Mad Scientists, Propaganda & Covert
War Part 3
Outwardly, the CIA presented these projects as designed to
foster appreciation of American culture, but to the left-wing radicals duped by
the CIA, it was designed to undermine
the United States to bring about the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Conversely, to those on the right-wing, because the same financial interests that were behind the rise of
Bolshevism and the Soviet Union were also behind the CFR and the CIA, there long persisted the misconception
that their conspiratorial activities inside the US were devoted to the spread
of communism, and a merger with the
Soviet Union. An important exponent of this misplaced theory was well-known
conservative author of conspiracy subjects and member of the John Birch Society, Cleon Skousen. In 1958, Skousen published The Naked Communist, where
he listed the promotion of modern art among the 45 goals of the Communist Party USA ( CPUSA) wanted to
achieve in order to destroy American Society and its Constitutional form of
Government. Among the list revealed by
Skousen were, to “continue discrediting American culture by degrading
all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate
all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and
meaningless forms” and “control art critics and directors of art museums.”
However, according to CIA agent and later Watergate burglar Howard Hunt, “The Communist Party of the
United States, in fact, at the moment, was practically a branch of the Justice
Department.”83 A chief link to the CIA
was Jay Lovestone, who had served as
leader of the Communist Party USA and then
as foreign policy advisor to the leadership of the AFL-CIO.
Lovestone was feeding information about Communist labor-union activities
to James Jesus Angleton, the CIA’s
counterintelligence chief, in order to undermine Communist influence in the
international union movement and provide intelligence to the US government.84 Lovestone was also boss to CIA agent Irving Brown at the American
Federation of Labor ( AFL). Brown was described as a “one-man OSS.” In 1948,
George Kennan had considered him to head
the OPC, before he gave the job to
Frank Wisner. Wisner then placed Brown on the steering committee
of the CCF. As European Representative
of the AFL, Brown was the conduit to
pass vast sums of government money and
Marshall Plan funds into covert operations, using the cover that the
money came from labor unions.
Carroll Quigley stated that he had been in direct
contact with the Round Table
organizations, and explained the nature of this supposed “communist conspiracy”:
This radical Right fairy tale, which is now
an accepted folk myth in many groups in America, pictured the recent history of
the United States, in regard to domestic reform and in foreign affairs, as a
well-organized plot by extreme Left-wing elements… This myth, like all fables,
does in fact have a modicum of truth. There does exist, and has existed for a
generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent,
in the way the Radical right believes the Communists act. In fact, this
network, which we may identify as the
Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists,
or any other group, and frequently does so. I know of the operation of this network
because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in
the early 1960’s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion
to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it
and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently,
to a few of its policies… but in general my chief difference of opinion is that
it wishes to remain unknown, and I Believe its role in history is
significant enough to be known. 85
For these and other reasons, the CIA was particular apprehensive about Senator McCarthy for fear that his campaign could
blow wide open their whole operation. In
1953, Wisner and the CIA began receiving
criticism from J. Edgar Hoover, who
described the OPC as “ Wisner’s gang of
weirdos” and began carrying out investigations into their past. It did not take
him long to discover that some of them had been active in left-wing politics in
the 1930s. This information was passed to Senator McCarthy who started making attacks on its members.
Hoover also passed on to McCarthy details of an affair that Wisner had with
Princess Caradja in Romania during the war, who, Hoover claimed, was a Soviet
agent. Joseph McCarthy also began accusing
other senior members of the CIA as being
security risks. McCarthy claimed that the
CIA was a “sinkhole of communists” and claimed he intended to root out a
hundred of them.
