The Tibetan’s teachings centre on the coming ‘New Age, the Age of Aquarius’, for which the Hierarchy are preparing humanity. This process will be, he says, in three phases: the first was between 1875 and 1890, which was activated through Madame Blavatsky; the second 1919 (the Tibetan’s first contact with Alice Bailey) to 1949 (her death); and the third and final phase was to begin in 1975 and last until 2025. Early in the twenty-first century a great initiate, the World Teacher, is to appear, resulting in the emergence of a new root race. This is, of course, remarkably similar to the teachings of Edgar Cayce concerning the opening of the Hall of Records at Giza, which he claimed would usher in a New Age, the return of the ‘Great Initiate’ and the beginnings of a new race. The words of the Hierarchy after 1975 were to be transmitted to the world through the medium of radio.
Bailey’s personal mission was to ‘prepare the world on a large scale for the coming of the World Teacher, and to take the necessary steps before They Themselves [the Hierarchy] come out among men, as many of them surely will towards the end of this century’.
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The similarity with the message of the Nine is glaringly obvious, but it grows even stronger. Part of Bailey’s work, as instructed by the Tibetan, was to set up a series of disciples to be known, for self-evident reasons, as the Groups of Nine, each group having specific roles such as healers, political organisers or educators of the New Age.
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There were to be nine such groups, with a tenth — also made up of nine initiates - to coordinate their work in the now-familiar pattern of nine plus one. Unfortunately, the process of setting up the Groups of Nine was interrupted by a curiously unforeseen circumstance - the Second World War.
The emphasis on nine as the ‘number of power’ is, of course, significant. When the ‘Nine Principles’ first made contact via Dr Vinod, it was to a group of nine sitters assembled by Puharich. (The doctor himself always tried to surround himself with groups made up of eight others, such as the ‘nucleus’ of followers at Lab Nine in Ossining, made up of nine people on Tom’s instruction.) Sir John R. Sinclair, in a 1984 book about Alice Bailey, finds the similarities between her stress on the significance of groups of nine and Schwaller de Lubicz’s Nine Principles remarkable, illustrating these similarities by quoting from that bastion of the New Egyptology, John Anthony West, in his
Serpent in the Sky
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But there are other significant connections: Bailey and Puharich’s communications reveal striking similarities that go much further, well beyond the realms of coincidence. The Masters in Bailey’s system, although led by a being called the Lord of the World, who comes from a higher realm, are spiritually evolved human beings who have been ‘promoted’ to the Hierarchy, and who have been incarnated as the great names of religion and esotericism, such as the ‘Master Jesus’. The Tibetan often used just their initials: the two Masters with leading roles in preparing the world for the final phase are known as the Master R and the Master M.
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The representatives of the Nine who spoke through Dr Vinod called themselves ‘R’ and ‘M’.
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Does this suggest independent confirmation of contact with real beings through different people? Or have the more recent communications simply been deliberately shaped to fit the predictions of the Tibetan? Philip Coppens drew our attention to a lecture given by Puharich in Upland, California on 6 November 1982, in which he summarised his work and how it had developed. He admitted that his early experiments at the Round Table Foundation were inspired by reading the works of Alice Bailey
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— and this was before his work with Dr Vinod. At the very least, this proves that Puharich was already aware of the Tibetan’s teachings before his first contact with the Nine.
Another significant aspect of Bailey’s work was the importance attached to Sirius. The star has a central role in Theosophical doctrines, where it is described as a kind of energy centre - likened to a cosmic equivalent of the human ‘third eye’ - with a powerful effect on our own solar system.
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In Bailey’s view, it similarly channels energy, from the ‘cosmic centre’ through our solar system to Earth. Although there are many such influences, it is Sirius that is by far the most powerful and important. In her book
Initiation, Human and Solar,
she describes a series of ‘paths’ taken by initiates as they develop spiritually. One of them is called the Path of Sirius, but as this is the most secret little is said openly about it. As she said:
Very little can be communicated about this Path... In the mystery of this influence, and in the secret of the sun Sirius, are hidden the facts of our cosmic evolution, and incidentally, therefore, of our solar system...
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First and foremost is the energy or force emanating from the
sun Sirius.
