that “the christ” is going to return to earthsoon but that this christ is not the same as Jesus. He willbelong to no religion and create harmony among men.He is alleged to be the one who is “anticipated by thefaithful in both hemispheres, not only the Christian71

faithful, but by those who look for Maitreya and for theBoddhisattv as well as those who expect the ImamMadhi” (The Reappearance of the Christ, p. 5).She taught that the practice of meditation is one of themost important means of recognizing one’s own divinityand tapping into the wisdom of the universe. Shefounded the Arcane School, which brings together groupsof three people in a New Age triangle to meditate andstudy together. She organized meditation groups to meeton the full moon “to create lines of spiritual force” toprepare for the coming of this christ (Robert Eelwood,Alternative Altars: Unconventional and EasternSpirituality in America, p. 134). She described meditationas the transmission of spiritual energy from mysticalrealms (A Treatise on White Magic, p. 90). Sheconsidered it as a means of communicating with herAscended Masters.Her mystical approach exalted experience abovedoctrine.“Therefore, in the new world order, spirituality willsupercede theology; living experience will take theplace of theological acceptances” (The Externalizationof the Hierarchy, p. 202).72

Bailey warned that “fanatics” will fight against thecoming of the New Age.“This inherent fanaticism (found ever in reactionarygroups) will fight against the appearance of the comingworld religion and the spread of esotericism” (TheExternalization of the Hierarchy, p. 453).But the “Shamballa force” led by Lord Maitreya willdestroy those who resist the New Age and they will beejected from the earth.“The Shamballa force is destructive and ejective ...inspiring new understanding of The Plan. ... [This force]will bring about that tremendous crisis, the initiation ofthe race into the mysteries of the ages” (TheExternalizing the Mysteries, part 1, p. 171).Bailey claimed that her “Tibetan Master” saw the UnitedNations as “the germ and the seed of a great internationaland meditating, reflective group ... of thinking andinformed men and women in whose hands lies thedestiny of humanity” (Bailey, Discipleship in the NewAge).She also wrote:“The Hierarchy is at this time attempting to channel theforces of reconstruction into the Assembly of the UnitedNations. ... The Tibetan Master has said it is in thehands of the masses of right thinking people in every73

land that the salvation of the world lies and by them thepreparatory work for the coming of the Christ will bedone. The Tibetan Master says He will come whenmankind is ready. It may not be unreasonable tosuppose that the Christ may return to Earth through the' house' of the nations. If He wishes to reach the peopleof all nations, what better place than the focal point ofthe nations, humanity's point of tension-the U.N.?” (TheReappearance of Christ).World GoodwillWorld Goodwill is part of the Lucis Trust. An approvedNon-Governmental Organization (NGO) with the UN’sDepartment of Public Information, it is dedicated tosolving the world’s problems through “a new perceptionof humanity as a unit of divine life within an ordered andpurposive universe.”One of World Goodwill’s “transformational” tools is the“The Great Invocation,” which is part of its educationalprogram. It is a New Age mantra that is based on thedoctrine of Positive Confession. The World Goodwillweb site says that men and women throughout the worldare repeating the mantra and asks, “Will you join them inusing the Invocation every day--with thought anddedication?” The mantra says, in part:“From the point of Light within the Mind of God, let lightstream forth into the minds of men. Let Light descend74

on Earth. ... Let Light and Love and Power restore thePlan on Earth.”The objective of this New Age chant is to bring thecosmic christ into the world. World Goodwill’s first threefoundational beliefs are as follows, from its own website:Humanity is not following a haphazard or unchartedcourse -- there is a Plan. This Plan has always existedand is part of the greater design of the Cosmos. ThePlan has worked out through the evolutionarydevelopments of the past and because of the specialimpetus given it from time to time by the great leaders,teachers and intuitives of the human race.There is an inner spiritual government of the planet,known under such different names as the spiritualHierarchy, the society of Illumined Minds, or Christ andhis Church, according to various religious traditions.Humanity is never left without spiritual guidance ordirection under the Plan.The widespread expectation that we approach the “Ageof Maitreya”, as it is known in the East, when the WorldTeacher and present head of the spiritual Hierarchy, theChrist, will reappear among humanity to sound thekeynote of the new age (http://www.lucistrust.org/en/service_activities/world_goodwill__1/purposes_objectives).75

