The Demonic Roots of Globalism

Occult societies, the New Age movement, and the New World Order (condensed edition)
-- by: Gary Kah, 1995, source: Huntington House
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2.  Presenting the Occult as a Science

Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the evolution of collective consciouness

"Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?" -- 1 Corinthians 1:20 (NIV)

"See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ." -- Colossians 2:8 (NIV)

Helena Blavatsky and Alice Bailey both lived in the world of the occult...[and] while these first foundation stones were being put in place, the groundwork was also being laid in the academic world. The next two people we want to study were scholars who not only believed themselves to be theologians of sorts, but were also involved in the sciences. The followers of Carl Jung and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin come from among the educated. Their disciples are among the most highly respected in the fields of psychology and philosophy... (p. 76)

Carl Gustav Jung

Carl Jung was born on 26 July 1875...the same year that Helena Blavatsky started the Theosophical Society... In his autobiography, "Memories, Dreams and Reflections", he relates that at night the atmosphere in his parents house would begin to thicken:

"From the door to my mother's room came a frightening influence. At night, Mother was strange and mysterious. One night I saw coming from her door a faintly luminous indefinite figure whose head detached itself from the neck and floated along in front of it, in the air like a little moon" [1]

Jung felt close to his mother. He felt that she was rooted in deep, invisible ground that had nothing to do with the Christian faith. That ground seemed more connected to the things of nature... He felt a close affinity for all of this in his own life and admitted that he never realized how pagan this foundation was. (p. 78)

He also associated Jesus with...a strange dream that had a great influence on his life. It was a frightening dream of an underground temple and throne room and other erotic symbolism. In his autobiography, he relates the importance of this dream:

"Through this childhood dream I was initiated into the secrets of the earth. What happened then was a kind of burial in the earth, and many years were to pass before I came out again. Today I know that it happened in order to bring the greatest possible amount of light into the darkness. It was an initiation into the realm of darkness. My intellectual life had its unconscious beginnings at that time."

Jung rejected the established doctrines of Christianity for a religion based upon experience. He often stated that he doesn't believe, he only knows, based upon his own experience. He gained this experience from a life lived in the internal regions of his own "psyche". His internal world of dreams and visions was always more real to him than the external world of objective reality. (p. 79)

The New Age movement of today is one that bases its spiritual truth upon personal experience...gained from going within... [By contrast], during his long nighttime vigils, [Jesus] prayed to his Father in heaven, not to his "higher self" or to the "God within". Jung himself said that he experienced an initiation into the realm of darkness. In the Gospel of John, we are told of Jesus: (p. 80)

"In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not... And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." -- John 1:4-5, 3:19

For a period of about six years, Jung worked closely with Sigmund Freud. Although Freud is better known among the general public, it is Carl Jung who has had the most influence on intellectuals leaning toward mystical New Age concepts. His ideas and teachings on the collective unconscious, the archetypes and their symbolism paved a broad path to lead people away from the beauty and simplicity of God's created order. (p. 81)

The Jungian concept of the collective unconscious holds that each individual is an island, joined together by a sort of underwater continent of unconscious thought... Jung sometimes referred to the collective unconscious as the "psychic residue of human evolutionary development"...

An archetype, according to Jung, is a universal thought form or predisposition to perceive the world in certain ways. These archetypes appear to us in personified or symbolized pictorial form through dreams, myths, art and ritual. He believed that they represented the total latent potentiality of the psyche. So when we get in touch with them, we go beyond developing our individual potentialities and become incorporated in the eternal cosmic process... In the process of Jung's psychology, God is reduced to an archetype, a type of universal myth. This is explained in a popular college textbook on psychology titled "Personality Theories: An Introduction": (p. 82)

"Whether or not God exists is not a question that Jung tried to answer. That which has no effect on us might as well not exist. Analytical psychology posits the existence of the archetypical God image -- not God. Insofar as the archetype of God has a demonstrably clear effect on us, "God" is a psychic fact and a useful concept in our psychology...