The legitimacy of the CIA sponsoring modern “art” as a propaganda weapon
was challenged in Congress by George Dondero, a Republican from Missouri, who
succeeded in bringing about the collapse of any such successive attempts on the
part of the State Department. “We had a lot of trouble with Congressman
Dondero,” Braden later recalled. “He
couldn’t stand modern art. He thought it was a travesty, he thought it was sinful,
he thought it was ugly… That’s one reason why it had to be done covertly; it
had to be covert because it would have been turned down if it had been put to a
vote in democracy.” 86 As Saunders
comments, “Here again was that sublime paradox of American strategy in the
cultural Cold War: in order to promote
an acceptance of art produced in (and vaunted as the expression of ) democracy, the democratic process itself had
to be circumvented.” 87
It was an agenda sanctioned by President Eisenhower himself who, apparently, unlike
his predecessor Truman, recognized the
value of modern art as a “pillar of liberty.” The artists that the CIA drew upon, like Pollock and de Kooning, came from left-wing
politics and most of them had worked for the Federal Arts Project under
Roosevelt’s New Deal producing subsidized art for government. Jackson Pollock in the 1930s had been involved in the
Communist workshop of the Mexican muralist David Alfalo Siquieros. As Jason
Epstein explained, “Well, what would a
great power be without an appropriate art? You couldn’t be a great power if you didn’t have
an art to go with it, like Venice without Tintereto or Florence without
Giotto.”88 And Abstract Expressionism could
be represented as a truly home-grown American phenomenon, not another European
import, and whose “freedom” would contrast with the rigidity of Soviet realism.
Jackson
Pollock, who was also a leading
figure of the American Committee for Cultural Freedom ( ACCF), was the ideal
candidate for “the great American painter,” explained fellow-artist Budd Hopkins.
He further elaborated: “If you
conceived of such
a person, first of all,
he had to be a real American, not
a transplanted European. And he should have the big macho American virtues—he
should be rough and tumble American—taciturn, ideally—and if he is a cowboy, so
much the better.” 89 CIA agent Donald Jameson joked, “Regarding Abstract Expressionism, I’d love to be able
to say that the CIA invented it all,
just to see what happened in New York’s and downtown Soho tomorrow!” 90 Jameson
further explained:
We recognized that this was the kind of art
that did not have anything to do with socialist realism, and made socialist
realism look even more stylized and more rigid and confined than it was… Of
course matters of this sort could
not only have been done through the organizations or the operation of the CIA at two or three removed, so that there
wouldn’t be any question of having to clear Jackson Pollock, for example… If you had to use
people who considered themselves one way or another closer to Moscow than to
Washington, well, so much the better perhaps. 91
Abstract Expressionism is a classic example
of the “Emperor’s New Clothes.” The CIA
was able to make use of Jackson
Pollock’s paint splatters as propaganda by denying the obvious
and calling it “art.” The fight against
communism, however, was just a pretext. The real reason was that abstract art was
an artistic representation of nihilism, and therefore, like modernist art in general,
could be used to undermine beliefs in traditional morality and norms.
MoMA had extensive links with the CIA.
Nelson Rockefeller’s close friend, John Whitney, who served as president
and chairman of the board, had joined the
OSS in 1943 and later held a position on C. D. Jackson’s Psychological
Strategy Board. William Burden, who became
MoMA’s president in 1956, was also a member of Rockefeller’s CIAA as
well as chairing the CIA’s Fair field Foundation. Under
Braden, MoMA’s policy was developed by Austrian
aristocrat Rene d’Harnoucourt, who also worked for the CIAA and consulted with
the NSA’s Operations Coordinating Board,
which replaced the Psychological Strategy Board, and with the State Department.
D’Harnoncourt believed that “modern art in its infinite
variety and ceaseless exploration,” was the “foremost symbol” of democracy. 92 William Paley, another MoMA trustee and the owner of CBS was a close
friend of Allen Dulles. Henry Luce too was a trustee of MoMA. It was Alfred Barr, MoMA’s
first director, who convinced Luce to change the editorial policy of Time-Lifetowards
the new modern art because it was “artistic free enterprise.” 93
In 1954, the
CIA also paid for the filming of
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and the animated version of
Animal Farm. Orwell offers a remarkably candid criticism of the unrecognized
totalitarian tendencies of Western societies, pointing out the manipulation of
history, and how the major superpowers battle not directly against themselves,
but in their border regions. Orwell also hints at the possible use of the Protocols,
when the main character, Winston, reads “the Book,” which reveals the tyrannical
methods of the state, but which he finds was deliberately fed to him by O’Brien, a representative of
the Party, in order to entrap him, and then torture him into submission. But the
reader is left with the question of whether or not all these comparisons are apt,
exaggerated, or not accurate at all.
