Theosophy and Christianity
Nature exists and Man exists, and somewhere, unobscured by man's own sophistries there must be available the wisdom and learning which tells of why and how. As we ponder the question it seems an inevitable conclusion that somewhere there must be preserved a recording, a gathering of facts or 'laws,' a formulation in human language of the truth concerning Man and Nature. There must be a basic source from which sciences, philosophies and great religions have sprung.
H. P. Blavatsky, in her writings of immense intellectual and spiritual power [Isis Unveiled, The Secret Doctrine], points to that living Source, declaring it exists. She called it the Ancient Wisdom, the Sacred Science, the Gupta-Vidya, and gave to it the Greek name of Theosophia, Theosophy, knowledge and wisdom such as the gods or divinities live by.
This Ancient Wisdom, she affirmed, has always been in existence, though not always publicly known, having come down the ages tested and checked by generations of Great Seers. It may be called the Facts of Being, the 'laws' or workings of Nature...
Theosophy is the essential truth underlying all religions, and does not recognize any one religion as being supreme over the others or as the last word of truth. It is not hostile to Christianity, but finds itself obliged to combat many things which it considers alien to the genuine Christian gospel and which have gradually crept in since that gospel was originally proclaimed. Among these is the idea that Christianity is paramount among religions or that it is a final revelation of divine truth, superceding other faiths.
This idea is contrary to truth and is becoming more difficult to maintain. For this there are two principle reasons: Ancient religions have been widely and intensively studied, especially those of India, which have become accessible through the knowledge of Sanskrit, and intercommunication between nations has grown so wide and intimate. These two causes combine to prevent the exclusive attitude of the mind which was possible in past times.
But it is hard to give up cherished habits, and moreover people imagine that if they surrender the paramouncy of Christianity they will be surrendering religion itself. And so we find strange expedients resorted to in the attempt to account for the existence in more ancient religions of so many of the doctrines and rituals which were supposed to be peculiar to Christianity.
The Abbe Huc, in his celebrated Travels in Tartary, Tibet, and China, describes how he found among the Tibetan priests not only many characteristic doctrines of the Roman Church but even many or their rituals, vestures, and sacred implements. His explanation is that the Devil thus anticipated Christianity in order to deceive mankind; to which he adds a theory that early Christian missionaries may have penetrated to Tibet. A recent improvement on this is found in a theory which we have just seen in a book published under the auspices of a well-known Christian propagation society, to the effect that the lofty doctrines found in India's scared books were due to the work of the Holy Spirit, who thus prepared mankind for the 'greater things than these' to come in the future...
There are various kinds of broad-church Christianity, which seek to enlarge the scope of the religion so as to take in many things now known to man but which did not occupy the minds of our forefathers; but the difficulty with them is to enlarge the gospel sufficiently without destroying its identity as Christianity; and again, if a body of water be widened without increasing its volume, the result is to make it shallower...
These various attempts all tend to the confessions that religions change with the times, that humanity progresses independently of them, and that they must keep up with the needs of humanity or else become a drag upon progress. Yet we cannot on this account reject all religious truth and lapse into one of the forms of unbelief, atheism, or materialism. We must not throw away the substance with the outgrown form ["not throw away the baby with the bathwater"--Scribe]. An organized religious system, with its creed, its prescribed ritual, its church organization, is a spirit embodied in a form; and like every other organization, the form has to undergo continual change, though the spirit within may ever be the same. These are facts which cannot be disputed by anyone with a modicum of historical knowledge or an acquaintance with the general laws of growth and evolution.
But there can be only one Truth. Religion itself, apart from creeds and churches, is a recognition and observation of the basic laws of the universe. These basic laws are also inherent in man himself, so that the real eternal and universal Religion is based on the facts of human nature and must remain the same as long as man is man. The most essential truth is that man is a divine spirit incarnate in an animal body; that his "salvation" consists in subduing his lower nature by means of his higher; and that the true law of conduct for man is that which is expressed in the Golden Rule. This truth lies at the base of all religions, and Christianity, so far from having originated it, or even improved it, has merely inherited it...
