Alice Bailey and the United Nations
September 5, 2024
David Cloud, Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061
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Alice Ann Bailey (born Alice LaTrobe Bateman) (1880-1949) was a New Age prophetess who claimed to channel teachings from her “spirit guide.”
She grew up in a wealthy Anglican home, but was miserable and tried to commit suicide three times before she was 15. Allegedly, it was at this age that she first met her spirit master, “a tall man, dressed in European clothes and wearing a turban,” on June 30, 1895. Later she identified him as the “Master” Koot Hoomi that Madame Blavatsky allegedly communicated with.
She was a Sunday School teacher and did missionary work in India with the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). There she married her first husband who became an Episcopalian priest, but she eventually divorced him and rejected Christianity, saying of herself that “a rabid, orthodox Christian worker [became] a well-known occult teacher” (The Unfinished Autobiography of Alice A. Bailey, p. 1).
In about 1917 she joined the Theosophical Society, becoming a disciple of the late Helena Blavatsky, but after she was dismissed from the organization by Annie Besant, she and her second husband, Foster Bailey, launched their own New Age cult called the Arcane Society. The word “arcane” refers to something that is known or understood only by a few, and it is an apt description of the New Age’s love for secret knowledge.
In 1919 she was allegedly contacted by a Tibetan “master of wisdom” named Djwhal Khul. Under the direction of this demon masquerading as a perfected man, Bailey wrote the “Plan for the New World Order.” She dictated 24 volumes over a period of 30 years.
She and her husband founded the Lucifer Trust to establish this new order. Because of controversy over the name, it was later changed to Lucis Trust. We have seen how that Blavatsky’s magazine was called Lucifer and how that they believed Lucifer is a mystical agent of light and spiritual knowledge that is bringing enlightenment to mankind. Blavatsky and Bailey believed that Lucifer is the true God whereas the God of the Bible is the impostor!
Bailey’s god was not only called Lucifer but also Sanat, which is a thinly disguised form of Satan. She called him Sanat Kumara or the Lord of the World. In The Rays of the Initiations, Bailey described the “seven aspects of divine purpose” as delivered by her spirit guide, and the first of these was “the unknown, unseen, and unheard purpose of Sanat Kumara.” It is supposedly “the secret of life itself ... known only to Him.”
Bailey believed that the Age of Aquarius was dawning and that the old dogmatic religions and all divisiveness had to be put aside to make way for the New Age. She said:
“The New Age is upon us and we are witnessing the birth pangs of the new culture and the new civilization. This is now in progress. That which is old and undesirable must go and of these undesirable things, hatred and the spirit of separation must be the first to go” (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 of man, reincarnation, and the evolutionary perfection of the soul. She held that there is a brotherhood of enlightened ones called “Masters of Wisdom” (called the Spiritual Hierarchy and The Great White Brotherhood) who assist humanity in its spiritual journey. They allegedly live in a place called Shambhala, which was founded 18 million years ago and is located in “higher ethers.”
She taught against nationalism and said that it was contrary to the goal of human brotherhood and world harmony. She specifically mentioned the new nation of Israel as a “great difficulty for those who are seeking to promote world peace” (Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, p. 429). She did not believe that Israel has a right to the land of “Palestine” and criticized their use of force. She wrote, “The menace to world freedom today lies in the known policies of the rulers of the U.S.S.R. and in the devious and lying machinations of the Zionists” (The Rays and the Initiations, p. 680).
She claimed that eventually there would be a “new world order” and a “universal world religion” composed of “one great body of believers.” These will allegedly cooperate with the divine Plan revealed by the spiritual Masters.
Radically anti-Christian, Bailey said:
“Another fear which induces mankind to regard death as a calamity, is one which theological religion has inculcated, particularly the Protestant fundamentalists and the Roman Catholic Church, the fear of hell, the imposition of penalties, usually out of all proportion to the efforts of a lifetime, and the terrors imposed by an angry God. To these, man is told he will have to submit, and from them there is no escape, except through the vicarious atonement. THERE IS, AS YOU WELL KNOW, NO ANGRY GOD, NO HELL, AND NO VICARIOUS ATONEMENT... As the erroneous ideas die out, the concept of hell will fade from man’s recollection” (Esoteric Healing, p. 393).
