New World Vision part 1 by Rev. Christine Emmerling DD 6/1/2025

Today we’re starting a new 4-part series titled “The New World Vision.” It is about some of the great men who with their vision of liberty and equality for all, and their unfailing dedication helped to bring forth our United States of America. This talk today is inspired by Corinne Heline’s book “America’s Invisible Guidance,” first printed in 1949. Long have I heard reference to our country being formed by men of the Freemasonry order, but didn’t understand how deeply rooted our country is based on esoteric teachings and spiritual values.

In school, we were taught about the Boston Tea Party as the trigger in rebellion of high taxation from the Motherland of England. This is just one reason, but as Heline tells us in her works, that there really is a much deeper mission behind it.

The following is directly from the Preface, and written by Heline herself: “With human consciousness having now definitely reached the border line that divides the seen from the unseen, the form side from the life aspect of being, a treatise such as this dealing with the higher spiritual guidance in our national history will undoubtedly be received with greater interest and better understanding by larger numbers of people than would have been the case even so recently as when these articles first commenced to appear in print.

The release of atomic energy literally projected mankind into another dimension of being. This added dimension provides ample room in terms of man’s thinking for the hitherto largely ignored “Invisible Government”. Moreover, the multiplying chaos in the world and the manifest importance of mere human intellect to solve the endless problems from above where unfailingly it may be found. In that fact lies the hope of mankind’s future.

It is by virtue of such higher guidance that our nation has become the great power that it is today. Yet its task is only just begun. It is its destiny to establish a New Order of the ages, not just for our United States, but for the peoples of all the world. To help this nation realize that glorious mission, the Invisible Government stands ever ready to lend strength and enlightenment to our leaders, asking only that they become faithful transmitters of the Plan as the Great Ones know it and serve it.

These articles were undertaken out of the impelling conviction that even a cursory glance at the manner in which higher guidance has made itself manifest again and again in our past history could not fail in this time of grave national crisis to rekindle a new faith and inspire fresh confidence in the presence of Powers under whose all-wise guidance our high destiny remains forever secure.” (End)

As we look out at our nation today, we can see how appropriate this message is for us at this time. It truly has inspired me. As I read through her book, it is as if I was reading about the beginning of Spiritual Politics. Aristotle wrote: “Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.” Human liberty stresses self responsibility.

We find that the words “New Age” and “New World Order” were used at the time America was becoming a republic, if not before. And at that time, there were people striving to halt the building of our country.

These people were of two sides. Those who innocently feared change and want to continue with a system that was working because they had attained some degree of material ease or establishment; and those who wanted to keep the masses from discovering freedom, breaking from obedience to someone or thing, and becoming responsible only to their “Highest deeds and self.”

Corrine Heline, parts the veil, that we may see how our forefathers were divinely inspired to lead us to the point and prepare us to further life as God intended. She has also pointed out how we have been guided and hints at the negative forces that have been counter to the plan – like a shadow becoming so encompassing that they subtly control and dominate us by taking away our personal freedom, and our freedom to become responsible.

The cure: “Only by listening with our heart can we begin to direct and plan our lives.” And, as Jesus said, “Only by loving one another Shall I know that you are my disciples.” Heline says, “We can no longer just experience and observe the change but must become the actual architects of change. It is time to grasp the plan of the master builder, God, to grow into God’s image, to bring that plan down into materialization with intelligence, right use of free will, wisdom, love and purposeful intent.”

Our founding fathers were these kind of people, “architects of change”, of the highest driven by spiritual values and principle. This new continent became a magnet to those souls in the Old World that had the courage and initiative to leave their limited conditions, and religious and political persecutions to bring forth a commonwealth in which freedom of conscience would be recognized and a greater measure of brotherhood put into actual practice. Such were the ideals of these early pilgrims.

One of the outstanding personalities of the early time was the zealous religionist, Roger Williams. This pioneer was the son of a wealthy Londoner and a Cambridge scholar. His spirit was keyed to ideals in advance of his time. Coming to America he made cause with the Puritan settlers and decided that he could best serve this cause by becoming an officiating churchman.

Roger Williams lived and worked in close accord with the Native Americans. His fair and just dealings saved many communities from massacre and destruction. The Native Americans trusted and revered him, and any agreement made with him they kept in good faith. His ideals of social justice were extended to the Native Americans. He could not treat them as savages or apply to them another code of conduct.

Williams bought land, and consecrated it to his high ideals of a new social order. This area he christened “Providence”, in token of God’s watchful care and protection. This was the initial founding of the colony of Rhode Island. All the original colonies were founded for the establishment of civil and religious liberty and for the worship of God. Roger Williams exemplified this noble ideal.

Back in the Old World, we have Jane Leade. This woman possessed a high degree of illumination, being both a mystic and alchemist. She was a disciple of the renowned mystic, Jacob Boehme, and was a member of the Philadelphian society which was founded by the noted English mystic named Portage.