But after the withdrawal of the Teacher, the movement which he has started undergoes changes and degeneration. It falls under the influence of worldly motives and forces; it becomes formalized; it breaks up onto schools and sects; it acquires various organic forms with churches, priesthood, and creeds. The process can be traced in the history of religions in general; it can be traced in Christianity, so that the Christianity of today is not in any of its forms the original gospel as given by the founder...
There is no wish to disturb the peace of those who find in Christianity, as they know it, all they need, and especially those who find in their faith the inspiration to a noble life. But there is a large and increasing number to whom our message may be welcome. The churches confess that they are losing their hold, and there are more people than ever who find themselves unable to accept what they are taught, and who yet cannot throw over religion itself and lapse into infidelity. Such people are at a loss for an expedient; they may find some way of their own, or they may form movements; but in any case their efforts lack both definiteness and co-operation. These needs are supplied by Theosophy.
Theosophy comes to the rescue and can justly claim to stand as a champion of Christianity by pointing to the true and original excellence of that religion and showing how to extract the essence from the extraneous matter that encumbers it.
[Theosophy] shall show, then, what are the essential truths of religion, which change not with the times, cause no conflict between creeds and sects, and are enshrined in the heart of man; and we shall trace these in Christianity, its doctrines, its forms, and its scriptures. Thereby we shall prove that Christianity is kin to the other great religions and to the greatest philosophical systems, and that there is enough external evidence to prove that it is one of the effluents of the great river of the Wisdom-Religion. We shall try to trace Christianity from its beginnings, through various changes, to its present forms... The principal dogmas, articles of faith, and ritual observances must be considered, their real meaning shown by comparison with the corresponding elements in other religions, in philosophies, and in mythologies.
It will be shown how the teachings ascribed to Jesus in the Gospels, as well as some of those of his apostles in the Epistles, appear in a new light as soon as we have the key to their interpretation; and how many of such teachings have remained obscure because we had not that key.
*Henry Travers Edge, Theosophy and Christianity, Point Loma Publications, San Diego, 1974, pp 1-8.
b. Aug 12, 1831, Ekaterinoslav, Ukranie, Russia.
d. May 8, 1891, London, England.
Unquestionably, the best way of evaluating the statement that H. P. Blavatsky acted as a light-bringer to the western world, is to study the message she gave by means of her writings. Theosophists are so accustomed to regard her two major works--Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine--as source books for the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom--and rightfully so--that they are apt to by-pass her other writings. This should not be done. Her literary production amounts to ten other volumes bearing the title The Collected Writings of H. P. Blavatsky. These works are filled with a wealth of information on all sorts of subjects as well as occult lore. Every page was hand-written in pen and ink, without secretarial assistance--and this was so also with Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine--and this amazing achievement was performed in less than seventeen years!...her literary works simply could not have been produced by ordinary means.
For example, consider the phenomenal amount of works quoted in Isis Unveiled: 1,339 different works! Have we any idea of the labor that would be required for an ordinary writer to search through over a thousand books to find a particular passage? Think what it would mean to buy all these books! [After decades of collecting all of them I can find, all I can say is, "Don't ask."--Scribe] If the volumes were not purchased, one would have to go to a university library to find them--and some works would not even be there. [Needless to say.--Scribe]
In The Secret Doctrine, 1,147 works are quoted and these two computations do not take into consideration how many times any one volume is quoted. [Ditto--Scribe]
--Geoffrey A. Barborka, H. P. Blavatsky the light-bringer, lecture, 1970, London.
