In 1985, Neal Wilson announced at the GC Session in New Orleans that the Seventh-day Adventist church had sought and was granted formal alliance with the United Nations (UN). There was no input or discussion from the delegates on this matter, they were just informed that our church was now an NGO of the United Nations. And that was that.
In our opinion, this alliance has resulted in numerous negative consequences to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, including the SDA church incorporating UN initiatives in their ADCOM statements. These initiatives arise from a non-Christian (humanistic) worldview, placing them in tension with our Biblical and Spirit of Prophecy values.
This unequal yoke with the United Nations was ‘sold’ under the rubric that NGO status would give the SDA Church a voice in geopolitical matters, and improve religious liberty. The reality is that the Seventh-day Adventist Church has been negatively influenced by their secular ideology, not the other way around. There is also a neo-pagan aspect to the United Nations which we cover below.
This open letter was sent to the General Conference by certified mail and emailed today to various individuals employed there:
The General Conference boasts that they have been involved with the United Nations since their inception (see image).
The Lucis Trust
You know who else has been involved with the United Nations since their inception, as a spiritual advisor? Alice Bailey and her Lucis Trust. The Lucis Trust, originally named the Lucifer Publishing Company, was founded in 1922 by Alice and Foster Bailey. Due to backlash, the name was changed in 1924 to Lucis Publishing Company, and later to Lucis Trust.
Alice Ann Bailey (born Alice LaTrobe Bateman) (1880-1949) was a New Age prophetess who claimed to channel teachings from her “spirit guide.” She acknowledged in the Unfinished Autobiography of Alice A. Bailey, p. 1, that she had left Christianity and become “a well-known occult teacher.”
Here are some quotes from her writings:
“The Christian faith has served its purpose; its Founder seeks to bring a new Gospel and a new message that will enlighten all men everywhere” (The Rays and the Initiations, p. 754).
“This is the challenge which today confronts the Christian church. The need is for vision, wisdom, and that wide tolerance which will see divinity on every hand and recognize the Christ in every human being” (From Bethlehem to Calvary, p. 273).
“The spirit has gone out of the old faiths and the true spiritual light is transferring itself into a new form which will manifest on earth eventually as the new world religion” (The Rays and the Initiations, p. 754).
“Before we can enter upon the study of Ageless Wisdom and take up the consideration of the science of some unfoldment it is essential that we grasp the fact of our divinity” (Bailey, “Values & Principles of Esotericism,” lecture given on March 1927, Arcane School Papers, p. 7).
“Thus the expressed aims and efforts of the United Nations will be eventually brought to fruition and a new church of God, gathered out of all religions and spiritual groups, will unitedly bring to an end the great heresy of separateness” (The Destiny of the Nations, p. 152).
Today Alice Bailey’s Lucis Trust, with its headquarters on Wall Street in New York City, has over 6,000 active members worldwide who are working toward the establishment of the new spiritual (occultic) order. Through its connections with the United Nations, its influence reaches well beyond its actual membership.
World Goodwill, which is part of Alice Bailey’s Lucis Trust, is on the roster of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), as is the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. World Goodwill is an approved Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with the UN’s Department of Public Information. It is dedicated to solving the world’s problems through “a new perception of humanity as a unit of divine life within an ordered and purposive universe.” It is based on the progressive spirituality idea that man is divine, which is actually Satan’s ancient lie to Eve, “Ye shall be as gods” (Ge. 3:5). Can you say, unequally yoked?
Lucis Trust maintains an office and library at the UN Plaza (120-124 East 32nd Street, near the UN headquarters in New York) and continues to organize meditation groups such as the “Triangles” and “Full Moon Meditation” work that its literature describes as spiritually supporting the United Nations.
The UN Meditation Room is maintained by the Lucis Trust. In 1956-57 UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold turned the interdenominational prayer chapel into a New Age meditation chamber. A six-and-a-half ton block of iron ore was deposited in the center of the room, the polished top of which is lit by a single beam of light from the ceiling. The light depicts “divine wisdom,” and the block depicts an empty altar representing “God worshipped in many forms.” The iron ore also represents the metal from which weapons are made and the New Age hope that through the power of meditation world peace can be achieved. Hammarskjold said, “... we thought we could bless by our thoughts the very material out of which arms are made.” Dear friends, this is overt spiritualism. Hammarskjold said the Meditation Room is a place “where people can really withdraw into themselves and feel the void.”
Conclusion
The Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders have no business intertwining its members with an organization like the United Nations, and we owe a debt of gratitude to the members who drafted and sent this open letter to the General Conference.
Pray that GC Administrators will have the courage and biblical discernment to sever all ties between the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the United Nations.
It’s time!
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“Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded” (James 4:8).