New World Order (conspiracy theory) Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===New Age=== British [[Neo-Theosophy|neo-Theosophical]] occultist [[Alice Bailey]], one of the founders of the so-called [[New Age]] movement, prophesied in 1940 the eventual victory of the [[Allies of World War II]] over the [[Axis powers]] (which occurred in 1945) and the establishment by the Allies of a political and religious New World Order. She saw a federal world government as the culmination of [[The Open Conspiracy|Wells' Open Conspiracy]] but favorably argued that it would be [[synarchist]] because it was guided by the [[Masters of the Ancient Wisdom]], intent on preparing humanity for the [[Second Coming of Christ#Theosophy|mystical second coming]] of [[Christ]], and the dawning of the [[Age of Aquarius]]. According to Bailey, a group of ascended masters called the [[Great White Brotherhood]] works on the "[[plane (esotericism)|inner planes]]" to oversee the transition to the New World Order but, for now, the members of this [[Spiritual Hierarchy]] are only known to a few occult scientists, with whom they communicate [[telepathy|telepathically]], but as the need for their personal involvement in the plan increases, there will be an "Externalization of the Hierarchy" and everyone will know of their presence on Earth.<ref>{{cite web|author=Bailey, Alice A.|date=1957|url=http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/externalisation/contents.html|title=The Externalization of the Hierarchy|publisher=USNISA|access-date=23 July 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805093622/http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/externalisation/contents.html|archive-date=5 August 2009}}</ref> [[File:%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpeg|thumb|upright|[[New Age]] author [[Alice Bailey]]'s writings have been condemned by [[Christian right]] conspiracy theorists.]] Bailey's writings, along with American writer [[Marilyn Ferguson]]'s 1980 book ''[[Marilyn Ferguson#The Aquarian Conspiracy|The Aquarian Conspiracy]]'', contributed to conspiracy theorists of the [[Christian right]] viewing the New Age movement as the "[[pseudoreligion|false religion]]" that would [[supersessionism|supersede]] Christianity in a New World Order.<ref name="Cumbey 1985">{{cite book|author=Cumbey, Constance|title=The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow: The New Age Movement and our Coming Age of Barbarism|publisher=Huntington House Publishers; Revised edition|date=1985|isbn=0-910311-03-X|author-link=Constance Cumbey|url=https://archive.org/details/hiddendangersofr00cumb}}</ref> Skeptics argue that the term "New Age movement" is a misnomer, generally used by conspiracy theorists as a catch-all rubric for any [[new religious movement]] that is not [[fundamentalist Christian]]. By this logic, anything that is not Christian is by definition actively and willfully [[Anti-Christian sentiment|anti-Christian]].<ref>{{cite web|author=McKeown, Trevor W.|date=5 May 2004|url=http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/anti-masonry08.html#new|title=Has Freemasonry become part of the New Age movement?|work=Anti-masonry Frequently Asked Questions|publisher=Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon A.F. & A. M.|access-date=2 November 2009}}</ref> Paradoxically, since the first decade of the 21st century, New World Order conspiracism is increasingly being embraced and propagandized by New Age [[occultists]], who are people bored by [[rationalism]] and drawn to [[stigmatized knowledge]]—such as [[alternative medicine]], [[astrology]], [[quantum mysticism]], [[Spiritualism (movement)|spiritualism]], and [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|theosophy]].<ref name="Barkun 2003"/> Thus, New Age conspiracy theorists, such as the makers of documentary films like ''Esoteric Agenda'', claim that globalists who plot on behalf of the New World Order are simply misusing occultism for Machiavellian ends, such as adopting 21 December 2012 as the exact date for the establishment of the New World Order to take advantage of the growing [[2012 phenomenon]], which has its origins in the fringe [[Mayanism|Mayanist]] theories of New Age writers [[José Argüelles]], [[Terence McKenna]], and [[Daniel Pinchbeck]].{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} Skeptics argue that the connection of conspiracy theorists and occultists follows from their common fallacious premises. First, any widely accepted belief must necessarily be false. Second, stigmatized knowledge—what [[the Establishment]] spurns—must be true. The result is a large, [[Crank (person)#Crank magnetism|self-referential network]] in which, for example, some [[UFO religion]]ists promote anti-Jewish phobias while some antisemites practice Peruvian [[shamanism]].<ref name="Barkun 2003"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page