Doesn't
matter WHEN, it's happening NOW!
Though it
may not be happening to everybody
At the same
time.
Or in the
same way.
But as the
Beatles say:
"Having been
some days in preparation
A splendid
time is guaranteed for all."
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HOW LONG IT'S BEEN:]
A New Age
might have been in sight
When Pharaoh
Akhnaton ruled Egypt,
Thirty-three
hundred and sixty-six years ago
(If historians
are correct) in 1370 B.C.
But alas it
was not to be,
For the King
was poisoned in his palace
By ruthless
generals and greedy priests
Before his
mission was complete.
Akhnaton's
task was to prepare the world
For the arrival
of Lord Sananda,
The Cosmic
Christ foretold.
And so, fourteen
centuries down the line,
Another attempt
was made in another land
To restore
Love as Law and the Path of Light
Upon this
Earth: Palestine under Roman rule,
Where corruption
and hypocrisy reigned supreme.
Some middle-class
Jews were put to shame
When the Messiah
came and castigated
The merchants
in the temple.
"Oy vay,
don't rock the boat!" they pleaded,
And as their
pious petitions went unheeded,
They charged
him with subversion and
Crucified
him with unholy haste.
And once again
all hope of a Golden Age
Was brutally
laid waste
(Even if, as some aver, the Crucifiction was
Just a Catholic joke in very poor taste).
However, the Christ Seed had been planted
In the human
gene pool - though it must have felt unwanted.
Rewind the
tape of time five centuries or so
To ancient
China, where "Old Boy" Lao-tze
(Archetypal
wild sage of the mountains)
Successfully
summed up reality in 81 verses
Called the
Tao
Te Ching.
While in Greece
Pythagoras held the Beam
With his mathemagickal
mystery school,
Using tools
like the Golden Mean
And hypotenuse
rules, even as he danced
To the Music
of the Spheres.
In India Queen
Maya bore a Prince:
Siddhartha
was his name. Instead of fortune and fame
He sought
enlightenment and freedom from the game
Of personal
karma. As Buddha he taught us the dharma,
That this
illusory world is just 4D melodrama.
Rather than
beat an ignominious retreat
Sweet Socrates
(that old pederast)
Took his hemlock
neat (and his die was cast);
To his health
we shall drink eternally.
All these
heroic individuals have been named
As Keepers
of the Sacred Flame
That came
through the Sun
From beyond
the stars: they were
Beacons of
truth and harbingers
Of an approaching
New Aeon.
Bold troubadours
in post-Arthurian tales
Sang to us
about the Quest for the Grail:
How the valiant
Knights of the Table Round
Sought the
greatest treasure to be found -
That pot of
gold at the Rainbow's End -
The descent
of the Dove
And the Rule
of Love,
As enemies
turn to friends.
The most fleeting
glimpse was all we were shown
As we drew
the sword of intelligence from the stone;
And then the
vision of the Holy Grail
Vanished behind
a misty veil
Of nightmarish
mayhem and massacre.
Rival factions
plunged the world into bloody war,
Screaming,
"Dominion over others by fang and claw!"
Meanwhile
in the Middle East the stage was set
For yet another
crusade on this poor planet.
The portals
of belief saw heavy traffic.
As images
of love turned pornographic.
The Spanish
Inquisition was thrown in purely for luck,
To ensure
that the status quo didn't come unstuck.
"Nine Hells
have arrived," Aztec priests cried,
"Exactly as
Quetzalcoatl prophesied."
Came the Renaissance,
a brilliant flash
Of inspiration,
giving rise to a dream
Of a world
reborn through Alchemy, Science and Art.
The Word now
passed from ear to eye
As scriptures
were read instead of heard.
The past age
of spiritual darkness and doubt
Gave way to
Copernicus, Bruno, and Galileo -
Who advocated
logic, reason and laboratory testing
As the most
reliable method of finding out
What Life
on Earth was all about.
Angels and
demons filled the atmosphere,
And spoke
to Michel Nostradamus the famous seer.
They told
him of the long dark night
Of humanity's
soul in its headlong flight
Towards the
final Apocalypse.
Mountebanks
and sorcerers, mystery men and mages,
Took their
turn upon the stage of history:
Cagliostro
and Saint-Germain,
Eliphaz Levi,
Messrs Kelly and Dee
Held sway
in the courts of Europe,
Hinting of
a New Jerusalem and the
Rebuilding
of Solomon's Temple.
Christian
Rosenkreutz published the Rosicrucian Manifesto,
Heralding
the advent of Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality;
While in 1776
Adam Weishaupt of Ingolstadt
Founded the
Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria -
Whose illustrious
members, apparently,
Included the
likes of George Washington, Tom Jefferson,
And Ben Franklin
- progenitors of the American Dream
Of Novus
Ordo Seclorum - a New World Order, no less:
A New World
for a New Age -
Governed by
a global Freemasonry!
Another page
turns in the Book of Changes:
America the
Dream goes to Hollywood,
Gets hijacked
and featured in National Geographic,
Serialized
in Reader's Digest;
And now the
movie rights are owned by Walt Disney,
While the
Bill of Rights waits at the Gates
Of Heaven.
In Persia
the Bab was born: and in May 1844 proclaimed
The imminent
approach of the Imam Mahdi,
Ultimate prophet
of God - but the Shah had him shot
For disrespect
towards Worldly Authority.
Then his followers
established the Baha'i movement,
Which advocates
world government on a Unified Earth,
And a new
age of Universal Justice.