Bailey also taught that there would eventually be a “regeneration of the churches” and they would embrace New Age concepts and bring “illumination” to the world. This is exactly what is happening today in the interfaith dialogue and the Catholic contemplative movement.
She taught that “the Christ” is going to return to earth soon and that this Christ is not the same as Jesus. He will belong to no religion and create harmony among men. He is alleged to be the one who is “anticipated by the faithful in both hemispheres, not only the Christian faithful, but by those who look for Maitreya and for the Boddhisattv as well as those who expect the Imam Madhi” (The Reappearance of the Christ, p. 5).
She taught that the practice of meditation is one of the most important means of recognizing one’s own divinity and tapping into the wisdom of the universe. She founded the Arcane School, which brings together groups of three people in a new age triangle to meditate and study together. She organized meditation groups to meet on the full moon “to create lines of spiritual force” to prepare for the coming of this christ (Robert Eelwood, Alternative Altars: Unconventional and Eastern Spirituality in America, p. 134). She described meditation as the transmission of spiritual energy from mystical realms (A Treatise on White Magic, p. 90). She looked on it as a means of communicating with her Ascended Masters.
Her mystical approach exalted experience above doctrine.
“Therefore, in the new world order, spirituality will supercede theology; living experience will take the place of theological acceptances” (The Externalization of the Hierarchy, p. 202).
This is exactly what the emerging church is saying today. Leonard Sweet, who has worked closely with Southern Baptist leader Rick Warren, says: “A spiritual tsunami has hit postmodern culture. ... People want to know God. They want less to know about God or know about religion than to know God. People want to experience the ‘Beyond’ in the ‘Within’” (Quantum Spirituality, 1999, p. 420).
Bailey warned that “fanatics” will fight against the coming of the New Age.
“This inherent fanaticism (found ever in reactionary groups) will fight against the appearance of the coming world religion and the spread of esotericism” (The Externalization of the Hierarchy, p. 453).
But the “Shamballa force” led by Lord Maitreya will destroy those who resist the New Age and they will be ejected 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 of the race into the mysteries of the ages” (The Externalizing the Mysteries, part 1, p. 171).
Following are some other quotes from her writings:
“Humanity in all lands today awaits the Coming One--no matter by what name they may call him” (The Reappearance of the Christ, p. 188).
“The Christian faith has served its purpose; its Founder seeks to bring a new Gospel and a new message that will enlighten all men everywhere” (The Rays and the Initiations, p. 754).
“This is the challenge which today confronts the Christian church. The need is for vision, wisdom, and that wide tolerance which will see divinity on every hand and recognize the Christ in every human being” (From Bethlehem to Calvary, p. 273).
“The spirit has gone out of the old faiths and the true spiritual light is transferring itself into a new form which will manifest on earth eventually as the new world religion” (The Rays and the Initiations, p. 754).
“Death is ‘a touch of the soul which is too strong for the fragile body’: it is a call from divinity that brooks no denial; it is the voice of the inner spiritual identity saying: Return to your centre or source for awhile and reflect upon the experiences undergone and the lessons learnt until the time comes when you return to earth for another cycle of learning, of progress and of enrichment” (The Unfinished Biography of Alice A. Bailey, p. 78).
“Before we can enter upon the study of Ageless Wisdom and take up the consideration of the science of some unfoldment it is essential that we grasp the fact of our divinity” (Bailey, “Values & Principles of Esotericism,” lecture given on March 1927, Arcane School Papers, p. 7).
“Thus the expressed aims and efforts of the United Nations will be eventually brought to fruition and a new church of God, gathered out of all religions and spiritual groups, will unitedly bring to an end the great heresy of separateness” (The Destiny of the Nations, p. 152).
Today Alice Bailey’s Lucis Trust, with its headquarters on Wall Street in New York City, has over 6,000 active members worldwide who are working toward the establishment of the new occultic order. Its influence reaches far beyond its actual membership statistics, though.
