17. United Nations

All-Seeing Eye 

The World Council of Churches (WCC), which traced its origins to a speech delivered by Philip Scharff, an admirer of Count Zinzendorf, at the Parliament of the World’s Religions of 1893, and the Oxford Conference of 1937, continued to lead the ecumenical and inter-faith movement, where the leading representatives for Islam were the Muslim Brotherhood. John Foster Dulles, brother of the famous CIA director Allen Dulles, delivered an address at the first ever assembly of the WCC, which took place in Amsterdam in 1948, marking the official founding of the organization following World War II.[1] Dulles became the lay spokesman in world affairs for the aspirations of the Federal Council of Churches (FCC), the predecessor of the WCC. As leader of the Commission on a Just and Durable Peace, Dulles was largely responsible for its principle document, The Six Pillars of Peace, a call for a broad, liberal and international American role in the postwar world.[2] In essence, Dulles sought to persuade the  Allied leaders to work toward reviving a more durable League of Nations. Dulles also helped draft the preamble to the United Nations Charter, the foundational treaty of the United Nations, during the San Francisco Conference that began 25 April 1945, when over 40 members of the United States Delegation were members of the CFR, including Dulles himself, as well as John J. McCloy, Nelson A. Rockefeller and Adlai Stevenson.[3] The Charter was adopted on June 25, 1945, and served as a delegate to the UN General Assembly. The UN was situated in New York on land donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Abdul Baha had written in 1875 for the need to establish a “Union of the nations of the world,” and he praised the founding of the League of Nations in 1920 as an important step towards the goal. However, he noted that it was “incapable of establishing Universal Peace” because it did not represent all nations and had only trivial power over its member states.[4] The Bahai ultimately believed in one world race, one world religion, one world government, and a universal language. Bahaullah had apparently predicted the creation of the United Nations, which was to succeed the League of Nations:

 

The time must come when the imperative necessity for the holding of a vast, an all-embracing assemblage of men will be universally realized. The rulers and kings of the earth must needs attend it, and, participating in its deliberations, must consider such ways and means as will lay the foundation of the world’s great peace among men… It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is one country, and mankind its citizens.[5]

 

The Bahai International Community, or the BIC, is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) representing the members of the Bahai Faith. It was first chartered in March 1948 with the United Nations, and currently has affiliates in over 180 countries and territories.[6] According to Mildred Mottahedeh (née Wurtzel, 1908 –  2000), a founding and key figure in the establishment of the BIC was Hilda Yen (1906 – 1970), who came from a family who was prominent under Sun Yat-sen—a member of the Forte Kreis[7]—founder of the Kuomintang (KMT), and her father served in the cabinet of Chiang Kai-shek. Collaboration between Taiwan and the Nazis began in 1933, and under Chiang Kai-shek.[8] In 1952 as the CIA front, the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), under the initiative of Chiang Kai-shek and retired General Charles A. Willoughby.[9] Their activities would burgeon into what became known as the CIA’s Golden Triangle heroin trade in South East Asia.[10]

Yen converted to Bahaism after having heard of the religion trough Martha Root (1872 – 1939), an American traveling teacher of the Bahai Faith. Shoghi Effendi called Root “the foremost travel teacher in the first Bahai Century,” and posthumously named her a Hand of the Cause, a title given to prominent early members.[11] Root was also a tutor in the faith to the György Vambery, grandson of Arminius Vambery, a friend of Theodor Herzl and Abdul Hamid II, as well as the source on Transylvanian vampire culture for the novel Dracula, by Golden Dawn member Bram Stoker.[12] György Vambery is considered the second convert to Bahaism after his grandfather. With Root’s encouragement, György Steiner, an Esperantist, translated J.E. Esslemont’s Bahá'u'lláh and The New Era into Hungarian, the first major work published in Hungarian about Bahaism, with a preface written by Arminius Vambery’s son, Rustem Vambery.[13] Rustem, an active Freemason, became a judge, politician and criminologist of international repute, and, like his father, was on intimate terms with the British royal family. Rustem lived in the United States from 1938, teaching at the New School for Social Research in New York, the headquarters of the exiled members of the Frankfurt School, and served briefly as Hungary’s ambassador to the US after World War II.[14]

