Recognising the Hand of Judgment. Ch.7
Helena Blavatsky and Theosophy
[In the last chapter we
saw how Benjamin Crème spoke of Madame Blavatsky as his source of occult
spiritual knowledge. It’s important to know about the origins of modern evil.
In this chapter I shall be quoting from a novel I wrote some time ago, entitled
“
"The book tells me that this all started
for the Western World last century through a Russian Woman by the name
of Madame Blavatsky. Her maiden
name was Helena Hahn.
She was a big
built woman of considerable strength of mind but strangely unethical behaviour.
Her first marriage was hardly a success,
and so she left her husband and
travelled about, ending up in
"My
goodness," said Connie, "that was blatant, wasn't it?"
"Yes.
Well, you see she had no time for true Christianity at all."
Ted opened
his book to quote from it.
"Just listen to this.
She said on one occasion,
'We believe neither in vicarious
atonement, nor in the possibility of the remission of the
smallest sin by any god, not even
by a personal Absolute or Infinite,
if such a thing could have existed.' Now I find it important to remember
that statement, because some years later
her disciple, who took over the leadership of the Society after Blavatsky's
death, said, 'No man,
in becoming a Theosophist, need
cease to be a Christian, a
Buddhist, a Hindu:
he will but acquire a deeper insight into his own faith.' Subtle, isn't it?"
"What
was the name of her successor?" I asked.
"Annie Besant, who lived from 1847 to 1933. She was an
English revolutionary socialist who was converted to Theosophy. Like
Blavatsky, she was a woman of unbounded energy,
which in her case was focussed on the emancipation of women in
society. She became the vice-president
of a lodge of Co-Masonry, in which both sexes could take part, and in 1911
took part in a large suffragette demo in
London, where she
appeared dressed up in all the trappings of a 33rd degree Mason.
"However, that was the other string to her bow, and is of
lesser importance to us.
But her interest in Theosophy took her
to India, where Blavatsky had set
up the headquarters of the Theosophical Society at Adyar,
near Madras, and there was more and more talk about
the "Himalayan
Masters", a kind of secret brotherhood of
high ranking spirit beings
who said they were in charge of
the evolution of the planet.
Olcott had a vision of one of them,
oriental, long raven hair to
the shoulders, piercing eyes, brown skin,
agreeing with other visions received by people in quite
diverse groups since then.
"What I'm driving at in all
this is that the Theosophical Society became the "Doorway in the
West" for age-old Eastern religion practised in
"I
find this fascinating," I said. "Is there more?"
"Plenty, but I'll keep it short. I'll have to omit much of the interesting detail.
After Annie Besant, came yet another
lady of energetic temperament,
by the name of Alice Bailey, who
went into Theosophy hook, line and sinker, becoming a real adept, and receiving
voices from the "Cosmic
Masters", which she wrote
down. Thousands of pages of
such writings are known, and
avidly read by all keen
New Agers. They contain
interesting prophecies and pronouncements.
When I say 'interesting', I mean to those who are part of the
movement. The book warns
us not to read them, lest they
have a bad effect on our minds.
"However, Bailey said that all these New Age teachings should
be broadcast widely in the year 1975, exactly 100 years after the founding of
the Theosophical Society in
"Now
going back to Annie Besant, one of her sayings was, 'Man is a fragment of divinity clothed in matter.' This sums up
most of the New Age teaching, which is
basically Hindu in style, in other words, we are ourselves 'corporately
divine'. There is no outside God such as the One found in the Jewish, Moslem,
and Christian religions. One's life-time duty according to the New Agers
is to worship SELF, and become aware of one's
own potential. It sounds very similar to the ancient
gnostic heresy, doesn't it,
you know, their battle cry
of 'know
thyself'? However, there's no other point of contact between the New
Agers and the Gnostics as far as I can see because
Theosophy is basically Hindu and
Neoplatonic in its doctrines.
"Bailey had a Cosmic Master who called himself "The
Tibetan", and he was
the source of much of her voluminous
writing. Amongst other things,
she made this
important statement, 'The only
purpose of establishing a New
World Order is to serve as a political structure for the New Age Christ.'
"Alice Bailey was the
founder of the Lucifer Trust in
"Oh
yes, I remember that. It caused quite a
stir at the time, but as nothing came of it most people became
disinterested. The Western World
today is very much like the philosophers on Mars Hill in Paul's day, always looking for 'some new
thing' to toss around in conversation for the rest of the day, and then
forget."
"Ah yes, but the fact is, they are still trying to bring about conditions suitable for the appearance
of this Christ-figure. It seems
that certain conditions have to be met before he is able
to manifest himself to the world, and try as they may, those conditions have
never been fully met since 1982, even
though Creme has repeatedly announced
his 'Day
of Manifestation' in the Press,
and over Radio
and TV networks."
"Who
is this so-called Christ?" I asked.
"They call him Maitreya,
a Buddhist name, meaning 'The
Solar Logos', who is said to be next to Lucifer in the spiritual
hierarchy."
"None
other than the Man of Sin, the Antichrist, then?"
"Could be. It's a bit early
yet to make statements as definite as that,
but it could be him. He is said
to have been watching over the
development of the planet, and has until recently been living in a cave in the
"Where is he now? Does anyone know?" asked Connie.
"Creme called for a press conference in May 1982, when he said he would reveal
the whereabouts of the
Maitreya. It was held
in
"So
presumably he is still living in
"He
could be. You know, I've also read that there's another such
being who lives just as quietly in the suburbs of Rome, waiting
to ascend the throne
of Peter and assume leadership
of the Christian Church on
earth. Neither of these
individuals has yet been able to manifest
himself. The probability is that
they must do so at the same time. The
presence of this second Cosmic Master was announced in 1982, a few months after
the Maitreya. He calls himself
"Jesus the Christ", surprise,
surprise!"
