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Rule League. In 1917, she was elected chairman of the Indian National
Congress. Besant’s influence over the Theosophical Society and India

was noted in great detail in an article published in the Hinduism Today
newspaper, which also revealed that she had had a direct influence
over Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarojini Naidu, C.P.
Ramaswami Aiyer and many other Hindu leaders. 147
The Theosophical Society played an important role in introducing
Far Eastern religion to Judeo-Christian Western with a detrimental ef-
fect. The New Age movement began with Alice A. Bailey, an ex-mem-

ber of the Theosophical Society. Bailey was an atheist admirer of Far
Eastern religions of heretical beliefs much like the founders of the
Theosophical Society. She claimed to be medium receiving inspira-
tional messages from a Tibetan leader by the name of Djwal Khul.
Between 1919 and 1949 she wrote 24 books containing these imaginary
messages. These books were works of propaganda of occult sciences,
esoteric teachings, sorcery and perverted beliefs. She revealed the per-
verse foundations of her new movement in the two volumes of her
work entitled “Discipleship in the New Age”. The New Age movement
adopted all the heretical beliefs of the Theosophical Society and con-

tained also many perverted beliefs of pagan religions like Hinduism,
Buddhism, Shamanism and Taoism as well as occult sciences.
After Bailey, the New Age movement grew rapidly and became a
major influence within Western culture in some communities. This
teaching is however incompatible with reason, logic and common
sense, contains much nonsense, promotes pagan practices like sorcery
and fortune telling prohibited by Divine religions and on the whole

leads people away from the reality revealed by Allah and into an imag-
inary and superstitious world.

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)