She was intuitively spiritually guided by St. John the Beloved, who instructed her much in relation to the Philosopher’s Stone, and revealed to her many things concerning the Lost Word of the Masons with its profound occult symbolism.

At the time Leade headed the Boehme group in London, there lived in Germany a man named John Jacob Zimmerman who besides being a Lutheran minister, was also a mathematician and an astronomer. Stricken with illness he was attended by a physician who was a member of the Boehme group. By this means Zimmerman contacted the deeper esoteric doctrines which he immediately made his own. He was expelled from the church on the charge that he placed Boehme before the “Immortal Twelve.”

He continued his studies which lead him to London, and study under Leade. In the London Boehme group, a degree was formulated which bore the title, “The Rite of Perfection.” Those who qualified for this degree were eligible to join an esoteric colony which was to set sail for America. Bringing with them the Ageless Wisdom.

Zimmerman didn’t make it for he suddenly passed on, but he had a young John Kelpius as his successor and left him as chief magister of the group. The party of highly advanced individuals sailed from Rotterdam in 1693 bringing with them as their most precious earthly possessions in addition to the Bible the complete works of Jacob Boehme. And thus were the Teachings of the Mysteries first planted on American soil.

The group of European mystics who immigrated to our shores in the early days of this country’s colonization settled in Pennsylvania. That early settlement of the late 17th century grew into the village of Germantown, which became Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly love. These were pioneers on the double frontiers of both the physical and the spiritual. Many miracles of healing were attributed to them at this time.

Thus the Community was an inner center through which spiritual power was released into the New World, particularly during the earliest days of its founding and the critical years of the Revolution. Some time after this when it disbanded, most of the occult library passed into the keeping of Benjamin Franklin.

Then we have Thomas Paine who said “Where Freedom is not, there is my country.” Without Thomas Paine there may have never been a successful revolution, and the birth of the United States. Although, with all his forward thinking, dedication, he was in later life rejected and persecuted for some of his outspoken ideals.

A true Aquarian, born January 29, 1737 at Thetford, Norfolk, England. His father a stern Quaker, and young Thomas a worshiper of beauty in its every form. He once said, “If Quakers had charge of creation, what a silent, dark colored creation it would have been. Not a bird would have been permitted to sing and not a flower to bloom.” He ventured to London, and devoted himself to philosophical studies.

About 1771, he began to lecture upon subjects that were foreign to the concepts of the masses and therefore extremely unpopular, such as, international arbitration, votes for women, single moral code, the crime of slavery, and mercy and humane treatment of animals.

It was about 1774, that Paine was arrested in London for declaring that monarchies should be abolished and all people declared free and equal.

Paine, declared that “free men would be good men”, also that “economic freedom must inevitably result from political freedom, and social freedom naturally follows religious freedom”. “Real happiness can only be possible where and when men are permitted to direct their own destiny under a truly democratic government. It is then that mankind, no longer as slaves, but as free men, will inherit the earth which will then resemble the kingdom of heaven.” (End of quote)

He also advocated pensions for all persons over fifty, saying: “Use the money now spent on war in this way. It is painful in so-called civilized countries to see old age working itself to death. Pensions are not to be given as matters of grace and favor, but as rights.” William Pitt, the English Prime Minister, once said, “Paine is right but if I encourage him, England will soon be in the midst of a bloody revolution.”

His independent and liberal utterances attracted the attention of Benjamin Franklin, who was then in London, and who recognized in Paine a man whose powers were much needed in the new American continent. Together they set sail from London in October, 1774.

Paine along with Thomas Jefferson worked on the Declaration of Independence in close collaboration, and on July 4, 1776 Congress passed it. Paine started publishing and began writing the “Common Sense” in Jan. 17, 1776. In three months, 100,000 copies had been sold. George Washington said that it had worked a wonderful change in the minds and hearts of men. Soon they were supporting the revolution. Then Jefferson wrote The Crisis, during the times of discouragement and despair, his writings inspired the army. Every morning George Washington, had the Crisis read throughout the army, and soon after came the victories.

Paine never accepted a penny for his writings. One half of the proceeds went to the publisher who took grave risks to publish such revolutionary pamphlets; the other half he gave to pay the mittens for the ill-clad soldiers of Washington.

In March, 1781, Paine went to France to bring about closer relations between them. France and America were both on a similar path to bring forth a new democracy. The King of France was much impressed with him and so responded to the plea for help by sending to the Colonies three ships carrying 2 ½ million livre. This assisted Washington greatly in winning the final victory over Gen. Cornwallis, winning the revolution, and the birth of the United States.

In 1790, Jefferson wrote “The Rights of Man”, in it he said, “The barbarity of governments taught men to be barbarous; teach governments humanity and the people will soon learn it.” Paine was just one of the great “Destiny Men” who helped to bring forth this country and the ideals of freedom and equality. I hope that you will be as inspired by this as I have been. This theme will be continued in the forth coming weeks as we unfold the deep rooted spirituality of this country.