World Goodwill, which is part of Alice Bailey’s Lucis Trust, is on the roster of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). World Goodwill is an approved Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with the UN’s Department of Public Information. It is dedicated to solving the world’s problems through “a new perception of humanity as a unit of divine life within an ordered and purposive universe.” It is based on the new age idea that man is divine, which is actually Satan’s ancient lie to Eve, “Ye shall be as gods” (Ge. 3:5).
One of World Goodwill’s “transformational” tools is “The Great Invocation,” which is part of its educational program. It is a New Age mantra. The World Goodwill web site says that men and women throughout the world are repeating the mantra and asks, “Will you join them in using the Invocation every day--with thought and dedication?” The mantra says, in part:
“From the point of Light within the Mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let Light descend on Earth. ... Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth” (www.lucistrust.org)
The objective of this New Age chant is to bring the cosmic christ into the world. This is called “the Plan.” World Goodwill’s first three foundational beliefs are as follows, from its own web site:
“Humanity is not following a haphazard or uncharted course--there is a Plan. This Plan has always existed and is part of the greater design of the Cosmos. The Plan has worked out through the evolutionary developments of the past and because of the special impetus 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 spiritual Hierarchy, the society of Illumined Minds, or Christ and his Church, according to various religious traditions. Humanity is never left without spiritual guidance or direction under the Plan.
“The widespread expectation that we approach the “Age of Maitreya”, as it is known in the East, when the World Teacher and present head of the spiritual Hierarchy, the Christ, will reappear among humanity to sound the keynote of the new age” (www.lucistrust.org).
The UN Meditation Room is maintained by the Lucis Trust. In 1956-57 UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold turned the interdenominational prayer chapel into a New Age meditation chamber. A six-and-a-half ton block of iron ore was deposited in the center of the room, the polished top of which is lit by a single beam of light from the ceiling. The light depicts “divine wisdom,” and the block depicts an empty altar representing “God worshipped in many forms” (http://www.aquaac.org/un/sprtatun.html). The iron ore also represents the metal from which weapons are made and the New Age hope that through the power of meditation world peace can be achieved. Hammarskjold said, “... we thought we could bless by our thoughts the very material out of which arms are made.” This is the New Age concept of the power of thinking. He said the Meditation Room is a place “where people could really withdraw into themselves and feel the void.”
She grew up in a wealthy Anglican home, but was miserable and tried to commit suicide three times before she was 15. Allegedly, it was at this age that she first met her spirit master, “a tall man, dressed in European clothes and wearing a turban,” on June 30, 1895. Later she identified him as the “Master” Koot Hoomi that Madame Blavatsky allegedly communicated with.
She was a Sunday School teacher and did missionary work in India with the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). There she married her first husband who became an Episcopalian priest, but she eventually divorced him and rejected Christianity, saying of herself that “a rabid, orthodox Christian worker [became] a well-known occult teacher” (The Unfinished Autobiography of Alice A. Bailey, p. 1).
In about 1917 she joined the Theosophical Society, becoming a disciple of the late Helena Blavatsky, but after she was dismissed from the organization by Annie Besant, she and her second husband, Foster Bailey, launched their own New Age cult called the Arcane Society. The word “arcane” refers to something that is known or understood only by a few, and it is an apt description of the New Age’s love for secret knowledge.
In 1919 she was allegedly contacted by a Tibetan “master of wisdom” named Djwhal Khul. Under the direction of this demon masquerading as a perfected man, Bailey wrote the “Plan for the New World Order.” She dictated 24 volumes over a period of 30 years.
She and her husband founded the Lucifer Trust to establish this new order. Because of controversy over the name, it was later changed to Lucis Trust. We have seen how that Blavatsky’s magazine was called Lucifer and how that they believed Lucifer is a mystical agent of light and spiritual knowledge that is bringing enlightenment to mankind. Blavatsky and Bailey believed that Lucifer is the true God whereas the God of the Bible is the impostor!
Bailey’s god was not only called Lucifer but also Sanat, which is a thinly disguised form of Satan. She called him Sanat Kumara or the Lord of the World. In The Rays of the Initiations, Bailey described the “seven aspects of divine purpose” as delivered by her spirit guide, and the first of these was “the unknown, unseen, and unheard purpose of Sanat Kumara.” It is supposedly “the secret of life itself ... known only to Him.”
