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Abstract
According to the Neo-Theosophical teachings of Alice A. Bailey, 2025 is the year when the so-called “Spiritual Hierarchy” decides when to “externalize” and work in the open to hasten “humanity’s evolutionary development” and establish the “right human relations”. Lucis Trust, founded by Bailey, has since 1945 “spiritually enlightened” international conferences and councils for this purpose. Due to the very close connection to the UN and affiliated organizations such as the World Economic Forum, I argue that recent developments suggest that this “new enlightenment” is closely connected to the launch of Agentic AI-systems with the stated objective to govern and manage human affairs with limited human oversight).
Bailey, together with the Christian mystic and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, has had a profound influence on New Age movement and their ideals of unification of consciousness to achieve oneness with God (a phenomenon Teilhard de Chardin refers to as the Omega Point). Similar esoteric ideas (alchemical transformation into perfection), where technological development/evolution is predicted to result in “the singularity” and the arrival of “super-intelligence”, has also been promoted by tech-philosophers like Ray Kurzweil and Nick Bostrom.
The modern fusion of the two seemingly incompatible areas (technology/spirituality) can be traced to organizations such as the World Future Society, which since the 1960s have served as a breeding ground for would-be New Age leaders as well as techno-optimistic futurists with the shared mission to reshape society in order to accelerate evolution and solve the “problems of humanity”. It’s basically a techno-spiritual path towards total digital enslavement. The end result is the formation of a “world organism” in which individual humans have become subordinate cells in a technological system with Agentic AI serving as God.
Summary by Courtenay Turner
Jacob Nordangård, PhD, from Sweden, provided a scholarly examination of how esoteric philosophies underpin the emergent digital control systems. Author of Temple of Solomon and other works, Nordangård elucidated “techno-spiritualism” as a convergence of New Age ideologies and transhumanism, facilitating digital enslavement within an AI-mediated “world organism.” His analysis traced historical threads from occult traditions to contemporary global institutions, revealing a deliberate synthesis aimed at reshaping human consciousness and societal structures.
Nordangård commenced with Theosophy, established by Helena Blavatsky in 1875, which amalgamated Western occultism, Neoplatonism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Freemasonic principles of spiritual and ethical perfection. Central to this doctrine is a hierarchy of enlightened beings guiding human evolution, drawing from Carl Eckhartshausen’s 1785 “Council of Light” and evolving into Blavatsky’s “Masters of Wisdom” or “Great White Brotherhood.” These adepts, purportedly living physical entities encountered during Blavatsky’s travels, embody a synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy.
Alice Bailey’s contributions, spanning 24 books from 1919 to 1949—20 allegedly telepathically dictated by the master “Djwhal Khul”—prophesy the hierarchy’s externalization by 2025 as visible leaders. Bailey, an editor at the Theosophical Society’s The Messenger, was expelled in 1920 alongside her husband Foster (a 33° Freemason) for contested claims, leading to the founding of Lucis Trust in 1922. This organization promotes a “divine plan” for humanity’s brotherhood, with Masters aligned to Masonic initiates as “light-bearers” and co-creators in constructing the “temple of wisdom.” Bailey’s involvement in Co-Masonry (inclusive of women) further embedded Masonic references in her writings.
Lucis Trust posits the illuminated minds as executors of a divine plan for global unity, perfection, and the “kingdom of God,” culminating in the restoration of mysteries and unification of faiths—a new world religion. The Trust advocates support for the United Nations as a vehicle for this utopia, strategically positioning offices at UN Plaza (New York), London government districts, and Geneva’s international hubs. Lucis asserts the spiritual hierarchy’s direct influence on the UN’s 1945 founding, coinciding with key festivals: Wesak (Buddhist) and Christ’s Festival (unifying personal and divine will). Bailey emphasized Anglo-American leadership in guiding the UN, framing adversaries (e.g., Axis powers) as the “Black Lodge” in a primordial conflict originating in Atlantean times—despite acknowledging the hierarchy’s role in shaping ideologies exploited by this “evil” force.
As the UN’s de facto spiritual arm, Lucis overlaps with Round Table networks initiated by Alfred Milner and Cecil Rhodes to expand British interests and foster world federation. These include the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg Group, Club of Rome, Trilateral Commission, World Economic Forum, and philanthropies like Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, and Gates. Jan Smuts (Round Table member) drafted the League of Nations charter and UN preamble; Rockefellers donated UN land.
Lucis’ Cycle of Conferences, launched in 1945, invokes “divine will” through World Goodwill meditations—rituals anchoring energies for summits. Emphasis on UN SDGs and WEF (UN partner since 2019) accelerates 2030 Agenda. WEF’s leadership (e.g., Larry Fink in CFR/Trilateral, André Hoffmann in Club of Rome/Chatham House, Børge Brende in Bilderberg) mirrors Round Table affiliations. Lucis views WEF as a “nucleus of goodwill,” paralleling Masters of Wisdom.
The plan’s execution: Round Table’s Oliver Reiser (Freemason, Theosophist) envisioned a “world sensorium”—accelerated evolution via “radio-eugenics” (new alchemy, Luciferian). Influenced Bailey’s Education in the New Age. H.G. Wells’ “world brain”; Julian Huxley’s humanism; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s “noosphere/Omega Point”—collective consciousness via tech. Disciples (Ervin Laszlo, Barbara Marx Hubbard, José Argüelles) integrated with AI/space exploration.
World Future Society (Hubbard co-founder) strategized humanistic utopia via crises (Limits to Growth, 1972). Stanford Research Institute’s Changing Images of Man (Willis Harman) dialectically posed enlightened consciousness versus dystopian control—synthesizing in Agenda 21/Earth Charter. Masonic symbols aid transformation; pantheistic ethics with techno-god.
New Age buildup: Rockefeller-funded Lindisfarne conferences; David Spangler’s Revelation; Marilyn Ferguson’s Aquarian Conspiracy. 1986-87 meditations (Hubbard, Argüelles) countdown to 2012 “shift”—noosphere via Tesla. 2012: Smartphone proliferation. Paris 2015: WEF’s 4IR merges spheres. UN-WEF: Society 5.0. COVID accelerates; UN’s Our Common Agenda/Pact for the Future: Digital panopticon for “global brain.”
WEF’s “Intelligent Age”: Agentic state autonomously resolves crises—singleton hypothesis for supremacy. Nordangård: Lodges allied? Trump’s Anglo-US echoes Bailey. Conclusion: Individual paths to betterment via knowledge/wisdom, not tech.