Moreover, while most interpret Nineteen Eight-Fouras
a warning about the threat of totalitarianism, there is a sub-theme that is of
primary concern to the Frankfurt School, their Freudo- Marxist theories about
the suppression of sexual instincts by authoritarian rule. With the Junior
Anti-Sex League, in Nineteen Eight-Four, the Party encourages its members to
eliminate the personal sexual attachments that diminish political loyalty. In Part
III, O’Brien tells Winston that neurologists are working to eliminate the
orgasm because the mental energy required for prolonged worship requires
authoritarian suppression of the libido. Several months after Orwell’s Nineteen Eight-Fourwas published in 1949, Aldous Huxley sent a letter to his former
French pupil saying:
Agreeing with all that the critics have
written of it, I need not tell you, Yet
once more, how fine and how profoundly important the book is. May I speak
instead of the thing with which the book deals—the ultimate
revolution? The
first hints of a
philosophy of the ultimate revolution—the revolution which lies
beyond politics and economics, and which
aims at total subversion of the individual’s psychology and physiology—are to
be found in the Marquis de Sade, who regarded himself as the continuator, the consummator,
of Robespierre and Babeuf. The philosophy of the ruling minority in Nineteen
Eighty-Fouris a sadism which has been carried to its logical conclusion by
going beyond sex and denying it.
The success of the propaganda of Animal
Farmand Nineteen Eighty-Four should not be underestimated. Dissent against
American hegemony has been almost entirely diffused through their influence.
Accepting their pessimistic outcomes
as reflective of
reality, Orwell’s books are typically the reference North Americans use to justify resigning
themselves to the sorry conclusion that any effort to change the system is
futile, because all revolutions only end in the tyranny of the revolutionaries.
The
CIA’s effective control over the media allowed it to make use of Tavistock Institute methods of “group
dynamics” to foster the irrational hysteria over the supposed threat of communism,
which would provide cover for much of its nefarious activities. A secret study
commissioned under former President Hoover articulated this new absurd paradigm which was used as justification for Machiavellian objectives:
It is now clear we are facing an implacable
enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at
whatever cost. There are no rules in such a game. Hitherto acceptable
longstanding American concepts of “fair play” must be reconsidered. We must
develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to
subvert, sabotage, and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and
more effective methods than those used against us. 94
Wisner’s
OPC was therefore authorized to carry out covert action in all countries
of the world. According to directive NSC 10/2, such action “shall include any
covert activities related to: propaganda; economic warfare; preventive direct
action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition, and evacuation measures;
subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground
resistance movements, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of
indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world.” 95
As NSC 10/2 further clarified, covert actions are those:
…which are conducted or sponsored by this
government against hostile foreign states or groups or in support of friendly
foreign states or groups but which are so planned and conducted that any US
Government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that
if uncovered the US Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for
them. 96
Also,
CIA chief Allen Dulles devised a
plan whereby, on the explicit request of the Pentagon, the OPC set up secret armies of fascist
terrorists across Western Europe with the coordination of NATO. As former British intelligence agent
John Coleman related, “When it was decided that a super-body would control
European affairs, the RIIA founded the Tavistock Institute, which in turn created
NATO.”97
Taking inspiration from the resistance
movements that opposed the Nazi
occupiers, the plan was devised to create networks to combat a Soviet invasion
from within, and therefore known “Stay-behind” units. The project was
eventually codified under
the umbrella of the Clandestine Co Ordinating Committee of the Supreme
Headquarters Allied Powers Europe ( SHAPE), the military arm of NATO, and operated by the secret services and
initially funded by the CIA. In addition
to the CIA, they also operated under the
patronage of MI6 and
the Mafia, and
consisted of numerous ex- Nazis and
other neo-fascist terrorists. According to US journalist Arthur Rowse, a secret
clause exists in the North Atlantic Treaty requiring candidate countries, before
joining NATO, to establish clandestine
citizen cadres, controlled by the country’s respective security services,
standing ready to eliminate communist cells during any national emergency. 98
The codename for the NATO “ stay-behind” units in Europe was
Operation Gladio, sometimes called “Super
NATO.” The name was derived from the short sword used by Roman
legionnaires, in line with the Italian Fascists’ fascination with Roman
paganism. In Germany, they had as a central focus the Gehlen Org, also involved in ODESSA “ratlines.” In 1955, by
pre-arrangement, the Gehlen Org had been transferred to the West German
government becoming its first intelligence arm, the Bundesnachrichtendienst( BND), which was
directly subordinated to the
Chancellor Andenaur‘s office. In France the unit was called “Glaive,” again named after a Gladiatorial sword.