Yen then attended the Bretton Woods Conference on world economics, and the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, the UN Department of Public Information,  in 1946, he had secured a job in the United Nations Secretariat in the Human Rights division following being Eleanor Roosevelt’s private secretary.[15] Eleanor Roosevelt recited the universal prayer called the Great Invocation, written by Blavatsky’s successor, Alice Bailey, from the United Nations over radio in 1952 to mark the passage of the Universal Declaration of Human rights in 1948.[16] It is widely suspected that it was the Theosophist Nicholas Roerich (1874 – 1947) who inspired Henry A. Wallace—a member of the Theosophical Society, Vice President to Eleanor’s husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt—to add the Great Seal of the United States, first designed in 1782, on the reverse side of the dollar bill, featuring an unfinished pyramid and the Masonic symbol of the All-Seeing Eye.[17] Wallace proposed the idea to President Roosevelt in 1934. According to Wallace, in a letter dated February 6, 1951:

 

Roosevelt as he looked at the colored reproduction of the Seal was first struck with the representation of the “All-Seeing Eye,” a Masonic representation of Great Architect the Universe. Next he was impressed with the idea that the foundation for the new order of the ages had been laid in 1776 (May 1st, 1776, founding of the Illuminati) but would be completed only under the eye of the Great Architect. Roosevelt like myself was a 32nd degree Mason. He suggested that the Seal be put on the dollar bill rather than a coin.[18]

 

The Roerichs had been involved in pursuing the aspirations of the synarchists of St. Petersburg for Central Asia, which united Martinists, Russian double-agents and Tibetan Lamas. The Roerichs’ ultimate objective, usually referred to as the “Grand Plan,” was inspired by Master Morya, one of Blavatsky’s primary “Ascended Masters.” Roerich first met Lama Dorjieff and heard his teachings about Shambhala in 1909, when he was a member of the construction committee of the new Buddhist Kalachakra Tantra sanctuary in St. Petersburg.[19] It was Roerich who wrote the concept for Igor Stravinsky’s controversial ballet Rite of Spring. As suggested by its subtitle “Pictures of Pagan Russia,” the opera’s theme is the pagan worship of the dying-god—an equivalent of Lucifer—whose resurrection was traditionally celebrated on Easter. Roerich, along with his wife Helena, was the first to translate Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine into Russian. In 1919, the Roerichs had moved to London where they joined the local Theosophist scene dominated by Annie Besant. Like Dorjieff and the “Mad Baron” Roman Ungern-Sternberg, the Grand Plan was to establish a pan-Buddhist, transnational “New Country” spanning from Tibet to southern Siberia, including territory that was then governed by China, Mongolia, Tibet, and the Soviet Union. In the United States, Roerich had met Alfred Richard Orage, editor of The New Age, and his associate H.G. Wells, and eventually became Gurdjieff’s emissary to the country.[20]

With Wallace’s help, Roerich and his wife Elena were also able to gain Roosevelt’s support for Roerich’s Pact, for which Roerich was nominated for the Nobel Prize. The Pact was signed in the White House in 1935 with Roosevelt’s participation. In 1942, inspired by James Hilton’s 1933 novel Lost Horizon, modeled on Roerich’s quest for Shambhala, but named in the novel as Shangri-la, a utopian lamasery in the mountains of Tibet whose inhabitants enjoy longevity, Roosevelt named his new retreat in the Catoctin Mountain Park, Camp Hi-Catoctin [today’s Camp David], by the same name.[21] A series of eight letters addressed to Roosevelt at the instigation of “the Masters” were written by Elena Roerich between late 1934 and early 1936.[22] Wallace’s political career was later adversely affected by his association with Roerich, now widely denounced as a mystic and charlatan, when letters in which he referred to Roerich as “dear Guru” were published, sinking his chances when he ran for president as the Progressive Party’s candidate.[23] Shortly after leaving office, Wallace became the editor of The New Republic, founded in 1914 by Dorothy Payne Whitney and her husband Willard Dickerman Straight, who under the recommendation of Rabindranath Tagore had renovated Dartington Hall, whose mystical experimentation attracted George Bernard Shaw and Aldous Huxley. Dorothy and Willard also founded New School for Social Research in New York City in 1919, an important “front” organization created by the American Fabian Socialists, which was closely associated with the Frankfurt School, and received funding from the Rockefeller Foundation.[24]

