High Time We Made a Stand and Shook Up the Views of the Common Man

The new reality they sought was radically secular and stridently simple. The ideal was not the balanced complexity of the new American federation, but the occult simplicity of its great seal: an all-seeing eye atop a pyramid over the words Novus Ordo Seclorum. ¹

James H. Billington
Fire In The Minds Of Men

The study of cosmology shows how our relationship to the universe and our fellow humans is inextricably conditioned by our underlying belief systems and mythologies. As every thoughtful person realizes, the life of each civilization-and every individual-is influenced by underlying mythologies, whether sacred, scientific, secular, or profane. In our century, psychology has shown that those who do not believe that their lives are shaped by an underlying mythology are always those who are the most captivated by its spell. ²

Jesus Christ, Sun of God:
Ancient Cosmology and Early Christian Symbolism

Think about the place where you live
Wonder why you haven’t before…

R.E.M.
Stand

In his chapter of the antiquity of Masonry, [Captain George Smith] makes it to be coeval with creation, ‘when,’ says he, ‘the sovereign architect raised on Masonic principles the beauteous globe, and commanded the master science, Geometry, to lay the planetary world, and to regulate by its laws the whole stupendous system in just unerring proportion, rolling round the central sun.’ ³

Thomas Paine
The Origin of FreeMasonry

The term [revolution] derives from the Latin substantive revolutio, which was unknown in classical Latin but was used in the early Middle Ages by St. Augustine and other Christian writers.

Translated into Italian as rivoluzione in the early Renaissance and then into French and English as revolution, the term initially meant the return of a moving object to its place of origin—particularly the movement of celestial bodies around the earth.

Copernicans used it increasingly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to describe their unsettling new concept of the earth revolving—axially and orbitally—around the sun. ⁴

James H. Billington
Fire In The Minds Of Men

Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. ⁵

The Spirit of the Earth, 1931
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is evident that Teilhard does not resonate to the biblical world-view. Not only does he find it staticist and narrow, but he thinks that it is based upon “the Alexandrine” cosmology (whatever that might be). What Teilhard fails to grasp, however, is that the biblical Weltanschauung [world-view] is actually based, not upon any theory or abstract model of the universe, but quite simply upon sense perception. ⁶

Teilhardism And The New Religion
Wolfgang Smith

Months later, while outlining a not-yet-titled book about the emerging social alternatives, I thought again about the peculiar form of this movement: its atypical leadership, the patient in-tensity of its adherents, their unlikely successes. It suddenly struck me that in their sharing of strategies, their linkage, and their recognition of each other by subtle signals, the participants were not merely cooperating with one another. They were in collusion. “It”-this movement-was a conspiracy!

At first I was reluctant to use the term. I didn’t want to sensationalize what was happening, and the word conspiracy usually has negative associations. Then I came across a book of spiritual exercises in which the Greek novelist, Nikos Kazantzakis, said he wished to signal his comrades, “like conspirators,” that they might unite for the sake of the earth. The next day the Los Angeles Times carried an account of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s speech to the United Nations Habitat Conference in Vancouver; Trudeau quoted from a passage in which the French scientist-priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin urged a “conspiracy of love.”

Conspire, in its literal sense, means “to breathe together.” It is an intimate joining. To make clear the benevolent nature of this joining, I chose the word Aquarian. Although I am unacquainted with astrological lore, I was drawn to the symbolic power of the pervasive dream in our popular culture: that after a dark, violent age, the Piscean, we are entering a millennium of love and light-in the words of the popular song, “The Age of Aquarius,” the time of “the mind’s true liberation.” ⁷

The Aquarian Conspiracy (1981) – Marilyn Ferguson