Austria‘s unit was named “Schwert,” also meaning sword. In Turkey they were
known as the CounterGuerrilla, and in Greece as “Sheepskin.” Sweden‘s unit was
called “Sveaborg.” In Switzerland it went by the title P26. Other units in Belgium,
Spain, Portugal, Germany, Norway,
Luxembourg, Denmark and Holland remain unnamed. In the U.K., the unit was
simply known as “Stay-behind.” 99
The secret armies were equipped by the CIA and
MI6 with machine guns, explosives, munitions and high-tech communication
equipment hidden in arms caches in forests, meadows and underground bunkers
across Western Europe. Leading officers of the
secret network trained together with the
US Green Berets Special Forces in the US and the British SAS Special Forces in
England. After the OSS was disbanded
after World War I, the US Special Forces
were reestablished with headquarters at Fort Bragg, Virginia, in 1952. 100 As
the Special Forces were set up in Fort Bragg, the name of the CIA covert action branch changed from OPC to Directorate of Plans (DP) and Wisner was promoted Deputy Director for
Plans. Together with Dulles, Wisner escalated
US covert action operations on a global scale. Dulles authorized CIA assassination attempts on Castro of Cuba,
and Patrice Lumumba of the Congo.
Wisner, along with Reinhard Gehlen, organized the overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected President Mossadegh in 1953, who threatened to nationalize
England’s prized Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC). Known as Operation Ajax, its formal leader was senior
CIA officer Kermit
“Kim” Roosevelt, Jr., grandson of the president, and a member of Dulles’
“Park Avenue Cowboys.” Wisner and Gehlen then organized the overthrow of the
Socialist President Arbenz of Guatemala
in 1954.101 When Wisner decided the plan
for Operation Ajax was too crude and needed “a touch of Machiavelli,” he turned to James Burnham to give a history lesson.
Before turning to the right, when he was regarded as a public intellectual of
the American conservative movement, Burnham was a friend to Trotsky, and along
with Sidney Hook helped to organize the American Workers Party in 1953. During
World War II, he worked for the OSS and, under recommendation from George F.
Kennan, was invited to lead the “Political and Psychological Warfare” division
of the OPC. Burnham was later appointed
to the steering committee of the CCF, and was a vital connection to Wisner. Burnham had extensive contacts in Europe
and as a former Trotskyite was an authority on Communist parties and front organizations.
He was referred to as a “very articulate expounder of the dirty tricks
department.” 102 In his 1943 book The
Machiavellians, Defenders of Freedom, which became a manual for CIA strategists,
he used, in addition to Machiavelli, the
ideas of the founders of fascist terrorism like
Mosca, Pereto, Michels and Sorel to “challenge egalitarian political theory
and to show the persistence and inevitability of elite rule, even in an
age of equality.” 103 In 1955, Burnham
helped William F. Buckley found the National Review, which from the start took
positions in foreign policy consistent with Burnham’s own. Buckley referred to
Burnham as “the number one intellectual influence on National Reviewsince the
day of its founding.” 104 In 1983, President Ronald Reagan awarded him the
Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Operation Mockingbird was very active during the
CIA assisted coup, called Operation PBSUCCESS, for the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz
in Guatemala in 1954. Henry Luce was
able to censor stories that appeared too sympathetic towards the plight of
Arbenz. Allen W. Dulles was even able to keep left-wing journalists from
travelling to Guatemala. This including Sydney Gruson of the New York Times.
Prior to the CIA coup in Guatemala,
Edward Bernays was employed by the United Fruit Company (UFCO) to foment
opposition to the freely elected president
Arbenz, whose land reforms threatened the company’s interests. Bernays’ branding of Arbenz as “communist” was published in major
US media. The propaganda lent
justification to the CIA’s
orchestration of a coup to overthrow
Arbenz in 1954, claiming his communist leanings opened the way for
Soviet influence in the Western Hemisphere. Substantial evidence points to the role of the United Fruit, later known as
Chiquita, which had several directties to the White House and the CIA, as instrumental in this coup. United Fruit Company had acquired their
holdings in Guatemala cheaply through a ninety-nine year land lease in 1936
from the country’s corrupt dictator Jorge Ubico. The deal was settled on behalf
of United Fruit Company with Ubico
by John Foster Dulles through the firmof Sullivan
Cromwell. Allen Dulles, who led the
coup, had served on UFCO’s board of trustees. In the end, more than a hundred
thousand Guatemalan peasants were tortured and killed by the American-trained
anti-guerrilla rampages. Military dictators ruled for the next thirty years,
provided with weapons and training by the Americans. The term “banana republic”
actually originated in reference to United Fruit’s domination of corrupt
governments in Guatemala and other Central American countries.