 

United World Federalists 

Also purportedly in touch with an “Ascended Master” from Tibet was Alice Bailey. It seems that Alice Bailey initially tried to win the Roerichs for a possible cooperation, but Elena Roerich warned her followers not to get involved with Bailey and her Arcane School.[25] The work of Lucis Trust, formerly called Lucifer Publishing, is carried out through its Arcane School of the occult and an organization called World Goodwill. Together, they work to implement what is termed “the Plan,” as was revealed in 24 books written by Bailey and published by Lucis Trust. Alice Bailey, though, claimed that it was Djwhal Khul, her “Ascended Master,” who actually wrote the books that he channeled through her while she was in a state of trance. The focus of “the Plan” is to usher in the “Harmonic Convergence,” also known as the Omega, Mind Convergence, Fusion or Turning Point, which can occur only when nations put aside their “differences” in a “New World Order” of global unity based on the principles of Freemasonry. Foster Bailey, who continued the work of the Lucis Trust after Alice Bailey died, noted that Masonry:

 

…is all that remains to us of the first world religion which flourished in an antiquity so old that it is impossible to affix a date. It was the first unified world religion. Then came the era of separation of many religions, and of sectarianism. Today we are working again towards a world universal religion. Again then, Masonry will come into its own, in some form or another.[26]

 

Lucis Trust is an influential institution that enjoys “Consultative Status,” which permits it to have a close working relationship with the United Nations, including a seat on the weekly sessions. It also operates the one religious chapel at the UN, the Meditation Room. World Goodwill, founded in 1932, and also a UN recognized NGO was, according to Steven Sutcliffe, promoting groups of “world servers” to, as he quotes Bailey, “serve the Plan, Humanity, the Hierarchy and the Christ.”[27] In 1952, Eleanor Roosevelt read Alice Bailey’s prayer, The Great Invocation, on a radio broadcast from the UN building in New York. Among a group of international trustees who run the Lucis Trust have been the leading lights of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), including David Rockefeller’s nephew, John D. Rockefeller IV, Robert McNamara, Norman Cousins and Henry Kissinger. As Terry Melanson pointed out, “this would then tie Bailey’s influential occult organization into the international conspiracy of elitists, including the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Bilderbergs, and the Trilateral Commission.”[28] Writer and editor Norman Cousins became an unofficial ambassador in the 1960s, and his facilitating communication between the Holy See, the Kremlin, and the White House helped lead to the Soviet-American test ban treaty, for which he was thanked by President John F. Kennedy and Pope John XXIII, the latter of whom awarded him his personal medallion.

Cousins was a longtime president of the World Federalists, the American branch of the World Federalist Movement. In 1947, five small world federalist organizations came together in Asheville, North Carolina and agreed to merge as the United World Federalists. These five groups had, in the previous year, met with representatives of fifteen others in Montreux to discuss creating a worldwide federalist organization. It was one year later, in August 1947, also in Montreux, that more than 51 organizations from 24 countries came together at the Conference of the World Movement for World Federal Government. The Movement advocates the establishment of a global federal system of strengthened and democratic global institutions subjected to the principles of subsidiarity, solidarity and democracy. Federalists had hoped that the anticipated UN review conference in 1955 would move the UN further in the direction of a world federal system. However, lack of political will dissipated any interest in such a conference. Around 1965, the World Federalist Movement had established offices near the UN. Federalists in this period focused on amendments to the UN Charter as a way forward, involving reforms to institutions such as a more representative Security Council, a World Court and a democratically elected General Assembly. Federalists also proposed a number of new institutions such as a commission on sustainable development, an international development authority, a standing peacekeeping corps and an international criminal court.