Theosophy, or "wisdom of the divine," is not a religion per se. It is the compilation and contemplation (study) of all religions and all philosophies that have come down to us in many shapes and forms and languages throughout recorded history. It therefore can be considered the essential truth underlying all religions. Through this study, and comparison, and debate, and, yes, anguish--for the esoteric meaning of a "two-edged sword" is that it also cuts backwards, in other words, it cuts off old familiar beliefs once held dear but are found to be wanting--the student (you) inescapably discover, and hopefully learn, a body of core beliefs and truths common to them all. This corpus must needs be the "Eternal Wisdom" and therefore the bedrock wisdom of mankind, however obtained. It demonstrates that all these religions and philosophies were talking about essentially the same timeless thing(s), in their own vernacular, for their own time. Without exception these turn out to be their inner, esoteric, teachings, known to us at one time, for example, as the lesser and greater Mysteries of the Greeks, and only passed on to the qualified few of the inner circle in solemn rituals in the inner sanctum. In short, it must be the best of all religions, and--with these "keys" of knowledge--you can finally comprehend what it is they were all talking about. You can discern the melody in the cacophony of different tongues and different verses. You have broken the code, for all important, sacred knowledge is encrypted and you must know the key to interpret it, without exception. This process, this journey we must all take, is known as Initiation, and it is in reality the meaning of most of the books in the Bible and of every other true religion. It must be the best of all philosophies by which to live your life because now you know you are truly not alone: You now know you live and love and learn in the company of all the heroes and all the saints and all the gods spoken of in all the religions and allied literature, ever, in the history of the world. And if you are truly this person who has broken the code and have melded, so to speak, with the wisdom of the past and are trying to live it ("I and my Father are One"), you find yourself behaving accordingly. Because now you are born again and "as a child"--yes, this is the real meaning of those phrases--your eyes are now open and it's like you're living life for the very first time because with this knowledge everything seems different, more clear, more beautiful, more meaningful, more benign. You now understand that through the mists of time immemorial they were all talking about you, concerned about you, preparing for you ... and we do have much to learn. -- Scribe.
There are secrets that kill in the arcana of Occultism, and unless a man lives the life he cannot be entrusted with them.
The late Professor Faraday had very serious doubts whether it was quite wise and reasonable to give out to the public at large certain discoveries of modern science. Chemistry had led to the invention of too terrible means of destruction in our century to allow it to fall into the hands of the profane. What man of sense--in the face of such fiendish applications of dynamite and other explosive substances as are made by those incarnations of the Destroying Power, who glory in calling themselves Anarchists and Socialists--would not agree with us in saying: --Far better for mankind that it should never have blasted a rock by modern perfected means, than that it should have shattered the limbs of one percent even of those who have been thus destroyed by the pitiless hand of Russian Nihilists, Irish Fenians and Anarchists. That such discoveries, and chiefly their murderous application, ought to have been withheld from public knowledge may be shown on the authority of statistics and commissions appointed to investigate and record the result of the evil done. -- H.P. Blavatsky, Lucifer, "The Blessings of Publicity," London, 1891, P. 16.
For above all human sects stands Theosophy in its abstract sense; Theosophy, which is too wide for any of them to contain, but which easily contains them.
In conclusion, we may state that, broader and far more universal in its views than any existing mere scientific Society, it has plus science its belief in every possibility, and determined will to penetrate into those unknown spiritual regions which exact science pretends that its votaries have no business to explore. And, it has one quality more than any religion, in that it makes no difference between Gentile, Jew, or Christian. It is in this spirit that the Society has been established upon the footing of a Universal Brotherhood.
Unconcerned about politics; hostile to the insane dreams of Socialism and Communism, which it abhors--as both are but disguised conspiracies of brutal force against honest labour; the Society cares but little about the outward management of the material world. The whole of its aspirations are directed towards the occult truths of the visible and invisible worlds. Whether the physical man be under the rule of an empire or a republic, concerns only the man of matter. His body may be enslaved; as to his soul, he has the right to give to his rulers the proud answer of Socrates to his judges. They have no sway over the inner man. -- H. P. Blavatsky, A Modern Panarion, London, 1895, Pp. 275-276.
