Posted on 02/26/2003 9:34:53 PM PST by Coleus
MEMO TO THE VATICAN: WATCH THE U.N. WITH MORE CAUTION, AS WELL AS RISE OF EUROPE
Weeping image in Central Europe
By Michael H. Brown
www.spiritdaily.com
Your Holiness and Your Eminences, we write to you with great esteem, and hopefully proper reverence. We believe that the world should listen to your -- to the Vatican's -- discernment. Your judgment obviously exceeds our own, and we hope always to maintain strict obedience, especially in matters such as war. As it says in Scripture, obedience is superior to sacrifice.
If we can be so bold, we would like to express a concern. It has to do with the United Nations and the rising European Union or "E.U." -- which will either fall apart soon or end up as a superpower. We know you deal with both, and that in fact you recently advised the U.S. to follow U.N. rulings as regards the Iraq crisis. We also know that you have pointed out the benefits of certain aspects of globalization.
We too can see that, and admire your handling of difficult international matters but would like to add a small voice of warning. As you know, the U.N. often has a strong anti-Christian trend. When it thinks of spirituality, it often thinks in terms of the same eco-spirituality you brilliantly warned against in your recent document on the New Age. As you also know, the U.N supports birth control and abortion. To know the U.N. is to know that it recently appointed Libya as chairman of its Human Rights Commission.
It's not just bad politics. There is a deeply troubling spiritual issue. Can the U.N. do good? Has it done good? Yes. There are many good, well-meaning people there. But your Holiness, and dear Cardinals, I have to tell you that I once had a kind of unnerving experience in the lobby of the U.N. I believe I have related it before, on this website. I'm not sure what year it was. It must have been in the late 1980s. I was early for an appointment to see my college lecture agent whose office was at United Nations Plaza and to bide my time, I walked across the street into the U.N. itself and took a seat in the lobby -- watching tourists and saying a Rosary.
I guess I was naive back then, because I was surprised at how I felt. As I started to pray, I felt a tremendous spiritual resistance. It was nearly palpable. There was a spirit pervading that place that certainly didn't want me doing that. Maybe it would have preferred I head upstairs where the U.N. has a neutral global-religion chapel devoid of any spiritual warmth.
I mention all this because while I appreciate the good the U.N. does (and again, it has done a lot of good), we have to be wary of it for the aforementioned reasons. We spoke the other day of a realignment in the world -- how a "new world order" is rising -- and we believe it might be wise for the Vatican and other Church leaders to express deeper concern. While there are merits to globalization, right now the world is following a pattern cut from the cloth of the U.N., a unification built on sterile secular humanism with an antagonism to Christianity that could one day precipitate into persecution. Recently a former New York Times managing editor, Abe Rosenthal, described Christian persecution as the biggest unmentioned story in the world. It can get far worse.
As you know, your Holiness -- your Eminences -- the trend toward one world government, which leaves the door open to a nefarious leader, is materializing most rapidly in Europe, where 15 nations already form the rising power known as the E.U. and ten more are ready to join, making 25 member nations with a population of 450 million.
That would be half again the size of the U.S., with a comparable economy (by 2004, $9.5 trillion versus $10 trillion for the U.S.).
Add to that other nations that may join in the next several decades, and the fact that, to a certain extent, even Russia wants "in," requesting that its citizens not need visas to travel in the new union. Russia, which of course is technically a European nation, has a population of 145 million. Think too about Ukraine, with a population of 50 million: it already has a partnership agreement with the EU.
Perhaps the union will never amount to much. Perhaps it'll be more like the Common Market. But the possibility of a strong entity, perhaps the strongest ever, grows daily. There is now a standard currency, the "euro," which is gaining strength against the dollar; there have been calls from even Tony Blair for a strong president of the EU; and there is talk of E.U. embassies. There are also plans for an E.U. "pentagon" -- a war headquarters -- and just two weeks ago it was announced that the E.U. would patrol southern Europe for illegal immigrants with its own quasi-navy. It wants to use tracking technology in its money (embedding radio-frequency chips), and seems to want to exclude religion, at least conventional religion. "We could never imagine 'In God We Trust' on our money," noted one Parisian "intellectual."