 

Omega Point

UNESCO was founded in 1945 as the successor to the League of Nations’ International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) was created in 1922, and counted such figures as Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Robert A. Millikan, and Gonzague de Reynold. However, the onset of World War II largely interrupted the work of the ICIC predecessor organizations. After the signing of the Atlantic Charter and the Declaration of the United Nations, the Conference of Allied Ministers of Education (CAME) began meetings in London which continued from 1942 to 1945. Upon the proposal of CAME and in accordance with the recommendations of the United Nations Conference on International Organization (UNCIO), held in San Francisco, a United Nations Conference for the establishment of an educational and cultural organization (ECO/CONF) was convened in London from November 1 to 16, 1945. At the ECO/CONF, the Constitution of UNESCO was introduced and signed by 37 countries, and a Preparatory Commission was established.

The first General Conference took place in 1946, and elected Julian Huxley to Director-General.  Julian, the brother of Aldous Huxley, famous author of Brave New World, was a disciple of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 – 1955), who was a member with Huxley in the Center for the Study of Human Problems (CSHP), founded by Jean Coutrot, head of the Synarchic Empire Movement (MSE), and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.[29] The coining of the term “transhumanism” is erroneously attributed to Julian Huxley, in a 1957 article. As pointed out by Olivier Dard and Alexandre Moatti, the first to use the term was Coutrot, based on his promotion of the fascist doctrine of the “New Man.”[30]

Julian Huxley who wrote the introduction to Teilhard’s Phenomenon of Man (1955). According to Julian, revealing his Kabbalistic outlook: “evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.”[31] In the 1930s it was not the Vatican but his own order the Jesuits who forbade Teilhard from publishing any religious works or lecturing during his lifetime. However, soon after becoming Pope, Pius XII (1876 – 1958) persuaded the Jesuits to lift the ban so that a series of Teilhard lectures could take place in German-occupied Paris during the latter years of the war. It was also Pius XII who worked with Knight of Malta Cardinal Spellman, and later a close friend of J. Edgar Hoover and Roy Cohn, to help Nazi war criminals escape justice, and who awarded OSS head Bill Donovan the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Sylvester.[32]

Teilhard is known for his attempt at synthesizing Christianity and the theory of evolution. Teilhard’s reading of The Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson was, he said, the “catalyst of a fire which devoured already its heart and its spirit.”[33] Bergson’s sister Moina Bergson was married to McGreggor Mathers, a founding member of the Golden Dawn.[34] Teilhard provided his “Christian” interpretation of evolution by arguing that as mankind organizes itself in more complex social networks, the Noosphere will grow in awareness, culminating in the goal of history, which he referred to as the Omega Point, a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving. Teilhard called on humanity to create a “sphere of mutually reinforced consciousness, the seat, support and instrument of super-vision and super-ideas.”[35]

Teilhard signed the Eugenics Manifesto in 1939, together with Julian Huxley and Theodosius Dobzhansky, the eminent twentieth century biologist, through whom he exercised his greatest influence on science, through his development of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. Teilhard was unapologetic about the eugenic basis of his theory:

 

So far we have certainly allowed our race to develop at random, and we have given too little thought to the question of what medical and moral factors must replace the crude forces of natural selection should we suppress them. In the course of the coming centuries it is indispensable that a nobly human form of eugenics, on a standard worthy of our personalities, should be discovered and developed. Eugenics applied to individuals leads to eugenics applied to society.[36]