Aquarian Age CommunityAnother New Age organization with accredited NGOstatus with the United Nations is The Aquarian AgeCommunity (AAC). They hold their meetings in aconference room at the UN headquarters. Like WorldGoodwill, the AAC is based on Alice Bailey’s channeledmessages from the Ascended Masters and has theobjective of ushering a Cosmic Christ into the world tocreate a mystical new world order. Their stated purpose isto “cooperate and collaborate with the worldwidecommunity that is actively preparing the way for thereappearance of the World-Teacher--the Christ(Anointed) One, the true Aquarian” (AAC’s web site).The following is from the section of the Aquarian AgeCommunity’s web site on “The World Teacher”:“From direct experience of the shifting energies, it ispossible to recognize that we are progressively movingtoward the long awaited Aquarian Age--the Age in whichwe expect and look for the reappearance of the WorldSpiritual Teacher. This Great Being has been referred toby such names as the Christ, the Bodhisattva, the LordMaitreya, and the Imam Mahdi. ... Through Him flowsthe energy of the second aspect, reaching Him directfrom the heart centre of the Planetary Logos via theheart of Sanat Kumara. He works by means of a76

meditation centred within the heart. ... to Him iscommitted the guidance of the spiritual destinies ofmen, and the development of the realization within eachhuman being that he is a child of God.”Observe that Sanat (a thinly disguised name for Satan) issaid to communicate with men through meditation, andwe have no doubt that he does! The Aquarian AgeCommunity opens its meetings with meditation andparticipates in mystical practices in the meditation roomat the UN building (http://www.aquaac.org/un/medmtgs.html#dates). It is seeking to communicate withits New Age god Lucifer (Alice Bailey believed Luciferis God) or Sanat in order to channel spiritual powertoward world transformation.Thus, the New Age myth that the planet is run by highlyevolved Ascended Masters who are guiding the worldtoward the coming of the cosmic christ and theestablishment of the Age of Aquarius forms an integralpart the United Nations.The Aquarian Age Community urges the United Nationsto use its massive publishing and educational power topursue “religious unification.” It wants to see all thereligions blended into one with the Cosmic Christ at itshead. It is not difficult to see how the Antichrist and hisprophet could benefit from this agenda.77

The Aquarian Age Community believes that the “OneHumanity” and the “One Divinity” are the same.The Aquarian Age Community claims to have people inhigh and low places within the United Nations. Thefollowing is from their web site:“We have an informal network at the UN, a humanityunderground. It consists of those who are committed,aware, and striving to bring the New World to birth. Itconsists of people in high places and in low--of thepatient secretary who has been 30 years with the UN,but lives with the vision and the spirit; of theprofessionals, and undersecretaries and heads ofdepartments who are acting out the imperatives thattheir own inner vision gives them. Some few areconscious of the sources of their inspiration; most arenot. They are the Karma Yogis of our time-those whosepath of spirituality is to achieve through doing-to growthrough serving. They are found not only in thesecretariat but also in the delegations to the UN, amongthe diplomats and their staffs, and also among folks likeus, representatives of non-governmental organizationsaround the UN.”The “patient secretary” referred to by the Aquarian AgeCommunity was doubtless Robert Muller.78

United Nations InitiativeThe United Nations Initiative (URI) became an officialNon-Governmental Organization (NGO) in 2001. It isalso called the United Nations of Religion.It was founded by William Swing, the California bishopof the ultra liberal Episcopal Church of America. In1993, he was asked to organize an interfaith service tomark the 50th anniversary of the United Nations (“TheURI: Bishop Swing’s New World Religion,” ContenderMinistries, July 20, 2002). Envisioning a “UnitedNations of Religion,” Swing traveled around the world,meeting with religious leaders and drumming up supportfor the idea.Swing hates biblical fundamentalism and religiousdogmatism. He said:“Fundamentalism ... comes about where people feelmore and more insecure, and grab harder and harder tothe exclusive claims of one religion or another. ... Thesense of the freedom that there must be in God, andthe generosity of God, and the compassion of God, getsfrozen out with the exclusive claims” (Ibid.).79