Your Holiness, we know you have bravely and wisely admonished this potential new colossus to acknowledge its Christian roots -- to mention religion in its constitution -- but the president of France objected and overall the E.U. seems bent on taking the spirit or lack of spirit engendered at the U.N. and putting it to actual work -- erasing Europe's profound Christian heritage and perhaps even confronting it. As you know, the Moscow Patriarch is also worried and has joined you in calling for the E.U. to acknowledge that precious heritage. It gave us a chill when one major convention recently snubbed these requests and recommended elimination any mention of divinity in Article 2 of the E.U. framework.
Now to the main point: The E.U., which may constitute what is prophesied as the "revived Roman Empire," has strongly indicated its preference for the U.N. to be a centralized global government. In other words, the E.U. could administer through the United Nations. It would have at least two vetoes to America's one. All this was clear in a statement concerning the Iraq crisis and issued by the 15 heads of state of the E.U. on February 16. "In fact, the entire emergency conference of European leaders, held to hammer out a common position on Iraq, was saturated with a commitment to what may be viewed as a form of world government," reported The New York Times.
It is exactly from such a united force, your Holiness -- dear Cardinals -- that many have long feared the rise of a "man of perdition." We don't know how to discern prophecies about the antichrist (or an antichrist), but we know, your Holiness, that you put stock in prophecy, more than the average bishop, and we have followed what we call the "1990 prophecy," which warned that after a series of chastisements and changes in world infrastructure "will come persecution of Christians and also a new world order. The anti-christ will be on earth trying to affect the new world order. Hardly anyone will notice the extent of his influence until afterwards. He will not be of tremendous visibility until he is accomplished. That is to say, he will not rule, control, and be at all obvious to the world at the peak of his influence. He will not be unlike a figure such as Marx, except his ideas will be more immediate." It added: "As for the anti-christ, remember Europe, and especially Central Europe."
Remember, this prophecy was in 1990, long before formation of the E.U.
As I said, we don't know how to discern that. Let's stick with the concept of a "man of perdition." Scripture said there would be a number of antichrists -- that by the time the New Testament was written, some had already lived. We ask you: Is this reasonable? Might Europe be rising once again? And might it be influenced nefariously?
We certainly have nothing against any individual European nations, and there may be some very good aspects to the E.U. But we are concerned at its swift, unchecked rise as well as its spiritual tenor.
With terrorism and the Iraq crisis, the world may further realign. We believe a major terrorist event in Europe comparable to or even greater than September 11 will occur if there is not adequate prayer and that this will further push nations to seek unification for security with a strong central government. At the same time, while Europe may find cohesion in irreligion, the U.S. is founded on the opposite and may become more of a federation as its regions differentiate and as it loses the cohesive force of Christianity. We believe that if it does not hurry back to its own Christian roots, natural or other disasters in America will deplete its central governance as the E.U. -- and apparently its companion the U.N. -- continue to rise, leaving the door open to unknown and potentially dangerous global influences. We look to you, your Holiness and dear Cardinals, because we believe you have been and will remain our greatest safeguard.
[see also: New world: Iraq conflict splits West down middle]
Rebutting Rockefeller
http://thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/11-04-2002/vo18no22_rockefeller.htm
http://getusout.org/earthworship/index.htm
http://getusout.org/un/articles/rockford_ark.htm
http://thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/12-16-2002/vo18no25_ark.htm
The European Union's Stealth Attack on Religion
http://thenewamerican.com/tna/2000/07-31-2000/insider/vo16no16_eu.htm
http://thenewamerican.com/focus/religion/index.htm
By, Atrayu The Spiritual Foundation of the United Nations The Lucis Trust
At one time, the Lucis Trust office in New York was located at 866 United Nations Plaza and is a member of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations under a slick program called "World Goodwill". In an Alice Bailey book called "Education for a New Age"; she suggests that in the new age "World Citizenship should be the goal of the enlightened, with a world federation and a world brain." In other words - a One World Government New World Order. Luci's Trust is sponsored by among others Robert McNamara, former minister of Defence in the USA, president of the World Bank, member of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Thomas Watson (IBM, former ambassador in Moscow). Luci's Trust sponsors among others the following organizations: UN, Greenpeace Int., Greenpeace USA, Amnesty Int. and UNICEF. The United Nations has long been one of the foremost world harbingers for the "New Spirituality" and the gathering "New World Order" based on ancient occult and freemasonic principles. Seven years after the birth of the UN, a book was published by the theosophist and founder of the Lucis Trust, Alice Bailey, claiming that "Evidence of the growth of the human intellect along the needed receptive lines [for the preparation of the New Age] can be seen in the "planning" of various nations and in the efforts of the United Nations to formulate a world plan... From the very start of this unfoldment, three occult factors have governed the development of all these plans". [Alice B. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age (Lucis Press, 1955), Vol. II, p.35.] Although she did not spell out clearly the identity of these 'three occult factors', she did reveal to her students that "Within the United Nations is the germ and seed of a great international and meditating, reflective group - a group of thinking and informed men and women in whose hands lies the destiny of humanity. This is largely under the control of many fourth ray disciples, if you could but realise it, and their point of meditative focus is the intuitional or Buddhic plane - the plane upon which all hierarchical activity is today to be found'. [Ibid. p.220.] To this end, the Lucis Trust, under the leadership of Foster and Alice Bailey, started a group called 'World Goodwill' - an official non-governmental organization within the United Nations. The stated aim of this group is "to cooperate in the world of preparation for the reappearance of the Christ" [One Earth, the magazine of the Findhorn Foundation, October/November 1986, Vol. 6, Issue 6, p.24.] But the esoteric work inside the UN does not stop with such recognized occult groupings. Much of the impetus for this process was initiated through the officership of two Secretary-Generals of the UN, Dag Hammarskjöld (held office: 1953-1961) and U Thant (held office: 1961-1971) who succeeded him, and one Assistant Secretary-general, Dr. Robert Muller. In a book written to celebrate the philosophy of Teilhard de Chardin (and edited by Robert Muller), it is revealed "Dag Hammarskjöld, the rational Nordic economist, had ended up as a mystic. He too held at the end of his life that spirituality was the ultimate key to our earthly fate in time and space". [Robert Muller (ed.), The Desire to be Human: A Global Reconnaissance of Human Perspectives in an Age of Transformation (Miranana, 1983), p.304.] Sri Chinmoy, the New Age guru, meditation leader at the UN, wrote: "the United Nations is the chosen instrument of God; to be a chosen instrument means to be a divine messenger carrying the banner of God's inner vision and outer manifestation." William Jasper, author of "A New World Religion" describes the religion of the UN: "...a weird and diabolical convergence of New Age mysticism, pantheism, aboriginal animism atheism, communism, socialism, Luciferian occultism, apostate Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism". You can find out much more about them and how they're involved with the work of the United Nations by following their link "World Goodwill" at the top of their home page. This Website is sponsored by the United Nations and the whole NWO philosophy is there. The page which explains the work of the Aquarian Age Community, as they call themselves, has this proud quote at the header of their page at http://www.aquaac.org/about/about.html Such a grandeur is ahead!Amongst the many 'enlightening' pages in this website, you can easily find 'fascinating' articles entitled: "The New World Order and the Work of the UN" http://www.aquaac.org/un/nwo.html "The World Spiritual Teacher, the Esoteric Community and the United Nations" http://www.aquaac.org/meetings/rttop.html Preparing the Way for the Reappearance of the World Spiritual Teacher, the Work of the United Nations and the World-Wide Esoteric Community http://www.aquaac.org/meetings/RT2001.html and many more articles. This is not Christian theology but New Age paganism. You can also read the NWO quotes I posted, further down this page. Here's another by Curtis Dall, FD Roosevelt's son in law as quoted in his book, My Exploited Father in Law: "For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations One World Money group... Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support. |
Under the U.N. Gavel
By Sen. Larry E. Craig, R-ID
At its founding, the mission of the United Nations, as stated in its charter, was "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." It made no claim to supersede the sovereignty of its member states. Article 2 says that the United Nations "is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members," and it may not "intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state."
Since then, the United Nations has turned the principle of national sovereignty on its head. Through a host of conventions, treaties and conferences, it has intruded into regulation of resources and the economy (for example, treaties on "biological diversity," marine resources and climate change) and family life (hyping phoney liberalism while masculinity is scorned and western manhood is amputated - causing untold grief to the family unit) (conventions on parent-child relations and women in society). It has demanded that countries institute racial quotas and laws against hate crimes and speech (while the U.N. itself can jail someone for 30 years without trial). Recently the United Nations tried to undermine Americans' constitutional right to keep and bear arms (with proposed restrictions on the international sale of small arms).