 

Teilhard believed the spiritual evolution of humanity culminating in the Omega Point would result in unity of humanity and all religions, and the upheld “the right of the earth to organize itself by reducing, even by force, the reactionary and backwards elements.”[37] Paul Couturier (1881 – 1953), who became known as the “Apostle of Unity,” studied Teilhard’s work was strongly influenced by his view of the unity of all humanity in Christ. Couturier was instrumental in the establishment of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Each year, many ecumenical Christians observe the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity for the goal of ecumenism, which is coordinated by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and adopted by many of its member churches.[38]

In 1951, Chardin was offered a research position in New York with the Wenner-Gren Foundation, a private operating foundation dedicated to providing leadership in support of anthropology and anthropologists worldwide. It was founded in the same year by Axel Wenner-Gren (1881 – 1961), founder of the Electro-Lux Corporation, one of the richest men in the world at the time. Axel Wenner-Gren was reported to be a friend of the Nazi Hermann Göring, and in the late 1930s convinced himself that he could avert the coming world war by acting as a conduit between Göring and the British and Americans. His efforts having proved unsuccessful, Wenner-Gren retired to his estate in The Bahamas, where he resumed his friendship with the islands’ governor, fellow Nazi-sympathizer, the Duke of Windsor.[39]

Teilhard also influenced Marshall McLuhan and Arthur C. Clarke who explored transhumanist ideas in his 1968 novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time.[40] For the1973 movie The Exorcist, the interior of the room at Georgetown of Damien Karras, the young priest and psychiatrist who assists Father Merrin, was a meticulous reconstruction of King’s “corridor Jesuit” room in New North Hall at the university. Every element of King’s room, including posters and books, was recreated for the set, including a poster of Teilhard de Chardin. The character of Father Lankester Merrin was also based on Teilhard. Parts of the plot were themed on Teilhard’s theory of evil—or the existence of Sata—in the world possibly being Lucifer—or matter-energy spirit—working out its salvation through the process of physical evolution ending in Teilhard’s Omega Point.[41]

 


[1] “Text of Dulles’ Address to Assembly of Council of Churches.” New York Times (August 25, 1948). https://www.nytimes.com/1948/08/25/archives/text-of-dulles-address-to-assembly-of-council-of-churches.html

[2] Richard D. Challener & John M. Fenton. “Recent Past Comes Alive in John Foster Dulles ’08 ‘Oral History’.” Princeton Alumni Weekly (March 14, 1967). Retrieved from https://paw.princeton.edu/article/recent-past-comes-alive-john-foster-dulles-08-oral-history

[3] Smoot. The Invisible Government.

[4] J.E. Esslemont. Baháʼu'lláh and the New Era, 5th ed. (Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Baháʼí Publishing Trust, 1980), pp. 166–168.

[5] Johnson. Initiates of Theosophical Masters, p. 93.

[6] John Hatcher. “Child and Family in Baha'i Religion.” In Harold G. Coward (ed.). Religious Dimensions of Child and Family Life: Reflections on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria, 1996), p. 156.

[7] Marcel Poorthuis. “The Forte Kreis: an Attempt to Spiritual Leadership over Europe.” Religion and Theology: A Journal of Contemporary Religous Discourse (2017), p. 41.

[8] Cheng’s Memoir, vol. 13;  Alan A. Block & Constance A. Weaver. All Is Clouded by Desire: Global Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime (Westport, CN.: Praeger, 2004), p. 38; citing Stephen Schlesinger & Stephen Kinzer. Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1983), 119. Cf. Peter Dale Scott. The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War (Ipswich, MA: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press, 2008), 47, 67.

[9] Scott Anderson & Jon Lee. Inside The League: The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1986).

[10] Cheng’s Memoir.

[11] Ruhiyyih Rabbani (ed.). The Ministry of the Custodians 1957-1963 (Baháʼí World Centre, 1992), pp. xxii–xxiv.