According to its charter, the URI purposes it “to promoteenduring daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiouslymotivated violence and to create cultures of peace,justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings.”It preaches religious tolerance and harmony and isopposed to dogmatism and divisiveness. Principle # 2 ofits Charter says, “We respect the sacred wisdom of eachreligion,” and Principle # 7 says, “We seek and welcomethe gift of diversity and model practices that do notdiscriminate.” Thus, the Christian that rejects everyteaching that is contrary to the Bible is an enemy to theUnited Nations Initiative’s agenda, because it isimpossible for him to “respect” or “welcome” that whichis contrary to God’s revealed will. The Bible believermust discriminate between truth and error, betweenrighteousness and unrighteousness.Further, the United Nations Initiative is opposed to“proselytism.” Its Principle # 21 says that “members ofthe URI shall not ... be proselytized.” We know thatbiblical witnessing is not “proselytism” in the sense thatit forces people to do something against their will orlures them through the promise of money or such, butbiblical witnessing does aim to convert men fromdarkness to light, from error to truth. The apostle Paulpreached the gospel of Jesus Christ to the idolaters and80

philosophers at Athens, and he boldly called them torepentance (Acts 17:30).Society for EnlightenmentThe United Nations also affiliates with a wide variety ofNew Agers through the Society For Enlightenment andTransformation (SEAT), which is a part of the UN’s StaffRecreational Council (UNSRC). In 1993, it conducted aSymposium on Extraterrestrial Intelligence which treatedUFO abductions as real events. In 2000 it brought inNew Age channeler Selacia to share wisdom from herspirit guides called “the Council of 12.” Selacia taughtthe UN personnel and visitors how to “shift into divinewill” (http://www.selacia.com/workshops.htm#UNSRC%20Society). This is a formula for communicating withdemons. She also trains people how to communicatetelepathically with animals!Planetary CitizensPlanetary Citizens is another approved Non-Governmental Organization with the United Nations.Founded by UN Secretary-General U Thant and NewAger Donald Keys, its objective is “the creation ofheaven on earth through honoring, protecting anduplifting all the citizens of planet earth.” It seeks to81

“foster alignment with Divine Consciousness” and“attunement to higher, non-physical dimensions ofreality” through education, “heavenly rules for living,”and consciousness expanding mystical practices,including meditation.The Planetary Citizens’ prayer circles are New Agepositive confessions. “Through the power created bytheir prayers, an energy field is created, which is held inthe Sacred Oneness of the Divine. The more people thereare holding the intention, the more powerful andeffective the field is to create change” (http://www.planetarycitizens.org/prayers/index.html).The board members of Planetary Citizens are PurushaAnanda, an American meditation guru; Sharon Callahan,who treats animals with aromatherapy and allegedlycommunicates with them telepathically; and VajraMatusow, founder of the Diamond Light Center forSpiritual Awakening. At her web site, Callahan says:“When I attune to an animal, I experience an actualmerging of myself and the animal. In this merged state, Iam able to feel what the animal feels and experiencewhat it experiences. So the animal is not actually"telling" me something in the way that we usuallyperceive of "telling," but it is more that the animal allowsmy soul to merge with its soul” (http://82

www.anaflora.com/communication/i-commun.html). Sheprescribes yogic meditation for tuning one’s ability tocommunicate with “other forms of life,” “be it an animal,a tree, a snowflake, or a ladybug.” She says that throughsilent meditation one gains divine wisdom. “There is noneed to consult another being or oracle, for we havebecome the splendid likeness of our own Consciousness,which is God, and All Knowing is our own” (http://www.anaflora.com/meditation/mind-q.html).Planetary Citizens co-founder Donald Keys has beeninvolved with the Findhorn Community, where peopleattempt to communicate with spirits as well as withanimals and plants.Global Forum of Spiritual LeadersThe Global Forum of Spiritual and ParliamentaryLeaders on Human Survival is an accredited NGO withthe United Nations. It was founded in 1985 by AkioMatsumura and has had a large influence in the spread ofthe radical environmentalist agenda. It predicts direglobal consequences unless draconian steps are taken. Itsays we are on the brink of disaster. In 1990 it claimedthat by the year 2000 a million species would beannihilated (David Yarrow, “Global Forum,” April 2,1990, http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nl/91b/83

0308.html). It seeks to bring about “a sustainable world”through dialogue between leaders in the fields ofreligion, politics, industry, science, art, education, andjournalism.At the International Conference on Global Security andSustainable Development, held in Moscow in February2008, Matsumura said that the idea that one religion isgreater than another is an “illusion” (“Akio Matsumura’sAddress to the International Conference on GlobalSecurity and Sustainable Development:http://www.maximsnews.com/107akiomatsumuramarch09.htm).Its first Global Survival Conference, in Oxford, England,in 1988, was co-sponsored by the Temple ofUnderstanding. It featured the Dalai Lama, MotherTeresa, the very liberal Robert Runcie, the Archbishop ofCanterbury, New Age astronomer Carl Sagan, earthworshipingscientist James Lovelock, and a hodgepodgeor other “spiritual and legislative leaders.”Lovelock is the founder of the modern earth-worshipingGaia movement. His book The Ages of Gaia (1982)postulates that the earth is a living organism which hasthe capacity to heal itself under natural conditions butthat man’s technology has overwhelmed it and doomed it84