In 1951,
Kermit Roosevelt had opened secret negotiations with Gamal Nasser.
Agreement was soon reached that the US, following a coup against King Farouk,
would assist in building up Egypt ’s intelligence and security forces. 105 Under
the leadership of Allen Dulles, the CIA embarked on a project of hiring ex- Nazis
in Egypt, who were led by Gehlen,
Hjalmar Schacht and Otto Skorzeny. The Germans in Egypt , recognizing
British puppet King Farouk’s political weakness soon began conspiring with Nasser and his Free Officers who, in turn,
were working closely with the Muslim Brotherhood to overthrow the king. On July 23, 1952, the Free Officers carried
out a coup d’état with assistance from
the Brotherhood and the Nazis. Newsweekmarveled
that, “The most intriguing aspect [of ] the revolt… was the role played in the
coup by the large group of German advisors serving with the Egyptian army… The
young officers who did the actual
planning consulted the German advisors as to ‘tactics’… This accounted for the
smoothness of the operation.”
The UFO Phenomenon Part 1
After World War II, three prominent Humanists became the first
directors of major divisions of the United Nations: Julian Huxley of UNESCO,
Brock Chisholm of the World Health
Organization (WHO), and John Boyd-Orr of
the Food and Agricultural Organization. The humanistic system of human rights
promoted by the United Nations is a disguise to push forward an agenda to
promote the antinomianism of the occult and to replace traditional religion
with the doctrines of the New Age. The term “humanism” can be ambiguous and
there has been confusion over the several uses of the term as it has been
appropriated by different intellectual movements over time. During the French
Revolution, and soon after in Germany by the Left Hegelians, humanism began to
refer to philosophies and morality centered on human kind, without reference to
God or religion. Around 1806, Humanis muswas used to describe the classical
curriculum offered by German schools and by 1836 “humanism” was adopted in
English in the same sense. In 1856, before the word was associated with
secularism, German historian and philologist Georg Voigt used the term
“humanism” to describe Renaissance humanism, where the term umanistadescribed a
teacher or scholar of classical Greek and Latin literature as well as the
ethical philosophy behind it.
The modern connotations of the term as
promoted by the UN date back at least to 1765, when the author of an anonymous
article in a French Enlightenment periodical referred to “the general love of
humanity… a virtue hitherto quite nameless among us, and which we will venture
to call ‘humanism’, for the time has come to create a word for such a beautiful
and necessary thing.” 1 The latter part of the eighteenth and the early
nineteenth centuries then saw the creation of numerous “philanthropic”
societies dedicated to human betterment.
Essentially, the doctrine of humanism has
come to refer to an outlook, supposedly first developed during the Renaissance,
that places central emphasis on the human being instead of God. According to a
German philosopher and anthopologist and Left Hegelian Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872), “Homo homini Deusest (“Man
is a god to man” or “god is nothing [other than] man to himself.” 2 Thus, at
the beginning of the twentieth century, the term “humanism” became increasingly
identified with secularism and finally
became “Humanism,” or secular humanism, a relatively recent movement created at
the University of Chicago. When capitalized, “ Humanism” describes the secular
ideology that espouses reason, ethics,
and justice, while specifically rejecting
supernatural and religious ideas as a basis of morality and decision-making.
Therefore, the promotion of Humanistic values
is designed to undermine traditional religious beliefs, and through the support
of the UN, designed to internationalize the acceptance of the age-old doctrines
of the occult, as promulgated by Alice
Bailey. Bailey, who succeeded
Annie Besant as occult leader of
theosophical teachings, together with her husband Foster Bailey, launched Lucifer Publishing Company in 1923, which
published the theosophical periodical
Lucifer. They later changed the name for obvious reasons to the Lucis
Publishing Company, a name derived originally from the Fratres Lucis, or Hermetic Brotherhood of
Light. The work of Lucis Trust is
carried out through its Arcane School of the occult and an organization called
World Goodwill. Together, they work to implement what is termed “the Plan,” as was
revealed in 24 books written by Bailey
and published by Lucis Trust. Alice Bailey,
though, claimed that it was Djwhal Khul, her “ Ascended Master,” who actually
wrote the books that he channeled through her while she was in a state of
trance. The focus of “the Plan” is to usher in the “ Harmonic
Convergence,” also known as the Omega,
Mind Convergence, Fusion or Turning Point, which can occur only when nations
put aside their “differences” in a “ New World Order” of global unity.