Fortunately, many of these have been dead on arrival in the U.S. Senate, successive presidents have refused to endorse others, and in any case the United Nations had little power of enforcement. But in 1998, one mechanism of global government (there it is in the Washington Post folks) came to life with the so-called "Rome Statute" establishing a permanent International Criminal Court (and abolishing the Magna Carta in Britain). Once this treaty is ratified by 60 countries, the United Nations will wield judicial power over every individual human being -- even over citizens of countries that haven't joined the court.
While the court's stated mission is dealing with war crimes and crimes against humanity (what about their own crimes against humanity when they committed widespread genocide in the Balkans and East Timor? Dare I say they are hypocrites?) -- which, because there is no appeal from its decisions, only the court will have the right to define -- its mandate could be broadened later. Based on existing U.N. tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, which are models for the International Criminal Court, defendants will have none of the due process rights afforded by the U.S. Constitution, such as trial by jury, confrontation of witnesses or a speedy and public trial (that's a communist court system!).
President Clinton signed the Rome treaty last year, citing U.S. support for existing U.N. war crimes tribunals. Many suppose the court will target only a Slobodan Milosevic or the perpetrators of massacres in Rwanda, or dictators like Iraq's Saddam Hussein. But who knows? To some people, Augusto Pinochet is the man who saved Chile from communism; to others he is a murderer. Who should judge him -- the United Nations or the Chilean people?
In dozens of countries, governments use brutal force against insurgents. Should the United Nations decide whether leaders in Turkey or India should be put in the defendants' dock, and then commit the United States to bring them there? How about Russia's Vladimir Putin, for Chechnya? Or Israel's Ariel Sharon? Can we trust the United Nations with that decision (the more evil these premieres are - the more the U.N. loves them)?
The court's critics rightly cite the danger to U.S. military personnel deployed abroad. Since even one death can be a war crime, a U.S. soldier could be indicted just for doing his duty. But the International Criminal Court also would apply to acts "committed" by any American here at home. The European Union and U.S. domestic opponents consider the death penalty "discriminatory" and "inhumane." Could an American governor face indictment by the court for "crimes against humanity" for signing a death warrant?
Milosevic was delivered to a U.N. court (largely at U.S. insistence) for offences occurring entirely within his own country. Some say the Milosevic precedent doesn't threaten Americans, because the U.S. Constitution protects them. But for Milosevic, we demanded that the Yugoslav Constitution be trashed and the United Nations' authority prevail. Why should the International Criminal Court treat our Constitution any better (they're already destroying the 2nd amendment with their gun grab and the 1st with their phoney 'hate crime' nonsense)?
Instead of trying to "fix" the Rome treaty, the United States must recognize that it is a fundamental threat to American sovereignty. The State Department's participation in the court's preparatory commission is counterproductive. We need to make it clear that we consider the court an illegitimate body, that the United States will never join it and that we will never accept its "jurisdiction" over any U.S. citizen or help to impose it on other countries.
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Marvelous satire! My compliments.
First, the Pope's judgment does not exceed that of those entrusted with the defense of this country. We are under no obligation to obey the Pope in matters of war, unless he strangely decides to make it a matter of faith and morals.
As to obedience being superior to sacrifice, we are not required to sacrifice our lives in a non-dogmatic matter in order to obey the Pope.
First, the Pope's judgment does not exceed that of those entrusted with the defense of this country. We are under no obligation to obey the Pope in matters of war, unless he strangely decides to make it a matter of faith and morals.
As to obedience being superior to sacrifice, we are not required to sacrifice our lives in a non-dogmatic matter in order to obey the Pope.
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The Lucis Trust is the Publishing House which prints and disseminates United Nations material. It is a devastating indictment of the New Age and Pagan nature of the UN. Lucis Trust was established in 1922 as Lucifer Trust by Alice Bailey as the publishing company to disseminate the books of Bailey and Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society. The title page of Alice Bailey's book, 'Initiation, Human and Solar' was originally printed in 1922, and clearly shows the publishing house as 'Lucifer Publishing CoIn 1923. Bailey changed the name to Lucis Trust, because Lucifer Trust revealed the true nature of the New Age Movement too clearly. (Constance Cumbey, The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow, p. 49). A quick trip to any New Age bookstore will reveal that many of the hard-core New Age books are published by Lucis Trust. 
