False Dawn: The United Religions Initiative, Globalism, and the Quest for a One-World ReligionSophia Perennis, 2004 - 490 pages The interfaith movement, which began with the 1893 World¿s Parliament of Religions in Chicago, has grown worldwide. Although this movement has been largely unknown to the public, it now provides a spiritual face for globalization, the economic and political forces leading us all from nationalism to ¿One World¿. The most ambitious organization in today¿s interfaith movement is the United Religions Initiative (URI), founded by William Swing, the Episcopal Bishop of California. Investigative reporter Lee Penn, a Catholic ex-Marxist, exhaustively documents the history and beliefs of the URI and its New Age and globalist allies, the vested interests that support these movements, and the direction they appear to be taking. The interfaith movement is no longer merely the province of a coterie of little-heeded religious idealists with grandiose visions. The URI¿s proponents have ranged from billionaire George Soros to President George W. Bush, from the far-right Rev. Sun Myung Moon to the liberal Catholic theologian Hans Küng, and from the Dalai Lama to the leaders of government-approved Protestant churches in the People¿s Republic of China. The interfaith movement, including the URI, is being promoted by globalist and New Age reformers who favor erosion of national sovereignty, marginalization of traditional religions, establishment of ¿global governance¿, and creation of a new, Earth-based ¿global spirituality¿¿in effect, a one-world religion. Therefore, the URI and the interfaith movement are poised to become the spiritual foundation of the New World Order: the ¿new civilization¿ now proposed by Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union. In The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, French metaphysician René Guénon spoke of the ¿anti-tradition¿ (the forces of materialism and secular humanism) finally giving way to the ¿counter-tradition¿ (the satanic inversion of true spirituality), leading to the regime of Antichrist. The ¿anti-tradition¿ weakens and dissolves traditional spiritualities, after which the ¿counter-tradition¿ sets up a counterfeit in their place. Since Guénon¿s time, as is well known, anti-traditional forces have greatly advanced worldwide. It is less well-known that counter-traditional movements have also made great strides, and now stand closer to the centers of global political and religious power than ever before. The ¿counter-tradition¿ is making inroads on the political and cultural Right, as much as it is doing on the Left. False Dawn painstakingly documents these trends, and speculates on their future development. In so doing, the author takes investigative reporting to the threshold of prophecy, and gives us a stunningly plausible picture of the global religious landscape of the 21st century. This extraordinary project is the literary equivalent of turning over a flat rock. There is much to be seen and learned here¿all of it unsettling, disquieting, occasionally downright scary. ¿William Murchison, Radford Distinguished Professor, Baylor University When a bishop of a Christian church happily worships alongside a Wiccan invoking other gods, something has gone horribly wrong. In False Dawn, Lee Penn has produced a comprehensive and critical history of the United Religions Initiative. This book sounds a clear warning: Anyone who makes theological truth subservient to utopianism denigrates all religions. ¿Douglas LeBlanc, Editor, GetReligion.org |
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Contents
FOREWORD | 1 |
The Intellectual Precursors of Todays New Age Movement | 18 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 28 |
ONE ANGLICAN BISHOPS DREAM | 35 |
Secular Foundations Billionaires and Theosophists | 57 |
Molding Minds For A PostModern Religion | 63 |
THE IDEALS AND THE PRACTICE OF THE URI | 69 |
Bishop Swings Condemnation of Entheogens | 86 |
Engines of Human Evolution | 276 |
Destruction and Rebirth | 282 |
The Bleak Eschatology of the Omega Point | 288 |
A Pragmatic Evolutionary Case for Euthanasia and Eugenics | 294 |
Heralding the Coming of the Spirit of the Earth | 300 |
ROBERT MULLER | 306 |
Demoting Jesus to Highly Evolved Being | 328 |
The Judgments of Walschs Tolerant God | 336 |
THE URIS FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES | 93 |
From the White House to the State House | 99 |
AMONG THE NATIONS THE NONCHRISTIAN | 105 |
New Religious Movements and the URI | 115 |
A Divided VerdictTHE CHURCHES AND THE URI | 140 |
Fourteen ReaSONS TO STAND AGAINST The United | 175 |
11 Stigmatizing Exclusive Religions and Orthodoxy | 182 |
111 Laying the Ground for a New Religion of the Sacred Earth | 188 |
IV Fostering Dissent Within Traditional Religions | 205 |
CLOSING THE CASE AGAINST THE URI | 235 |
THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT FRIVOLOUS IN APPEARANCE | 246 |
Population Controlin 1888 | 252 |
ALICE A BAILEY AND THE LUCIS TRUST | 259 |
Communism and World Government as the Extraterrestrials Do It | 342 |
THE INVERTED SPIRITUALITY AND POLITICS of | 348 |
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV MAN WITH A STILLUNFULFilled | 359 |
THE STATE OF THE WORLD FORUM | 365 |
Implementing the Population Plan | 372 |
The Forums Elite Supporters | 378 |
MAURICE STRONG | 389 |
ARE THE NEW AGE AND GLOBALIST MOVEMENTS | 396 |
THE ASCENDANCY OF THE ANTITRADITION | 404 |
THE URI CHARTERS PREAMBLE PURPOSE | 449 |
A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY | 455 |
AUTHORS BIOGRAPHY | 479 |
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