The Order of the Golden Age

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The Order of the Golden Age

Post14 Aug 2009

Like the ugly birds that hop along the ghats picking over the remnants of the corpses of the decease, the Brahma Kumaris are always happy to crow about their own virtue and uniqueness. But are they really so unique, or a religion made up of little bits taken from other dead ones?

Unique, I guess, if you are ignorant of history and, of course, for the old Sindis India is always, and has always, been above all other nations ... but was it so? One is reminded of the early BKs' name calling of Europeans as being demons etc.
The Order of the Golden Age by John M. Gilheany

Towards the end of the nineteenth century the cohesion which had sustained the vegetarian movement had begun to stifle the aspirations of many non-secular campaigners. As the Rev. J.H.N. Neville put it to those gathered at the first convention of The Order of the Golden Age held in London, on January 21st 1897:

"We want a definite religious society to meet the definite religious yearning of those living in the practice of that true humility, which finds expression in vegetarianism".

The Order of the Golden Age was conceptualised in 1881 by Rev. H.J. Williams (1838 -1919) and constituted a year later. Over the first two decades of the twentieth century 'The Order of the Golden Age' acquired a notable status within the humane reform movement. By 1909, The Order was active in 47 countries whilst capable of organising domestic fundraising concerts at the Albert Hall - which attracted 6,000 guests on one such occasion beating the BK's largest in the UK.

Unlike the profit orientated BKWSU, it has a long-term administrative policy of publishing at cost-price.
In 1987, someone wrote:We went into villages and towns discussing and talking about this question ... feeling that God had laid this work upon us and that we must hold to it and bear our testimony, believing we were doing God's will, and leaving all the rest to him.

For twenty-three years The Herald of the Golden Age exuded the optimistic belief that near-national vegetarianism was attainable within a matter of decades. When the O.G.A. was founded in 1895, vegetarianism was ridiculed in almost every newspaper in this country, and regarded as a mild form of insanity.

The Order of the Golden Age often spoke of "... bringing an end to the reign of militarism" and admonished the membership to become involved in international peace efforts. It had connections to 'The Salvation Army' which was started by a vegetarian Christian William Booth and did vast amounts of real social service. See, Vegetarianism by Bramwell Booth from 1901.

Also notable on the website above are mentions to Western vegetarians and fruitarians at the time of the First World War.
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