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Aquarian_Conspiracy_by_EIRThe Aquarian ConspiracyExecutive Intelligence Reviewwww.LaRouchePub.comIn the spring of 1980, a book appeared called The Aquarian Conspiracythat put itself forward as a manifesto of the counterculture. Definingthe counterculture as the conscious embracing of irrationality -- fromrock and drugs to biofeedback, meditation, "consciousness-raising,"yoga, mountain climbing, group therapy, and psychodrama. The AquarianConspiracy declares that it is now time for the 15 million Americansinvolved in the counterculture to join in bringing about a "radicalchange in the United States."Writes author Marilyn Ferguson: "While outlining a not-yet-titled bookabout the emerging social alternatives, I thought again about thepeculiar form of this movement; its atypical leadership, the patientintensity of its adherents, their unlikely successes. It suddenly struckme that in their sharing of strategies, their linkage, and theirrecognition of each other by subtle signals, the participants were notmerely cooperating with one another. They were in collusion. It -- thismovement -- is a conspiracy!"1Ferguson used a half-truth to tell a lie. The counterculture is aconspiracy -- but not in the half-conscious way Ferguson claim -- as shewell knows. Ferguson wrote her manifesto under the direction of WillisHarman, social policy director of the Stanford Research Institute, as apopular version of a May 1974 policy study on how to transform the UnitedStates into Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The counterculture is aconspiracy at the top, created as a method of social control, used todrain the United States of its commitment to scientific andtechnological progress.That conspiracy goes back to the 1930s, when the British sent AldousHuxley to the United States as the case officer for an operation toprepare the United States for the mass dissemination of drugs. We willtake this conspiracy apart step-by-step from its small beginnings withHuxley in California to the victimization of 15 million Americans today.With 'The Aquarian Conspiracy', the British Opium War against the UnitedStates has come out into the open.The ModelThe British had a precedent for the counterculture they imposed upon theUnited States: the pagan cult ceremonies of the decadent Egyptian andRoman Empires. The following description of cult ceremonies dating backto the Egyptian Isis priesthood of the third millennium B.C. could justas well be a journalistic account of a "hippy be-in" circa A.D. 1969:"The acts or gestures that accompany the incantations constitute the
rite [of Isis]. In these dances, the beating of drums and the rhythm ofmusic and repetitive movements were helped by hallucinatory substanceslike hashish or mescal; these were consumed as adjuvants to create thetrance and the hallucinations that were taken to he the visitation of thegod. The drugs were sacred, and their knowledge was limited to theinitiated . . . Possibly because they have the illusion of satisfieddesires, and allowed the innermost feelings to escape, these ritesacquired during their execution a frenzied character that is conspicuousin certain spells: "Retreat! Re is piercing thy head, slashing thy face,dividing thy head, crushing it in his hands; thy bones are shattered,thy limbs are cut to pieces!"2The counterculture that was foisted on the 1960s adolescent youth ofAmerica is not merely analogous to the ancient cult of Isis. It is aliteral resurrection of the cult down to the popularization of the Isiscross (the "peace symbol") as the counterculture's most frequently usedsymbol.The High PriesthoodThe high priest for Britain's Opium War was Aldous Huxley, the grandsonof Thomas H. Huxley, a founder of the Rhodes Roundtable group and alifelong collaborator of Arnold Toynbee. Toynbee himself sat on the RIIAcouncil for nearly fifty years, headed the Research Division of Britishintelligence throughout World War II, and served as wartime briefingofficer of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Toynbee's "theory" ofhistory, expounded in his twenty-volume History of Western civilization,was that its determining culture has always been the rise and decline ofgrand imperial dynasties. At the very point that these dynasties -- the"thousand year Reich" of the Egyptian pharaohs, the Roman Empire, andthe British Empire -- succeed in imposing their rule over the entireface of the earth, they tend to