Newton, Darwin,
and Faraday were an ad agency for
Progress through
Science: understand how the universe works
And a New
Industrial Age begins.
It all started
with a Big Bang and everything since
Has been winding
down like a clockspring.
At the height
of our collective infatuation
With Machines
and Automation,
Blavatsky,
Leadbeater, and Olcott - NOT your typical firm of
Chartered
Accountants - went to India and Tibet where they met
Ascended Masters
of the Trans-Himalayan Brotherhood,
And were assigned
the task of introducing
Ancient wisdom
to the modern world.
Proclaim the
advent of a New Aeon, they were told,
And groom
J. Krishnamurti for the role
Of planetary
savior.
Their Theosophical
Society was inaugurated
In 1875 and
found an eager following in the West,
While in the
East the Sun still rose
And shone
upon the sleeping millions.
Secret Societies
sprouted like mushrooms
In the moldy
moral ground of Victorian times, and
Ritual magic
enjoyed a fairly brisk trade.
Messages from
the Spirit World
And all varieties
of psychic phenomena
Caught the
fancy of bored housewives and
Wayward intellectuals.
The Who's
Who of arcane knowledge and esoteric lore
Included names
like W.B. Yeats and Claude Debussy,
Victor Hugo
and Conan Doyle, Bulwer-Lytton and Liddell Mathers,
Aleister Crowley,
the Marquis de Sade, and many more.
"Practitioners
of Evil, Satanists, Lucifer's Friends, and
The Antichrist"
were epithets flung at some of these pioneers.
But the tide
of evolution was rising fast:
It spawned
the glamorous Order of the Golden Dawn
And magickal
offshoots like the O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis) and
Argenteum
Astrum (the Silver Star).
Some followed
Rudolf Steiner into Anthroposophy,
And joined
the tug-of-war between Ahura Mazda and Ahriman.
Others were
captivated by G.I. Gurdjieff and his school
Of Modified
Sufi Dance, but found themselves bewildered
By his Beelzebub's
Tales to His Grandson: a rambunctious and
Somewhat Rabelaisian
dissection of the human experiment
Seen through
the extraterrestrial eyes of a former
Colonial Administrator
of Earth.
Adolf Hitler
and Company had their ill-fated Third Reich:
Hoping to
govern the world by high-tech voodoo and
A fanatic
belief in Aryan supremacy.
But the Fourth
Reich (propounded by Wilhelm,
Psychoanalyst
and discoverer of Orgone energy
Who authored
Function
of the Orgasm)
Might have
been a lot more fun
If Dr Reich
hadn't been hounded out of Europe
By his erstwhile
colleagues in the psychiatric profession,
And finally
assassinated in a US prison by
What he called
the HIGs - Hoodlums In Government.
(We're
not talking ancient history here:
This happened
in the 1950s!)
Anyhow Reich
tried to alert the US Air Force
To the suspicious
activity of UFOs - only to be subjected
To intense
harassment by the FBI and the MIB
Who, for some
reason, wanted to see Reich discredited or dead.
In retrospect,
it appears that Reich was perceived
As a significant
threat to Dwight D. Eisenhower's covert programme
Of "scientific
collaboration" with the Greys -
A technically
advanced but spiritually retarded race,
Desperately
seeking a cure for terminal infertility
Before their
species became extinct.
Which brings
us to the era of Star Trek, Star Wars,
Close Encounters,
ET,
X-Files
and Virtual Reality.
Also crystal
gazing, holistic healing,
Wheeling and
dealing gurus,
Group meditations,
Earth activations,
Celestine
Prophecies and TM levitation,
Swift mutations
and transmutation...
Hey, are there
any experts left with reputations?
When there
are more Channels than TV sets,
You find more
confusion than the United Nations.
What you believe
is what you get;
Anything goes
these days.. who knows?
Anything can
happen yet!
"Oh, the Sirians
will save us!" some Brethren shout.
"No, only
Jesus Christ can!" the Born-Again spout.
Others laugh:
"It's the Pleiadian Plan - a total rout!"
"Save our
streams before there are no more trout!"
The angelic
anglers scream.
So is the
New Age just a dream
From which
Old Age awakens
With a terrible
hangover?
Wait and
see, nothing will change -
That's what
the so-called Realist thinks.
Life will
always be unfair,
You gotta
be quick and grab a chair
(Let the rest
drop dead, it's their affair!)
Money, not
love, makes the world go round -
Excuse me,
can I convert my ringgit to pounds? -
Gotta ride
that crazy merry-go-round
Till you're
six feet underground.
Let me ask
you: is there any proof at hand
That God can
also be a Man?
You say every
woman is the Goddess,
But all I
care about is the size of her bodice.
And I wanna
know just how many Harmonica Virgins
Blew their
minds at Harmonic Convergence!
Don't talk
to me about Tectonic Plates,
Electromagnetic
Grids, Pole Shifts, Zionist Plots,
Precessioning
Equinoxes, Photon Belts, and
Why your paternal
grandma was a Celt.
Do you wanna
know when I last cried?
It was the
day my pet canary died.
Well, well,
well, what have we here?
Keep your
mind and heart open
And have no
fear.
The worst
that could happen is...
NOTHING.
What the New
Age really means is a Quantum Leap -
From Global
Village to Local Galaxy at the sound of a beep.
Better get
ready or go back to sleep...
Carry on,
Mr Accountant,
Count your
sheep.
[June
1996]
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