Even more, attuning oneself to one's unconscious forces is a religious experience entailing acceptance of God. To be sure, the God that is accepted may not be the traditional deity of theism; rather, it is an indwelling god, a natural spirit within the universal psyche of man." [2]

In reality, modern psychology, presented as a science, is a bankrupt "religion" with no real capacity for helping people. Under the guise of psychology, spiritual / occultic concepts have gained acceptance as being legitimate scientific principles...

Carl Jung also believed that dreams were of great significance and based much of his teaching on the interpretation of his own dreams... However, to believe that every dream is a form of guidance for one's life is to stand on shaky ground indeed. Listen to the words of the prophet Jeremiah concerning false prophets and the relating of dreams: (p. 84)

"I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed!'... The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?" saith the Lord...

"Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams", saith the Lord, "and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all", saith the Lord. -- Jeremiah 23:25, 28, 32

Was Carl Jung a false prophet and are his followers being led astray into New Age thinking by following his teachings? I rest my case with the words of Jeremiah:

"For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness", saith the Lord... "I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings." -- Jer 23:11, 21-22

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was born on May 1, 1881 in Sarcenat, France. He came from a traditional Catholic family...[and he] became interested in the study of geology at an early age... (p. 86)

There has been no more successful strategy of Satan in preparing our world for the last great delusion than establishing in the minds of men the concept of evolution. This concept became the passion of Teilhard's life and every other pursuit, especially Christianity, was forced to conform and subjugate itself to this supreme belief. He became a Jesuit priest, but...he always pursued his first love, which was the blending of the physical and spiritual worlds under the banner of evolution.

Teilhard was a pantheist, despite his protests to the contrary. A pantheist is one who sees the universe as the one and only reality and calls this "God". Individual human beings are only phases or sparks of that greater reality. According to this theology, the earth itself, as well as man, is divine... He speaks about loving, adoring and serving the earth... He once said:

"I want to love Christ with all my strength in the very act of loving the universe... Besides communion with the earth, is there not also communion with God in and through the earth?" [3]

Unfortunately, the Christ which Teilhard loved is not the Christ of the Gospels, but one of his own making. For him, Christ had to fit into his theory of evolution. He attempted to "pan-chrisitfy" the universe...and stated that Christ and the universe formed a mysterious compound which he named the Christ-Universal... In the "Future of Man", he says:

"Without the process of biological evolution, which produced the human brain, there would be no sanctified souls; and similarly, without the evolution of collective thought, through which alone the plenitude of human consciousness can be attained on earth, how can there be a consummated Christ?" [4]

...Evolution is simply man (and God) becoming conscious of himself; and Christ, in this scheme, is incarnate in the entire universe. Christ in his cosmic or universal nature overshadows Christ in his human nature. (p. 88)

Christ is above all "the God of Evolution". He is its center, its Alpha and Omega, beginning and end. He is the Omega Point, the supreme summit of the evolutionary movement in which he is immersed and which super-animates. As "God the Evolver", he is the director, the leader, the cause and mover of evolution. Christ is also evolving into a Super-Christ.

Humanity is the highest phase so far of evolution, but evolution is beginning to change into a Super-Humanity, which at its peak becomes the Omega Point." [5]

Teilhard de Chardin's theology diverged so far from biblical teaching that in 1957 the Catholic Holy Office decreed that his works must be withdrawn from [their] libraries, seminaries and religious institutions...

Chardin's Influence

Former Democratic governor of New York, Mario Cuomo...reads Teilhard de Chardin's works and gives copies of his books as gifts to interested friends... Trilateralist Zbigniew Brzezinski appears to be another follower of Chardin. On page 73 of his book, "Between Two Ages", he quotes Chardin as saying:

"Monstrous as it is, is not modern totalitarianism really the distortion of something magnificent, and thus quite near to the truth?" [6]

Robert Muller, the lawyer-economist, began his work at the United Nations in 1948 and was Assistant Secretary General until 1984. It was through his associations in that institution that he too became a follower of Chardin. In his book, "New Genesis: Shaping a Global Spirituality", he tells of his spiritual growth in a chapter entitled "My Five Teilhardian Enlightenments". It was originally U Thant, a Buddhist and former U.N. Secretary General, who kept telling Muller about Chardin's philosophy. On page 160, he states: (p. 90)