to destruction without radical intervention (Henry Lamb,The Rise of Global Green Religion, http://freedom.org/reports/ggreligion.htm). Lovelock believes that Gaia is aspirit goddess that began evolving life on earth billions ofyears ago and that everything on earth is part of Gaia.Lovelock told the Global Survival Conference, “OnEarth, she is the source of life everlasting and is alivenow; she gave birth to humankind and we are a part ofher” (Shared Vision, Global Forum of Spiritual andParliamentary Leaders on Human Survival, vol. 3, no. 1,1989, p. 3).The Global Forum held another conference in 1990, thistime in Moscow. It was co-sponsored by the Temple ofUnderstanding and the UN Global Committee ofParliamentarians on Population and Development. AlGore was there. Mikhail Gorbachev waved hisenvironmental flag by calling for an “International GreenCross,” an NGO agency to protect “endangered lifeforms.” The 700 “spiritual and parliamentary” leadersincluded UN General Secretary Javier Perez de Cuellar,Carl Sagan, the Grand Mufti of Fyria, Catholic CardinalJoseph Bernadine, Ronald Thiemann, dean of theHarvard Divinity School, James Hansen of NASA, andatheist Stephen Gould of Harvard University. Sagancalled on scientists and religious leaders to join hands in85

a new environmentalist alliance. This is not a difficultstep, as they all believe in evolution.The third Global Forum was held in Kyoto, Japan, inApril 1993. The theme was “Value Change for GlobalSurvival.” Mikhail Gorbachev was appointed thepresident of the forum. UN General Secretary BoutrosBoutos Gahli sent the opening message. LiberalProtestants, Catholics, and Orthodox joined with Hindus,Buddhists, Shintos, Muslims, and Animists.Hindu Dada Vaswani of India said:“There is but one life that flowers into all. There is onelife that sleeps in the mineral and the stone. There is butone life that stirs in the vegetable and the plant. There isone life that dreams in the animal and that is awake inman. Until we realize this, we will not be able to awakeanything” (“Earth-Friendly Vision Molded by 500 WorldLeaders at Global Forum,” Hinduism Today, June1993).A Franciscan Catholic monk said:“You must forgive us, Lord, for being unkind not only toone another, but to the whole of Creation because wedid not look at the sun at Brother Sun, the earth asMother and Sister Earth, the sea as Brother and SisterSea” (Hinduism Today).86

At Kyoto, schoolchildren welcomed Gorbachev with thesong “Dear Mother” about Mother Earth. Gorbachevsaid, “Their song, Dear Mother, Mother Earth, gives mehope that our children will lead us in the value changewhich is so necessary if we are to save our earth, OurDear Mother” (Hinduism Today).Earth CharterThe Earth Charter Initiative was formed in 1994 topromote a New Age environmentalist agenda. It ischaired by Mikhail Gorbachev, president of Green CrossInternational, and Maurice Strong, president of the EarthCouncil. In 2000 it approved the final text of the EarthCharter, which has been embraced by the United Nations.The Earth Charter aims to bring about a New Age. Itspreamble says, “Humanity is part of a vast evolvinguniverse” and its first principle urges the nations to“affirm faith in the ... spiritual potential of humanity.” Itsays that all people “must join together to bring forth asustainable global society.”Under the guise of saving the earth, it uses the mythicalthreat of global environmental catastrophe to gain powerand money. The Earth Charter’s five principles include87

“reverence for Earth and the Cosmos.” It speaks of“Mother Earth.”Mikhail Gorbachev said, “My hope is that this charterwill be a kind of Ten Commandments, a ‘Sermon on theMount,’ that provides a guide for human behavior towardthe environment in the next century” (The Los AngelesTimes, May 8, 1997).Gorbachev has also said, “Cosmos is my God. Nature ismy God” (interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, TheCharlie Rose Show, PBS, Oct. 23, 1996).The Earth Charter Commission conducted a series ofEarth Dialogues to bring together leaders in commerce,education, media, religion, etc., to discuss their agenda.There was a dialogue for “Inter-Religious Groups andSpiritual Leaders,” which condemned the “enduringbeliefs in the one right religion or the invisiblehand” (“The Earth Charter’s Spiritual Agenda,”C o n t e n d e r M i n i s t r i e s , 2 0 0 2 ) . I t l u m p e d“fundamentalism” in with fanaticism and terrorism. Itcalled for a “move away from an exclusivepreoccupation with Divine-human relations and humanhumanrelations to renew human-Earth relations.”88