Bailey believed that the Age of Aquarius was dawning and that the old dogmatic religions and all divisiveness had to be put aside to make way for the New Age. She said:
“The New Age is upon us and we are witnessing the birth pangs of the new culture and the new civilization. This is now in progress. That which is old and undesirable must go and of these undesirable things, hatred and the spirit of separation must be the first to go” (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 of man, reincarnation, and the evolutionary perfection of the soul. She held that there is a brotherhood of enlightened ones called “Masters of Wisdom” (called the Spiritual Hierarchy and The Great White Brotherhood) who assist humanity in its spiritual journey. They allegedly live in a place called Shambhala, which was founded 18 million years ago and is located in “higher ethers.”
She taught against nationalism and said that it was contrary to the goal of human brotherhood and world harmony. She specifically mentioned the new nation of Israel as a “great difficulty for those who are seeking to promote world peace” (Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, p. 429). She did not believe that Israel has a right to the land of “Palestine” and criticized their use of force. She wrote, “The menace to world freedom today lies in the known policies of the rulers of the U.S.S.R. and in the devious and lying machinations of the Zionists” (The Rays and the Initiations, p. 680).
She claimed that eventually there would be a “new world order” and a “universal world religion” composed of “one great body of believers.” These will allegedly cooperate with the divine Plan revealed by the spiritual Masters.
Radically anti-Christian, Bailey said:
“Another fear which induces mankind to regard death as a calamity, is one which theological religion has inculcated, particularly the Protestant fundamentalists and the Roman Catholic Church, the fear of hell, the imposition of penalties, usually out of all proportion to the efforts of a lifetime, and the terrors imposed by an angry God. To these, man is told he will have to submit, and from them there is no escape, except through the vicarious atonement. THERE IS, AS YOU WELL KNOW, NO ANGRY GOD, NO HELL, AND NO VICARIOUS ATONEMENT... As the erroneous ideas die out, the concept of hell will fade from man’s recollection” (Esoteric Healing, p. 393).
Bailey also taught that there would eventually be a “regeneration of the churches” and they would embrace New Age concepts and bring “illumination” to the world. This is exactly what is happening today in the interfaith dialogue and the Catholic contemplative movement.
She taught that “the Christ” is going to return to earth soon and that this Christ is not the same as Jesus. He will belong to no religion and create harmony among men. He is alleged to be the one who is “anticipated by the faithful in both hemispheres, not only the Christian faithful, but by those who look for Maitreya and for the Boddhisattv as well as those who expect the Imam Madhi” (The Reappearance of the Christ, p. 5).
She taught that the practice of meditation is one of the most important means of recognizing one’s own divinity and tapping into the wisdom of the universe. She founded the Arcane School, which brings together groups of three people in a new age triangle to meditate and study together. She organized meditation groups to meet on the full moon “to create lines of spiritual force” to prepare for the coming of this christ (Robert Eelwood, Alternative Altars: Unconventional and Eastern Spirituality in America, p. 134). She described meditation as the transmission of spiritual energy from mystical realms (A Treatise on White Magic, p. 90). She looked on it as a means of communicating with her Ascended Masters.
Her mystical approach exalted experience above doctrine.
“Therefore, in the new world order, spirituality will supercede theology; living experience will take the place of theological acceptances” (The Externalization of the Hierarchy, p. 202).
This is exactly what the emerging church is saying today. Leonard Sweet, who has worked closely with Southern Baptist leader Rick Warren, says: “A spiritual tsunami has hit postmodern culture. ... People want to know God. They want less to know about God or know about religion than to know God. People want to experience the ‘Beyond’ in the ‘Within’” (Quantum Spirituality, 1999, p. 420).
Bailey warned that “fanatics” will fight against the coming of the New Age.
“This inherent fanaticism (found ever in reactionary groups) will fight against the appearance of the coming world religion and the spread of esotericism” (The Externalization of the Hierarchy, p. 453).
But the “Shamballa force” led by Lord Maitreya will destroy those who resist the New Age and they will be ejected 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 of the race into the mysteries of the ages” (The Externalizing the Mysteries, part 1, p. 171).
