With all the hysteria about keeping God’s
influence out of the schools in the fear that one religion would be
represented to the detriment of another, I find it incredibly hypocritical
that the proponents of New Age religious values have been able to influence
the mission of our schools and more than one generation of students without
anyone raising a stink about it!
I charge the public schools with an ongoing promotion of Theosophy, a blend
of Eastern religion with Western occultism under the pretext of secular
humanism. Established by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in the late
1800s, "Theosophy has influenced occult, spiritualist, New Thought, and New
Age movements around the world since then.” This is to the absolute
detriment of Judeo Christian values because, according to Blavatsky, "The
LORD is not God; mankind is. … In the New Age, there will be world
government; the economy will be remade to promote sharing. Traditional
morality and traditional families will disappear. Orthodox religions -
especially Christianity and Judaism - are separative and obsolete; in the
New Age, they too will vanish.” How does this differ from the mission of our
schools, I ask?
New Age goals such as diversity and multiculturalism are similar to the
goals of most educational institutions. To achieve the New Age Civilization,
"Forum speakers have offered all the progressive nostrums that they can pull
from the shelf: upholding indigenous cultures as the ideal, reforming
education to create the new global citizen,”… and "revising the world's
major religions to produce more democratic, egalitarian, and
individual-friendly spirituality." 1
It isn’t hard to find examples of New Age Influence enveloping our
society…especially within the educational domain. Try and envision the long
term effects of not offering Civics in our school systems. Instead, schools
require students of Social Studies to learn about the strengths of other
cultures and how those cultures view our weaknesses; all the while
downplaying their cultural excesses while emphasizing our least flattering
affairs. Under the "secular” realm of influence falls: same sex marriage;
taking God out of our Pledge Of Allegiance; Justice Roy Moore
removing the Ten Commandments and losing his office; and the Lemon Law and
Reindeer Test being utilized to ensure that there isn’t Judeo Christianity
in public displays, (which includes our nation’s schools). By default, all
of this promotes Theosophy.
New Age leaders have long understood that, "The educational system must
undergo the most radical transformation process. Changes must be introduced
on the level of the pre-school child, and be implemented across the entire
spectrum to the most advanced tertiary institutions, including theological
seminaries. The identity consciousness of pupils and students must be
countered. They must be prepared to take their place as planetary citizens
in a multi-cultural, multi-religious, non-racial and non-sexist society.
Narrow-mindedness must be replaced by the largest possible degree of
open-mindedness on all matters, thereby superseding any narrow ideological
orientation. Theological faculties must be declared open faculties where
Eastern and African religions can be included in the curricula of
disciplines such as comparative religion, science of religion, or religious
studies. In this way the gap between different religions and ideologies can
be narrowed.” 2
Across the United States UNESCO's programs are being
implemented according to William F Jasper in The New
American Magazine. According to Phil Brennan, "Most
Americans are blissfully ignorant of the insidious nature of this crowd of
one-world, paganistic pseudo-communists (and real ones) who are bound and
determined to create a new world order, establish a new world religion of
tree worshippers that supplants and scorns Christianity and Judaism,
promotes abortion worldwide, seeks to capture control of schools and
schoolchildren, and is in the process of transforming national and privately
owned property in the U.S. and elsewhere into its greedy hands.” 3
As I wrote about in an article entitled
Further Left Than
Multiculturalism, there is a UNESCO European-based International
Baccalaureate (IB) program being implemented in our nation’s middle schools.
These schools are to become "feeder schools" for the IB's high school
diploma program which has already been established across the United States.
This is a United Nations-sponsored school program that aims to become a
"universal curriculum" for teaching global citizenship, peace studies and
equality of world cultures.
It’s very telling that, "The second student-based art exposition in the
framework of UNESCO's SOUL Project was held at the Theosophical Society in
London, England on the 21st May 1999. The exposition centered around 49
projects submitted by students from seventy schools in the International
Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) network. ‘Geiger called the IBP ‘the
perfect vehicle to implement U.N. goals,’ including ‘the subordination of
national sovereignty’ and the promotion of peace at all costs, including
‘the appeasement of dictators.’” 5
"Robert Muller, a former assistant Secretary-General of the
United Nations, won the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education in 1989 for his
World Core Curriculum.” His philosophy is based on the teachings set
forth in the books of Alice A. Bailey. She believed that the
New Religion would work closely with the United Nations. The expressed aims
and efforts of the United Nations would be 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.” Coincidentally,
Alice Bailey is published by Lucis (formerly Lucifer) Publishing Companies.