(April, 1940) -- The Coming World Order -- This analysis of world conditions is being written in America, where there is, as yet, relative physical safety and time for the re-adjustment of views, and the opportunity also to give direction--along with embattled Britain and her Allies--to a world sorely needing guidance and vision. There is great confusion of voices. Those who know the least speak ever the loudest and apportion the blame for events with facility. There is much mental distress everywhere, occasioned by the war and also by the desire of the well-intentioned to stress their particular solutions of the world problem.
It is necessary, therefore, to speak with directness, to indicate the inherent dangers of the present situation, to present its amazing opportunity to bring about needed changes, and to point out the lines of demarcation between the right and the wrong ways of living, between a vision of the new world order and the retrograde plans of the so-called "new order" with which the totalitarian powers seek to bewilder humanity.
We start with the premise that two opposing world visions confront humanity and that two world orders are presented to mankind. Between these man must choose, and his choice will determine the future.
The years 1941 and 1942 will be years of crisis and of tension...What mankind decides during the next twelve months will condition the future as no other human decision has ever before done in the history of mankind.
There have been points of crisis before in history, but not one that involved the entire planetary population. There have been periods of danger, difficulty, war, famine and distress, but none which conditioned the lives of untold millions as does the present. Time and again there has been the emergence of leaders, conquerors, dictators and world figures, but they have hitherto come at a time when their influence was limited by world communications and by national limitations; therefore their power was not universal and their progress was arrested by the conditions of the period in which they lived. Today, the entire planet is involved and all the nations of the world are definitely affected...
The conflict today is a world conflict. The following groups of people are involved:
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The fighting aggressor nations, ruled by ambitious dictators.
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The nations which are seeking to defend themselves and the liberties of humanity.
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The neutral nations, seeing the issues involved and faced with the immediate necessity to take sides...
Facing humanity today are two major dangers. These are: first, the conflict will be so prolonged that humanity will be completely exhausted, and thus a stalemate will be reached and a situation will arise which will bring to an end all civilized relationships and all hope of an ordered life of beauty, peace and culture. Secondly, the nations not yet involved will fail to see the realities of the situation and will not come to the assistance of those fighting for the preservation of national and individual freedom. If this should prove to be the case, then--without so intending and yet inevitably--they will stand on the side of evil and share in the responsibility of engineering world disaster.
Today, there are no more than two parties in the world--those who are on the side of right human relations and those who are on the side of selfish and cruel power politics. The totalitarian powers are on the march--ruthless, selfish, cruel and aggressive; the powers which are battling for human liberty and for the rights of the defenceless little nations are standing with their backs to the wall, facing the strongest display of human might that the world has ever seen. The nations which are not yet physically involved are preparing for some form of action and for defence--defence against the dictator powers but not against the fighting democracies...
No matter how people may evade the truth, no matter how they may escape into a dream world of wishful thinking, the fact remains--inevitable and undeniable--that the world is at war and everyone is involved...Where, then, should the new group of world servers stand? What should the men and women of goodwill do? Should they stand...on the side of the neutral powers, frantically pursuing ineffective peace programmes, policies of appeasement, and play into the hands of the totalitarian powers?
Humanity having decided to fight out the battle physically, there was nothing left to do but issue a challenge to the men and women of goodwill to take their stand on the side of such action as would release humanity through the destruction of the evil forces. These had determined to prove that might was right. Therefore, the forces fighting for progress and civilization had to meet force with force...
On the basis of an active will-to-good, the men and women of goodwill, acting under the inspiration of the New Group of World Servers, had no alternative but to take their stand with the spiritual forces and join the struggle for the liberation of humanity from totalitarian ambitions and the intentions of a group of evil men. But the spirit of goodwill must be, steadily and unchangingly, the motivating impulse. No hate must be allowed to enter in. The greatest good of the greatest number lies today in the release of the nations from the domination of the totalitarian powers... (174-179) -- A. A. Bailey, The Externalization of the Hierarchy, New York (1956).
