Fritz Springmeier

God's approval must accept the instruction that Jehovah isproviding through that 'slave' class and become trueworshippers... No one will put a literal mark on their forehead."It is not clear to this Author exactly where this teaching isgoing. On the one hand they refer to an actual physical mark beingneccessary, yet a further page says the mark means to put on a newpersonality. This sounds somewhat like the Skaktipat experience.Whatever the Watchtower Society means, it is significant that theyhave spent one chapter and a colored picture on the theme. Threecolored pictures are included in the Survival Into a New Earthbook. First is the picture of the person taking a Mark. Second isa picture telling us to be submissive and repent of our ownprideful ways. Third is a picture of what happens if a personthinks of what life used to be, or if a person thinks anywhere thatthe Society doesn't want them to think, they may share the fate ofLot's wife who turned into a pillar of salt. The message is thatonce you are a JW you can not turn back and look at the world. Youmust only look where you are being led. (Read this a mind control,a self-imposed censorship. Now if you do this your mind in the WTSociety's.)It is interesting that the location of the WT's required markexactly matches the New Age initiation point required to surviveinto the New Age. It is not clear why if this is an invisible mark,and only symbolic, why it is so omninously fussed over so much. Thefuss being made is that "all regardless of background, who hope tosurvive into the 'new earth'...must have this mark."One WT reference alludes to standing in line to receive themark. The door has been left open for the WT to do what they haveoften done before, that is to come back and reinterpret in adifferent but more precise way what they have hinted at in a vaguefashion. This makes it appear that they have held the view for along time. On the one hand the Society says the mark is symbolic,on the other hand they say it is needed. They say a person doesn'tautomatically acquire the mark by doing all the correct things.Who is the man with the inkhorn that gives this mark on thethird eye to survive? Originally it was said to be C.T. Russell. 8Later the man was identified as "the spiritual remnant or 'faithfuland discreet slave' class" 9 .Alice Bailey indicates that the Luciferian initiation will bedone in the churches and Masonic Lodges. (Externalisation of theHierarchy, p. 514) and that what she calls externalized Ashramswill be active along the major line of "The public inauguration ofthe system of initiation." (p. 700)Should the Watchtower Society align itself with the New Orderwhen needed, then it's Kingdom Halls may become part of the systemof churches and "externalized Ashrams" that provide the initiation.New Age sources reveal that the Watchtower Society iscooperating with the Power, but that it is showing some signs ofindependence, which the Power is wanting stopped.