"The
Beast and the False Prophet?" I suggested.
"Again, we must wait and see. I think it's a bit early to make any assessment."
"But
where does the Peace Prayer fit into all this?" asked Connie. "I've
almost lost the thread of that now."
"Almost but not quite,
dear. You see, these New Age
pundits know what's needed to bring about the most favourable
conditions for the manifestation of their Masters. They're
looking for a massive following of their tenets, and the only way to do it is
to get millions of people to pray, or
more correctly say their mantras, to produce occult energy as massive as a
tidal wave in the psychic realm. This
they've tried to do on special
occasions, such as the day of
the Great Planetary Commission, as it
was called, on December 31st 1986, when it's been estimated that over 50,000,000 people joined in a
one-hour meditation and prayer for human unity, by saying the "Great Invocation."
But it wasn't enough.
By the way,
the Lucis Trust
put a full-page advertisement in the
Readers Digest in October 1982,
which included this Great Invocation."
"Do
you know what it said?" I asked.
"I know," said
Connie, with a slight smile on her
face. We
all looked at her, waiting for her next word.
"Perhaps you didn't thumb
through your service books yesterday, but this
Invocation I found had been
pasted inside the back cover. Presumably the Chaplain intends to use
it."
"Well
I'm blowed!" said Ted.
And then Thomas arrived with our muffins on the
tea trolley, and we were glad of a
break. In point of fact nothing else
transpired that evening which needs recording in this chapter. We spent the
rest of the time mulling over what Ted had told us as a result of his reading.
So the New Agers had penetrated our
College, and were actively
obtaining mantra-support for their
scheme to bring the antichrist into the world.
And the Christian Church was so sleepy that it was able to obtain
this support from the very people who ought to be opposing them
most vigorously. The
Devil had us by the throat,
and we weren't squealing. We weren't even aware of
it! [End of quote]
The “Peace
Prayer” began to circulate in
Lead me from Death to Life
From Falsehood to Truth;
Lead me from Despair to Hope
From Fear to Trust;
Lead me from Hate to Love
From War to Peace;
Let peace fill our Heart
Our World, our Universe;
Peace, Peace, Peace.
Here
now is the text of “The Great Invocation.”
THE GREAT
INVOCATION .
From the point of
Light within the Mind of God
Let light stream
forth into the minds of men.
Let Light descend
on Earth.
From the point of
Love within the Heart of God
Let love stream
forth into the hearts of men..
May Christ return
to earth.
From the centre
where the will of God is known
Let purpose guide
the little wills of men-
The purpose which
the Masters know and serve.
From the centre
which we call the race of men
Let the Plan of
Love and Light work out.
And may it seal
the door where evil dwells.
Let Light and Love
and Power restore the Plan on Earth.
I found this prayer in a local Anglican
Church hall, on a huge poster. My wife and I objected to the Vicar, but got the
usual rebuttal. We prepared our own (very much smaller) poster, and distributed
it as widely as we could, but by and large we only received patronizing sneers
and hostile comments. We recognized the climate of “Christian” opinion we were
surrounded by, and wondered what these people would say about our Lord’s words
– “Think not that I came to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but
a sword. For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the
daughter against her mother . . . a man’s foes shall be those of his own
household. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.”
(Matthew 10:34-37)
The New Age
people want to bring about “Peace” without the assistance of the True God of
the Universe. Their Peace Prayer doesn’t even mention God. People of all
religions and none have been saying it, but to whom do they think they are
praying? It is a little understood principle that all prayer is heard. But
by whom? If not God, then it must be Satan.
The
absolutely exclusive claims of Jesus Christ, that He is “The Way, the
Truth, and the Life”, and that “No man comes to the Father except
by Me,” is totally offensive to all New Agers. John Randolph Price, a prominent New Ager,
wrote a book called The Planetary Commission, in which he spoke about
all people being viewed as a “Global Brain”, which is the brain of “God”, since
“All is God and God is all.” But he went on to say that there are “cancer
cells” in this global brain, which will need to be purged out. Guess who they
are. Yes, that’s right, it’s those who believe in one God, Christians, Jews,
and Moslems, but mainly fundamentalist Christians. Barbara Marx Hubbard,
another up-front New Ager, said that there are massive and dedicated
counter-forces trying to offset the benefits of the healing of the Universal
Brain. “These are those who are sticking to a worn-out, divisive theology,
which believes that it has the “only” truth,”
a thinly veiled threat to Bible-believing Christians – the “cancer
cells.”
Are we
“Recognising the Hand of Judgement”? Why
has all this evil risen up in the last century?
Daniel was given the answer. The “Little Horn” of chapter 8 “cast
down some of the host [of heaven] and the stars to the earth and trampled them
underfoot.” (Verse 10).
“It cast down truth to the ground, did it with effect and succeeded.”
(Verse 12) But why was it able to have
such power over all that is good? The
answer is found in that same verse – the power was given him “by reason
of transgressions.” Later, in
If this is
the reason for the tremendous forces of evil at work in today’s world, then we
as Christians are corporately responsible, and once having realized and
recognized the cause of the problem, should give ourselves to earnest prayer,
to be those who “stand in the breach” with “the sword of
the Lord”, and hold back the advancing tide of evil. As we view other
cameo sketches of world events in this series, the same truths will be seen
again and again. The whole world is like a chess board with two players, God
and Satan. As Christians we know that God will win. The victory was won
judicially at