Bailey supposedly prophesied in 1940 the eventual
victory of the Allies and their establishment of a political and religious New World Order, which she saw as the
culmination of H. G. Wells’ Open Conspiracy.
However, Bailey argued that Well’s Open
Conspiracywould be synarchist because it was guided by the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom, intent on preparing humanity
for the mystical second coming of Christ, and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. The Age of
Aquarius refers to a concept of ages developed from astrology. When the
earth rotates on its axis there is a
slight wobble, which causes the poles to travel in a circular motion.
Therefore, every 2,150 years or so, called a Platonic “Great Year,” at the
Vernal equinoxes the sun will rise under a different constellation. The
phenomenon is called the “precession of the equinoxes.” So in antiquity, at the
spring equinox the sun rose in the constellation of Taurus whose associated planet
is Venus. This is taken as the basis of
the recurring identity of the bull, or some horned animal, with the dying-god . Around the time of the birth of Jesus, the world entered the Age of Pisces, and
therefore Christianity is often
symbolized by a fish. Depending on the interpretation, we are now, have already, or will soon enter into the Age of Aquarius, which will be marked by profound
change through heightened creativity and interest in “spirituality.”
Despite her focus on the unity of religions,
Bromley and Hammond point out that
Bailey and other “occultists” hammered home the central idea, “The East
is the true home of spiritual knowledge and occult wisdom.’”3 Bailey referred
to Shambhala as the seat of the “ Lord
of the World,” who watches over the evolution of humanity. To Bailey,
Shambhala is also the source of cosmic fire as a “Force” associated with Lucifer , a destructive power needed to
overcome and destroy degenerated teachings and establish the New Age.
A “Hierarchy” in Shambhala headed
by Maitreya protects the Force and at the
proper time will initiate the worthy into “the Mysteries of the Ages,” “the
Plan.” According to Bailey, Lord Sanat Kumara conducts business in an enormous
room in his palace called The Council Chamber of the Lord of the World, where
he regularly meets with Maitreya, the Maha Chohan, Djwal Khul, St. Germain, the
Master Jesus and the other Masters of
the Ancient Wisdom. Of these it is said
there are 24 principal council members, to assess the progress of The Plan.
This hierarchy of ascended masters, called,
as with Blavatsky, the Great White Brotherhood, works on the “inner
planes” to oversee the transition to the
New World Order. According to Bailey, the three main channels through which
the Universal Religion of the New Age are being prepared are the Church, Freemasonry and the educational system. In each,
she claims, esoteric groups are to be found who are occult students and those who
are in direct contact with the Masters. But as the need for their personal
involvement in the plan increases there will be an “ Externalization of the
Hierarchy” when everyone will know of their
presence on Earth.
When world government
and religion are finally realized,
the New Age, or the Age of Aquarius, will have dawned. Only then will Jesus Christ the Avatar appear and the implementation
of the New World Order fully begin. This
“Christ,” regarded as a reincarnation of the Comte de St. Germain,
is known as Lord Maitreya.
Through Baily, the New Age acquired a racist basis closely
aligned with neo- Nazi ideas inherited from the accounts of Blavatsky.
Bailey posited a state of inequality where races do not represent a
national or physical type, but a state of evolution, creating a “ladder of
evolution.” She refers to the Aryan root
race as an “emerging new race,” the most recently evolved people on Earth. It
refers
not only to
Caucasian peoples, but to origins in “Indo-Persia,” and indicates a culture where thought and intellect is
dominant. Bailey stated that the
Negro race contains a large number of
“child souls,” leading lives of “physical activity motivated by the desire for
satisfaction of some kind, and by a shallow ‘wishlife’ or desire nature, and
almost entirely oriented towards the physical life.” 4 Reflecting the false
pretext used by the
World Bank and the IMF, she also wrote of the need for the white
races to train the Negroes of Africa so that they will be fitted for true self-government.