The Earth Charter calls for demilitarization and seeks toforbid nations from any “military activities damaging tothe environment” (6th Principle). This would forbidnations to defend themselves against aggressors, becauseit is impossible to wage war without causing somedamage to the environment. Under such terms, theUnited States and her allies would have not been able toturn back Nazism in World War II. The defeat ofGermany and Japan required massive environmentaldamage.The Earth Charter’s seventh principle calls for“responsible reproduction,” which is a euphemism forpopulation control. China operates under this agendatoday, forcing women to abort babies if they already havea child.The Earth Charter calls upon nations to “eliminatediscrimination in all its forms, such as that based on race,color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, language, andnational, ethnic or social origin.” The Christian thatdiscriminates between truth and error, righteousness andunrighteousness, on the basis of God’s Word, isconsidered an enemy.89

fEarth SummitConsider the United Nation’s Earth Summit in Rio DeJaneiro in June 1992. This was officially called theUnited Nations Conference on Environment andDevelopment (UNCED). New Ager Shirley MacLainespoke. Al Gore called for a new spiritual relationshipbetween man and earth (William Jasper, Global Tyranny:Step by Step, 1992, http://www.jbs.org/node/447). Theearth-worshiping spirituality of the conference wasevident when the opening ceremony featured a shipcalled Gaia, named for the Greek goddess of earth. Theconference was preceded by an all-night ceremony toworship Mother Earth. At dawn a Brazilian tribal highpriestess led the worshipers to the edge of the oceanwhere they offered flowers and fruit to a sea goddessidentified as the “mother of the powers, queen of theseas.” The Rio Declaration, which states a radicalenvironmentalist agenda, was referred to as “a sacredtext.”Interspiritual Dialogue in ActionThe Interspiritual Dialogue in Action (ISDnA) is anotherone of the many New Age organizations affiliated with90

the United Nations. (Its NGO sponsor is the NationalService Conference of the American Ethical Union.)It was founded by Wayne Teasdale, a Roman Catholic laymonk who was deeply involved in interfaith dialoguewith the objective of creating a New Age.Teasdale wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on Bede Griffiths, aBenedictine priest who moved to India and became aHindu-Catholic, changing his name to SwamiDayananda, going barefoot, wearing an orange robe,abstaining from meat, practicing yoga, and eventuallybelieving in ancient goddess religion. (See the book“Contemplative Mysticism: A Powerful EcumenicalBond,” which is available from Way of Life Literature.)Teasdale visited Shantivanam Ashram and lived in aHindu ashram nearby for two years, following inGriffiths’ footsteps. In 1989 he became a “Christian”sanyassa, which refers to a Hindu monk.Teasdale was deeply involved in interfaith activities,believing that what the religions hold in common can bethe basis for creating a new world, which he called the“Interspiritual Age” -- a “global culture based oncommon spiritual values.”91

He coined the term INTERSPIRITUALITY to describethis agenda and believed that the Catholic Church is thekey to bringing it about. He said:“She [the Catholic Church] also has a responsibility inour age to be bridge for reconciling the human family ...the Spirit is inspiring her through the signs of the timesto open to Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Sikhs, Jains,Taoists, Confucians, and indigenous peoples. As matrix,the Church would no longer see members of othertraditions as outside her life. She would promote thestudy of these traditions, seek common ground andparallel insights” (A Monk in the World, 2002, p. 54).Teasdale believed that interfaith unity is necessary for theworld’s future:“The Hindu, the Buddhist, the Muslim, the Jew, the Jain,the Sikh, the Christian and the agnostic all belong to thesame planetary environment. ... It is essential for thefuture for all the religious traditions to recognize thisunderlying unity” (“The Meeting of East and West:Elements of a Relationship,” Spirituality Today, Summer1986).Teasdale believed that mystical contemplation is the keyto interspirituality and that this will unlock the door intothe New Age.92