decline. Toynbee argued that thisdecline could be abated if the ruling oligarchy (like that of the BritishRoundtable) would devote itself to the recruitment and training of anever-expanding priesthood dedicated to the principles of imperial rule.3Trained at Toynbee's Oxford, Aldous Huxley was one of the initiates inthe "Children of the Sun," a Dionysian cult comprised of the children ofBritain's Roundtable elite.4 Among the other initiates were T.S. Eliot,W.H. Auden, Sir Oswald Mosley, and D.H. Lawrence, Huxley's homosexuallover. It was Huxley, furthermore, who would launch the legal battle inthe 1950s to have Lawrence's pornographic novel Lady Chatterley's Loverallowed into the United States on the ground that it was a misunderstood"work of art."5Aldous Huxley, along with his brother Julian, was tutored at Oxford byH.G. Wells, the head of British foreign intelligence during World War Iand the spiritual grandfather of the Aquarian Conspiracy. Fergusonaccurately sees the counterculture as the realization of what Wellscalled The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution. The "OpenConspiracy," Wells wrote, "will appear first, I believe, as a consciousorganization of intelligent and quite possibly in some cases, wealthymen, as a movement having distinct social and political aims,confessedly ignoring most of the existing apparatus of politicalcontrol, or using it only as an incidental implement in the stages, a
mere movement of a number of people in a certain direction who willpresently discover with a sort of surprise the common object towardwhich they are all moving . . . In all sorts of ways they will beinfluencing and controlling the apparatus of the ostensiblegovernment."6What Ferguson left out is that Wells called his conspiracy a "one-worldbrain" which would function as "a police of the mind." Such books as theOpen Conspiracy were for the priesthood itself. But Wells's popularwritings (Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and so forth), andthose of his proteges Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and George Orwell(1984 and Animal Farm), were written as "mass appeal" organizingdocuments on behalf of one-world order. Only in the United States arethese "science fiction classics" taught in grade school as attacksagainst fascism.Under Wells's tutelage, Huxley was first introduced to Aleister Crowley.Crowley was a product of the cultist circle that developed in Britainfrom the 1860s under the guiding influence of Edward Bulwer-Lytton --who, it will be recalled, was the colonial minister under LordPalmerston during the Second Opium War. In 1886, Crowley, William ButlerYeats, and several other Bulwer-Lytton proteges formed the Isis-UraniaTemple of Hermetic Students of the Golden Dawn. This Isis Cult wasorganized around the 1877 manuscript Isis Unveiled by Madame HelenaBlavatsky, in which the Russian occultist called for the Britisharistocracy to organize itself into an Isis priesthood.7The subversive Isis Urania Order of the Golden Dawn is today aninternational drug ring said to be controlled by the Canadianmulti-millionaire, Maurice Strong, who is also a top operative forBritish Intelligence.In 1937, Huxley was sent to the United States, where he remainedthroughout the period of World War II. Through a Los Angeles contact,Jacob Zeitlin, Huxley and pederast Christopher Isherwood were employedas script writers for MGM, Warner Brothers, and Walt Disney Studios.Hollywood was already dominated by organized crime elements bankrolledand controlled through London. Joseph Kennedy was the frontman for aBritish consortium that created RKO studios, and "Bugsy" Siegel, theWest Coast boss of the Lansky syndicate, was heavily involved in WarnerBrothers and MGM.Huxley founded a nest of Isis cults in southern California and in SanFrancisco, that consisted exclusively of several hundred derangedworshipers of Isis and other cult gods. Isherwood, during the Californiaperiod, translated and propagated a number of ancient Zen Buddhistdocuments, inspiring Zen-mystical cults along the way.8In effect, Huxley and Isherwood (joined soon afterwards by Thomas Mannand his daughter Elisabeth Mann Borghese) laid the foundations duringthe late 1930s and the 1940s for the later LSD culture, by recruiting acore of "initiates" into the Isis cults that Huxley's mentors,Bulwer-Lytton, Blavatsky, and Crowley, had constituted while stationed inIndia.
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