"Now after a third of a century of service with the U.N. I can say unequivocally that much of what I have observed in the world bears out the all-encompassing, global, forward-looking philosophy of Teilhard de Chardin." [7]

He claims that Teilhard viewed the U.N. as the institutional embodiment of his vision, and Muller himself believes that the human species is entering a new period of evolution, a period of planetary consciousness and global living, the birth of a collective brain. (p. 90)

Robert Muller...has very close ties to the Lucis Trust as well. In his book he states:

"Was it not inevitable that the U.N. would sooner or later acquire a spiritual dimension?... I have come to believe firmly today that our future peace, justice, fulfillment, happiness and harmony on this planet will not depend on world government but on divine or cosmic government, meaning that we must seek and apply the natural, evolutionary, divine, universal or cosmic laws which must rule our journey in the cosmos.

Most of these laws can be found in the great religions and prophecies, and they are being rediscovered slowly but surely in the world organizations. Any Teilhardian will recognize in this the spiritual transcendence which he announced so emphatically as the next step in our evolution." [8]

In every chapter of "New Genesis", Muller calls for a one world government and a one world religion as the only answer to mankind's problems... In his role as Assistant Secretary General, he was for many years in charge of the operations of thirty-two specialized agencies and world programs of the United Nations, including the Children's Fund UNICEF, World Food Program, International Monetary Fund, International Labor Organization, and the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). (p. 91)

The New Religion?

Carl Jung conceived his ideas of the collective unconscious or "race mind" by going within to the underground caverns of his own psyche. Chardin appears to do just the opposite. He looks at people, history and the world about him and discovers what he calls the "noosphere"...his name for a vast global envelope of consciousness and shared thought surrounding the planet. In reality, both ideas are the same.

[Bible] passages always direct our attention to God as the source of creative power. Chardin's reverence, on the other hand, was always directed toward the earth itself. He turned created matter into an idol and then worshipped that idol. [The Bible] reveals that man has fallen for this delusion before: (p. 92)

"For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles... They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator, who is forever praised. Amen." -- Romans 1:21-23, 25 (NIV)

Teilhard de Chardin saw every aspect of existence...[as evolving] to his concept of the Omega Point. For him, Christogenesis, the movement by which the universe turns completely into Christ, is simply the last phase of evolution... Teilhard believed he was giving the world a better Christianity, which blended faith in God with faith in the world. He referred to this as the birth of a new faith. In an essay entitled "The Stuff of the Universe", he makes this very clear: (p. 94)

"One could say that a hitherto unknown form of religion...is gradually germinating in the heart of modern man, in the furrow opened up by the idea of evolution... Far from feeling my faith perturbed by such a profound change, it is with hope overflowing that I welcome the rise of this new mystique and forsee its inevitable triumph." [9]

Some New Agers refer to this final step of evolution as "taking a quantum leap". Chardin states:

"A tendency towards unification is everywhere manifest, and especially in the different branches of religion. We are looking for something that will draw us together, below or above the level of that which divides... Is our dilemma insoluble, or (as we would rather believe) only a temporary one, destined to vanish like so many others when we have reached a higher level of spiritual evolution?" [10]

The fact is, Chritianity is completely unique and is the exact opposite of every manmade religion on earth... When an attempt is made to blend it with the religions of the world, it is Chritianity that suffers and ceases to be what it is truly meant to be.

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." -- 2 Timothy 4:3-4

If Chardin were alive today, I believe he would immediately be struck by two things. The first would be how incredibly popular his ideas have become. And the second is how wrong his predicitions of our golden future were. Since his death in 1955, man has not been on an upward spiral, but just the opposite... And it is not an "evolving Christ" who can lift us out of this dilemma... We will not reach the Omega Point in human history by all being absorbed into a universal Christ (a myth), but rather by kneeling in repentance at the feet of Him who said, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."