Her writings are full of references to astrology, occult and channelling.
"It is apparent from this brief look at the beliefs of the Lucis Trust that
they are at odds with Biblical Christianity. Although there may be many
sincere people in the movement, because they are opening themselves up to
‘higher supernatural powers’ there is every danger that they are opening up
to the evil supernatural.” It wouldn’t be a jump to assume that satanic
supernatural will affect all those affiliated with this New Age
organization.
Muller wanted to deify the United Nations. "At the beginning the UN was only
a hope. Today it is a political reality. Tomorrow it will be the world's
religion.” Spangler’s description of true democracy is that, "All spiritual
societies are hierarchical. They cannot function in any other way. ... It is
not the will of the majority that is important. It is the will of the whole
... Democracy as we know it is a quantitative form of government. True
democracy, however, is qualitative, and that is what we must return to.”
Spangler says that theocratic democracy is the direction of humankind.
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Jasper warns, "A global stealth campaign is underway and
is gathering momentum. The masterminds of this campaign are aiming at
nothing less than a world revolution, a revolution of mind and heart that
will change and 'transform' humanity. They have devised a new 'Global Ethic'
to replace the Gospel of Jesus Christ, a new 'Sixteen Principles' to replace
the Ten Commandments. They call it the Earth Charter."
All of the following are using the Earth Charter in our
country:
The School Sisters of Notre Dame, a teaching order of
Catholic nuns; All 35 members teaching "The University Colloquium: A
Sustainable Future" at Florida Gulf Coast University use the Earth Charter.
This class is a graduation requirement in all five colleges of the
university; The Global Elementary Model United Nations, a worldwide
elementary school program, adopted the Earth Charter as its overarching
theme for 2002 and asked participating students to use UNESCO teaching
materials on the Charter;” Earth Charter: Pathway to a Sustainable Future"
is the title of a course taught by Dr. Laurie Thorp at
Michigan State University; Earth Scouts, a new national youth program, was
launched last year "based on the Earth Charter: A Declaration of
Interdependence," with badges for the Charter’s 16 principles; The
University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh and Prescott College have endorsed the
Earth Charter, with plans to eventually integrate it into all departments;
The U.S. Conference of Mayors and many organizations and local governments
have endorsed the Charter; The Ark of Hope and Earth Charter are being taken
to U.S. cities and communities to aid the campaign for its adoption.
Jasper admonishes, "Although children are not allowed to
pray in the government schools to the one true God who made the cosmos and
everything in it (including our planet), they are being encouraged, under
the new "global spirituality," to adopt the pagan religions of indigenous
cultures and to worship the Earth itself. The UN-appointed high priest of
the new Earth cult, Mr. Gorbachev, has declared his creed:
'Cosmos is my God; Nature is my God” 7
A New Age World Order is the antithesis to what our
founding fathers and framers envisioned when they formulated the Declaration
of Independence and The United States Constitution. Our system of government
was based on Judeo-Christian philosophy. Our Democracy is all about
individual freedom and civic responsibility. We have a Capitalistic Economy.
It is our right to be proud of what our country has accomplished and who we
are as a nation. We should cherish the system of government that we have in
place, a government established to protect our sovereignty. If you don’t
believe me, ask people who have lived under Dictators, Communism, or
Socialism.
Resources:
(1,6) THE M+G+R FOUNDATION THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT
Beware! The New Age Movement Is More Than Self-Indulgent Silliness
A Comprehensive Exposé of The New Age Movement
by Lee Penn
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/praeternatural/a%20comprehensive%20expose%20of%20the%20NAM.htm
(2) New Age Reforms By Prof. J.S. Malan
http://www.indaweb.com/oil/bibleguide/articles/newagereforms.htm
(3,7) UNESCO: Strangle This Monster in Its Crib Phil Brennan
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/6/17/184606.shtml
(5) International Baccalaureate Program: Training the Global Citizen
http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2003/july03/global-citizen.shtml
Nancy Salvato is a middle school teacher in Illinois and an independent
contractor for Prism Educational Consulting. She is the Educational Liaison
to IL Sen. Ray Soden and she works with national and local organizations
furthering the cause of Civic Education. She is a columnist for American
Daily, The Common Voice, GOP-USA, OpinionEditorials and The New Media Journal.us. Her
writing has been recognized by the US Secretary of Education. She has been published in
The Washington Times, The Washington Dispatch,
Iconoclast, Free Republic Network & Townhall.com., as well as other
nationally and internationally published media outlets.
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