(I)t is surely apparent that God is on the side of the allied nations, for it cannot be supposed that Christ is on the side of Hitler and the rule of cruel aggression. The spiritual hierarchy of the planet is throwing the weight of its strength against the Axis powers just in so far as the spiritually minded peoples of the world can collaborate, for there can be no coercion on man's free will. No one is afraid of the allied nations; the situation has not been precipitated by the Allies; their methods are not the methods of lying propaganda and the terrorising of the weak and the defenceless. Facts prove these points, and it is this recognition which lies behind the constant aid of the United States. The way of living and the spiritual objects of the democracies are recognized by all, and it is these which are threatened by the totalitarian concepts of life. Through the democracies humanity speaks.
The totalitarian order must go because it is contrary to the spiritual vision...All departments of knowledge will be subordinated to the glorification of Germany. Germany will be portrayed as the seed of all world glory, and as the ruthless saviour of mankind; the beauties of war, of struggle and of physical strength will be emphasised, and these so-called admirable objectives of the human spirit will be developed to produce a new race of men in whom the "effiminate" beauties of loving kindness and wise consideration for others will find no place.
I would call your attention to the teaching now being given to the German youth. Might is right. The German belongs to the super-race, and all other races are inferior. Only a chosen aristocracy should be permitted the privilege of education and of rule. The masses of people are no more than cattle and exist only to be slaves of the superior race. War is to men what childbirth is to women. War is a natural process and therefore eternally right. All sources of supply must be controlled by Germany, and consequently even those nations at present neutral must be brought under the German sphere of influence. The totalitarian powers will dominate the economic system of the world and control all imports and exports. The standard of living in both hemispheres will be lowered; everything will be related to the good of Germany, and no other nation will be considered. Christian teaching and Christian ethics must necessarily be eliminated, because Germany regards Christianity and its divine Founder as effeminate and weak, as emphasising the softer qualities of human nature, and as responsible for the decadence of all nations, except Germany. Christianity must also be overthrown because it is based on Jewish sources; the rule of Christ must come to an end, because only the rule of force is right.
In the world order of the Axis powers, the individual has no rights; he has no freedom except in so far as he serves the state; there will be no liberty of thought or conscience, all issues will be decided by the state, and the private citizen will have no right to an opinion. Men will be drafted like slaves into the service of the state.
Such is the picture of the order which the Axis power are preparing to impose upon the world, and to this their own words testify. Only insight into the true nature of this crisis, a determination to face the facts, and fearlessness will suffice to defeat Hitler. This conquering fearlessness must be based on a recognition of the spiritual values involved, on a belief in God, and on a commonsense which is determined to establish security, right human relations and liberty.
It is important that people face up to the facts immediately. They must realise what is the nature of the world order which Hitler is preparing to enforce, and what lies ahead of humanity if the Axis powers triumph. It is essential that the little children of the world be rescued from this overshadowing evil and from the false education to which they will be subjected if the totalitarian powers hold Europe in their grasp. The intensive culture given to the youth of Germany during the past twenty years has proved the effects of environing mental attitudes. The boys who roll their tanks and fly their planes over the countries of Europe and who wage war on women and children are the product of an educational system, and are therefore the victims of an evil process. The children of Germany must be rescued from the future which Hitler plans, as well as the children of other countries; the women of Germany must be set free from fear, as must the women in other lands; the population of Germany must also be liberated from the evil rule of Hitler. This is recognised by the allied nations. Make no mistake. The German is as dear to the heart of humanity, to God, to Christ and to all right thinking people as are any other people. The German must be rescued from Hitler's world order as much as the Pole, the Jew, the Czech or any captive nation. In effecting this freedom, the allied nations and the neutral powers must preserve the spirit of goodwill, even when using force, which is the only means of conquest the totalitarian powers understand...(Written April, 1940, Pp. 187-189) -- A. A. Bailey, The Externalization of the Hierarchy, New York (1956).
