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The Earth Charter and the Ark
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"Cosmos is my God. Nature is my God."—Mikhail Gorbachev, on the PBS Charlie Rose Show, Oct. 23, 1996
"A post-Christian belief system is taking over – one that sees the earth as a living being mythologically, as Gaia, Earth Mother – with mankind as her consciousness... Such worship of the universe is properly called cosmolatry."—Donna Steichen, Ungodly Rage, p. 237 |
The "For Love of Earth" day-long celebrations at Shelburne Farms Vermont began with an early morning pilgramage during which 2000 or so participants, led by Satish Kumar, walked to the "great barn" where they were greeted by the sounds of the "Sun Song" played by musician Paul Winter. The Pagan festivities continued with the words of Dr. Jane Goodall, Satish Kumar and organizer Dr. Steven C. Rockefeller. The Earth worshippers were treated to dance, music and paintings of several Vermont artists, after which they joined hands and offered an "Earth prayer" of "reverence" and "commitment" to Mother Earth and the "Ark of Hope".
Satish Kumar, who led the early morning pilgramage at Shelburne Farms, is an an influencial advocate of Gaia. Kumar says that "contemporary thinkers of the green movement are collectively developing an ecological world-view." The Earth Charter is the green movement's crowning achievement toward this holistic world-view, and the practical means by which all of us will soon be held accountable to "Divine Nature". According to Satish Kumar,2 this pagan view has five ingredients: Gaia (James Lovelock), Deep Ecology (Arne Naess), Permaculture (Bill Mollison), Bioregionalism (Gary Snyder et al.), and Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox). "Creation Spirituality" is what had, undoubtedly, taken place at the Shelburne Farms Earth Charter celebrations. In the words of Steven W. Mosher, president of Population Research Institute, "Gaia is the New Age term for Mother Earth. The New Age believers hold that the earth is a sentient super-being, kind of goddess, deserving of worship and, some say, human sacrifice. Compared to Gaia worship, the simple animism of primitive cultures is wholesome."
Musician Paul Winter also has deep roots within the green movement and "creation spirituality." He has performed concerts at the Cathedral St. John the Divine in New York City, on the solstice and equinox, for well over twenty years. These pagan festivals, in a supposedly christian church nonetheless, are generously sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and a new age organization called the Lindisfarne Institute – the latter of which has its headquarters in the Cathedral. Maurice Strong is also a member of Lindisfarne (publishers of G-A-I-A, a way of knowing) along with Gaia theory biologist James Lovelock, and admitted Luciferian David Spangler, among others. Paul Winters' most recent concert at St. John the Divine was for the annual Earth Mass, on 7 October.3 The fact that this annual October 7th Earth Mass coincides with the hindu Holy Day of Dassehra (worship of the Great Divine Mother) cannot be a coincidence. Winter and bandmates play a tune called Missa Gaia as part of the Feast of St. Francis. The Pope once attended the Feast of St. Francis at St. John the Divine in 1986. Stressing the unity of all the world's religions, John Paul II happily shared the platform with a Tibetan Lama, a Hindu swami, a Native American medicine man, and a Moari high priest.
The New American Insider Report of January 23, 19954 writes that the historic Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John the Divine "has long been a center of New Age and radical-left 'enlightenment' and high-brow Establishment 'culture'." Author Gary Kah reports, in his well-documented book The New World Religion, that the Cathedral of St. John the Divine displays "a female Christ on the cross, complete with shapely hips and full breasts." Also in the same issue of The New American there is a list of donors to the Cathedral: Mr. and Ms. Steven Rockefeller is among them, along with Mr. Robert de Rothschild; David Rockefeller Jr.; Mrs. Mary C. Rockefeller; Mr. and Mrs. Laurance Spellman Rockefeller; Rockefeller Center Properties Inc.; The Rockefeller Group Inc. and many elite-of-the-elite organizations such as J.P. Morgan & Co.; Chase Manhattan Bank; Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Hearst Corporation; CBS, Inc. and even, mysteriously, the Federal Emergency Managment Agency (FEMA), among others.
The Earth Charter Initiative was launched in 1994 by Maurice Strong, his newly formed Earth Council and Mikhail Gorbachev, acting in his capacity as president of Green Cross International. In 1997, the Earth Council and Green Cross International formed an Earth Charter Commission to give oversight to the process.
