What in the world did I just stumble upon...Jaz Coleman was commissioned by Lucis Trust to produce music (Gnostic Mass) for their and what he says is the United Nations' Great Invocation! 🤯

He lauds the coming of an occult, technocratic (with smart cities), oneist, planetary consciousness, and world government/federation as a new Tower of Babel, unifying all things. He recorded with Russia's oldest orchestra and says Russia has a special role in bringing in the new age and ancient mysteries!!!

"1. As we are currently living in the sixth extinction period, global society is radically re-arranging itself via mass centralization for its own survival’s sake. Thermonuclear armed nation states condemned to an inevitable resource war, further antagonized by neoliberal capitalism could quite easily set back current evolutionary development by millions of years. Mankind is currently experiencing its “Babel Moment”, as the fragmentation of individualism yields to a more homogenized global collectivism, and as the current post-democratic period gives way to an emerging technotronic synarchy.

2. As it appears, our greater imperative is to rapidly accelerate human advancement, art (from a microcosmic perspective) must enhance a sense of oneness in all themes (i.e. projecting the unification of all nations, races, creeds, a polycentric choir, all singing the one song from the same hymn sheet, as it were), so that we may take the first necessary step to potentially evolve into a type 1 civilization on the Kardashev scale (i.e. the ability to harness all the possible energy from an available star, gathering and storing it to meet the demands of a stabilized population). In other words, the music had to celebrate the emergence of planetary consciousness.

Conveying such a momentous mode of social metamorphosis is perhaps more adequately expressed through alchemical symbolism as the Tower of Babel morphs into a termite mound (or the industrious beehive). Such emblems have considerable significance as we approach the proposed de-industrialization of the planet (and the regeneration of Gaia), in which the bulk of humanity has moved away from the wilderness areas to 21st century smart cities, characterized by shiny futuristic skyscrapers that appear to ascend to the heavens (analogous to the legendary Tower of Babel) while simultaneously descending to subterranean depths in the manner of an inverted termite mound, encapsulating a synarchic hive mind.

The planetary hive mind was also predicted by the mystic Alice Bailey who noted: “World Citizenship should be the goal of the enlightened, with a world federation and world brain.”

Furthermore, science appeared to confirm this trend. Peter Russell and Ray Kurzweil (who is currently head of R&D for Google) observed that when the numbers of learned units approach the ‘critical mass’ (i.e. population gets close to 10 billion), they start to behave like parts of a larger organism. Above all, I wanted the music to not just reflect an awareness of these momentous changes but to embrace and beautify this profound metamorphosis.

So the work ahead had to somehow capture the zeitgeist of this mega-social transformation and amplify the “Babel Moment”. The all-important Aquarian themes of the brotherhood and sisterhood of man have not been adequately addressed or developed in any meaningful way since Beethoven utilized the genius of Schiller’s masterpiece Ode to Joy in the glorious 9th symphony.

The way things panned out was little short of magical. For example, I mentioned earlier the text had to imply the restoration of the ancient mysteries. Later, I would record The Great Invocation with Russia’s oldest orchestra, the St Petersburg Philharmonic, which is curious when one considers that Alice Bailey prophesized Russia’s special role in bringing in the true New Age and the restoration of the ancient mysteries."

🔗 Album Notes lucistrust.org/the_grea…

🔗 Magna Invocatio lucistrust.org/the_grea…