Russia remains a great enigma for the rest of the world today...Russia is deeply distrusted by the rest of the world, particularly by its conservative elements, and this for two reasons; first, the cruelty with which the earliest stages of her revolution started--the period which we glibly call "Bolshevism"... -- A. A. Bailey, Problems of Humanity, New York, 1947, P. 21.
(April 1948) Today this totalitarian evil is expressing itself through the planning of the Russian oligarchy, through the Zionist movement, and through all groups which seek to fetter and imprison the spirit of man; but the people under the sway of this evil influence and the scheming of these evil groups are never regarded in any light different to that of the rest of mankind...
Spiritual workers should face the various world alternatives:
1. An all-dominant Russia, whose regime would cover the planet, enforcing her totalitarian interpretation...refusing freedom to the individual in the interest of the State, and--because of a low opinion of the human masses--everywhere standardising her interpretation of democracy...
2. A world in which all nations live in an armed armistice...
3. A world in which the United States proves itself to be the controlling factor, after wiping out Russia, which she can do if she acts now...
4. A world divided into "blocs" for mutual aid and economic sharing...There is nothing intrinsically wrong in any group of nations standing together for mutual aid and economic cooperation. The wrong factor comes in when they stand united against any other group of nations, and therefore against any group of human beings. It is this attitude, engineered and fostered by Russia, which has led to the relatively new concept of blocs against. Along this line, and with this attitude of antagonistic groupings, only disaster can lie.
Blocs in themselves can be good and proper if they follow lines of natural cleavages, of language differences and of cultural distinctions. They can be essentially right if they are formed for economic, educational, religious and social aims and can therefore provide no true cause for alarm. Such blocs could be cultural and not militaristic, economic and not greedy, and they could provide a normal and progressive movement away from the separative nationalism of the past and towards the distant creation of the One World, and the One Humanity. This will some day be seen, but the time is not yet. Mankind is not ready for super-government, nor can it yet provide the unselfish and trained statesmen that such a government would require. As yet there are more seeds of danger in this concept than there are of helpfulness. Nevertheless, it is a dream which will some day materialize, after the creation and the functioning of blocs have proved how men should work and live together.
(April 1948) The United Nations is still the hope of the world and can remain so; it is a great field of experimentation, but is suffering today from an initial error. That error was the admitting of a totalitarian Power into its nations. For seven long and terrible years the Forces of Light had been fighting totalitarianism. In the early days of the post-war period the Nations compromised with principles and admitted Russia to the United Nations. Had they proceeded to unite all the other nations of the world on the sure ground of economic reform, of needed national reorganisation and of regional groups (a better term than "blocs"), Russia would have been forced to conform, for her very existence would have been at stake. An initial error can lead to much trouble, and it is this type of trouble which the United Nations today faces. (Written April 1948, Pp. 637-640) -- A. A. Bailey, The Externalization of the Hierarchy, New York (1956).
(October 1949) The material goal which all who love their fellowmen...must ever have in mind and at heart is the defeat of totalitarianism...the defeat of that evil process which involves the imposition of ideas, and which can be the method of the democratic nations and of the churches everywhere, just as much as it is the method of the U.S.S.R. This we call totalitarianism. I would ask you to have this distinction clearly in your minds. Your material goal is the defeat of all that infringes human free will and which keeps humanity in ignorance; it applies equally to any established system--Catholic or Protestant--which imposes its concepts and its will upon its adherents. Totalitarianism is the basis of evil today; it is found in all systems of government, of education; it is found in the home and in the community. I refer not here to the laws which make group relations sound, possible and right; such laws are essential to community and national well-being and are not totalitarian in nature. I refer to the imposition of the will of the few upon the total mass of the people. (Written October, 1949, Pp. 700-701) -- A. A. Bailey, The Externalization of the Hierarchy, New York (1956).
Humanity is today more sensitive to ideas than ever before...The major ideas in the world today fall into five categories:...
