Snippet on Next Part of HI-JACKING OF EVANGELICALISM - disguised theosophy?

I am working on the Hi-Jacking of Evangelicalism, Part VI, "Evangelicalism or Disguised Theosophy." This will be published on NewswithViews.com and simultaneously here as well. I thought you might be interested in helping me evaluate this as I go along. Interestingly, Abraham ("Abram") Vereide and Frank Buchman were part of the shaping of the UN in 1945 in their San Francisco convocations. These paragraphs are from Jeff Sharlet's THE FAMILY. His source was Norman Grubb's MODERN VIKING, his biographical account of Abraham Vereide and his International Christian Leadership now very much in the news as part of the C Street Center in Washington, D.C., the address where Paul Temple sent his very large annual contributions.

"On Abraham Vereide: Vereide arrived in Washington, D.C., on September 6, 1941, as the guest of a man referred to only as “Colonel Brindley.” “Here I am finally,” he wrote to his wife, Mattie, who remained in Seattle. “In a day or two—many will know that I am in town and by God's grace it will hum.” Within weeks he had held his first D.C. prayer meeting, attended by more than a hundred congressmen. By 1943, now living in a suite at Colonel Brindley's University Club, Vereide was an insider. “My what a full and busy day!” he wrote to Mattie on January 22. The Vice President brought me to the Capitol and counseled with me regarding the programs and plans, and then introduced me to Senator Brewster, who in turn to Senator Burton—then planned further the program and enlisted their cooperation. Then to the Supreme Court for visits with some of them . . . then back to the Senate, House. . . . The hand of the Lord is upon me. He is leading.

By the end of the war, nearly a third of U.S. senators attended one of his weekly prayer meetings.

In 1944, Vereide had foreseen what he called “the new world order.” “Upon the termination of the war there will be many men available to carry on,” Vereide wrote in a letter to his wife. “Now the ground-work must be laid and our leadership brought to face God in humility, prayer and obedience.” He began organizing prayer meetings for delegates to the United Nations, at which he would instruct them in God's plan for rebuilding from the wreckage of the war. Donald Stone, a high-ranking administrator of the Marshall Plan, joined the directorship of Vereide's organization. In an undated letter, he wrote Vereide that he would “soon begin a tour around the world for the , combining with this a spiritual mission.” Vereide met with Jewish survivors and listened to their stories, but he nevertheless considered ex-Nazis well suited for the demands of “strong” government, so long as they were willing to worship Christ as they had Hitler.

I also read on page 143 of Grubb's book that in 1952, Princess Wilhelmina (the abdicated Queen Wilhelmina) of Holland served as President of ICL (International Christian Leadership). Here, I briefly note for the record that Queen Wilhelmina had been one of Krishnamurti's biggest patrons in his abortive attempt to head a "New World Order" as Maitreya or "new Christ."

Much more later! Stay tuned


Constance