“In the silence is a dynamic presence. And that’s God,and we become attuned to that” (Michael Tobias, AParliament of Souls in Search of a Global Spirituality,1995, p. 148).Teasdale developed this agenda in the book The MysticHeart: Finding a Universal Spirituality in the World’sReligions. The foreword was written by the Dalai Lama,who urged all religions to join forces to “create a morespiritually evolved and compassionateplanet” (Amazon.com review).Teasdale was acquainted with the Dalai Lama andassisted him and Thomas Keating and others in creatingthe Universal Declaration on Nonviolence to promoteworld peace based on the philosophy of the Hindu leaderGandhi (“Wayne Teasdale,” Wikipedia).The objective of the Interspiritual Dialogue in Action isto promote the “the Interspiritual Age,” and toward thisend it is using three of the New Age tools, which areinterfaith dialogue, education, and networking orcommunity building. (See our book The New Age Towerof Babel, available from Way of Life Literature.) It iscommitted “to actively serve in the evolution of humanconsciousness and global transformation” (web site).93

The ISDnA partners with One Spirit Learning Allianceand Interfaith Seminary in New York City to create aNew Age educational curriculum. The curriculumcombines the mystic interfaith doctrine of Teasdale withthe New Age doctrine of Ken Wilber, Don Beck, andothers. It promotes such things as evolution,reincarnation, the divinity of man, all religion as myth,the integration of science, psychology and religion, andthe coming of a New Age. Courses titles include“Integral Spirituality: Exploring the Common Core ofHuman Wisdom” and “The Evolutionary Journey fromDirt to God.”The One Spirit Learning Alliance and InterfaithSeminary defines God as a “vast presence of energy andintelligence.” It claims that all religions, at their core,“are committed to the common values of peace,tolerance, wisdom, compassionate service, and love forall creation.” It aims to develop an interfaith“spirituality” that will help build a new world. Its website features symbols of all religions above the statement“We are all children of the one universe.” The One SpiritInterfaith Seminary is participating in a Cosmic MassNYC scheduled for September 19, 2008. This is amultimedia worship experience that “celebrates theDivine Feminine and Sacred Masculine” and “theconcept of Peace through the prism of many faith94

traditions.” It will begin at 7:30 sharp with “a processionof costumed dancers, jesters and celebrants” and willfeatures “wild, rave-like dancing,” entering the sacreddarkness and emerging into the energy of compassion,and being “anointed as prophets” and “sent out to jointhe dance of all creation.”Institute of Integral Human SciencesThe International Institute of Integral Human Sciences(IIIHS) is an NGO affiliated with the United NationsDepartment of Public Information. Its objective is “thepromotion of global interreligious and interculturalunderstanding, and for the convergence of science,spirituality, & universal human values.”In July 2009 the IIIHS is co-sponsoring its 34th annualconference in Montreal with the Spiritual ScienceFellowship of Canada (SSF), an interfaith member unitof the International Council of Community Churches,affiliated with the World Council of Churches. Its themeis “Reconnecting Heaven and Earth, in Spirit, Space andthe Human Psyche.” The objective is twofold: (1)exploring models for a New Humanity in a transformedearth, (2) contemplating the unfolding drama of acreative and evolutionary consciousness within the95

human psyche, and all living things, from Mother Earthto the planets, the stars, and beyond death.Other New Age OrganizationsWe could also mention the following:Kosmos Associates, which aims to “shape our first globalcivilization” by expanding inner awareness and exploringnew forms of spiritualityNGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and GlobalConcerns (CSVGC), which aims to integrate spiritualityand values into all areas of the United Nations agendaand of public policyUnited Nations Days & Years Meditation Initiative,which seeks to change the world through meditation,prayer, and reflectionWorld Commission on Global Consciousness &Spirituality, which “seeks to inspire consciousness of thewholeness of the human family and the sacred tapestry ofall life”96

ConclusionThis report is a survey of some of the ways that theUnited Nations is permeated with New Age agenda. It isnot exhaustive by any means.The United Nations is an end-time Tower of Babel whichseeks to bring mankind together in opposition to the onetrue creator God and in rebellion to His Word. Like thefirst Tower of Babel, it is doomed to destruction.“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vainthing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and therulers take counsel together, against the LORD, andagainst his anointed, saying, Let us break their bandsasunder, and cast away their cords from us. He thatsitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall havethem in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in hiswrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have Iset my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare thedecree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son;this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall givethee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermostparts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt breakthem with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieceslike a potter's vessel. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings:be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the LORD97

with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lesthe be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrathis kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put theirtrust in him” (Psalms 2:1-12).___________________This book is published for free distribution in eBookformat. It is available in PDF, MOBI (for Kindle, etc.), andePUB formats from the Way of Life web site. The PDFedition is updated more frequently than the Kindle andPUB editions. See the Free Book tab - www.wayoflife.org.United Nations and the New AgeCopyright 2009 by David W. Cloud98