2. Those ideas which are relatively new such as Nazism, Fascism, and Communism, though they are not really as new as people are apt to think. They are alike in one important point, i.e. the State or community of human beings counts as of importance whilst the individual does not; he can be sacrificed at any time for the good of the State or for the so-called general good.
A. A. Bailey, The Destiny of the Nations, New York, 1949, P. 8.
Two major ideas should be taught to the children of every country. They are: the value of the individual and the fact of the one humanity. The war boys and girls have learnt, from appearances, that human life has small value; the fascist countries have taught that the individual is of no value except in so far as he implements the designs of some dictator--a Mussolini or a Hitler. -- A. A. Bailey, Education in the New Age, New York, 1954, P. 47.
The major battle in the world today is that of the freedom of the average citizen to think for himself and to come to his own decisions and conclusions. It is here that the major quarrel between the Great White Lodge and the Black Lodge is to be found. It is a battle in which humanity itself is the decisive factor, and for this reason the Black Lodge is working through the group which is controlling the destiny of Russia and also through the Zionist movement. The leaders of the U.S.S.R. are working intelligently and potently against human freedom and particularly against freedom of thought. Communism per se has no such objective; it is the totalitarian policies of the national rulers which are so disastrous, plus their ambition and their hatred of true freedom. Zionism today stands for aggression and for the use of force, and the keynote is permission to take what you want irrespective of other people or of their inalienable rights. These points of view are against the position of the spiritual leaders of humanity, and therefore the leaders of the Zionist movement, and the group of men who direct and control the policies of Russia, are against the policies of the spiritual Hierarchy and are contrary to the lasting good of mankind.
The freedom of the human spirit, the freedom to think, govern and worship as innate, instinctual human desire may dictate, under the influence of the evolutionary process, the liberty to decide on the required form of government or of religion--these are the rightful prerogatives of mankind. Any group of men or any form of government which fails to recognize this inherent right runs counter to the principle which governs the Great White Lodge. 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. In neither group is there any true spiritual potency, and both are doomed to failure even though they may succeed from the angle of material gain; from the spiritual angle, they are doomed. The leaders of the Russian enterprise against the freedom of the individual are doomed, because inherently man is free and fundamentally divine, and it is assured (from the long range vision) that masses of men in Russia and in the communistically inclined "satellite states" will inevitably react divinely and potently...The imposition of intellectual and formal communism by a group of ambitious and sometimes evil men is not sound...but is based on personal ambitions [and] love of power...The rulers of Russia are not truly working for the good of the people, any more than academic Zionism is working and carrying out its projects for humanitarian reasons. But the people hold the ultimate triumph in their hands, for the heart of the people in all nations is basically sound, fundamentally good and God-inclined. This the rulers of the communistic regime forget.
The leaders of the Zionist movement of aggression constitute a real danger to world peace and human development and their activities have been endorsed by the expediency policy of the U.S.A. and, in a secondary degree, by Great Britain, under the influence of the U.S.A. It is the Zionists who have defied the United Nations, lowered its prestige and made its position both negative and negligible to the world. It is the Zionists who have perpetrated the major act of aggression since the formation of the United Nations, and who were clever enough to gain the endorsement of the United Nations, turning the original "recommendation" of the United Nations into an order. The rule of force, of aggression and of territorial conquest by force of arms is demonstrated today by the Zionists in Palestine, as well as demonstration of the power of money to purchase governments. These activities run counter to all the plans of the spiritual Hierarchy and mark a point of triumph of the forces of evil. I am emphasizing the activities of these two countries because through the leaders of these groups of aggressive men the forces of evil--dammed back temporarily by the defeat of the evil group which Hitler gathered around him--have again organized their attack on the spiritual development of humanity.
The world today still remains divided into people of evil intention and great power and their victims, plus the negative reactions of the remaining nations. There is no nation in the United Nations which has attempted to swing the tide of evil by ranging itself and other nations on the side of freedom. There are only groups of unillumined men who seek to control national destinies. -- A. A. Bailey, The Rays and The Initiations, New York 1960, Pp. 679-681.