Lucis Trust is an influential institution that enjoys “Consultative
Status” which permits it to have a close working relationship with the United Nations, including a seat on the
weekly sessions. It also operates the one religious chapel at the UN, the
Meditation Room. World Goodwill, founded in 1932, and also a UN-recognized NGO
was, according to Steven Sutcliffe, promoting groups of “world servers” to, as
he quotes Bailey, “serve the Plan,
Humanity, the Hierarchy and the
Christ.”5
As explained by Steve Bonta:
The
Lucis Trust is also aggressively involved in promoting a globalist ideology, which it refers to as “goodwill.”
Its World Goodwill organization is
closely connected to international elitist circles. Authors and participants in
its various conferences read like a Who’s Who of the globalist Insiders.
Featured on its website, for example, is the Universal Declaration of Human
Responsibilities, put forth in April 1998 as a companion document to the
notorious UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Signatories to the World
Goodwill document include: Helmut
Schmidt, former chancellor of West Germany; Malcolm Fraser, former Australian
prime minister; Oscar Arias Sanchez, former prime minister of Costa Rica;
Shimon Peres; Robert McNamara; Paul Volcker; and Jimmy Carter. 6
The result of
Bailey’s infl uence was the birth of many New Age groups: the Church Universal and Triumphant, Benjamin Creme’s the Tara Center, the Robert
Muller Schools and the Temple of
Understanding. 7 Founded in 1969, the
Temple of Understanding calls itself a “Spiritual United Nations” and it has NGO status at the
UN. Other “Founding Friends” included Jawaharlal Nehru, Pope John XXIII,
Eleanor Roosevelt, Anwar el- Sadat, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, UN Secretary-General
U Thant, and the CIA-sponsored Dalai Lama
(in October 1998, the Dalai Lama’s administration
also acknowledged that it received $1.7 million a year in the 1960s from the US
government through the CIA, and also
trained a resistance movement in Colorado) 8 . The Temple of Understanding has
maintained a strong presence at the
United Nations, organizing workshops, lectures and major events
including hosting the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the UN in New York
(1995). The Temple organization works closely with the UN Secretariat, the
World Council of Churches, and the World Conference on Religion and Peace.
Among a group of international trustees who
run the Lucis Trust are the leading
lights of the Council on Foreign
Relations ( CFR), including David Rockefeller’s nephew, John D. Rockefeller IV, Robert McNamara,
Norman Cousins and Henry Kissinger. As Terry Melanson pointed out,
“this would then tie Bailey’s influential
occult organization into the international conspiracy of elitists, including the
Council on Foreign Relations ( CFR), the Bilderbergs, and the
Trilateral Commission.” 9
The conclusion of “the Plan,” with the
Externalization of the Hierarchy, the Ascended Masters of Theosophy, represents the revelation of the
dyinggod and demons of the Ancient Mysteries, in other words, Lucifer and his “ fallen angels.” The Externalization of the Hierarchy, which is to
take place at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, with the establishment of a
one-world government headed by the
United Nations, appears to be receiving covert assistance from the
government through the deliberate fabrication of the UFO phenomenon. Through the influence of astrology, the
spirits of the mysteries were long believed to govern over
their respective planets, the most important ones being Venus or the star Sirius. As such, these
entities are today being repackaged as “extra-terrestrials,” or visitors from
outer space.
According to popular writer Robert Anton
Wilson, one of his contacts from secret societies in the US and Europe told him
that the secret of the 33rd degree, the highest rank in American Freemasonry,
was that the order was in contact with beings from Sirius. 10 In Freemasonry, Sirius is the
Blazing Star, which Albert Pike equated
with Osiris, and the “Star of Initiation” followed by the Magi. Sirius has a
central role in Theosophy, where it is considered a source esoteric power.
To Alice Bailey, Sirius channels energy
from the “cosmic center” through the solar system to the Earth. According to
the Djwhal Khul, Freemasonry is very ancient and an earthly version of an
initiatory school that exists on Sirius, and the various hierarchical degrees
of Freemasonry parallels the different levels of initiation of the “greater
Lodge on Sirius.” 11 Bailey saw Sirius as the true “Great White Lodge” and believes
it to be the home of the “Spiritual Hierarchy.” For this reason, like Pike, she considered Sirius as the “star of
initiation.”