If it might be so expressed, the energy of thought, or mind force, in its totality, reaches the solar system from a distant cosmic centre
via
Sirius. Sirius acts as the transmitter, or the focalizing centre, whence emanate those influences which produce self-consciousness in men.
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The Tibetan adds that this energy does not reach Earth directly from Sirius, but is first beamed to Saturn, before passing on to us.
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This agrees with the Council of Nine’s pronouncements through Carla Rueckert and with Hurtak’s teachings.
The Tibetan, communicating through Alice Bailey, also makes another major connection — with the secret teachings of Freemasonry. According to the Tibetan, Freemasonry is a terrestrial version of an initiatory school that exists on Sirius, and that the various hierarchical degrees of Freemasonry are parallels, or analogues, of the different levels of initiation that an adept must go through in order to enter ‘the greater Lodge on Sirius’. The Tibetan claimed that the Masons have a very ancient connection with Sirius:
Masonry, as originally instituted far back in the very night of time and long ante-dating the Jewish dispensation, was organised under direct Siriun influence and modelled as far as possible on certain Siriun institutions.
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Such statements can, of course, be taken with more than a pinch of salt, but they may help to explain the frequent involvement of Freemasons in the events of this investigation, including those surrounding the Giza and Mars conspiracies. And Alice Bailey herself was no stranger to direct Masonic influence - her second husband, Foster Bailey, was not only a leading light of the Theosophical Society and a devotee of his wife’s channelled teachings, but also a prominent Freemason. His book
The Spirit of Masonry
(1957) stated his intention ‘to bring to the Craft certain inner meanings of our Order’, based on the Tibetan’s teachings.
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He also lectured on the subject to his brothers (who were members of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, the dominant form of American Freemasonry) and wrote that Freemasonry was a remnant of the ‘primeval religion’ that had once been common to the whole world, citing the pyramids of Egypt and South America as ‘witnesses’ of this ancient world religion.
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(The idea of a common wisdom tradition in the ancient world is, of course, a major feature of Graham Hancock’s increasingly fervent message, with its strong suggestion that the religion of old has some significance for our immediate future. This concept also underpins the largely Masonic belief in the coming New World Order.)
This is a truly explosive mixture. On the one hand the hugely seminal channelled teachings of Alice Bailey appear to have been influenced by the Masonic beliefs of her husband, but on the other it seems that, through Foster Bailey, the American Masons themselves were influenced by Alice Bailey’s teachings, at least where Sirius was concerned. The result is a hybrid, based both on tradition and ‘revealed’ material, each in its way, perhaps, just as open to question. Could Foster Bailey have made sure that his brother Masons espoused his wife’s channelled teachings about the ‘Siriun’ origins of Freemasonry as their own? Could this also be the reason why Robert Temple’s
The Sirius Mystery
attracted so much interest from American Freemasons? And Henry Wallace, one-time Vice-President of the United States and sponsor of Andrija Puharich, was a high-ranking - and passionately committed - Freemason and Theosophist, just like Foster Bailey himself.
Masons themselves may well claim that they knew about Sirius before Foster Bailey began to promote it. The American writer Robert Anton Wilson records that one of his many contacts from secret and esoteric societies both in the United States and Europe told him that the secret of the 33rd Degree - the highest rank in American Freemasonry - was that the Craft was in contact with intelligent beings from Sirius.
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Wilson himself pours scorn on this, but in any case, only other 33rd degree Masons will know whether or not it is true. Sirius does feature largely in Masonic lore, though, since every lodge room is decorated with a symbol called the Blazing Star, considered by Masonic authorities to represent Sirius.
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The great nineteenth-century American Freemason, Albert Pike, records a Masonic legend that specifically links the number nine to a stellar tradition connected with Sirius. This tells of the ‘Nine Elect’, the apprentice Masons who sought to avenge the death of their Master, Hiram Abiff, tracking one of his murderers to a certain cave. The Nine Elect are symbolised by the sequential rising of nine bright stars, including those of Orion’s Belt, which precedes the rising of Sirius.
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(The Elect of Nine is the 9th degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.)