[12] “Arminius Vambery.” Bahai Library Online. Retrieved from https://www.bahai-library.org/tags/Arminius_Vambery&more

[13] Ibid.

[14] “National Affairs: Two Men & a Robot.” Time (May 31, 1948). Retrieved from http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,798674,00.html#ixzz1Ci7aE8nA

[15] Holman, Dinah. “Obituary: John Male.” New Zealand Herald (Apr 5, 2003). Retrieved from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3350845&pnum=2

[16] Mitch Horowitz. Modern Occultism: History, Theory, and Practice (Gildan Media LLC, 2023).

[17] Terry Melanson. “The All-Seeing Eye, The President, The Secretary and The Guru.” Conspiracy Archive (July 2001). Retrieved from https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/All_Seeing_Eye.htm

[18] Ibid.

[19] Markus Osterrieder. “From Synarchy to Shambhala,” p. 116.

[20] Paul Beekman Taylor, Gurdjieff and Orage: Brothers in Elysium. (Weiser, 2001). p. 178.

[21] Markus Osterrieder, “From Synarchy to Shambhala,” p. 24.

[22] Dnevnik, 10 November 1934, t. 40: 15.08.1934–03.02.1935; cited in Markus Osterrieder, “From Synarchy to Shambhala,” p. 12.

[23] Terry Melanson. “The All-Seeing Eye, The President, The Secretary and The Guru.” Conspiracy Archive (July 2001). Retrieved from https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/All_Seeing_Eye.htm

[24] Jay. The Dialectical Imagination, p. 39.

[25] Blackthorn. Alice A. Bailey.

[26] Foster Bailey. The Spirit of Masonry (Lucis Publishing Company, 1957), p. 29.

[27] Steven J. Sutcliffe. Children of the New Age: A History of Spiritual Practices (Routledge, 2003). p. 51.

[28] Terry Melanson. “Lucis Trust, Alice Bailey, World Goodwill and the False Light of the World.”

[29] Sharon Zukin & Paul Dimaggio. Structures of Capital: The Social Organization of the Economy (Cambridge University Press, 199), p. 360; Johan Heilbron. French Sociology (Cornell University Press, 2015), p. 119.

[30] Olivier Dard & Alexandre Moatti. “Aux origines du mot ’transhumanisme.” Futuribles, Association Futuribles, 2016.

[31] Pierre Teilard de Chardin. The Human Phenomenon (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press), p. 114.

[32] Kevin J. Madigan. “How the Catholic Church Sheltered Nazi War Criminals.” Commentary (December 1m 2001).

[33] “Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.” New World Encyclopedia.

[34] Israel Regardie. My Rosicrucian Adventure (St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1971), p. 147.

[35] Robert Sean Lewis. Gaj: The End of Religion. (Montreal: Hay River Books, 2004) p. 101.

[36] Aaron Franz, “The Jesuit Priest who influenced Transhumanism,” The Age of Transitions, Friday May 1, 2009

[37] Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Letters to Léontine Zanta, intro. by Robert Garric and Henri de Lubac, tr. by Richard Wall (Harper and Row, 1969), p. 116, letter of January 26, 1936.

[38] Edmund Kee-Fook Chia. World Christianity Encounters World Religions: A Summa of Interfaith Dialogue (Liturgical Press, 2018), p. 160.

[39] Ilja Luciak. “The Life of Axel Wenner-Gren–An Introduction.” In Ilja Luciak and Bertil Daneholt (ed.). Reality and Myth: A Symposium on Axel Wenner-Gren (Stockholm: The Wenner-Gren Foundations, 2012), pp. 12–30.

[40] Ranked #15 by the American Film Institute. “AFI’s 100 Years...100 Movies – 10th Anniversary Edition.” Retrieved 28 February 2014.

[41] “Bill Blatty on ‘The Exorcist’”. www.geocities.com, retrieved from the Wayback machine. Archived from the original on 2002-01-23.

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