Following are some other quotes from her writings:
“Humanity in all lands today awaits the Coming One--no matter by what name they may call him” (The Reappearance of the Christ, p. 188).
“The Christian faith has served its purpose; its Founder seeks to bring a new Gospel and a new message that will enlighten all men everywhere” (The Rays and the Initiations, p. 754).
“This is the challenge which today confronts the Christian church. The need is for vision, wisdom, and that wide tolerance which will see divinity on every hand and recognize the Christ in every human being” (From Bethlehem to Calvary, p. 273).
“The spirit has gone out of the old faiths and the true spiritual light is transferring itself into a new form which will manifest on earth eventually as the new world religion” (The Rays and the Initiations, p. 754).
“Death is ‘a touch of the soul which is too strong for the fragile body’: it is a call from divinity that brooks no denial; it is the voice of the inner spiritual identity saying: Return to your centre or source for awhile and reflect upon the experiences undergone and the lessons learnt until the time comes when you return to earth for another cycle of learning, of progress and of enrichment” (The Unfinished Biography of Alice A. Bailey, p. 78).
“Before we can enter upon the study of Ageless Wisdom and take up the consideration of the science of some unfoldment it is essential that we grasp the fact of our divinity” (Bailey, “Values & Principles of Esotericism,” lecture given on March 1927, Arcane School Papers, p. 7).
“Thus the expressed aims and efforts of the United Nations will be eventually brought to fruition and a new church of God, gathered out of all religions and spiritual groups, will unitedly bring to an end the great heresy of separateness” (The Destiny of the Nations, p. 152).
Today Alice Bailey’s Lucis Trust, with its headquarters on Wall Street in New York City, has over 6,000 active members worldwide who are working toward the establishment of the new occultic order. Its influence reaches far beyond its actual membership statistics, though.
World Goodwill, which is part of Alice Bailey’s Lucis Trust, is on the roster of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). World Goodwill is an approved Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with the UN’s Department of Public Information. It is dedicated to solving the world’s problems through “a new perception of humanity as a unit of divine life within an ordered and purposive universe.” It is based on the new age idea that man is divine, which is actually Satan’s ancient lie to Eve, “Ye shall be as gods” (Ge. 3:5).
One of World Goodwill’s “transformational” tools is “The Great Invocation,” which is part of its educational program. It is a New Age mantra. The World Goodwill web site says that men and women throughout the world are repeating the mantra and asks, “Will you join them in using the Invocation every day--with thought and dedication?” The mantra says, in part:
“From the point of Light within the Mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let Light descend on Earth. ... Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth” (www.lucistrust.org)
The objective of this New Age chant is to bring the cosmic christ into the world. This is called “the Plan.” World Goodwill’s first three foundational beliefs are as follows, from its own web site:
“Humanity is not following a haphazard or uncharted course--there is a Plan. This Plan has always existed and is part of the greater design of the Cosmos. The Plan has worked out through the evolutionary developments of the past and because of the special impetus 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 spiritual Hierarchy, the society of Illumined Minds, or Christ and his Church, according to various religious traditions. Humanity is never left without spiritual guidance or direction under the Plan.
“The widespread expectation that we approach the “Age of Maitreya”, as it is known in the East, when the World Teacher and present head of the spiritual Hierarchy, the Christ, will reappear among humanity to sound the keynote of the new age” (www.lucistrust.org).
The UN Meditation Room is maintained by the Lucis Trust. In 1956-57 UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold turned the interdenominational prayer chapel into a New Age meditation chamber. A six-and-a-half ton block of iron ore was deposited in the center of the room, the polished top of which is lit by a single beam of light from the ceiling. The light depicts “divine wisdom,” and the block depicts an empty altar representing “God worshipped in many forms” (http://www.aquaac.org/un/sprtatun.html). The iron ore also represents the metal from which weapons are made and the New Age hope that through the power of meditation world peace can be achieved. Hammarskjold said, “... we thought we could bless by our thoughts the very material out of which arms are made.” This is the New Age concept of the power of thinking. He said the Meditation Room is a place “where people could really withdraw into themselves and feel the void.”
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