In the last essay (part 7), we considered how Hegel propagated the cult of modernism. The modernists had faith in the inevitability of progress based upon impersonal forces of history. "Progress" must eventually lead to "utopia" — a utopia in which the great "oneness" of pantheism will be fully manifested all over the world. The magical thinking of German Idealism, the cult of pantheism, and — for our generation — the New Age Movement, are what lies behind this befuddled myth. Some one-worlders deny they are pantheists. Some Deists, Freemasons, Unitariarian-universals, and Christian liberals believe in God, but are essentially modernist and utopian in their ideas. The Masons use the motto "The brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God." Under this winsome slogan, the functional pantheism of one-world dreams can get political cover in a Christian culture. Nelson Rockefeller, a one-worlder, often quoted the Masonic motto. Paradoxically, I know several Masons who abhor the one-worlders.========================================================
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