The notion
that unidentified flying objects ( UFOs) belong
to extraterrestrial life or non-human
aliens from other planets occupying physical spacecraft visiting Earth, is
known as the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH). It can be traced back to a
number of earlier ideas, starting with Emanuel
Swedenborg, who in The Earths in the Universestated that he conversed
with spirits from Jupiter, Mars, Mercury,
Saturn, Venus, the Moon, as well as
spirits from planets beyond our solar system, describing them as human-like but
immaterial beings who communicated telepathically. Blavatsky asserted
that the ancients had first-hand knowledge
of extraterrestrial life on planets such as
Venus, which she suspected may have “influence” or “control” over the earth. In The Lost
Lemuria (1904), Blavatsky’s
disciple William Scott-Elliot claimed
that beings that evolved on Venus, and who had reached a spiritual or “divine”
stage of development, came to earth and taught the inhabitants of Lemuria the arts of civilization. Ancient Martian
civilization was promoted by astronomer Percival Lowell, and the science fiction writings of H. G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Charles Fort (1874–1932), an American writer and researcher, collected
accounts of anomalous physical phenomena from
newspapers and scientific
journals, including many reports of extraordinary aerial objects. Today, the terms
Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize such phenomena. These reports
were first published in 1919 in The Book of the Damned. In this and two subsequent
books, New Lands(1923) and Lo!(1931), Fort theorized that visitors from other
worlds were observing Earth. Fort speculated that old stories of demons could
be related to “undesirable visitors from other worlds,” who may have
communicated with ours in the distant past, left behind advanced technology, or
attempted to colonize the earth.
The main popularizer of the concept of the
Age of Aquarius was Allen Dulles’
friend, Carl Jung, who was convinced that he had been
chosen by God for a prophetic mission to
herald the era. In his book Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth
of Things
Seen in the Sky(1958), Jung argued that UFOs were actually mandalas from outer space.
The mandala, the Sanskrit “ magic circle,” he thought was a spontaneous
production of the unconscious. He suggested that “ flying saucers” were mass
archetypal projections formed by the psychic tension produced by the Cold War.
Jung wrote My conscience as a psychiatrist bids me
fulfill my duty and prepare those few who will hear me for coming
events which are in accord with the end of an era… As we know from ancient
Egyptian history, they are symptoms of psychic changes that always appear at
the end of one Platonic month [Great Year] and at the beginning of another.
They are, it seems, changes in the constellation of the psychic dominants, of
the archetypes or ‘Gods’ as they used to be called, which bring about…
longlasting transformations of the collective psyche. This transformation started…
in the transition of the Age of Taurus to that of Aries, and then from Aries to
Pisces, whose beginning coincides with the rise of Christianity . We are now
nearing that great change… when the springpoint enters Aquarius… 12
Carol Rosin, the former spokesperson for Wernher von Braun, a former member of the
Allgemeine SS who became the
leading figure in the development of
rocket technology in Nazi Germany
during World War II, and subsequently in
the US, when he was brought there as part of Operation Paperclip, claims that
he told her on repeated occasions that the government was going to go through
three stages of scare-tactics. First would be the Russians as “Commies,”
followed by terrorism, and finally the “last card” would be “aliens,” being the ostensible reason for the development
of Reagan’s Star Wars program ( SDI). 13
In a December 4, 1985 speech at the Fallston
High School in Maryland, Ronald Reagan
shared a strange anecdote, where he recalled a comment he made to Gorbachev, saying: “…just think how easy his
task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a
threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the
universe. We’d forget all the little differences we have between our countries
and we would find out once and for all
that we really are all human beings here on
this earth together.” 14 To put
it in perspective, at the 1991 Bilderberger
conference held in Evians, France, Kissinger made the following bizarre
statement:
Today, America would be outraged if UN troops
entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is
especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from
beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then
that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The
one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario,
individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their
well-being granted to them by the World Government.15
The possibility is suggested from the fact
that in 1938 CBS Radio staged a dramatization narrated by Orson Welles, of H. G. Wells’
War of the Worlds, by interrupting the current broadcast and presenting
it as a real alien invasion. Newspapers reported that panic ensued, with people
across the Northeastern United
States and Canada fleeing their homes.
Some people called CBS, newspapers or the police in
confusion over the realism of the news bulletins. Others claimed they could
smell poison gas or see flashes of lightning
in the distance. Studies calculated that of the six million who heard the
broadcast, 1.7 million believed it to be true, and 1.2 million were “genuinely
frightened.”16 Appointed to study the results of the broadcast was the Radio Research Project, headed by Paul Lazarsfeld of the Cybernetics
Group, and which was funded by the
Rockefeller Foundation, and connected to members of the Frankfurt School, like Theodor Adorno