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A final version of the Earth Charter was issued by the Earth Charter Commission in March 2000. The Earth Charter "was drafted in coordination with a hard law treaty that is designed to provide an integrated legal framework for all environment development law and policy." This hard law treaty is called the International Covenant on Environment and Development and is being prepared by the Commission on Environmental Law at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a behemoth agency which oversees 700+ governmental agencies worldwide.
The Earth Charter, consisting of 16 principles, has its roots in the values of the Transformational Movement. Jan Roberts, president of the Institute for Ethics and Meaning describes this Transformational Movement as a paradigm shift from individualism, self-interest and separativeness, to unity, wholeness and community. Steven C. Rockefeller was the prime candidate for the leadership role as co-chair of the Earth Charter Steering Committee, the Drafting Committee and co-chair of the final Earth Charter Commission. Besides being a professor of Religion and Ethics at Middlebury College, expounding the virtues of "creation-centered theology," in his capacity as trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, his family's resources ensured the success of the project.
It's clear that the global transformationalists are promoting the Earth Charter as the "new scripture." At the presentation of the Ark, and its "new gospel" contents, we can expect that it will be endorsed by the U.N. The halls of the United Nations has long been a haven for New Age one-world religion spirituality. Former Secretary-Generals like Dag Hammarskjold (founder of the U.N. Meditation Room), U Thant and former Assistant Secretary-General Robert Muller have long been outspoken advocates of a new pantheistic global spirituality, using the U.N. as a vehicle to spread their doctrine.
The United Nations even has their own in-house prophet, Sri Chinmoy. This 70 year-old indian mystic is the official Spiritual Advisor to the United Nations. For the past 23 years he has offered prayer and meditation meetings for anyone to attend every Tuesday and Friday at the U.N.5 Sri Chinmoy claims to have been Thomas Jefferson in a previous life, and he also claims to be the Spritual Brother to Jesus Christ.6 Chinmoy's disciples claim he's one of a handful of fully enlightened beings on the planet. Some disciples go so far as to claim he is an avatar, a living God. They meditate to a print of his face.
Perhaps the final resting place for the "Ark of Hope" will be in the United Nation's Holy-of-Holies, the U.N. meditation room. "We have the UN Meditation Room, which is visited by hundreds of thousands of visitors a year," Robert Muller explains in his book Genesis: Shaping a Global Spirituality. "We have also a UN Meditation Group led by an Indian Mystic. One could tell several moving stories of the spiritual transformation the UN has caused, to the point that this little speck on earth is becoming a holy ground." (quoted inThe New World Religion, by Gary Kah, p. 310)
To Sri Chinmoy and Robert Muller, world peace will ultimately depend "on divine and cosmic government" and an "alliance between all major religions and the U.N." Muller has gone so far as to call the U.N. "the body of Christ." The United Nations "will be the last word in human perfection," Sri Chinmoy proclaims, it will "stand as the pinnacle of divine enlightenment."
The Earth Charter stresses that man is his own saviour. By saving "mother earth" we will once again return to an idealic Garden of Eden. But instead of worshipping the Creator, the New Age Aquarian conspirators wish to plunge us headlong into a creation-worship new world religion. "Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness," Robert Muller preaches. "Once again, but this time on a universal scale, humankind is seeking no less than its reunion with 'divine,' its transcendence into higher forms of life. Hindus call our earth Brahma, or God, for they rightly see no difference between our earth and the divine. This ancient simple truth is slowly dawning again upon humanity, as we are about to enter our cosmic age and become what we were always meant to be: the planet of God."
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Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Romans 1:22-25 (KJV)
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(Note: The following is only an extract. For the full document, go to the Ark of Hope's website.)This is a good time for interfaith dialogue involving Christians, Jews and Muslims and members of other religious traditions as well. The Earth Charter can be used as a catalyst for exploring common ethical values in these exchanges.
A year from now, the United Nations will convene the World Summit on Sustainable Development, and our government representatives should know that we want the United States to play a creative leadership role at this critical world meeting.
Thousands of local, national, regional, and international organizations have now endorsed the Earth Charter. The most recent endorsement has come from the Parliament of the World’s Religions.
Invite your organization to consider endorsing the Earth Charter, if you have not already done so. The more support we have from civil society and local government, the greater the chance of endorsement by the United Nations General Assembly in 2002.
In my home state of Vermont, the Earth Charter is being transported across the state from town to town in a beautiful, handcrafted Ark of Hope by people walking in a spirit of peace. In addition to the Earth charter, the Ark of Hope contains the prayers and poems of many Vermonters. The global challenges before us are great, but if we unite behind the kind of vision affirmed in the Earth Charter, there are grounds for hope........ With reverence for the mystery of being and with reverence for life, let us resolve here today to commit ourselves anew to this great work.