What at first appears to be the Tibetan’s curious notion that Freemasonry is some kind of extraterrestrial institution is also found in other ‘inspired’ writings - this time those of H.C. Randall-Stevens, who way back in the 1920s wrote of secret chambers beneath the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid. Like Alice Bailey, he did not need to be in a trance to communicate with his guide, but simply took dictation from a voice in his head. The first of these dictation sessions happened on 9 February 1925, and they continued every night for several weeks, with little to show for it - just a page or so at a time. The communications always took place at, or around, nine o’clock in the evening. (Dr Vinod’s first contact with the Nine began at 9pm precisely.)
Randall-Stevens had two discarnate communicators, Adolemy (previously incarnated as Moses) and Oneferu. Between them, they described Giza as a ‘Pyramidal Masonic centre’ and talked of ‘Cosmic Masonry’, explaining: ‘The emigrants from Atlantis were people governed by the laws of Cosmic Freemasonry and those who landed in Egypt built centres of Masonic Initiation from which the country was administered.’
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In the 1950s Randall-Stevens established a group called the Knights Templars of Aquarius on the instructions of his guides. (It still exists, with its headquarters in the Channel Islands.) From his own words it seems that the communications finally moved on to trance mediumship, as in 1956 they were tape recorded. In
The Wisdom of the Soul
(1956) he writes:
The authority for the teachings and statements contained within its pages belongs to the Osiran Group, an Order within the Brotherhood of Master Masons, who are working through specific Initiates now incarnate in different parts of the world.
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Although there are many similarities between Randall-Stevens’s and Alice Bailey’s received wisdom, there are differences too, and Randall-Stevens’ communicators, like the Council of Nine, also make elementary mistakes. For example, they refer to the Sphinx as ‘that great granite image’,
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but of course it is made entirely of limestone.
As with many of the threads in this investigation, once again we find ourselves looking towards James Hurtak. The Keys of Enoch draws on many ideas from the same esoteric milieu encompassing Crowley, Blavatsky, Schwaller de Lubicz and Alice Bailey. Hurtak, Blavatsky and Bailey all term the ultimate authority in the universe the Great White Brotherhood, although Hurtak has upgraded their domicile from somewhere in Tibet to somewhere in the galaxy. But, like Bailey, Hurtak refers to them as the ‘Hierarchy’. And surely it is no coincidence that Hurtak’s The Keys of Enoch gives precisely the same dates for the duration of Atlantis - 18,000-12,000 BCE - as Saint-Yves d’Alveydre, the founder of Synarchy. Whatever else
The Keys of Enoch
might be, it is notably well versed in the work of other esoteric authors, particularly those of the late nineteenth century.
A new global religion
We were amazed to discover that links between the modern phenomenon of the Council of Nine and various occult organisations and esotericists such as Synarchy, Aleister Crowley and Alice Bailey had already been brought together with a ‘Council of Nine’ as far back as the 1930s. Under the bizarre pseudonym of ‘Inquire Within’, research by Christina Stoddard, former head of a schismatic Golden Dawn order called the Stella Matutina, appeared in two books,
Light-Bearers of Darkness
(1935) and
The Trail of the Serpent
(1936). They sounded a warning about the creation of new religious belief systems by apparently independent — but in fact connected — groups. Stoddard herself, like Schwaller de Lubicz and Alice Bailey, held extreme right-wing views, but even she was disturbed by what she saw as the increasingly iron grip of Synarchy on the esoteric world.
Stoddard discussed Saint-Yves’s Synarchist objectives, specif ically the control of the three key pillars of society, political, religious and economic institutions. She pointed out that this seemed to be happening in the religious sphere. Unlike the days when Christianity was the only sanctioned religion in the West, there were many different belief systems, making this area harder to control. To reverse this trend, the religions must first be unified, not by trying to supplant them, but by absorbing their main elements and effectively creating a new global religion. The best way of achieving this goal would be for some authoritative and charismatic leader to take control by explaining that God or the gods have, over the course of history, revealed certain truths to different people, which manifested as apparently disparate religions. But they all emanated from the same God. All that was needed was an understanding of the fundamental principles and the higher levels of spirituality to which mankind may now aspire. Tellingly, Stoddard gave as the prime example of this Synarchist synthesis the doctrines of Alice A. Bailey.
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