In response to the Sept. 11th attacks, the Vermont
organizers carried the Ark to New York. The Ark of Hope was displayed at
the United Nations from January 24th through February 19th.
– Terry
Borderlands
The New Age
Image Archive
Breaking News
Conspiracy
Sites New World Order
Council
on Foreign Relations (CFR) & the New World Order
"For
those who may be confused by the controversies surrounding the 'New World
Order', a One-World-Government, and American concern over giving the UN
more power; those unaware of the issues involved; and those wishing more
background, I offer the following."
The
All-Seeing Eye, the President, the Secretary & the
Guru
"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 that a coin."
Freemasonry,
Conspiracy Within, Initiation and the Brotherhood
"Masonry,
successor to the Mysteries (Babel, Mythras, Tummuz, Whicka,etc.) still
follows the ancient manor of teaching." [ Albert Pike "Morals and Dogma
Fellowcraft Degree p.22 ]
Illuminati
Conspiracy, Order of the Illumined Wise Men
The term
Illuminati, is the plural of the Latin, Illuminatus, meaning "one who is
illuminated." Thus, it means a person who has received the full extent of
the initiation that is available through Freemasonry.
New
World Order and The New Age Occult Secret Destiny
The New
World Order as envisioned by the Elite is hardly a recent undertaking.
Their's is a philosophy rooted in ancient occult traditions.
New
World Order: World Government Training Centers
World
Government Fronts - Training Centers For A Global Army of Psycho-Social
Change Agents - Groups that House the Master-Minds of Global
Transformation Strategies
Order
of the Skull and Bones
The story begins at Yale, where three
threads of American social history -- espionage, drug smuggling and secret
societies -- intertwine into one.
The
Vril Society of The Luminous Lodge
The Vril Society or The
Luminous Lodge combined the political ideals of the Order of the
Illuminati with Hindu mysticism, Theosophy and the Cabbala.
33rd
Degree Freemason Initiation-Deadly Deception, Jim Shaw
"Some
of the most prominent and influental men in the world would undoubtedly be
there to participate when I was given this ultimate degree - for me -
little Jimmy Shaw, who had gone to work at age five and made it alone
since age 13. They would be there to give the 33rd Degree to me. It was
really a bit difficult to take it all in."
Maniacal
World Control Thru The Jesuit Order: Well-Hidden Soldiers Of
Satan
"The Jesuits laugh at us; and during their hilarity,
the rattlesnake is coiled at our feet, climbing to strike us in the
heart." - Edwin A. Sherman, American Shriner Freemason, Friend of Charles
Chiniquy, 1883, The Engineer Corps Of Hell.
Bohemian
Grove intruder says he feared human sacrifices
Richard
McCaslin planned a heavily armed assault on the exclusive Bohemian Grove
men's club for more than a year, believing "it would take something
dramatic" to draw attention to human sacrifices he feared were being held
there.
Occult-Conspiracy-Chronology:
40,000 BC-1987 AD
"The following is not intended to be an
exhaustive chronology of the influence of the occult tradition and the
secret societies on world history. It does highlight key events which can
be traced to these sources since ancient times."
Historical Roster of Directors and Officers in the CFR
HAARP:
HIGH-FREQUENCY VANDALISM IN THE SKY
HAARP will zap the upper
atmosphere with a focused and steerable electromagnetic beam. It is an
advanced model of an "ionospheric heater."
From
Hell: Masonic Ritual Murders AKA Jack the Ripper
Based on
the graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, "From
Hell" is a richly sculpted, fictionalized version of the suppressed
history of England - how a cabal of Freemasons orchestrated the so-called
"Jack the Ripper" murders.
BROTHERHOOD OF
THE BELL by William Dean Ross
The "Invisible Government"
needs a name at this point, so let us call it "The Brotherhood of the
Bell." This was a 1960's movie about such a conspiracy. By the way, Bell
Corporation made the first flying saucer called "The Bell" – for the
"Invisible Government" because it was shaped like a bell. Therefore, I
shall call the "Brotherhood of the Bell", or simply, "B.O.B."
On September the 9th, 2001 a celebration of the
Earth Charter was held at Shelburne Farms Vermont for the unveilling of
the Earth Charter's final resting place. This "Ark of Hope" will be
presented to the United Nations along with its contents in June of 2002.
It is hoped that the United Nations will endorse the Earth Charter
document on this occasion; 
